Archive for the 'Global justice movement' Category

Charlie Chaplin on democracy and unity

Excerpt from Charlie Chaplin’s first true “talking picture”, The Great Dictator, released in 1940.
Border guards mistake Chaplin’s character, a humble barber, for a dictator (also played by Chaplin) who resembles him. The real dictator, meanwhile, is mistaken for the barber and arrested. The barber assumes the dictator’s identity and uses the opportunity to make a [...]

Stand by one another

On a gloomy, blustery evening in Penang, as a heavy downpour lashes the island, I dedicate this song to all of you who believe in justice, freedom, human rights and compassion.  Let us stand by one another no matter what.

“Wall of sound” confronts Blair at Westminster Cathedral

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I used to walk along the aisles of the magnificent Westminster Cathedral, the “mother church” of the Catholic community in the UK, in awe of its unusual Byzantine style, its heavenly choirs and the majestic organ music that reverberated across its cavernous interior. The Cathedral has been described as “a very special place of prayer, [...]

Anti-war protesters to blare music during Blair talk

I must say this sounds like it’s going to be an unusual - if noisy! - anti-war protest directed at Blair. Spotted this on the Indymedia UK website:
Sounding Out Tony Blair

Stop the War Coalition | 31.03.2008 14:13 [...]

Christian leaders must denounce the US war in Iraq

Meet Robert Waldrop (left), one of the leading lights of the Catholic Worker movement in the United States. Bob runs the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma, US. His powerful words - more than the way he looks - remind me of a biblical Old Testament prophet speaking truth to power!
The Catholic Worker movement [...]