Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Hands in Hand for Peace!
URI Center and The Peace Flag Project Collaborates on Day of Peace Programs.
September 21st is the UN designated International Day of Peace, and the URI Center will once again be planning a celebration on the URI Quad, including the making of Peace Flags by students and campus community members. Ginny Fox, Director of the Peace Flag Project is heading up a full month of programs and activities including Peace Flag Workshops, Peace Art Exhibits, 9/11 Remembrance WaterFire, Community Service, Conversation and Dialogue Session, Heritage Day Festival, and WaterFire with a Silent Walking Meditation, Peace through Laughter & Silence, and various Spoken Word, Poetry, and Music for Peace artists. For more information and all the details, check out the websites for updates: www.thePeaceFlagProject.org or call the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at URI 401-874-9037. We invite everyone to invest a large or small amount of time in peace this month! Join us.
New Academic Year Begins
The Center is busy welcoming back students, faculty, and staff to URI as the new academic year begins. We are especially eager to welcome those students who completed their certification as Kingian Level I and Level II trainers during last spring semester and this summer during the International Nonviolence Summer Institute. The numbers of URI students who are becoming involved with nonviolence through the interdisciplinary minor and/or the certification training courses is growing. We are excited about doubling our nonviolence and peacce programs efforts on campus this year with these outstanding trainers working with the Center. Fasten your seat belts, nonviolence and peace studies is taking off this fall at URI!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
New Year Reminder - Peace All Over the World
Turned on the computer and opening up the emailbox this morning to find this lovely reminder from street musician Robert Bradley, that in what are often told is a violent world, there is peace all over the world. Hope that this Playing for Change episode will bring a smile to your face and leave you you with the positive energy in these images and in this music. I am already humming along . . . Join me, won't you??
http://playingforchange.com/episodes/23
http://playingforchange.com/episodes/23
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Dr. King Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 45 Years Ago
As President Barak Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize today, we remember the acceptance of the same award by another African American, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on this same day 45 years ago. Dr. King went on to defy the US military and speak out against the policies of the government establishment when he later took one of the first public positions opposing the war in Vietnam. Yes, times were different then, but war and the violence of war remains the same, whether in Vietnam or in Afghanistan. We recognize President Obama for the honor of this great award and hope that he will soon stand with Dr, King and other Peace Prize recipients in taking the courageous stand against a war that he ironically finds himself contributing to as commander in chief.
Peace On,
Paul BdeM
Peace On,
Paul BdeM
Veteran Tom Mahaney Ends 29 Day Hunger Strike in DC
December 10, 2009
Congressman and Staff,
Yesterday at 3:00 PM, in the offices of the Senate Armed Services Committee I was granted the opportunity to present my views on the issue of the “Stop-Loss” and it’s affect on the rise in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder now plaguing the combat troops caused to endure multiple deployments due to abusive implementation of US Code Subsection 12305, Title 10 during the past eight years. The meeting was presided over by Jonathan Clark of the SAFC and also attended by Jeremy Steslicki of Chairman Levin’s office.
This Presidential Authority was executed by George W. Bush on September 14, 2001 in response to and for the purpose of pursing the terrorists behind the horrific events of three days prior. However, this authority, once in place, was promptly used wrongfully by the then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, upon the active Ready Reserves involved; to support a Military Action in Iraq.
As a direct result of this impropriety, countless American families and communities have been caused unnecessarily to suffer the heartrending effects of PTSD. It has been and remains my objective to strengthen the Code pertaining to this provision to see that this can never happen again.
At the conclusion of our meeting I was given the assurance that the SASC will actively pursue some resolution to this issue as well as allow me to participate and contribute, on a minor level, to its development. At that point I felt strongly enough about reaching my goal of attaining concrete positive action to end my Fast. At 5:15 PM I had cup of soup and a glass of wine, taking my first sustenance other than water in 29 days.
Tough the Fast is over, the work is not. I am asking all who read this to join in contributing to and supporting the effort to strengthen and tighten the entire Subsection of Title 10 as it relates to the Mobilization Powers granted the President and Congress. We need a guarantee that these powers cannot, in the future, be so easily used in a manner that goes so against the spirit in which they were conceived; that of temporarily providing for our security while we build our Regular Army to a strength sufficient to ensure our defense.
As a result, both our future security and health will be better protected. If you possess or receive any supporting documentation or considerations, I urge you to forward it to the offices of the House and Senate Armed Forces Committees.
In conclusion, I would like to thank everyone here for the many kindnesses I have been afforded by you in the last month. And please feel free to contact me at any time.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mahany
248.224.4875
eldonstone@wowway.com
Congressman and Staff,
Yesterday at 3:00 PM, in the offices of the Senate Armed Services Committee I was granted the opportunity to present my views on the issue of the “Stop-Loss” and it’s affect on the rise in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder now plaguing the combat troops caused to endure multiple deployments due to abusive implementation of US Code Subsection 12305, Title 10 during the past eight years. The meeting was presided over by Jonathan Clark of the SAFC and also attended by Jeremy Steslicki of Chairman Levin’s office.
This Presidential Authority was executed by George W. Bush on September 14, 2001 in response to and for the purpose of pursing the terrorists behind the horrific events of three days prior. However, this authority, once in place, was promptly used wrongfully by the then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, upon the active Ready Reserves involved; to support a Military Action in Iraq.
As a direct result of this impropriety, countless American families and communities have been caused unnecessarily to suffer the heartrending effects of PTSD. It has been and remains my objective to strengthen the Code pertaining to this provision to see that this can never happen again.
At the conclusion of our meeting I was given the assurance that the SASC will actively pursue some resolution to this issue as well as allow me to participate and contribute, on a minor level, to its development. At that point I felt strongly enough about reaching my goal of attaining concrete positive action to end my Fast. At 5:15 PM I had cup of soup and a glass of wine, taking my first sustenance other than water in 29 days.
Tough the Fast is over, the work is not. I am asking all who read this to join in contributing to and supporting the effort to strengthen and tighten the entire Subsection of Title 10 as it relates to the Mobilization Powers granted the President and Congress. We need a guarantee that these powers cannot, in the future, be so easily used in a manner that goes so against the spirit in which they were conceived; that of temporarily providing for our security while we build our Regular Army to a strength sufficient to ensure our defense.
As a result, both our future security and health will be better protected. If you possess or receive any supporting documentation or considerations, I urge you to forward it to the offices of the House and Senate Armed Forces Committees.
In conclusion, I would like to thank everyone here for the many kindnesses I have been afforded by you in the last month. And please feel free to contact me at any time.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mahany
248.224.4875
eldonstone@wowway.com
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