A brief note from Amsterdam – 3

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Yes, arrived, at Ben Gurion around 3 am, passing easily thru security, the hitch when asked at passport control what I was going to do, saying, tourist, visit friends and holy sites. Asked names. Dug for notebook—oh, you don’t know the names of your friends? I wanted to get them exactly right, I replied, then [...]

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A brief note from Amsterdam – 2

Live in love
And do your work;
make amends of your sorrows;
for just as the jasmine
releases and lets fall
its withered flowers,
let fall willfulness and hatred.
 
—the Dhammapada

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The Van Gogh museum was spectacular, truly astonishing, for both M and me. I learned from the exhibit more about how he changed his color palette and why, that one of his [...]

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A brief note from Amsterdam – 1

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A brief note from Amsterdam where I’m laying over for four days, partly to visit a friend I worked with in Palestine in 2006, partly to respite between the insane speed of US culture and the insane injustice in Israel and Palestine.
No checkpoints here, no threat of suicide bombers here, no limited access roads, no [...]

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A letter to Ernest Withers, about Emmett Till

Ernest Withers was a key person in the Civil Rights Movement, mainly as a result of his self-produced photographic pamphlet of the Emmett Till trial. His remarkable document encouraged prominent African Americans to become involved.

—from a testimonial by Panopticon Gallery, which holds many of his photos
He is an inspiration to me, for [...]

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Building the non-violent community for justice, peace & environmental integrity: Agape celebrates its 25th anniversary on St Francis day with the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi

The Agape Community, located on 32 acres of woodland in Central Massachusetts, is a spiritual community, Catholic in identity and ecumenical and interfaith in outreach, committed to sustainable living and an engaged practice of nonviolence.
Our community features a straw-bale house with solar energy, compost privy and “veggie” car run on recycled vegetable oil. We welcome [...]

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From an application to join a delegation to Palestine-Israel, my first trip, 2003

Dheshieh refugee camp, Bethlehem, 2003

 
There’s no place in this world where I’ll belong when I’m gone
And I won’t know the right from the wrong when I’m gone
And you won’t find me singin’ on this song when I’m gone
So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here
And I won’t be laughing at the [...]

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