today is international peace day. makes me slightly uncomfortable in this place. happy that i’ll drop by the Resource Center for Nonviolence later this afternoon, but even more happy that i’ll go to the Brown Berets meeting this evening. cause when Leta told me about the celebrations for international peace day here in SC, it made me… well, seriously sceptical. a great show of light on the ocean, and dancing together in the Veterans Hall, with the idea that if everybody did that all over the world (okay, at this point i’m sure this is Leta’s interpretation, i’m not ready to believe that the organizers would present the event like that), the world would be a better place.
hate to be cynical, and lightshows and dancing can be beautiful things, but i can’t help thinking: what about actually organizing against the warmongers called your government? and i couldn’t help thinking of one of Mazen Kerbaj‘s amazing drawings, from a tour to the nordic countries not long after the official cease-fire in Lebanon. inspired by a visit to the hippie kristiania area in copenhagen:
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“what is more ugly, war or peace and love?” |