Let’s Wave the Nonkilling Flag: A Global Plea
POETRY FORMAT, 1 Sep 2014
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
When the Nonkilling Flag we wave
We show our community how to be brave
In doing so, all forms of killing we will fight
And to the citizens where we live we’ll bring a new light
If people everywhere the flag of sustainable nonkilling life decide to wave
They will see that preventively thousands /millions of precious lives they can save
In every community East and West a Nonkilling Flag there should be
So their Ultimate Nonkilling Peace responsibility all citizens will see
______________________________
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.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 1 Sep 2014.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Let’s Wave the Nonkilling Flag: A Global Plea, is included. Thank you.
If you enjoyed this article, please donate to TMS to join the growing list of TMS Supporters.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 License.