Mar
31
Update on Ukraine
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The protest was well attended, with far more protestors in support for the dissolution of the legislative branch than those in support of the ruling coalition, despite some trickery and bribing by the ruling coalition. There were plenty of troops separating the two groups and so there was no chance of violence, thank God. Though, with so much world attention, it is not surprising that those in power would do their darndest to prevent violence from breaking out…
So it seems we’ll have change and continuity in Ukraine, probably without costly and controversial reruns of legislative elections. I guess it goes to show that the Spirit of the Orange Revolution is still at work in Ukraine.
Matt Jay will continue to post links and commentary on the events, as well.
dlw
Mar
30
Bono: A Time for Miracles
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He rightly frames this as a source of hope for how things must be transformed in the two-thirds world.
dlw
Mar
30
I cannot stress how import it is for Ukraine to continue the reforms it began earlier. The fear of violence is a very serious one, as the person in power who can call the guards to attack the protestors is not an honorable man. This may work to their advantage, but I know that it is not easy to risk one’s life in such a protest.
Please pray for Ukraine!
dlw
Mar
29
Mon Ami en Christ, Mark Van Steenwyck has posted a magnus postus at the Jesus Manifesto.
After I watched “Children of Men” yesterday, I felt I understood better his view and wrote him an email apology for pushing him over it. I find Christian Anarchism jarring, just like I found the very dystopic world portrayed in the movie difficult to watch, and yet I am glad I watched it. I think it communicates very well in a modern setting the significance of the incarnation, as a miracle that reincarnates hope for a wartorn human race facing its imminent mortality.
dlw
Mar
29
This Crap We Call the News
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dlw
Mar
28
Via Foreign Notes: There will be an Orange Revolution(OR)-like Mass Meeting in Ukraine this Saturday.
On Saturday 31st March Yuriy Lutsenko’s ‘People’s self-defence’ movement are staging a mass meeting at Independence Square - Maidan. Apart from Lutsenko, Yuliya Tymoshenko and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko from NSNU are to appear.
This may be the last chance for the remnants of the OR to show ‘Regiony’ what degree of support that they can muster at the time when opposition VR deputies continue to drift to the Coalition of National Unity in parliament. ‘Vlasti’ will do all it can to sabotage the meeting and cause it to flop.
dlw:Please pray for them. The powers that be are trying to subvert political reforms in Ukraine and a person was recently assassinated publicly in Ukraine.
This is a chance for Ukraine to get back on track with the reforms anticipated by many after the Orange Revolution.
dlw
Mar
28
Country Tilting Democratic!
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The BushAdmin has been good for the Dems. If I were a (Re)Pub(lican), I’d probably want to help encourage the Green Party. I hope this coming election will be good for third parties, as I simply don’t trust the main two parties to center themselves on the dynamic political center without third parties snapping at their heels…
dlw
Mar
26
This is the question that is now being asked in the US, as well as with Christian Ethics classes in Ukraine.
Mar
25
Jesus and Beyond:Nonviolent Social Change
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I wrote this out for my Ukrainian friends at Orange Ukraine.
I have a book, “Gandi and Beyond” by David Cortright. It is a practical analysis of the lives/teachings of Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr and Cesar Chavez and others.
Here are some excerpts.
Mar
24
Bono’s Sermon at NAACP
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Kudos a MarcDavis at Branch in the Vine, I found out about Bono’s sermon given at the NAACP where he shares about how Martin Luther King Jr impacted him as an Irishman and how we can encounter God in identifying with the poorest of the poor and committing ourselves to be the generation that ends extreme poverty in our world.
It was an inspiring sermon.
dlw