2000-06-02 Jan Slakov Dear Renaissance network, I’m leaving on the 3rd for a trip to central Canada so today’s postings will likely be the last from me until about June 18. Spring here in Nova Scotia is so heart-breakingly beautiful. Frog choruses through the night, especially if it’s raining, birds singing to greet the dawn … Read more
2000-05-29 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:55:59 -0500 From: Mark Douglas Whitaker <•••@••.•••> Subject: (Fwd) [GT] Vandana Shiva – Reith Lecture on Globalization (long post) (fwd) <snip> MichaelP wrote: > This is the BBC’s transcript of a 25 minute lecture, plus Questions and > Answers, plus selected e-mail comments. > http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith%5F2000/lecture5.s tm > … Read more
2000-05-25 Jan Slakov Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:17:41 -0700 From: David Morgan <•••@••.•••> Subject: Iraq, Albright, Rafeedie, and the UC Berkeley Graduation. This is so good. It is inspirational. I have a huge lump in my throat from reading this. What a courageous young women!!! I’d like to shake her hand. linda Return-path: <•••@••.•••> … Read more
2000-05-25 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:03:50 -0700 From: CyberBrook <•••@••.•••> Subject: Student Activism Is Back Wednesday, May 24, 2000 in the Miami Herald Student Activism Is Back by Peter Dreier and Frances Fox Piven If you’re going to a graduation this season, you will see more than caps and gowns. You will … Read more
2000-05-25 Jan Slakov Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:25:03 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett <•••@••.•••> To: sfp lists <•••@••.•••>, Subject: sfp-131: Cry the beloved planet This is the real meaning of “globalisation” – the potentially disastrous consequences of global environmental change under the onslaught of international capitalism on the Earth’s life-support systems. [see “Planetary Overload by … Read more
2000-05-25 Jan Slakov Dear RN, A most interesting article… While it is certainly informative, I feel it is not that “empowering”; it focuses so much on our political leaders, neglecting to remind us “peons” that it is really up to us to make sure that the corporate globalization agenda is replaced with an earht-friendly agenda. … Read more
2000-05-23 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Long time members of this list will probably recognize Randy Schutt, who sent us the letter-to-the-editor below, as someone who is working with dedication and intelligence on the revolution for what some of us are calling a “democratic renaissance”. I am sharing this letter with this list because, like the … Read more
2000-05-23 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: “Malika” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Your Article Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:49:35 -0500 Hi: Just finished reading your article “Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative.” I really appreciate the historical information as to how globalization came to be and I like your prescription of a democratic renaissance as a way … Read more
2000-05-18 Jan Slakov Dear Renaissance Network, Perhaps you remember the posting of June 26, 1999 on how it came about that the UN declared this year the International Year for a Culture of Peace (IYCP) and this decade as the International Decade for the Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World”. … Read more
2000-05-16 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:05:05 +0530 From: TASC <•••@••.•••> Subject: [free radical] WE THE PEEPS Hey folks here’s another great article from L.A. Kaufmann, whose chronicles of the new unrest are a great resource for nonviolent acrivists. At the end of this e-mail is a note on how to subscribe to … Read more