1.15.2009
StartL taking liquids, off Hill for planning and out of extremel cold for several days
The planning that was desperately needed - hence my abstinence from water - transpired these last 2 days - hence I'm back on water! Praise God (whoever She is).
More planning and meetings may occur these next 2 days so for reasons of preparation and availability I'll be off the Hill Thursday and Friday, and maybe the weekend as well. We'll see.
1.14.2009
Hunger Striker Visited by Kucinich Last Night; Day #26 Hunger Strike / Occupation
I am sure he was with me tonight, sent on a mission to look out for my health. But it was much more than that too. He said, "I am the man inside Loving; you are the man outside. I need you, and whoever else you can get, to keep standing out here on these corners. Do not stop. And, stay healthy so you can do it."
Among the reasons I suspect that his interest is sincere is the visit I received on a prior Hill Occupation / Hunger strike. He and his wife Elizabeth regularly visited me, making special trips. But on one occasion Dennis sent out his chief of staff to come and thank me for my campaign. I immediately said to her, "Please tell Dennis how inspiring I find him." She instantly replied, "You need to know that Dennis finds YOU extremely inspiring."
"Be the change you want to see." Gandhi. If we want courageous actions from our elected representatives, WE have to demonstrate courageous action. "Example is not the major thing in influencing people. Example is the ONLY thing in influencing people." Albert Schweitzer.I'll paraphrase the rest of our conversation, but I believe I do not take liberties beyond that:
- "Yes this is the time to go after $200b of the war budget."
- "I already know where to get $75 billion of it."
- "Yes Lester Brown, Plan B 3.0 is correct - WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF CUTTING THE $200B LATER. IT MUST BE NOW. MOTHER NATURE / GLOBAL WARMING IS SETTING THE TIMETABLE, AND THE TIMETABLE IS NOW."
- "But again, I need you, and whoever else you can get, to keep standing out here for this War Budget Cut. Do not stop."
I cannot face any of you in Heaven, when we all know everything, without doing my part to the max - to encourage you to read these deeply, now.
But beyond that, I will absolutely never attempt to FORCE anyone, ever, to do anything, and I will not hurt my self irreparably at this juncture. I promise. But PLEASE read these deeply, NOW.
I have agreed to attend the Pot Luck at the Pink House tomorrow night, and I'm praying we may have some brief discussion about these then. I expect to resume liquids as early as at the Pot Luck, and no later than this weekend. I desperately do not want to hurt them.
1.12.2009
PRESS RELEASE: ACKNOWLEDGING FAILURE DAY #25, HUNGER STRIKER ESCALATES CAMPAIGN BY ENDING FLUID INTAKE
Washington, DC, corner Independence and NJ Ave, NW Corner Cannon House Office Building
Press Contact: start_loving@yahoo.com
""A nation that year after year spends more money on the military than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," said Dr. King and they killed him one year later to the day", said Start Loving. "That was 41 years ago. We are not "approaching" Spiritual Death anymore - we're facing actual death - global civilization collapse."
"Yes, I've done my best so far in this Hunger Strike but I've failed my human family. We've only got until the finalization of the Stimulus Package 20 days or so from now to end the terminal threat to America, and the world - the $1 trillion annual Entitlement Program paid out to the Military Industrial complex in the U.S.," says Start Loving from his 24 hour per day Occupation on the Hill. "Despite the miracle of international activist Diane Wilson ( http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/unreasonablewoman) joining the Hunger Strike on Saturday, I've failed to mobilize our few, sheroic activists within the likes of Code Pink, Proposition One, the Washington Peace Center and WILPF to a take-no-prisoners lobby campaign on the Hill demanding nothing less than an immediate $200 billion dollar shift from WarMaking to non-DOD PeaceBuilding as called for in Lester Brown's "Plan B 3.0" ( http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm ).
Loving acknowledges some heart wrenching choices his demand calls for among the great activists, and the Progressive community more broadly. "I too have yearned, for example, for years to give my life to help save our Palestine family, and to save Israel and the world from the Zionists. I've joyfully gone to jail protesting Guantanamo. But these are symptoms of a cause - a $1 trillion U.S. military budget - and the symptoms will never ever be stopped or healed as long as the cause, that $1 trillion budget remains." Loving contends that as laid out in detail in the Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast Campaign Outline (here http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2009/01/campaign-on-one-page.html ) and as irrefutably laid out in "Plan B 3.0" Mother Nature, not we, dictate that it is now or never, January 2009 or never, to reallocate funds from death and destruction to life and construction. The 39' rise in sea level and continued doubling of failed states / terrorist hotbeds will simply overwhelm civilization leading to worldwide collapse, Loving contends. "Or do we continue to ignore our scientists, the CIA, British Military Intelligence, and Martin Luther King, Jr?" Loving asks?
