What Does The Action of Enabling Peace Mean to You and Yours ? Have You Included Our Lives At All ?

[Mrs. Tatiana A Kostanian]

Most peoples in the world think their lives will always stay the same. Nothing will ever impact their lives or peoples leave them, without real connects to basic needs, wants, loves, life, peace. Yes, everything will stay the same, and our peace of mind will always stay secure....or so we think.

Yet, we are for the most part vulnerable. Nobody is immune to becoming disabled by one or more catastrophic issue, in his or her lifetime. From infancy to elderly, it is a truth yet to be. Of course, it is entirely up to you and yours of how you will take the impact of such an intrusion into your life. You can get ready for it, or you can continue to blithely continue in and through life, distance yourself, and insulate your mind that this will never happen. Many of our lives around the globe have had such thoughts as well. But the simple fact is, life happens.

Even after we are disabled, and profoundly, people tell us, patronizingly, 'don't worry' you will get through this or that, we are here, just call, do not worry. But the simple fact IS that your life does drastically changes, and places you thought were open without issue, becomes a veritable fortress of 'non-access', not just one place, but most all external places. Health care, travel, housing, 'access & inclusion', medical and lab costs, ambulance, paying hospital bills, medical accessories and if you are in need of dialysis, and or other needful life-saving needs, the nightmare is on going. What is even more of issue, the way our lives are addressed, the awful abuses, trauma, emotionally, psychologically, physically, mentally, spiritually, can also add to our overall question as to the quality of life, and of how not only society treats us, but how nations and leaders treat the whole spectrum of children to elderly with disabilities’, profound disabilities, lives on life support. There is for us, no peace, no peace of mind at all

Finally just this last year at the start of the Spring 2008 Universal Human Rights received signature offering lives with disabilities, coverage for our lives. Again, though our lives are covered, supposedly, this does not change the hearts or minds of many peoples who still purposely take their disabled and hide them away, our lives in back rooms, or closets when guests come, are being totally kept from the external world because they are ashamed of us.

The other issue is how we are treated just as human beings by a cross-section of societies, and in many countries purposely disabled by abuses, extremes of violence, torture, sliced alive for our organs and tissues so a special group of peoples and leaderships may enhance their financial portfolios at the expense of killing helpless citizens and children already numbered in a horror of many, many, thousands. This is genocide of the most brutal and savage understanding in the annals of human history. But world events for some, and investment in things, objects, events, investments for sure, are for some more important than the saving of helpless human beings. The Beijing Olympics are and remain a prime example of public apathy, indifference, and supporting the games, instead of universal human rights, disabled rights. So many took to the streets championing ‘The Games’ to take place, but did not take the same humane conscience of effort to speak up for over 7,000 concentration camp victims being kept under lock and key, many held incommunicado because of their religious affiliations, or having been with a picture of The Dalai Lama, or any religious book(s), etc.: From the most smallest of infraction to outright speaking up for human rights, a life sentence, with added tortures, abuse, starvation, or being sliced alive for ones organs and tissues. A nightmare for any peoples, from any nation, culture or religious orientation, etc.

If that is not upsetting, think of the greed gone after in selling whole factories, manufacturing companies to the Chinese Communists, and that took major jobs away from our own peoples here in the United States. Yes the Chinese Communists started out in 1947 and said it was a crime to be rich, have land holdings, things, and objects of worth. People were summarily killed, disabled. Yet today the sons and daughters of those leaderships are themselves rich beyond measure, and in the United States, we are paying back loans to the Communist Chinese. That alone is worrisome, even more so now with the collapse of banking institutions. What is so endangering is that many families are with peoples, youth to elderly, disabled, and profoundly without jobs, one-step closer to the streets, and homelessness.

It is more than time, we as the most profoundly disabled step forward; state our case to the global peoples of the globe. Please have a conscience, join with us in our first global walk for peace. Stand with us for our rights, to stop the ongoing human rights violations, genocide transpiring in the world today.

Enabling Peace Is:
Making sure ALL lives are brought into the family for peace, means making sure that everyone is willing to bringing in our direct voices; lives that are rarely seen or their voices heard. "Access and Inclusion" is something peoples with profound disabilities, on life support are rarely asked to join in with on most issues to do with life.

Peace for us is everything. For most of our lives have seen or continue going through, the worst issues of abuse(s), violence, torture, being incarcerated; or our family members, murdered out right, or faced genocide. We can no longer stay hidden or have anyone speak for us. MHONA, is formed since 1962 to address these issues, to remind

Everyone, nobody is exempt from being disabled. Each life is one moment away from being addressed in any of these above issues-situations, any age. Come join us May 24, 2009, 8 am, San Francisco Presidio, in MHONA International's first global walk-our 'Walk For Tibet'. It is to make awareness that Tibet is one of the many nations, and of leaderships around the world whom is making the lives of civilians, children to elderly, monks - sisters, flee from the savagery of non-stop abusiveness beyond reason, the robbery of their lands, culture, language, religion, resources, destroyed, robbed, ended.

As peoples with profound disabilities, or on life support we cannot continue to keep our silence, but ask you to join us in the Walk For Global Peace - Walk For Tibet. $25 donation goes to build a community centre for émigrés fleeing their homeland.

MHONA, is also building for a Global Peace Centre that will be barrier free physically, barrier free for lives with variances of disabilities, for internet entrance. Support-donations can be sent to: MHONA International - P.O. Box 22162 - San Francisco - Ca. 94122.3218. It will remain as our legacy to the future, allowing all lives know we are not silent, but are here to fight back directly for our lives, our needs, our abilities, our freedoms, and for just equitable justice, most of all for Peace in our lives, and offering our abilities for goodness, in the time we have left to live. Our success in all we do remains everyone's.
Join us in our first 'Walk For Peace' -Walk For Tibet.

Let us make sure, youth to elderly, ALL deserve to participate and celebrate, enable, enhance the action of Peace. There are millions of us around the world; Walk for yourself, or for a person anywhere, unable to leave wherever home is, or unable to leave their beds. Please help us by spreading the word about our work, our walk, our global centre. Thank you!

[Deborah J. Boyd]

There is nothing you have said that I can argue with. In the whole world picture I am not sure there is a way to evaluate proper attention to all minorities. Many people in the USA where we are think that our country stands for fairness but in our history we too have stumbled. Since 9/11/1 I am saddened by the way this administration has ignored domestic issues and plundered our wealth and image in a war without end. The Americans With Disabilities Act was passed under Geroge Senior and all in the disable community saw it as a beginning to be treated with dignity.
I would say that we still have a way to go in America and that for the rest of the world maybe only 30 countries do very much for accessability for the disabled. As prosperity increases we should always remember to lend a helping hand to those who struggle each day.