A potential miracle! It is possible that today's snow day means that Congress, which was not in session today although they were scheduled to be, will be in session tomorrow which they were not scheduled to be. The reason that this could be a genuine miracle is because they are off next week and if they were not in session tomorrow them none of them will know of the Stop Palestine's Death Fast until they return the following week. The function of this death fast is to awaken conscience to some degree, to create suffering toward a level of suffering that some of these congress people cannont accept, on top of the suffering of Palestinians. Just like one soldier cannot win a battle of violence, one death faster cannot win an unviolent battle, but in both cases each soldier is part of the potential win. But if the unviolent soldier is invisible then the soldier can play no role in arousing conscience, in arousing humanity, in arousing sanity. Another part of the miracle was that staples remained open long enough, despite today's snow, to print the new poster which will announce the death fast and display how many days that it has lasted. It is only after midnight that a congressional web site displays whether they will be in session, so until then this is conjecture.
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