“If it had not been for these things, I might have live out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have die, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for … More Sacco and Vanzetti: That Agony is Our Triumph by Rene Wadlow
Mikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, was born March 2, 1931, Privolnoye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R. and died August 30, 2022, in Moscow, Russia, A Soviet official, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratize … More Mikhail Gorbachev
“Just prior to the May 2010 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Ban Ki-moon, then Secretary-General of the UN said, “Everyone recognizes the catastrophic danger of nuclear weapons. Just as clearly, we know the threat will last as long as these weapons exist. … More Hiroshima Anniversary Day: Developing a Nuclear-weapon Abolition Strategy by Rene Wadlow
Self-government will be, first of all, the art of getting people to meddle in things which concern them.It will soon call for the skill of challenging once again, decisions which concern them,and which have been taken without them…Self-government specifically consists in finding one’s own way along uncharted paths.Denis de Rougemont Denis de Rougemont, whose birth … More Denis de Rougemont (1906-1985), The Future is within us by Rene Wadlow 2017-09-08
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” but celebrated this Monday 21 August to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions. 19 August was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN office building in Baghdad, Iraq in … More World Humanitarian Day by Rene Wadlow 2020-07-31
Arthur Waley (1889-1966) whose birth anniversary we mark on 19 August was an important cultural bridge-builder between China and the West. He was a translator of Chinese and Japanese poetry and philosophical texts, especially the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching attributed to Lao Tsu. (1) Waley tried to place the works he translated into the … More Arthur Waley: Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Rene Wadlow 2021-08-19
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) an Italian childhood educator and world citizen, whose birth anniversary we mark on 31 August, would have been pleased at the efforts of the United Nations and UNESCO to promote Global Citizenship Education. (1) Montessori argued for a child’s dignity and autonomy and for the ability of the child to break out … More Maria Montessori: The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship by Rene Wadlow 2016-08-31
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) whose birth anniversary we note on 29 August, was an English writer, educator and pacifist, socialist reformer. Carpenter came from a middle class intellectual family and studied at Cambridge University. As with some of his fellow students who were interested in philosophy and ideas, he was ordained in the Church of England … More Edward Carpenter and the Healing of Nations by Rene Wadlow 2021-08-28
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