tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20928605077156538522012-02-02T16:36:29.697-05:00I Declare World PeaceAnnegwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345331206728083213noreply@blogger.comBlogger961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092860507715653852.post-59884711349636512612012-02-02T16:35:00.000-05:002012-02-02T16:36:29.700-05:00

Speaking of Faith was a public radio program hosted by Krista Tippett that began airing as an occasional series on Minnesota Public Radio in 1999 and evolved into a weekly national program in 2003. The radio program has now morphed into one called On Being whose website is here. Tippett describes On Being as "conversation about meaning, religion, ethics, and ideas." * In her 2007  book

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Visit CODEPINK.org to see CP's latest news on their actions against drones, to take action, to get involved, and to get the facts. Go here.

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On December 28, the Lexington Herald-Leader published an article from The Washington Post on President Obama’s expansion of the U.S. drone war--targeted killings and surveillance of adversaries by unmanned aircraft systems. The only adviser to President Obama who questioned the expansion of the drone war was Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, who was later fired.

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Below is a slideshow by CODEPINK'er MacGregor Eddy depicting the unmanned aircraft systems known as drones and calling for an end to their use.

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Monday, January 16 is the official holiday celebrating the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many of his speeches and sermons, regardless of the circumstances of his time, resonate very much for our own time, for today. In today's lingo, one can say that Dr. King worked on behalf of the 99%. Here is a portion of his speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York

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For the Holidays:   I Declare World Peace. For Chanukah:   I Declare World Freedom and Peace. For the Winter Solstice:   I Declare World Peace. May Peace Prevail On the Earth! For Christmas:   I Declare World Peace. May Peace Prevail On Earth--  Everyday! For the New Year:   May 2012 Be a Year of Peace and Happiness (shalom-   salaam). May Peace--Indeed--Prevail   On Earth! Happy Holidays to

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke of human nature and its basic goodness in his book with Howard C. Cutler M.D. called, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World (Doubleday, c2009): The basic goodness of human beings doesn't rule out that there will be these destructive acts like we saw on 9/11. We can't expect that every human being will live in accordance with these principles reflecting our

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I have been thinking about Occupy Wall Street and related protests in regard to human rights and documents pertaining thereto. This famous line and its extension are in our Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit

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www.usaction.org

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October 6 was the beginning of the Afghanistan War ten years ago. Do I hear the word revenge? It also marked the beginning of our demise. The total cost of our “security” since 9-11has been $7.6 trillion, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, homeland security, nuclear weapons, and the Pentagon base-budget. According to costofwar.com, taxpayers in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District

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I am posting from today's Sunday Lexington Herald-Leader two quotes for thought. The first is from contributing satirical columnist Larry Webster: I would not be surprised if Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu turns out to be the Republican nominee, unless he wants to continue to run things from behind the scenes, or go over the head of our president to keep on seizing land from Arabs to give to

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In his 2002 book, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders, Jacob Needleman presciently writes for our Tea Party time. What were our Founders really saying, really meaning? What was the Constitution about? In the reminiscence of the Civil War, who and what was Lincoln? What is the meaning of this country called America? These are the kinds of questions Needleman tackles with

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Today is the International Day of Peace established by a United Nations resolution in 1981. Two pertinent resolutions declare that it would be appropriate to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts of the United Nations and its Member States, as well as of the whole of mankind, to promoting the ideals of Peace and to giving positive evidence of their commitment to Peace in all viable

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9-11! Wake up! Help! Er, not now! Change! Repent! Who--me? Who--US? Like most Americans I remember where I was on 9-11-01. The only other time and event as such I remember where I was and what I was doing was November 22, 1963--the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I was in high school, in algebra class. We heard a radio announcement through the school’s public address

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In his book, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders (2002), Jacob Needleman tells a creation story of the Iroquois tribe of Native Americans. In that story, the creator called, He Grasps the Sky With Both Hands, spoke to the human beings: All of you have an equal right to this which I have ordained. So then it will affect us all alike in that we will all have peace within

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August 6, Hiroshima Day, commemorates the first ever atomic bomb attack, by the United States, on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. It is estimated that 90,000－166,000 persons died from that attack. A second (and last) atomic attack was carried out three days later, also by the U.S., on Nagasaki, Japan. Having been born almost two years later, I grew up in the shadow of the bomb. I grew up in the first

