Dear OST Friends Last Saturday, my husband, son and I joined some friends to attend a Peace March in Phoenix. While I was happy to be hanging out in the park on that sparkling warm morning with a colorfully diverse group of Peace Activists, I was struck by the largely dichotomized perspectives that were represented among the placards and the shouted slogans. Most of them were against something - against war for oil, against US imperialism, against President Bush... Once we started peacefully marching, it got more interesting. Police in riot gear on horseback, in automobiles, in plain clothes were out en mass. (Mostly) verbal power struggles ensued. People against police harrassment, video taped the police. Across the street from our march, a few people were shouting, "War in 2 weeks!" We were a microcosm of the archetypal split that has us all at odds.
There has to be another way. A way to find common ground among those who feel strongly that the US is being threatened and those who feel strongly that the US is being threatening. A way that powerfully stops Saddam from abusing his people and provoking his enemies WHILE increasing the possibility for peace in the Middle East and the world. A way that acts as a powerful preventative to war. When I returned to my email box on Saturday afternoon, a friend had sent me an extremely well articulated article that offered a third way. "An Alternative to War for Defeating Saddam Hussein" can be found at http://www.sojo.net/action. I thought you might appreciate another perspective. Peace, Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez Triune Milagro, LTD 2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85048-8990 [email protected] 480.759.0262 phone 480.759.0403 fax VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.milagro3.com <http://www.milagro3.com> Invoking the wisdom and capacity of the human spirit! * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
