Swords Into Plowshares Volume Two

Author : Arthur J. Laffin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226869

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Swords Into Plowshares, Volume Two by Arthur J. Laffin Pdf

On September 9, 1980, the Plowshares Eight entered a General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and enacted the biblical command to "beat swords into plowshares" by hammering on the nose cones of two nuclear warheads and pouring blood on documents. Since that time, other small groups and individuals have entered manufacturing plants and military bases throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden, and Holland, to disarm components of nuclear and conventional weapons systems. As of Spring 2003 there have been over 150 people who, using hammers and other symbols, have carried out over 75 plowshares and related disarmament actions. This book recounts each of the actions that have occurred over the last twenty-three years and includes information about the trials and sentences plowshares activists have received. Photos of some of the actions and participants are also included in this chronology as well as other resources for peace and justice.

Author : Ron Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Libertarianism
ISBN : 0996426523

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Swords Into Plowshares by Ron Paul Pdf

Twelve-term US Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul reveals an intensely personal side as he reflects on growing up during World War II. He provides a powerful critique of a 20th century full of war. Paul finishes with a stirring view of the future we may choose if we turn from war and violence toward peace and prosperity.

Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226820507

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Plowshares into Swords by David Ekbladh Pdf

An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order. In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an international society of institutions and individuals committed to liberal international order and given focus by the League of Nations in Geneva. That information and analysis revolutionized critical debates in a world in crisis. In doing so, Ekbladh transforms conventional understandings of the United States’ postwar hegemony, showing that important elements of it were profoundly influenced by ideas that emerged from international exchanges. The League’s work was one part of a larger transnational movement that included the United States and which saw the emergence of concepts like national income, gross domestic product, and other attempts to define and improve the standards of living, as well as new approaches to old questions about the role of government. Forged as tools for peace these ideas were beaten into weapons as World War II threatened. Ekbladh recounts how, though the US had never been a member of the organization, vital parts of the League were rescued after the fall of France in 1940 and given asylum at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. However, this presence in the US is just one reason its already well-regarded economic analyses and example were readily mobilized by influential American and international figures for an Allied “war of ideas,” plans for a postwar world, and even blueprints for the new United Nations. How did this body of information become so valuable? As Ekbladh makes clear, the answer is that information and analysis themselves became crucial currencies in global affairs: to sustain a modern, liberal global order, a steady stream of information about economics, politics, and society was, and remains, indispensable.

Author : Roy S.K. Lee
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004150010

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Swords Into Plowshares by Roy S.K. Lee Pdf

Brings together contributions analyzing some pressing issues in the world, and suggests ways and methods to manage these problems. This book covers topics such as the decision-making in the UN Security Council; the position of the United States vis-a-vis the United Nations; human rights and economic and social development; and others.

Author : Arthur J. Laffin,Anne Montgomery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990597

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Swords into Plowshares, Volume One by Arthur J. Laffin,Anne Montgomery Pdf

Why is nonviolent civil disobedience (divine disobedience) an imperative for bringing about disarmament? What is the connection between faith, nonviolence, and resistance? How does one prepare for nonviolent acts of resistance? How does one respond to the charges brought in court? How does one view and cope with the consequences of imprisonment? How have some people nonviolently responded to U.S. intervention in Iraq and Central America and in war-torn countries like Bosnia? What are the main tenets of U.S. nuclear and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era? What is the human cost of weapons production? What does it mean to live in a national security state? What are some of the challenges faced by people in the U.S. who are concerned about justice and peace? The primary goal of this revised edition of Swords into Plowshares is to provide some initial answers to these and related questions. Contributors to this edition include: Bob Aldridge, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Samuel H. Day Jr., Jim and Shelly Douglass, Elizabeth McAlister, Molly Rush, and a host of other activists.

Author : Vladislav Vančura
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788024648149

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Ploughshares into Swords by Vladislav Vančura Pdf

“The terrible bow was drawn taut. Men had let their powers be taken captive and had become the stooges of governments, they had become drinkers of the blood that fuelled their rage, they had become angels of evil, devils who spilled blood like water. A raven with shreds of corpses still stuck to its claws was perched on their shoulder and yet they saw nothing and understood nothing. The orders of platoon commanders were their reasoning and a ghastly rough and tumble was their home, each such home perishing piecemeal as bayonets made mincemeat of arms rising to take aim. Death was a day that had no dusk and horrors became the wont of armies.” Ploughshares into Swords is an expressionist anti-war novel in which Vančura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the manor that ties them all together. The fragmented narrative introduces the reader to such characters as the Baron Danowitz, his sons, his French concubine, the farmhand František Horá, and the half-wit murderer Řeka in the autumn of 1913, before revealing their fates during the First World War. Spanning an area that stretches from the peaceful farmlands of Bohemia to the battlefields of Galicia, taking in the pubs of Budapest and the hospitals of Cracow, the novel constitutes an unsentimental and naturalistic approach to the war that created Czechoslovakia through a conscious subversion of the prophet Isaiah’s injunction that nations should beat their swords into ploughshares. Ploughshares into Swords is a stunning novel by one of Czech literature’s most important writers. This modernist masterpiece, akin to the work of Isaac Babel and William Faulkner, is now available in English for the very first time.

