Do not ignore the [extreme] income disparity Get smart Take the money out of the politics End corrupt government Help those in need Recall corrupt officials when and where you can Keep corporate hands off government Stop greed Wake up End corporate “personhood” Stop funding war Start funding education, health and safety Repair and maintain […]
Category Archives: Peace
The “Occupy” message seems crystal clear
to the 99% View more photographs from Occupy Milwaukee 10/15/ here. (click photograph for larger view)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered: Lanterns for Peace
August 6th, 2011, 6 to 9 pm, Pere Marquette Park, Milwaukee, WI: Peace Action Wisconsin held it’s annual Lanterns for Peace event along the shores of the Milwaukee River in rememberence of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagaski on August 9, 1945. So very beautiful, solemn, peaceful, sadly under-attended, and not covered […]
Friday’s flower – interbeing
Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “‘Looking deeply’ means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in […]
Shift culture through language and attitude. Be the change you want to see.
So many speak, of the current labor awakening in Wisconsin, using war and sports terminology – winning and losing – battles – fighting for rights – kill the bill – etc. Fact: wars, battles, and yes even some sports destroy, damage, and cause pain and suffering. Believing that something of value can arise through fighting for […]
Grant Park — 40 Years Apart
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, Grant Park, Chicago Illinois: 70,000 ticketed guests, with who knows how many additional participants, gathered to listen to President-elect Barack Obama; elected just minutes before. This group of hundreds of thousands of young and old, rich and poor, of all colors, genders, and ethnicities gathered to hear our first Irish-African-American President inspire […]
Lanterns for Peace, Milwaukee, WI, August 9, 2008
Last Saturday evening Pere Marquette Park, an intimate little park on the Milwaukee River in downtown Milwaukee, became a nucleus for Peace. The program for Lanterns for Peace, a ceremony (sponsored by Peace Education Project of Peace Action Wisconsin) in rememberence of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagaski on August 9, 1945, states, “We […]
put head, eye, and heart on the same axis
To take photographs means to recognize both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis. — H. C. Bresson (click image for larger view)