"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."   Edmund Burke    (that's Elvis Costello on the left by the way, not Edmund Burke.   Elvis is more photogenic)          

Global Renaissance Alliance  This is a website associated with Marianne Williamson.  Anybody for the Course in Miracles?

Friends Committee on National Legislation (US)  This is a national legislative organization of the Religious Society of Friends - Quakers. 

Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace     Nice bunch of rabble and rabble rousers in the Olympia, Washington area.   

Thurston County Progressive Network � Calendar of progressive events for the Olympia, Washington community!

Home of the Resident Peaceniks!  An organization dedicated to the peace and justice issues and serving the communities of Western Washington.  Good calendar of events.   Check it out.

Here's an interesting read by a marine - General Smedley D. Butler  War is a Racket  

Want to have some fun?   Let's see who the bloggers have currently leading the pack if you google "miserable failure."   And it doesn't get much more fun than this:  try googling "weapons of mass destruction".  All that would be more fun if it didn't relate so directly to death and destruction in Iraq directed by the United States.   And if it didn't relate so directly to death of US soldiers and citizens.

A peace page from the neighbors to the south - Oregon Peaceworkers!

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington                                                                                             Well, let's hope so, George.  Sometimes I think it's two steps forward, then one step back and I really loathe the step backward. 

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