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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1- Blessing of Peace Endorsements
- The Late Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
Subject: Re: Confidential: For Hon. Archpa D. Tutu (Re Prof. Chomsky)...Iran: URGENT Statement of Peace Principle...Re: Bernie returning U.S. to Nuclear Deal
To: Moji Agha <moji.agha@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Chomsky <...>, archpa <...>
Date: Thu, May 16, 2019 at 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: For Prof. Chomsky...URGENT: Iran Statement of Peace Principle...Re: Bernie returning U.S. to Nuclear Deal
To: Moji Agha <moji.agha@gmail.com>
Moji,
Looks OK. I’ll be glad to be [the Statement's] honorary co-endorser.
Noam
Date: Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: 17 Reformist Leaders in Iran Petition UN Head to Urge US's Return to Nuclear Deal...Re: Mostafa Tajzadeh--inside Iran--currently back in prison since two years ago: Talk to nuclear deal proponents in America
To: Moji Agha <moji.agha@gmail.com>
2- A "Chomskyan" Endorsement
- Prof. Noam Chomsky (Aug. 3, 2016)
3- Special Endorsements
- Prof. Cornel West (January 18, 2017)
- Prof. Richard Falk (Jan. 14, 2024)
- Prof. Prof. Erica Chenoweth
- Prof. Stanley Krippner (Jan. 16, 2024)
- More special endorsements coming soon...
A "Chomskyan" Endorsement
Prof. Noam Chomsky -- https://chomsky.info/bios/
I have been most impressed with the initiatives of Moji Agha, especially as he has been developing the comprehensive [Intersectional] Circles Movement project [a.k.a. Circles of Nonviolence/Community Collaboratives Initiative] and with their efforts to engage people to undertake the tasks that must be addressed with dedication and commitment if there are to be hopes of decent survival. And I am pleased to endorse these very valuable policies and actions.
Noam Chomsky (Aug. 3, 2016)
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Special Endorsements
1- Prof. Cornel West -- http://cornelwest.com/bio.html
Dear Moji,
Your work sounds good my dear brother! I do support you and your projects in all forms, including the "Intersectional Circles (IC)" Initiative. Courageous stand, my brother! Stay strong! (Jan. 18, 2017)
2- Prof. Richard Falk >>>
It gives me great satisfaction to endorse Moji Agha’s visionary PATH (Peace and Truth Heals) initiative. Such deeply sourced spiritually guided love, for the healing of all, gives us glimmers of hope at a time when dark skies hover over the destinies of humanity.
Brother Moji's fearless advocacy of "civility activism" calls upon persons of conscience to become energetic, even passionate, in the struggle against systemic injustice, so that we are empowered to protect natural and human habitats, especially with a consciousness that embodies deep nonviolent commitments to peace-building and truth-telling.
We really need PATH to become the path!
Richard Falk (Jan. 14, 2024)
3- Prof. Erica Chenoweth -- https://www.ericachenoweth.
4- Prof. Stanley Krippner >>>
It is my pleasure to write this statement of strong endorsement:
Best wishes for this incredible agenda. I have seen nothing like it from any individual or group. I am now [July 28, 2024] in an assisted living facility so cannot attend, but I will check out the recording [of the July 10th Chamber of Compassion] Zoom session: https://youtu.be/
In the 1990s I was a senior member of Moji Agha's doctoral dissertation committee, and now I am one of his friends.
Moji has great insights into many of the crises of our troubled times, so I have been following his tireless advocacy of human rights, social justice, and environmental activism, most recently through the Peace and Truth Heals (PATH) initiative, which is one of the many innovative projects he has founded, including the Chambers of Compassion or Intersectional Circles Movement of Movements. Both of these initiatives try to remedy the extreme injustices that haunt and threaten life in the 21st century.
Moji advocates using nonviolent methods to pursue such laudable goals, a welcome departure from the blatant use of propaganda, military force, and armed struggle that characterize far too many interventions today, even those that espouse worthwhile agendas.
Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohammad Mossadegh (of Iran), and others, have demonstrated the effectiveness of nonviolent procedures and strategies. To do otherwise would simply increase the miasma of agony, alienation, and terror that already saturates far too many contemporary scenarios.
This is why I gladly endorse what Moji Agha has been doing.
Stanley Krippner (Jan. 16, 2024)
At a time of great turmoil and tragedy, the message of non-violent peace making and decolonization of the conversation and the solutions is sorely needed.
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