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  • to begin...
    • a little history of these pages
    • dr.d. rants about grades and grading
    • jane rule on rules
  • douglass's blog
  • peaceworks
    • meditations
    • some basic wisdom>
      • regarding the torture of others
      • the thing about schools is...>
        • why schools don't teach
        • conceptions of teaching
      • our framework>
        • a contribution to statistics
        • five mindfulness trainings
        • gandhi's nine steps
        • building a community of love: bell hooks and thich nhat hanh
      • thomas merton>
        • letter to an innocent bystander
      • thich nhat hanh
      • jiddu krishnamurti
      • compromise, hell!
      • a 12 step suggestion for going with the flow
      • letter from birmingham jail
      • literature as freedom
      • rebecca solnit looking forward and looking back
      • hope in the dark
      • some quaker wisdom
      • tolstoi: bethink yourself!
      • the practice of direct democracy
      • marcuse: repressive tolerance
    • listening>
      • your money or your life
      • brighid, bringer of spring
      • martin luther king April 1968
      • prisons we choose to live inside
      • non-violence panel, dec 15, 2012
      • Chief Oren Lyons on the politics of mother earth
    • watching>
      • The Strangest Dream
    • resources
  • boats and mist

 peace with purpose

 
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The American Friends Service Committee "is a Quaker organization that includes people of  various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Our work is based on the principles of the Religious Society of Friends, the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice." They work around the world on issues of peace, justice, and the humane. You can read their statement of Mission and Values HERE.

I will likely add a few more texts to this list, but want to highlight these two since they speak so clearly and effectively to the issues we are exploring in this class together:

Slowing the Wheel of War: A Spiritual Struggle

Legacies of War in Iraq: An AFSC Background Paper