November 7
GUEST: Rick Ufford-Chase, peace activist and Moderator of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and Susan Smith, a Muslim member of Jewish Voice for Peace, talk about the November 12 International Symposium on Migration and Border Solidarity at the at the Westchester Ethical Culture Society in White Plains, NY.International Sanctuary Principles Statement
Must we rethink everything to support the concept that all humans deserve a chance to live? Rick and Susan ask us to put away our old way of thinking and consider all people to be our brothers and sisters.
In the coming years, the surge of refugees will only get stronger, until millions are roaming the earth asking to simply survive. The US with our endless and fruitless wars abroad is part of the problem. We have never dared leave the model of military spending after World War II, and have poured our trillions of dollars into Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. No one knows how many wars our country is fighting now, the state of mind of characters in George Orwell's 1984.
And then there is climate change, with floods and fires that make larger and larger areas of our world simply unlivable. Like the weapons industry, the petroleum corporations are driving this mass exodus from lands that once supported hundreds of millions.
Will the earth become a killing field. What will be our part in the die-off of our species? In the die-off of all species?
Rethinking our human experience may emerge as the only path to survival.
