Dona Nobis Pacem - Blog Blast for Peace 2010

Across the Blogosphere today, hundreds of bloggers are united in asking for the world to just give peace a chance. 

 We've tried everything else it seems so what would it hurt?

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Dona Nobis Pacem

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let's not have to explain to future generations why peace might have been - let's make it a reality now!

Dona Nobis Pacem

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In honor of today's Blog Blast for Peace, I wanted to share some of my favorite peace quotes by some of my favorite Americans as there are people who have said it so much better than I ever could. Funny how we've been talking about peace for so many years and yet it still seems to be so out of reach. May peace be with you and yours not just today but always!

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

There was never a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. - John F. Kennedy

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. - Abraham Lincoln

Peace on The Mo Show

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This week on The Mo Show bloggers unite for PEACE!

Mimi, the originator of the blogging phenomenon Blog Blast For Peace, will be joining Mo LIVE on Wednesday, November 7th.

Tune in to Blog Talk Radio @ 7pm Eastern time as we wrap up the day's PEACE festivities!

Can you think of a more peaceful way to spend your evening after looking at the beauty of the Peace Globes that grace the Blogosphere? I can't and I'll be tuning in as well as joining in on the chat that's sure to distract Mo to no end! Hope you can join us!

You Are Cordially Invited To ...

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BYOG (Bring your own globe)

Where: Bloggingham Palace at Mimi Writes
Who: Everybody!
Why: Last minute BlogBlast For Peace questions
Socialize with other peace bloggers Say hello!
It's fun!
When: Sunday evening 4 pm - midnight ESTHosted by: Mimi Pencil Skirt aka Mimi Queen of Memes
Click here to get your peace globe
I have to work tomorrow evening so won't be able to attend but I sure hope a lot of others can stop in! Tell Mimi I sent you! If you've got any questions about Peace Globes, want to meet up with other Peace Globers, or just want to pop in and say 'hello' this is the place to do it!

Don't forget the official Blog Blast for Peace is this Wednesday, November 7th - let those Peace Globes fly proudly on your pages!

What the Fashionable Peace Glober is Wearing

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Look what I got from Mimi for submitting my new Peace Globe to her for next Wednesday's Blog Blast for Peace! Isn't it just the cutest thing ever? You've still got time to get one of your own - just click on the link below and join myself and hundreds of others across the Blogosphere on November 7th in giving peace a chance. Are you in??

Click to get yours

Plushies for Peace

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Take a look at your calendar and you'll see that November 7th is coming up and it's coming up fast. If you don't know what's so special about November 7th then you obviously haven't been over to visit Mimi Lenox - Queen of Memes and founder of the Peace Globe Movement and the Blog Blast for Peace. The next Blog Blast is taking place on November 7th when bloggers all over the Blogosphere will proudly display their Peace Globes and blog about peace.

The last Blog Blast for Peace took place on Wednesday, June 6th, and it was a beautiful thing with Peace Globes being displayed on hundreds and hundreds of blogs, myself included with a Peace Globe that Amanda did the artwork for. You can check it out here or on my sidebar if you're so inclined.

This time around I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my Peace Globe but then it occurred to me that with all the work that Amanda and I had just done on the plushie dolls for My Chemical Romance, a band that was started due to the events on September 11th, 2001 in an effort to make a difference in the world, that perhaps the plushies might want to step forward and be spokesmen (spokesdolls?) for peace.

So, to that end, I present to you my Peace Globe for November 7th's Blog Blast for Peace -

I'd like to think that the boys in the band might be rather flattered that they are, vicariously through stuffed images, taking part in something as important as the quest for world peace.

Do you have your peace globe yet?? If not, click here to get your very own Peace Globe and join this list of bloggers across the globe who are participating in the Blog Blast for Peace on November 7th. My friend Mimi will thank you, I will thank you, and the world will thank you, too!