Positive news, views & stories
Features collected by TFF December 2, 2004Are you sick and tired too of just hearing and seeing negative stuff about the world? Do you feel powerless, losing hope?
Then be inspired and charge you social change batteries by reading some of these stories ... people can make a difference!
John Hughes, The Christian Science Monitor
A people-to-people defense against terrorismArie Farnam, The Christian Science Monitor
Helpt to Ukraine's street kids from two US womenThe Great News Network, GNN
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Support TFF and get more quality articles like this in the futureInternational Alert, London
Women building peaceThe interview with God...
A moment of reflection of why we live the way we do - and what God (presumably) thinks about itWilliam Rivers Pitt, TruthOut
The ethics of total oppositionBBC
Deadly foes embrace in Ambon, Indonesia
But Muslims and Christians at the rally - who rarely mix - expressed optimism that the violence would end...Wendell Berry, Bruderhof
Compromise, Hell!
Our destructiveness has not been, and it is not, inevitable. People who use that excuse are morally incompetent, they are cowardly, and they are lazy. Humans don't have to live by destroying the sources of their life. People can change; they can learn to do better. All of us, regardless of party, can be moved by love of our land to rise above the greed and contempt of our land's exploiters.If you find a positive story, analysis or viewpoint
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Sent it to TFF and let's spread the word and combat pessimism and cynicismIOL, South Africa
Burundi on a path to peaceful demobilisationAleksandra Marx, The Christian Science Monitor
Jews and Muslims, learning to live together in New York
Shouldn't it be possible to do the same one day in Israel and Palestine?Good News India
India is a million new initiatives now...Robert and Barbara Muller
Good Morning World -
Daily idea dreams for a much better worldAlterNet
A soldier speaks
One of many stories: This Marine was a true believer in the reasons for the Iraq war. He talks to AlterNet about his loss of moral certainty, the gift of wisdom and "regime change" at home. Others became peace activists.
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