Many parishioners were outraged, but Father Wendt argued that "if the church doesn't involve itself in giving voice to the frustrations of the ghetto, they will seek more violent channels". Father Wendt was committed to the tradition of civil disobedience and nonviolent protest on which the civil rights movement was founded.
The governor and other officials may have sent the message that to protest is to be violent, to channel anger in non-violent protest is to be tantamount to criminal action.
* Across the channel, violent winds delayed international flights in and out of Paris and left a 12-year-old boy crushed to death beneath construction materials in Normandy.
With other so-called Red Goods, including the Twister Knife Block (as you twist the knife in, the block emits a groan), Chambers is proposing that we can enact our violent fantasies and channel some of our pent-up aggression.
Political systems suffer violent breakdown when channels of communication fail to function effectively, when institutional structures and processes fail to resolve conflicts among demands and to implement acceptable policies, and when the system ceases to be viewed as responsive by the individual and groups making demands on it.
That the presidency is, institutionally and at its best, a vehicle for cultural exchange, a manifestation of the fact that while governments can be in violent disagreement, other channels of communication are necessary and useful.
The Markos coven is an all-female institution that channels violent national traumas into vibrant art, a stronghold against the tyrannies of the police state and the wars waged by mortal men.
#demo2010 1.28pm: As the news channel show violent scenes in central London, Steven Morris reports on the situation in Bristol: Minor scuffles in Bristol between protesters and police when some demonstrators get through a cordon and make it into the city centre.
That series has drawn some criticism from traditional media outlets that Vice is allowing its platform to being misappropriated as a propaganda channel by violent militants, offering uncritical reportage in exchange for sensational access.
That series has drawn some criticism from traditional media outlets that Vice is allowing its platform to being misappropriated as a propaganda channel by violent militants, offering uncritical reportage in exchange for sensational access.
