Title: Who Are We
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3Who Are We?
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5Shortly after 9/11, impressed by the many
precognitive dreams recorded
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7Jean Campbell invited a number of dreamers to see
if they could dream up some peace.
8Soon there were dreamers from all over the globe,
joined in an online discussion group.
9England
Turkey
The Netherlands
10South Korea
Germany Sweden
Denmark
11Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Virginia
12Australia
13China
Japan
Mexico
14Iraq
15And all over the United States
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19What do Dreamers do on the Peace Bridge?
20We discuss our dreams.
21We listen to information in our dreams.
22Sometimes we dream together or share dreams.
23Always we listen for messages of Peace
24Or how we can work toward Peace
25Sometimes we discuss politics
26Or events making news
27Or how the news is reported differently in
different parts of the world
28And we try to honor the dream.
29We are building a global community.
30World Dreams Peace Bridge Projects
31Because of their willingness to follow their
dreams
32Members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge have
dreamed projects Into waking reality.
33The Peace Train Project comes directly from a
dream.
34Jeremy Seligson lives in South Korea. On July
26, 2002, Jeremy dreamed he was riding on a Peace
Train, traveling across the USA.
35What would happen, he wondered, if people began
to make trains and send their ideas of Peace
around the world?
36The Peace Train began to travel.
37First children in Australia sent a train to Maine
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40Then children in South Korea made a Peace train
that was displayed at school.
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46And students in an English as a Second Language
class took the Peace Train idea through all of
Seoul.
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52In Turkey on Children's Day, April 23, 2003,
students from all over the country created Peace
Train art.
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57When the Peace Train dragon appeared at the
costume dream ball of the International
Association for the Study of Dreams in 2003, a
room full of over 200 people spontaneously broke
into singing, "Give Peace A Chance."
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60In 2004, students at Seasons Art School in
Baghdad, Iraq sent their pictures of Peace
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65Kids at a Nonviolence Conference in Denmark
created Peace Trains.
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69And children in Germany made a train at a home
workshop
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73In 2004, a Peace Train arrived in New Hampshire
from Australia. In addition to Peace Train
cars, the package contained a toy Lorikeet, with
a notebook to record his adventures riding the
Peace Train.Â
74The Lorikeet Peace Train was an immediate hit.
75- Near the end of the 2004 school year, the
Lorikeet Peace Train traveled to Tidewater.Â
Students from the 5th grade class at Virginia
Beach Friends School added cars to the train and
photos to the book.
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80From here, the Lorikeet Peace Train traveled to
Trinidad
81Where the toy lorikeet watched the children
create Peace Train cars and do other things.
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87From Trinidad, the Lorikeet Peace Train returned
to Virginia Beach in 2005, for more additions,
before returning to Australia.Â
88Kids in both places agreed that, if everyone in
the world had enough ice cream, there would be no
more war.
89In November 2005, the Lorikeet Peace Train
returned to Australia, where it was displayed in
Melbourne at a Multicultural Festival to raise
funds for children in Iraq.Â
90Dozens of Peace Train certificates have been
awarded around the world.
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92Anyone can create a Peace Train
93The Aid for Traumatized Children Project
94Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, many members
of The World Dreams Peace Bridge dreamed about
the children.
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96This was the beginning of the Aid for Traumatized
Children Project
97After a long search, we established contact with
two groups in Iraq.
98Childhood Voices-Iraq, an Iraqi NGO, operates
Seasons Art School. Its director is Emad Hadi.Â
99Drs. Ali Rasheed and Wisal Aldouri, of the
Yarmouk Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, operate the
PTSD Program, training teachers and others to
recognize traumatic stress in children.
100Conditions are worsening daily in Iraq
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104According to World Health Organization 2004
figures, over 70 of the population of Iraq is
under the age of 17.
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108Iraq is about half the size of Texas.
109Our support for Seasons Art School and the PTSD
Project allows our friends in Iraq to provide...
110Art supplies
111Music
112Soft toys
113And other assistance to the children
114Many people around the world have contributed to
this work.Â
115In conjunction with The iMAGE Project, a 501 (c)
3 nonprofit
116Boys in California sold Chinese Knots to raise
200
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118Students in Vermont raised 1,800 in a school
program
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121Many people responded with holiday contributions.
122The Milagro Foundation contributed a 5,000
grant.
123At IASD's 2005 conference, generous contributions
to a Silent Auction/International Bazaar raised
over 3,000 for the Aid for Traumatized Children
Project.
124From the drawings done by Iraqi school children
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128And from the sad looks on small faces
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130It is clear there is still much work to be done.
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132For more information, we invite you to visit The
World Dreams Peace Bridge web site at
www.WorldDreamsPeaceBridge.org.
133The World Dreams Peace Bridge is a demonstration
134Of what dreamers
135Working together,
136Sharing their dreams,
137Honoring the Dream,
138Can do.
139There can never be too many people dreaming of
Peace.
We hope you will join us.
140Design and Production
Credits
Liz Diaz, USAJean Campbell, USAKathy Turner,
Australia
And the children of Iraq, Turkey, Germany, South
Korea, Trinidad, the USA, Australia and other
places in the world.
141Art, Photos, Graphics
Ralf Penderak, GermanyVictoria Quinton,
AustraliaRoger Ripert, FranceJeremy Seligson,
South KoreaIlkin Sungu, TurkeyDiana Thompson,
USA
Laura Atkinson, USANick Cumbo, AustraliaLiz
Diaz, USAJoy Fatooh, USASandy Ginsberg,
USAEmad Hadi, Iraq Kotaro Miyagi, Japan
And the children of Iraq, Turkey, Germany, South
Korea, Trinidad, the USA, Australia and other
places in the world.