We are standing for the world's children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them.
We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breath, and enough food to eat.
A world where they have access to basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies.
A world where they have awarm, safe and loving place to call home.
A world where they don't live infear of violence--in their home, in their neighborhood,in their school or in their world.
This is the world in which we dream,
This is the cause for which we stand.
The women of Ohio call upon the women of the world, from the day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us to save the world.
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering that has inspired us. A quick summary of the story is:
A busboy who worked in a café whose window faced the public park noticed that two grandmotherly looking women had been standing in the park all day without moving at all and without talking. They were dressed up in their Sunday best and were just staring at the town hall. He asked the other patrons in the café what they thought the women were up to. They speculated on a variety of things. Then, a five-year old year who was in the café spoke up and said "One of them is my grandmother and I know what they are doing. They are standing there to save the world." All of the men in the café hooted and howled and laughed. On his way home the busboy decided to ask the women what they were doing and sure enough their answer was "We are saving the world."
Over dinner that evening the busboy told his parents and he and his father hooted and howled, but his mother was totally silent. After dinner, the mother called her best friends to tell them.
The next morning the busboy looked out the café window and the two women were back, along with his mother, her friends, and the women who had been in the café the day before. All were standing in silence staring at the town hall. Again, the men hooted and howled and said things like "You can't save the world by standing in the park. That is what we have armies for," and "everyone knows you have to have banners and slogans to save the world--you can't do it by just standing in the park."
The next day the women were joined by the women who were in the café the day before and a number of their friends. This brought the local newspaper reporter to the scene. He wrote a derisive article about the women. The day after it appeared, hundreds of women showed up to stand in the park in silence. The mayor then told the police chief to make the women leave because they were making the town appear to be foolish. When the police chief told them they would have to disperse because they didn't have a permit, one of them responded that "we are just individuals standing in our public park and we are not giving speeches or having a demonstration so why would we need a permit." The police chief thought about this and agreed with them and left the park.
At this point 2,223 women including the mayor's wife, the police chief's wife, and one five-year old girl were standing in the park to save the world. The news quickly spread and soon women were standing all over the country. The story ended with women standing in every country throughout the globe, standing to save the world. See www.grandmotherbook.com.
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Please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with the statement below. We ask you to invite the men who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence. During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain this world. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so. Afterwards, hopefully you and your loved ones can talk together about how we can bring about this world.
WILL YOU STAND WITH US?
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From standingwomen@lightpages.net
Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 9:50 pm
Subject [Standing Women] Calls to global unity (read 1st)
Dear Standing Women,
Global events, like Standing Womens moment of silence on May 13, 2007, heighten our awareness that we are one global family. Many of you wrote about an inner experience of connectedness when you stood; over ¾ of us would like to stand together again in local/global unity (See more results of our heart survey at www.StandingWomen.org.)
Because of your responses, we're called to initiate a kind of global calendar, a clearinghouse of calls for global resonance. Please participate in these great flows of intention to transform the earth, in any way that seems right to you, and pass them on to your networks.
Let us reach inside again and again, to connect with all the other good souls who want a better world for the children, for us all. If a particular call is not for you, consider praying or gathering with the highest intention on that day anyway, because the shared focus around the world is important to awaken us all to our common humanity. You can make a difference.
If you know of more calls to global unity, please send them to Julie at julieraquel@cox.net.
GLOBAL RESONANCE EVENTS, Summer/Fall 2007
On July 7, 2007, an estimated 2 billion! people will watch Live Earth concerts being broadcast all over the world to highlight awareness of global warming issues. Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7- continent concert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists on an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels. See www.liveearth.msn.com for more information, and www.joinliveearth.org/gore to register a local Live Earth gathering. See also www.missionignition.net/hs777 for the esoteric importance of 7/7/7.
On July 17, 2007 at 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time, we are called to amass a union of humans, such as the world has never seen. Loving humans with one intention to heal our planet and awaken our souls to our true purpose. We will be healing our planets energy field, in the same way that Shelley Yates was guided to heal her son when he had drowned. Read her story and the call she brings at www.firethegrid.org. Imagine a process of deep connection maturing in the interval between 7/7 and 7/17.
On September 21st, 2007 thousands of groups and millions of individuals throughout the world will dedicate their prayers, thoughts and actions to 24 hours of global ceasefire and non- violence. This years United Nations theme is peace in our communities. Also there is a global intention to observe a minute of silence for peace at noon on September 21st 2007. See www.idpvigil.com for more information.
With many blessings and much gratitude,
The web team at StandingWomen.org
P.S. You may have received an earlier email from us today. It was a duplicate of a letter we sent last month. Please pardon the error.
