What They Don't Want You To Know -- Nonviolence Works!
Why don't we hear of the triumphs of Nonviolence -- the "people power" that tumbles oppressive regimes? Why don’t we hear about the “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia, the “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine, the dismantling of the Soviet Union, the dethroning of oppression in the Philippines, in East Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, in Latin America?
All over the world lasting, positive change is the result not of trillion-dollar armies, but of Nonviolent people power. Why don’t we hear about these remarkable revolutions? The information blackout is no accident. Perhaps we don’t learn about Nonviolent revolution because… it works!
Nonviolent people power can change the world. That’s a scary thought for the miniscule minority hanging on for dear life to the helm of power.
For a group to remain in power without representing the true will of the people, they must maintain power by manipulation and by force -- military force -- a worldwide police state. This is why some of the most out-of-touch and top-heavy governments in the world have to maintain and use an over-the-top show of force.
What if the secret got out? What if people knew that Nonviolence works? What if they knew that they didn’t need big muscles and guns and the inhumanity to use them? What if people stopped giving their power away to the oppressor? What if the power suddenly shifted back to the people?
It would mean the creation of a world reflective of the values of the people. And for the most part, those values (truth, justice, freedom, kindness, compassion, goodwill toward people, toward the planet and toward animals, etc.) are good. What an amazing world this could be… and it could happen practically overnight if we organized around our values.
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No se sabe si por la célebre crisis económica o por los graves problemas que atraviesa desde hace años el sector lácteo de Galicia, pero el hecho es que la afluencia de devotos ha caído en picado de una manera alarmante.
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La tradición consiste en pasar una vara de madera por la imagen del santo que luego es pasada por el lomo del animal, y ofrecer una misa para llevarse una postal de la veneración a San Jorge, que luego colgarán en las cuadras -preferentemente ganado vacuno-, porque así, reza la costumbre, el santo protector librará a sus animales de males y enfermedades el resto del año.
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El Ayuntamiento de Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) ha decidido cerrar el Centro de Acogida de Animales de Compañía (CAAC) argumentando que las obras necesarias para su imprescindible ampliación tendrían un coste excesivo en plena crisis económica. La alternativa es delegar la gestión de este servicio en la Mancomunidad de Municipios Penedès-Garraf, de la que Vilanova forma parte, y trasladar los animales a las instalaciones de este organismo en Vilafranca. La saturación del centro, añaden en Vilanova, podría crear problemas sanitarios.
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e number of no-kill shelters has grown from about 50 in the 1980s to about 250 today, said Merritt Clifton, e
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through a $2 surcharge on dog license fees
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"Warehousing is expensive, but that was never the goal," Winograd said. "It's extremely expensive to hold an animal, exterminate it and then dispose of the body. It's adoption fees that are revenue-generating."
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Designating some as native and others as alien denies this ecological and genetic dynamism. It draws an arbitrary historical line based as much on aesthetics, morality and politics as on science, a line that creates a mythic time of purity before places were polluted by interlopers.
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Today, a species’s immigration status often makes it a target for eradication, no matter its effect on the environment.
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