[Vision2020] Who'll stop the war?

[Ted Moffett]

Just in case it might matter...

Every Friday 5:30-6:30 PM since 2002 (around the time of the invasion of
Afghanistan under W. Bush) he Palouse Peace Coalition has been holding a
Peace Vigil in Friendship Square in downtown Moscow.  Peace flags in
numerous languages are hung across the square.   Sometimes only 5-10 people
attend.  But it's incredible this Peace Vigil has continued almost without
missing a week (none that I know of) for about 15 years!  Hand made message
signs are provided, or you can bring your own.  Even last winter in 5-10
degree F. temps. we were there...

Does this accomplish anything?  Maybe not... But it beats yelling at your
TV about how crazy the world is!
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

Randy -
>
> I am, like, soooooo with you.
>
> I am a boomer myself, having been . . .
>
> - Born in 1951 in Van Nuys (San Fernando Valley), California.
>
> - An active member of VIVA (Voices in Vital America) during the late 60s,
> participating in several rallies and protests from the Synanon in Santa
> Monica to MacArthur Park to the Topanga Canyon.
>
> - On active duty (Army) from June 6, 1969 to July 15, 1989
>
> - Active in protests after my Army retirement, as reported in the
> September 17, 1991 edition of the Spokesman Review.
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/SR_091791.jpg
>
> I can't.  You can't.  We can.
>
> Let's make it happen!
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
> On Sep 4, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Randy <the.silvertipped.one at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> *I've lurked here for 20 years without posting, but it's time to speak out
> The historian’s curse is bedeviling me. I see so many parallels between the
> beginning of World War I and the situation with North Korea that it feels
> to me like the war has already started. I see the horror and tragedy of it
> clearly, and I see no one in power on this whole earth who can and will
> step up and be a voice of reason. And I know that Americans have no concept
> of the devastation and destruction such a war will bring.*
>
>
>
> *My wife that I can't do anything about this, so I need to control my
> anxiety and not worry about it. But that’s a stoic New Englander talking. I
> can't do that. But I can *
>
> *do something, however small. I can use my words and experience to be a
> voice of reason. Maybe enough others will. Maybe I'll be one of a great
> number of people who can and will do so. Maybe it's like Alice's
> Restaurant.*
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *“And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day . .
> . Walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out?
> Friends, They may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is: THE
> ALICE'S RESTAURANT ANTI-MASSACREE MOVEMENT! . . . and all you gotta do to
> join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.”*
>
> *The guitar of 2017 social media. It's us boomers who have to sing. It’s
> us flower children and aging hippies who have to step up and find our voice
> as mature, aging individuals who learned something in the sixties, even if
> we've lived our lives without doing much of anything with that knowledge up
> to this point. Maybe the time has come to use that knowledge and
> experience. Maybe it’s up to us to speak truth to power; to be the
> Volunteers of America; to manifest the peace and love we talked about 50
> years ago and change the world. And if you're not a boomer, you can still
> sing. You have to. We all have to. *
>
>
>
> *We have to try. We can’t say or pray someone else will. Graham Nash said
> it all those years ago:*
>
>
> *“We can change the world rearrange the worldIt's dying - to get better.”*
>
> *Let’s speak up and stop this madness. If not us, who will? And if we
> don’t speak up, who will console the survivors? Who will explain how the
> world went over the brink? And the explanation won’t be worth a damn,
> anyway.*
>
> *Let's start singing, people.  Pass it on. Peace. *
> --
> "Listen to the deep voice of your soul. Do not be distracted by the voice
> of your mind." - Caitlin Matthews
>
>
>
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