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quick thought... January 15th, 2007 - 11:03PM

“Democracy cannot be imported, nor can it be given to a people by invading their nation, nor by bombing them with cluster bombs. It must be indigenous,� says Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights advocate who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

August 11th, 2006

The Thick Red Line

A Red Line Connects Us
by Abby Sher

“I no longer wish to live my life as usual without acknowledging the widespread violence in the world today and memorializing those killed and injured in the many wars and other conflicts taking place. I chose this very public expression of my concerns in order to provide others who feel the same need a means of expressing their concerns too. As you will see on this site, there are many ways to participate in this project – some very private, and some public – but all conducted in silence. My hope is that together, through our shared participation, we can create a shift in consciousness, where no humanity is devalued and human life is held sacred.�

(via ScriptingNews)

Artist: Dire Straits
Song: Brothers In Arms

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These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

quick thought... July 31st, 2006 - 6:18PM

Ghostdog: …”Speaking with some Arab acquaintances, none of whom are Lebanese, it seems to me that they were excited by this war and the potential for damage Hezbollah might inflict on Israel. They seem less concerned by the hopes of peace eroding, the damage in Lebanon, or the lives lost, than with the prospect of hurting Israel. There will be no progress in the Middle East unless Muslims become more concerned with improving their own lives than with the destruction of others.”…



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