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My Lai Prayers: Honoring the Victims of the My Lai Massacre

  My Lai Prayers Jan 2020 Breakfast of rice porridge was cookingon the wood stoves,people chattering,children laughing,mothers singing and cooking, and fathersready to work in the rice fields. Then American soldiersdescended on this village in a few hoursmethodically killedfive hundred four men, women, and children.Women and girls were raped. War came and went, one conqueror …

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Yemen My Life

Yemen My Life: A Peace Corp Volunteer’s Memoir This weekend was the thirty-five year reunion of Peace Corps volunteers, Irish Concern, and other international organizations who served in Yemen together. We were innocent ambassadors to the ways of the country and Islam.  The baptism of my youth was in the glorious, incomprehensible, but always welcoming, …

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New Orleans – Building a Peaceable Community 13 Jan 6PM – Thank you all!

This is a project that has been in the making since at least 2010 and before. Art, poetry, performance, multimedia, sculpture and installation project called the Pornography of War: What is more pornographic two people making love or two soldiers or more trying to killing each other?  We have invited artists from around New Orleans …

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