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Time for Children’s Suffrage (You Read That Right!) (…) As I’ve grown older, ageism has come to be defined in my own reality more as discrimination against older people. But of course ageism runs both ways. Ageism is expressed by those who scoff at these young citizen-demonstrators, those who dismiss their naïveté or, contrarily, their Every day European cities demonstrate that a reduction in the use of private cars is not just desirable but feasible. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bremen, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Ferrara, Graz and Strasbourg apply incentives that favour public transport, car-sharing and bicycles, along with restrictive measures on the use of private cars in their town centres. These cities (…) The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compas*ion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are realized beings inspired by a wish to attain Buddhahood (enlightenment, being awaked) for the benefit of all sentient beings, who have vowed to be reborn in the world to help humanity. A Soka Gakkai Buddhist perspective on the question of peace. Three dimensions of peace and the contributions a Buddhist understanding may make to their achievement. These are inner peace; peace in the community of humankind; and ecological peace or peace with Earth. First step, understanding the causes of the absence and the presence of peace. William Wilberforce, member of the House of Commons of the English Parliament, came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of straight anti-sl*ve-trade activists. Wilberforce took on the cause of abolition and headed the parliamentary campaign against the British sl*ve trade for 20 years until the pas*age of the Sl*ve Trade Act of 1807. Thomas Hobbes (English philosopher, 1588 – 1679) imagines what life would be like without government, a condition which he calls the state of nature. In that state, each person would have a right, or license, to do everything. This would lead to “a war of every man against