Tuesday, February 05, 2008
8 March 2K8 Las Vegas STRIP PEACE WALK
8 March is the International Day of Women. The first peace protest I participated in organizing was in 2004, and the Women's Strike's "Women Say No To War" in Westwood, California. Siobahn was 4 years old, it wasn't her first protest, but it was the first one she got to ride on the "float." We had so much fun.
This 8 March 2K8 we are participating in the Las Vegas Peace Project's second Strip Peace Walk. Women once again asking, begging, pleading, "Stop the Violence, PLEASE!"
Violence exists on so many levels in our society. In our homes. Gratuitous crimes of "you diss'd me, so I have to shoot you," permeate our schools and neighborhoods. And, if you live in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are under constant threat of violence from police if not your neighbor or the person in the next town over. If your a woman, your chances of being a victim of violence goes through the roof, and most of that violence is never revealed in the light of day, let alone a court of law. We drop bombs on innocent people, we detonate bombs strapped to our bodies as we find little hope for our future that does not include the constant, continual threat of violence.
We live so much in the fear of violence, we become the thing we fear the most. As individuals or as a collective, we are all responsible for the violence in our world today. Taking responsibility of our role in the cycle of violence will begin the break the cycle and change the violent flow of energy between one another.
March 8th, in the year of 2008, Las Vegas will walk peace on this earth, seeking to end the cycle of violence of one being against another. Working to find the place where we do not even see violence as a last resort to resolve our problems.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
This 8 March 2K8 we are participating in the Las Vegas Peace Project's second Strip Peace Walk. Women once again asking, begging, pleading, "Stop the Violence, PLEASE!"
Violence exists on so many levels in our society. In our homes. Gratuitous crimes of "you diss'd me, so I have to shoot you," permeate our schools and neighborhoods. And, if you live in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are under constant threat of violence from police if not your neighbor or the person in the next town over. If your a woman, your chances of being a victim of violence goes through the roof, and most of that violence is never revealed in the light of day, let alone a court of law. We drop bombs on innocent people, we detonate bombs strapped to our bodies as we find little hope for our future that does not include the constant, continual threat of violence.
We live so much in the fear of violence, we become the thing we fear the most. As individuals or as a collective, we are all responsible for the violence in our world today. Taking responsibility of our role in the cycle of violence will begin the break the cycle and change the violent flow of energy between one another.
March 8th, in the year of 2008, Las Vegas will walk peace on this earth, seeking to end the cycle of violence of one being against another. Working to find the place where we do not even see violence as a last resort to resolve our problems.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
