GUERRILLAS OF PEACE ON THE AIR

Bonpane, Blase

ISBN 10: 1888996250 / ISBN 13: 9781888996258

Published by Red Hen Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GUERRILLAS OF PEACE ON THE AIR
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888996250
• ISBN 13: 9781888996258
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Blase Bonpane is a new abolitionist who believes the war system can be replaced with a peace system. Guerrillas of Peace includes radio commentaries, interviews, and other works which examine and promote the ideology of peace.

About the Author

Blase Bonpane is the director of the Office of the Americas. He has served on the faculties of UCLA and California State University Northridge. His articles have been published internationally, and he has worked as a contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

Blase previously served as a Maryknoll Missioner in Guatemala during the revolutionary conflict of the 1960s. As a result of his work in peasant organization, he was expelled from that country in 1967. On his return to the United States, Blase and his family lived at the headquarters of United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, where he was editor of UFW publications. He is host of the weekly radio program "World Focus on Pacifica Radio" (KPFK, Los Angeles). Blase previously hosted the program "World Focus" on Time/Warner TV Educational and Public Access Channels. He was named “the most underrated humanist of the decade” by Los Angeles Weekly. In 2006, he was awarded the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His previous books include: Civilization is Possible (Red Hen Press, 2008); Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century (2004); Guerrillas of Peace: On the Air (2000); and Guerrillas of Peace: Liberation Theology and the Central American Revolution (iUniverse, 2000, 3rd edition).