By Dean Hammer, a poem offered in the spirit of World Peace Day, which is January 1 in the Catholic Church
Why have our history books lied
When millions of BIPOC
Hostages brutally died
Of Euro-settler ruthless bellicosity.
We don’t want more of the same
No more genocide in God’s name
Neo-Nazi forces grow again
Far-right fascism teach children not to refrain.
Fundamentalist religion fuels mass slaughter
In plain sight with no remorse
We’ve got to decolonize the God of war
Or we’ll all die by MADness without recourse.
People dying all around the world from crusades
Can we save the world in time
Turning raging enmity into a harvest of compassion
No more genocide in God’s name.
MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction
Dean Hammer is a member of the Plowshares movement, He works as a psychotherapist in Vermont and teaches clinical psychology at Antioch University New England. His email: dhammer.psyd@gmail.com.
Radical Discipleship 
Very similar to Holly Near’s lyrics:
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div>Why are our history books so full of liesWhen no word is spoken of why the Indians diedOr that the Chicanos loved the California landDo our books all say it was discovered by one white manThat’s just a lie, one of the many and we’ve had plentyI don’t want more of the sameNo more genocide