Blessed are the peacemakers

There are cer­tain moments that stand out after a polit­ical film about intense emo­tions, telling human ges­tures and moments of trust or intim­acy or cour­age. In the case of I Know I’m Not Alone, Michael Franti’s new film, those moments include the way...

Petition…

Someone anonym­ously poin­ted me at this (at least I assume that’s where they were think­ing of, they didn’t actu­ally leave a link). If you dis­agree with the death sen­tence, go sign it. 17-year old Nazanin killed a man, one of three who was trying to...

More scraps…

Writ­ten on an envelope: “You make your own com­munity. You stop put­ting up walls and draw­ing lines in the sand and hope every­one else will do the same. You bush­wack through insane media fear and full cap­it­al­ist con­sump­tion and forge your own relationships.”...

Jews, hell, gehenna & voting

Accord­ing to The Age, one of the parties in the upcom­ing Israeli elec­tions is saying voters will go to Hell if they don’t vote for Shas. This con­fused me, ‘cos Jews don’t believe in Hell… well, not like that, anyway. Instead, there’s Gehenna, a place where...