Make yourself

something is being

Being is something all right!

Not war?

Not anything but WAR!!

Make me, Mom

You made me, Dad

Don’t make me go toWAR!

Tell me what you made

What made you today

Don’t make a blank

Don’t make War

Make anything but!

List what you make

Be what you are

Make yourself today

The Tenth Anniversary of September 11, 2001


I deleted 9/11 emails, they came by the score…

Bringing back all the ugliness and so much more…

So much hype of remembrance, when the causes remain…

Conflict and violence, increased all the same…

Soldiers are dying throughout the world,

victims lay in mass grave, bodies broken and curled..

In our “culture of war”, what kind of world have we saved?

What glory is left for a flag that gets waved?

Homeland security— striking fear in our hearts,

Afraid to board planes lest it be blown apart…

War criminals swallowed in holes underground…

Al Qaeda’s leader flushed out to sea, never to be found….

Arab spring rising, still so much blood on the streets…

Looking for a leader, among the many sheep…

A president on trial in a hospital bed…

While in Ethiopia…there are millions to be fed…

HIV Aids and cancer spreads disease ending in early death…

While drug dealers thrive on hard drugs and on meth…

I turned off the TV, wouldn’t read a single paper…

Reliving the moments of violence and hatred…

The tears in my heart cannot be consoled…

For the sins of mankind that continue to unfold…

I will not wait for that “ special museum”…

but continue our work that will drown out all screams…

Through painting the murals, and seeing the smiles

Of the children and youth, who continue the miles…!

Canvas filled with hopes and dreams that we feel…

That a Culture of Peace can live and be real…

That together, we must not just reflect on the bad

And not thrive on the news that makes us so sad…

Let’s rally together, help eachother, live our lives…

Love our families and children and husbands and wives.

Celebrate first steps and long happy days…

And nations and peoples who have different ways…

Let’s gather our hearts and stretch out our hands…

Like we do when tsunami’s and earthquakes make land…

We can do it, we’ve seen it, we respond very well…

To Mother Nature’s wrath…when she raises hell…

Can we work a bit harder, just a little bit more…?

To be rid of this human tragedy…the “Culture of War”?

Joanne Tawfilis 9/11/11

Ten Years In the Making

By Lucky Mosqueda


I was only thirteen when I saw reality television

In front my eyes

Planes striking and crashing NYC

Businessmen jumping into, becoming helpless doves

WTC disintegrating into cancerous dust

Consuming cops, firemen, 77-Eleven, One-Seventy-Five

Ninety-three

Rebuilding culture becomes unwanted prisons

Unwanted wars over oil

Adding blood into poverty, prisons, oppressions

The rich get away with it

We become more hungry, more penniless

More greedy

Whatever happened to love, peace, and justice

We promised to give and receive?

Why must we become St. Anger?

Like a phoenix we must blossom into a

Beautiful human race

It took ten years for WTC, NYC to become that beautiful Phoenix

Glowing in the night sky

Waking up the human race and society of that

St. Anger

I have a short remembrance and response posted at the website: Kentucky Remembers 9/11 at http://kentucky.remembers911.com/contact/messages/10054/">http://kentucky.remembers911.com/contact/messages/10054/

Taps


(Or, May 31, 2010)



Day is done.


Gone the sons.


The daughters and the mothers,


the fathers and the others.


Tomorrow arises,
and more advisers


will give opinions
on the public’s attitudes


of which longitudes and latitudes


justify our intervention.


And which friends’ atrocities


we’ll ignore, and which we’ll tsk tsk.


But at what risk


do we apply our double standards?


And how many more standards will be borne


by how many ships and worn


by how many caskets?


Each double standard doubles those standards


covering the caskets arriving in plane loads.


Our politicians believe it’s better not to ask it—


better not to ask that question, and bite the hand that feeds


the coffers and the coffins.

The most important thing the world has to do is to stop Israel’s occupation of Palestine, this is one of the strongest arguments of the extremists to execute their deplorable actions.

Here is one poem I wrote in response to 9/11:


will the dust let us go
if we fold a thousand cranes
from paper gathered at the mountain
at the pit at the site
of agonies beyond
our counting
2000 wings
1000 cranes folded
then pieced into a single
mother crane
as if all births
our individualities
were returning to that first
moment
of conception
always that zero instant
would the dust let us go
how many of us
would rise from a singular
kneeling stand in the highest
lightest of shadows
twin
footprints
then walk away
fly away
transformed

My future involves teaching people in my community to love themselves, eachother and the Earth, not necessarily in that order. Everything else will fall into place. We are all Egyptian!

In order to have peace, we must have justice. in order to have justice, we must have truth—in that order. The central truth about 9/11 is that the buildings did NOT collapse from jet fuel, the government’s fable. Science has now proven beyond doubt that there were pre-planted explosives, heard and seen by numerous first responders who have truthfully testified to this fact. When is the anti-war movement goinig to finally acknowledge that the matter is far more sinister than eventhe official fully discredited “conspiracty theory”? Remember too that “theory” in its truest meaning is a coherent, systematic, rational explanation for a complex of observed facts. And ALL agree there was indeed a conspiracy. But who are the conspirators?