"Who, if they saw this clearly, would not happily sacrifice their life attempting to get the attention, and I pray, the sheroic response of their fellows to such a calamity?" Loving asks. Loving will stay off of all fluids until either he is convinced of the folly of the Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast Campaign Outline (here http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2009/01/campaign-on-one-page.html ) or he sees a core of sheroic activists executing along the lines for which it calls.
Loving acknowledges that few people will understand or support or agree with his action. "We have never well understood nonviolence (putting your own life on the line to protect the other, refusing to threaten the life of another in doing so) in this country, and certainly not since the 1960's. We admire the likes of King and Gandhi, Phil Berrigan, Barbara Demming and David Dellinger, but we don't follow them. But we still have a hand full of true activists, and they might understand, and respond constructively to my action. Did you know that the cause of Dr. King finally speaking out against the war in Vietnam was the self immolation of Buddhist priests in Vietnam?"
Loving notes that the risk of arrest for him goes up dramatically now because he no longer has the strength to move his Occupation on the Hill to the slightly out of the way corner where he sits up all night. "I'll have to remain on the totally visible Capitol side of Independence and there is a Hispanic Captain that is visibly fearful of taking heat for how that might appear," says Loving. Loving says he will remain abstaining from food and water whether in jail or out.
1.10.2009
Hi my beloved sister M,
If you've been following along on the blogs below you can tell that this is the biggest, most consequential campaign I've been consumed within. I will not turn a blind eye to the reality that if not yet, we are within months of setting in motion the cascading dominoes that WILL extinguish civilization on Planet Earth by destroying life support. Oh, your son would survive it ok, but his kids, and theirs, not so much. No, even in fortress Empire America with oceans rising 39' and climate going to Hell, Katrina's etc will become too much for even our filthy rich environment and Civilization here too will end.. Unless all the world's scientists are wrong, a bet no one with a shred of humanity can take.
Although I expect to take this to the end, here on Capitol Hill there is some chance that will not mean my life, and maybe not even permanent health damage. Depends on when I konk out, if I do. If pulse stopped, or whatever when I'm sitting up, completely covered in my sleeping bag, well, that would be a problem because it would be many hours before they discovered the problem.
But facing the collapse of all civilization that is the least of our worries.
If and when you want to know what this is all about, it would be impossible for me to lay it out more clearly than I have on the two sites below. In 10 minutes you would know quite a bit. In several hours you would know everything. Up to you.
Know that I will always love you, and know that I know you will always love me. Give my love to the boys, and new girl!
Day before yesterday, out of the blue I got an email from the greatest human rights activist in the world today, Diane Wilson, saying she was joining the Hunger Strike. Next to Dad, and he is not available, Diane is who I would most want to stand with me on this. It is overwhelmingly wonderful. She said yesterday, Start, I'm a loner like you. True. But she is a much beloved, widely recognized, much revered loner, and in joining this it increases by a factor of 1000 that others too will perk up, pay attention and weigh in.
Wealth of Meaning - THAT is the sunum bonum in life. Few, extremely few arrive at the level of Wealth I've achieved. I am so blessed I can't absorb it all. And I want to much for others to have their share.
My health is shockingly good, and I suspect that will continue for another 3 weeks or so. I've lost about 17 pounds so far and have body fat still.
A sister, guardian angel, really, and fellow fighter, brings me water every day without fail, checks up on me, nags me to come in.
Zero problem from the police. They always cut me a lot of slack. They respect courage and sacrifice. Although one bad apple could have me in jail in a heartbeat.
Start Loving ... WAGE LOVE OR DIE (NO 3RD OPTION ANY LONGER EXISTS).
Http://JesusGodGoodEtcnjay.blogspot.com
Http://youtube.com/StartLoving1
HUNGER STRIKE DAY #23 - Diane Wilson in Texas, Start Loving in DC
In Texas, international Human Rights activist Diane Wilson (An Unreasonable Woman www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/unreasonablewoman ) joins the Hunger Strike in Texas.
Inquiries are best directed to Ellen Thomas (et@nucnews.net).
Regarding the Campaign:
****** THE CAMPAIGN ON ONE PAGE ******
CAMPAIGN AND TEAM / COMPREHENSION PREREQUISITE:
Read and fully digest Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13.
Available pdf: The Great Mobilization (pdf) http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/pb3ch13.pdf
Available Video (1 hr): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkbuhLFIX8
THE SKIPPING OF THIS STEP IS OUR STRAGIC THREAT - IT WILL KILL US. PLEASE MASTER IT NOW. I BEG YOU NOT TO DELAY, NOT TO MISS THIS STEP.
PURPOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN:
By mid February 2009, before the finalization of the Stimulus package achieve a $200 billion shift from Defense to PeaceMaking that we will-
1. Prevent the imminent and wholly avoidable planetary life support collapse from continued unbridled global warming whose first manifestation would be the drowning out of 600 million worldwide in low coastal areas that will otherwise submerge under the certain rise of 39 feet of water when the ice sheets go in Greenland and the West Antarctic. (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13)
2. Forever cut out the heart of the monster of U.S. empire whose ever-present swath of death and destruction is currently manifest in Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Iran, failed international states doubling every year, civilization-threatening climate change, New Orleans, Inner City Schools, hemoraging US economy, crumbling infrastructure, decimated US world image, cancerous health care system, .... (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13, and common sense. "A nation that year after year spends more on military defense than it spends on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." MLK exactly 1 year to the day before they killed him for saying these words. )
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMPAIGN:
World-class nonviolent action (participants lay their own lives on the line) with two distinct, self-reinforcing aspects:
1. Hunger Strike with a Hill 24 hr/day Occupation component as an unmistakable statement of the life and death urgency;
2. Sheroic, informed, disciplined and relentless "organizing (recruiting, deployment, PR, collateral materials, blogs, web sites...)," and Hill lobbying starting with the "good guys" like Kucinich and under their guidance spreading out to a sufficient number of congressfolks to assure the $200 Billion shift, before the stimulus package is finalized in mid February. Note: Although Start is the birth mother of this whole thing, this "baby" will be immediately "adopted" by the core team. Start will quickly move to the background on all but the Hunger Strike / Occupation; although he will remain in the loop.
CAMPAIGN COMPLETION:
When the highly trusted Dennis Kucinich presents clearly to the campaign team that the $200 Billion Shift is a certainty.
EXTREMELY FAVORABLE BUT CONSTRAINED POLITICAL REALITY:
1. Obama can be expected at minimum to be personally in favor of this campaign, and probably extremely desirous. The same can be expected not only of the "good guys" but by up to 2/3's of Congress, the Senate and the public at large. But this will remain entirely hidden, until our work is well underway. Although anecdotal, Start, with many months experience with the dynamic of Congress on the Hill passing him outdoors, has detected a readiness that is surprising to all, including Congress, among up to 2/3's of those he encounters. This is the time. If not now, when? If not, here, where? If not us, who?
2. Prospective "campaign members" from Code Pink, WILPF, and others known to us - we expect that from 2 to 20 people of an extremely sheroic and humane nature may well join as our sheroic commitment becomes more manifest. However, as the nature of this being a particularly extreme version of nonviolence, until the last days, this campaign will be of and for the most extremely courageous, mature, self-starting, high initiative type of "activist." It will neither be for, nor accepting of those not so far along, as this would be a disservice and actually highly dangerous to these relatively unprepared folks, and to the campaign itself.
2. We perceive that it is political suicide for even the "good guys" to propose or initially champion a $200 billion shift, and we want NOT to place either Obama or the other "good guys" in such a dangerous position. Hence WE are the force, the 4th branch of government who through this campaign will give the political cover in reality on this issue. But we expect that after we place our lives on the line for this issue there will quickly, but with some pregnant pause, unfold a catalytic reaction of passionate and courageous action from even some within Congress, and maybe from within the Senate (Who? Ted Kennedy?)
REASON FOR SUCCESS:
1. With the Emperor's / Empire's clothes totally gone ($1 trillion on Defense is ridiculously absurd in the context of the Truth of US today), all that is left is for this to be ruthlessly and inescapably pointed out. America is bleeding to death from its trillion dollar per year "Entitlement" to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Blackwater... and their Corporate Sponsors - Exxon, Texaco, Halliburton, the revolving door military....
2. The "meteor" twin of CO2 global warming and consequent failed state terrorism as the #1 national security threat, about to destroy life support on earth, is now visible to the naked eye through the telescope of Plan B 3.0, currently in the hands of virtually every member of congress.
3. The campaign team now assembling consists of vision and proven courage and commitment not seen since the 1960's when so much good was generated in America - a time of miracles then, the stuff of miracles now.
TACTICAL ELEMENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN:
1. Hunger Strike Hill Occupation 24 hours per day to resume by Sunday conducted by Start Loving. This has been and will remain the central reactor, the central Soul Force driving the urgency and courage infusing the entire campaign. Additional Hunger Strikers may or may not join in DC or nation-wide. This is probably NOT the area where quantity of force is required. Sunday will be approaching day 25 for Loving, leaving an estimated 25 days of life-support left - exactly the right amount of time to drive urgent achievement of victory.
2. Sheroic, Ferocious, Tenacious, Informed, LIFE-ON-THE-LINE Lobbying of Congress to be organized by Diane Wilson, Liz Hourican, Gael Murphy with the support and growing cooperation of Code Pink, Prop 1. and WILPF. A. Descend on, ENLIST, and EMPOWER the "good guys:" Kucinich - the champion of US Peace Force; Norton - 13 year sponsor of Military Conversion Act; Woolsey - sponsor of Economic Conversion Act; Barney Frank who in October called for 25% cut in Defense.... With this virtual planning team identify and execute a Hill Takeover plan.
