If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Thanks to anyone who can do this. It is really appreciated! This server is small but will be hosting several #peace#SocialJustice and #Humanistic groups, so it is for a good cause.
According to the country’s historical experience, if the Russian state exists in its current form, it will not engage in sincere negotiations, or sign a peace deal in good faith.
#Jaffa#beach, Palestine 1921. Long gone times....citizens of all ethnicities and religions once lived peacefully. Picture by Dr. Mustafa Elmasri, Gaza.
I'm a former teacher and nonviolence facilitator. I blog prolifically and create lotsa videos. I self-publish, and am trying to get a literary agent interested in my new novel... I like word play, so feel free to scroll past my silly puns.
What else? I'm an old punk rocker, a social justice activist and I eat vast quantities of #chocolate. Also, I write a lot about #ocd
A highway in #SanFrancisco was shut down by SEVERAL thousand protesters marching for a ceasefire, and a lot of major Western media outlets are not telling you about it.
Instead, places like CTV News and CNN are telling you that #MatthewPerry died.
Cool.
This protest brought to you by #Jewish Voice for #Peace, #Arab Resources and Organizing Center, and the #Palestinian Youth Movement... and protestors like you. ❤
“The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. It is not in spite of the horror that we have to change course — it is exactly because of it.”
Sharing this important statement from Breaking the Silence, an org. of Israeli military veterans who have served since 2000:
"Hamas's attack and the events unfolding since yesterday are unspeakable. We are heartbroken to watch terrified civilians besieged in their homes, innocent people murdered in cold blood on the streets, at parties, and at home. Dozens taken hostage and dragged into the Gaza Strip. . .
Today, movements, organizations and activists - #Jews and #Arabs - have published a joint declaration for #peace, calling (among other things) for a #ceasefire and negotiations for a political agreement.
Please help to share the declaration to make the voice of local activists heard and known!
"There are no winners in war. Only peace will bring security."
I am going to ask the internet a usually impossible question:
Can you watch without prejudice, this calm & wise #Israeli woman, massacre-survivor, and peace-maker for 9 minutes and 26 seconds (there are subtitles) explain the political solution required in the #IsraelHamasWar?
A lot has been going wrong lately and I've been letting things rile me up. But it occurred to me that the way to quiet the brain is to focus on the heart...
I love sunset, especially sunset on the coast. The wet sand reflects the rocks in the sea, as well as the sky overhead. The horizon is layered with purple, rust, gold, cream, and the last of day's light glows outside of the encroaching shadows. It is quiet, peaceful, calm, reflective.
If you’re into emotionally diverse #conceptalbums rife with #existential themes about finding #peace within yourself no matter what life throws at you and that remind you that you do not have to be a victim of your circumstances because of your power to #choose, might I humbly suggest that you check out my new album, “A Place to Go When You Need to Hide?” I hope you love it. 🙂🎶🤘🏻🌈💕 https://songwhip.com/rose-alaimo/a-place-to-go-when-you-need-to-hide
African Americans have chosen to be aspirational in pursuit of freedom from oppression and injustice, as opposed to terrorism and deconstructionist thinking.
—R Wayne Branch, PhD
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that it was a student in their dorm recording on a cassette recorder who forever captured the order to fire on students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State
Why Ukrainians see no sense in negotiating with Russia now (www.politico.eu)
According to the country’s historical experience, if the Russian state exists in its current form, it will not engage in sincere negotiations, or sign a peace deal in good faith.
63 countries have supported Ukraine's Peace Formula (www.pravda.com.ua)
Eight more countries have supported the Ukrainian Formula of Peace, increasing the total number to 63 states.