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Peace, social justice and truth for all
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Commentary on current events around peace, social justice and truth in governmet and media.
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THE PEACE TREE2...
As much as I hate to do this, Blogger has left me no choice but to create a new blog, same title, one minor difference in the address- http://thepeacetree2.blogspot.com/... The limit of 2000 on "tags" is the culprit... since we have 2,848 posts! P...
3 NEW ACTIONS to take on The Peace Tree\'s Activism Page...
Three New Actions and many others to take... ...
The Roadkill Prayer
For all animal lovers! Really! En route to work, a passing motorist holds a funeral for a squirrel hit by a car... the Roadkill Prayer.So, I turned around and drove back. I parked. I got out and searched through the trunk, coming up with some cardboa...
SEEING INSIDE THE WOUND (The 8th Violent Verse)
What it is I've found in the course of this I will tell you. I will. I will, But there’s little comfort in knowing. The awful and the good get beaten down Like a snitch in the prison yard, Fist upon fist, kick upon kick, Pain upon goddamned pain. ...
AFGHANISTAN\'S SPIRALING POSE (Wednesday Head-Lines 9/7/09)
Poetryman PhotomontageWhy Afghan surge is no sure thingThat we must penetrate at all the mad, sloping Hindu Kush,Forgo what remains scattered all around; let passThat within her jagging and spiraling pose;There’s nothing left there that war cannot ...
SHARING THE PAGE (The 7th Violent Verse)
Nothing paints our bodieslike the grief in pain.It floats in the ribs.It expandsIn dreadLike a red violinWith a broken string.She scrambles away on the air,Exhaling notes already composed by another.It is music gone mad.It is anguish and ecstasyShari...
