Dear John,

Many people take for granted that our adult lives must be spent rushing from one task to another in order to lead productive and fulfilling lives. Time is organized on our calendars down to the minute, and living or any sense of timelessness is elusive, relegated (if we are lucky) to days off or vacations. In the war economy, time is a type of currency. We explicitly extoll that concept with the maxim, "Time is Money," and often unthinkingly absorb the ever-demanding need to be productive as a virtue of modern life.

In graduate school, I (Marie) studied the rise of the Minoans on the island of Crete. My dissertation was on how the concept of time changed in the Minoan civilization over a 2000 year span, from an agrarian, largely egalitarian clan/family-centered people to a dominator culture built on international trade and the existence of extreme elites, with all the normal trappings that brings to any culture. What I found was that people tracked time's passing in very simple and individualistic ways during the earlier egalitarian phase. But once trade and markets appeared on the island, with the elites managing production and consumption, how time was managed became a concern of the elites, and everyone on the island began managing time and calendars in the same way. Time was also coordinated with the calendar systems of their trading partners in Egypt and in the Near East.

I tell this story to illustrate that the war economy’s concern with time management and control is not new to our culture. The coordination of needs in complex cultures demand that time and our relationship have some organization. But the question we might ask ourselves is,"How does the war economy dictate to me how I spend my "one wild and precious life" (to quote Mary Oliver)?How might I free myself from the constraints of time as a control on my life and a dictator of how my life is lived? How can I explore where I invest my life and what I, my community and the world receives from it?  How can my life become nourishment to a more beautiful future?

Join us in conversation on how the war economy imprisons us in constraints of the clock and bringing ourselves in a more renewing relationship with time The next Local Peace Economy gathering is onWednesday, February March 12th at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. <[link removed]>

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UPCOMING Local Peace Economy Gatherings:

- Local Peace Economy Gathering: Time & the War Economy (3/12) <[link removed]>
- April Local Peace Economy Writing Workshop (4/7) <[link removed]>

Other supportive resources:

- Local Peace Economy Wiki <[link removed]>
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- Download The Local Peace Economy Workbook (free digital version) <[link removed]>
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- The Local Peace Economy website <[link removed]>
- CODEPINK Radio Ep. 242: The Local Peace Economy <[link removed]>
- CODEPINK Radio Ep. 256: What is the root of peace? <[link removed]>

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With care,

Jodie & Marie

P.S.  A new CODEPINK Radio episode <[link removed]> is live. In this episode, hear from the CODEPINK activists who went on the November, 2024 community trip to China. Community, culture, and creativity a central to the conversation.



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