#vegans #animals #VeganForTheAnimals #NoAnimalUse #violence #nonviolence

Most people are animal abusers.

My thoughts on #war
I have a #nonviolence stance, so you won't find me cheering for one over another to win but I'll #Mourn all the losses on both sides... grieving for families that won't see their loved ones return home.

#israel #palestine : #history / #nakba / #reconciliation / #solidarity / #peace / #nonviolence / #ngo / #cfp

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„Acknowledging Palestinian pain doesn’t threaten Jewish history. It makes space for shared humanity and invites us to hold multiple truths. (...)

Our theme, “Holding onto Home, Holding onto Hope,” reflects a longing not just for land, but for justice and a future of liberation and freedom - for all who call this place home.”

https://www.cfpeace.org/nakba-ceremony

#vatican #israel #palestine #ukraine : #religion / #war / #ceasefire / #nonviolence / #peace

»Pope Leo XIV called for a #ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine on Sunday (…). He spoke from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.

"I am deeply pained by what is happening," said Leo, referring to the war in Gaza. "Let the fighting cease immediately, let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population, and may all hostages be released.“«

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/g-s1-65758/pope-leo-xiv-calls-for-peace-in-ukraine-and-gaza-saying-never-again-war

The co-executive directors of @indivisibleteam speak about the moment on The Bulwark podcast: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The Power of 'No'
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin-the

"And in very real ways, the inability to be with difference mitigates against the ability to create social movements that have an enduring quality. We cannot build movements that are exclusively based on what we’re opposed to." --John Paul Lederach

https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/podcast/when-toxic-polarization-becomes-civil-war-john-paul-lederach/

Bust of Gandhi, Saughton Park greenhouses #nonviolence #goodtrouble

I often think of how John McCrae couldn't have written what is likely the best-known Canadian poem, "In Flanders Fields" (1915), later in the war.

After the pointless, industrial-scale slaughter of the Somme (1916) and Passchendaele (1917), it's hard to imagine any soldier writing naïve, idealistic lines like these without gagging on them:

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

"Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is pretty obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says 'Love your enemies' [Matt. 5:44], he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977), 53.

This is long and worthwhile if you want to better understand what's happening in the West Bank
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/05/after-nonviolence-end-of-peaceful-resistance-west-bank-ben-ehrenreich/

from @50501movement: our movement is firmly grounded in #nonviolence #50501movement #protest #chicago

"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience." - Kwame Ture