from the invitation to the April 2000 program
 
 

Two  years ago we resolved that, one way or another, we were going to start something at Megiddo, intending to continue, the next, and next and next years... "To get in time, with time, ... going very fast and almost not to be moving at all," to express love, to intervene in the millennial events, to transform armageddon in the field of Megiddo. 

Megiddo, a place where perhaps we (some open invitational inclusive "we," including you?) could define a fulcrum from which to pry, cry, pray, and inveigh for a turning of hearts in humanity, lest there come a terrible destruction and a curse upon the land... to lay out, in art and ideas, a good attainable sustainable beautiful bountiful peace agenda for the future, for all human beings, honoring the earth and our many stories. 

In 1998 we went to Megiddo in April, for Earth Day. We brought with us a "peace pole" with the prayer "may peace prevail on earth" written in four languages: Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and English. We presented this to the guardian of Megiddo, the director of the park authority. 

We also began an interfaith prayer. And we offered one another an interpretive tour of the archeological site, identifying diggings suggestive of basic questions recurrent in wars since forever: the struggles for land, water food, security, privilege and, of course, power. There is a high place at Megiddo from which patriarchy, as a system, could be overturned/returned toward some partnership of gender justice. 

Megiddo is a beautiful place in the spring. 

We are returning to Megiddo in April of 2000.  We will arrange as low as possible travel fares to Megiddo, for a conference (April 22-25) and guided tour, a peace benefit concert and poetry reading, a memorial and prayer for the victims of all the wars, viewing an art for peace exhibit, and visiting peace camps and places of bloodshed and injustice, plus a hospital for peace delegation. 

Are you interested? Can you come? Contribute toward sending someone? Do you know artists, musicians, teachers, and healers who might help? What do you think? All in all we look forward to an increasing convergence of many positive initiatives and movements all over the world. The Megiddo Peace Project is one part of this overall effort of humanity to end war and create a wider justice and a freer life for all. The Hague appeal for peace, the Beijing Womens' NGO Forum, Abolition 2000, Jubilee 2000, the Campaign to Ban Landmines, the World Parliament of Religions, and more.

Art for Peace 

Bringing ideas and feelings together in a beauty-seeking way, using knowledges we have - activists, humanist sociologists, people of faith, truthers, system thinkers, researchers, detailers, philosophers, teachers, administrators, webmasters, performers, editors, check writers, artists - everyone, whatever your skills and capacities, we invite your participation. 

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