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Let's keep this in mind: new generations are comming and to make a better world
for them is a must. Be part of a movement, acting wherever you are.
WE ARE
FAMILY!
51 ways to share:
1. Be a media guerilla. Broadcast the message of peace! Spread empowering
information.
2. Attend a peace rally to find out about marches for peace around the country.
3. Host a peace speaker at an event in your community or at your workplace.
4. Get to know your neighbors. It's hard to reclaim peace without a sense of
community.
5. Make friends with someone of another race, ethnicity, age, ability, or sexual
orientation. Appreciating and embracing diversity helps to promote peace.
6. Take an adventure to neighborhoods of your town or country that are
ethnically focused to appreciate diverse cultures. Cross-cultural understanding
is key to building peace.
7. Travel to learn. Get first-hand experience in how things happen in other
places and bring home questions about how you do things at home.
8. Drive with patience and tolerance. Keep the peace on our streets and highways.
9. Listen more. Really listen, without giving unsolicited advice.The validation
of being heard is often more important than solving the problem.
10. Learn to say I'm sorry. Learn to mean it. Learn when to say it and use it.
These two simple words can prevent violence and save relationships.
11. Be helpful. Random acts of kindness can create more peaceful communities.
12. Spend time with a youngster. This can often remind us of the meaning of a
peaceful world.
13. Practice the art of patience. Be careful not to rush to judgment or action.
14. Start peace conversations. Talking peace, and listening, are critical for a
vibrant democracy.
15. Involve yourself in community parent workshops and family groups that help
parents protect , nurture, and support their children.
16. Peace begins at home. Monitor, nurture, support, and involve your children
and family in keeping peace.
17. Explore your prejudices. Find out what's behind them, how they started, &
how they influence your thoughts and actions.
18. Write a peace song. Peace songs are great tools for organizing and inspiring
people.
19. Use music, art, stories, and drama to explore themes of peace and
nonviolence.
20. Broadcast a peace message using a peace flag, poster, badge, t-shirt, or
bumper sticker.
21. If you own a gun, keep it unloaded and locked up. Store the bullets in a
separate place and hide the key safely away from children.
22. Find your own inner peace. Set aside a few minutes or more each day of quiet,
peaceful time.
23. Join a study circle. Self-education is a fast track to empowerment toward
peace.
24. Attend an educational series on non-violence. Look up peace & justice
organizations in your state.
25. Stay tuned to what's going on in the world through newsletters, periodicals,
newspapers, radio, TV, and online.
26. Educate yourself about the violence threatening kids in your community and
nationwide. Help bring safety and peace to kids.
27. Learn another language. Being able to communicate in a foreign language
helps you participate in diverse cultures.
28. Help bring peace to the environment by reducing your carbon load emissions.
Learn what you can do.
29. Learn how to fight fairly. Fight to resolve differences, not to win.
30. Register people to vote. One reason the political game's gone sour is that
too few of us play.
31. Become a volunteer on a peace project.
32. Volunteer at your local battered women's shelter. Learn about the importance
of non-violent conflict resolution.
33. Sign-up as a member of a peace organization.
34. Call a radio talk show. The good ones are often the town meetings of the
airwaves.
35. Write letters and articles in support of peace and non-violence to the
editors of your local media. Published, they can change minds, and even
unpublished they can impact the media.
36. Sign a peace pledge.
37. Adopt a politician. Write a monthly letter to your Representative, Senator,
or President on peace-related issues.
38. Take social action to support specific legislative peace initiatives.
39. Vote. Voting is your hard-earned right and your official voice.
40. Support organizations and/or campaigns that fight for basic human rights for
all people. Social justice promotes peace.
41. Run for elective office. Be a voice for non-violent conflictresolution,
reasoned sanity, and balance.
42. Learn about nuclear weapons. Sign an appeal to end the nuclear threat.
43. Take part in online advocacy for peace.
44. Write to your own government. Write to a foreign government. Let them know
you care about what they do and hold them to the same standards for peaceful
conflict resolution.
45. Call your City Council and attend the next meeting. It's often through the
strength of a group that changes are made and community is built.
46. Encourage peace projects for school classrooms. You can find some great
ideas at UNESCO.
47. Teach young people skills for non-violent conflict resolution. Learn about
some great strategies for teachers, classrooms, parents, and students.
48. Teach young people about peace. Let your behavior reflect the values you
want them to espouse.
49. Support your community's efforts to create jobs and training opportunities
for kids that help them become productive, contributing adults.
50. Dig deep. Oftentimes, reaching peaceful resolution means understanding
what's atthe root of a problem rather than what's most apparent on the surface.
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