A Different Vision of the Path To International Security
by Elizabeth Sawin
— March 20, 2004 —
If there is such a thing as a universal human wish, it must be to have security – to live one’s life in peace, to be safe and know one’s family is safe, to have shelter, food and freedom from violence.
The wish may be universal, but ideas on how to realize that wish definitely [...]
Searching for Our Untapped Sources of Power
by Elizabeth Sawin
— March 19, 2003 —
You’ve called your Senators and your Representatives.
Or perhaps you have called the White House (possibly many times).
You have signed petitions.
Or you have stood with groups of your neighbors on a bridge, at city hall, or on your town green, holding up a sign saying NO WAR ON IRAQ.
Perhaps you have taken your children with [...]
Petitioning a Government That Does Not Yet Exist
by Elizabeth Sawin
— February 3, 2003 —
Petitions have been arriving in a flurry in my email in-box lately. I have some doubts about the effectiveness of all this petitioning and tend to be quick with the delete button, but one recent petition drew me in.
The message itself – which stated that the United Nations is collecting signatures of people opposed [...]
We Are Vulnerable but not Powerless
by Elizabeth Sawin
— December 2, 2002 —
A Czech friend of mine sent an email during the recent NATO summit as American fighter jets stood by and riot police filled the streets of Prague. “Sometimes,” she wrote, “I feel as though the world has gone mad.” Her words spoke my own thoughts so clearly it was as though I was reading [...]
Up is not Down, Black is not White
by Elizabeth Sawin
— July 1, 2002 —
Once kings claimed that their power came directly from God. Once lawmakers decreed that slaves were not human beings. Once men said that women could not think clearly and therefore should not vote.
But black is not white just because the powerful say so.
We no longer view kings as divine or the descendants of slaves [...]
