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  • Cooperix
    Member
    • Nov 2013
    • 502

    Lead to Life

    Hello everyone,
    I am posting this in the Art Circle, as the trans-formative action of art can help with healing a community. Guns forged into shovels.
    A very moving piece.

    Young activists come together to transform guns into shovels to plant trees alongside victims of gun violence. To find out more about this work, please visit…


    Gassho
    Anne

    ~lahst~
  • Kotei
    Dharma Transmitted Priest
    • Mar 2015
    • 4243

    #2
    Thank you for posting Anne, very moving.
    It reminds me on the 'swords into plowshares' ('Schwerter zu Pflugscharen') of biblical origin, that was the maxim of the 80s peace and disarmament movement of East and West Germany.
    I think there was also an international Plowshare movement (GB/US)

    Gassho,
    Kotei sat/lah today.
    義道 冴庭 / Gidō Kotei.

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    • Shinshi
      Senior Priest-in-Training
      • Jul 2010
      • 3725

      #3
      Thanks for posting that Anne. Really great video.

      Gassho, Shinshi

      SaT-LaH
      空道 心志 Kudo Shinshi

      For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
      ​— Shunryu Suzuki

      E84I - JAJ

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      • Onka
        Member
        • May 2019
        • 1576

        #4
        Originally posted by Kotei
        Thank you for posting Anne, very moving.
        It reminds me on the 'swords into plowshares' ('Schwerter zu Pflugscharen') of biblical origin, that was the maxim of the 80s peace and disarmament movement of East and West Germany.
        I think there was also an international Plowshare movement (GB/US)

        Gassho,
        Kotei sat/lah today.
        A group of Christian Anarchists here in Australia took direct action a couple of years ago removing a sword from a war memorial and filming themselves turning it into a hand plow of sorts. Ciaran O'Reilly who is famous for being part of a Ploughshares group in the UK that took to a bomber aircraft with hammers lives part time here too although his connection to Julian Assange and his misogynistic attacks on Anarcha-Feminists have seen him estranged from the broader Anarchist community over the last decade.
        Thanks to Anne for posting this.
        Gassho
        Onka
        st
        穏 On (Calm)
        火 Ka (Fires)
        They/She.

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