Monthly Archives: October 2007

To Protest For or Against

Those who protest for and those who protest against may never fully understand each other, but they have at least three things in common; they share different experiences, points-of-view, and want others (the public) to be aware of their concerns.

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Mutual Misunderstanding

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The honorable South African Andrew Masondo, a former member of the armed resistance to the apartheid government, is well known for [...]

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Inspired by Chris Falzon

“In being open to the other, in acknowledging that there are different perspectives and ways of action to ours, we implicitly acknowledge that ours is not the only way of proceeding, but only one particular way. We acknowledge, in short, that our existing way of life is finite and hence that it could be different.”

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Who Do You See?

Do you see an older woman with a sunken chin, a heroine from the early twentieth century, or both?

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