Let’s Open a Nonkilling Door: A Global Plea
POETRY FORMAT, 4 Aug 2014
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
When we see or read/hear about many innocent persons being brutally killed in a current war
Let´s plead guilty globally for Humankind is becoming more shamefully destructive than before
Against such abominable crimes it is not enough individually or collectively to abhor
Citizens everywhere should unite and engage seriously in opening a Nonkilling door
To be used by those who violate the right to live and instead decide to kill
And also by those who, in crying/praying for Peace, will act rather than stand still
As human beings co-responsible for the Good on Earth, to a sustainable Nonkilling Peace let´s commit
And show, through globally-taken, constructive political actions, that acts of killing we will never permit
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Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom Hélder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights) and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associação Brasil América (www.abaweb.org). He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.
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