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Fr. Louie Vitale Completes his ’09 NC Circle of Peace Speaking Tour at the Church of Reconciliation, 110 N. Elliot Rd. Chapel Hill at 7:00p on Thursday, June 25.

“Love Your Enemies: Transforming Us versus Them Thinking”

Following his visit to Iran earlier this year, Fr. Louie brings his Pace e Bene speaking tour to Asheville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Stoneville, Durham, and will complete the Circle of Peace in Chapel Hill.

How do we relate with individuals and countries that believe differently than we do? How do we deal with our so-called enemies? Is torture morally acceptable? How do we respond to terrorism?
Father Louie Vitale has been grappling with these and other related questions for nearly half a century since he began his journey as a young man when he had a conversion to nonviolence after he left the air force.

It has been an amazing week in Iran, and you are no doubt seeing images that would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago.

For most of us, Iran has been a country about which we know very little…which, obviously, makes it tough to put the limited news we’re getting into a proper context.

The goal of today’s conversation is to give you a bit more of an “insider look” at today’s news; and to do that we’ll describe some of the risks Iranian bloggers face as they go about their business, we’ll meet a blogging Iranian cleric, we’ll address the issue of what tools the Iranians use for Internet censorship and the companies that could potentially be helping it along, and then we’ll examine Internet traffic patterns into and out of Iran.

Finally, a few words about, of all things, how certain computer games might be useful as tools of revolution.

Foxx, Shuler, Coble, and Miller have all put their name on House Concurrent Resolution 362 that expresses Iran's threat to US interests and demands that Bush impose strict sanctions.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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This guy has more foreign policy vision than the whole Bush Administration combined.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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