Peace Visionary's Blog
Ariel Ky
- Location
- Oceanside, California, U.S.
- Birthday
- October 11
- Title
- English Teacher
- Bio
- I consider myself a generalist, a dreamer, a visionary, an idealist. I walk both worlds, the inner world of spirit and this outer world we all share in. I have real power, the power of a strong connection to the earth and the power of truth and resilience.
I am committed to being effective in bringing about the changes that must take place in the minds and hearts of people so that we can live in peace and harmony with each other and all life on this planet.
I grew up in the fifties in Lansing, Michigan. My father was a bricklayer, my mother a teacher. I have a strong identification with the working class and ordinary people, and was always quick to defend the underdog and play the devil's advocate.
My strengths are being able to see the big picture and getting to the heart of the matter. I consider that I am a fairly good writer, having worked at this craft my entire life, but I once had a professor who said my true genius was in speaking.
Along with most of the people on this planet, I am seriously concerned with the present state of affairs and lack of balance in the U.S. military dominance.
I am presently teaching English in China. My profession is an ESL teacher, which I have been doing off and on for over 20 years. I have a Master's degree in TESOL from Michigan State University, a Journalism degree from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Public Relations, and a Library Media Assistant AA degree from Pasadena City College.
Research is my passion and main past time, even before the advent of the Internet. I worked in the library at Michigan State University before my son was born in 1986, where I pursued research topics that I was interested in.
When I was in my early twenties, I worked on a book on women's health care as part of a book team at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles, doing research at UCLA's medical library that led to a new view of a woman's clitoris. The book is still available in print, "A New View of a Woman's Body."
I am working again with a team of writers on another book with the working title of "Opening Our Hearts and Sharing Our Dreams of What May Be" to share our visions and action plans for the young people coming of age (between the ages of 16-21) and support them in carrying out what needs to be done to manifest the world that they want to have for themselves.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Remembering Bart
February 07, 2012 01:59AM - Starting a Movement to Shut
Down Diego Garcia
February 05, 2012 06:55PM - Kuala Lumpur War Crimes
Tribunal
January 27, 2012 03:51AM - Dream Inspired Delving into
Feminist Past
January 23, 2012 10:49AM - We Declare an End to War
January 05, 2012 11:12PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Rolling, for the
welcome home hug. Where are
you, by
the way? The
most…”
July 16, 2011 05:15PM - “I agree. Anyone, east or
west, who sees the world
purely in
terms of power is
a…”
June 06, 2011 02:05AM - “Thank you, Mark.”
May 29, 2011 10:17AM - “I consulted with Noam
Chomsky on the issue of
politics in the
classroom in
the co…”
April 30, 2011 10:03PM - “Hi Cathy, I'm getting
Roscoe. I don't know why
nobody else
heard him say that
hi…”
April 30, 2011 11:10AM
Ariel Ky's Links
Remembering Bart
About Barton James Schiffer, oldest of four children by Harriet and Maurice Schiffer
Barton James Schiffer was born on November 12, 1952, the oldest child of Harriet and Maurice Schiffer to a large extended family on both sides spread across the
… Read full post »Starting a Movement to Shut Down Diego Garcia
For a decade, I have been trying to get the use of torture at Diego Garcia investigated, to no avail. Nevertheless, I made a vow to the men who have been tortured and held prisoner there that I would not forget them, and that I would continue to do what I… Read full post »
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
Today I visited the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War at the offices of the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (www.perdana4peace.org). The offices were on the top floor of an impressive building of Islamic architecture with a large open space in the center with fountains. This beau… Read full post »
Dream Inspired Delving into Feminist Past
Here in Kuala Lumpur on vacation, waiting for a new job to begin, I've had time for thinking, long conversations, and philosophizing. In my dreams in recent weeks, I've been having long conversations with Carol Downer, the leader of the LA Feminist Women's Health Center where I worked in… Read full post »
We Declare an End to War
The Earth Council of Women declares the end to all wars of any kind: hot or cold, declared war on another country or people, undeclared war, military, cyberspace, space command, economic or psychological, and most certainly, planned wars, in particular, WWIII.
We demand:
1. Profit from… Read full post »
War or Peace? You Choose.
by Ariel Ky 11/11/11
The absurdity of a preemptive war is quite clear to me, if not to everyone. First of all, even the phrase is an oxymoron -- how can you describe a war as preemptive? War is war, and it's always destructive, chaotic, and… Read full post »
In Solidarity with Prisoners of Conscience on Jeju Island
Following are quotes that I found to convey solidarity with the prisoners of conscious on Jeju Island who are resisting construction of a naval base there.
