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Love men and love women: Peace Song of the Day for 10/7/2011

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“Everything Possible” by Fred Small is the Peace Song of the Day for Friday, October 7th. You can find this song at Rise Up Singing on page 239.

Excerpt:

You can be anybody you want to be
You can love whomever you will
You can travel any country where your heart leads
And know I will love you still…

Don’t be rattled by names, by taunts, by games
But seek out spirits true
If you give your friends the best part of yourself
They will give the same back to you.

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The Royal Song of the Day is a project of Duke Augustus and Duchess Susanna, The Duke and Duchess of Peace. The Duke and Duchess recognize that one of the paths to peace is to find soulful and nonviolent entertainment, and to express oneself with art and song.

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We Shall Not Be Moved: Peace Song for 10/5/2011

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“We Shall Not Be Moved” is the Royal Peace Song of the Day for Wednesday, October 5th. Duchess Susanna would like to dedicate this song to the folks who will be moving and marching in NYC today. You can find the full lyrics, and added verses, and some verses in Spanish, in the Rise Up Singing songbook on page 260.

Below is a video of this song, performed at Day 16 of Occupy Wall Street. Peter Yarrow led the group, on a day that also included inspiration from Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman.

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Occupy #AfghanistanTuesday

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October 6, 2011 are the protests on the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War.  In the blog post The hour is approaching: Make a commitment!, we are asked to focus this week’s tweets on organizing for that day:

Tuesday October 4 … #AfghanistanTuesday! We have wide-ranging conversations every week on #AfghanistanTuesday, but I #AfghanistanTuesday tweetswant to suggest that this week we need to give special attention to the protests themselves. With protests just days away, now is the time we must: Get people to find their local action! When people join up with others near them, protesting the war ceases to be solely theoretical and begins to become a reality. There is a list of many actions nationwide (and worldwide) on the website for the Chicago protest; I predict that as the hours pass, the number of local protests will grow too fast for this list to keep up with!

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Looking for sunshine: Peace Song of the Day for 10/3/2011

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“The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow”, from the play Annie, is the Royal Peace Song of the Day for Monday, October 3rd. This song is full of hope and easy to sing. I remember all of my friends and myself loving this growing up. So, it has a special place in my heart. (As schmaltzy as it is.) – Susanna, Duchess of Peace

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Power of Nonviolence Emerson War: Peace Book Chapter 3 10/3/11

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The Power of Nonviolence Writings by Advocates of PeaceWe continue with the third chapter from the The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace This week we discuss the third chapter of the book which is an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s essay entitled War. This chapter is in the Pre-Twentieth Century section of the book . Last week we discussed an excerpt from a 1693 essay by William Penn entitled Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe.

Shall it be war, or shall it be peace?

The discussion in this chapter is, unfortunately, as modern as the Duke’s recent Facebook discussion with childhood schoolmates. The other participants in the discussion brought up every possible reason why the war they opposed is an acceptable course of action.  The lesser evil. The corruption of money in politics. The current state of affairs.  The Duke kept returning the discussion to the phrase that ends the selection from Emerson’s essay, and serves as this paragraph’s pull quote.  Continue reading Power of Nonviolence Emerson War: Peace Book Chapter 3 10/3/11 →