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The Audacity of Hope, the U.S. boat of Freedom Flotilla II, is now sitting outside Athens while being held by Greek authorities. Some passenger members, including Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright, are still on board. Benjamin and Wright say they are in dismal, restricted conditions. Benjamin wrote in an e-mail that they are enclosed by gates and razor wire and baking in 95-degree heat. She also

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WHERE IS GAZA?  The Gaza Strip (also known as Gaza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, 45 km (25 miles) long and at most 10 km (6 miles) wide. It borders Egypt to it south-west and Israel to its north and east. WHO LIVES THERE? Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians live in Gaza, many of them concentrated in one-half of the territory. In this area, the population density is

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The U.S. boat, Audacity of Hope, a member of Freedom Fotilla II, is trying to set sail from Athens, Greece bound for Gaza while armed with letters of hope for the people of Gaza from those in the United States. The boat has been prevented from leaving Athens by Greek authorities. Just today the captain of the boat was arrested  over the ship's "seaworthiness" and for jeopardizing passengers'

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Frankfort, Kentucky's progressive Baptist pastor, Chuck Queen, has written a book on the Christian life that is based on the peaceful message and life of Jesus. The 168 page paperback is called, A Faith Worth Living: The Dynamics of an Inclusive Gospel. Saying that Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God, Queen says that that kingdom "pertains mostly to a transformed earth, a world healed and at

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I read two posts the other day that seemed to complement each other from two very different, super blogs. The subject was stupidity and its antidote: thinking (along with prayer). The first blog was of a rather political nature: The Book of Cletis, from a retired Kentucky teacher on the left. The second blog was of a religious nature--Christian, to be exact: A Fresh Perspective, from a

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Wikipedia Encyclopedia says: “Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true

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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world--which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with  healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal

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I have come to believe that my country, the United States of America, is two-faced. We tend to have great values, such as human rights, but tend to act toward other countries, and sometimes against our own people, in a completely contrary manner. I mentioned before that the Native Americans used to say, especially in those "Westerns" of my younger days, that the white man speaks with forked

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The US Needs to Focus on Not Creating Any More bin Ladens | | AlterNet I would like to recommend this wonderful interview with Samina Sundas, the founder of American Muslim Voice, a post-9-11 group, by Rae Abileah, a Jewish-American of Israeli descent and a CODEPINK organizer. The interview is rather lengthy, but well worth the read. Sundas speaks to American foreign policy and I believe we need

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) Mother’s Day in the United States began as a peace day. Following the Civil War groups of mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers met together for consolation. Anna Reeves Jarvis held a Mother’s Friendship Day to reunite families that had been divided during the war and she hoped that Mother’s Day would become an annual occurrence. Her daughter, Anna M. Jarvis

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I am only one,  but I am one. I cannot do everything,   but I can do something.  What I can do,    I ought to do  -and,-  by the grace of God,   I shall do.  ~Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)    American author, historian, Unitarian clergyman, chaplain to the United States Senate Source: Wikipedia Encyclopedia

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I Declare World Peace Everyday Everywhere At all Times In all Places You can, too Please do so May Peace Prevail On Earth! ______ See ideclareworldpeace.com and worldpeace.org

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I am in the process of reading a book that I am going to go ahead and recommend. It is a book of essays called, Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place. Melvin McLeod, the editor, is a lifelong student of politics and is the editor of two Buddhist magazines. Mindful Politics, c 2006, is published by Wisdom Publications of Boston. The introduction begins with

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CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin on The O'Reilly Factor regarding the the intervention in Libya: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

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I have been quite concerned about the revolution/civil war that is going on in Libya. I am on the side of freedom and human rights for the people of that country who have been oppressed for forty years by their leader. I am, however, not happy with the military intervention by the coalition that includes the United States.  I believe along with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that peaceful

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March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the uncalled for* U.S. invasion of the sovereign Middle Eastern nation of Iraq. As a response, I post this of the The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Buddhist Order of Interbeing founded by the Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh. The Mindfulness Trainings are also known as Political Precepts. The Twelfth Mindfulness Training: Reverence for Life  Aware

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“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.” Martin Luther King, Jr.   (Photo and quote from the Facebook page, War Is Obsolete)

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I have felt for some time that the religion writer Karen Armstrong is a prophet for our time. As a self-taught religious historian (comparative religion) she came to the conclusion that compassion is what ties the religions of the world together. She found that the main religions all developed in a time of conflict and that their answer was compassion based on the Golden Rule of treating others

