tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35174492008-08-10T12:11:44.362-07:00Peace is PossibleLorenzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-19247488153816696002008-08-10T12:10:00.000-07:002008-08-10T12:11:44.374-07:00Communicating with Music
Peace may be possible, but first we have to learn to communicate a little better ... even when we speak the same language.
Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-39372378243646855452008-07-20T19:30:00.000-07:002008-07-20T19:31:13.185-07:00Peace is possible ... once religion is gone
Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-20198056991969111672008-02-09T14:59:00.000-08:002008-02-09T15:00:35.174-08:00A Peaceful Clip from Israel
Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1161817766530026712006-10-25T16:04:00.000-07:002006-10-25T16:09:26.543-07:00An Incredible Work of Art . . . freely given!
This is an amazing video of Ethan Winer playing all 37 separate cello parts in a piece he composed. He even plays the percussion parts on his cello. It was recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. Winer spent hundreds of hours to create this work, which is now freely given to all who have access to the Internet. It is human spirit like this Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1158182349435581662006-09-13T14:14:00.000-07:002006-09-13T14:19:09.460-07:00Something to think about
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
-- William S. Burroughs
Unfortunately, for me, he spoils this thought by referring to war. I'd prefer something like: . . . those who seek happiness for itself seek peace without compromise.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1153738361259552692006-07-24T03:42:00.000-07:002006-07-24T03:52:41.280-07:00Bolivia's War On Globalization
(Living on Earth, July 21, 2006 interview with William Powers)
I want to just stress one thing, that we need to get over our obsession with Morales as a threat, and Bolivia as a threat to our way of life, which you see so much of in the main stream media. If anything it's an opportunity. It's an opportunity to engage a new kind of a vision that can benefit BoliviansLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1153361489841587662006-07-19T17:13:00.000-07:002006-07-19T19:14:42.326-07:00By what name will future generations know our time?
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David Korten
Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet's resources, andLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1118250295510192552005-06-08T10:04:00.000-07:002005-06-08T10:04:55.533-07:00Fearless Planet - a great way to help
Fearless Planet is a non-profit organization established in 2004 with the aim of assisting people, primarily women, to develop and market unique products in order to improve the quality of life for themselves and their families. We help to identify both potential products and their markets, building upon local skills and traditional crafts.
The revenues Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1076968440946537892004-02-16T13:54:00.000-08:002004-02-16T13:56:37.670-08:00Global Brain Waves
All we do know is that things are moving faster and faster and faster. Which is an absolutely natural part of evolution. Simple cells, bacteria, took a couple of billion years to evolve, the first half of Earth's history is just simple cells. And then much more complex organisms evolved much faster, mammals, we're just talking about fifty million years or so, human beings haveLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1071098222441071482003-12-10T15:17:00.000-08:002003-12-10T15:17:14.810-08:00Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's University of Peace
(The Guardian, December 10, 2003)
[David Lynch] has lent his famous name and idiosyncratic hairstyle to a project to raise $1bn on behalf of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru of transcendental meditation who once entranced the Beatles, and who has for the past few decades been striving to build an earthly paradise. This venture has taken many Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1067781862346151632003-11-02T06:04:00.000-08:002003-11-02T06:04:24.993-08:00A beautiful Flash poem
This takes a moment to load but is worth the wait.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1065994020241772412003-10-12T14:27:00.000-07:002003-10-12T14:27:00.143-07:00We are living in an Extraordinary Moment
The above link will load a beautiful Flash animation with a voice-over description of evolution's path from the Big Bang to You. I believe you will find it well worth your time to spend a few minutes viewing this wonderful work and then contemplate its message. .... We often forget what unique beings we are, us humans. Our very survival as a species is atLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1057793422328689202003-07-09T16:30:00.000-07:002003-07-09T16:30:22.263-07:00A global calendar of protests, meetings, benefits, and conferences
ZMag & Protest.Net
This site is a partnership between Z Magazine and Protest.Net. With your help it provides calendar listings of protests and other activist-related events around the world.
Calendar Subscriptions
ZNet will send you a weekly email of protests and activist events in your area.
Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-1057793079071884352003-07-09T16:24:00.000-07:002003-07-09T16:24:39.026-07:00ZNet Pen Pals List
The ZNet Pen Pals List is a tool that socially concerned people can use to meet others, network, and share information. They allow users to meet and get to know one another and there is a presumption that folks using the system are politically and socially progressive. . . . As to the list, you can search by state and/or city or you can search by country and/or city.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2001249752003-04-09T22:24:00.000-07:002003-04-09T22:24:37.916-07:00What's Next for the Peace Movement?
commondreams.org - On March 29, some 35,000 to 45,000 people from across New England came together on the Boston Common for a march and rally to speak out for peace and justice in Iraq. As an African-American who has been involved in the peace movement since I was a teenager in the early 1980's -- and as one of the moderators at Saturday's rally -- I was Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2001226782003-04-09T12:52:00.000-07:002003-04-09T12:56:04.000-07:00Congressman calls for creation of US "Peace Department"
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US congressman and anti-war activist revived his proposal for the creation of a "US Department of Peace" to be headed by a cabinet-level official on a par with the secretary of state or secretary of defense.
Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, a presidential candidate and an outspoken critic of President Bush's Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2001218932003-04-09T10:43:00.000-07:002003-04-09T10:43:04.570-07:00In Defense of Cacophony
(Ilyse Hogue, AlterNet, April 9, 2003)
March 20th, the day after the United States began to drop bombs on the Iraqi people, San Francisco was the stage for widespread creative dissent to an illegal and unjustifiable war. . . . That day crystallized the willingness of hundreds of thousands to stand with the global majority in opposing this war. The reasons for people's Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2001178862003-04-08T17:25:00.000-07:002003-04-08T17:25:58.736-07:00Rep. Dennis Kucinich To Introduce Bill for Department of Peace
commondreams.org SUMMIT COUNTY Summit Daily News - Vail, Colorado - Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will introduce a bill today to establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, an agency that would be responsible for things ranging from social services to a Peace Academy.
Kucinich has the support of 38 other U.S. Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000833272003-04-01T19:51:00.000-08:002003-04-01T19:51:27.480-08:00US Peace movement wraps itself in the Stars and Stripes
guardian.co.uk - The American peace movement is making a bid to reclaim the US flag and establish its patriotic credentials, as hostility to dissent against military action in Iraq intensifies.
Haunted by accusations of anti-Americanism from the Vietnam era, and under pressure from a growing atmosphere of intolerance towards protesters,Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000730432003-03-31T07:25:00.000-08:002003-03-31T07:25:27.143-08:00Weekend anti-war protests continue across Middle East, Asia, Europe as thousands demonstrate
CAIRO, Egypt - More than 15,000 university students in Egypt called for holy war to help the Iraqis fight off the allied "aggression" while tens of thousands of others from Spain to Indonesia poured into the streets bearing banners, yelling chants and lighting candles for peace.
Most demonstrations Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000689862003-03-30T10:14:00.000-08:002003-03-30T10:14:07.843-08:00Massive rallies denounce war
(The New Zealand Herald, 31 March 2003)
More than 100,000 angry Indonesians, many carrying young children, jammed the streets of Jakarta yesterday, shouting anti-American slogans and waving protest banners over the war in Iraq. . . . demonstrators shouted "America, America: terrorist, terrorist" . . . The crowd in Jakarta gathered near the British Embassy before Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000687002003-03-30T08:37:00.000-08:002003-03-30T08:37:06.580-08:00Students, rights activists march for peace on U.S.-Mexican border city
TIJUANA, Mexico - Wearing black ribbons and singing songs critical of the war, hundreds of young people marched through this teeming border city Saturday to protest the military conflict in Iraq.
Human rights activists, religious groups and students from various schools led the protests, which began in Tijuana center and Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000686902003-03-30T08:34:00.000-08:002003-03-30T08:34:11.556-08:00Tens of Thousands Around World Rally for Peace
BOSTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Boston to protest the war in Iraq, the latest in a wave of peace demonstrations that circled the globe on Saturday.
In what officials and historians said was the biggest protest in Boston in at least 30 years, thousands chanted "This is what democracy looks like" as Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000686822003-03-30T08:30:00.000-08:002003-03-30T08:30:29.596-08:00Muslims, Christians side by side as Iraq peace protests sweep globe
AKARTA (AFP) - A fresh wave of demonstrations against the US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites) kicked off in Asia, with the Muslims and Christians of Jakarta marching side by side to oppose the continuing conflict.
As hundreds of thousands rallied in Indonesia Sunday, the world's most populous Muslim nation, China gingerly Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517449.post-2000675722003-03-29T21:30:00.000-08:002003-03-29T21:30:50.486-08:00LOBBY WASHINGTON ON APRIL 8, 2003 TO CREATE A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE!
dopcampaign.org - At this critical time in our nation's history, righteous action is the antidote to despair. Please participate in a powerful citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace, sponsored in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. This bill establishes nonviolence as an Westnoreply@blogger.com