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Amy Nelson, daughter of Willie Nelson and co-writer of the song A Peaceful Solution, has sent Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute a very charming feminine centered video. Amy uses the A Peaceful Solution soundtrack she and Rattlesnake Annie recorded together.

Amy Nelson had a dream about a Peaceful Resolution and told her Dad. Willie Nelson wrote A Peaceful Solution turning Amy’s dream into a reality. Willie Nelson and Amy Nelson demonstrate to you firsthand the artist’s magic of creation.

An artist takes the invisible and creates the visible and audible

for all of us to see and hear.

Check out the article where Amy tells her story about the origination of A Peaceful Solution.

Amy’s images highlight the beautiful and vivacious Nelson women in New York September 11th, 2007, two days after Farm Aid. Lana, Martha and Rachel work behind the scenes supporting Willie Nelson and Family to assure that all the loyal Willie Nelson fans have access to Willie’s music, shows and messages as well as providing essential support to keep everything running smoothly.

Here we have proof that behind every great man stands some powerful women.

Amy Nelson incorporates a sophisticated parenthetical move in her video where she begins and ends the video with similar imagery. This technique solidly places us in the world that Amy creates for us to enter, traverse and share with her.

Rattlesnake Annie and Amy Nelson met in Nashville September 3rd, 2007 to record this fabulous A Peaceful Solution soundtrack. Amy shot the recording session. She incorporates the black and white studio images masterfully in her video montage by crosscutting with the color images in New York. This use of the black and white imagery separates us in time from our current meanderings in color with the Soy Girls.

This soundtrack offers so much musically and vocally. Rattlesnake and Amy’s vocals present beautiful contrast and range while the musical elements span a wide variety of styles and techniques.

If you haven’t seen the feature article about Rattlesnake Annie and Amy Nelson please take the time to check out these two fabulous musicians and very dear friends who spend their life creating peaceful solutions.

Amy’s video takes us from New York to Carl’s Corner, TX where her Dad, Willie Nelson, meets with local farmers to discuss Biodiesel crops on April 25th, 2007. Amy suggests in her video that Biodiesel represents a peaceful solution for sustainability.

Sustainability offers a peaceful solution to end war for oil and

protect our environment.

As Amy reminds us in her video,

“War is a Dead End”.

Sustainability offers the means to provide for the needs of the community without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for their own needs.

Sustainability guarantees that the process, although implemented continuously, will not injure the environment in any way or pass on high costs to anyone participating.

Amy Nelson wishes to thank Delana DeMille for her expert consult and Gina Giampa for the Lady Liberty photo.

Martha wears the red and white cap in Amy’s video and she performs original music worth checking out. Learn more about Martha Fowler of Lechuza at her myspace profile and listen to some original experimental psychedelic rock music.

Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute wishes to thank Amy Nelson for dreaming the dream and sharing her dream with her Dad. And now for sharing her songs and video with us. So many great artists now have a song and/or video project and venue to express their ideas for A Peaceful Solution because of you.

Will you accept Willie Nelson’s invitation to participate in A Peaceful Solution project?

Introducing the famous Soy Girls & the elusive Soy Boy

Here’s the Soy girls story… by Amy Nelson

It was our last day in New York, the evening of Sept. 11th, and time to go back home to TX and TN. We were waiting outside the hotel, the man who works the door for hotel was full of personality and was busy making sure we were accommodated. We told him we were waiting for a tour bus and he asked us if we were with some kind of group.

I said, “We’re the new spice girls”, and then he laughed, and he pointed out Lana’s Farm Aid bag that had a soy ad on it. So we decided we were the Soy Girls, and then he chimed in and said he would be Soy Boy. He said he would be our choreographer.

We never did tell him the real story, but only because there wasn’t time, and then came Dad’s bus to pick us up. We really hit it off with Soy Boy. We’ll come back for him when it’s time for the Soy Girls tour

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Extra special thanks to Dad for making the dream a reality.

Why are you passionate about creating peace?

Peace is good for everyone, except for those greedy few who make their money off of war. There is no place for war in a highly evolved society.

What we should be fighting is religious fundamentalism. One thing I know intuitively, God does not want us killing in the name of God. If God wants someone dead, human assistance is not needed, leave it to God.

How long have you been working for peace?

Since I was very small.

What motivates you to work for peace and the environment?

Everything in my being.

Everything I love about Mother Earth and her creatures motivates me to protect them. Earth is our home, all earthlings are our brothers and sisters. It’s hard to imagine us not being connected.

Why have you chosen the path of Art for Peace?

Art is a powerful way to communicate, and I think the path was chosen for me, especially this time.

What are your ideas for peaceful solutions?

Here are some ideas that I think would help:

Start by acknowledging that we are all sons and daughters of God, and none of us are better than another, or more deserving of love and happiness.

All creatures are deserving of love and respect.

Do not underestimate the consciousness of any creature of God; err on the side of compassion.

In other countries, people will have different names for God, and that shouldn’t scare us. The more we learn about other cultures, the less we will fear them.

Fund humane education, and education in general.

Write to our TV news networks and let them know that we would rather be informed than entertained. Think back to the days when the entertainment section of the news was five minutes out of an hour.

It wasn’t that long ago.

Pray for our enemies, better yet, think of no one as an enemy. The best thing that could happen for the worst person is a miracle that will make them a better person. So why not pray for miracles for everyone, love for everyone, so that all may find happiness?

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