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Yesterday I read two poignant pieces regarding Egypt and the Middle East. The first one was the Monday forum on religion in USA Today. That piece was In Changing Egypt, Where Will Faith Fall? by Stephen Prothero. There Prothero based his piece on the thought of the twentieth century Protestant theologian, Rheinhold Niebuhr. I give a quote from Prothero that I especially noted and  with which

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I am still keeping an eye on the protests in the Middle East and North Africa while pulling for the people of those countries. I continue to pray for Freedom and Peace for all there. Democracy would probably be good for the region, too, but it would have to be a grassroots version and not one of our making. It also may take awhile to concoct. In trying to visualize the region, I found the map

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I am very excited about the non-violent victory yesterday in Egypt of the protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other areas of that country against the now-deposed pharoah, Hosni Mubarak. I watched with amazement the goings-on in Tahrir Square with its benevolent atmosphere. I congratulate the people of Egypt and continue prayers on their behalf for the flowering of freedom, democracy and peace

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I am following the protests in Egypt while praying and hoping. I have not had much chance to post heretofore. On Feb. 4, though I never read the advice column anymore, I happened to notice in Dear Abby the Thought for the Day which seems apropos: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank I trust that Egypt will turn out for the

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I am posting the video of the Peace Groups Press Conference held by CODEPINK and other groups on 1-11-11 in Tuscon, AZ in response to the shootings there on 1-8-11 that included U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. I believe the speakers have some things worth hearing about our society at large.

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I have been quite taken, shaken by the shootout killing in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday, January 8.  Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, holding a constituents meeting called, "Congress on Your Corner" at a Safeway (?) supermarket, was critically injured. Six people, including a U.S. judge and a nine-year old girl were killed and several others were injured. One of the earliest and most impressive

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Note: In response to "Dear Afghanistan:" A New Year's Call for Peace (See my previous post here.), I send this open letter ~ To the People of Afghanistan: I grieve for your war-torn country. I am terribly sorry for what my country, the United States of America, is doing to yours. I know that you have suffered much over many years. I do work for peace for your country. I write my President and my

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“Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for PeaceTake action for peace on New Year’s Day!While the US may be the world’s single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, millions of people

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The Rev. Chuck Queen, controversial pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church here in Frankfort, KY (See my previous post here.), has published a rather small Christmas book this year. The book is entitled Shimmers of Light: Spiritual Reflections for the Christmas Season (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications of Wipf and Stock Publishers). Adaptive portions of it are found in his blog, A Fresh Perspective,

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I have now added a new page to The Peace Advocate: Human Rights. This page is a posting of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations. December 10 is the day set aside for Human Rights Day, but every day should be and needs to be Human Rights Day. I believe that each and every human life is sacred and each person should be entitled to all the rights and

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I call this post, “A Need for Consciousness-raising,”  but I guess it could just as well be called “A Need for Awareness-raising.” Whatever you call it, I believe there is a need in American society for something to bring about a change of mind or change of heart. Robert Wright had an Op-Ed in the New York Times on Thanksgiving Day in which he wrote about having to write a column appropriate

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I recently discovered an organization called, Religions for Peace. The organization was founded in 1970 and claims that it is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace. The organization dedicates itself to stopping war, ending poverty and protecting the earth. Based  in New York City, the organization has Dr. William F.

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There once was a girl from Kentucky Who was really not very lucky. “I Declare World Peace,” She sneezed And then she became not yucky. I Declare World Peace, A word spoken to please The world all -- Really a call: I Declare World Peace. I Declare World Peace In Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., so please -- No war, No more. I Declare World Peace. For what’s up with these And for others by

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Note: This post and the previous one are pointing to blog posts by others that fit in very well with the purpose of The Peace Advocate. I am trusting that the authors do not mind the reposts. I am grateful to both authors for their writing. I enjoy reading both blogs. The Rev. Chuck Queen is pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church here in Frankfort, KY. He writes a paid weekly column on progressive

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Note: This post and the next one are pointing to blog posts by others that fit in very well with the purpose of The Peace Advocate. I am trusting that the authors do not mind the reposts. I am grateful to both authors for their writing. I enjoy reading both blogs. Fatimah Shalash of Lexington, KY is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky there. She gives links to two articles in the

