A peace rally like no other

Occupy Peace is an initiative The Trends Research Institute announced last fall to replace the talk of war with the talk of peace, to replace the action of war with the action of peace.

In a few short months, we kick off this bold campaign. We have changed the date from May 2 to Sunday, September 20, the day before the International Day of Peace when more global attention is given to peace, though our initiative is much more than just a rally. On September 20, we will launch Occupy Peace, a peace movement like no other. It is designed to create and distribute the tools necessary to promote peace as a means to prosperity across the country.

Occupy Peace will launch at the heart of the oldest intersection in the nation. At the corners of Crown and John streets in Kingston, New York, stand four magnificent pre-Revolutionary War structures. The institute and its affiliates operate from three; the fourth is a county-run museum.

The rally, which we expect to be massive, is about action — not just standing up for peace. In the weeks and months ahead, institute staff and contributors will work with volunteers across the nation to form the strategy to reinstate the core values that built our country. They include: No foreign entanglements. Build our communities. Don’t build other nations.

Occupy Peace will show you how. It will show you that peace is good for the soul, good for the country, good for business. Peace brings prosperity.

So help us. Help us make the rally and movement take root. Sign up, donate, send us your ideas; thousands already have done so at Occupypeace.us.

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Although Rosa Parks is now gone, I suggest you bring in still living speakers from the American civil rights struggles decades ago.

You’ll get much further if you bring yourself up to date on the peace movement so far as well. For example, the book, “SUBVERTING HATRED” available via presents issues of non-violence from many different religious perspectives and has been widely used in college courses. Also, can connect you up to both the ongoing activities of the VICTORY OVER VIOLENCE campaign especially for kids (with its 3 paragraph pledge)and the CULTURE OF PEACE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES.

Plus, over the past decades many conversations / dialogues have taken place and been published, for example “ABOLISHING WAR,” “A PASSAGE TO PEACE,” “A QUEST FOR GLOBAL PEACE,” “CHOOSE LIFE,” and “HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.” Such published conversations also approach the necessary inner revolution of the human being, in for example- “SEARCH FOR A NEW HUMANITY” and “PLANETARY CITIZENSHIP.”

You do a good job decoding propaganda, but only of a few select publications- FT, WSJ, NYT. I wonder how many of your subscribers actually read these very limited publications.

Although expressed by our American founders, ‘No Foreign Entanglements’ is not mentioned in our founding documents. Considering the many splintering and outright secessionist movements spreading across America these days, it may be time to consider these words from The Declaration of Independence–

“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

Thanks–

February 3, 2015 Anonymous

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