Artist, Helen Broadfoot, visit her gallery at helenbroadfoot.com

Organizations Devoted to Peace

Doctors Without Borders www.msf.ca

SORA http://www.akm.net.au/sora/srca.php

International Red Cross www.irc.org

Unicef www.unicef.org
People In Action - www.peopleinaction.info
Refugees Intentional - www.refugeesinternational.org
Sudan Reach - www.sudanreach.org
Child Soldiers - www.child-soldiers.org
United Nations - www.un.org
Refugees International - www.refintl.org
Seeds Of Peace www.seedsofpeace.or

Peacewalker www.peacewalker.com

Interesting Reading

Iraq Body Count - www.iraqbodycount.net
CBS News - www.cbsnews.com (Long Missing H-Bomb)
Mark Danner - www.markdanner.com
(For the long version of what happened at El Mozote)

(The Truth Report by the UN)
www.parascope.com/articles/0197/el_mozdocs.htm

The Central American Refugee Center - www.icomm.ca
U.S. Veteran Dispatch - www.usvetdsp.com (The Story of Agent Orange)

GAZA...an historical perspective:

The Warsaw Ghetto was composed of Jews forced out of their homes and herded into one small section of the city.

Gaza is composed largely of refugees and their descendents, most of whom were forced to flee their homes during the 1948 war.

Like the Ghetto, in the last decade the Gaza Strip has been surrounded by a barrier that has literally imprisoned 1.5 million in a territory that has become one of the most densely populated in the world.

Once the war started, Gazan civilians were trapped within a war zone, while Israel - crucially, with Egyptian help - had full command of the territory in and around Gaza. This situation prompted comparisons with the absolute Nazi control of the Ghetto and its surrounding area during the uprising.

Increasing restrictions on food, water and medical supplies by the Israeli military, and severe levels of malnutrition and unemployment "evoked" memories of the Nazi's slow strangulation of the Ghetto, as Richard Falk described it.

Even the tunnels of Gaza have been compared to those used by Jews to smuggle food and other essential goods into the Ghetto from the "Aryan side".

Psychological harm

These comparisons reflect an intolerable situation that is not just a humanitarian disaster, but has included the systematic commission of war crimes, and through them, crimes against humanity. The fact that the situation in Gaza has existed for decades has deepened the suffering, and the level of culpability.

Mark LeVine...middle east historian

The most intelligent man in the US and, by the way, the funniest.

Treat yourself to a read at:.

http://www.regressiveantidote.net/

Friend, Judy Lynne,

Who sponsors a terrific "outward bound" program in honour of her son, the late Neil Falkner.

http://www.neilfalknerlegacy.ca/

High School Students Speak About PEACE

Debra Anwar is an ESOL teacher at Dalton High School, Dalton, Georgia, USA, who heard about "A Show of Respect" from her sister. She sent me an email asking if I would donate a print of "Only a Child" to help teach peace in her classroom. Her classes used the information from the art project to learn how devastating war can be for children and she showed them how I used my paint brush to express my anger as well as to try to promote peace.

My Favorite Artists:

Watercolour artist Milind Mulick...awesome

http://www.milindmulick.com/

Oil artist Daniel Gerhartz...awesome

http://danielgerhartz.com/index.htm

With Very Special Thanks

SORA

SORA spent a long time helping to reasearch the

translation of the Dinka Language to help me with the

painting "Are We Home?".

Many, many thanks to Taban Artema, Matoc Achol, and James M. Ajith,