My children came home from school last week with their "weekley readers" of Martin Luther King. Ally, my 5 yr old, told me he died because the bad people didn't like what he talked about. Dean, my 7 yr old, yelled out after her..it was because he was brown mommy. I've never taught them we were different. I've always told them everyone is the same no matter what they look like, girl or boy. No matter what we teach our children society will always teach them different.
I HAVE A DREAM......we can all live on this earth in peace....
Peace be inside all of us, Enjoy your moments, Cindy
We will be meeting to plan for a demonstration on
Tuesday, January 31st as part of the "World Can't
Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime" campaign. Go to
worldcantwait.net for more information on the
national campaign.
When:
7:30, Tuesday, January 17th.
Where:
Strictly Additions
317 S. State Road 7 (441)
(3 blocks south of Browad Boulevard)
Jan. 31, on The Night of President Bush’s State of the
Union Address: Bring the Noise! Drown Out Bush’s
Lies!
In large cities and small towns all across the
country, join in rallies before Bush’s address as we
make our determination to “Drive Out the Bush Regime”
the political message of the day.
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MARCH WITH BAWC IN THE MLK DAY PARADE!
If you'd like to march with the Broward AntiWar
Coalition contingent during Monday's MLK March in Fort
Lauderdale, we'll be assembling at Joseph Carter Park
at 8:30am Monday, Jan. 16. The march is scheduled to
begin at 9:00am but often starts late...
Look for the Broward AntiWar banner. Carter Park is
located on the south side of Sunrise Blvd., just east
of I-95. The march goes to Holiday Park.
Wear a BAWC or antiwar t-shirt if you have one. We'll
have BAWC t-shirts for the first few lucky people who
show up!
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Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh
Melida Arredondo, (stepmother to Alex, KIA in Iraq 8/25/2004) Ask:
a) Is this what tax dollars are going for? Laugh lessons?
b) I don't think any politician would be laughing if there child was killed in war.
c) Must have been a slow news day to allow such idiocy in a nationwide paper like USA today.
Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
January 13, 2006
When the stress of the war in Iraq becomes too severe, the Pentagon has a suggestion for military families: Learn how to laugh. With help from the Pentagon's chief laughter instructor, families of National Guard members are learning to walk like a penguin, laugh like a lion and blurt "ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho." No joke. "I laugh every chance I get," says the instructor, retired Army colonel James "Scotty" Scott. "That's why I'm blessed to be at the Pentagon, where we definitely need a lot of laughter in our lives." Scott, 57, is certified as a laughter training specialist by the Ohio-based World Laughter Tour, a group that promotes mirth as medicine. It touts scientific research that suggests chuckling can boost the body's immune system and decrease stress hormones. A Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, says the Pentagon is committed to the program and values Scott's skills. "We sent him to the training," she says. The laughter program was Scott's idea. It costs the military virtually nothing, because Scott already travels to states as a director of military family support policy. 
KEEPING THEM IN STITCHES Ways military families are being taught to laugh:
Penguin exercise: Waddle and flap hands as though they're fins.
Lion laugh: Open eyes and mouth wide while repeating "ha ha's."
Repeat "ho, ho, ha, ha, ha," while clapping on each sound. He has taught National Guard family group leaders in Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Idaho, and will do so in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida, he says. Another laughter trainer is working with folks in North Carolina. "We believe our program prevents hardening of the attitudes," says Scott, in one of his wordplay aphorisms that beg for a rimshot. The founder and chief executive of the World Laughter Tour is psychologist Steve Wilson, who calls himself "Cheerman of the Bored." "The guiding principle is to laugh for no reason. And that's one of the reasons it works so well for military families," Scott says. "There's a lot they have to be stressed over, a lot of worries, a lot of concerns." As foolish as students might feel, Scott says he's lost only one participant: a Marine sergeant major who, Scott says, fled the room with a bad case of the giggles. Mary Frances Booth, the wife of a retired soldier, took the class last year and is an ardent devotee. She and her two daughters — Meaghan, 10 and Sarah, 8 — were sobbing after Booth dropped her husband at the Boise airport Sunday; he was headed for Afghanistan for work as a civilian contractor, she says. Then Booth called for one of the laughing drills. "They rolled their eyes at me and thought, 'Mom's on her laughing thing again,' " Booth says. "(But) it made it a little bit better."
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Peoples State of the Union address.
On January 31st Gold Star Families for Peace along with Code Pink and other Peace Activist will be holding a Peoples State of the Union Address in Washington DC before the SOTU. We know that what we will be hearing fron the Bush crime family will be more lies. Come join us and hear the TRUE State of Union.Speakers scheduled thus far will be Cindy Sheehan co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace and Ann Write. noted Peace Activist and former member of the Diplomatic Corp. Ann resigned from her position out of protest to the then impending war. More speakers are being lined up for this powerful event. More details will be sent out soon.
In Peace, Dede
Gold Star Families for Peace
Donate to GSFP 2010 Linden Ave.Venice Ca. 90291
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