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Active peace
Instead of an interlude between wars
By Majid Tehranian
May 16, 2000
The Iranian
The peace of a cemetery is passive peace. Active peace is when the human
community is engaged in constructing those delicate social and affective
ties of love and meaning that turn life into a wondrous and creative journey.
As the Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda puts it eloquently, "peace
cannot be a mere stillness, a great interlude between wars. It must be
a vital and energetic arena of life-activity, won through our own volitional,
proactive efforts. Peace must be a living drama."
To achieve active peace in the long run, the United Nations has rightly
put its emphasis this year on the development of a culture of peace. But
before we can develop a culture of peace, we must understand what is a
culture of violence >>>
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Samira Makhmalbaf's speech in Cannes:
The Digital Revolution and The Future Cinema
 Cinema has always been at the mercy of political power,
particularly in the East, financial capital, particularly in the West,
and the concentration of means of production, anywhere in the world. The
individual creativity of artists throughout the 20th century has much suffered
from the whimsical practices of this odd combination of forces. The situation
at the threshold of the 21st century seems to have altered radically. With
astonishing technological innovations now coming to fruition, artists no
longer seem to be totally vulnerable to these impediments >>>
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Retracing roots - the Persian way
By Scott Peterson
Christian Science Monitor
May 16, 2000
TEHRAN, IRAN -- Go West, young man, go West." Horace Greeley's
19th-century mantra echoes luringly in today's Iran: According to some
estimates, 1 in 4 Iranians with a college degree works outside the country.
Upwards of 1 million Iranians, for instance, have made their residence
in the Los Angeles area, prompting the nickname "Tehran-geles,"
after the Iranian capital >>>
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Left hook
Jews on trial: Retreat
Chereek-haaye Fadaie say Iran has retreated somewhat from its hardline
stance in the trial of 13 Jews >>>
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Anyway
Beekheeyaal ...
From a "Prayer Before Logging onto the Internet" that was
posted to the Saints Index of Catholic Online. St. Isidore is the proposed
patron saint of the Internet:
Almighty and eternal God, who has created us in Thy image and bade us
to seek after all that is good, true, and beautiful, grant, we beseech
Thee, that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor,
during our journeys through the Internet we shall direct our hands and
eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and
patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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* Loyalty to God, King, and Country
Cyrus Kadivar
writes: In response to Sahar
Nahrvar's letter to Empress Farah, I respect her right to ask a question
and it was done in a "democratic" fashion but with some ambiguous
remarks.
The modern Imperial Iranian Armed Forces was a creation of the Pahlavi
state which ruled our country for half a century. The 1906 Constitution
made the Shah the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. All military
personnel swore an oath of loyalty to the King and one would expect that
insulting the Shah within that framework would be a grave offence for it
would question the loyalty and dedication of an officer to his God, King
and Country. Even in the democratic republics a four star general who insults
the President runs a risk of a court hearing and in the UK any officer
insulting HM Queen Elizabeth would also run into serious trouble. I find
it hard to understand why Sahar
Nahrvar's father went into the army in the first place >>>
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* Cheech Nabavi
Mrsynaky Irani writes:
Is it just me, or did everyone notice Ebrahim Nabavi ["No
way back"]looks a lot like "Cheech
Marin" of "Cheech and Chong". No wonder he's a satirist!
Roll him a joint and he will be an Iranian Cheech!
* Enzevaa
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keh hamegi khoob baashid va az inkeh in site raa raah andaazi kardid tabrik
migooyam va tashkor mikonam va omidvaaram keh harcheh bishtar betavaanid
dar moa'refi-ye Iran aziz movafagh baashid taa az in enzevaa kami biroon
biyaaeem. baa aarzooyeh iraani behtar va aazadi bishtar, khodaa negahdaar.
Rights: Call for signatures to protest
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of the Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, attended a Berlin conference
on Iran After the Elections and were arrested shortly after their return...
We call upon President Khatami, the highest democratically elected officer
of the government, to demand their immediate, unconditional release >>> DETAILS
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
We are drunk on the essence without even tasting the wine,
Filled with light in the morning, and joyful into the night.
They say our path leads nowhere--that's alright:
There's joy enough right here to fill all time.
-- Rumi
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May
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TEHRAN,
May 16 (AFP) - Iranian judicial authorities have assured a French lawyer
that none of the 13 Jews currently on trial for allegedly spying for Israel
will be sentenced to death, the lawyer told AFP Tuesday. Pierre Dunac, one
of two French lawyers granted visas to go to the southern city of Shiraz
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Thursday to consider a delayed proposal to lend $231 million to Iran. The
proposal was delayed in April, and the United States will seek another postponement,
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during the two countries' 1980-1988 war are refusing to return home, the
International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday. Iranian authorities
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Gas field dispute to be resolved collectively:
Kuwait
KUWAIT
CITY, May 16 (AFP) - Kuwait expressed hope Tuesday that a dispute over its
sea borders with Iran and Saudi Arabia in a gas-rich offshore area of the
northern Gulf will be resolved collectively. "The issue (of the continental
shelf) will, God willing, be resolved collectively between us, Saudi Arabia
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No death sentence?
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Daryoush Homai spoke to Ismail Nasseri, the defense lawyer and also one
of the two lawyers from the French 'Lawyers without Borders' organisation
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Culture of peace
What constitutes a culture of peace? In a globalizing world,
this means above all the acceptance of complexity, ambiguity, and difference.
Resort to simplistic dichotomies of the world between good and evil, cowboys
and Indians, the West and the Rest are prescriptions for a culture of violence.
-- Majid Tehranian
"Active
peace"
The Iranian
May 16, 2000
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