Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Social Networking for Peace
Recently we've been looking at the possibility of running a social networking site for Names for Peace. At the moment the blueprint is for a site that integrates with other social networking sites as an application. A simple database driven site like Facebook is ideal we feel, but the redundancy is a problem for us. So many of our sign-ups are members of multiple social networks as it is and even two is just too many networks.
As a result we have decided that for the NFP network the opportunity will be there to add friends and communicate but there will be no need to go into NFP outside of Facebook or Myspace etc.
We're excited about the future of the network and are very interested in your thoughts and ideas about how this can be used and which features we should include or exclude. After all Names for Peace belongs to you.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Here are some things others have done for the sake of Peace
Video by former Senator Mike Gravel (Alaska), Democratic candidate for President.
In 1971, He waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States.
He is perhaps best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War.
More info at www.gravel2008.us.
Here is a beautiful effort by a great young guy named Trevor Dougherty This video was nominated for "Most Inspirational" in the YouTube Video Awards 2007. It has also been viewed in 197 countries, from Afghanistan to Zambia. THANKS YOUTUBE!
We urge you to stand up for WORLD PEACE! ¡Paz de mundo! Paix dans le monde! Weltfrieden! Pace di mondo! De wereldvrede! Paz mundial! Мир во всем мире! Verdenfred!
This should give us an idea of how our peace efforts can be buried and forgotten. Peace is about humanity, life, kindness, equality and respect for each of us as we live. Peace is not a new or radical or dreamy or fashionable concept. Peace is essential to each of us on this planet. One year before the second world war broke out the following video was created.
Peace on Earth is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short subject directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated by animals.
In 1971, He waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States.
He is perhaps best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War.
More info at www.gravel2008.us.
Here is a beautiful effort by a great young guy named Trevor Dougherty This video was nominated for "Most Inspirational" in the YouTube Video Awards 2007. It has also been viewed in 197 countries, from Afghanistan to Zambia. THANKS YOUTUBE!
We urge you to stand up for WORLD PEACE! ¡Paz de mundo! Paix dans le monde! Weltfrieden! Pace di mondo! De wereldvrede! Paz mundial! Мир во всем мире! Verdenfred!
This should give us an idea of how our peace efforts can be buried and forgotten. Peace is about humanity, life, kindness, equality and respect for each of us as we live. Peace is not a new or radical or dreamy or fashionable concept. Peace is essential to each of us on this planet. One year before the second world war broke out the following video was created.
Peace on Earth is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short subject directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated by animals.
Peace Alive
You can't change people and you can't make them love but you can teach people, you can try to understand them, you can possibly forgive them if you are lucky and best of all you can love them if you choose.
Names for Peace was started in March 2007 with this in mind. That the world needs a way to connect all the peace seeking people throughout the planet into one voice. We are hoping to add something to that landscape and contribute to a growing voice around the planet that is getting louder little by little everyday.
Names for Peace was started in March 2007 with this in mind. That the world needs a way to connect all the peace seeking people throughout the planet into one voice. We are hoping to add something to that landscape and contribute to a growing voice around the planet that is getting louder little by little everyday.
Names for Peace is now live and taking names. You can simply sign up for peace on the site. There is no requirement to donate, give away personal information, there are no hidden levels of questions and there is no hidden agenda. You simply read the "Vision of peace" and if you agree you may sign up peace.
This is not a complicated concept. We simply believe that war is not a tool to be used for conflict resolution regardless of view points, opinions or status.
The site is attempting to be as compact as possible with all of it's content available on one page via fun AJAX coding tricks that allow you to reveal the sites content as you desire to view it. I hope you enjoy our work.
Names for Peace Team
http://www.namesforpeace.com
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