WHAT WE READERS ARE ABOUT?
Please share with us what you are doing relating to nonviolent change. If you send us a short report of your doings, learnings, ideas, concerns, reactions, queries,… we will print them here. Responses can be published in the next issue.
Steve Sachs: I note, that with the Obama administration, some things are beginning to change. But are they changing enough? In the U.S. we have a stimulus package, including for creating green jobs and energy – but is it enough to turn the economy around and also to fight global warming? The administration is much more about diplomacy, based upon respect, than was Bush, while moving to be more engaged with Israel and the Palestinians – But will Obama insist on the Israelis (and also the Palestinians) doing enough to get to peace? Obama is taking a new approach to Afghanistan – but will it be enough of a community organizers approach (see my article below) to solidify Afghanistan, and avoid another deadly quagmire? The answer to those questions is largely up to us, to move the administration where it needs to go, and giving it the political leverage, to go where it and we want it to go.
