Wesley Chirchir Chebii +254 722 992 107, Kenneth Chelimo +254 722 809
690, Collins Odour +254 721 637 457, Tom Ochuka +254 712 929 029,

Thank you for your pressing reports. I ask Dennis Kimambo +254 722 388
275 http://www.repacted.org and you to confer with each other about
immediate actions that you can take to vigorously pursue peace. I will
confer with Dennis about midday Tuesday on our strategy and then will
send him some money. Janet Feldman has sent 350 USD and I will count the
rest but we can do a bit on all fronts.

In the meetings tomorrow, I ask us to encourage each other to be bold
and act as individuals, as each desires. If you have a larger group, be
sure to break up in teams of seven or eight people so that each person
can help the team prepare for action. Each team should choose a leader.
Consider, who is your enemy? and how might you love them? engage them?
take up their point of view? And then please have each team consider,
What do they want to achieve locally? And how would they like to help
other regions? At each meeting please make a list of all team leaders,
and how each team leader can be contacted (make sure to get their
permission to post that publicly - this is a requirement to participate
in the Pyramid of Peace - and it keeps us all mindful of the law), and
what ways they are keen to help locally and beyond. We will see how many
such teams we can organize tomorrow. Please help us get the word out for
this. And we will help at our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/

Wesley, thank you for your deep thinking. I appreciate your reflection
and I encourage us all to add to this discussion.

This evening I was greatly encouraged by Rachel Wambui Kungu +254 721
626 389 http://www.peace-caravan.org who called to say I should think
how we might spend 100,000 EUR per year. This is roughly the rate at
which we are spending money now. You can imagine what we might unfold in
three years. I share my vision and I ask for yours.

I was born in the US but I was raised Lithuanian. My first language was
Lithuanian. My parents only had Lithuanian friends. Every Saturday we
would drive twenty miles through Los Angeles to Lithuanian "Saturday
school" and learn to read and write and sign and dance and pray and care
about Lithuania. We were a village, we were a tribe, we were refugees
from our Soviet-occupied homeland. We would fly across the US to folk
dance festivals or scouting jamborees where we might fall in love and
start families with youth from other "villages". This is all the reason
why I live in Lithuania, my homeland. I appreciate the logic of a big
country like the US but also the logic of a small country like Lithuania.

Lithuanians are like a tribe, there are only three million of us, and we
have a language and a culture. Americans are not a tribe, they are the
citizens of a state. I think Kenya is like the US or the EU. They are
all states and who knows or cares if they will be around in 100 years?
But the tribes have been around for thousands of years and they may be
around for thousands more.

The tribes are the keepers of our culture and they should be the source.
Yet note that the tribes have no true leaders. The traditions are handed
down, but dead, by which I mean, there is no authority to shape the
traditions. There is nobody to say - we shall abandon female
circumcision - and we shall reform this tradition, perhaps rethink our
symbols. In Lithuania, we don't have anyone with authority to say, here
is our social sickness that yields our record high rates for suicide,
divorce, car crashes, alchoholism, and here is how we will rethink our
practices, our traditions. Yet we know that great individuals of various
renown have transformed our culture, such as the Bishop Motiejus
Valancius who taught people to have fun without drinking, or Jonas
Basanavicius who turned peasants into patriots, or book smugglers who
made us perhaps the most literate land in Europe. In December I spoke
with Asif Daya, and we considered the link between malaria and household
water practices, and who will instruct the people to change their
practices? and understand what they could be? I think Nobel Laureate
Wangari Maathai is an example of such a leader of leaders with her tree
planting. Johnny Appleseed is another. We can think of our social life
as structured by patterns evoked by recurring activity. (I note
architect Christopher Alexander's books on pattern languages.) Our
society has patterns that work and patterns that fail. Our cultures can
learn from each other and change.

I am surprised that our Kenyan youth leaders are so Kenyan! and so often
say "I have no tribe". I am sure to surprise you that I have a tribe.
Or, more precisely, I was born into a tribe. My tribe was in exile, so
as a boy I also had to choose my tribe. I had to choose to think
Lithuanian in an English-speaking world, which is a constant struggle
and part of my "caring about thinking". One reason that I live in
Lithuania is that I can escape that struggle and live in a
Lithuanian-speaking world, and that's a reason why I appreciate that
every tribe have a homeland, some corner where one can escape from
English and the rest of the world. All signage in Lithuania must be in
Lithuanian! because we remember how the Soviets tried to Russify us with
their Russian signs. So I believe that we choose our culture, and yet we
are born into a culture which is ours to choose, but we can also choose
other cultures. We can have more than one! just as I am in some small
sense a Black American when I sing in the choir, and we can create our
own culture, which is truly "caring about thinking" but also shows the
whole point of having a tribe. A culture is the victory of mind over
matter, one of the final outcomes of independent thinking, perhaps the
last one before God might be welcome on earth.