THE ULTIMATE DRIVER AND SUCCESS FACTOR OF THIS CAMPAIGN:
Failure is not an option. This is a "military," 'take no prisoners' campaign (we activists are the "prisoners" :-) . Failure means the collapse of global civilization as the political tipping points will have been irreversibly eclipsed by the environmental tipping points leading ultimately planetary life-support collapse - civilization collapse. (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13). This is the indisputable conclusion of 1000's of the world's greatest scientists. Our guiding ethos is "Live as though the entire world depends on what we do here, and realize that what we do will probably make no difference at all. The fate of humanity does in fact depend on what we do here. We are willing to fail, but we are, with our very lives, unwilling not to give it the "last measure of our devotion."
1.09.2009
DAY #22 AND HOLDING. RETURN TO HILL / OCCUPATION SUNDAY MORNING.
At the request of some of our country's, some of the world's great sheroes I came off the Hill for several days.
They were exactly right. This has allowed for some extraordinary planning and communication culminating in the following which enables me to share the Vision that possesses me, for anyone that wants to see:
****** THE CAMPAIGN ON ONE PAGE ******
...and for anyone that can see it, and mobilize, too.In addition, I am more depleted than I'd realized. For the first 24 hours off the Hill I was too exhausted to really sleep.
Now I can sleep and I expect to spend the next 36 hours doing so.
Sunday morning I expect to return to the Hill.
The only role that I am equipped to fill of the two outlined on the "One Page" is the Hunger Strike to the end. And I can do that well.
By being off the Hill now, I can only distract those that could, if they too become possessed,if I cann avoid obscuring the "vision" that is there not to see, can execute the 2nd portion of the "One Page" plan. (see"SIGHT" IS WITH THE EYES. "VISION" IS WITH THE HEART and you may understand what I mean.)
"SIGHT" IS WITH THE EYES. "VISION" IS WITH THE HEART.
SORRY, BUT IT WAS NECESSARY.
Try this first:
If not, this:
Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast Campaign Outline
CAMPAIGN AND TEAM / COMPREHENSION PREREQUISITE:
Read and fully digest Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13.
Available pdf: The Great Mobilization (pdf) http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/pb3ch13.pdf
Available Video (1 hr): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkbuhLFIX8
THE SKIPPING OF THIS STEP IS OUR STRAGIC THREAT - IT WILL KILL US. PLEASE MASTER IT NOW. I BEG YOU NOT TO DELAY, NOT TO MISS THIS STEP.
PURPOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN:
By mid February 2009, before the finalization of the Stimulus package achieve a $200 billion shift from Defense to PeaceMaking that we will-
1. Prevent the imminent and wholly avoidable planetary life support collapse from continued unbridled global warming whose first manifestation would be the drowning out of 600 million worldwide in low coastal areas that will otherwise submerge under the certain rise of 39 feet of water when the ice sheets go in Greenland and the West Antarctic. (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13)
2. Forever cut out the heart of the monster of U.S. empire whose ever-present swath of death and destruction is currently manifest in Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Iran, failed international states doubling every year, civilization-threatening climate change, New Orleans, Inner City Schools, hemoraging US economy, crumbling infrastructure, decimated US world image, cancerous health care system, .... (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13, and common sense. "A nation that year after year spends more on military defense than it spends on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." MLK exactly 1 year to the day before they killed him for saying these words. )
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMPAIGN:
World-class nonviolent action (participants lay their own lives on the line) with two distinct, self-reinforcing aspects:
1. Hunger Strike with a Hill 24 hr/day Occupation component as an unmistakable statement of the life and death urgency;
2. Sheroic, informed, disciplined and relentless "organizing (recruiting, deployment, PR, collateral materials, blogs, web sites...)," and Hill lobbying starting with the "good guys" like Kucinich and under their guidance spreading out to a sufficient number of congressfolks to assure the $200 Billion shift, before the stimulus package is finalized in mid February. Note: Although Start is the birth mother of this whole thing, this "baby" will be immediately "adopted" by the core team. Start will quickly move to the background on all but the Hunger Strike / Occupation; although he will remain in the loop.
CAMPAIGN COMPLETION:
When the highly trusted Dennis Kucinich presents clearly to the campaign team that the $200 Billion Shift is a certainty.
EXTREMELY FAVORABLE BUT CONSTRAINED POLITICAL REALITY:
1. Obama can be expected at minimum to be personally in favor of this campaign, and probably extremely desirous. The same can be expected not only of the "good guys" but by up to 2/3's of Congress, the Senate and the public at large. But this will remain entirely hidden, until our work is well underway. Although anecdotal, Start, with many months experience with the dynamic of Congress on the Hill passing him outdoors, has detected a readiness that is surprising to all, including Congress, among up to 2/3's of those he encounters. This is the time. If not now, when? If not, here, where? If not us, who?
