Comments on: Gulf Coast Peace Train http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/ Making the Connections Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:57:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dan http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10984 Dan Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:25:00 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10984 I've read your books numerous times. I buy them for others. And I thank you for your continued efforts in deed and word. I’ve read your books numerous times. I buy them for others. And I thank you for your continued efforts in deed and word.

]]> By: Craig http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10925 Craig Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:28:41 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10925 This link is more direct and you may want to make a copy as it will only bo online for a week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/bb_wm_4679986.stm This link is more direct and you may want to make a copy as it will only bo online for a week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/bb_wm_4679986.stm

]]> By: R.S. Morris http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10911 R.S. Morris Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10911 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm for the BBC documentary (Thanks Inigo and Theresa!) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm

for the BBC documentary (Thanks Inigo and Theresa!)

]]> By: Stan http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10899 Stan Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:33:43 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10899 Try the Union of Concerned Scientists. http://www.ucsusa.org/ Try the Union of Concerned Scientists.

http://www.ucsusa.org/

]]> By: R.S. Morris http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10896 R.S. Morris Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:49:47 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10896 Anyone in this group know of an anti-war radiation biologist? I have some info I'd like to get their professional perspective on. If you do, please have them email me at theritz@tribcsp.com Thanks. Anyone in this group know of an anti-war radiation biologist? I have some info I’d like to get their professional perspective on.

If you do, please have them email me at theritz@tribcsp.com

Thanks.

]]> By: Timothy R. Anderson http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10894 Timothy R. Anderson Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:24:23 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10894 To Stan Goff and the readers here : Please consider buying and viewing " I Know I'm Not Alone ", a documentary about Iraq and Israel, starring songwriter Michael Franti . For more info, please visit the Spearhead site ........ www.spearheadvibrations.com Thanks, Timothy R. Anderson www.warisaracket.org I am at # 102 on the petition. To Stan Goff and the readers here :
Please consider buying and viewing ” I Know I’m
Not Alone “, a documentary about Iraq and Israel,
starring songwriter Michael Franti .
For more info, please visit the Spearhead
site …….. http://www.spearheadvibrations.com
Thanks, Timothy R. Anderson

http://www.warisaracket.org
I am at # 102 on the petition.

]]> By: stephen_in_tochigi http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10886 stephen_in_tochigi Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:16:58 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10886 There's a piece in this morning's Guardian (UK) about the march. It is pre-publicity for the screening of a documentary about the march on BBC2's Newsnignt programme this evening. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1741942,00.html" rel="nofollow"> 'If you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill them?'</a> There’s a piece in this morning’s Guardian (UK) about the march.

It is pre-publicity for the screening of a documentary about the march on BBC2’s Newsnignt programme this evening.

‘If you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill them?’

]]> By: R.S. Morris http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10873 R.S. Morris Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:34:50 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10873 Thanks Scott, great idea. I dropped you a line. Thanks Scott, great idea. I dropped you a line.

]]> By: Scott Aaseng (AFSC) http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10867 Scott Aaseng (AFSC) Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:47:21 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10867 Responding to R.S. Morris: Sounds like Wyoming could be a tough nut to crack. Just a thought: I'm working on bringing the Eyes Wide Open boots that we had at the beginning of the march in Mobile out west this summer, and there's a chance we could swing through at least northeast Wyoming. It's an exhibit with cross-over appeal because it truly honors fallen soldiers while pointing out the cost to both sides. It has potential as a means of gathering and mobilizing peace-minded folks in your area. Contact me at saaseng@afsc.org if you're interested. Peace. Responding to R.S. Morris:

Sounds like Wyoming could be a tough nut to crack. Just a thought: I’m working on bringing the Eyes Wide Open boots that we had at the beginning of the march in Mobile out west this summer, and there’s a chance we could swing through at least northeast Wyoming. It’s an exhibit with cross-over appeal because it truly honors fallen soldiers while pointing out the cost to both sides. It has potential as a means of gathering and mobilizing peace-minded folks in your area. Contact me at saaseng@afsc.org if you’re interested.

Peace.

]]> By: Scott Aaseng (AFSC) http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10850 Scott Aaseng (AFSC) Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:41:40 +0000 http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/03/20/gulf-coast-peace-train/#comment-10850 I’ll pitch in a few thoughts to this lively discussion: Service provision and reconstruction efforts (community development?) remind me of Gandhi’s “constructive program” which he always said was primary in any nonviolent campaign. Integral to any effort to undo injustice is people envisioning and implementing their own just society. That’s what was so powerful about this march—we were living out (in a small way) the beloved community. And community-building is neat because it creates both peace (within the community itself) and power (leverage within the larger society). It’s both the means and the end of what we are trying to do. Thank you all for helping me see how gentrification breaks up (land-based) community power and destroys peace/engenders social chaos. Now I get it. On the advocacy side, I’m wondering if people have some effective counter-messages to the argument that we dare not abandon the field to fundamentalist neo-fascists in the Middle East (anymore than in the US). Perhaps in both cases part of the answer lies in the constructive program. I’m hearing how a lot of people were really tired after the march. I know for me it wasn’t just exhaustion, but the deflation of coming back to the so-called real world after living a more real reality for a week. Just as coming back from overseas is as much about culture shock as it is about jet lag. I’ve struggled with the same thing since coming back from two years of living another more real reality in an intentional community in the mountains of Washington state. I came back pretty jazzed about seeing what I could do to help turn the tide in our country. Walkin’ to New Orleans has shown me again that it’s all about building community. By the way, another variation on the theme here in Chicago lately has been Camp Bring ‘Em Home, camping out for a week at a time in front of the offices of two Congresspeople. You can read about it at anti-warmajority.org/blog. Peace. I’ll pitch in a few thoughts to this lively discussion:

Service provision and reconstruction efforts (community development?) remind me of Gandhi’s “constructive program” which he always said was primary in any nonviolent campaign. Integral to any effort to undo injustice is people envisioning and implementing their own just society. That’s what was so powerful about this march—we were living out (in a small way) the beloved community.

And community-building is neat because it creates both peace (within the community itself) and power (leverage within the larger society). It’s both the means and the end of what we are trying to do.

Thank you all for helping me see how gentrification breaks up (land-based) community power and destroys peace/engenders social chaos. Now I get it.

On the advocacy side, I’m wondering if people have some effective counter-messages to the argument that we dare not abandon the field to fundamentalist neo-fascists in the Middle East (anymore than in the US). Perhaps in both cases part of the answer lies in the constructive program.

I’m hearing how a lot of people were really tired after the march. I know for me it wasn’t just exhaustion, but the deflation of coming back to the so-called real world after living a more real reality for a week. Just as coming back from overseas is as much about culture shock as it is about jet lag.

I’ve struggled with the same thing since coming back from two years of living another more real reality in an intentional community in the mountains of Washington state. I came back pretty jazzed about seeing what I could do to help turn the tide in our country. Walkin’ to New Orleans has shown me again that it’s all about building community.

By the way, another variation on the theme here in Chicago lately has been Camp Bring ‘Em Home, camping out for a week at a time in front of the offices of two Congresspeople. You can read about it at anti-warmajority.org/blog.

Peace.

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