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Book Review of “American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men”

March 15, 2013 by Cameron Conaway Leave a Comment

David McConnell explores manhood through a literary lens akin to Capote’s “In Cold Blood.”

Filed Under: Social Justice Tagged With: akashic books, american honor killings, arun gandhi, best books of 2013, book reviews, boys and men anger, cormac mccarthy, criminal justice books, David McConnell, ezra pound, gay panic, gender studies books, In Cold Blood, James Joyce, literary nonfiction, mahatma gandhi, male desire, male rage, Male violence, nonfiction form workshops, nonviolence, sean sime, social justice, Truman Capote, understanding crime, understanding men, understanding violence

I’m an American Living in Israel and I’m going to Jail Rather Than Join the Israeli Defense Forces

October 29, 2012 by Moriel Rothman 4 Comments

Moriel Rothman is refusing to serve in the IDF an act of protest against what he sees as an unjust and evil system. Here is his story.

Filed Under: Conflict, Featured Content Tagged With: Bob Moses, civil disobedience, conscience, David Foster Wallace, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Israel, judaism, Martin Luther King Jr., military, Moriel Rothman, nonviolence, Palestine, protest, Racism, religion, Vernon Dahmer, violence

Measuring My Manhood: Faith and Machismo

September 29, 2012 by Registered Runaway 5 Comments

The Registered Runaway compares himself to the “macho Christian” image some pastors espouse, and finds neither he nor Jesus Christ measure up.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: aggression, apostle paul, christianity, gender performativity, gender roles, heterosexuality, hippie, homophobia, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, machismo, macho, manliness, manly, mark driscoll, nonviolence, oration, Registered Runaway, religion, sexuality

A Mission to the Venice of the Amazon

September 28, 2012 by Justin Cascio 2 Comments

Welcome to Belen, where the poorest of the poor float for half the year on the floodplains of the Amazon.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Green Politics, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: Adam Frange, alcoholism, Amazon, Amazon River, Belen, Bethlehem, Bola Roja Clown Doctors, broken windows theory, Capital of the Amazon, children, clown doctors, Community Health Council, community violence, criminology, Doctors, domestic violence, environment, family violence, flooding, Gesundheit! Institute, Global Warming, government, holistic health, Hurricane Katrina, Iquitos, isolation, jungle, La Red por Belen, Latin America, literacy, malnourishment, medical mission, mental health, mission, mosquito-borne disease, non-profits, nonviolence, Parenthood, Patch Adams, Peru, play, poverty, public health, public services, safety net, service mission, sociology, STDs, teen pregnancy, The Network for Belen, Third World, University of Washington, Venice, violence, volunteering, waste management

Cesar Chavez: A Model of Men’s Nonviolence

March 8, 2012 by 1in6 1 Comment

“Nonviolence is not inaction.”

Filed Under: Ethics & Values Tagged With: Cesar Chavez, Emiliano Zapata, gender, men, nonviolence, Texas, violence, women

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