tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10703390.post8538582240007884094..comments2023-07-20T13:08:25.645-07:00Comments on Hastings on nonviolence: Our duty despite the evidenceTom H. Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098260278363929190noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10703390.post-18279491861686178212011-01-15T13:54:47.731-08:002011-01-15T13:54:47.731-08:00Yes, you did make the right choice, IMHO. Good con...Yes, you did make the right choice, IMHO. Good connect to the AJ caveat, exactly on point. As always in Portland, there was yet another great opportunity, to see Bill Hartung at Powells. Makes an activist feel a little schizy, all these wonderful choices. It's so much harder for folks who live in, say, rural Kentucky or where I used to live, in Webster, Wisconsin. If you lose hope in Portland, there's no hope for you! We all owe Alexa and her generation all our hope, however, period.Tom H. Hastingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17098260278363929190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10703390.post-77149053477850115722011-01-15T13:44:09.954-08:002011-01-15T13:44:09.954-08:00I felt torn between going to the Peace House potlu...I felt torn between going to the Peace House potluck/movie night versus the gun violence/gang violence "Purple Passover" event at the UU Church. I think Nancy and I made the right choice. Although we both agreed that there should be a stronger connection made between our wars and the increasing gun violence in our streets and gun suicides in our homes, overall we left feeling some hope, more than the peace activists at the meeting you went to did. There's so much more work to do, now is not the time to loose ourselves to despair. If we must stand each night with a lit candle, not in hopes to change the world, but as AJ Muste did, to make sure this world doesn't change us, then that is what we should do.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10387774648881038785noreply@blogger.com