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Also, how we can do the same for the entire world.
It was organized by 3 women: Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman.
This group ended the 2nd Liberian Civil War. This was a movement of thousands of Liberian women - of different religions and classes - united in purpose.
Although Liberia had little protection for human rights, and treated women as second class citizen, they formed a powerful effective movement.
Their tactics included silent protests, sex strikes and threatening to put a curse on opponents.
By 2003, tribal tensions and a long civil war killed more than 250,000 people. Liberian President Charles Taylor and the rebels were brutal. Neither had the ability or inclination towards peace or love.
This war, as in any war, every side that believes in violence, killing and power through force are all “bad guys.”
The women of Liberia had enough. Their children and spouses were forcibly taken to war and often hacked to pieces. Their daughters were raped. They were raped. According to the United Nations, 15,000 children were among the combatants. The women decided they could no longer just watch.
They formed a movement, The Women’s Mass Action For Peace.
Movement leader Leymah Gbowee, a religious Christian and mother of five, noted that Liberian women “in the past they were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, war has taught them that the future lies in saying no to violence and yes to peace.”
Asatu Bah Kenneth, a Muslim police officer joined the movement, speaking in front of a Christian congregation. She said “We’re all serving the same God… I want to promise you all today that I’m going to move it forward with the Muslim women.”
The group forced the combatants into peace negotiations. When some of the men (cowardly) sought to sneak out of peace talks, the women blocked their path.
The government and rebels were, in reality, immature boys who needed discipline. Sensible women, in effect, took away their toys, sent them to their rooms and refused to let them come out again until they learned how to behave.
Going forward, the women would take control in a campaign of non-violence and peace.
Not only did the women force a brokered peace deal on the unwilling rebels and the Taylor government, but they ultimately put a woman in charge of the government, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and she advanced women’s rights.
Immature Geezers of Earth—We Will Stop You From Stealing, Bullying People and Ruining the Planet
The Saners is the Mass Action for Peace for the current worldwide polycrisis. Like the Liberian movement (and all great movements) we start with a small number of fed up people, fearless people who stand up and boldly say “no.” Like the Liberian women, we reject violence and hatred and religious intolerance and tribal division.
We embrace and embody non-violence, love and people.
Like the Liberian women, we will disempower evil and cruelty by exposing it, by refusing to cooperate. We will apply pressure through nonviolent noncooperation and take control of events.
We are already in more than 25 countries. We are disgusted at world leaders in government and business, mostly old men, who have failed catastrophically to preserve the Earth’s biosphere and use economic pressure to waste billions of lives in cubicles and on factory floors, mostly producing unnecessary crap for profit.
In other words, up to now, we’ve been cooperating with people who are trashing the planet, dooming our own children, and wasting our lives so those fools can satisfy their own petty personal greed.
We recognize insanity when we see it. We will put an end to it.
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