Presents

PEACE Day:  “Moving From Talk To Action!”

Goal:   To examine, discuss, and construct an action plan for social change by administering more PEACE in our daily lives, and those of in our sphere of influence. 

I.        Why Peace Day?

II.      Why Peace over other accomplishments like: politics, economics, education?

III.    What is PEACE?

IV.    Do you want PEACE, why or why not?

V.      Why is PEACE a big deal for our community, do we have it currently?

VI.    Are we all responsible for keeping the PEACE?

VII.  Break (10 to 15 minutes- think about  your impediments to PEACE)

VIII.            What are your impediments to PEACE? Why can’t we find Peace? (before we can change the culture and community we must change and work on ourselves; lead by example)

IX.    How do we arrive at PEACE? What are the vehicles to PEACE?

X.      Break (10 to 15 minutes, review impediments and paths to peace and construct your peace plan. Be prepared to share.)

XI.    Reassemble to discuss individual PEACE plans

XII.  Why today is important, and how it connects to King’s Dream? (Clue: He was a man of planning and action and we’ve been stuck in speech mode OR temporary fix mode. In order to reduce, and eliminate violence in our communities we must first actively start with us and have people in place to hold us accountable to our PEACE PLAN)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many of us complain of crime and violence within our community, we complain about abuse, disrespect and poverty. Yet we continue to consciously ignore the core issues that continue to stare us in the face as if they will magically go away "if we don't look at them". These CORE ISSUES exist and continue to exist in the areas of education (truly preparing ourselves and our children to compete on a local, state, national and global scale), rates of incarceration and unemployment. The simple fact is: is it "'our collective" responsibility to address, correct and solve these issues ourselves. It is our responsibility to properly educate our children, to create safe environments for them as well as create opportunities for employment for them (not the police, city/locality, state or federal government). As we reflect on Dr. Kings "DREAM", let's begin to use our great minds and creativity to collectively create a "NEW DREAM" where brotherly love, self respect, character, integrity, community, family and "your word is bond" means something to each "us" again, wherever (where - anywhere - wheresoever) "we" are!

YOU DON"T HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME, BUT YOU CAN THINK ABOUT WHAT I AM SAYING!