Monthly Archives: November, 2009
Texans Unite For Peace
Alert! For Your Immediate Attention and Action: PEACE ACTION for AUSTIN TEXAS CITIZENS on MONDAY NOVEMBER 30, 4-6PM Senator Cornyns’ office building downtown 221 W 6th St Demonstration and Candlelight vigil! If you support an end to both of the Wars of Occupation, we are calling for your personal participation- your Body! The President will [...]
Alone Danny Parker And Jody Parker
Happy Holidays from Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute Danny Parker and Jody Parker share their Art for Peace with us on the eve of an annual holiday dedicated to sharing and giving thanks with family and friends. Danny Parker, USMC 1/3 68-71, wrote Alone about his experiences in Vietnam. Jody Parker, Danny’s son, performed all [...]
Last Stronghold Of Wild Horse Herds Under Attack
2,500 Wild Horses to be Rounded Up in Dead of Winter Dear Supporters, Despite a significant public outcry, BLM plans a helicopter round up to remove thousands of wild horses in northwestern Nevada, an area called the Calico Complex in a remote and starkly beautiful landscape of volcanic outcrops, steep canyons and wide valleys. It [...]
Stories Of Our City Celebrates 2,000 Downloads
Stories of Our City: Using True Stories to Cultivate Peace Stories of Our City weekly podcasts began August 31, 2009 Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 2009- Stories of Our City, a peace initiative using true stories to cultivate community and understanding, celebrates 2,000 downloads. The podcast aims to use the stories of everyday people to build peace [...]
Purple Mountains Majesty Gone
Our National Treasures are being blown apart so we can have dirty fuel. The Blasting of Coal River Mountain, West Virginia has started. Please take action. Sharon Abreu of Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education in Washington State sent this important alert and call to action to stop MTR. What’s happening to the mountains and the people [...]
Constituent Power From Networks
The fabric of a peaceful society grows out of the social relations and institutions peaceful people make when avoiding deeper entanglement with a violent society. Those who believe, as I do, that “Another world is possible” have long worked to create that peaceful world. Sovereignty requires two groups, the rulers and the ruled. This duality [...]
We Produce Society Together
It seems businesses, governments and religions exercise the authority and responsibility for society based on the assumption that they create society. They do not. Businesses, governments and religions are themselves creations of society. Together, all people hold the authority and responsibility for society together because all people together create society. Bureaucracies and institutions are in [...]
