You were not consulted when the mine was manufactured and shipped to Cambodia or Angola or Afghanistan, but the person was killed in spite of the fact that you would wish her alive again. The refugees of the world wheel their few possessions away from battlefields where dark forces fight for obscure ends. It is time for the real people of the world to start flexing their muscles. The process has already begun. In Beijing, in Copenhagen, in Cairo, in Rio, people from all over the world joined to discuss the problems of women, of development, of overpopulation, of the environment.
Governments stop and listen to power.
The people who suffer must empower themselves. Nowhere have they been more victimized than in the making of war. Many other problems are subsumed in the dominance of the military. Money spent on arms could feed the hungry and heal the sick. Military production is the greatest polluter of the environment.