Go In Peace

The world is a troubled place, unsettling news from everywhere.
The media with its issues insist you have to care.
you live in fear of a tomorrow
that will drag you down in chains.

The corrupt have their power to manipulate all man,
spinning webs of deceit and lies subjugating all they can.
Anxiety high, psyche damaged,
as hope in humanity wanes.

But we need not be afraid
in the midst of their terrible sin,
with the knowledge that good will triumph
and that we can fight the power and win.

Labor not with a heavy heart
though the evil onslaught will never cease,
but carry on, go your way, my friend;
walk your good path and go in peace.

you need not partake of the warring madness;
let your gentle heart find release,
as you live and let live, my friend;
walk your noble path and go in peace.

























The world is a troubled place, disturbing news from everywhere.
We’re barraged from media about issues that they insist we have to care.
Anxiety high, our psyche damaged, as our hope in humanity wanes,
we live in fear of the tomorrow that will drag us down to captivity in chains.
We labor with a heavy heart as an evil onslaught seems to never police,
but let it go my brother, let it go my friend; walk your path and go in peace.

The world is a troubled place, disturbing news from everywhere.
We’re barraged from media about issues that they insist we have to care.
Anxiety high, our psyche damaged, as our hope in humanity wanes,
we live in fear of the tomorrow that will drag us down to captivity in chains.
We labor with a heavy heart as an evil onslaught seems to never increase,
but let it go my brother, let it go my friend; walk your path and go in peace.
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and contrite spirit,
till we believe, accept our fate, and are


It’s hard to conceive we might dismantle an entity
that has tentacles reaching into every aspect of our lives.
nor can we expect that problems that grow from the use of violence, such as murder, rape, and domestic abuse.
These behaviors are found even in cultures that do not make war, or societies like the Amish, or Quakers that are nonviolent or relatively so
But ending war, where groups of men take up weapons and bond together to go kill, indiscriminately, men who belong to another group.

people who have spent years struggling to end war. In one way or another they ask me the same question. Not, can we end war? They believe we can and have been trying mightily to do it. The question they ask is, how?
They are stymied. How do we do it? How can we do something to defeat this behemoth that no activists from generations before us were able to defeat? A monster that they themselves have been striving to defeat. That provides employment for many millions of global citizens. That reaches even into our homes, to take from us our sons to serve, and if necessary to die, in its wars.
can we achieve something men and women of good will from previous generations could not? What has convinced me that we might actually do such an amazing thing?

our time differs from preceding epochs in ways that give us, if we grasp the chance, a window of opportunity to make this hugely historic shift from war. It is entitled “To date nonviolence movements were ‘before their time.’ Now they are poised to change history.”

This is firstly because a critical mass of global citizens know “in their bones” that what we are doing is not working. They grasp with deep unease that we desperately need a new way to live with each other.
Our time is hugely different because our global home is now “full.” From our isolated beginnings in Africa we now occupy all niches on the planet that are readily habitable by humans. It is no longer possible to escape from each other by emigrating to a frontier, moving to a place with fresh resources and unoccupied land. Our backs are to the wall, and we are floundering as we spend huge resources on war that are desperately needed for along list of critical needs.

We have significantly eliminated the part of us that favors compromise over fighting in ways that have plunged us into roughly 10,000 years of war after war after war.

begun to restore balance in our approaches to resolving conflicts.

How do we move the global community from the cultures of violence in which we now live to a future in which physical violence, particularly in the form of war, is no longer standard practice?

he Action Plan provides 1) specifics for how to assemble the necessary leadership, 2) a shared unifying vision, and 3) a strategy and tactics to shape a paradigm shift that would rival in magnitude the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. I’ve called it The Nonviolence Revolution.

The Action Plan is built around “Constructive Programs” (such as peace education, work to shift our economies, reaching young men so that they become part of the solution) that are grouped into nine cornerstones, and “Obstructive Programs” using nonviolent direct action to directly tackle the war machine, the goal being to dismantle it piece-by-piece.

Dismantling the War Machine

The war machine—a massive money-maker for the few and a job creator for the masses—is not just going to fall apart because a great many people decide they would like it to. We must take it apart, piece-by- piece.
How do we do that? Simply put, we will need a way to unite great numbers of us so that we can focus enormous persuasive power on vulnerable aspects of war’s infrastructure. We tackle this enormous dismantling project by directing focused action against “fulcrums” – vulnerable components of the vast death machine.

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if we want it bad enough and make the choice to act, we can end war.
I could be bitter or stressed out;
but that ain’t gonna get me nowhere, you know.
I gotta move forward; put the past behind me,
I need to go home, to find the love that’s been missing in my life.


I’m happy, I’m sad,
what took you so long to create,
you see your work, your love,
moving forward without you at the gate.
You could spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself.
You can foster negative energy and blame someone else,
or letting go, search within
the latent dreams that you aspire,
to find the next you,
you only need but to
find another fire.

It would seem it’s too late to start over,
as you stand in the back of the line,
but remember years ago,
that thing you wanted to do but never had the time?
You got all the time in the world now;
no need to look back from where you’ve been.
Who cares how long it’ll take
if it means you can be happy again?
It doesn’t matter what others say;
if they think you’re wrong or right,
just as long as in your heart
its what you want to do with your life.
You may find yourself
having to go out on a wire,
but to find the next you;
the new you,
you only need but to
find another fire.