2. Prospective "campaign members" from Code Pink, WILPF, and others known to us - we expect that from 2 to 20 people of an extremely sheroic and humane nature may well join as our sheroic commitment becomes more manifest. However, as the nature of this being a particularly extreme version of nonviolence, until the last days, this campaign will be of and for the most extremely courageous, mature, self-starting, high initiative type of "activist." It will neither be for, nor accepting of those not so far along, as this would be a disservice and actually highly dangerous to these relatively unprepared folks, and to the campaign itself.
2. We perceive that it is political suicide for even the "good guys" to propose or initially champion a $200 billion shift, and we want NOT to place either Obama or the other "good guys" in such a dangerous position. Hence WE are the force, the 4th branch of government who through this campaign will give the political cover in reality on this issue. But we expect that after we place our lives on the line for this issue there will quickly, but with some pregnant pause, unfold a catalytic reaction of passionate and courageous action from even some within Congress, and maybe from within the Senate (Who? Ted Kennedy?)
REASON FOR SUCCESS:
1. With the Emperor's / Empire's clothes totally gone ($1 trillion on Defense is ridiculously absurd in the context of the Truth of US today), all that is left is for this to be ruthlessly and inescapably pointed out. America is bleeding to death from its trillion dollar per year "Entitlement" to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Blackwater... and their Corporate Sponsors - Exxon, Texaco, Halliburton, the revolving door military....
2. The "meteor" twin of CO2 global warming and consequent failed state terrorism as the #1 national security threat, about to destroy life support on earth, is now visible to the naked eye through the telescope of Plan B 3.0, currently in the hands of virtually every member of congress.
3. The campaign team now assembling consists of vision and proven courage and commitment not seen since the 1960's when so much good was generated in America - a time of miracles then, the stuff of miracles now.
TACTICAL ELEMENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN:
1. Hunger Strike Hill Occupation 24 hours per day to resume by Sunday conducted by Start Loving. This has been and will remain the central reactor, the central Soul Force driving the urgency and courage infusing the entire campaign. Additional Hunger Strikers may or may not join in DC or nation-wide. This is probably NOT the area where quantity of force is required. Sunday will be approaching day 25 for Loving, leaving an estimated 25 days of life-support left - exactly the right amount of time to drive urgent achievement of victory.
2. Sheroic, Ferocious, Tenacious, Informed, LIFE-ON-THE-LINE Lobbying of Congress to be organized by Diane Wilson, Liz Hourican, Gael Murphy with the support and growing cooperation of Code Pink, Prop 1. and WILPF. A. Descend on, ENLIST, and EMPOWER the "good guys:" Kucinich - the champion of US Peace Force; Norton - 13 year sponsor of Military Conversion Act; Woolsey - sponsor of Economic Conversion Act; Barney Frank who in October called for 25% cut in Defense.... With this virtual planning team identify and execute a Hill Takeover plan.
THE ULTIMATE DRIVER AND SUCCESS FACTOR OF THIS CAMPAIGN:
Failure is not an option. This is a "military," 'take no prisoners' campaign (we activists are the "prisoners" :-) . Failure means the collapse of global civilization as the political tipping points will have been irreversibly eclipsed by the environmental tipping points leading ultimately planetary life-support collapse - civilization collapse. (Plan B 3.0 Chapter 13). This is the indisputable conclusion of 1000's of the world's greatest scientists. Our guiding ethos is "Live as though the entire world depends on what we do here, and realize that what we do will probably make no difference at all." The fate of humanity does in fact depend on what we do here. We are willing to fail, but we are, with our very lives, unwilling not to give it the "last measure of our devotion."
1.07.2009
How many more will progressives kill to avoid making a stand?
- "Knowledge is power." Sir Francis Bacon
- "With power comes great responsibilities." Common
- 600 million people are soon to be drowned off their land because we do not make a stand for an immediate and escalating carbon tax.
- 500 people more are now dead in Palestine because we will not make a stand against the $1 trillion U.S. defense budget.
- Making a stand were elementary students in Soweto.
- Making a stand were activists in Seattle to stop the WTO.
- Making a stand were Americans walking to work for a year in Montgomery during the bus boycott.
- Making a stand, as mistaken as it is, are young Americans in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are three ways to respond to the need to "make a stand," to participate in life and death struggle, such as the two mentioned above:
- Cowardice - By-standing, on-looking including talking, blogging, writing, criticizing, tepid, low risk, "symbolic," "sacramental," activism (banner drops, 1 day arrests, etc., 2 hour marches, candle light vigils....)
- Violence - Putting the other guy's life on the line - terrorism as practiced by the U.S., Israel and Hamas.
- Nonviolence - Putting your OWN life on the line (see examples above, Soweto, etc.).
- There is no 4th way. We've all read Zinn's People's History, etc. All significant change comes when, and only when people make a stand - putting their very lives on the line.
