Peace

[queerbychoice]

Please read this letter from an Afghan Citizen.

Please sign the Pacifist Petition and pass it on as quickly as possible.

And in addition to the Conscientious Objectors LiveJournal Community that I already mentioned, I've now also discovered there's an Antiwar or Antibombing LiveJournal Community.

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got this from a cool tranny buddhist that reminds me of you:

[(Anonymous)]

Some suggestions?

* fly an earth flag instead of the increasingly ambiguous US flag (most flag and banner shops sell them in different sizes)

* cover your head in the Moslem fashion in solidarity with those suffering from the racism that is emerging in this country

* speak to your friends

* speak up in the name of peace when you hear others expressing their desire for violent retribution when it feel safe to do so. e.g. "If someone is THAT angry with this country, maybe we should sit down with them and figure out why."

* hold your own pain with compassion and awareness

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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate… Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: got this from a cool tranny buddhist that reminds me of you:

[subtlyironic.livejournal.com]

cover your head in the Moslem fashion in solidarity with those suffering from the racism that is emerging in this country

err. i highly reccomend against that. i dunno, but wouldn't it be pretty much the same level offense taken by indiginous canadians and americans when people wear eagle feather head dresses for non-religious reasons?