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Swanson: Can Resurrection City Be Reborn?
Znet Article, October, 08 2011
David Swanson
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Thursday morning, thousands of people moved into Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., site of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign's Resurrection city
Swanson: Rebuild the Dream in the Streets
Znet Article, October, 06 2011
David Swanson
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On Thursday, October 6th, we will occupy Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., and create a central space for an ongoing occupation from which we would engage in nonviolent resistance
Swanson: The Danger of Simplicity
Znet Article, September, 30 2011
David Swanson
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"What's your one move?"
Swanson: When the World Outlawed War
Znet Article, September, 29 2011
David Swanson
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The peace movement that made the Kellogg-Briand Pact happen, just like the militarism against which it competed, was given a huge boost by World War I
Swanson: Troy Davis and Our Pro-Life Government
Znet Article, September, 23 2011
David Swanson
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Our government's status as pro-life is in grave doubt
Swanson: Can Charlottesville Love Both Peace and War?
Znet Article, September, 12 2011
David Swanson
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It's a funny thing about peace and war: you really do have to choose between them
Swanson: I Just Found 29 Million Jobs
Znet Article, September, 05 2011
David Swanson
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And the Department of Defense has been cut back to about $388 billion, which is to say: more than it was getting 10 years ago when our country went collectively insane
Swanson: Drowning Government in a Hurricane (Why Wait for a Bathtub?)
Znet Article, August, 29 2011
David Swanson
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"Shrinking government" means a larger and more oppressive but less representative and less useful government
Swanson: Will Obama Denounce MLK as Memorial Dedicated?
Znet Article, August, 27 2011
David Swanson
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Obama did something that I don't think anyone else had previously done in a Peace Prize acceptance speech. He argued for war
Swanson: Virginia Militarized
Znet Article, August, 21 2011
David Swanson
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The U.S. military is a permanent and pervasive presence in Virginia
Swanson: Constitutional Conventions: Shall We ConCon?
Znet Article, August, 17 2011
David Swanson
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The government's broken, but would a Constitutional convention be broken too?
Swanson: The Divided Left
Znet Article, August, 16 2011
David Swanson
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There is a divide between independents and party loyalists, and between activists and lobbyists
Swanson: The Military: Closer to You Than Your Family
Znet Article, August, 14 2011
David Swanson
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It is disturbing how difficult it is in this country to get any distance away from the military
Swanson: Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes
Znet Article, July, 24 2011
David Swanson
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What the United States and NATO are doing, seizing people, locking them up, disappearing them, and torturing them is clearly illegal
Swanson: Move the Budget Debate to One of Those Democracies We're Bombing into Place
Znet Article, July, 20 2011
David Swanson
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Imagine how radically different the current debate over the Giant Debt Ceiling Monster would look if we moved it to one of those nations we're bombing into a democracy
Swanson: Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!
Znet Article, July, 16 2011
David Swanson
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By doing nothing, out of horror of right-wing lunatics, we empower right-wing lunatics
Swanson: Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible
Znet Article, July, 08 2011
David Swanson
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Whose fiscal good is it?
Swanson: Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats
Znet Article, July, 07 2011
David Swanson
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What if we had an online organizing force that answered only to concerns of peace, civil liberties, and social and economic justice?
Swanson: The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rorschach Test
Znet Article, July, 05 2011
David Swanson
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Here's another general depiction of the world that is true: Major financial interests have no shame or conscience and will engage in all variety of dirty tricks to get their way
Swanson: Memoirs of Torturers
Znet Article, July, 02 2011
David Swanson
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Just as the torture techniques drifted down the chain of command from these dealers in death to the rank and file, so too the book contracts