"More and more I feel that people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate of for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?" Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is past time, and in 4 more weeks it will be too late for Progressives, peace activists, Catholic Workers... to make a stand.
And there is one and only one strategic place to focus for any all of your goals to be won (Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Environment..). The place of strategic focus is the defense budget. This is the root cause for which Palestine, Iraq, Iran... are the symptoms. Lester Brown says so. Howard Zinn says so. Barney Frank said so. Medea Benjamin said so.
Sanity, humanity, common knowledge says so. Now, January 2o09 is the time to make a stand:
- Headlines today - U.S. faces trillion dollar deficits for years to come.
- Headlines today - U.S. needs a trillion dollar stimulus.
- Russia spends $45 billion on Defense.
- China spends $60 billion on Defense.
- "A nation that year after year spends more money on the military than it does on social uplift, is facing spiritual death." Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967, the Truth of which Dr. King was shot for exactly one year later to the day.
- The U.S. is bleeding to death from $1 trillion in defense spending.
- If we immediately shift $200 billion from Defense (death and destruction) to PeaceBuilding (Life and construction) we WILL head off the drowning of 600 million by global warming and head off the #1 threat to U.S. security - failing states - Lester Brown, Plan B 3.o. And we can achieve all of the other Progressive agenda items.
- 1/3 said "I agree."
- 1/3 made no response, but clearly they "heard" the truth of this.
- 1/3 tried hard not to hear, but obviously could not avoid hearing it. "The truth crushed to earth will rise again!" Marin Luther King, Jr.
- Although they could avoid eye contact with me, not one was able to avoid the issue hitting their conscience !
Progressives, now is the time to make a stand, in D.C., with your lives, demanding the shifting of $2oo billion from Defense to PeaceBuilding as called for by "Plan B 3.o," Lester Brown.
Progressives, take a leave of absence from work, risk your personal connections and relations, lay down your lives for your children and grand-children, nieces and nephews. A few of you should join me on Hunger Strike / 24 hr per day Occupation of the Hill. But most of you should mount the most sheroic, unflinching lobbying / sitting in of strategic, "good guy" Hill offices ever seen in DC - Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Eleanor Holmes Norton (Prop 1 Economic Conversion Act sponsor every year since 1993) until they join us and help guide us to victory. Ellen Thomas, http://prop1.org can give you good guidance here. AND, also lobby everyone and every group you know to join you.
Progressives, if forces overt, covert, conscious and unconscious can keep you sidelined, distracted, diverted (what Obama does, the Inauguration, etc.), cowardly by-standing for just 4 more weeks, until after the stimulus package is set, you will have been defeated in all of your causes, forever. Why? The tipping points - political and environmental to do with global life support collapse and failed state proliferation will be beyond reversal! Scientific fact. Your enemies, the corporate - military - industrial complex will have won for time immemorial. Is that OK with you?
It is time to put up, or it is time for us to shut up. Let's put up.
Start Loving,
Day #22 Hunger Strike 24 hour per day Occupation, Capitol Hill, outside Cannon House Office building, Making a Stand for $200 Billion shift from WarMaking to PeaceBuilding - Plan B 3.o.
http://www.YouTube.com/StartLoving1
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/pb3book.pdf
If anything happens to me
The solar panel Prop1/Ellen got me - Ellen the packaging is carefully in the room I use - check to see if it is within 30 days of delivery (Jan 7). If so return it to them for 100% refund minus shipping. Otherwise please sell it.
Duracell 600 watt battery - please give it to Liz Hourican with Code Pink.
Warm clothing, other clothing - please give it to whomever needs it.
My books - please give to Dave and Mary Rachel.
Is There Anything the Individual Can Still Do? Franz Jagerstatter
{{NOTE: A NON "DEISTIC" JESUS, JESUS THE NON-VIOLENT WARRIOR WAS GANDHI'S #1 HERO, HIS #1 MODEL, ICON, IDOL. ARE YOU WISER, BETTER THAN GANDHI? I AM NOT.
"I like your Christ.
I do NOT like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Gandhi}}
Bio: An Austrian peasant, Franz Jägerstätter refused to serve in the Nazi army following Germany’s invasion of Austria. His courageous and singular refusal was based in a deeply pietistic Catholicism. His story, and his reflections, are a moving testimony to the moral responsibility of the individual as opposed to the obligations of the state. The excerpt that follows is from a letter written during his imprisonment.
Quotations from this essay:
"One really has no cause to be astonished that there are those who can no longer find their way in the great confusion of our day. People we think we can trust, who ought to be leading the way and setting a good example, are running along with the crowd. No one gives enlightenment, whether in word or in writing. Or, to be more exact, it may not be given. And the thoughtless race goes on, always closer to eternity. As long as conditions are still half-good, we don’t see things quite right, or that we could or should do otherwise."
