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“His story of war is over. Her story of PEACE begins.” ~Jthek (the undeclared leader of the peaceful revolution)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by underthebluedoor • Posted in Art, General, Quotes • Tagged #art, #jthek, #kellimurray, #nonviolence, #peace, #peacefulrevolution • Leave a comment

Art by Kelli Murray

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← A few years ago Hailey saw a homeless man on the street and thought it would be nice to buy him a sandwich. She and her mom did so. From there Hailey figured, why give one person a sandwich when you can feed many more with a garden. So she planted a garden that she harvests for the local food bank. She donated 128 pounds last year. From that garden grew the shelter idea, as well as various other efforts providing health and hygiene supplies to the homeless. She is currently building a shelter for her homeless friend Edward. “If she had her way we’d have mobile sleeping shelters taking up our front lawn,” said Hailey’s mother, Miranda. Hailey received a $3,000 grant from Together Rising and momastery.com for her efforts. She plans to use the money to build 11 more shelters, so that not just her friend Edward, but some of his friends will also have warm, dry places to sleep. “It just doesn’t seem right that there are homeless people,” Hailey said. “I think everyone should have a place to live.”

Thirty years ago Wales kicked off a protest which lasted for 19 years. The Greenham Common Peace Camp was started in September 1981 by a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, who travelled to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire to protest against the decision of the British government to allow Cruise missiles (nuclear weapons) to be sited there. The Women for Life on Earth group walked 120 miles from Cardiff to Greenham Common and on reaching their destination they chained themselves to the perimeter fence. They were joined by women from across the UK and during the height of the protests, thousands of women blocked the entrances to the base, cut through perimeter fences and formed human chains around the site. There were some huge demonstrations during the tenure of the Peace Camp. In December 1982, 30,000 women joined hands around the base at the Embrace the Base event. On 1 April 1983, some 70,000 protesters formed a 14 mile human chain from Greenham to Aldermaston and the ordnance factory at Burghfield. Another encircling of the base occurred in Dec 1983, with 50,000 women attending. Sections of the fence were cut and there were hundreds of arrests. The women were ultimately successful as the Cruise missiles were removed in March 1991. The airbase was closed in 1993 but the peace camp remained until 2000. The attention they received prompted the creation of other peace camps at more than a dozen sites in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. →

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