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A few weeks ago Michael Kessler of Louisville, KY spoke at my church. I was most interested. I have believed that God sees no borders on our planet and I have believed that here is only one race--the human one. This is what he emphasized. He also spoke of a new ways of seeing and thinking, especially those of Albert Einstein and Buckminster Fuller. Kessler spoke of world peace being achieved

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Note: The Peace Advocate is participating in the Blog Action Day of October 15 that is focusing on the issue of water. This is being posted a bit early. On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing access to clean water and sanitation as a human right.  According to the press release: The Assembly expressed deep concern that some 884 million people were

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Thursday, October 7, is the ninth anniversary of the beginning of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. That makes nine years too long and too much money spent on both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Retiring University of Kentucky President Lee Todd has often spoken of and tried to work against what he has called the “Kentucky uglies,” Kentucky's health and poverty issues. According to

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Tuesday, September 21 marks the twenty-eighth observance of the United Nations International Day of Peace. Peace Day, as it is often called, is set aside by UN resolutions to focus on the cause and observance of  peace. In its establishing resolutions, the UN General Assembly declared, "it would be appropriate to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts of the United Nations and its

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911 is an emergency call, a call for help in distress. To me. that is part of what 9-11-01 was about. Afghanistan was in distress, Israel-Palestine was in distress. People of the Muslims faith, especially extremists, were in distress. There was hurt and there was pain. I deplored the response of my country. All out war was not the answer. I believed that 9-11 was a wake-up call for the United

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This is a follow-up to my previous post, "A Place for the Other." Here is the photo ~ Here is the song, "Somewhere," albeit the lyrics, from the musical, West Side Story ~ There's a place for us,  Somewhere a place for us.  Peace and quiet and open air  Wait for us  Somewhere.  There's a time for us,  Some day a time for us,  Time together with time spare,  Time to learn, time

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Here is a short video of  comparative religion writer and initiator of the Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong, being questioned about the Muslim community center proposed to be built two blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. I was quite taken with Armstrong's answer, feeling that she had spoken a truth. I would also like to point readers to the op-ed e-letter,

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Please read and/or sign CODEPINK's Iraq Debacle Coalition Statement http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=5510 Also see ~ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/20-5 I say, "Never again!"

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I am exploring and reading a book. It is about a holy conversation that was held on the battlefield of what we in Kentucky call, a feud, such as that famous one held in the post-Civil War hills of Eastern Kentucky/West Vrginia. The book is that of  Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation by Steven Mitchell (New York: Three Rivers Press, c 2000). The book, often called just Gita, is part of the

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Note: This Statement of Conscience was passed at the recent General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is taken from the UUA webpage that is found here. I commend it and the Association. Creating Peace 2010 Statement of Conscience We believe all people share a moral responsibility to create peace. Mindful of both our rich heritage and our past failures to prevent war, and

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This past Sunday, July 18, was the 92nd birthday of South African hero, Nelson Mandela. I hereby acknowledge his contribution to the cause of peace. Mandela, the first president of the new nonapartheid South Africa, was a noble man, a worthy leader, who turned from violence to peace in the struggle for his country. I am presently reading a (2010) book by Anglican Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, of

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Upon consideration of the disaster of what is commonly called, the Gulf Oil Spill, it seem to me there are a couple of individual and collective alternatives to BP, to wit ~    Be Present!     ~ and ~    Be Peace! I would say that we need to change our mindset. In addition to B and P, it seems that we need to include the letter C for Compassion, as in Compassion for all others and the

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In US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, June 21, 2010 Faisal Shazad, a Pakistan-born US citizen pleaded guilty to a failed car bomb attack on Times Square. Below is an excerpt of his testimony before Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum as taken from an Associated Press article, "Failed NY Car Bomber: I'm Guilty," by Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister as published in the Lexington Herald-Leader of

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"I Am an Uzbek, is that a crime?This is not a Kyrygyz house, this is mine." I am an Afghan, I am a MuslimI live in Pakistan, I live in Iraq I am a Christian, I am from PalestineI am Jewish, I come from Poland I am a Christian, I come from GuatemalaI am a Christian, I come from Mexico I am a poor American, I have no homeI am a shrimper, I lost my job I am a human being, I live on EarthI am living

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Much of the news entails suffering. It often contains stories of human suffering, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. I, in turn, often suffer or get disturbed when I read the news. I remain offended and saddened by the actions of my country that is built on high principles. Feminist playwrite and activist Eve Ensler has been suffering from Uterine Cancer--from the disease itself, from the

