by Starhawk This piece was written on February 5th 2003 by a woman who calls herself Starhawk and has become the spokesmen for a contingent of men and women in the U.S. and all over the world, who want to replace the destructive, power hungry institutions which determine our fate today, with more organic structures based on peace and love. The piece from which the paragraphs below were taken was written at the height of the war waged against Iraq by the U.S.
The media and politicians tell us that this war is inevitable that we can’t stop it, that our pleas and protests make no difference. They murmur a constant incantation of our powerlessness, lulling us into a nightmare sleep.
But we can still wake up. We can choose to walk out of the nightmare, and dream a different dream.
All it takes is for each one of us, who cherishes the lives of our children, to refuse to be silent, to say no to war, to say yes to peace. And to ask ourselves, how have we abandoned our country, our fate, into the hands of callous men who have no compunction about wasting lives?
What spell has been cast that fogs our eyes and binds our hands? What lies have we believed? What power have we let slip away?
Replace the nightmare with this dream: that in the moment that one world power has amassed the unchallenged military might to make its bid for global empire its own people rise up and say “No. This is not what we want to be… we want to join hands with the people of the world and strengthen the institutions that are slowly and painfully learning to solve conflicts without bloodshed, and teaching us to respect our differences. We know that peace must be built on justice and we want peace.
For the complete article: http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/choicebeforeus.html
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