{"id":18819,"date":"2012-04-30T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=18819"},"modified":"2012-04-26T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:00:38","slug":"a-plea-of-pleas-for-nonkilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/04\/a-plea-of-pleas-for-nonkilling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plea of Pleas for Nonkilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rhymed Reflections Dedicated to the Center for Global Nonkilling<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In so many ways\u00a0the history of violence\u00a0can be told<\/p>\n<p>Depending on its origins and on how\u00a0\u00a0 events\u00a0unfold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In favor of a person\/a community\/a country there may be an action<\/p>\n<p>In favor of world peace and nonviolence\u00a0there may be\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0interaction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0very serious global issue or\u00a0problem\u00a0 \u00a0may generate an appeal<\/p>\n<p>A cause may become an urban\u00a0protest, collectively\u00a0realized as real<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A global, organized effort to\u00a0achieve\u00a0an urgently needed\u00a0\u00a0Nonkilling \u00a0goal<\/p>\n<p>calls for more than an earnest request:\u00a0support with\u00a0one`s body and soul<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In such bold,\u00a0transformative spirit,\u00a0this Plea of Pleas let`s\u00a0 \u00a0reiterate<\/p>\n<p>and in all languages-cultures, East and West\u00a0citizens \u00a0let\u00b4s educate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In today`s world, this Plea of Pleas for Nonkilling is being made<\/p>\n<p>Before\u00a0all kinds\u00a0of\u00a0government leaders this text\u00a0 \u00a0should be laid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of all the Life-saving-supporting-sustaining appeals in which\u00a0human beings\u00a0can excel<\/p>\n<p>May this Plea of Pleas\u00a0help\u00a0Humankind to dignify sharing the Earth\u00a0\u00a0nonkillingly well<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. Author of <\/em>Criatividade no Ensino de Ingl\u00eas<em>. A Resourcebook. S\u00e3o Paulo: DISAL Editora, 2004.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhymed Reflections Dedicated to the Center for Global Nonkilling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}