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In the midst of crisis, women, men, and children are standing for a better world in countless ways... Let us take a moment on Sunday May 10, 2009, Mother's Day in many countries, to make this "movement" visible, to realize our unity... as the grandmothers did in Sharon Mehdi's story... to stand together in silence to save the world. Please read the story, register where you will be standing at

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First there were two, then four, than another three, then two more, then.... From down the hill, over the fence, up from the street, from across the stairs, they came to answer the call from StandingWomen.org. We intuitively formed a circle. Women and men and children and Coyote, the dog, came together in the lush clover with the majestic Loretto Convent building boarded up and empty behind us.

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Sharon Mehdi's wonderful story "The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering" has seven chapters, one for each day of the week. The first chapter, "Sunday", is where the two women who take their stand in the park are noticed by the folks in the nearby cafe. This began the wonderful unfolding of events that culminated on Saturday, in the "Saturday" chapter, with the entire world standing. On Sunday,

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Many have begun asking what happens after we have stood together in May. What should we do next?Our hope is that the very act of gathering and standing together in silence will inspire and energize all of us to take actions that will help realize our dream of a better world for our children, grandchildren and the seven generations beyond them.The most important ideas for what comes next will come

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Sharon Mehdi, the author of The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering, sent us this wonderful note that follows. We share it here with her permission. She also sent us the superb poem by Margaret Robison that follows Sharon's note. We share it her with Margaret's permission.I want to tell you a story.Last summer during the Lebanon-Israeli altercation, a handful of us started standing every morning

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Once we decided to gather together the world's women, the next question became how we can do it. Of course, that answer was using technology.Beck, one of the wonderful women who said "yes", also is a technology woman. She was sure we could do this with a website and a YouTube video. So, we embarked on this great venture--using the magic of technology to call together the women of the world.Sapna

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Margaret Wheatley, author of Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time and other books, believes that all social change begins with a conversation among a few people. She also believes that someone in that conversation must say "yes" we can do this.After Jean Shinoda Bolen's visit to Columbus, the first two women I talked to about inviting women of the world to stand together on

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The Standing Women concept originated with a number of women associated with Ohio State University, although this is not a university project. Over the last year a number of us have felt that women everywhere we traveled are just weary about where the world is moving and, more importantly, that women everyone are ready to stand up and do something about it. We also know that many men are ready

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The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save the world.We will be standing for the world's children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them. We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world

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