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[https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/24/thich_nhat_hanh_dies_at_95 by DEMOCRACY NOW 24/1/22] | [https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/24/thich_nhat_hanh_dies_at_95 by DEMOCRACY NOW 24/1/22] | ||
World-renowned Buddhist monk, poet, teacher and antiwar activist Thich Nhat Hanh has died in his native Vietnam at the age of 95. He was exiled from Vietnam for decades beginning in the 1960s after he spoke out publicly against the war. In 1966, he traveled to the United States and met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping to persuade King to speak out against the U.S. War on Vietnam. | World-renowned Buddhist monk, poet, teacher and antiwar activist Thich Nhat Hanh has died in his native Vietnam at the age of 95. He was exiled from Vietnam for decades beginning in the 1960s after he spoke out publicly against the war. In 1966, he traveled to the United States and met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping to persuade King to speak out against the U.S. War on Vietnam. | ||
=====A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin===== | |||
[https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/22/a-few-things-about-nonviolence-a-response-to-yoav-litvin/ by Andie Stewart 22/9/17 COUNTERPUNCH] | |||
Yoav Litvin’s recent column, To Punch or Not to Punch – The American Left’s Existential Crisis, about nonviolence is a deeply mistaken and rather insulting piece of writing. His understanding of nonviolence is ahistorical and decontextualized. What he calls ‘nonviolence’ is not nonviolence, it is the liberal media’s false projection of nonviolence that has been created in the 50 years since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to function as a soft-power ideological state apparatus. | |||
