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Bridport Peace and Justice Group BPJG December 2010 Newsletter
Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky 82 on the 7th December
Here is a quote from him.
“The core
of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always
illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden
of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic
relation is legitimate. If they can’t prove it, then it should be
dismantled. ... There’s a very heavy burden of proof to be borne
by anyone who calls for violence. Maybe it can be sometimes justified.
Personally, I’m not a committed pacifist, so I think that, yes, it
can sometimes be justified.”
— UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies interview with Noam
Chomsky, March 2002
You may not like this quotation, if so please search the web and find one more to your liking. He is a clever man and has said a lot of clever things. He must have said something that you like.
Another quotation this month is from the introduction to a book by Colin Ward from his book Influences: Voices of Creative Dissent.
"In 1942,in
the the darkest and most bellicose days of the second world war, he (the
Daily Mirror's Cassandra columnist Bill Connor) chose to remind readers
of the unseen influences that preserve us all:
‘Our children are guarded from diphtheria by what a Japanese and
a German did. They are saved from smallpox by an Englishman’s work.
They are saved from rabies because of a Frenchman. From birth to death
they are surrounded by an invisible host – the spirits of men who
never served a lesser loyalty than the welfare of mankind.’"
Have you seen the film "White Christmas"?
If you have, you might instead watch these on the internet.
The
War You Don't See
John Pilger investigates the media's role in war. He traces the history
of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of WWI to the
current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is horrifying in every sense of the word. It went out at 10.35 when children may have gone to bed.
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=198443
Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff
This is by an American Marxian economist. It is aimed at an American audience
but I found it fascinating and rivetting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZU3wfjtIJY
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South Somerset Peace Group
NB PLEASE. NEW MEETING VENUE:
The Glade Centre, Frog Lane, Ilminster, TA19 0AP
Starting on 25th January,
our meetings will be held at the GLADE (Global Learning and Development
Education) Centre, which is opposite the Meeting House Arts Centre. Please
see 'How to get to the GLADE Centre?' at www.glade.org for directions
and a map. Parking is available near GLADE and in the Tesco car park.
Tuesday 25th January
7.30pm
Talk: Faysal Mikdadi on Middle Eastern affairs and Palestinian perspectives
Please contact sspg@infoaction.org.uk, or www.southsomersetpeace.infoaction.org.uk if you can help with the core group which keeps the Peace Group running or further information on SSPG.
Wednesday 2nd February
2011, 7pm
Films ‘BUDRUS’ ‘It takes a village to unite the most divided
people on earth’
Presented by Dorset Palestinian
Israeli Peace Group
The Dorford Centre Dorchester Baptist Church, Dorchester, DT1 1RR (ample
free parking from 6pm directly opposite the venue)
Entry by any donation Palestinian products for sale. Refreshments and
Palestine resources available
For more info phone 01305 251922 or jesslousley@hotmail.com
Sherborne Palestine
Support Group
Cheap Street Church Hall, Sherborne
Beaminster One
World Fellowship
Strode Room, Next
to St Mary's Church, Beaminster
David Partridge
Expressing a personal position, not as spokesman, footstool, sofa and
definitely not as chair of:
Bridport Peace & Justice
bpjg@bpjg.co.uk www.bpjg.co.uk
The Bridport Peace and Justice Group seeks to use co-operative enthusiasm cunning plans and irony, to make a difference.
PS Verbosity
rules.
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