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Profile
- What country do you live in?
- United States
- Do you have a favorite quote to share?
- "War won't end until we develop the moral equivelant of war"
- What is your interest in PeaceWork?
- To network with other peace activists...to create the foundation for a truly holistic and sustainable peace movement, based on decentralized community media.
- How long have you been involved in PeaceMaking?
- umm.....can you restate the question?
- Are you currently involved in any non-profit or volunteer work?
- I am in New Orleans working to build a free music school, based on a collaborative songbook of songs collected from street musicians. I am trying to build a network of "global citizenship schools", based on the model of the Citizenship School movement, started by the Highlander Center.
- Is there anything else that you'd like us to know about you?
- I want to encourage peace activists to think carefully about the connections between peace activism and homeless activism.
Peace activists need to gather wherever homeless people gather. Peace activists need to become 'homeless allies'.
- Do you have a website?
- http://songbook.ning.com
| View my other profiles on ning.com | |
1. FreeSkool Songbook Project | songbook.ning.com - Free sheet music and learning tools for music educators and street musicians |
2. Peace Portal | peaceportal.ning.com - "A Global Network for Enlightening Peace Activism" |
3. New Orleans Voices For Peace | neworleansvfp.ning.com - A forum for peace activists in the New Orleans area |
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - arundhati roy
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Update from New Orleans, June 2007 - Proposal for Books Not Bombs
Posted on June 5th, 2008 at 4:30pm —
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Progress report from New Orleans - October 19, 2007
It is Friday morning, I woke up at 8 a.m. with the same anxiety I feel every morning. Not knowing where to go or what to do with myself, I took my laptop to an internet cafe and watched Democracy Now...as usual, it is the only thing I can do in t… Continue
Update from New Orleans - September 5, 2007
I have been reading Thich Naht Hahn books every day still. He describes engaged buddhism not as a religion, but as a set of tools. He says that there is no point in owning a tool if you are not int… Continue
Posted on September 5th, 2007 at 12:40pm —
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Update from New Orleans - August 2007
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Just read the new post and feel your burn out. I think the trip to Boston could be a breather, a fresh perspective - if you let it be. It's natural and easy to get totally bogged down by the circumstances you're in. AND you can be more effective at the work you've taken on, if you learn how to refresh yourself. Whether that's in the bar or the meditation cushion is up to you to decide. But somewhere, there is an infinite supply of energy and creativity and inspiration. I hope that you will open yourself, to finding it. Only the best to you.... Alana
Alana suggested I look in to say hi and see what you've been writing about.
Wow.
I have a little inkling of what you are talking about. I used to have the experience that, when I felt full of energy and loving, I didn't know where to direct it. Then I met some loving, positive, energised people (studying a holistic course, at college, actually). They said that I probably had too many negative people around me.
that was five years ago and my life, over the next two years went from bad to worse. I found myself with people who were even more negative. This all culmulated in me living in a terrible housing estate, with a very mentally ill husband and a baby who died. Like you, I had been reading 'The Miracle of Mindfulness' and countless other Buddhist literature, Taoism etc. But I was still living in my head.
I am grateful to my baby. He came to change things for me. I had to jump out of that space. Also, during my baby's two days of life, I felt my heart really open and my head got left behind.
My life is totally different now.
There are two things that are radically different.
One - I have something wonderful to direct my energy into - I set up a cooperative of healers, therapists and even GPs, so we can work together to help people find peace & health, especially people who can't afford to pay (even with the NHS over here, people can't get the more holistic therapies unless they pay privately). I believe totally passionately in it and never feel stuck for what to do with my energy and my love. Last week I went to see some people in a detox place & some had just left prison etc and they were being really helped by being given yoga, love, healing etc and wanted more of it.
Two: the people I work with, some of whom are from my college that I went to five yrs ago, are immensely positive and loving. This means that I am now able to be more help to the people I really want to help, who are living in really negative environments etc.
I don't know that I'm explaining myself as well as I meant to when I started!
I am trying to say, I guess, that I have an inkling of what it feels like to feel alone in your journey and your healing and to have too much energy and love to cope with that. I want to say that it is totally different when you find the right group of people who you feel really good with, and when you find something you love putting energy and love into.
I'm sure it will happen, because it sounds like you are ready for that!
The Peace Portal is a great place to start.
With loads of good wishes to you,
Chris
I love your choice of picture! I am a self taught pianist who can't read music but I love to play, sing, dance & drum! I work here in Ireland with Asylum seekers both as a legal secretary & facillitating drumming/story telling workshops here in Ireland...I do this both professionally & in my spare time... & am trying to raise funds to supply people with musical instruments, tools or books... (as they are not allowed to work, I see a great need for them to have an alternative to the few classes in english or computers that they are offered.) I have made some wonderful friends who come from Sudan... it has been my joy to witness their dignity, fellowship & deep friendship... It's great to know someone else who is prepared to lighten the load of people who are traumatised by war... of whatever nature- & I include all homeless & countryless people... I now have to find a way to embrace the heartless! I have a sneaky feeling that music always gives us the key! :-))
Please accept the hand of friendship over the wire, & across the waves... I come with & in peace...
A Big Bless
From Tracy
The question about how long you've been involved in PeaceMaking is perhaps clumsy. What I mean is, for some of us, a clear call hit at some point in our lives - Peace is the priority - How can I serve? For others, they were born with the call and the mission (my daughter is a great example). And for others, it's just now kindling, perhaps as an entirely new thought - that Peace is patriotic, worth experiencing, and now is a perfect time to start.
In any event, I'm really glad you arrived.
Alana