"Faith, Hope, and Love- the greatest of these is Love."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is LOVE."
-- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing"
--James Brown, The Godfather of Soul
"Everything is clearer when you're in love."
--John Lennon
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
--The Beatles
"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not."
--Bono
"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing that I like to see happen. I like to see mankind
live together- black, white, chinese, everyone- that's all."
--Bob Marley
"Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate"
--Ozzy Osbourne
"Somebody has to do something, and it's incredibly pathetic that it has to be us"
--Jerry Garcia
"War is not the answer, for only LOVE can conquer
hate"
--Marvin Gaye in 1970 (Ironic that this quote is timely)
"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love."
--Che Guevara
“Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk.â€
--Carter Heyward
"The flowering of a movement is as much an awakening of the hearts as the minds."
-- Jack Chernos
"You can live for weeks without food, you can live for days without water, but you cannot truly live for even one second if you don't have love in your heart."
--Jim Miller
I'd like to meet:
All who are interested in helping to promote and organize this massive project.
All who work for peace.
All who work for democracy.
All who work for social justice.
All who help the needy.
All who create art and music for a better world.
All who care and are willing to take action!
THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR LOVE. COME GET INVOLVED!
PUT WORLD LOVE DAY IN YOUR TOP 8!
DOWNLOAD A WORLD LOVE DAY POSTER FROM OUR WEBSITE (coming soon) AND POST IT AT YOUR LOCAL COFFEE SHOP, BOOK STORE, LIBRARY, ACTIVIST CENTER, ETC.
SEND EMAILS TO YOUR MYSPACE FRIENDS ASKING THEM TO ADD US AS A FRIEND. WE NEED TO HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS! If you can devote 20 minutes a day, three or four days a week, to this, let us know and we'll list you in our Activist Friends section.
IF YOU'RE A BAND WITH A GREAT "WORLD LOVE" SONG: Let us know about it. We will be rotating featured songs, and posting a jukebox with the best World Love songs.
IF YOU'RE A BAND WHO WOULD LIKE TO PERFORM AT WORLD LOVE DAY: Please message us so we can work out the details.
IF YOU'RE AN ARTIST WITH A GREAT "WORLD LOVE" PICTURE: Let us know about it. We will be setting up a gallery here.
IF YOU'RE AN ARTIST WHO WOULD LIKE TO SHOW AT ONE OF OUR OUTDOOR GALLERIES AT WORLD LOVE DAY: Send us a message with a link to your art webpage.
IF YOU'RE AN ACTIVIST OR ORGANIZER WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK BETWEEN MUSICAL ACTS AT WORLD LOVE DAY: Please send us the proposed text which features the role of love in your work.
IF YOU'RE A TEACHER: Have your students create World Love Day artwork which we could post here. (Very young children can color in our downloadable poster.)
IF YOU'RE AN ACTIVISM, ENVIRONMENTAL OR LABOR GROUP THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE AN ENDORSER: Please send us an endorsement. And let's share resources!
IF YOU WANT TO GET MORE INVOLVED: Send us a message. We need organizing committees in as many cities as possible.
IF YOU HAVE IDEAS ABOUT HOW WE CAN BETTER ORGANIZE THIS EVENT: Let us know!
Music:
Bob Marley
Marvin Gaye
James Brown
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Woody Guthrie
Neil Young
U2
Billy Bragg
And the less known artists of today out on the front lines at pickets, protests, and rallies:
Solidarity Park
Jack Chernos
Dave Lippman
Evan Greer
Television:
PBS (e.g., "Eyes on the Prize"!), Democracy Now, ...
RADIO: The Pacifica Radio Network (e.g., Democracy Now!)
WEB: Indymedia sites such as indybay.org
Books:
"365 Things You Can Do To Change the World," Michael Norton
Heroes:
All the people who work to make the world a better place.
Dr. Martin King, Jr., Ghandi, Mother Jones, Bono, Harry Bridges, Paul Wellstone, Thomas Paine, Jerry Garcia, ACLU, Public Citizen, Code Pink, ...
ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS:
LaborFest, San Francisco -- a celebration of labor culture and arts.
LaborTech, International -- a annual technology and organizing conference. 5MillionPeaceMarch -- a peace march from Israel and Palestines neighbors to Jerusalem.
ACTIVIST MYSPACE FRIENDS:
Cary- Who is doing our PR
Sally Hampton, whose passionate activism is inspiring.
Kristi - Helping out from the Czech Republic!
Dani - Helping out from Germany!
