Lanza del Vasto died on Jan 5 1981. In his youth he traveled to India, seeking the meaning of life. There he met Gandhi and returned to Europe determined to make his ideas known in the West. He formed the Community of the Ark, an oasis of peace and reconciliation...
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Living off the land, with no electricity, wearing homespun clothes, he and his companions believed nonviolence was a way of acting that derived from a way of being. Arrested many times for protests against war, torture, and for rights of conscientious objection...
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In 1963 he fasted in Rome for 40 days to urge the pope to speak out for peace and was rewarded with the encyclical Pacem in Terris. “You want a better world? Well then, start building it. Build it small. It will grow.”
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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