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TO EVERY BRITON In 1896 I addressed an appeal to every Briton in South Africa on behalf of my countrymen who had gone there as labourers or traders and their assistants. It had its effect. However important it was from my viewpoint, the cause which I pleaded then was insignificant compared with the cause which prompts this appeal. I appeal to every Briton, wherever he may be now, to accept the method of non-violence instead of that of war for the adjustment of relations between nations and other matters. Your statesmen have declared that this a war on behalf of...

52 REASONS NOT TO MOW 37 WAYS TO HELP TREES Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns. Art Buchwald: People shouldn't be judged by the length of their grass. In 2003 through now, the world has seen floods, famine, fire, mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new...

Excavated in the summer of 1979, this four-room building set within a low enclosure (temenos) wall serves as a reminder that our views about a past culture may be subject to sudden and drastic change as the result of a single new discovery. The building, oriented roughly to the cardinal points and entered from the north, lies on the northern slopes of Mt. Iuktas some seven kilometers south of Knossos . In plan, it consists of an east-west corridor at the front off of which open three non-connecting rectangular rooms oriented north-south. In the east room were found large numbers...

White House senior adviser Karl Rove caused a firestorm last week after observing that liberals favor "therapy and understanding" to fight terrorism in a post-Sept. 11 world. Rove spoke the truth. But he barely scratched the surface. The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools. At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues." Peaceniks are covering our kids from head to toe in emotional bubble wrap. They are...

Over 2,000 Palestinians and Israelis marched Friday afternoon through the village of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, in a peace rally headed by Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Dr. Arun Gandhi and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei. The demonstrators called for non-violent action against the construction of the security fence, which runs through Abu Dis, and against the Israeli military presence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As they marched through the streets of Abu Dis, the Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators voiced slogans promoting peace and demanding liberty for both nations. The rally is part of an...

The Truth About Mahatma Gandhi A lot of today's peaceniks quote the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi when they talk about resisting war against evil dictators. Yet how many of them know (and how many of you Freepers know, for that matter) that Gandhi was not a traditional peacenik in that he did not see the absence of war as an end in itself. His philosophy was far more complicated than that. In fact, he was honest enough to admit the usefulness of violence, particularly when dealing with evil regimes and dictators bent on the destruction of a whole race of...

When James C. Kopp's return to Western New York jumped into the headlines last week, Lynne Slepian got a call from a friend who asked whether she wanted to cancel this weekend's 5K race in memory of her husband, Bart Slepian. Lynne Slepian's reply was quick and blunt: "I don't want one more thing taken away from us." So the third annual Barnett A. Slepian, M.D., 5K Race for Non-Violence will go off as scheduled, starting at 10 a.m. Sunday in Amherst's Bassett Park. The race, first proposed by Slepian family friend Jill Polet, always has tried to remember Slepian...

"Diogenes, who searched high and low for an honest man, might as well have taken his lamp in search of a pacifist. As opposed to those who disguise themselves as such, in America, real pacifists are almost as rare as virgins in a whorehouse. Every aggressive pacifist I have ever come across, understood pacifism to mean, 'My friends and I can kill, but our enemies may not.'"