I think when I wrote the charter for this site , over 20 years ago now, that we, human beings all, would be growing more and more, evolving into a world view that there is just us. It is not turning out like that, as the us and them view grows stronger every year. I just watched some of the addresses to the general assembly of the United Nations and most of them were calling on unity and condemning the genocide in Gaza and the aggression of Russia in Ukraine there were 2 standout negative addresses, the Netanyahu one where most delegates left the hall and Trump being the most undiplomatic, rude address ever heard within those walls. I recently watched President Kennedy’s address in the same hall, in September 1963, eloquent and full of hope for a better and more unified world. Two months later he was assassinated in Dallas and a lot of that hope was blown away with him. I was 12 at the time but the sixties was a decade of hope springing even with dark violent forces against it, the further assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy both standing up and speaking out for justice and against injustice. The music of that time rang with hope and spoke loudly of love and peace. I was privileged to attend a music festival in Lincoln England in 1971 with about 10,000 other souls and lying back on the grass listening with the feeling of oneness being very palpable, no them, a beautiful experience. This year I attended the Green Man festival in Wales and was blessed and thrilled with that same experience of oneness. With all the horrors happening right now, particularly Gaza, with the growth everywhere of the us and them movement, ultra nationalism and extremism in general and the total opposite of that oneness being pushed by various regimes, particularly the so called United States of America we find ourselves at a crossroads. We have to stand up for justice and peace and the good in humanity. We, and there is only we, need to manifest that truth.