As part of the Campaign Nonviolence Call To Action Days, these panelists united with over 2,200 groups around the world revealing that nonviolence is more effective and less expensive than violence. https://paceebene.org/action-days The human species has survived because people choose to compassionately care for others, to let the suffering of others make a claim on us. www.CharterForCompassion.org
A deep level of respect and understanding emerged as each panelist shared. They were joined by young people, Alejandro Desuque Yafel, Sinai Krigel-Armstrong, and Anna Mayorga, committed to co-creating a better world who are going to be part of the World Summit of Nobel PeaceLaureates in Rome the first week of December. (You can support these young leaders at that link.)
People who were strangers a few months ago now feel that they have
common hopes and dreams. Wisdom from the Bible, from Abraham Heschel, from the
Quran, from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fetullah Gulen was shared. The importance of women in developing a more
compassionate, just, and peaceful world was emphasized. Jewish Women Wage Peace and Palestinian Women
of the Sun together promote "The Mother's Call" an urgent cry that no
child should be raised to kill or be killed.
Please join them by signing https://mothers-call.org/
Abraham Heschel writes of letting the suffering of others
make a claim on us. That builds our
compassion. Islam promotes the wisdom of
Moses, of Jesus, and of Mohamed. We need each other.
About the panelists:
Sue Parsons says, “I was raised Christian by New England
(Maine) parents of Puritan heritage. I chose progressive Judaism 35 years ago.
My degrees are in Russian language and literature, Second Language Acquisition,
and library science. My teaching career in academia lasted twenty years
followed by librarianship for twenty years. I just retired. I speak English,
Russian, and some Swedish. I lived in Sweden in 1976/77 and the USSR 1981-82. I
have three grown children, four grandsons, and a 16 year-old cockapoo.
Tamar Krigel-Armstrong originally from Israel is active in
the US Supporters of Women Wage Peace. She promotes dialogue in the northern
California area.
Iman Beytullah Colak, is of Kurdish origin and a citizen of
Turkey, Argentina and USA. Working and volunteering last 25 years in different
capacities for the peace and interfaith relations. I am married and have two
boys. I studied Islamic theology in Izmir. I speak Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic,
Spanish and English.
Sister Martha Ann Kirk is an educator at the University of
the Incarnate Word and also the Coordinator of the Compassionate Colleges and
Universities Initiative of www.CharterForCompassion.org. She is seeking young leaders 18 to 35 to be
considering for participating in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in
Rome the first week of December. Now is
the time to apply https://uiw.givepulse.com/event/898401-Nobel-Peace-Laureate-Summit-Dec.-1-4-in-Rome
This panel is part of an ongoing conversation linked with the Charter for Compassion, the Mother's Call with Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun, the Hizmet movement, the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative --- all positively acting for a less violent, more unified, loving world.
We encourage young leaders to participate in the "Best Social Change" competition supported by the Nobel Laureates Secretariat and the Vatican. Proposals are due Oct. 15. The ten best proposals will be shared in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and one will be chosen for a $10,000 prize to help implement it.
This flier links on the competition links to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEmwRQjOkuuhN6OBqvLlT82b7o8K5rRdYls9H3PfOto3bsSw/viewform?pli=1
