Actually I’ve got a better word for it, but that is what comes to mind when I hear the main stream media justifying what we’re paying at the pump in the United States. In a segment on the one of the big media outlets yesterday prices paid by consumers were offered. In Saudi Arabia gasoline is selling for 91 cents a gallon
Social Justice
Nonviolence invites us to…
I first read this a year ago and it is true or truer now than then. Nonviolence invites us: * To learn to recognize and respect the sacred in every person, including in ourselves, and in every part of creation. The acts of the nonviolent person help to free this sacredness in the opponent from … Read more
456 Billion dollars and counting
The Iraq supplemental that Congress (the American people) and the Bush Allies are haggling over will add 124 billion dollars to the cost of the Iraq War.
Non-violence in Iraq
This bright light came to me in an email from Pace ‘e Bene non-violence service. From April 29 to May 6 in Iraq not only the rumble of bombs will be heard. A network of associations of the Iraqi civil society, belonging to different political and religious affiliations, will carry on peace initiatives on the … Read more
Redemptive
It’s hard to know what to say now that President Bush has vetoed the Iraq spending bill.
Hopeful sign
I just read on the internet that the New York State Legislature passed a bill requesting President Bush to not veto the Iraq War spending bill.
What do we believe in?
I watched a brief excerpt of George Tenet grandstanding about how we knew about Osama bin Laden before 9/11 blah, blah, blah.
Regional gathering
I spent the weekend at the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Regional meeting of the Secular Franciscan Order. It was my first time attending the regional gathering