Eqbal Ahmad, Festival of Hope, Day 5, Part F
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34 - May 11, 1999) was a Pakistani writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. He was strongly critical of the Middle East strategy of the United States as well as what he saw as the "twin curse" of nationalism and religious fanaticism in such countries as Pakistan. Ahmad was admired as "an intellectual unintimidated by power or authority", and collaborated with such left-wing journalists and activists as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Howard Zinn, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Richard Falk, Fredric Jameson, Alexander Cockburn and Daniel Berrigan. [Ahmad was] perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the post-war world, especially in the dynamics between the West and the post-colonial states of Asia and Africa. - Edward Said
September 9, 1980 Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest, author and poet from New York City; Philip Berrigan, father and co-founder of Jonah House in Baltimore, MD; Dean Hammer, member of the Covenant Peace Community in New Haven, CT; Elmer Maas, musician and former college teacher from New York City; Carl Kabat, Oblate priest and missionary; Anne Montgomery, Religious of the Sacred Heart sister and teacher from New York City; Molly Rush, mother and founder of the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh and John Schuchardt, ex-marine, lawyer, father and member of Jonah House, entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, PA where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads were made.
They hammered on two nose cones, poured blood on documents and offered prayers for peace. They were arrested and initially charged with over ten different felony and misdemeanor counts. In February 1981, they underwent a jury trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania. During their trial they were denied a "justification defense" and could not present expert testimony. Due to the Court's suppression of individual testimony about the Mark 12A and U.S. nuclear war-fighting policies, four left the trial and returned to witness at G.E. They were re-arrested and returned to court. They were convicted by a jury of burglary, conspiracy and criminal mischief and sentenced to prison terms of five to ten years. They appealed and the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed their conviction in February 1984. The State of Pennsylvania then appealed that decision.
Following a ruling in the fall of 1985 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in favor of the State on certain issues (including the exclusion of the justification defense), the case was returned to the Superior Court Appeals Panel. In December of 1987, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania refused their appeal, but ordered a re-sentencing. This ruling, however, was appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In February 1989 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a hearing of any further issues in the case, and on October 2, 1989 the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the Plowshares Eight Appeal.
On April 10, 1990 the Plowshares Eight were re-sentenced by the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas in Norristown and, with neither the prosecutor nor G.E. making any recommendations or asking reparations, paroled for up to 23 and 1/2 months in consideration of time already served in prison. Judge James Buckingham listened attentively to statements by defendants, attorney Ramsey Clark, Dr. Robert J. Lifton, and Professors Richard Falk and Howard Zinn, placing the "crime" in the context of the common plight of humanity, international law, America's long tradition of dissent, and the primacy of individual conscience over entrenched political system.
Wow!! what depth of knowledge and understanding he has on how the world works,,,Amazing
Still the my most important video. When I need to be reminded about whom I aspire to be or what my politics should be, I need to watch this perfect video. The most powerful speech I’ve ever encountered.
WOW! What a man!
A man of great stature and true words. No doubt, he gave world a new dimension of thinking in 70s and 80s on alarming issues of that time.
Thank you so much for sharing this :) Beautiful person and amazing intellect :)
Salute Sir!
What a wonderful person.
The human mind overwhelmed with greed and power lust has developed weapons when his words and hands could not overpower other men, a community and later conquer or colonize other countries, even the continent. This lust for more and more power has lead to the development of nukes, a means to an eventual self destruction.
The Liberal Betrayal of Eqbal Ahmad's Legacy | اقبال احمد: لبرل و ترقی پسند فکر کی وراثت کا المیہ
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thank you for the share
in 1971 Punjabi Army killed millions of unarmed Bengalis in East Pakistan, Will you talk about it today?
Nusrat Rizvi, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
He was against all kinds of nationalism, including Pakistani nationalism. So I assume he would be on your side. The entire Pakistan is now on your side. The military isn't.