Some folks have been having trouble signing the “Call to the Steps” using the survey form we used for this purpose. If you are one of them, please, please, please use this form instead.

Join us on the Steps of City Hall
Thursday, July 21, 2016
The Steps of City Hall (100 Military Plaza, SATX, 78205)
10:30: assemble
11:00: reading of The Call to the Steps of Peace towards a Compassionate San Antonio!

A Call to the Steps of Peace towards a Compassionate San Antonio!

On July 11, 2016, our city leadership issued a challenging call to action from San Antonians after the sad, violent events of the last weeks.

In response to the city’s call, we in the movement of common unity and compassion offer our resources of peacemaking skills, nonviolent education, community relational networks and strategic coordination through the lens of compassion. We extend our city leadership’s call to all people of San Antonio and beyond.

This call today is to:

• A hopeful vision that we can all share for our children and our children’s children, of life free from violence and fear,
• Common ground of potential good will that lies within each of us, even when it cannot be seen outwardly,
• All peoples of good will, good faith, good reason and good hearts,
• A golden reminder to treat others the way we wish to be treated ourselves.

There is no need to look further than to the compassionate resources within each of us, the very resourceful soul of our own city. The answers we seek already exist within us and require only our uniting together.

We, the undersigned below, are resolved to:

• Move forward in our continuing efforts toward a vibrant and compassionate San Antonio;
• Reach out to all as our neighbors, no matter who they are, near or far; no matter their race, religion or relationship in this world;
• Stand strong and firm together with you, fellow San Antonians, hand in hand, always looking forward, not retreating in the wake of the violence among us;
• Offer our skills and human resources, our lives and our commitment towards a peaceful and compassionate San Antonio.

San Antonio has a rich history of rising to the times by holding peace in our hearts and saying no to violence. “Not in our City!” Join us in this history-making today. Sign with us, engage with us, be with us in becoming the best “we” that we can be in San Antonio and in this world we call our home.

In trusting collaboration with each other, we sign and say, “Compassion lives here!“