voices of humanity
re: Send a Message to Obama - Mayor's for Peace
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Carl, I'm looking into the Mayor's for Peace campaign. Do you know anything about this campaign? It seems to be organized and global. Moreover, it has adopted relatively close in horizon of 2020 for complete nuclear disarmament with 2015 as target date for completion of the Nuclear Weapons Convention that will spell out the details of the actual disarmament. The rhetoric coming out of it is great - here is an example from http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org:
The two most serious immediate threats to human evolution are environmental degradation and weapons of mass destruction. Our collective need to curb human capacity for violence and destructive effects on our ecosystem demands a rapid and decisive shift away from selfish, competitive struggles for dominance toward mutual, cooperative problem solving. And yet, the only phenomenon more obvious than this pressing need is the utter inability of national governments to respond with anything that even resembles a solution to these problems. Mayors for Peace is growing because cities are drawn into the vacuum created by failure at the national level to accept reality.
Seems like we, that is the LAANDC would do well in pulling in the local Mayors who have signed on to Mayors for Peace, and that is at least a dozen of them, and get them moving. If they are already moving, why aren't they in the news? Why haven't they done their own outreach to sign on every single local city? What do you think? Anyone?
-- Roger Eaton
The two most serious immediate threats to human evolution are environmental degradation and weapons of mass destruction. Our collective need to curb human capacity for violence and destructive effects on our ecosystem demands a rapid and decisive shift away from selfish, competitive struggles for dominance toward mutual, cooperative problem solving. And yet, the only phenomenon more obvious than this pressing need is the utter inability of national governments to respond with anything that even resembles a solution to these problems. Mayors for Peace is growing because cities are drawn into the vacuum created by failure at the national level to accept reality.
Seems like we, that is the LAANDC would do well in pulling in the local Mayors who have signed on to Mayors for Peace, and that is at least a dozen of them, and get them moving. If they are already moving, why aren't they in the news? Why haven't they done their own outreach to sign on every single local city? What do you think? Anyone?
-- Roger Eaton
