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WAR SUCKS
For Memorial Day 2008, TouchArt.net's Charleen Touchette
talks about war and its immeasurable costs to the world.
Touchette, a mother of 4 adult children asks us to stop war
and work for peace and justice.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthblog.blogspot.com For Memorial Day 2008, TouchArt.net's Charleen Touchette talks about war and its immeasurable costs to the world. ... more -
Memorial Callout For Our Loved Ones
To remember those who have served who were those we loved, and to remember those lost but never forgotten.
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Butterflying - PeacePATH Foundation - In Memory of Crizell Valencia, 6, in Phillip...
By Kelly Hayes-Raitt | February 25th, 2008 |
“She wanted to fly so high, she could see all the people on earth,” Dina Valencia says of her daughter. Six-year-old Crizel died eight years ago today from leukemia likely caused by the toxic wastes the US left behind when it formally closed Clark Air Base.
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Crizel leaves behind a portfolio of vibrant drawings of psychedelic butterflies, floating hearts, lush flowers and dancing vegetables. Her mother thumbs through a scrapbook of Crizel’s artwork, proudly showing off her daughter’s colorful spirit.
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She also leaves behind a year of painful memories for one frantic mother and a legacy of media interviews as the face of the impact of American military presence in the Philippines.
Clark was under US military control for 88 years until the Philippine Senate voted to close all 22 American bases on August 21, 1991. As we handed Clark over to the Philippine government that November, families from the surrounding communities who had been displaced by the recent eruption of Mount Pinatubo were relocated to the base’s old “motor pool,” where military vehicles had been brought for repair…and where toxic wastes had been dumped for years. Twenty-five million gallons of petroleum, oil, lubricants and other stuff were stored here, over time releasing PCBs, TCEs, mercury, pesticides, asbestos, far in excess of what our government’s environmental standard would allow in an American community. Toxics seeped into water, saturated the soil and scattered via dust particles.
During the next 14 years, 20,000 impoverished families, displaced from the volcano disaster, would live on this toxic land, would drink from the contaminated wells, and would breathe the poisoned air.
The entire base, the size of Singapore, is likely contaminated. Two rivers flow downhill, plaguing additional generations.....
Click link for more on this heartbreaking story of mothers and loss due to military activities.
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com for Memorial Day in remembrance of little Crizill Valencia and all victims worldwide of toxic pollution, including American and other soldiers, from military actions who are an unacceptable collateral damage of waging war. By Kelly Hayes-Raitt | February 25th, 2008 | ... more -
Dedicated to Love Lost...
This is dedicated to those who had Lost Love...who still feel the agony of pain that dwell's from a Love that once was there's but is now LOST...If this relate's to you,then don't let love get you down,cheer up and learn from it,Like the old saying goe's,"set love free,if it come's back then it was meant to be",...........But if it doesnt then respect it and let love go...p.s. no messed up response's please...t.y...much respect everyone...1.. This is dedicated to those who had Lost Love...who still feel the agony of pain that dwell's from a Love that once was there'... more
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3 Year Anniversary of Tsunami in Asia
Can't believe it's been three years already....The waves on Dec. 26, 2004, spawned by the mightiest earthquake in 40 years, killed around 230,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations, just under half of them in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Sumatra island. Can't believe it's been three years already....The waves on Dec. 26, 2004, spawned by the mightiest earthquake in 40 years, ... more
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El Presidente Math
Street artists in Colombia strike back at government propoganda with their own dose of political graffiti.
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