Author : Dean B. Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : 0966900103

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Swords Into Plowshares by Dean B. Simmons Pdf

During World War II, several prisoner of war camps for German and Italian prisoners were established in Minnesota. The camps in Princeton, Moorhead, Hollandale, Ada, Crookston and Warren were farm-labor camps. Camps were established for canneries in Ortonville, Howard Lake, Olivia, Bird Island, Wells, Montgomery and Faibault. Multiple industry camps were at New Ulm, Fairmont, Owatonna and St. Charles. There were logging camps at Remer, Bena, Deer River and Grand Rapids.

Author : Arno J. Mayer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789604085

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Plowshares into Swords by Arno J. Mayer Pdf

A critical history of Israel and the Arab–Israeli conflict Eminent historian Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders, and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and development of the Israeli state. He recovers for posterity internal critics such as the philosopher Martin Buber, who argued for peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian Arabs. “A sense of limits is the better part of valour,” Mayer insists. Plowshares into Swords explores Israel’s indefinite deferral of the “Arab Question,” the strategic thinking behind the building of settlements and border walls, and the endurance of Palestinian resistance.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476745893

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Nixon Volume II by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Stephen E. Ambrose’s biography of one of the most complex and puzzling US presidents at the apogee of his career, rebounding from defeat to an innovative, high-risk presidency, already sowing the seeds of his ruin. Starting with Nixon’s drive to the presidency, volume two of Ambrose’s major biography of America’s 37th president chronicles Nixon’s campaigns, his ultimate victory in 1962 as well as his first term as President, and culminates with the Nixon’s reelection on November 7, 1972. Nixon was a complex man graced with superb intellect, creative, knowledgeable about world activities and peerless in his talent for foreign affairs. Yet he could also be manipulative, quick to anger, driven by unseen ambitions, cynical about domestic politics, and sensitive to criticism. Culled from his private papers, speeches, hand-written notes, audio recordings of conversations in the Nixon White House and much more, Ambrose’s account offers insight into the thought patterns and attitudes of the man whose Presidency was marked by the debacles of Watergate and Vietnam, yet who also began the process of nuclear disarmament and opened up crucial diplomatic relations with China. This is a brilliant and detailed second part to Ambrose’s Nixon trilogy.

Author : Kristen Tobey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271078281

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Plowshares by Kristen Tobey Pdf

In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 2693 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610252348

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phyllis Tickle
Publisher : Image
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101906286

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The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime by Phyllis Tickle Pdf

The second volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by Publishers Weekly religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices. The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer. This beautifully conceived and thoroughly modern three-volume guide will appeal to the theological novice as well as to the ecclesiastical sophisticate. Making primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, The Divine Hours is also a companion to the New Jerusalem Bible, from which it draws its Scripture readings. The trilogy blends prayer and praise in a way that, while extraordinarily fresh, respects and builds upon the ancient wisdom of Christianity. The second book in the set, Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime, provides prayers, psalms, and readings for these two festive seasons. Compact, it is perfect for those seeking greater spiritual depth. As a contemporary Book of Hours, The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime heralds a renewal of the tradition of disciplined daily prayer, and gives those already using the first volume the continuity they are seeking. The series will culminate in a third volume for springtime, completing the liturgical and calendar year with the offices for every day.

Author : Inis L. Jr Claude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:829405274

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Swords Into Plowshares by Inis L. Jr Claude Pdf

Author : Albert Boime
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226063364

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A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2 by Albert Boime Pdf

In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art. Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era. Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.—R. W. Liscombe, Choice

Author : Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy, Robert Charles Elliot
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263451

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PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume II by Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy, Robert Charles Elliot Pdf

Peace Studies, Public Policy and Global Security is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Peace Studies, Public Policy and Global Security provides the essential aspects and a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Processes of Peace and Security; International Security, Peace, Development, and Environment; Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerability and Risks; Sustainable Food and Water Security; World Economic Order. This 11-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, issues on Peace studies, Public Policy and Global security. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.