Thursday, August 26, 2010

Call Luger today!

This came in today, and I agree.

Friends,

Please see: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/cabbie-attacked/?hp

I hope everyone will consider calling Senator Lugar: (202) 224-4814 (or, for out of state friends reading this, your Senators). It is past time for a senior Republican to denounce the vicious hatred spread by a host of Republican politicians as well as by Fox News and its allies.

Thanks and peace,

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"Council of All Beings"

"Council of All Beings” (COAB): Gather with others to explore your life within the natural world through the voices of plants, animals and other natural elements.
Choose a part of nature and give it voice within our Council as we listen and learn about our natural community and the impact of human activity. We will acknowledge the crisis and pain as well as the wisdom and life force within all beings. Explore and deepen your natural connection through meditation, song, movement and a focusing intention with clear ideas and wisdom for ways to reconnect with nature through this living ceremony.

Join Real Compost and Reiki Peace and Wellness Arts on October 2nd from 10am to 4pm at May Creek Farm in Bloomington, Indiana. Limited spaces. Registration required. To reserve your place, email healingart@gmail.com and mail your payment to – COAB Workshop, P.O. Box Bloomington, IN. Limited number of work scholarships available.

Sponsored by Real Compost, Reiki Peace and Wellness Arts, Indiana Holistic Health Network, May Creek Farm, Quilter’s Comfort, Green Dove Network, Inc, Local Food Bloomington and Love Works

Questions call – Patricia at 812- 331-0886 or Dave at 812-824-6875
Sponsored by Real Compost, Reiki Peace and Wellness Arts, Indiana Holistic Health Network, May Creek Farm, Quilter’s Comfort, Green Dove Network, Inc, Local Food Bloomington and Love Works

Questions call – Patricia at 812- 331-0886 or Dave at 812-824-6875
http://www.hartrock.net/councilofallbeings102010.htm

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Monday, August 09, 2010

Council of All Beings - COAB, Bloomington, Indiana

Council of All Beings - COAB
Oct. 2, 2010, Bloomington, Indiana, 10am to 4pm - $45 - SAVE THE DATE, more details and registration soon to come. For information contact healingart@gmail.com

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3rd annual Peace Week , Bloomington, Indiana

3rd annual Peace Week which is scheduled to begin on the International Day of Peace, Tuesday, September 21 and run through Monday, September 27, 2010 is seeking volunteers. Please contact BloomingPeacePartners@gmail.com ASAP to let them know of your interest in participating. You may also call Ingrid Skoog at 333-1982 with your suggestions.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Emily Henochowicz Update

Saturday evening, and may this note find you well! Thanks David (Unitarian Universalist Just Peace Task Force, Bloomington, IN for sharing this information.

May we find peace within our hearts and expresses it in our thoughts, words and deeds!


Namaste and POI,

Green Dove


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Emily Henochowicz is the Jewish American college exchange student in Israel whose lost her left eye after being struck by an Israeli tear gas canister fired directly at her face while she and others were protesting the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla.

Emily makes reference to the violence that the Israeli military is known to use against demonstrators in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (she had thought that under the circumstances the military would behave more like it does during protests in "Israel proper"). The world rarely hears about Israeli violence against peaceful demonstrators unless an international is injured, but Palestinian demonstrators are wounded and killed in this fashion quite regularly. That is one reason Palestinians usually try to have internationals at their demonstrations, since the IDF feels much less constrained in its use of violence at an all-Palestinian demonstration, where they believe few will object to, or ever learn about, their brutality (and they are, unfortunately, correct).

Emily's grandparents are Holocaust survivors and her father was born in Israel and strongly supports the Israeli government. Emily mentions that because she is a couple of generations removed from the Holocaust she does not feel the same intensity of emotion regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, particularly fear, and is thus able to look at the situation more objectively than others in her family. She decided to try to learn more about the conflict and as a result began to join some of the demonstrations against the Wall and other abusive Israeli practices.

I think that in a nutshell is what many Zionists are feeling a lot of trepidation about these days: the younger generation of Jewish Americans is not so emotionally attached to Israel or the need for a Jewish state and is coming to its own clear-eyed conclusions about them.

Note also Emily's description of the kindness shown to her and other internationals by Palestinians, particularly the woman who risked her own safety to help Emily after she was struck in the eye. This woman's home is currently under a demolition order from the IDF because Palestinians are not allowed to build homes in areas of occupied Palestine desired by Israel for the exclusive use of Jews. Considering the way Palestinians and Muslims are portrayed by the media in this country, many people are surprised to find out how kind and gentle Palestinians are in reality, and how quietly and gracefully they bear their daily oppression. I strongly recommend that everyone who is able try to make a trip to the West Bank or Gaza Strip if possible; you will likely never view the conflict the same way again.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/5/exclusiveemily_henochowicz_speaks_out_art_student



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Friday, August 06, 2010

Hiroshima Day, Rev. Dennis McCarty on Immigration, and Green Dove News

Hiroshima Day, Rev. Dennis McCarty on Immigration, and Green Dove News


May this find you well with peace working through your behaviors, your words and actions. Thank you.

Today is the Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Hiroshima. A calendar of events is on the Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki website.

Indianapolis, Indiana Hiroshima Day Observance on Fri. Aug. 6 at Earth House, 247 N. East, with a craft project for children at 7 pm (making paper cranes and Japanese lanterns) and an audio-visual presentation at 8 pm by Kyoko Amano, a University of Indianapolis professor who took students to visit the museum in Hiroshima this spring, followed at dusk by a walk around the neighborhood with Japanese lanterns, sponsored by Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center. For more info, email me at jwolfe@uindy.edu or 432-4873.

May we always remember this great harm inflicted upon our fellow earth travelers and the earth we all exist upon.

May we learn from our mistakes.

May we come to act with the understanding and realization that we never again inflict such harm upon ourselves. We will create a sustainable world community, or we all will lose. There is not middle ground.

May we not allow violence to be our ruin. Stop the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, across the Middle East, in all places on our earth. The damage inflicted upon the earth will heal in generations far off into the future. How much longer still until the damaged psyche of millions of people will be healed?

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"ICH BIN EIN ILLEGAL"
This is an excerpt from A Sermon Delivered July 25, 2010, by the Reverend Dennis McCarty at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington Indiana, July 2010 and published to Green Dove.

"The great Sonoran Desert stretches from deep in Mexico to the middle of Arizona, a dun landscape dotted with 20-foot-tall saguaro cacti and scraggly sagebrush. With its mind-blurring heat, this is not a place where you want to be left behind--but people are all the time. Ranchers, county sheriffs, and the government patrols that guard the United States-Mexico border find them with grim regularity, the bodies of illegal immigrants who slipped across the border but did not survive the journey on the other side. Remains not found for weeks or months may amount to a few decaying bones. Continue reading.

You will also find:
-INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORT

-Drums of War: Israel and the "Axis of Resistance" Beirut/Jerusalem/Damascus/Washington/Brussels

-BPP to Give $2,000 in Grants to Local Artists and Arts Organizations - BPP’s AwareFest Re-Granting Fund

There is more on the website.


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Reiki Peace and Wellness Arts Reiki Clinic with Rev. Patricia C. Coleman RSMT is every Third Friday from 2:00PM to 6:00PM and is FREE to Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan War. All others receive reduced rate of $20 for a half hour Reiki wellness session. The Reiki Wellness Project also offers free Reiki workshops to Vets groups (and their caregivers) Send email for Vets Reiki Workshop Application. Reiki Wellness sessions by appointment only. Call Patricia at 812-331-0886


May we walk, talk and live in peace with one another.


Green Dove


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