Never let anyone make you feel like a monster or a villain or "just like the [INSERT BAD PEOPLE]" for recognizing the necessity of violence in defeating oppression. It's the pacifists who are the real monsters and villains, or at least their collaborators.#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #racism #antiracism #colonialism #anticolonialism #pacifism #pacifist
@grayface_ghost I was a #pacifist until 2021. Which is to say, for the first 64 years of my life. But I can see no way that #Ukraine could have non-violently halted #Putin's ruthless invasion, and it also seems to me that if Putin is allowed to succeed in Ukraine, other autocrats will be encouraged to try the same thing in other places, as #Netanyahu is demonstrating in #Gaza.
Violence is always evil – but it may sometimes be the lesser evil.
Looking fwd to presenting my International Affairs paper articulating #pacifist reflections on #Ukraine (full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275) at Richmond American International University in London next Tuesday, 5pm: https://richmond.ac.uk/news-events/news/guest-lecture-event-questioning-the-warist-orthodoxy/.
In news that will surprise LITERALLY NO-ONE, a knowledgable insider has said that "Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes".
If you're buying or selling weapons, you're making the world a worse place.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/09/britain-arms-exports-uk-foreign-office-mark-smith
#KeithMcHenry. #Pacifist, and #FoodNotBombs co-Founder, regarding #Resistance:
"You can support nonviolent #directaction and still support the armed liberation by people being killed by the #Empire. The #Palestinians, the #Zapatistas, the #FMLN in #ElSalvador. It is our duty to support those fighting for human liberation from this monster called the USA."
The tracking-link stripped relevant post @ zuckerbook https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10162038729273820&id=691903819 #nonviolence @palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Imperialism #EZLN
Nguyễn Quyền (1869–1941) was a #Vietnamese #scholar & #AntiColonial #revolutionary #activist who advocated independence from #French #colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Bội Châu & Phan Chu Trinh & one of Tonkin Free School's founders.
"The more I read the more I become aware that the things we studied, our examination system, were wrong – indeed the real reasons for our having lost our country. From that point on I was determined to seize upon our country's literature and on modern learning to awaken our citizenry."
Quyen advocated the modernisation of Vietnam's #education system. Around 1903 or 1904, Quyen met Tang Bat Ho, who had returned from his travels abroad & talked extensively about the modernisation of Japan. In 1904 he met with Phan Bội Châu, but Quyen had little in common with Chau's ideology of using violence to achieve independence. Quyen went on the work with Lương Văn Can & Le Dai in setting up the Dong Kinh Thuc Nghia, which sought to strengthen the Vietnamese people & thereby the likelihood of independence through the training of a new, more modern generation of scholars.
In 1908, Quyen was arrested in a general crackdown by French authorities and sent to jail on Côn Lôn island. He died in the prison which was infamous for torturing political prisoners.
Ref: Marr, David G. (1970). Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley: University of California. ISBN 0-520-01813-3.
She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Born in poverty in Ireland, her mother left her father & 
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In 2 weeks exactly the UK will fall silent to commemorate #war in a way that is increasingly #militaristic & hegemonic. Here's my #pacifist critique: https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23337486.2021.2014237
Today = 2nd 
of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66
Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.
This deserves wide distribution
@votevets has made an excellent video about #TFG at #Arlington & his abysmal contempt for #Veterans
I'm a Christian #pacifist & So Sick of pols gleefully sending our (poor) people to war & then dodging responsibility for the ones who don't get all the way killed
You wanna #SupportTheTroops? Start by voting in people who aren't trying to privatize the #VA
Lately I have seen several people, who are strongly opposed to Trump and everything he stands for, say to not vote.
This is effectively supporting fascism, racism, sexism, and -- let's face it -- Trump.
Let this independent #pacifist -- someone who has voted as long as possible, but never seen a candidate for national office that he agreed with -- talk through this. #uspol 1/
OK that was not easy to watch
I'm prepared for what Biden said to be spun every which way to serve various agendae (a?, as? #Latin scholars needed 
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+ He remained coherent & confident throughout, while fielding a lot of passive-aggressive questions. Any president needs to be able to do that. I f'ing dare #Trump to try
+ He backed up his VP
- His foreign policy positions retain #neolib priorities & reach out to a 'Center' pushed way too far to the Right for this #pacifist
The horror is all the way down the ballot. This #NC #MAGA gov candidate is preaching *In A Church* that "some folks" just need killing 
This #Episcopalian #pacifist begs y'all to #VoteBlue
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From Pressenza;
#ukraine Stop the criminalization of #peace and #humanRights speech and the prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian #Pacifist Movement
07.06.24 - Olivier Turquet
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The undersigned organizations express their deep disappointment and grave concerns about the continuing harassment of peace activists and #conscientiousobjectors
National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/
#NationalService
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