Bernie Meyer
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Accounting |
| Occupation | peacemaking |
| Location | Olympia, Washington, United States |
| Introduction | I am fortunately a healthy 70 year old who has been through many of life's twists and turns. I thrust myself into activism in 1965 as a young Catholic priest after being raised in a Cleveland Ohio working class family. Soon, I was embroiled in resisting the war in Vietnam, fighting racism, and working to end poverty. I ended up being arrested by both Church and government in separate direct actions in the nonviolent spirit of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. After raising a family of three children, I now spend my time on the issues mentioned, working with other activists and portraying Gandhi. I have been doing this for the last five years. While portraying Gandhi in India in 2005, I was named "the American Gandhi." I have come to do things like the subject of this blog. I see peacemaking as beginning with me, with the individual, and extending into all human relationships and organizations, all the to international relations. My book will illustrate my experiences and insights about peace making. |
| Interests | At this time my interests are in facing the human created threats to life: warmaking, global climate change, peak oil effects. Humanity is at a crossroads. Underlying these are the decisions in the West to create an unsustainable way of life which is consuming earth's resources, wasting the environment, destoying living species, and, worst of all, is based upon weapons of mass destruction. In this way, the United States leads the world and threatens life on earth. I have been studying the reasons for human violence for the last 15 years. I have just completed a yet to be published book, Crux Of The Matter, Autobiographical Foraging Into Being Authentic In These Times. If it weren't for these issues, I would be enjoying the life and beauty of planet earth full time. As it is I do take joy in living wherever I am and dance the rythmns. |