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Tag: non-violent resistance

I wish I could hate them.

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 by Michael Rose
I wish I could hate them. In ways, it would be so much easier. Their violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, greed, exploitation of the poor, the anything-to-win-politics and indiscriminate, consumption of the planet and each other.  I hate the scapegoating, half-truths, spins … all the bullshit.  I hate the value of winning at all…
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Punched, Naked and a Long Walk

Posted on April 11, 2017September 1, 2017 by Michael Rose
People who meet me today are shocked to learn that as a younger man I was a bouncer at a somewhat legendary honky tonk in Calgary, Alberta.  It was a fairly rough place at times, and a night wasn’t complete without helping people leave the premises often under duress.  In that position we had two…
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