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The people must have the conscience to tame the opponent! Non violence shows the people the violences the opponent uses to stop a peaceful movement. Thus the true ugliness the opponent is capable of is exposed and the people cease to ignore and allow it to continue…
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go at Burning Man!
Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address before the United Nations in Geneva will be remembered by history, with the Secretary of State unabashedly arguing to the world that LGBT rights are human rights.
Photo Credits: Michelle Ta
Project One Heartland Vietnam 2011
Location: Binh Chuan; Nghe An
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“Brighter futures don’t happen without education.
Education doesn’t happen when kids don’t stay in school.
Kids don’t stay in school unless they’re warm and happy.
Warm and happy kids happen when we work together.
One Heartland Vietnam is building brighter futures, together.”
Visiting the Ta Prohm temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Couldn’t have asked for a better person to travel S.E. Asia with.
Picture: George Takei of Star Trek at the time his family was incarcerated in Rohwer Camp in Arkansas.
Nearly 70 years ago, Executive Order 9066 authorized the U.S. military to remove any person from designated “military zones” without charge, trial or any kind of due process. This Order led to the forced evacuation and internment over over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two thirds of whom, including myself, my siblings, and my mother, were U.S. citizens. I spent over four years in two of America’s internment camps, in Rohwer, Arkansas and Tule Lake, California, simply because I and my family happen to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.Now a bill proposed in the U.S. Senate, S. 1253 (McCain/Levin) would authorize a similar sweeping authority, granted to the President, to order the detention—without charge or trial—of any person even suspected of being associated with a “terrorist organization.” I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw that we hadn’t learned from the terrible lessons of the past.
We are a nation of laws, and we have a Constitution that guarantees certain inalienable rights, including the right to liberty, the right to a jury trial, and the right against unlawful search and seizure. And yet, in times of trouble, how quickly these cornerstones of our freedom are abandoned. We must be constantly vigilant against tyranny and injustice of all forms, especially when it isn’t politically expedient.
Please share this article and write to your senator, telling her or him to vote against S.1253, and to say loudly and clearly: “Never Again.” —George Takei
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