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Saturday, April 28, 2012

If you want to be a rebel, be kind

In the latest issue of Parabola magazine is an article that touched me deeply. I wrote a long Blog with quotes from the article - and then found that the whole article is available on line from The Daily Good website! I strongly encourage you to click and read:  If you want to be a rebel, be kind. 

It is the story of Pancho Ramos Stierle who was raised in Mexico and became a student at the University of California to pursue his Ph.D in Astrophysics. As time went on he realized that his research supported an institution that actively proliferates nuclear weapons. That awareness and his observation of so much inequality between those with power and those with none led him to non-violent protest actions which resulted in his arrest, loss of his student visa and therefore being an "undocumented" citizen with no rights. He was now unable to get a job, hold a bank account or obtain any insurance.

"Here is someone capable of being a rocket scientist, whose father is an economics scholar and author in Mexico, who chooses to live without any financial currency - just so he can be of service to his struggling brethren. ... There are those who use anger, sarcasm and parody to confront unjust action. Pancho does it with just the simple - and radical - power of love."

(If you Google his name you can see YouTube videos, other information  and his  Facebook page.)