Save Jeju Island Anti Base Protest
Live at the People's House - Madison, Wisconsin Sing-along Songbook
Remembering The Bay View Massacre and The Eight-hour Workday
Community Meeting House Schedule
An Infinite Succession of Presents
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn
Renounce War Projects is associated with Renounce War Foundation, but is run separately because it engages in political organizing and activities that cause it to not be considered as a tax deductible organization. Therefore, donations and gifts to Renounce War Projects are not tax deductible. Renounce War Projects invites everyone to share in its mission though participation
Its first objective is to organize people and create democratic organizations that develop small group participation action projects to change the relations of power.
Its second objective is to organize people to learn how to use non-violent action projects to change ourselves and our neighborhoods into the people we want to be and the neighborhoods where we want to live.
Its third objective is to organize people and raise funds to create and develop these projects in new environments
"There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people."
Thomas Jefferson
September 9, 2009
“Carved in stone on the grave of Second Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young, who died on 16 August, 1917. 'Sacrifice to the fallacy that war can end war,' his family had inscribed on his last resting place.” - R.Fisk
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