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Wage Peace by Judyth Hill

Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing
blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion
and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening:
hear sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.
Make soup.
Play music,
learn the word thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the out breath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.
Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Don't wait another minute.

Submitted by Mary Oliver

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Musings

	“When humans — after all, still a young species — drop our adolescent arrogance of thinking we know it all and learn from the wisdom in our planet's accumulated experience of living systems design, we too will mature as a species. When we learn to see the advantage of co-operation we will be able to give up competitive juvenile hostilities. It's not too late to remodel our engineered institutions into healthy, living systems.” - Elisabet Sahtouris "The earth does not belong to us we belong to the earth." - Chief Seattle "...beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. --Maya Angelou

In Action
	Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, creating an environmental tragedy experts call "the Amazon Chernobyl." Learn More>>

Links
	DEPARTMENT OF PEACE Learn about the Campaign and make the Department of Peace a reality!! Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) http://www.rawa.org The Hunger Project http://www.thp.org MoveOn.org - Working to bring ordinary people back into politics The Women's Edge Coalition advocates for international economic policies and human rights that support women worldwide in their actions to end poverty in their lives, communities and nations. CIVIC (The Campaign for innocent victims in Conflict) Commondreams.org - Progressive news Site dedicated to protecting our air, water, energy, and airwaves More>>



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