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E'tokmit
e'k, rangimarie, hedd, pace, tutquin, shanti,
vrede, paquilisli, MNP, Onai rahu, amani, kev
sib haum xeeb, salam, shaantiM, hedd, gutpela
taim, lalyi, pesca, damai, raha, fred, eirni,
pax, mir, peace, heiwa, amn, nabad, rauha,paz,
frid, paco, shAnti, paqe, danh tu, ittimokla,
rahu, paix, beke, shalom, mnonestotse, kapayapaan
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Green Dove is featured in "Cost of Freedom
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We have
taken one step forward. We can continue to take
one step forward. I think it will lead us to
two steps forward, and so on. I hope the movement
we make will lead us toward one another. At
least, that is what I hope for. WE need to hold
onto to our dreams of creating something peaceful,
something sustainable community for our children.
We must
be able to find some seed within ourselves to
continue into the new world we have a hand in
creating. We need to be ready each moment to
begin again, and again, always from a point
of love. We are treading new ground. Our of
necessity we must decide on a future different
from the one previously before us.
Moving
into this future, a future we can love; as love
is our greatest collective stregnth next to
our ability to get down and do the work that
may be necessary. TO BEGIN AGAIN, to release
fear - a huge task; but, if we just take one
step toward what we truely want, working for
the sustainable global communities we believe
possible, we have the possibility of gaining
some measure of wholeness for ourselves, our
children, our neighbors, friends and all creatures
we travel this planet with.
Where we
have been is our history. Where we are today
and tomorrow will be decided by our actions
now. To choose sustainable present and future,
is huge and will need a lot of work for us to
achieve. So, we get to do a lot work; we get
to join with our neighbors, our families, our
friends, the larger community, and individualy
and collectively. We have to take a good look
at who we have been, and develop some working
plans on how we want to be, and how we can move
heathfuly and peacefuly into the now.
For our
peaceful, sustainable futures, let us refer
to our predecessors and choose actions such
as gardening
that will strengthen and sustain us. If
you do not have a Local
Food Directory in your community, connect
with others and develop one. Pay attention to
what is happening with water and other essential
life needs.
May we
all keep our sense of humor and sense of adventure,
because, we are definitely on a wild ride! Hold
on tight!
We need
to hold those accountable for the misuse of
our resources, yet we must see the view beyond.
Again, we say - For the collective US to
recover from the current local to global crisis,
WE have to intend the WE, See the WE and be
WILLING to WORK TOGETHER from our neighborhoods
outward.
Green Dove
May we
never hunger. ¡Que nunca tengamos hambre!"
"May we never thirst! ¡Que nunca
tengamos sed!"
- Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing
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VOTE!
A
New Musical Premieres March 6-8 in Bloomington!
- Indiana
Try-Out Before NYC Summer Production
VOTE! is a fresh, new look at
politics through the eyes of three high school
students who are after the ultimate prize -
Student Body President! Written by up-and-coming
New York City songwriters Ryann Ferguson and
Steven Jamail, this intelligent and timely show
offers a sharp, entertaining look at elections
and the moral dilemmas they produce. The bright
and imaginative score features many sure-to-be-hit
numbers.
Directed by NYC guest artist
Ryan J. Davis, this Bloomington production serves
as a regional workshop/premiere - allowing the
show's creators to see their work on stage for
the first time, and
providing them valuable insight into how to
further develop the show for a summer production
in NYC.
The cast includes students from
both Indiana University and Bloomington's Harmony
School: Alana Cheshire, David Coleman, Katherine
Duffy, Joseph Fernandez, Tamrin Goldberg, Adam
Johnson, Jacob Jones, Justin Klein, Maddy LaRoche,
Brittany Martin, Nathan Mittleman, Taryn Pryor,
Becky Rosky, Danielle Sacks, Jen Saltiel, Ariel
Simpson, Maggie Smith, Gabi Cracraft, and Maggie
Smith.
Performances are Friday and
Saturday, March 6th & 7th at 8 PM; and Sunday,
March 8th at 2 PM at Harmony School, 909 East
Second Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.
Advanced tickets are now available
and are $5 for Students and $10 for
General Admission and can be purchased on-line
at
www.ericandersonjrpresents.com.
Tickets at the door are $7 Students
and $12 General Admission.
Click
here for Creative Bios
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Raging Grannies reherse or meet the
2nd Mondays monthly, 5:00 pm at Rachael's Cafe
on 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN. Women singing
for peace and justice. Available for events.
Contact Cynthia Roberts at cynrober(at)indiana.edu
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to Consider - Players in the Dream, Dreamers
in the Play by Marian Kaplun Shapiro available
from Plain View Press - This woman is an observer
of the world and has delightful musicality to
her words which may stay with you, as they do
me, long after I have turned from the written
page. |
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a chance on peacemaking, we have a lot to gain
from it! |
Should
any political party attempt to abolish social
security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate
labor laws and farm programs, you would not
hear of that party again in our political history.