If we cherish the tribes, then we see that we don't have to think in
terms of states and boundaries and lands. Instead, we can think in terms
of acrobats, dancers, artists, actors, singers, poets, farmers, cooks,
artisans, architects. We can have a world of Jews, Palestinians, Serbs,
Albanians, Kikuyus, Kalenjins, Lous, Lithuanians, Russians and every
shade and combination and even new tribes such as the Kenyans. We can
revive lost tribes. But nobody can revive a lost state. Every tribe
should have a homeland, a diaspora and minorities. But the exact
boundaries don't matter, and perhaps they don't have to be exact. And
who administers doesn't matter much either. Do the people of Los Angeles
County even know who their supervisors are? And yet the latter are more
powerful than the President of Kenya. And if the tribes were strong, and
they had good and strong traditions regarding marriage and family and
community and education, then would it matter if one had office or
money, but went against the tribe?

Imagine that we are the champions of the tribes. Who will be against us?
Not the tribes. Not the militias. Not the police. Not the people, not in
the end. Imagine that within each tribe we organize women and men who
love their tribe, their culture, their traditions, who are ecologists,
academics, musicians, entrepreneurs, authors, pastors, athletes,
doctors, teachers. Imagine a council of such leaders for a tribe. This
is the Reform Movement that led to the independence of Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia and led to the break-up of the Soviet Union without
Soviet blood shed. Swiftly, within three years.

Imagine the collapse of the government of Kenya. Imagine that office and
money are worthless. And imagine that it is because people have stopped
caring about the state and the power of its offices and the greed for
its money and have started caring about the tribe. And imagine that in
this no man's land people get along. People are free. Imagine the impact
on the rest of the world if there is one land without a state? That's
the great fear of the powers. But what if we could make it work?

Imagine that we take these steps now before there is civil war. If we
are the champions of the tribes, then will the elders support us? Will
the women support us? Will the children support us? Or will they support
the politicians and their cronies? And if we can organize councils to
lead the tribes, and if we focus on the independent thinkers in the
tribes, then would they not want a confederacy of the tribes of all the
world? There has even been an Iroquois Confederacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois with a constitution Gayanashagowa
("Great Law of Peace") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
and perhaps in Africa as well? If we lead the tribes, then what is there
left of Kenya? for the politicians to fight over? And who is leading the
tribes? Who wants to?

I share this because this is for me the natural direction that I would
head towards if I had three years. If we had income of 100,000 EUR per
year, then I would spend it like this:
* 25,000 EUR per year for myself so that I could dedicate myself and not
go bankrupt.
* 25,000 EUR per year = 5,000 EUR per year for 5 leaders. One leader for
our online support network, one leader for our software development, and
three Commanders who we would rotate, much as we are now. We would send
each Commander once a year to another country to train peacemakers
there, such as in Israel and Palestine, the South Side of Chicago,
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and even help with Lithuania's sobriety
movement. Our Commanders would also tour Kenya and train peacemakers and
help them. Also, we would keep looking for new opportunities for our
Commanders so that we might rotate out the most experienced and accept
new ones. We might be sure to have at least one Commander from each tribe.
* 25,000 EUR per year = 1,000 EUR for 25 peacemakers. Each peacemaker
would lead a mission to some location and build a team of project
leaders there. We would also invite other countries to send peacemakers
to play this role and get practical experience.
* 25,000 EUR per year = 200 EUR for 125 investigators. Typically half
would be for the investigator and half for their project. These would be
all manner of experiments to do groundwork for a project that fosters a
"global village" outlook and might be two months of part-time work. In
three years we might have 75 unity centers for global villages.

In three years, given such basic capacity, and then making use of
opportunities as they come, I think it's possible for us to have a well
organized movement of independent thinkers who are able to bring
together those who truly love their tribes into a Confederacy of
Humanity. We could be the organizing force of Kenya and also be a
worldwide movement, perhaps the inspiration for the leaders of a dozen
tribes around the world. We may have more or less worldly success, but
we will have a shared vision, handbook, constitution, society and
culture that invites all into all cultures. And when we fail, then we
will look so naive that the worst that will happen is that people will
laugh at what fools we are. I am that kind of fool.

I share my vision so that you let me know if it might be a shared
vision. Please let us know your dreams. The hour is grave. Kenya has two
pharoahs and they are both hard of heart. Let us take to heart our
dreams for the future. We may act beyond the limits of our lands and of
our minds.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Pyramid of Peace
http://www.pyramidofpeace.net
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+370 699 30003
Vilnius, Lithuania

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/world/africa/26kenya.html?ref=world

“After four hours of intense negotiations this morning, the negotiating
team made almost no progress toward reaching an agreement on governance,
despite the fact that they were given the entire weekend to consult on
their positions,” Mr. Annan said in a stiffly-worded statement issued
Monday night. “I had to conclude that they were not capable of resolving
the outstanding issues.”

Aides close to Mr. Annan said he was running out of patience.

“If this foot dragging continues, it’s unlikely he’ll stay” said one
aide who was not authorized to speak publicly.

United Nations officials seem increasingly alarmed. "If there is no
quick resolution to the political crisis, the risk of a fresh surge in
violence, more displacement and further polarization of society is very
high," John Holmes, the United Nations top humanitarian official, said
on Monday. "The humanitarian consequences of this could dwarf anything
we have seen so far."