Here the ceilings overflow with a modern mythology of the War in Vietnam and opposing
peace movements of the 1960s and»70s, subjects that — as in much of the artist's best - known work — speak to the enduring significance of the Vietnam era as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.
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peace movements, France, and Vietnam are all things you continue to reference in your paintings, but Italy is relatively new.
Social change and
peace movements / campaigns, once considered the dangerous work of local grassroots indigenous activists and civil society, have now transformed into «global crowdfunded - change your Twitter avatar - update your Facebook status - like my page» campaigns.
From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and
peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.
There were prison reform societies, women's rights groups, world
peace movements, and Sabbath observance organizations.
Other flaws in
peace movements can be evaluated only subjectively.
In political ideology (except for pre-1914 America),
peace movements have drawn disproportionately from the radical left.
Peace movements fail because they dwell on fear rather than hope.
Peace movements fail because they are unable, or unwilling, to convince people that wars hurt economies.
A look at seven possibly avoidable causes for the failure of
peace movements might suggest new approaches for the future.
Peace movements fail because they focus on the past, the present or the distant future, rather than the intermediate future.
Wars ultimately end, but rarely because of the work of
peace movements.
Peace movements fail because they become identified with threatening symbols unrelated to peace.
Nonetheless, a study of the history of
peace movements challenges one's ability to be optimistic.
Peace movements, of the 20th century generally have been unable to achieve their immediate objectives, and have had even less impact on long - term public policy.
Peace movements fail because they fail to bridge class and ideological divisions.
The pre-1914 French, German and American
peace movements all possessed an unduly legalistic notion of what peace involved.
All are cause and effect of the minority status of
peace movements.
Some problems facing national,
peace movements, I would argue, are unavoidable and thus not worth much attention.
Peace movements thrive, an English writer has observed, when there is both optimism and pessimism: optimism, because there must be hope that shooting can be averted, that steps can be taken toward a more peaceful world; pessimism, because there must be clouds of war to spur interest in peace issues, to move us out of our normal preoccupation with more pleasant topics.
Just as
peace movements need both optimism and pessimism to thrive, it is inevitable that in their appeals fear will be mixed with hope.
The ecological movements became
peace movements as well.
The fast - growing
peace movements in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere have assumed a legal sanction in human rights law.
For many women in
the peace movements of the «60s, feminist consciousness was sparked by increasing recognition of the sexism of the male leadership in the peace movement itself.
Peace movements all over Europe and North America have done great work to expose the arms race, militarism and militarization which in the final analysis is a profit - earning enterprise that feed directly on human blood and human greed.
Peace movements thrive, an English writer has observed, when there is both optimism and pessimism: optimism, because there must be hope that shooting can be averted, that steps can be taken toward a more peaceful world; pessimism, because there must be clouds of war to spur interest in peace issues, to move us out of...
- The denuclearisation, demilitarisation and peace working area:
the peace movements of the 1970s and 1980s have run out of steam.
from Union Theological Semianry, has been active in
peace movements throughout the world, and is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar.
The program — which was mandated to find proof that foreign elements supported the American
peace movement (any kind of support, even «encouragement,» «casual contacts» or «mutual interest»)-- was not halted until March 1974.
But few Africans share the same concerns of
the peace movement in the Euro - American community.
A peace movement arising out of terror is as idolatrous as peace based on the bomb.
Out of this came a genuine
peace movement.
We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion,
the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.
The struggle for a new spirituality in
the peace movement, for example, shows that we are committed to the Reformation for the balance of our lives.
Local pastors, where enabling leadership is concerned, may be at a better and more advantageous position to build a more effective
peace movement than any other group in the world.
Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society14 was a very sophisticated development of this thesis, which had devastating effects on the post — World War I
peace movement in the United States and was widely used to justify U.S. participation in World War II.
As the reality of the nuclear threat has come home to me and I have been caught up in
the peace movement, the biblical ambiguity has continued to haunt me.
Thus the women's
peace movement was left with an implied doctrine of split natures and split ethics between men and women.
Consciousness of sexism in
the peace movement caused women to form networks and caucuses among themselves; many woman split with these peace organizations and joined the feminist movement.
Jesus» predictions of wars have been troublesome to those who wish to claim him for
the peace movement.
But in spite of the leadership of Martin Luther King and the martyrdom of divinity students in the civil rights movement, and in spite of the leadership of the Berrigans and William Sloane Coffin in
the peace movement, those movements as a whole remained indifferent if not hostile to religion.
He became a pacifist and was active in the Christian
peace movement and in opposition to nuclear weapons.
In 1965, as the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations were beginning to peak, a young member of the Catholic Peace Fellowship burned himself alive, causing Merton to observe that both the country and
the peace movement had an air of absurdity and frenzy.
The priestly task of a religious
peace movement is to call both Israelis and Palestinians to suffer the amputation of part of their collective, symbolic bodies and agree to two independent states alongside each other in our common homeland.
Then, rather suddenly in our day, the opinion has changed, and there is a popular cry («popular» in
the peace movement, that is) for us to withhold taxes.
It is a land that I, along with members of Israel's large
peace movement, believe must be shared.
Very generally, among our forerunners in all segments of the Christian
peace movement, the policy was to use all legal avenues for protesting war and expenditures for war (and to speak much more respectfully of government than we are inclined to do).
I am active in the religious
peace movement Oz veShalom, «Strength and Peace,» a name taken from the last verse of Psalm 29: «May the Lord give strength [oz] to His people!
If the present
peace movement follows the pattern of past peace movements, this one will affect some policies and will move some people, but it will ultimately fail to avert war or to build a broad peace.
The pre-1914 German
peace movement, when it was noticed at all, was attacked as a stooge for the English.