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from Kevin Ksen Polka
(copyright 2008 Nat Needle)

Oh, lots of folks love soccer, they play it every day
But Kevin loves his soccer so, it carries him away
He butts his head, he kicks his legs, and if by chance he falls
The women rush the field so they can play with Kevin’s balls

CHORUS: Oh…
Kevin Ksen, he’s the sexiest of men
Kevin Ksen, he’s the sexiest of men
Kevin Ksen, he’s the sexiest of men
And if you don’t believe him, he will tell you once again
And if you don’t believe him, he will tell you once again

(Happy birthday, Kevin!)

Íngrid Betancourt is free! She remains strong and has given interviews to many media, including the BBC and the Guardian. She is a modern saint who showed us how to be Green, how to be Christian, even how to be human. I hope when she recovers, she will become a great president of Colombia.

My friend Nándor Tánczos, one of the few rastafarian parliamentarians in the world, gave his last speech (text) in the New Zealand House of Representatives recently. He will not stand in the general election later this year, but I hope the Green Party of Aotearoa will have some new blood to take his place. Relatedly, that country re-nationalized its railway earlier this month and called it KiwiRail; it also has a state-owned retail bank, Kiwibank.

By the way, I ♥ the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is now presiding the Lambeth Conference.

The Center for Christian Nonviolence has released a new version of the Franz Jägerstätter movie The Refusal, with clearer English subtitles.

Every time I’ve screened this, people have complained about the subtitles, so this is a welcome improvement.
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According to Tom Cornell, the only recording of Peter Maurin’s voice was taken from a wire recording made circa 1946-47. Several copies of this were pressed to 78rpm and sent to supporters of the Catholic Worker. He’s reading his easy essay “Makers of Europe,” or “When the Irish were Irish.” (The Catholic Worker archives lists this as c. 1939.)

 

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Our friend Alice Swanson died yesterday. She was hit by a truck while biking in Washington, DC.

She will be missed.

On 19 June, a plaque commemorating the Oxfordshire martyrs of the Reformation, both Catholic and Protestant, was unveiled in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Patten of Barnes. The names were researched by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch.

That evening was the launch of the Oxford Council of Faiths. I did not attend, because it clashed with the monthly business meeting of the Oxfordshire Green Party.

Another Michael True work posted online this week: PDFs from his book Justice Seekers, Peace Makers. Don’t be surprised if some of these chapters show up as future posts on Pie and Coffee.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929­-1968)
2. Howard Zinn (1921-)
3. Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (1921­-)
4. Muriel Rukeyser (1913­-1980)
5. Mulford Sibley (1912­-1989)
6. Hannah Arendt (1907­-1975)
7. George Orwell (1903­-1950)
8. Dorothy Day (1897­-1980)
9. Ammon Hennacy (1893­-1970)
10. Wilfred Owen (1893­-1918)
11. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890­-1964)
12. Randolph Bourne (1886­-1918)
13. Bertrand Russell (1872­-1970)
14. Mohandas Gandhi (1869­-1948)
15. Eugene Victor Debs (1855­-1926)
16. Leo Tolstoy (1828­-1910)
17. Abigail Kelley Foster (1811-1887) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-1881)

Here’s a talk on “The American Tradition of Nonviolence” given by Michael True in 2006.

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Here’s a talk on “The American Tradition of Nonviolence” given by Michael True in 2006.

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The Mustard Seed was beyond packed for Tom Lewis’s memorial mass, with a crowd of 30 lingering outside the doorways hoping for a glimpse of the events.

Father Bernie Gilgun celebrated the mass. (Deacon Walter Doyle assisted.) Here’s Fr Bernie’s homily:

 

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In Psalm 137, and also in the book of Proverbs, we are told, truly told, “The memory of the just is blessed.” If you wanna be blessed, don’t forget Tom Lewis! “The memory of the just is blessed.” You wanna be blessed? Remember this just man! He carried high and proud the banner of peace and justice in this community, perhaps like no other. Like a one-man revolution.

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