Not 14 years old, but 14 in number! With our trusty mounts, there must be 28 of us, no?
PP needs entries. Please pitch a post into the mix. Sometime soon, I hope this becomes the proverbial critical mass.
18 December 2008
28 November 2008
iPeace expanding
The Ning-based site iPeace continues to grow. Thanks to Hannahla for alerting me to it. Have other members of the Posse joined?
Interestingly, it appears to be using Apple’s me.com as host: http://www.ipeace.me/ (the image’s hot, too).
20 September 2008
International Day of Peace
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.
16 August 2008
Imagination
Bob, an individual I know on the Internet often has this tag on this e-mail messages:
“war is a failure of imagination”
Alan Moore
I like the idea. But I thought the source might have been older than Mr. Moore, who’s noted for his comics over several recent decades (though he might be something approximating a polymath). There’s a site attributing it to H. G. Wells and another that says that’s the correct answer to a question about which quote H. G. Wells did not coin. Sheesh. My search is failing.
16 July 2008
Hoops for peace
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.