There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that
believes you can do these things. Among them
are...Texas oil millionaires and an occasional
politician or business man from other areas.
Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 8,
1954
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Question - What motivated
Green Dove to establish the Local Food Directory
in 2001?
Answer - The belief
in the importance of food; especially food
in local communities and economies and its
necessity to peaceful living . We live in
a world where a few are trying to take control
of our food and water. For instance, Monsanto
purchased the largest seed company in the
world. Considering that they are seeking seed
laws, and pattents on the stuff we all depend
upon; are suring farmers around the globe,
and working diligently to alter the food chain
which means altering the worlds environment
with the introduction of unatural organisms
and seed dependent upon petrochemicals! .
Check
Food News, the HHNCRANE
Newsletter, Eco
News on WFHBand Emag for more information.
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Invincibility”
by Natalia Ovchynnykova – Ukraine
Volume2-
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Thoughts
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"Another
world is possible. Where the choice is between war
or peace, between memory or oblivion, between hope
or despair, between the grey on one side and the whole
rainbow on the other side. One world where many worlds
can exist. It is possible for a "YES!" an
incomplete unfinished
"YES!" to be born out of a "NO!".
A "YES!" that gives humanity hope back,
so that we day by day can
rebuild the complex bridge that connects thinking
and feeling" ....
Marcos, from the mountains in Southeast Mexico, 1999
"You
can look at war as a massing of arms and matérial
and troops, but you can also see it as something else--as
a delicate web of interwoven choices made by human
beings, made out of a certain consciousness. The decision
to order an attack, the choice to obey or disobey
an order, to fire or not to fire a weapon. Armies
and, indeed, any culture that supports them must convince
the people that all the decisions are made already,
and they have no choice. But that is never true."
The
Fifth Sacred Thing" by
Starhawk
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All
healing begins in this moment. All transformation occurs
within this step. Be present, be mindful, be filled
with love. |
| "If
we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of
the words we use. We must both speak and listen from
the heart.-- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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| "It's
surprising how many persons go through life without
ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people
are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves,
and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't
be comfortable with others."--
Sydney J. Harris |
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firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the
end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be
around to be proven wrong. -Stuart Wilde "The Secrets
of Life" |
| Support
what you believe in, your life depends on it! |
| I
wish I could make a happier world-harmonious, friendly
and peaceful.His Holiness the Dali Lama - from the book
"Tying Rocks to Clouds" |
"We
collect things and memories and store them lovingly
in the recesses of our souls...only to be brought out
into the sunlight by
telling about them over and over again." Particia
Polacco |
| What
would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
"Our deepest
fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our
light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We
ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous? " Actually, who are you not
to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.....
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were
born to make manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It's not just in some of us; it's in every one.....
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give others the permission to do the same. As we're
liberated from our fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. "
Marianne Williamson
- 'A Return To Love' 1992
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April 4th March on Washington
"A nation that continues
year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is
approaching spiritual death."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967
March with UFPJ on Saturday,
April 4th
New York City
It is Time to End the Wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan
It is Time to Address the Economic Crisis by
Cutting Military Spending
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivered his historic speech against the war
in Vietnam at NYC's Riverside Church. One year
later, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis
while there to support striking sanitation workers.
Dr. King's work linked the most pressing issues
of his day; his life was about taking public
action in the service of the struggles for equality,
freedom, justice, and peace.
Today, people from every walk
of life and every corner of this country are
both filled with the possibilities of hope and
change and struggling under the worst financial
crisis of this generation. This year, on Saturday,
April 4, we call on all people to take up Dr.
King's example of public action and join us
in the streets of New York City's financial
center as we renew our common commitment to
move this country in a new direction.
We will march on April 4 because
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must be ended
now! We will march on April 4 because a critical
piece of addressing the economic crisis must
be cutting military spending, starting with
ending the flow of our tax dollars into these
wars and occupations. We will march on April
4 because 'Beyond War, A New Economy Is Possible!'
We will march on April 4 filled
with hope. Now is the time that our movements
for racial justice and economic equality; our
movements against the wars and occupations in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere;
our movements for a new economy based on people's
needs, green union jobs and sustainability will
ALL come together to say YES WE CAN! Yes We
Can move beyond war! Yes We Can build a new
world of justice, equality and peace!
Today, we ask you to join United
for Peace and Justice as we prepare for this
timely mobilization. Scores of organizations
have already endorsed our call, and, in the
coming weeks, many more will be signing on.
Click
here to read the full call for our April 4 mobilization.
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