"One Last Time-The Case Against The War"

[kpete]

Renowned journalist, activist and board member for The Real News Jonathan Schell dead at 70 -
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11655


From the LATimes obit:

A native of New York City, Schell was born on Aug. 21, 1943, just two years before the U.S. dropped two atom bombs on Japan. He grew up in a family of thinkers and dissenters: His father, the late Orville Schell Jr., was an attorney and human rights activist. His brother, Orville Schell, is a longtime journalist and activist and former head of the journalism school at UC Berkeley.

Conscious of nuclear weapons from an early age, Jonathan Schell remembered headlines in 1953 that the Soviet Union had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. At Harvard University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in 1965, one of his teachers was Henry Kissinger, the future secretary of state and target for the antiwar movement.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-jonathan-schell-20140327,0,2301879.story#ixzz2xA9M2XKq


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Of all the modest hopes of human beings, the hope that mankind will survive is the most modest, since it only brings us to the threshold of all the other hopes. In entertaining it, we do not yet ask for justice, or for freedom, or for happiness, or for any of the other things that we may want in life. We do not even necessarily ask for our personal survival; we ask only that we be survived. We ask for assurance that when we die as individuals, as we know we must, mankind will live on.

— Jonathan Schell, 1982

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Remembering Jonathan Schell: 1943-2014

http://www.thenation.com/article/open-letter-members-congress

[PowerToThePeople]

1. RIP