Peace Now! Great American Pacifists

One of the most important living intellectual figures, Judith Butler has, in this century, developed a very profound and original pacifist ethics. 

I kept using 'she' pronouns right until the end when I suddenly realized it should be 'they.' I am apologizing to them and everyone else. 

Sharp's work on practical ways to transform totalitarian systems non-violently has proven important to resistance movements all over the world, including in the color revolutions and the Arab Spring, in Myanmar and Serbia and elsewhere. His years: 1928-2018.

https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/: 198 techniques of non-violent resistance

The astonishing Berrigan brothers, Roman Catholic priests and peace activists of total commitment.

A leader of the Farm Workers, and an amazingly effective one, with a beautiful commitment of the most serious kind.

I argue in this episode that pacifism entails the repudiation of utilitarianism (as well as other forms of teleological ethics) and also anti-statism. Around 20:49 I say 'Dorothy Day' when I mean Jane Addams.

The great spiritual teacher, Trappist monk, and advocate of universal spirit (1915-1968) and his development of Catholic teachings and Dorothy Day's radicalism and anarchism.

The great civil rights organizer, close collaborator of A.J. Muste, A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King, immersed in Gandhi, whose movement he brought to the US. His directness and vulnerability.

The founder of the Catholic Worker, prospective saint, helper of all who need and incandescent advocate of peace in World War 2 and Vietnam. The clearest, fastest American protest against the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The short-lived, physically challenged young intellectual who attacked his teacher John Dewey and other liberals who endorsed WWI (Herbert Croly, e.g.) to do a lot better in various respects.

In 1935, the last year of both of their lives, Herman Bernstein (my mother's mother's father) asked Jane Addams and many other eminent people whether permanent peace was possible. I read in her response, from his book "Can We Abolish War?"