The students -- 16 actors and 14 writers -- wound up writing "In the Heart of Violence," a work composed of 30 vignettes connected like a fugue.
Once again, he takes us into the heart of violence and into the hearts of men, seeing where they converge under a night sky as brightly lighted with explosions as any Fourth of July nocturne and in caves where some soldiers are tortured to death and others surrender to madness.
"By removing Lifetime as an option for your subscribers, millions of women will not get the inspiration and support they need about vital issues such as breast cancer, heart disease, violence against women, economic equality and more," the letter said.
As I recently said when participating in a Women Under Siege forum on victim-blaming, explaining context and shifting the focus from individual people to the systems that produce them isn't a mentality of victimization, it's a critique of the deeply entrenched, destructive attitudes at the heart of violence and oppression, and the first steps toward dismantling them.
This morning on Meet The Press a panel composed of Dianne Feinstein, Bill Bennett, David Brooks, Randi Weingarten, Tom Ridge, Michael Eric Dyson discussed the heart-breaking violence in Newtown, CT.
At the same time, consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox started serving hardcore gamers with graphically rich titles, many highlighted by heart-pounding violence.
"We all want and crave from the bottom of our hearts that violence in our country is over," bishop José Daniel Falla Robles, general secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, said in a video message, referring to the decades of conflict between the state, leftist rebels, and right wing paramilitaries.
Many of us are already busy nurturing and fomenting the culture in our country that leads to heart-wrenching violence -- whether by stoking fear and hatred towards Muslims and refugees or calling for the increasing armament of the citizenry in the name of patriotism and security (while profiteering capitalism just keeps doin' its thing).
In response to the heart-shattering violence visited upon innocent children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, millions of Americans are enraged by the lack of sensible gun control laws, as well as by the tone-deaf responses of those who think the only solution is more guns.
After all, robed figures were at the heart of the violence.