I wrote this for the 2008 campaign of Ron Paul, a true man of Peace.. i cry tears of passion even from re-posting it. . SUPPORT HIM PEOPLE!!


I changed it a little bit just now on the re-read, i think to the better. Dig, everyone..


Let It Be

(thanks to the Beatles for the riff and Ron Paul for the inspiration!)


when i see the world in times of trouble,

Dr Paul, he emails me;

speaking words of wisdom,

let it be..


and when i see the tanking dollar plummet,

threat’ning our economy;

value is the answer,

let it be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, oh, let it be

freedom is the answer, let it be.


and when i see the broken-down drug users

in our penitentiaries

love, it is the answer,

set ’em free!!


and when i see the angry Muslims shouting,

so maligned on MY-t-v;

respect, it is the answer,

let ’em be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, oh, let ’em be!

freedom is the answer, let it be..


and now we ask ourselves the question,

“what has this to do with me?”

we all bear responsi-bility..


so we as Patriots must act now

in the name of Dignity;

freedom is the answer,

let it be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, YEAH, let it be!

we all know the answer,

Liberty..


(McCartney/Paul/28)


The original post can be found on the wonderful LewRockwell.com, here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/19779.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/19779.html

I wrote this for the 2008 campaign of Ron Paul, a true man of Peace.. i cry tears of passion even from re-posting it. . SUPPORT HIM PEOPLE!!


I changed it a little bit just now on the re-read, i think to the better. Dig, everyone..


Let It Be

(thanks to the Beatles for the riff and Ron Paul for the inspiration!)


when i see the world in times of trouble,

Dr Paul, he emails me;

speaking words of wisdom,

let it be..


and when i see the tanking dollar plummet,

threat’ning our economy;

value is the answer,

let it be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, oh, let it be

freedom is the answer, let it be.


and when i see the broken-down drug users

in our penitentiaries

love, it is the answer,

set ’em free!!


and when i see the angry Muslims shouting,

so maligned on MY-t-v;

respect, it is the answer,

let ’em be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, oh, let ’em be!

freedom is the answer, let it be..


and now we ask ourselves the question,

“what has this to do with me?”

we all bear responsi-bility..


so we as Patriots must act now

in the name of Dignity;

freedom is the answer,

let it be..


let it be, let it be, let it be, YEAH, let it be!

we all know the answer,

Liberty..


(McCartney/Paul/28)


The original post can be found on the wonderful LewRockwell.com, here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/19779.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/19779.html

I stopped contributing to violence on the planet when I stopped eating animals. What humans do to animals ripples out and the violence spills on to eachother. If you want to create a peaceful future, start with your plate.

I just always vote and always vote for Democrats. They are the much lesser of two evils.

I look at our country’s warmongering as a problem and try to solve it using problem-solving skills.


1) When I talk with people I tell them that no country is “god’s chosen people”, and if god exists, his command is to love all his creation—especially all other people.


2) I try to point out to people what a ridiculous activity it is and a colossal waste of our money and resources, to blow things up and then rebuild them.


3) I vote and encourage others to vote based on what a representatives do, not what they say. I try to alter most people’s habit of “hoping/believing” when they vote for a politician, so that instead they view voting as evaluating and choosing an employee. Similarly, I suggest that the State Dept. and president should have a pay reduction when they do not do what we hired them for — to keep us at peace with other countries.


4) Finally, I relate the story of people like Major General S. Butler, an honorable and highly experienced military man, who concluded from all his experiences and first hand knowledge that “War is a Rackett”, and that it is instigated by and benefits the corporate elite, at the expense of us normal people.

I’m applying methods I learned from the book: Non-violent Communication by —Marshall B. Rosenberg

“My Plan is to release into the world My simple Teaching of Truth: that men are one, brothers all; that God loves all men equally; that nature provides the sustenance for everyone to share. I shall express the hope of all mankind for a new life, a new start, a readiness to change direction; to see the construction of a New World in which men can live in peace; can life free from fear of themselves or their brothers; free to create from the joy in their hearts; free to be themselves, in simple honesty”

from Messages from Maitreya, The Christ: Share-International.org

I remember my reaction to watching the towers go down. I watched television for about an hour. Then I got up and went back to work. One of my co-communitarians asked me if I was human. How could I work when the world was going to hell. I recofirmed for myself that morning that I need to change the world by living what I believe. I stopped just advocating for peace and sanity, and worked to create the way I think people should live: walking softly on the earth, taking what we need to survive and to make community, leaving the rest. We live on a farm in an intentional community. We are privileged to have the money to be able to purchase the land, though we do not imagine that one can own land. We live with several other households of people who support each other. Our food is organically grown, and we share. We believe this is the future for many of us in an oil-free world.

“Chasing Waterfalls,” a video art piece, will be shown at Interdependence Day, NYC 9/12/11….http://vimeo.com/27204452">http://vimeo.com/27204452

Interdependence Day: http://interdependencemovement.org/iday-2011.php">http://interdependencemovement.org/iday-2011.php


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