Tuesday - October 02, 2007

Hippies on Parade

I’ve gotten on a mailing list for a group called “Chalk 4 Peace”.  I normally just delete them, but I was bored and decided to read it through.  Mind you, I’m not a world-class writer, but I can turn a phrase, compose a fairly well-written letter and communicate fairly effectively with the written word.

This is a different story.  What I find here is a cliche-laced screed that really doesn’t say anything meaningful.  I suppose that passes for communcation these days, but if I was an actual subscriber to their “news”, I would have a hard time deciphering what we were about.  Here’s the email, see what you think. (emphasis mine.  Also, no editing, correction or formatting on my part.  This is just like it came in)

From: A Single Blade Of Grass [mailto:a_single_blade_of_grass@infinitepssibilty.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:49 AM
To: xxx@xxx.xxx
Subject: Chalk4Peace2007 SEPT 15 -23 - The Global Street Art Event
Importance: High

(Mailing List Information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.)
For Your Local Organiser - LOOK In The Mirror

 Chalk4Peace2007 SEPT 15 -23 - The Global Street Art Event
“OUR STREETS ‘R OUR MEDIA -WE have TOTAL access”

Wherever You Go Always Carry Chalk In Your Pocket
The pavements are an untapped media resource through which we ordinary peace loving folk can share our messages, hopes, dreams, ideas and create a new momentum towards peace - at a certain point there is critical mass in the cultural conversation which transforms into ACTION

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Please copy this & forward this to your contacts
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United Kingdom.. United States.. Egypt.. Austria.. Germany.. Canada.. Ecuador.. Puerto Rico.. France.. Chile.. Iran.. Iraq.. Mexico.. Spain.. Italy.. Cypress.. Israel.. Your Town.. -EVERYWHERE!

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http://www.infinitepossibility.org

http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace
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Mission Possible - “Our World Working For ALL of Us”

We CAN Make THE Difference!

THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15th to 23rd Chalk4Peace!

You are invited to Take Action! - ("Scroll down for WHAT CAN YOU DO?")
To Participate in this GLOBAL outpouring of public art. Where we makeour personal statements for peace on the pavements and sidewalks of our cities all over our world.

Chalk4Peace IS HAPPENING! [Not sure what is happening, but something! -Mr. C.]

All around the globe, together we are decorating, dedicating and
declaring, in deep sincerity our collective call for peace.

Chalk4Peace is about our empowerment. We The People, our global culture, all people everywhere and our common desire to live in peace.

The Chalk4Peace project has already transformed the experience of thousands of people attending dem onstrations for peace all over the world during the past 4 years. Chalk4Peace is both a tool and a conduit for non violent public self expression,
and participation in the growing global movement for peace.

Chalk4Peace is an opportunity for all of us of all ages to make our feelings known, especially the young, whose future is in dire jeopardy as our global village falls faster and faster into the fear breeding fear breeding fear spiral. [Lots of inter-breeding in this group! -Mr. C.]

Our global culture is teetering on the edge of extinction.

No 1 person alone can turn this around, but together WE CAN! [By DRAWING on PUBLIC SIDEWALKS!!!!  -Mr. C.]

“The Structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, one party,or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world”
... Eleanor Roosevelt

Our basic human instincts drive us to seek safety. This is what this chaos is all about.Our essential human survival instincts are acting out of context with the wider global cultural need resulting in mistrust, fear and conflict.

Everywhere the media bombards us with WAR TALK, distractions and negative belief patterns that encourage us to believe that the future of our world is out of our hands entirely.

One place we still have communal access to, is OUR STREETS.

We can balance our GLOBAL CONVERSATION with collective self-expression using OUR STREETS AS OUR MEDIA!  [It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!!!  -Mr. C.]

Chalk4Peace is one step, a catalyst that can transform our global
conversation as “we the people”, en masse make our statement that is our common aspiration for PEACE.

START NOW! Just DO IT!

Carry some chalk with you, invite a friend with you, to chalk
inspirations on the pavement whenever and wherever you fancy.

Chalk is harmless, cheap and washes away within a few days.

Especially PARTICIPATE in the Sept 15th to 23rd
GLOBAL Chalk4Peace ACTION!

Make it happen in your Community!

(Scroll down for “WHAT CAN YOU DO?")

Lets us turn our grey streets into a living river of colour and
possibility - With poetry, hearts, peace symbols, empowering statements, also expressions of our frustrations and despair.

All will be seen for several days by thousands of people, then as they are washed away by the elements WE CAN CONTINUE to find fresh places to Chalk4Peace.

We don’t need to be an artist to Chalk4Peace. Every statement, however small or large becomes part of the amazing tapestry that is our global future.

This unique event conceivably, could be the largest of its kind in
modern history. It is a global effort that is happening.

We The People are spreading the word and making the effort to be a part of this huge creative endeavour to bring Peace back into the equation.

It is our goal for at least one million or more of us to participate
with this sidewalk/pavement chalk extravaganza, at thousands of locations, in as many countries, cities and towns around the world as is possible.

So WHAT CAN YOU DO to help make this happen?

1. NETWORK/POST this email to your friends, contacts and where ever else seems appropriate

2. JOIN the Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chalk4Peace

or send a blank email to:
Chalk4Peace-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To network with others around the world who will be Chalking4Peace.

3. EMAIL:
viziondanz@infinitepossibility.org
to let us know what you are doing in your community, and please send us pictures. Or to find out how you can participate in the project.

4. ARRANGE with you local businesses, libraries, churches, mosques, synagogues, restaurants, supermarkets etc to chalk on the pavement outside their premises on the 15th - 23rd of September and whenever else.

IDENTIFY public squares such as Trafalgar Square in London and invite all your friends and your friends’ friends to show up with a few boxes of chalk, or even get some from your local quarry.

TAKE extra chalk with you to hand out to passers-by.

5. USE this Email as a press release for you local TV, Radio and
Newspapers. Let them know that Chalk4Peace is happening ASAP to get the momentum going.

6. DOCUMENT YOUR Chalk4peace actions with photos and video. Send them to your local media - copies for our website will be greatly appreciated - send to:
viziondanz@infinitepossibility.org

7. ENGAGE co-creatively in local communal efforts, strengthen
working relationships and find what it takes to stand for peace and freedom.

8. Have lots of FUN and keep on Chalking4Peace after the September event.

“FUN The Final Frontier”

How did Chalk4Peace begin?
“Message in a bottle”
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk/message/
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk
http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace

for Chalk4Peace locations in America
http://www.chalk4peace.org

Its time for us to move beyond the “No to War” position and come together
“Saying Yes2Peace”

“If we don’t create our future, our past will create it for us”

http://www.infinitepossibility.org/yes1
Lets skip the war bit and just get to the peace

Greet someone new today,
look into their eyes, smile, say hello,
shake their hand ...
LET THE PEACE BEGIN!

Brian
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http://www.myspace.com/viziondanz
http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace
http://www.infinitepossibility.org

“There is nothing wrong with our world,
we are just having a weird conversation”.

“Reclaim the conversation”

“Our New World Order IS Love!”

Dedicated to the child inside each one of us,
All the children and
All the children to come.

Just point at the hippies and laugh.  They’re sweet in a sad sort of way.  Wishing for what cannot come and hoping in the dust of dreams.......

Posted by Drew458     on 10/02/2007 at 02:59 PM   
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