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Programs:
Future
Events
Month
of National Dialogue on Universal Security
Towards a Proliferation of Consciousness
We
propose a Month of National Dialogue (MND) to raise
consciousness, educate, and promote public discourse
on a critical issue of our time. April is chosen, because
it has several holidays including April Fools Day, Easter,
Passover, Earth Day, and Tax Day.
We
encourage dialogue, rather than protest or debate, in
the spirit of openness and democracy, in trust of a
process that relies on our collective wisdom.
The
American public is largely unaware of developments in
nuclear technologies, policies, and strategies which
have serious consequences for international security,
human rights, the environment, health, and the economy.
New developments in nuclear technologies, policies,
and strategies have serious consequences for international
security, human rights, the environment, health, and
the economy.
The dialogue can take place on several levels simultaneously.
Suggested
Weekly Themes (for sermons, classes, daily or weekly
programs):
- Week
1 - Coming out of Psychic Numbness, Nuclear Awareness,
learning the truth
- Week
2 - Understanding and Reactions - despair, fear, outrage,
hope, creativity
- Week
3 - Education
- Week
4 - Creating a safer world, future strategies, violence
prevention, waging peace
Arenas
for Dialogue:
- Places
of Worship
Encourage clergy to give sermons on the themes as
human survival, morality of weapons, peace and disarmament,
weapons spending and poverty, etc., to be followed
by open dialogue among congregants.
- Campus
Dialogues and Local Town Meetings
Informative presentation or video as a stimulus, followed
with a dialogue open microphone meetings.
- High
Schools
Special Assemblies, video conferencing
- Magazine
and Journal
Special issues or cover stories of popular magazines.
- Talk
Shows, TV appearances
Politically Incorrect, Hardball, Crossfire, Today,
Oprah, Nightline, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, etc.
could focus on this theme for the month.
- Newspaper
Editorials
- Rock
Concerts
Themes of No Nukes, peace, human rights, and the environment
- Conferences
Re-release films Failsafe, Dr. Strangelove, War Games,
Threads, On the Beach, The Day After, Atomic Cafe
Nuclear Truth Commissions
- Book
Clubs
Select books like The Gift of Time by Jonathan
Schell, or Way Out There In The Blue, by Francis
Fitzgerald.
Future
of This Website
We made a great effort to construct this website with
limited resources, and sufficient materials to be useful
and available for camp programming this August.
This website will be further developed to include much
more, including more educational materials and activities,
instructions for cooperative games, workshop designs,
assembly programs, more exercises, resources, readings,
an online survey, and a glossary for the new paradigm.
Also
the site will contain materials from several religious
and spiritual sources about specific perspectives on
violence prevention, conflict transformation, human
rights and the environment. Also lists of songs, poetry,
reading, videos, and books.
We welcome submissions of high quality, best practices
for educators, counselors, parents, and others to use.
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