Why REFWrite?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in Stride Toward Freedom: "As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the arena of social reform". This passage refers to the only kind of reform that matters: reform of society at all levels from the individual to the supranational community. Dr. King also refers to the force most capable of driving such reform: the power of love, or as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi called it, satyagraha (literally grasping onto truth). The prospect of reform dazzles the cowards responsible for Business as Usual. They style their insipid attempts to impose the hoary shackles of superstition and tradition as "reform movements" (e.g. the feeble crowd of degenerates who have seized power in North America), and they use"reform" as a spongy plank for intellectual constructs designed to justify evil, stupidity, viciousness and greed (e.g. the Dutch reform movements that provided comfort to the architects of the international slave trade, exploitative colonialism, apartheid, global capitalism and the Holocaust). To the cowards reform is something to be done to other people, communities, tribes, races, countries, landscapes, or - if they can get away with it - to the whole world. For example the U.S. is intent on "reforming" Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Mexico, etc. while turning the Earth into a runaway adiabatic hell in the service of their hunger for energy, fast food and everything else they can get their hands on. Satyagrahis know that reform begins at home, and that the process is long, painful, dynamic and unending. We reform as we live, as we breathe, as we watch, as we read, as we examine, as we formulate and as we write.
Satyagraha!