I recently saw Amazing Grace, it was about the abolition of slavery in the UK. Like Amistad it left me feeling sick in the stomach. How could people profit from such misery? How could generation after generation be complicit in such an abhorrent institution? How is it possible that when La Amistad reached US soil […]

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If you start to look closely at the state of this planet it quickly becomes obvious that the course our society is steering is heading towards a very rough landing. The world is rife with poverty, disease, misery and violence. The rich countries grew rich by exploiting whatever and whomever they could. Our environmental record […]

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People of the world have come together many times in the past, most notably for sporting spectacles such as the Olympics or the World Cup. In 32 days something special is going to happen, people of the world are going to come together not to compete against each other - but to meet each other. […]

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Amnesty have a new website to help end the travesty which is Guantanamo Bay - Tear It Down. There is an image with 500,000 pixels in it, sign a pettition and remove a pixel from the image - it is a vivid metaphor for the difference each individual action can make. None of us can […]

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I have just come across across a prose poem by Mark Twain called The War Prayer. Apparently it was a bit too provocative for his publisher and it was never published until after his death (and World War 1). It is set during the wartime and the townsfolk have gathered to pray before sending soldiers […]

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