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spazzmann

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Tue Sep 11, 2012, 09:18 AM Sep 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on September 11, 1906

Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer, began a nonviolent resistance campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding rights and respect for those of Asian descent. It was the birth of his concept of political progress through nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha, or truth-force. . . continued > http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm (photo-a young Gandhi)

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Today in Peace and Justice history on September 11, 1906 (Original Post) spazzmann Sep 2012 OP
He changed the world that day lunatica Sep 2012 #1
thanks for this... Blue_Tires Sep 2012 #2
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