EASTBEAT - for peace and non-violence

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The eleven year old girl was dying. She was burning hot and her huge eyes, with their adult knowledge, told us she did not want to die. She was undernourished. Carlos looked at her frowning. I took her in my arms while my friend paced up and down in despair. The little girl went out like an oil lamp down to its last drop. I could not wipe my eyes, because my arms were full as I was rocking her. Carlos flung himself into his hammock and began to smoke.

p.43 CARLOS, NOW THE DAWN'S NO FOND ILLUSION - TOMAS BORGE

Trans. Dinah Livingstone Katabasis 1996

Brian Omari R.I.P.

Jack doing Scottish Dancing

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“Tout chrétien a une double mission : chercher à voir Jésus et permettre aux autres de le voir...Rappelons que Dieu n’est pas toujours là où nous pensons le trouver. C’est sur la Croix que Dieu se donne à voir : nous ne le voyons vraiment que quand nous contemplons le
visage défiguré de Jésus crucifié. L’heure de Jésus, c’est l’heure de sa mort et de sa glorification. Dans cette mort, le salut s’est ouvert à tous : il n’y a plus ni Juifs, ni Grecs…”

Père Jean-Paul Sagadou, assomptionniste

« Je chanterai notre Seigneur et Sauveur, le Fils bien-aimé, splendeur du Père...

Que toute ma vie soit un chant au Seigneur, au Père, et au Fils, et au Saint-Esprit » (Grégoire de Nazianze).

25/3/2012 5th Sunday of Lent John 12:20-30 Commentary by Sr Emmanuelle Billoteau

Paul & Shoko

"The deepest root of the evils and iniquities which fill the industrial world is the subjection of labour to capital, and the enormous share which the possessors of the instruments of production are able to take from the produce."

John Stuart Mill

Chapter XIII The Right Of Labour To Profit

from The Co-operative Movement Today by G J Holyoake Methuen 1903

Profit in the store is the dividend of custom; profit in the workshop is the dividend of labour. Co-operators therefore maintain that the workman is entitled to a dividend from the gains of the workshop.

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"who dares remember that the world is thus,

that madness lurks among these men of power"

Until That Day

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" I hope that somebody starts to listen"

to The aids debate:

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Michael Campbell Johnson SJ publishes JUST FAITH.

"Nietzsche understood, having lived it himself, what constitutes the mystery of a philosopher's life. The philosopher appropriates the ascetic virtues - humility, poverty, chastity - and makes them serve ends completely his own, extraordinary ends that are not ascetic at all in fact. He makes them the expression of his singularity. They are not moral ends in his case, or religious means to another life , but rather the "effects" of philosophy itself. For there is absolutely no other life for the philosopher. Humility, poverty, and chastity become the effects of an an especially rich and superabundant life, sufficiently powerful to have conquered thought and subordinated every other instinct to itself. This is what Spinoza calls Nature: a life no longer lived on the basis of need, in terms of causes and effects. Humility, poverty, chastity are his (the philosopher's) way of being a grand vivant, of making a temple of his own body, for a cause that is all too proud, all too rich, all too sensual. So that by attacking the philosopher, people know the shame of attacking a modest, poor, and chaste appearance, which increases their impotent rage tenfold; and the philospher offers no purchase, although he takes every blow."

Gilles Deleuze - Spinoza: practical philosophy

Eastbeat grew out of discussions at The Spotted Dog Tavern in Forest Gate during the Balkan conflict in 1996. It has evolved into a small literary magazine publishing occasionally and fronting concerts and events.

Spider's new novel - excert

Faith

Saturday March 24th: National Ecumenical Romero Service held at 11.00am in St Martin in the Fields Church in Trafalgar Square, London. Peter Price, Anglican Bishop of Bath and Wells, gave the address. The event was supported by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Pax Christi, NJPN, Progressio, the Salvadoran Embassy, and also the social justice office of the diocese of London and the diocese of Westminster J&P Commission.

Graham Nash sings the song he wrote for Bradley Manning at Woody Guthrie Festival

Watch Women Eradicating Poverty,

a Film by Serah Odeke, Pauline Awuor & Vinick Kemuma set in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi.