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Take the Pledge

poetry — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:43:27 -0400

Take the Pledge

All Presidential Candidates should make pledges like those below. If they refuse, then you should refuse to vote for them.

1. No More Oil Wars.

2. Work for independence from foreign oil on day one.

3. No more wars for corporate profit.

4. No more secret deals for $4 per gallon gas.

5. No more Chicken Hawks promoting wars of choice when they themselves avoided combat.

6. Make government green--if you can't make what you have the most control over green, I don't care about your plans to make the country green.

7. No more torture.

8. No more lying about torture.

9. No more re-defining torture.

10. No more drunken hunting.

11. No more secret deals with big corporations to divide up the spoils before the war even starts.

ideas and skills

Jason White — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:51:13 -0500

Susan Livingston wrote:

I ended my talk by putting "cut and run" on my right palm and "stay the course" on my left, spreading my arms wide, and asking, "Are these really the only two options we have? Ask the Department of Peace!"

That's it in a nutshell. We have, as a nation, so much more imagination and so many more skills than that. We just need the ideas and practices infused into our institutions at the highest levels of authority.

Spreading the Word

Susan Livingston — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:04:42 -0500

The Department of Peace Campaign had a presence at the Teach-In on Iraq Policy at Emory-Henry College in southwest Virginia yesterday. Each speaker had five minutes. I was particularly impressed by the offering of Pat Gaskin of the ElderSpirit Community in Abingdon, VA where I intend to be living in the not-too-distant future. It was an anonymous meditation that reminded me of what Dennis Kucinich said about how the tragedy at the WTC on September 11, 2001 could have been framed as our opportunity to build community locally and globally.