The image that stays with me most from the blockbuster superhero action film The Avengers is not the thrilling climax when the hero uses all his power to wrest a nuclear missile away from its collision course with Manhattan and up into space, where it explodes a waiting battleship of nasty intergalactic invaders—although that was [...]
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Women Must Stand Up For Peace & Security
A deranged soldier, armed with gun and knife, walks off the base into the nearby small town, and massacres 16 people, including 9 children. No, it’s not the plot of the latest Schwarzenegger movie. It’s real life in Afghanistan. Or Oslo, Norway. Or Homs, Syria. Or the local high school or university in Anytown, USA. [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/women-must-stand-up-for-peace-security/
Taking responsibility for the violence
I have to admit that I was not paying much attention to the bombardment of the city of Homs, Syria—now in its 20th day—before the deaths of two Western journalists there this week. That is completely typical of me as a Western observer sitting comfortably at my desk, far from the tumult and terror of [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 23, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/taking-responsibility-for-the-violence/
Violence against peaceful protesters–a federal crime?
So far I have not been able to get past the still image of the latest shocking example of police violence inflicted on unresisting young people. I don’t need to watch the students begin to writhe and cry out in pain, I don’t have to hear the gasps of the onlookers or the shouts of [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 21, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/violence-against-peaceful-protesters-a-federal-crime/
Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were steadily gaining steam when I was born in the early 1960s; “progress” seemed infinite, and infinitely [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on July 19, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/paradigm-shift-from-competition-and-destruction-to-nurturance-collaboration/
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