Oregon Peace Institute

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/american-inquisition-cometh

and, of course, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqreRufrkxM

Python No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition

Mustering all of us. This can be turned around, community by community, state by state, nation by nation, and it will be. Humankind just says no to dictators or humankind becomes a slave species. Our choice. Start by defeating Trump and go from there.

Democracy declined for 8th straight year around the globe, institute finds An organization promoting democracy says last year had the worst decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in almost a half-century.

The depth and threat of the stupid-ass pet-eating claims by Trump and Vance are profoundly examined by Heather Cox Richardson:

September 13, 2024 After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location.

Love Nonviolent News, which is the most widespread generalized in-gathering of nonivolent action I've ever seen. Subscribe for free. I especially enjoy the weekly catalog of which nonviolent campaigns have won someplace on Earth. That list is of course far larger than the nonexistant list of violent campaigns that have won each week. To paraphrase and alter the meaning of a statement once made by that old racist imperialist Winston Churchill (he was talking about democracy), "Nonviolence is the worst form of conflict management and social struggle except for all the other methods that have been tried."

South Africans Mourn Coal Mines, France’s Water Village, UK Imam Counters Hate With Empathy – Nonviolence News South Africans Mourn Coal Mines, France’s Water Village, UK Imam Counters Hate With Empathy Posted on August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun One of the powers of nonviolence action is its ability to embody the full range of human emotion. Beyond the expression of justifiabl...

brilliant new book by Daniel Hunter and friends...

Thanks to the Junction City Union (Clay Center KS):

Happy Talk? Nope The three most likely methods by which the human species can self-inflict harm, even extinction: 1. Failure to stem anthropogenic climate chaos.2. Inadequate preparation for the next pandemic, possibly worse

Lost another great one...

Rev James Lawson passed on today.

He was a hero to me and many many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson_(activist)

A celebration of his life and legacy TBD in Portland.

Thank you, Waynesboro, Virginia Augusta Free Press.

Reviewing the personal, political and criminal record of Donald Trump In 2016, Donald Trump ran as an outsider, as someone who was able to criticize the political record of his primary opponents.

American laws take so so so long to get it right sometimes:

June 2, 2024 Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, which declared that “all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided,