~Sending Love and Light to India~
Source: Avaaz.org
Across India, and indeed the world, people are responding in massive vigils and protests to be heard as we all say enough is enough.
Avaaz.org has an immense online petition that is nearing 625,000 as I post this, having gone up by over 60,000 in a few hours since my husband and I each added our names earlier today. I urge you to click the links I’ve provided to add your name to the petition. They have a goal of reaching 1,000,000 within 24 hours. They also encourage us to click the Facebook or Twitter links on their page to help spread the word, as well as sending our own personal emails to India’s government officials. Let’s urge them to create change. Let’s let them know the world is watching, and praying that they will take notice and take action.
“The government of India is accepting public comments for the next 24 hours. We urgently need both stronger law enforcement and a massive public education program to change the grotesque but common attitudes that permit violence against women. If 1 million of us join the call for action, we can help make this young woman’s horror the last straw, and the beginning of a new hope.” Source: Avaaz.org
Source: Google.com
Avaaz Petition:
“To the Government of India, the Verma Commission, and the Mehra Commission:
We call on you to urgently strengthen sexual violence legislation and enforcement, and to launch a massive public education program with hard-hitting and high quality content designed to bring about a profound shift in the shameful attitudes that permit and promote violence against women.”
Please send your email to: Justice.verma@inc.in
Let’s be heard! My humble yet passionate plea in my email to them was this:
Subject line: Public Education Campaign to improve attitudes about women
Please begin a massive public education campaign to combat the negative views of women that help promote rape and lead to the failure to investigate and prosecute rapists.
The whole world is watching and this can be a time when your government shows how it can be done, and how to make things much, much better. We must find a way to make a difference. I have every faith that you can help lead the way.
In peace. Namaste.
Gina V., Canada
This is my prayer of love and light, sent out to the entire world, with a special focus on beautiful India.
May my email, received en masse with hopefully millions of others, help open the officials’ eyes of the urgency for action.
May all leaders emphasize the importance of raising young ones to think and act with compassion, and the re-education of adults.
May the attitudes of all parents and teachers raising and educating the coming generation of youth relay a sense of equality and fairness to their impressionable charges.
May peace reign over us all, as we work together, cooperate, and create world peace.
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Please join with me in my prayer. Please join in this petition, or send an email. Or both. Please reblog this post, or add the Avaaz petition to your Facebook page. Or both. Please join me in sending out love and light to the frayed and broken hearts in India and around the world, for in so doing we are taking part in the healing of our earth. We all deserve a safe place to live. Namaste.
Awesome! I shall send a letter as well! Thank you for sharing your love and heart!
Thank YOU dear heart, for joining as we speak up for safety and peace in the world. And your comments are always appreciated
Yes, Yes and Yes I am also sending an email to the Indian government. Thank you for sharing
YES!!!!! This is a way of peaceful protest that Gandhi helped educate us all about. This is the power of letter-writing! We do make a difference, especially when we band together en masse
Thanks for sharing. Just signed the petition.
Bless your heart. Together we really do make a difference!
Have just signed the petition and I plan on forwarding this to all my friends. All of us, especially women of the world, need to band together and support each other in times like these. So happy you shared this!
This is wonderful Lillian! Thank you for passing it along, and you are SO right. We all need to band together and support each other, especially women. Thanks again
Thank you for sharing this post. I will be adding my name to the petition.
LuAnn, you have such a warm heart. I do feel that every one of us makes a difference, and I feel this petition is making a firm yet fair request. Thanks so much! ~Gina
My pleasure.
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To all my dear friends and followers….
please take a moment to read ” Sending Love to India” and pass it along. Sign the petition and send an email. One person can make a difference! Gina at Professions for PEACE is on to something very important here educating us about the safety, peace and rights of women in India. Thank you Gina! Blessings to you and namaste.
Thank you so much, dear heart! I do feel it’s important to pass this along and spread the word. I’ve just signed onto my computer here today, and I see that they are now at nearly 830,000! That’s a lot of caring people, and it looks like they just might make it to 1,000,000 – but even if they don’t, that’s already enough people banding together to make a difference by saying “We want change!” Thanks again my dear friend. Greatly appreciated!
you are such a lovely person, thank you for you!
I clicked every button there was–twitter, email, petition, and facebook. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Gina. I had read about the horrible incident, but I was not aware of this petition. My email to the Verma Commission was not as tactful as yours. I guess I still have some anger issues to work on.
{{{Hugs}}} Kozo
Kozo! Thank you!!! This is wonderfully encouraging, that you did all the steps. I did 3 out of 4 since I don’t Twitter yet (I know.. get with the times
) And you gave me a chuckle about your slightly less tactful email, and I did hold back myself – trying my best to ‘expect the best’ and hope they rise to it.
XOXOX Happy hearty hugs of friendship, Gina
I have great respect for the country if India. One death will create great change. Here in the USA. We forget and move on without any kind of change. The India people stood together for one poor girl. They are not perfect. But India is showing the world that a peaceful demonstration can change a world.
Your words here show your deep kindness and wisdom. Thank you for putting it so well. They are indeed showing the world to not just ignore and move on but to demand change through peaceful vigils that number in the tens of thousands. May that one girl’s life stand for a change, and a time of great improvement. Thanks again John. Always wonderful to enjoy your visits. ~Gina
Thanks for sharing this. I signed the position because I hope this one woman’s tragedy can help other women live safer and more peaceful lives. Karen
Thank you so much Karen ~ I too hope the remembrance of this one woman can count for something for the better, a time for change and improvement
Hugs, Gina
You have a beautiful blog. Thanks for sharing so much love.
Rev Dani Lynn, what a delightful compliment
Thank you dear heart, and I love your blog too. xo ~Gina