We'll see what interesting residues of Satyagraha will apply when the Conference of Polluters climate summit comes to town in about six months' time. Dec 9 is the final day for saving the Kyoto Protocol's binding language - and that won't happen. Instead, there'll be more privatisation of the air via carbon trading.
Maybe some civil disobedience will change the tone.
(In Gaza a couple of weeks ago, at the Erez border, I witnessed Israeli border patrols firing regularly at unarmed Palestinians. In these peaceful marches to the border there have been dozens killed or wounded.)
On 6/9/2011 6:42 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Gitlin may be a pompous ass, but the underlying point is still
> basically right. When pompous asses come around to seeing that 2+2=4,
> it's still four. It's important not to be provoked by the arrival of
> the pompous asses on the scene into arguing that 2+2 is anything but
> four.
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Joseph Catron<jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "[I]t now looks as though—fingers crossed—a critical mass of Palestinians
>> may, at last, be getting the point. When they blow people up, they
>> manufacture panic and hatred, and lock themselves up. They forfeit the
>> initiative. When they act en masse with what Gandhi called satyagraha, soul
>> force, they seize the initiative. If the Palestinian national movement had
>> begun with disciplined nonviolence, it would have achieved statehood by now.
>> That said, much better late than never."
>> http://972mag.com/can-nonviolence-move-the-next-century
>> Anyone failing to understand why this dripping racist condescension is
>> entirely baseless might consider reading Mazin Qumsiyeh's Popular Resistance
>> in Palestine. But in the meantime, or in lieu of that, please avoid any
>> attempts to feign expertise on the topic.
>> --
>> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
>> lytlað."
>>
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