The Peace Song of the Day, as chosen by Duchess Susanna, is “One Man’s Hands“. The music is by Pete Seeger. The lyrics are by Alex Comfort. You can find all the words at Rise Up Singing on page 241.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YF0CH_CZPw] Continue reading Peace Song of the Day 9/15/2011: One Man’s Hands
The Peace Song of the Day, as chosen by Susanna, Duchess of Peace, is “Somewhere, Someone” by Long Island singer/songwriter, Gary Ivan.
Below is a video of Gary Ivan performing this song at PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse in Amityville.
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More about why Duchess Susanna chose this song…
Continue reading Changing the Ch’i: Royal Peace Song of the Day for 9/14/2011
The Royal Peace Song of the Day for Tuesday, September 13, 2011 is “This Pretty Planet” by Tom Chapin.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZECpho09-4] Continue reading Loving the earth (and celebrating the nice weather): Peace Song for 9/13/2011
Joe Scarry posts about our first #AfghanistanTuesday suceess in Scarry Thoughts: AfghanistanHour: Speak Now Or ….:
This is what it looks like when a member of Congress states his position on getting out of Afghanistan:
Bruce Braley represents Iowas 1st congressional district and this is a tweet he sent August 26 in response to our query, “Where do you stand on bringing #troops #home from #Afghanistan?”
There is now a movement for #AfghanistanHour for Tuesday at Noon to be reserved for our elected officials to tweet their question about bringing the troops home: Continue reading Will your Rep Join @BruceBraley on #AfghanistanTuesday ?
The Royal Peace Song of the Day for Monday, September 12, 2011 is “How Will I Ever Be Simple Again?” by Richard Thompson. Not sure when this song was written, though, it could definitely be a reflection on America after the tragedy of September 11th.
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The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace provides us with the Peace Book Chapter of the Week. You might have noticed this a slightly different concept. Duke Augustus is paring down the Book of the Week to just a chapter to make it more interactive. We hope that you will join in a discussion of the book as we move through it together chapter-by-chapter. Please post your thoughts, reactions, comments, corrections and additions to the comment section of each of these posts.
War is terrorism,
magnified a hundred times.
Normally, Duke Augustus would give an introduction a cursory discussion, and begin the first discussion of the book, but when the Introduction is written by the late Howard Zinn attention must be paid. Zinn is primarily know as a historian whose best selling A People’s History of the United States is an antidote to the sanitized grade school history. Duke Augustus is particularly partial to the graphic novel adaption, A People’s History of American Empire. Zinn’s Introduction to The Power of Nonviolence is even more important to discuss considering that the opening lines are so amazingly timely: Continue reading Power of Nonviolence Zinn-troduction: Peace Book Chapter of the Week 9/12/11
There are so many layers of feelings to be dealt with concerning the events of 9-11-2001. And, so many lessons to be learned. The Duke and Duchess considered writing some reflective pieces on 9-11, which contradict the usual storyline presented by the media.
Though, we realized that so many people are still genuinely caught up in fear and mourning. So, we decided to be gentle, and chose a song for the day that matched the simple, core truth: 9-11 was a tragedy.
The Royal Peace Song for today, September 11, 2011, is “Everybody Hurts” by REM.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScujER4LcSc] Continue reading Peace Song of the Day for 9-11