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This is proving to be a noteworthy Memorial Day. US military member deaths in Afghanistan have now hit 1000. Icasualties.org calculates 1007. That site also states that 4400 US military members have died in Iraq now. I also note that many Afghan and Iraqi militants and many, many more civilians have died because of our presence and actions in their countries. CostofWar.com of the National

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Books have guided me on my spiritual and activism journey. It seems there is usually another book with my name on it just around the corner. Here is a list of some books of rather recent vintage that have guided this Peace Advocate and provided the backdrop to my blog. I provide the list by author and group by subject or relatedness. The year given is the year of publication. I share these books

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Below is one of my favorite quotes that keeps returning to my mind and one that I believe we all should take note of and keep in mind in this time of ours. According to WikiQuote, it is by Anglican divine and metaphysical poet, John Donne (1572–1631), and is from his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), "Meditation 17." You can read more about Donne himself here. I give the sexist language

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1870~ Julia Ward Howe's Original Mother's Day Proclamation Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we

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  On Sunday, April 25, I led the Unitarian Universalist Community of Frankfort in a Circle Worship service entitled, Compassion: The Charter & the Principles. In the previous post, I gave the Compassionate Quotes that were read in its worship circle. In this post, I give the main substance, the background material, if you will, for that service. ~ ~ ~   A special woman of and for our time, a

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On Sunday, April 25, I led the Unitarian Universalist Community of Frankfort in a Circle Worship service entitled, Compassion: The Charter & the Principles. Below are the "Compassionate Quotes" that we read in our worship circle: 1. Human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated

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There is a book I have just read on Afghanistan by a remarkable young Afghan woman. I first heard of it and her through CODEPINK: Women for Peace who recommended it and co-sponsored Joya on a book tour of the U.S. I requested Frankfort's Paul Sawyier Public Library acquire the book which they did. I now recommend this  immensely informational book on the country of Afghanistan by a woman of that

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If readers have not done so, I urge them to mosey up for a visit to The Side Bar in the right of the The Peace Advocate blog. In The Side Bar, there is an array of non-alcoholic, peaceful selections from which the visitor may choose. At the top, there is a PINK widget-link for the CODEPINK site, Women Say No to War. Next, comes a peace quote from President Obama. (We hope he believed what he

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Compassion, locally and globally, is the remedy for the world's ills. A video from the Charter for Compassion:

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I have started reading a fascinating book about Afghanistan, actually about a person of Afghanistan. The book by Eknath Easwaran is entitled Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, a Man to Match his Mountains  (Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, c.1984 and 1999.) Badshah Khan, who lived from 1890 to 1988, was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. I bought the book after 9-11, but had not read it. I

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and Everyday THINGS TO DO   1. Love your neighbors.  2. Love your enemies.       --Jesus ~ ~ ~ Three Cups of Tea was the title of the first book of Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute. The three cups of tea referred to a Balti sayig that Haj Ali invoked during one of Mortenson's first visits to his village.  Ali told Mortenson that with the first cup of tea shared with them, one

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Simple, ancient wisdom that is so needed, but seemingly so difficult and neglected. A beautiful video.

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I am repeating a story that I first heard Bill Moyers tell on his Journal program. I am repeating it because I believe it is quite needful in our partiularly charged time. I also believe it is relevant to the Charter for Compassion which is also quite timely. Here it is from a website called, First People: Native American Legends. A Cherokee Legend An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson

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   Here is my Letter to the Editor that appeared in The State Journal of Frankfort, KY on Sunday, January 24: To the Editor: Linda Boileau’s wonderful cartoon in The State Journal of Friday, January 15, described eloquently how Haiti’s earthquake disaster has not been able to crush the hand of compassion to the Haitian people. It is very moving to see how the United States, its people, and the

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Happy Hannukah! Wonderful Solstice! Merry Chrstmas! Happy New Year! May Peace Prevail On Earth!

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I. Mr. Obama went to Oslo A prize to receive A speech he gave Was it for war or for peace? A realist he was But idealist, too He pointed towards peace From the world that is so A surge, he said, Is the way to go 30,000 more troops Will just have to do We’ll be in their land, Be right in their face What else do they know? What more do they want? Jobs, agriculture, health

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December 10 is Human Rights Day; Hannukah and the Christmas season are upon us and the New Year, too. For the world, please affirm Karen Armstrong's initiative,  the Charter for Compassion. The names of all affirmers on December 31 will be sent along with the Charter for Compassion to 5 world leaders whose countries are engaged in conflict. MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH! Compassion is the way.

