Pause for Peace: Summons

About this episode

Laura Davis shares Aurora Levins Morales' poem as a call to action for peace and collective resistance.

Episode Title: Aurora Levins Morales' Summons: A Call to Action for Peace, Collective Resistance, and Choosing to Stand in the Gap Episode Description: In this episode of Midweek Pause for Peace, host Laura Davis shares Aurora Levins Morales' powerful poem that serves as both dream vision and urgent call to action. Through carefully selected imagery paired with this rallying cry for peacemakers, Laura explores how ordinary people must step into the work of peace when governments and leaders fail. This episode offers support for anyone feeling called to action, seeking poetry that mobilizes rather than pacifies, or looking for language that transforms grief and despair into collective purpose. What Laura Covers in This Episode: How the dream of ten thousand grandmothers from twelve hundred corners of the earth creates a vision of collective action when peacekeepers aren't boarding planes and leaders refuse to say every life is precious Why the poet insists we cannot wait for governments and positions us—ordinary people with bandages and guavas—as the ones who must cup our hands around each heart and stand between bullets and flesh The transformative power of singing the earth's…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Davis

Topics covered

• peace
• collective resistance
• poetry
• action
• grief
• transformation

Keywords

• peace
• poem
• collective action
• grief
• resistance
• transformation
• ordinary people

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