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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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    Joyce Vance
    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

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    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Staying with the Trouble

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Pulled From GOP Tax Bill—For Now

    Brett Wilkins
    Common Dreams

    "Because authoritarians love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing its head," warned one rights group.

    Published On: 05/19/2025

    Published On: 05/19/2025

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    The New York Times
    The New York Times (Gift)

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    Published On: 01/01/2026

  • Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

    Amy Walker and David Gritten
    BBC

    INGOs run or support most of Gaza's field hospitals and primary healthcare centres, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilisation centres for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities.

    Published On: 01/01/2026

  • Buddhist monks and their ‘peace dog’ are walking across the US and captivating the nation along the way

    Via AP
    Independent

    While Buddhism has branched into a number of sects over the centuries, its rich tradition of peace activism continues

    Published On: 12/30/2025

  • Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

    Sonali Kolhatkar
    Truthout

    Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • The Disappearing Thin Red Line

    George A. Polisner
    Leadership Matters

    For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • Trump’s Christmas message: “Scum” wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

    Published On: 12/26/2025

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