Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914: (Questioning Christian Participation in War)

An earlier version was postedat: http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/12/19/remembering-the-christmas-truce-of-1914-and-questioning-christian-participation-in-homicide/

 

“…and the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame;
And on each end of the rifle we're the same” -- John McCutcheon

 

Copwatch: Will the real Columbus police Vice officer please stand up?

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When it comes to going incognito online and spouting-off on how you really feel about African-Americans, immigrants, leftists and poor people, the unhinged Right Wing have embraced this ability with unabashed love.

The problem for them is, they sometimes get caught. They are disgraced and lose their job. And if a Columbus Division of Police officer from the under-siege Vice unit is posting on a local progressive-minded activist group’s Facebook page that Columbus sex workers are better off dead, then the FBI needs to investigate.

Everyone knows the story of Donna Dalton, the young mother who was shot 8 times in August by Columbus Vice undercover officer Andrew Mitchell, who was already under investigation by internal affairs.

Public outrage and speculation against Mitchell erupted, and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs suspended him. Citing the Vice unit’s arrest of porn-actress and Trump liaison Stormy Daniels earlier that summer, Chief Jacobs then suspended all Vice operations. Jacobs subsequently transferred the ongoing Vice investigation to the FBI.

Tell state lawmakers to STOP any attempt to override Governor Kasich's veto of House Bill 258, the unconstitutional six-week abortion ban!

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Stop the Bans Day of Action
Thursday, December 27 at 8:30 a.m.
Ohio Statehouse – High Street sidewalk
1 Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Winter Solstice Celebration: Igniting Our Purpose in Life

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Fri, Dec 21, 7pm
Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 E. 16th Ave.
Music, Dances of Universal Peace, meditation, and drumming. Elizabeth (Munira) Reed, Ph.D., ereed@shalemcenter.org. summitumc.org.

A hate crime victim, a manipulative veep and a magical nanny

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This year’s usual bumper crop of holiday movies includes a political biopic, a Disney sequel and a bizarre tale of the aftermath of a hate crime. All of them open on or before Christmas Day. Let’s start with the best.

Welcome to Marwen

In the spring of 2000, artist Mark Hogancamp was savagely beaten by a group of men who disapproved of his cross-dressing ways. He survived—barely—but his memory didn’t. Since then, he has attempted to deal with his loss and trauma by creating a fantasy world set in the fictitious town of Marwen, Belgium.

Robert Zemeckis has turned this real-life tragedy into Welcome to Marwen, a film that seamlessly blends fantasy and reality with the technical finesse we’ve come to expect from the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump.

U.S. Military Out of Syria

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to remove all U.S. troops from Syria.

If that happens it will fulfill part of the demand that World BEYOND War has been making since Trump promised nine months ago to get “out” of Syria “like very soon.”

Removing troops from the ground — all of them, not just some — and ceasing base construction, if it happens, will be a start.

Even more important is ceasing to bomb from above.

In addition, alternative approaches need to be launched, including unarmed peaceworkers, a weapons ban for the region, a disarmament program, major actual humanitarian aid (and an end to sanctions that harm ordinary people), and diplomacy.

The fact that politicians and the parties they belong to generally do more harm than good is simply no reason not to encourage the good and discourage the bad.

Opposition to this withdrawal of troops is coming from a variety of disturbing quarters for a range of unconvincing reasons.

And So This Is Christmas

Christmas Day. Very late on this day and into the morning of the 26th in 1776, George Washington led a surprise night crossing of the Delaware River and bloody pre-dawn attack on unarmed hung-over-from-Christmas troops still in their underwear — a founding act of violence for the new nation to proudly remember as the progenitor of either the crimes of its “special” forces all over the globe or of peace on earth, I can never recall which.

The Abolition of War Requires New Thoughts, Words, and Actions

Remarks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 12, 2018

2018 Columbus Coalition for the Homeless Annual Memorial Service

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Thursday, December 20, 6-7pm
Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square, 125 E. Broad St.
Each year, The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless sponsors an annual memorial service to honor our homeless citizens who have passed away this year. This service will include speakers from the community who work with the homeless population, music from Common Harmony, a Harmony Project Program, and the reading of the names of those who have passed. Please, share this event throughout the community.
Hosted by Columbus Coalition for the Homeless.

Ohio Statehouse Update

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December 18, 2018 - Sent to Governor by the House

HB 41 VOTER REGISTRATION Will modify the law concerning challenges to voter registrations, the appointment of observers, and absent voting, and to change the manner in which counties may use reimbursements for voting machine acquisitions.

HB 58 CURSIVE HANDWRITING  Will require the Department of Education to include supplemental instructional materials in cursive handwriting in the English language arts model curriculum.

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