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Peace Wins The Election, a song by, Maria Daines of Cambridgeshire U.K. Maria Daines wrote this song as she drew inspiration after listening to the Greg Allen Interview KEEP THE GREEN ALIVE !!!! Please visit, Maria Daines website to listen to Peace Wins The Election, and much more Maria Daines
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WHY?
Artytou's story about the collaboration of Why?
We had a tune kicking about for a few months, but when we read one of Nigels postings on 'Anubis Spire' we found it deeply touching like poetry, hence we found our words and with Nigels kind permission the result was born. It was destined. The words describe itself.
'Dominoes' Maria says. If it can make a difference somewhere, It'll make a difference somewhere else.
WHY?
lyrics by, N.Potter
music by, Artytou
I guess what always strikes me is that because something is not MY problem, that it is not a problem.
Unfortunately the human race does not always seem to share that view :)
We can speak of Aborignes, The Native American, or the Tibetan.
Whose family are they?
They are OURS.
The separateness has been DRUMMED into us.
We are not separate.
We are in all senses one.
Any other notion leads to elitism, the chosen ones, and racism, fascism.
At the end of the day, we make one simple choice.
Love and peace or hate and war.
Peace follows love, war follows hate.
Following on from these thoughts is also our relationship with the Earth.
Again we have been TAUGHT that the Earth is ours to take what we desire to excess every single day.
Part of this conditioning is within our culture, part within our religions and part, most definately, within our self interested greed as grown and fed by raging consumerism of business.
We see animals as game, zoo fodder.
We see nature as wasted space.
Yet, in all our hearts we have this NEED to feel nature around us.
Some, more as time goes by, have been raised under artificial light, and forget their life, have no self-awareness beyond what can be bought, fought or mated with.
Kind of the most primitive parts of their hindbrains are in control.
If a square miles of earth is polouted, that should hurt us all, but it doesn't.
That's the separateness we have been taught in action.
When another acre of forest goes down, we should all grieve for the loss.
Despite claims, this is not a re-newable energy source in the way they would have us believe.
When the polar ice caps melt, we should feel that, we should be alarmed and saddened that they re having to tranquilize Polar bears and helicopter them further north.
From the very small, a nature reserve in your local area having a road put through it, to the ozone depletion levels.
From the inactions of local leaders to the inaction of world leaders, all of this should matter, but they have taught us so very well to be concerned with only ourselves.
Keep the population too tired to think straight, keep them in debt enough not to stop and wonder where their life is going.
Give them enough shiny objects to be bought.
Give them small things to keep them from asking questions.
Ok perhaps I am a nutcase.
But, can anyone tell me how they expect us to be able to carry on like this for another 100 years?
The UK is now going to go nuclear powered again...
Why?
Well our own resources have all but G.O.N.E.
Gone as in, never coming back.
As for the polar ice caps...
Remember you cannot make that a safari park or an area of special interest.
What we do here, the energy we burn, the stuff we buy, what we consume has an impact on the top of the world.
Isn't it hard for us to understand this?
Isn't it going to be SO very hard to change?
What happens if we can't or won't?
Well, I'm just a nutcase on the very fringe of society.
Someone who loves trees and watching birds fly, so I don't have the intelligence to work that all out, or do I?
Greg Allen addresses the City Of Toronto's Pledge TO Green event at Toronto's City Hall, October 14, 2006.http://www.pledgetogreen.cawww.pledgetogreen.ca(please note: video becomes full screen after 18 seconds)If you would like to comment, please do. Thank you for your kind attention.This is another video that features many concerned people about the "industrialized" useage of the Toronto Portlands to build the Portlands Energy Centre.www.stoptheplant.caMayor Miller, Jack Layton, Peter Tabuns, Paula Fletcher, Adam Vaughan, Greg Allen, plus activists and experts weigh in on the mistake by the lake, the Portlands Energy Centre....Now this is certainly a positive way to go !!!! Please watch the video below, and I know that you will be filled with the hope that planet Earth is going to be treated with respect by the youth of today and for many generations to come !!!!Green AmbassadorsFor more info please see;www.greenambassadors.orgMy friend Terra Naomi www.myspace.com/terranaomi performed her song, Say It's Possible, at the Live Earth London concert at Wembley Stadium in the video below.I sent her a message the very next day saying how I saw her on TV showing us all how to do the right thing at that particular concert. And I also mentioned how proud I was of her to show up at the concert and only use an acoustic guitar in her performance.Terra was kind enough to respond to my message personally in saying thanks for the support etc...Now friends, please don't get me wrong here...I saw the Live Earth Concert on TV, and I had hoped that perhaps all the bands and artists would have elected to use the minimalistic approach to their performances that day...and some did, others...not so...but know this, I appreciate all music in many forms of presentation, I just wish that there could have been a mandate to use as little electricity as possible in these concerts.....I suppose next time the organizers will put this out as a possible mandate to performers to use the least amount of non renewable resources in their future performances...as Terra sings...Say It's PossibleEnough of my blabbing...PLEASE enjoy Terra Naomi and her performance of Say It's Possible from the Live Earth London concert at Wembley Stadium.Peace, and, best regards to you all !!!Paul