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Elizabeth McAdoo offers Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute a new hopeful A Peaceful Solution video for the Willie Nelson Peace Video Contest. Elizabeth’s video uses Willie Nelson’s a cappella version of A Peaceful Solution that allows us to stay focused on the words to the song.

This emphasis on Willie’s vocals without any distracting music track compliments the text images, which promises that a peaceful solution does exist. Elizabeth employs a very subtle yet effective multiple color transition with her single background cloud image.

Text changes color once and because of the power of her words almost imperceptibly. She has a simple message. She wants you to know we each have the power to create change.

We can do this by voting.

Elizabeth tells us to stand up and claim our power. She found a candidate that stands out from the pack.

She found Dennis Kucinich.

If you haven’t watched the video yet please do and see Elizabeth’s reasons for recommending Dennis Kucinich to us.

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

I feel passionate about creating Art for Peace because it acts as a catharsis for me when the pain of how cruel some people can be is too much for me to bear. I am involved in animal rescue and hearing “You can’t save them all” is something that weighs me down, because there are so many to save.

How does a person walk away from an animal, or a child, or a soldier fighting a senseless war, etc. without feeling their pain and suffering and carrying it with you? It doesn’t matter if it is an animal, my neighbor, or someone I see on TV or the Internet.

I feel for the helpless and the exploited.

Art for Peace allows me to express what I feel, and hopefully, someone can relate to what I am saying and know they are not alone in their feelings of anguish when they “can’t save them all” either and they had to walk away.

I have become tired of walking away, or feeling I am helpless to take action. Legislation can change how things are. To spend time crying about it isn’t enough.

Tears don’t save the victims, actions do, and laws do.

I was doing a web search to see which candidates for the 2008 election are advocates of Animal Rights. I wasn’t seeing anything I was impressed with until I found Dennis Kucinich.

As I read his views on Animal Rights, and The Department of Peace, I felt emotions that brought tears to my eyes. He was everything I was hoping for in a candidate and then some.

What a wonderful, caring man he is.

This is the man that can change how animals are treated, how humans are treated and how our Earth is treated. I feel compelled to spread the word and make sure people know they have a person they can vote for who will work for them, creating laws that benefit the humanitarian causes compassionate people care about.

Every single vote is important and no one should ever feel theirs won’t make a difference.

I chose the path of peace rather than forcefulness because peace works so much better. A kindness is often met with kindness. Forcefulness, on the other hand, is met with equal or greater forcefulness and is counterproductive. Even when it seems to have worked, it is discovered there will always be a bigger bully and it must be fought all over again.

This is why I create Art for Peace:)

I don’t have a website and I’m not even an artist, just a concerned citizen using the only thing I have~words~

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Tags: Animal Rights, Arts, Environment, Peace

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