"I realize, too, that today many words would accomplish little more than make one highly eligible for prison. Yet, in spite of this, it is not good if ... leaders remain silent year after year. By “words” I mean, of course, instruction; but example gives direction. Do we no longer want to see [activists] who are able to take a stand in the darkness around us in deliberate clarity, calmness, and confidence—who, in the midst of tension, gloom, selfishness, and hate, stand fast in perfect peace and cheerfulness— who are not like the floating reed which is driven here and there by every breeze—who do not merely watch to see what their friends will do but, instead, ask themselves, “What does our faith teach us about this?” or “Can my conscience bear this so easily that I will never have to repent?”
If road signs were ever stuck so loosely in the earth that every wind could break them off or blow them about, would anyone who did not know the road be able to find his way? And how much worse it is if those to whom one turns for information refuse to give him an answer or, at most, give him the wrong direction just to be rid of him as quickly as possible!"
1.05.2009
Hunger Stike / Hill Occupation Terminated Day #18
Several times yesterday I came within seconds of terminating the Hunger Strike. I am so exhausted, depleted, hungry, isolated, in pain, cold....
But I can't. I can't face your child if I do. I can't face you, when you come to your senses if I do. I can't face your niece over the destruction of her planet, and her civilization; I can't face the 600 million we are about to drown with our murderous, totally unnecessary addiction to fossil fuel; I can't face the Palestinians being murdered and imprisoned by your addiction to Imperial Power ($1 trillion per year on military; China spends $60 billion.) I can't face the 40 million aids victims and their millions of orphans in Sub-Sahara Africa that our military addiction precludes us from helping; I can't face your grandchildren who scream at me, "Why didn't you put it all on the line to change the Spirit, the Nature, the very Core Values of America in January 2009 that you KNEW to be our last chance to do so; our only chance...."
I pray, I PRAY I find the strength to leave here the only way a Human Being, someone of Conscience, Courage and Humanity CAN leave this issue at this time - in victory ($200B shift from Death and Destruction to Life and Construction achieved), in an Ambulance or in a hearse.
I don't know if I have the Strength, Courage, Humanity, Sanity, Compassion or Wisdom. Sorry if I do not. I pray that I do.
1.03.2009
PRESS RELEASE
Hunger Strike Continues 7/24 on Capitol Hill Day #16 Demanding $200B Budget Shift from Pentagon to Plan B 3.0 Awaits Notification from Dennis Kucinich
NW corner of Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC, January 1, 2009. In order to understand this action, "Imagine that you've seen a meteor just days from striking earth and congress is doing nothing but talk. What do you do," asks Start Loving, when asked to explain this campaign.
"Plan B 3.0, by Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown, authoritatively, unmistakably shows us the national and global security 'meteor.' -- the soon to be irreversible destruction of life support on planet earth -- 'civilization collapse,' as manifest in the sharp rise in failing states around the world," Loving continues. "Driven by global warming, population explosion, and millions moving toward western style consumption, and with tipping point just months away, the Marshall Plan funding Brown calls for occurs now, January 2009, or it is too late for U.S. National security."
Loving adds, "Despite this impending catastrophe, Barney Frank (Democrat MA) is the lone voice in Congress calling for action, in October demanding a 25% shift in budget from the Pentagon. I will not remain silent in the face of this obvious threat. I expect to remain on Capitol Hill, NW corner of the Cannon House Office building 24/7 consuming only water, vitamins, and electrolytes until Dennis Kucinich, the congressman I most trust, comes out to tell me that the funding shift is a certainty."
Most of his adult life a turn-around expert in the computer industry, Loving came to DC over 3 years ago to fight the genocide in Darfur (Wash. Post, A Hunger For Justice - washingtonpost.com), conducting a 46 day hunger strike, 7/24 occupation outside the Sudan Embassy. He moved to direct confrontation of U.S. self destructive acts of Empire last October with a 7/24 occupation on Capitol Hill against the bombing of Iran (<http://startlovingusforcesiraniraq.blogspot.com/>http://StartLovingUSForcesIranIraq.blogspot.com) .
Most recently Loving has been supporting the 27+ year Peace Vigil in Lafayette Park (<http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org) in for the furtherance of Proposition One (HRxxxx) as proposed by Eleanor Holmes Norton each year since 1993. First passed in DC in DC election 1991 (prop1.org for details).
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Note: Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown is online, free at http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm
Additional Detail at Mr. Loving's YouTube site: <http://youtube.com/StartLoving1>http://youtube.com/StartLoving1 and <http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/>http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com .
Addional press contact: Ellen Thomas, 202-682-4282 Proposition One <http://prop1.org/>http://prop1.org
Start Loving email: Start_Loving@yahoo.com
Day 17: Ellen, the lone partner in this campaign to save humanity
Some thoughts are in my mind regarding your behavior and I think I should share them.