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This Thanksgiving was a big one for me and my family. Now I do not usually blog about my family, but this time is an exception. My family was all together for the feast! This is the first time in a number of years that my family has been together for the occasion. My son is vegan; I am vegetarian and my husband and daughter are carnivores. For whatever reason, probably a number of reasons,

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Dear People, The walking wounded are among us, including in the military and in families. Most of us are wounded in some way, some more than others. My condolences go to the families of those killed at Fort Hood, Texas in the recent attack by alleged perpetrator, Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. My thoughts and concerns go out to the injured and their families. My thoughts

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 Note to Readers, I am passing on the letter below because I think it deserves a wider audience. I do not quite know its veracity or authorship, but it does give a point of view that needs to be heard by the American people. I have opposed the War of Terror on Terror from its inception and continue believe that the US needs a thoughourly revised foreign policy that is not meddlesome and is not

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Life for me lately has been about change. My husband, daughter, and I have moved to a new and very different neighborhood. We had lived in our former house in an older part of town for twenty-seven years. We are now living in a newer part of town, in a rather suburban area. I had lived in the older part for most of my life, even in the same immediate neighborhood. We, however, are still in the

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Below is my letter as it appeared in The State Journal of Frankfort, Kentucky on Sunday, September 13, 2009: Afghanistan war is not the answer To the Editor: I was delighted to see George Will calling for a reduction instead of an escalation of our troops in Afghanistan in his Washington Post column republished in The State Journal on Wednesday, September 2.  Our troops do need to leave that

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September 21 is the annual United Nations Day of Peace. In observance and ahead of time, I give for reflection some highlights of Karen Armstrong's book, The great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions (New York: Anchor Books, c2006). I recently completed reading the book and it does have some lessons for us regarding  the cause of peace. Armstrong wrote in her introduction to

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I know that there are people who think I am completely unrealistic when it comes to war. These are people who believe that wars are necessary evils, that you do what you have to do when it comes to protecting the nation--even waging wars of aggression and/or revenge, and that in wars people die, including civilians. However that may be, I have been utterly distressed by our illegal and immoral

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Sixty-four years ago my country, the United States of America, became the first and only nation to use nuclear weaponry (the atomic bomb) in warfare (August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan and August 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan). I do not find this a fact of which to be proud. Since then other countries have acquired nuclear weapons, but the United States continues to have the most. On April 5, 2009,

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This will be a rather short post. I know I have not posted in awhile. Even though this will be somewhat brief, though not as brief as the last one, I do need to say it.I have experienced the birth of my first (and maybe my only) grandchild. Before and after I was engaged which is why the nonposting.My grandson was born at 1:21 a.m. on July 18. He had a difficult time coming into this world. He

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Peace Is Patriotic!Dissent Is, Too.

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.--George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm (1945)Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X--From the inscription on the Liberty Bell, originally known as "Independence Bell" or the "Old Yankee's Bell", that comes from Leviticus 25:10, "And ye shall hallow the

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Here is a final follow-up and update to my previous two entries.Ann Wright is a 29-year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and was a US diplomat. She resigned her diplomatic post in March 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq. She is now associated with CODEPINK: Women for Peace and has been with the CODEPINK delegations to Gaza. She has had two recent articles on those

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Former Pres. Jimmy Carter has been in the Middle East. On Tues. June 16, he toured Gaza where he held a press conference with Hamas P.M. Ismail Haniyeh.Since Carter's visit to Gaza was not in local papers, here are some news excerpts:From CNN via CommonDreams:Among the sites he visited was the American school that was destroyed by the bombings Israel initiated in response to rocket attacks

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When I was growing up, I was fond of a genre of songs that at that time was referred to as “Negro spiritual.” I guess today we would call these songs African-American spirituals or slave songs. I found out later that many of these songs talking about Israelite bondage in Egypt and the yearning for the Promised Land were actually songs of code for the enslaved of the Old South of our United

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This week Congress is voting on supplemental funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the tune of $94.2 billion dollars. Also this week, I finished a quite fascinating and very thoughtful book called, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004) by Pankaj Mishra.Mishra, a native of India now residing in both London and India, was on a quest to

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