Many events and opportunities will be occurring in late January 2023 and beyond. Please see many listed in this document: NUCLEAR WEAPONS events in January 2023 After I posted this to my blog, my e-mail address changed from glenanderson@integra.net to glen@parallaxperspectives.org. When you watch any TV videos and/or read the linked documents, please use my new e-mail address if you have any questions or want more information.
I spoke to a nationwide Zoom audience about how NONVIOLENT NATIONAL DEFENSE is PRACTICAL and would provide BETTER NATIONAL SECURITY than the military and nuclear weapons. Participants enjoyed good Q&A too. We taped the program linked below on Wednesday January 11, 2023. The host did a little editing and posted it in two ways, so you can watch it at your convenience: The host’s website link is at https://www.theworldismycountry.com/club The Youtube link is at https://youtu.be/0zEbNmbiMuQ What I said in this program is a shortened version of my TV program series episode from May 2022 titled, “Nonviolent National […]
Sign up now for FREE online workshops: Strengthen your skills for ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We are always the underdogs in working for peace, but these FREE online workshops really can strengthen our skills and strategies so we can make truly significant progress toward abolishing nuclear weapons! Nonviolent grassroots organizing has been proven to be effective, but people – even experienced activists – could make much more progress by strengthening our skills. This series of workshops (“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing”) really can help! ALL OF US — new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between — can STRENGTHEN OUR SKILLS and add […]
One of the effective — and under-used — strategies of nonviolent resistance to bullies is to use humor and satire. Donald Trump’s exaggerated ego and his cruel and criminal behaviors have made him a perfect object for humor and satire. Consider these: In 2 ½ minutes, this rewrite of the decades-old song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” nails Trump! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkU1ob_lHCw Here is a 4 ½ minute video of Trump and The Simpsons. This really does need to be watched. It is hilarious, true, and sometimes scary: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zfso2 A new card for Trump: A new […]
A huge amount of baloney circulates throughout society, not just on social media. Let’s help other people and ourselves avoid getting fooled or misled. Here is a list of 15 fallacies to watch out for: Ad Hominem: Attacking the person instead of dealing rationally with what the person is saying Straw-man Argument: Distorting what the other person is saying, and arguing against that instead of what the person has really said Appeal to Ignorance: Promoting gullibility and saying something must be true if it has not been explicitly disproven False Dilemma: Disregarding the complexity of an issue, and boiling […]
When people refer to MLK as the “Reverend Dr.,” they are recognizing that he did indeed earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in addition to completing formal theological studies and being ordained. He thought clearly and wisely. Below I’m sharing with you some things he said about several different issues — and always grounded in humane ethics. On April 4, 1967, King spoke about the Vietnam war and overall U.S. foreign policy to an audience at Riverside Church in New York City. Many of the things he said there have been quoted widely. He explicitly denounced the injustices and […]
Yes, it REALLY IS POSSIBLE to abolish nuclear weapons!!! In July 2017, nearly 2/3 of the nations in the U.N. General Assembly (122 of 193 nations) approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) so it could go out to the world’s nations for ratification. By early January 2023, a total of 68 (one-third of the nations in the United Nations General Assembly) had RATIFIED a treaty to TOTALLY ABOLISH ALL nuclear weapons, so this treaty is in their national laws!!! It went into effect for those 68 nations on January 22, 2021. Now the world is […]
Whenever Congress is asked to fund activities that would help ordinary people (health care, education, anti-poverty programs, etc.), Republicans object on the grounds that we can’t afford to pay for them. But they ALWAYS support funding the horribly huge military budget — and tax cuts for rich people and big businesses — and NEVER ask how we would pay for those. For example, in December 2022, Congress just passed $858 billion military budget, but the GOP is blocking $12 billion to fight child poverty Republicans refused to even consider proposals to revive the Child Tax Credit expansion that lifted millions […]
The nuclear power industry and its supporters (and some well-meaning but misinformed people) want us to consider nuclear power as a remedy for the climate crisis. THE FACTS OPPOSE THIS. Experts Say Nuclear Energy as Climate Solution Is Total “Fiction.” “The reality is nuclear is neither clean, safe, or smart; but a very complex technology with the potential to cause significant harm.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/25/experts-say-nuclear-energy-climate-solution-total-fiction Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair argues nuclear power isn’t a climate solution: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904943/nuclear-power-climate-change-solution-gregory-jaczko Nuclear power not feasible to tackle climate change: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/nuclear-energy-climate-crisis-experts-b2001076.html Nuclear power is NOT a remedy for the climate crisis: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2021/12/12/nuclear-cant-deliver-on-climate/ […]
In December 2022, a lot of publicity was praising nuclear fusion as a smart new source of clean, limitless energy. That publicity exaggerated the supposed benefits and failed to mention the shortcomings. These articles from December 2022 provide more sensible information: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2022/12/15/whats-all-the-fuss-about-fusion/ https://www.nirs.org/one-small-step-for-nuclear-fusion-no-giant-leap-for-climate-action/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=0bd31f12-8c1f-4776-8d2e-0603ab1049cc This article from January 2022 also provides caution about fusion: https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2022/01/02/more-fusion-folly/ This article exposes the dangers of fusion in relation to nuclear weapons: The “fusion” energy supporters’ vigorous media “hype” about a recent accomplishment seems designed to create support for the extremely high funding needed. Also, the extremely huge amount of high-tech equipment is horribly expensive […]
In January 2022, Glen Anderson spoke on the radio about Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech from April 4, 1967. Several persons who heard this radio interview on Thursday told Glen that they liked it very much. You can listen to the radio broadcast at this link: Parallel U 1-20-22.mp3 This was on Kim Dobson’s interesting weekly radio series, Parallel University. It airs at 12 noon every Thursday on KAOS FM, 89.3.
We all know that ALMOST ALWAYS the political party that holds the presidency LOSES seats in Congress’s midterm elections. Here is why. The Executive Branch – regardless of which party controls it – FAILS TO DELIVER what the voters really want. It allows big businesses and other powerful “special interests” to control federal agencies so they cater to those powerful interests and FAIL TO SOLVE our nation’s problems. Voters punish the negligent, corrupt party by VOTING AGAINST that party’s congressional candidates in the midterm elections. Public opinion polls keep showing that increasing majorities are saying our nation is […]
In the past several years, I have posted a number of items to my blog’s “Trump” category. I plan to post more in 2023. In August 2022 the news reported that Trump STOLE many boxes of our nation’s MOST HIGHLY TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS when he left the White House. The government repeatedly asked him to return them, but Trump kept refusing. Finally, the FBI obtained a search warrant and legally searched his Mar-a-Lago home. The FBI found many, many of the stolen documents, but not all of them. Later, some of them were found at other Trump properties. If — […]
“Why is there always money for war but not for education?” “Killing one person is murder – Killing 100,000 is foreign policy.” “Honor veterans – No more war.” “Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” “I think when Jesus said ‘Love your enemies,” he meant not to kill them.”
On issue after issue, powerful economic and political forces — including “culture warriors” — are vigorously bullying people, corrupting elections, hurting workers and children, disrupting ecosystems and Mother Earth’s climate, and causing other damage. Many people who have better values are feeling overwhelmed and powerless. Some yield to despair and give up. But we can indeed fight back — nonviolently — by organizing strategically savvy grassroots movements to solve the problems and replace bad public policies with good ones. This requires a positive attitude. Hope is not really a statistical probability that we have a certain percentage of likelihood of […]
Copyright © 2024 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes