posted on Oct, 5 2005 @ 02:58 PM
In a world where it is increasingly difficult to make things happen, this may be all that humanity has as a final resort to stopping the insanity in
this world.
this is taken directly from adbusters.org
We know warfare, tyranny, and strife. We have pitted neighbor against neighbor, tribe against tribe, nation against nation, and faith against faith.
We have seen tensions rise. We have seen hatred boil over. And we have seen peace won at terrible costs. Now we are faced with a global conflict that
is so nebulous, so ill-defined and ill-conceived, that it may never end. All we are told is that there is our side, and there is the other side. That
our way of life is at stake, and we must triumph at all costs. As the coffins multiply, we grieve our own losses. But the horror of neverending war
brings with it the chance for a truly global resistance.
And so we will create a new side – the side that wants to understand, the side that seeks out the root causes of our struggle, the side that will
triumph over conflict itself.
We will devise a ritual to transcend the double-standard of grief, to transform their dead into our dead, and our dead into theirs. And then we will
challenge those around us to do the same. Two minutes is all that we need for this global ritual of reconciliation. On November 11th, fall silent for
two minutes in honor of all innocent victims – in London, in Afghanistan, in New York, in Iraq, in Chechnya, in Madrid. Two minutes of silence, of
remembrance, of reflection, to consider the choices that we have made and the path we will follow into the future.
I commit two minutes of silence on Nov 11th 2005!!
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