- Folks, what a week for war! Nearly unbearable.
And on so many fronts. And on so many innocents...unarmed innocents.
And on children.
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- Seems we have to speak louder. Talk harder. Act stronger.
It's up to each of us to get that more fully defined and take some steps
for sanity. The war escalation is the biggest and bloodiest we've seen
since the early invasion of Iraq. If only more of us wanted to do more
to make a change-of-course difference, especially to somehow help those
who are being attacked.
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- So Few Care Anymore
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- Many activists have given much of their lives to the
peace effort, but we are a tiny minority. Many brave journalists continue,
year after year, to bring us the truth about on-going and augmenting genocide.
But again, they are a minority compared to the mainstream media pervasiveness.
How to transform this minority into a majority and find a way to end the
lethal sin of war?
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- Where are the New-Agers? The love-and-peace people?
The Professors? Their students? The environmentalists? The theologians?
The church folk? The Buddhists, the oh-so-spiritual Buddhists? The doctors?
The gay community? The poets? The musicians? The artists? The damn
artists! Was a time when they were the cutting-edge, fiercely sayin' what
needed to be said, holding back nothing! Where are they?!! Yes, a handful,
here and there, but not yet enough to turn the tide. When's the last time
you were able to move someone from complacency to activism? Not an easy
chore, but utterly necessary.
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- I guess I'm writing out of frustration that so few are
responding appropriately to the atrocities and to the global expanse of
tyranny. It's like their humanity has been beaten out of them. Yeah,
decades of eatin' what the system served, and comfortable with looking
away. We keep banging the gong and they plug their ears. Some say, "Thanks
for what you do," as if that exonerates them for not standing
with us. As if we didn't desperately need them. How to convey critical
mass? How to awaken compassion? Or at least the will to live free? So
many questions; so few answers.
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- I know that as I type, people are being bombed and killed.
Lives are being shattered and erased. We know not what a privilege it
is that we still have shelter, food, and clean running water, and that
there are yet no bombers overhead. But, as you know, they're over our
brothers and sisters.
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- The 10th anniversary of one of history's greatest lies
approaches. That twin-towers-event that launched the death knell into
full throttle. I hope many gather on that day, Sunday, 9/11 and once again
stand to expose the deceit and demand the truth. I plan on it. And that
just might be the day for all of us to earnestly reach out to others, encouraging
them to work for peace, and inviting them to stand with us. There is great
hope in bringing up the numbers.
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- Banging The Gong, Loud As I Can,
- Galen
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