Yes , we CAN … 07 / 03 / 2014 )
Yes , we CAN … 07 / 03 / 2014 )
There are things in life we cannot change even though we so want to do so : ... drone strikes that create three times the " terrorists " they wish to eliminate ( killing more innocent women & children than " dangerous " men in the process ) ... major corporations that taint our food supplies , pollute our rivers & destroy our environment ... preachers who cherry-pick scriptures for verses both hateful & condemnatory ( and who then use the same to spread messages of intolerance , hatred & fear ) ... politicians who look away from our communities ' often dire needs while greedily lining their own pockets & satisfying their own desires ... factory farms that disgustingly slaughter millions upon millions of innocent animals every day in ways more cruel & unusual than any Nazi extermination camp ... and the list goes on & on & on .
Frankly , it can be enough to make the most hopeful of us shake our heads & tremble … AND YET , even though there is essentially nothing we can do about these tragedies on a major scale , WE CAN stand against them in our own everyday lives -- and by doing so , WE CAN make significant changes in our own communities , and thereby inevitably the world as a whole as well ...
Consider the following :
* We cannot stop Obama from turning the United States into the world largest ( and most efficient ) terrorist state , and yet WE CAN become agents for Peace in our own relationships and open advocates for Peace in our communities .
* We cannot stop Monsanto ( or Nestle , or Kraft , or any other large corporation ) from destroying our planet and selling us poisoned foodstuffs , and yet WE CAN stop supporting them in our grocery stores , and WE CAN start supporting local organic farmers , and WE CAN even start growing our own food and sharing the same with our neighbors .
* We cannot stop conservative reverends & pastors & rabbis from preaching bigotry & hatred & condemnation , and yet WE CAN open our hearts -- and even our homes -- to those in our communities who practice faiths different from our own .
* We cannot stop our politicians from looking our for their own interests at the expense of our own , and yet WE CAN begin to ignore them completely -- even while we go about the business of rebuilding our own communities in the very ways those politicians should have done long ago .
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