See a presentation with photos of the villagers of Gangjeong Village who are presently in prison as political prisoners for their resistance… Read full post »
Solidarity with Wall Street Protestors
I want to express support for the people out there on the streets protesting Wall Street's crimes.
Maybe we won't see an immediate result that makes it seem worthwhile to get out there and show your anger and rejection of what's coming down on the American people.
Maybe a rigged… Read full post »
RICO Matters: Are Wall Street and Big Banks Corrupt?
If you are angry at what the bank executives are getting away with in the banks too big to fail, and think that Wall Street is corrupt, you may wonder if our government is also entirely corrupt because it would seem they're in cahoots to cheat people out of their money.… Read full post »
WE LOVE EACH OTHER - China and the U.S.
We must always remember that China and the United States are dancing in a love relationship. Before we get too upset about someone stepping on the other's toes, we are better off if we appreciate the reason that we are holding each other in this dance, waltzing together all over the… Read full post »
Return to U.S.
I've returned to the U.S. after seeing the world the past five years, so that I could spend some time with my mother in Oceanside.
I'm still assimilating the great experience of having lived in China for nearly four years (save six months in Mongolia).
And I'm going through culture… Read full post »
Stop War Games with South Korea!
The U.S. needs to stop carrying out war games with South Korea that skirt the border with North Korea, continually taunting and threatening the North Koreans. This is behavior extremely unbecoming of a great power. It is not unlike bullies in the school yard throwing their weight around.… Read full post »
Despair
I've seen the future and it's ugly. The U.S. and China are at war and the U.S. uses its space weapons to kill most of the people in China. Other countries unite to fight the U.S. It uses all of its bombs to kill most of the people in the world,… Read full post »
Offering a Different Message as an American to Chinese
Celebrating Global Culture
Before they fade from my awareness, while I'm still even waking up and haven't had a cup of coffee yet this morning, I want to share the wonderful visions that I had upon waking this morning. It occurred to me that what we really need in the world today to shift… Read full post »
My Friend Sung-Hee Choi Arrested On Jeju Island
A friend of mine, Sung-Hee Choi, a sister peace activist in South Korea, was recently arrested May 17, along with seven other leaders protesting construction of a navy base on Jeju Island. I have linked my heart in solidarity with her in this struggle because I understand that a line
… Read full post »Divide and Rule
As an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher in China, I was using proverbs the other day in a lesson with students. One of the proverbs was divide and rule. I'd always known this proverb as divide and conquer. So I've been contemplating about what the difference is… Read full post »
Yearning to be Free Expressed in Solidarity in Yemen
Power does come from the people. President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen is finding out that using force to stay in power is no longer effective (not even with the U.S. as a benefactor); the revolutions happening today are the human spirit budding like the leaves on the trees in the… Read full post »
Nuclear Energy a Filthy Habit
When I was a student at Pasadena City College, I took a backpacking class that went on hikes in the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Pasadena. Our biggest hike of the class was up Mt. Baldy (also known as Mt. San Antonio), at 10,064 feet. At the top, I learned that I… Read full post »
For the Fish by Fukushima
This is to honor the fish near Fukushima that are being irradiated by the radioactive water being released into the sea. We are sorry to damage you in this way. There is no excuse for what we've done to you.
When I was swimming in the Andaman Sea every day for… Read full post »
Letter to the Ruling Class and 12-Step Program to Revolution
freedoms to protect you. You’ve liquidated our savings, destroyed our middle class, and used our tax dollars to bailout your unending greed.
Jess Ventura published this Letter to the Ruling Class on his website, http://weaintgottimetobleed.com/#comment-941
You control our world. Y… Read full post »
Health Hazards at Nuclear Plants: Lessons from Fukushima
Three decades ago, I was an officer of the Sierra Club student chapter at San Diego State University. We held an event discussing the safety of using nuclear power on Earth Day that spring. Hardly any students attended, but I came away convinced that nuclear power was extremely dangerous… Read full post »
Sacred Feminine Fires of Release Heal Humanity
The past few days I have joined in the ceremonies happening across the world, led by Marshall Jack, a Native American medicine man from the Lake Tahoe area, where the Washo tribe has summered for thousands of years.
Lightworkers have been building seven sacred feminine fires in Egypt, Russia, A… Read full post »
Spooky Action at a Distance
This morning in my email, I received an article from Triaka (Constitution of United Diversity), including a great article by John Assaraf, The Science of Creating Your Own Reality. He wrote about the "mind-boggling capacity for instantaneous interconnection" which is also termed, "spooky action… Read full post »
For the People of Japan
John Donne Revisited for the People of Japan
on the disastrous event of the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake
No country is only an island, entire of itself;
every one of us makes the world
We are all part of the main
And if… Read full post »
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