[ March 2003 ]IN THE NAME
OF IDENTITY
INTERNATIONAL FILM REVIEW HEALTHY CITIES |
REACH
OUT AMERICA:
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REACH
OUT AMERICA BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS |
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| No child should be left behind in school, or in life. |
"Americans are willing to fight and die for our freedoms," Mrs. Bush said the other day at the National Press Club, "but more importantly, we are willing to live for them. " America is "a kinder nation today. People seem to take more time to ask about each other"... We are opening our doors to our neighbors and our hearts to strangers."
Bush spoke about concrete examples of public spiritness of looking beyond America and opening our hearts to the world. Recounting her visit to Birney Elementary School, a poor school where students might understand hunger, the children pressed 169 envelopes into her hands containing donations for Afghan children. She recounted other stories of service, of looking beyond our selves, and of her own release of anxiety through a renewed interest in the world around us, particularly in reading and poetry.Nat says, that Mrs. Bush is on to something big. That little steps are important. That children are important. After all this suffering, we need to look at how crisis is an opportunity to do good (and since crisis is often the only opportunity we have); we cannot afford to wait much longer.
Nat says, that there is something
we can all do to be a global citizen. It doesn't have to be grandiose,
just from a big heart, an open mind and from an informed multi-lateral
viewpoint..
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