On Apartheid (Culturally Entrenched–Racial & Religious-Biased Intolerance)

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On Nonviolent Conflict Resolution, as to Water and Energy Issues in

the Eastern Mediterranean & the Great Lakes (notably Michigan)

See also Mirror Sites for eArticles on,

    ‘Apart-Hate’ as Hate Crime — Engendering a Transnational Corporate Boycott:

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Documents/Conference%20on%20Israel,%20Sanctions%20and%20divestment,%20by%20Paul%20Hubers.htm; and http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/19979_comment.php.

              (As well as IndyMedia Israel, Palestine, Michigan & Urbana-Champaign, IL).

Apartheid means discrimination, exercised in racial, religious, or state power, to hurt, maim, kill, exile, and torture.  The South African word apartheid, (pronounced “apart–hate” in English), describes discrimination rooted in British Commonwealth law; (as precedents for Ameri–Canadian–U.S.–Native Indian laws that virtually exterminated Ameri-Indians).  “Nonviolence” — a Jainist–Dravidian concept — arose chronologically from Southern African struggles led, e.g., by “Ba” & “Mo” Gandhi, living in a Judeo-Christian body politic, while employed by Muslims, in ashrams or communities guided by Buddhist & Hindu cultural customs.  In other words, South African “nonviolence” surfaced etymologically during the early 1900s, historically, in struggle against apartheid in the planet’s polar source of gold, diamonds, and other heavy metals like uranium — “Nonviolence” symbolizing struggle against polarizing world poverty. 

Nonviolence means using force, power, and coercion to co-create cooperation responsibly, so as to heal and overcome damage from violence. In nonviolent contexts, power becomes an ability to effect mutual change for mutual benefit through nonviolent action and interdependence.  Nonviolent force prompts and facilitates power toward sustainable or self-reliant security and development.  Nonviolent power channels force and power toward reconciliation or a higher balance.  Nonviolent coercion combines conflictive use of force and power, for example, to facilitate access to housing, health, education, and employment opportunities — means or methods being consonant with ends for mutually-beneficial change.

For Related Sites OnLine, Please See, for instance:

 http://www.peacehost.net/Vieques/hubers.html and http://www.justiceandpeacecoalition.org/.

For Michigan Authors & Illustrators dBase Search under “Nonviolence”

 http://authors.libraryofmichigan.org/publicsearch.asp?action=advsearch.

For further options as to nonviolence in theory & action, locally and globally, (as well as a potential intro–college or university–level text), for what those such as Martin Luther King, Jr., have suggested should be required for all international insight, inquiry & practice — Please see also http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101.

Inspirational insights herein stem from near death experiences/NDEs, since early childhood; Even if blind from birth, humans share analogous NDEs — transcending belief, theory, or perspective.  On planetary levels, NDEs may offer common hope needed to overcome, as it were, the collateral, dogmatic damage of “friendly fire” while energizing individual needs and rights.