{"id":45479,"date":"2014-08-04T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=45479"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:47","slug":"lets-open-a-nonkilling-door-a-global-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/lets-open-a-nonkilling-door-a-global-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Open a Nonkilling Door: A Global Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When we see or read\/hear about many innocent persons being brutally killed in a current war<br \/>\nLet\u00b4s plead guilty globally for Humankind is becoming more shamefully destructive than before<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Against such abominable crimes it is not enough individually or collectively to abhor<br \/>\nCitizens everywhere should unite and engage seriously in opening a Nonkilling door<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To be used by those who violate the right to live and instead decide to kill<br \/>\nAnd also by those who, in crying\/praying for Peace, will act rather than stand still<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As human beings co-responsible for the Good on Earth, to a sustainable Nonkilling Peace let\u00b4s commit<br \/>\nAnd show, through globally-taken, constructive political actions, that acts of killing we will never permit<br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (www.abaweb.org). <\/em><em>He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we see or read\/hear about many innocent persons being brutally killed in a current war<br \/>\nLet\u00b4s plead guilty globally for Humankind is becoming more shamefully destructive than before<\/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-45479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479","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=45479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}