Featured Blog Posts – February 2009 Archive (47)

KIVA - PERSON - TO - PERSON MICRO LENDING

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. It allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world. You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back.… Continue

Added by Antonia on February 4, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

What would love do?

"O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,

Be all – worlds dissolve into your

stainless endless radiance,

Frail living leaves burn with your brighter

than cold stares –

Make me your servant, your breath, your core." - Rumi

What would love do?

Ever asked yourself that question?

See how your day is transformed when you flash yourself awake, before you act.

The next time the phone rings, take a breath,… Continue

Added by Velcrow Ripper on February 4, 2009 at 5:27am — 35 Comments

ABOUT WORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NON VIOLENCE

The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Non-Violence” by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010. The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel. It will pass through all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia. The stages will be the longest American and… Continue

Added by Cris on February 3, 2009 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Combatants for peace - a moving documentary

Combatants for Peace is a group of Israeli and Palestinian individuals who were actively involved in the cycle of violence in the region.

The Israelis served as combat soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinians were involved in acts of violence in the name of Palestinian liberation.

They all used weapons against one another, and looked at each other only through weapon sights; however today they cooperate and commit themselves to…

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Added by Andrew Sampson on February 1, 2009 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Ex IRA Leader turned Politician Jerry Adams, talks about George Mitchells visit to the Middle East

Jerry Adams

Courtesy of the Guardian

George Mitchell and the Middle East

The senator will need all the skill and patience he brought to the Northern Irish peace process. But Hamas must be at the table

In the crowds of Washington's Union Station last week, I bumped into George Mitchell. We were both in the… Continue

Added by Andrew Sampson on February 1, 2009 at 10:30pm — 10 Comments

Our mind as a Drug - המח שלנו כסם

Our Mind as a Drug

We want to feel the world,

If it's Happiness, Joy, Love and Peace,

And if it's Fear, Anger, Hatred and Jealousy.

Our nature is to feel what is happening,

Our nature is to be in the emotion when it arises.

The amount of energy which arises is infinite

And yet…

We learn from an early age to suppress certain emotions,

We learn from an early age to suppress the emotions

Which our society declares and… Continue

Added by Uriel on February 1, 2009 at 7:44pm — 3 Comments

The War For Peace.

By Bobbi Miller-Moro

Although I am a warrior woman, with extraordinary skills and the ability to carry out bodily functions that I never knew possible, endure physical and laborious pain beyond any human understanding…My Spirit is Peace.

Although I live in a volatile planet, there are so many beautiful serene places, and spots-so peaceful and quiet. With just the wind and the rock and the sun to greet you. These places do exist.

But I ask; Is it… Continue

Added by Bobbi Miller-Moro on February 1, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments