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April 19, 2002
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Latin
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Sam Bahour
Bush is Playing Russian
Roulette with Palestinians
M. Shahid
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A
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Built on Lies
Alexander Cockburn
Austin Cultural Limits:
Willie Nelson, Film and BBQ
April 17, 2002
Norman
Finkelstein
Behind
the Carnage in Palestine
Kristen Schurr
With the Wounded
and the Homeless in Nablus
Norman
Madarasz
Undoing
Chavez:
The View from South America
Brian Wood
Combing The Ruins of Jenin
George
Monbiot
Chemical
Coup: The CIA's Attempt to Undermine the UN's Weapon Inspector
for Iraq
Robert Fisk
Fear and Learning in America
April 16, 2002
Todd May
US
Should End Aid to Israel
Gabriel Ash
The Oilman, the General
and the Coup that Failed
Ron Jacobs
Wake
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Find Your Own Self Dead:
The Chavez Coup
Brian Wood
Inside Jenin: Rubble and Decomposing
Bodies
Jack McCarthy
Citizen
Coup: The Times,
The Post and the Coup Plotters
Dave Marsh
Hymns: How I Got Through
Last Week
April 15, 2002
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A
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Breyten Breytenbach
A Letter to Ariel Sharon:
"You Won't Break Them"
Gregory
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CounterCoup
in Venezuela
Kristen Schurr
Amid the Rubble of Nablus
Jordy
Cummings
An
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Christopher Reilly
The Media, the CIA
and the Chavez Coup
James
T. Phillips
"Homicide"
Bombers
April 14, 2002
William Blum
The CIA and Venezuela
David
Vest
A
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Ralph Nader
General Motors:
Stuck in Reverse
M. Junaid
Alam
From
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Palestinians and Americans
April 13, 2002
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Life
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Patrick Cockburn
Bulldozing History:
The End Nears for Stalin's
Most Monstrous Hotel
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Wilpert
The
Coup in Venezuela:
an Eye-Witness Account
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April 19, 2002
A Peace Proposal:
Bring In The Children
By David Krieger
We receive many positive proposals for peace from
friends and readers of the Sunflower and our wagingpeace.org
web site. I want to share some of them from time to
time with a broader audience in the hope that they may spark
your ideas and actions. Here is one from Janie, a mother in
Philadelphia. She begins by observing that "the world seems
to be falling apart" and notes that the format of international
meetings hardly changes and the results are generally minimal.
"What are we to do?" she asks.
She answers her question this way: "When
things don't work out with a child, a new tactic is in order,
and various tactics are attempted until the right one surfaces
and the final breakthrough is accomplished." Based on her
experience, she makes the following proposal:
"Why doesn't someone initiate at
the next world conference for anything (nuclear disarmament,
environment, peace in the Middle East, etc.) that each representative
brings to the meeting a grandchild (under the age of about 7
years) and if no grandchild fits this category then a grandniece/nephew
or any child that one is extremely fond of?"
"I think the results would be alarming,
surprising," she writes. "Representatives to these
meetings come with their egos, agendas, power, etc. No wonder
nothing much is achieved. Get some children in there and what
will happen right off the bat is that no one's heart remains
with quite the same hardness and impenetrability. The egos become
a little less, the feeling of nationalism decreases a notch.
My religion, your religion doesn't quite hold the power it
had. Why? Because the hearts of children have the power, tremendous
power to melt the heart, anyone's heart."
She concludes: "So that's my contribution
to conflict resolution, the peace process, disarmament put the
future generations before these people, put their very own loved
ones, vulnerable ones, sweet and innocent ones in their face
and maybe things could get moving to secure a world that they
deserve. I am so very serious about this. Is it not worth a
try?"
Of course, it is worth a try. We need
leaders who think and act as if they are in the very presence
of future generations. We need leaders who are able to shift
their thinking and actions from representing powerful corporate
interests to representing people and particularly the children
who, after all, are the future. We need leaders who, like the
native Americans, think of the seventh generation in the future
when they make decisions.
The problem, of course, is how to get
a great idea like Janie's implemented. It seems clear that it
would change the tone and tenor of international meetings concerned
with peace, disarmament, human rights, the environment, etc.
It is difficult to move entrenched leaders, particularly those
that seem indebted to vested interests. Perhaps the best way
to implement an idea like this is for the children themselves
to make their voices heard and to demand a seat at the table.
I encourage you to talk this idea over
with friends and family, including your children and grandchildren.
Perhaps we should withhold our votes from leaders who do not
make decisions as if in the presence of future generations and
who would not be willing to bring children into the halls of
government and to international meetings to determine whether
it is possible to live in peace with our planet and each other.
David Krieger
is president of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation. He can be contacted at dkrieger@napf.org.
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