| Dear Readers,
More than a year has passed since my friend and web designer, David Moorhead, sent the above link to me via email. S.A.I.V. stands for (literally) The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence.
At the time, I hadn’t even considered creating my own website, and therefore had filed the information in my ‘Read Later’ folder. Shame on me.
S.A.I.V. is filled with resources for those of you who are, or may be, interested in the topic. But don’t let my newsletter title fool you. ‘Intimate’ refers to familial relationships, not just sexual practices between men and women. The Alliance’s greater context is how intimate violence begets war when innocent ones are subjected to, or witnesses of, its presence in our homes, communities, countries, and our world.
Perhaps not the most enjoyable topic to add to your crumpets and tea, donuts and coffee, or Cheerios and non-fat milk on your Sunday morning, but undoubtedly more important in the ‘long run’ than anything I could try to write for your entertainment or continuing education.
Therefore, this issue #0020 of Albeit will probably be the shortest yet (or ever), in hopes that you’ll spend some time reading about S.A.I.V. rather than dumping me for the funnies in your local newspaper.
I was very pleased to see on their Council Page the names of two esteemed gentlemen whom were participants in The New American Revolution documentary I helped produce in the mid ‘80s:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Johannesburg, South Africa; and
Robert Muller, co-founder of the University for Peace, Costa Rica, South America.
Muller was Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations when NAR was video taped. I’ll never forget the impression he made on me by his compassionate views of the world’s people during our interview in his U.N. office, and during his speech to The Children of War—his guests for the day. He, too, had been a childhood victim of war.
Later, (then) Bishop Tutu ‘frosted NAR’s cake’ by keynoting the reception in honor of the youngsters on tour in America for the purpose of telling their stories of surviving war in their respective countries.
‘Nuff said! Please visit S.A.I.V.’s website in lieu of my Sunday pabulum. Thank you.
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