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LIBERIAN WOMEN PEACEFULLY BRING A BRUTAL CIVIL WAR TO AN END (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)
In the Greek play “Lysistrata,” first acted in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ character, Lysistrata, leads a group of women to refuse to have sex...
Cary Donham
Jul 16, 20234 min read
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MONTGOMERY ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)
The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court decision inStudents for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, hearkens...
Cary Donham
Jul 5, 20234 min read
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NONVIOLENCE IN THE BALTIC STATES HELPED THEM BREAKAWAY FROM THE SOVIET UNION
I hadn’t associated the three European Baltic nations—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—with nonviolent movements. However, from 1986-1991,...
Cary Donham
Jun 30, 20236 min read
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THE GANDHI-LED GREAT SALT MARCH: WORLD RECOGNITION OF SATYGHARA (Successful Non-Violence Campaigns)
Anyone willing to make a 241-mile march in boiling heat under constant threat of government violence to protest a tax on salt is a tower...
Cary Donham
Jun 26, 20233 min read
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FAITH AND PATIENCE: HOW WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)
When the Declaration of Independence said that all men were created equal, it meant white men who owned property. Women, even white...
Cary Donham
Jun 17, 20235 min read
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NONVIOLENCE CAN WORK (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)
Nonviolence is not for the weak. Nor are nonviolent movements doomed to failure. History taught in high schools, most undergraduate...
Cary Donham
Jun 5, 20232 min read
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THE GOP’s MESSAGE ON THE DEBT CEILING: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BE DAMNED
A small murder of crows is arguing loudly this morning. And the robins and the cardinals are weighing in: chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu...
Cary Donham
May 25, 20233 min read
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THE ABSURD BATTLE OF BAKHMUT
One of the most ironic (and sad) statements from the Vietnam War was “It became necessary to destroy that village in order to save it.” ...
Cary Donham
May 24, 20232 min read
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IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR?
I am not surprised that the Ukraine-Russian War continues, bogged down in Bakhmut and a muddy Ukraine spring (https://www.nytimes.com/202...
Cary Donham
May 13, 20232 min read
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THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, in a May 9, 2023 NY Times opinion piece (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/russia-war-ukr...
Cary Donham
May 12, 20233 min read
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PEACE PEACE, THEY SAY, BUT THERE IS NO PEACE: JEREMIAH 6:14
The war in Ukraine drags on. The US and China are bickering about what might have been a Chinese surveillance balloon blown off course,...
Cary Donham
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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TOO BLIND TO SEE
2023 looks to be a sad year in Israel. Our long time ally is slipping into an ultra-conservative religious, right wing mess, led by...
Cary Donham
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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THERE IS WAR ALL OVER THE WORLD
T October 29, 2022 David Ignatius, in his October 28, 2022 Washington Post column, argues that the United States should cautiously engage...
Cary Donham
Oct 31, 20222 min read
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JUSTICE BLOWING IN THE WIND: LIFE OR DEATH?
Mass shootings implicate both peace and politics. they shatter the pace of a location and they create political fodder both for opponents...
Cary Donham
Oct 16, 20223 min read
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Putin's Missile Campaign Will Fail
Where is Russia’s war ( excuse me, “special operation”) in Ukraine headed? For the past several weeks, Ukraine has been engaged in...
Cary Donham
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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Welcome to Peace and Politics
I am starting this web site in connection with the publication of my memoir, “A Wrinkle in the Long Gray Line.” The Long Gray Line refers...
Cary Donham
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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