Fly your flags for Peace and Tolerance

Pace Flags for Peace, Tolerance and …. Dance?

Friends: Many of you have read the recent articles about our Pace (Peace) flag being stolen and my midnight encounter with hatred. Many of you have asked about getting a flag of your own to fly. The least expensive source of the flags is through the Syracuse Cultural Worker. They cost only $15 plus shipping, which if we order many of them at once will be less than a dollar a flag.

I would like to organize a mass shipping and flying of the Flag as a claiming of our voices for peace, tolerance and diversity. Please write to me and let me know if you’d like a flag. I’ll place the order next Monday (Feb 21) and hope that we can all having them flying on March 1st. Let’s cover our community with this image of peace and tolerance. As in the Tibetan tradition, our flags waving in the sun and wind can send our prayers to the Gods and to our fellows, our prayers for peace and our prayers for a more tolerant and loving society.

Please excuse, but I am going to take the opportunity to ask for your support in another way. In the on-going development of my community ministry, I am hoping to take Danceability training this summer. My goal is to bring dance classes for both mixed and disabled populations to Corvallis. The work is powerful, beautiful and transformative all at once. It is an experience of bearing witness to the abilities of those we label disabled and it is an experience of confronting the ability and disability within ourselves. I have spoken with a number of possible supporters and venues for the classes. I will begin offering this work through the IMPACT program at OSU as well as through either the Benton Center, Majestic Theater, or one of the local churches. But I need your support too, as I need to raise about $2000 to pay for the training. And so, I ask if you can add any small amount to your purchase of the flag; the money will go directly to pay for my Danceability training. Many small pebbles can make a big wall and with your help I can take this next step.

Thanks! Lisa

Links of interest:
Corvallis Peace Flag theft:
http://www.gtconnect.com/articles/2005/02/16/news/community/tueloc02.txt
http://www.gtconnect.com/articles/2005/02/16/news/opinion/1wed216.txt

History of the Italian Peace Flag:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/it%7Dpace.html

Danceablity: http://www.danceability.com/about.html