{"id":1755,"date":"2011-10-24T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2011-10-24T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:52:39","slug":"youth-rise-for-peace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/10\/24\/youth-rise-for-peace-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Rise for Peace!"},"content":{"rendered":"
“I object to violence because when it appears to do well, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent” says Ghandi. How many times that statement has been proved to be true recently? How many times we have witnessed how bloody the hand of so called good could be?<\/div>\n
Our generation has been watching the Arab World like a movie. We have been witnessing an epoch-making year of our century; there has not been a single day passing without news about casualties, bombs and many other terrible things, but somehow we managed to keep a stiff upper lip. Our leaders offered olive branches accompanied by missiles and we failed to react properly.<\/div>\n
Sometimes I cannot help wondering whether we are dragging into a dystopia. I cannot deny the influence of all the political fictions I have recently read, but once I come back to the real world, sit in front of my computer, surf among random news channels, I cannot help wondering, worrying. Either we have minds like sieves or we are indifferent to murder, death and blood. We see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. Aren\u2019t these the characteristics that the big brothers look for? Don\u2019t they create the perfect circumstances to be under complete surveillance by the authorities? Isn\u2019t it scary?<\/div>\n
In the movie “V for Vendetta” directed by James McTeigue, it says, “People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.\u2019\u2019 Doesn\u2019t it mean, police are to be there to protect me not to beat me when we gather together to claim our rights? Doesn\u2019t it mean that the court is to defend the human rights, people\u2019s rights, not the benefits of political power? Yes, it does, but is that really happening? Think for a moment… What is happening recently is corruption, suppression, violence.<\/div>\n
Peace is not something we only wish for – it\u2019s something we make, something we do, something we are, and something we should not give away. 21st<\/sup>\u00a0of September was the World Peace Day. It was the day to join forces, to show our own commitment to worldwide peace and to work in cooperation for this goal.<\/div>\n
It was the day to imagine a brotherhood of men.<\/div>\n
written by Gizem Karsl\u0131, CD\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
Check more info about International Day of Peace here<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I object to violence because when it appears to do well, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent” says Ghandi. How many times that statement has been proved to be true recently? How many times we have witnessed how bloody the hand of so called good could be? Our generation has been watching the Arab World… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}