Month: October 2013

a letter from Gandhi to Hitler?

23 July 1939 As tensions mounted in Europe following Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mohandas Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, wrote a clear and concise plea for Hitler to avoid war, but it never reached its intended recipient because of an intervention by the British government. Just over a month later,…

a tour to convince

Today Hanne Løkka my colleague from Moss Kommune and myself, have been presenting the project YOUTH AND ACTION 2014 for a group of 70 youth engaged in politics in a conference in Fredrikstad. There was a lot of attention and we had a lot of expectations that we would be as convincing as possible and sincerely…