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Fwd: Support Nonviolence Islands within the Horror of War
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

I pasted some ukraine-related information earlier, but I didn't know how to cut through my psychological issues to verify it was high quality, and it had pro-military parts. This is peace-related support information that reached me from a teacher in a mediative dialogue process called NVC. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Miki Kashtan <mkashtan(a)baynvc.org> Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 9:31 PM Subject: Support Nonviolence Islands within the Horror of War To: <fuzzytew(a)gmail.com> Support Nonviolence Islands within the Horror of War February 28, 2022 Dear Karl, As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues and intensifies, many of us who have committed our lives to nonviolence are struggling to know how to respond and where to look for information to help us make sense of what is happening. This email is my tiny attempt to contribute to this. I rarely send dedicated emails to the entire list of people subscribed to BayNVC and my own list. I am doing it because I want to do my part in mobilizing to find nonviolent means to end and transform all wars, not just this one. I am hoping that what I include here will support the weight of nonviolent responses, within us, around us, and in the region itself. Support for peace makers in Ukraine NVC colleagues of mine have been working in Ukraine for some years, training people intensively to be peace makers. These people are now aiming to support those around them with the skills they acquired through pretty intensive training, including practice periods with live conflicts. They listen empathically and facilitate dialogues to increase social cohesion and resilience at a time when people are already terrified from days of fighting, and there is no telling how long this will last. My colleagues have organized a fundraiser <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> for their work to continue and be sustained, to which I contributed. This is the primary reason I am sending this email. The links to the actual organizations are not provided to protect them. I know personally the trainers involved and fully vouch for their work. It's a rare example of what NVC can truly offer in extreme situations, something most of us who learn and teach NVC don't experience. Nonviolence news I generally find this site comprehensive and deep in its approach. I know Rivera Sun, the person who runs it, and am in awe of what she has been able to do in the last few years to create a source of inspiration and understanding about nonviolence all over the world. Her last weekly email <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> went out on Friday, and includes, in particular, an article <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> about the potential for nonviolent responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In addition to that article, Rivera's editorial points to other resources. Metta Center's resource list The Metta Center, led by Michael Nagler and Stephanie van Hook, also people I know personally and trust deeply, maintains a resource list on resistance to war in Ukraine <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…>. I have not looked at most of the items on the list. I want to recommend one article by Daniel Hunter called "Ukraine’s secret weapon may prove to be civilian resistance <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…>." It's a deep reminder of the enormous potential that unarmed resistance has had, many times, when used by people against those with far larger military power. Code Pink Over many decades, I have noticed how the general tendency to think in either/or terms, deeply habitual in so many societies, increases dramatically under conditions of war. We are habituated to find who to blame for war. This is certainly happening now. What I am hearing of the unfolding of what the Russian military is doing in Ukraine, which is not much and is mediated by others' perspective, as is always the case, is difficult to take in. I still am finding the all-out making of Russia as the unequivocal and only "bad guy," difficult. I am appreciating deeply the framing that Code Pink has provided, for example in the article "The War in Ukraine: What We Shouldn't Forget <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…>." It's complex, sees multiple perspectives, including how the US has exacerbated the conflict for years, and anchors in looking to the Minsk agreements (violated thousands of times by both sides) as a framework for reaching ceasefire, and holding peace to be only possible when the needs of all groups within the complex territory that is now Ukraine are held. In peace and hope, Miki Kashtan Lead facilitator and trainer Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) http://mikikashtan.org <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> http://thefearlessheart.org <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> – my blog and other resources http://nglcommunity.org <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> – Nonviolent Global Liberation Community http://www.baynvc.org <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001w_gBTDiu6BpdDzloJePlSLKmQrT8poO8bdjPbGFcq2R…> – events P.O. 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Natural-Rights anarchism - strictly for the Batshit-Crazy
by professor rat 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

Natural Law, and related Natural Rights, play an important part in Lunar-Right, Liberal Capitalist ideology. They are not alone in claiming that their particular ideology meets the law of nature, JEW HATING Hitler (for one) also did so. Racist scumbag nutcase Lew Rockwell is another. http://www.spunk.org/library/otherpol/critique/sp001283.txt

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NATO Julian Assmange - Rightwing Christian Nutcase
by professor rat 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

"Will you be my Mary Magdalene, Heather? And bathe my feet at the cross?" - Assange 2011 https://www.today.com/money/how-julian-assange-could-seduce-even-you-1C8368… Julian Assange: "I want to testify on Cambridge Analytica, but ... https://www.repubblica.it › julian_assange-192387103 27 Mar 2018 — Repubblica just interviewed Julian Assange, who in recent months has ... over the last few years: "we are in the business of crucifixion", ... 2011 JULIAN ' The 95% of the population which comprise the flock.. ' ASSANGE http://cryptome.org/0003/assange-manne.htm … “I’m a big admirer of Ron Paul & Rand Paul for their very principled positions in the US Congress on a number of issues” ASSANGE 2013

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NATO - even wrong paul gets it
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/03/ron-paul/it-all-comes-back-to-nato/ even wrong paul, a right-wing US jew-kristian nutcase understands what's going on. Compare to US nazi turds like grancrap, jim bell, professor turd.

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Assange gift to NATO Ukraine
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Au PM Scott Morrison has announced a $100m package of ‘lethal’ weapons funding from Australia - with a large chunk assigned to buy missiles and ammunition for Ukraine. “… Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military …” http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.’ ASSANGE July, 2013

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How to combat STARLINK on the pentagons DARPAnet
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Get off the internet. Its not hard. Unless your Batshit-Crazy.

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MUSK is still suspect
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Musk ( and Mange! ) finally doing the right thing for a change can't alter the fact they both resemble Bond villains and planet-rapers far more than any sort of normal, responsible & decent human-being. So they can slave away in one of our 'red-education-through-labor ' camps for a decade and totally divest before we'll consider replacing execution with limb amputations. You're mileage may vary https://stiffs.com/celebrity/julianassange

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For a cryptoanarchist Maidan
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

When crypto-anarchists start having ’ coups ’ - like the last Tahir Square and Euromaiden - we’ll know we’re getting somewhere #Cypherpunk2027

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NATO tool, Murat Pak is thick-as-thieves with WIKILEAKS
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=Murat+Pak+wikileaks&sourceid=o… Some of those bathetic WL dead-enders still don't seem to have figured out search-engines yet. They could give all batshit-crazy, total fucking morons a bad name.

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Murat Pak for a NATO Ukraine
by professor rat 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Murat Pak could get an Azov Battalion medal of Freedom for this. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/02/28/crypto-donations-are-about-more-… Murat Pak, an NFT artist who recently said that politics “bores” him, and that “none of [his] moves are political,” nonetheless claims to have donated $1.8 million in ETH “to human rights” in Ukraine. REPOSTS NOT ENDORSEMENTS!

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