A board member and former president and Vice President of the peace history society. Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular resistance and towards a new conscientious objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the cornegy endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war socialists, anarchists and other political radicals bas
Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular red to secularac resistance and towards a new Conscientious Objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war, socialists, anarchists, and other political radicals based their dissent on secular principles, political, philosophical
The Mission Statement for our nation laid out in a supersized font so that no one could forget what this document, our constitution, is all about. Our founders didnt start out by saying we the privileged. They didnt call for a document form of government for we the powerful. Indeed, they wanted to make clear that the structure of the government that they were founding would be different from those in europe that function from the privilege and the powerful. As president lincoln summarized our nation of the people, by the people and for the people. That is the vision. Thats the vision ive been coming to the floor and talkinger about for the last year and a half. About the importance of ate government that responds to the issues that affect the citizens across that listens to the people of this nation. President jefferson said that the mother principle of unitednt states was that we have a government where each citizen has an equal voice. Admittedly we had the closet had to be corrected
Sons and husbands and brothers who in lonely prison cells have endured an absolute nightmare. But they never gave in and they never gave up. At long last, they can stand tall and breathe deep the fresh air of freedom. Covering these breaking developments for us, we have chris frates at the white house, Frederik Pleitgen at Ramstein Air Base in germany. To Fred Pleitgen at ramstein, so, did they land there . Reporter is that constituent stihl is the question. There is no official confirmation from the base in ramstein or from the state department. However, what we saw maybe 35 minutes ago was a medical bus that was going towards the Landstuhl Medical Center here that is right next to the Ramstein Air Base. It was escorted by five or six vehicles of german police, base police, as well as military police. What wed been gathering before from the base here was that that was the way that such a convoy would take place when these americans arrived here. So, again, no official confirmation yet
With 99% of the vote counted, the ‘no’ option has won by a margin of 10 percentage points. The country’s current charter was written in 1980, although it has undergone 70 reforms