Pacifist Posse

Many sites are promoting the International Day of Peace 21 September 2008. Here’s a non-exhaustive list:

• The Kansas City branch of American Friends Service Committee (which committee works tirelessly for peace, all the time);
• Teach Peace;
• Peace one Day;
• The Ning group iPeace;
• BILLION BELLS FOR PEACE One World, One Dream, Ringing in Unity!;
• International World Peace Rose Gardens;
• A Facebook group;
• University of Western Australia;
• Activist Resouce;
• The art movement, as represented by A Peace of…;
• Language Instructors for Newcomers to Canada resource page;
• Colorado Refugee ESL Home Tutors has a post;
• Ruth Fishel at Serenity Quest;
• Community of Christ
• Department of Multicultural Education of Palm Beach (FL, US) County School District;
• Current.com has a story with lots of comments and Abbym0308 dropped a comment on a news story about Jude Law’s peace mission in Afghanistan;
• Universal Life Tools post;
• The 2020 Vision Campaign may be posting something soon;

Find out what is happening in your neighborhood, too.

Pardon me for mixing my interests in basketball and peace. Here’s a story worth promoting, though. In the Los Angeles Times, Chris Hine has a story entitled “Lakers’ Jordan Farmar to go on peace mission to Middle East: Lakers guard, who is Jewish, will travel to Israel in August to run basketball camps for Israeli and Palestinian children, with the goal of giving them a lasting foundation of friendship and goodwill” that caught my eye. Here’s the lead:

Like other NBA players, Jordan Farmar will head overseas this summer, only with a different mission — to facilitate peace in the Middle East.

The Lakers’ guard, who is Jewish, will travel to Israel to run basketball camps for Israeli and Palestinian children in association with the Peres Peace Center. The goal of the camps, which take place Aug. 4 to 11, is to bring Israeli and Palestinian children together through basketball and create a foundation for peaceful relations between them in years to come.

Mr. Farmar, thanks.

Link to Mr. Hine’s story.

Yo, folks. Anyone able to translate Italian? I came across this site and it looked sort of promising.

Mubarak Awad, who established the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence, is one of those folks whom I admire for their persistence in promoting non-violence in the face of daunting examples of disappointment. Mr. Awad advocates Gandhian solutions to conflicts in what has to be one of the most difficult regions of the world: The lands along the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

Wikipedia entry about Mr. Awad. Here’s a link to a news report about a presentation at a Modesto (CA, US) church, to a blog entry about one of Mr. Awad’s talks, and (of course) to Nonviolence International.

I posted about politics, dead bodies, and counting in “Dead bodies can’t count” on my personal blog.