Many, many people know of the campaign I am surrendered to. Millions know of, and talk enlessly about the threat (Plan B 3.0, Prop1) know of the global threat I am committed to fight with all of my being.
I know of one person besides myself that will actively even approach committing to fight this threat - you. I am awed at your courage, and your humanity. You make me think of the parable of the two sons - one of whom says "no" dad, I will not do what you ask, but does; and the other son that says "SURE" dad, and does not. You being the former, not necessarily enthusiastic or pleased, but... then, you just do what our Father would want - bringing water, sending out a press release, physically dragging the vigiler to safety out of 60 mph winds, wifi, replenishment of electrical power.......
You also make me think of Jesus Mother, Mary. I never got the idea that Mary was very pleased with what Jesus was doing, she didn't understand fully, she didn't agree... But I DO have the sense that still, if not happily, she kept supporting Jesus work. She was always "there" for it.
1.02.2009
Day 16 Occupation / Hunger Strike continues
Jesus didn't have any support either while he was alive.
I do NOT take the lack of support / participation personally. Why? No one is acting with the heroism called for by these times in ANY campaign.
If he or she is moving you are observing a blood sucking zombie, in all likelihood. This is a graveyard.
Why do I continue?
- God knows what will happen. I am not God.
- Doing what needs to be done feels superior to any alternative - awesome! Life itself.
- Future survivors need examples.
- Current survivors need examples.
CREATIVE TENSION = GOD = LIFE = LOVE = TRUTH
This is God - conscience - Life - Love - Truth. THIS is what characterizes Jesus, King, Gandhi...
This, creative tension is what animates my life.
Creative Tension BEGETS Creative Tension IF ANYTHING will. Without it only evil is possible.
1.01.2009
Retaking the Hill. Hunger Strike Day #14
ps: Have you gotten word to Kucinich yet that I'm out there in support of his PeaceForce efforts - and will remain on Hunger Strike, 7/24 Occupation of the Hill until he comes out to tell me the $200B shift from War-making to Peace-building is "in the bag?"
12.31.2008
60MPH GUSTS BLOW ME OFF HILL FOR THE NIGHT
Precious equipment, signs, etc was getting destroyed / blown away. Can't really afford that.
This is pretty extreme weather for DC.
I expect to be back to Retake the Hill 7/24 tomorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY 12/31 RETAKING THE HILL 7/24
Independence Avenue, north west corner are of the Cannon House Office Building.
For those of you who join some thoughts:
- FAR AND AWAY the most difficult part is NEVER being able lay prone 7 /24. Call Bev at Relax The Back Store in Wilmington DE and she will cut you the best price she can, and express out to you (your cost) most of the following: 2 Cascade Camp seat cushions, 1 Roho seat cushion, 1 Obus High Back. Get the $20 Mtn Chair from Eastern Mtn Sports. I don't see how you can make it with less than these.
- COLD. You DO seem to be able to have sleeping bag. Have as warm a one as you can for day and night use.
- WET. This is a huge potential enemy. Rain pants, umbarella, 6 INDUSTRIAL SIZE - STRENGTH GARBAGE BAGS. EMS / REI have "emergency blankets / space blankets" of the medium strength variety, like a tarp. I duct-tape on into a mummy bag for my sleeping bag lower to go into for dryness, and the other I arrange over my upper for overnight vigil in rain.
- In many months there I've not been arrested and only rarely hassled. Maintining the Vigil in all regards including apperance is key. Most of the officers are extremely respectful of genuine courage.
- Even with hundreds of us, this is not a social event, it is war, waging love to save civilization - 7/24.
- Reading / listening to appropriate material is necessary for sanity and "the work." "Learn as though you were going to live forever." I have an extensive mp3 audio book library to share.
- NATURE CALLS: By the time you join Congress is likely to be in session which means 7-7 restroom is available. Otherwise, NOT. NOT weekends. Think bottles.
- Remember, we are an army and need to maintain decorum.
- No public wifi. No public AC.
- Little or no support.
- ... you know, like every revolutinary force in history - fighting from the trenches. WHEN HISTORY IS CHANGED, IT IS FROM THE TRENCHES. "If you love the poor, you will share their fate." Oscar Romero.
12.30.2008
I AM DYING FOR YOU TO SEE THESE. What else can I say? What else can I do?
Hmmm. I am dying for you to study the following, and its companion - IMMEDIATELY. What else can I say?
Do I need to know? I need to SHARE. These:
- PLAN B: 30 DAYS LEFT TO DEFLECT THE "METEOR." BET YOUR LIFE. 8
- PLAN B: "WARTIME" MOBILIZATION TO SAVE CIVILIZATION
- IGNORING DR. MLKs PRESCRIPTION U.S. DOA 1-20-09. 30 DAYS...
There IS no February 2, 2009. Returning to 24/7 Occupation of Capitol Hill 12/31/08 A.M.
TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE
Working through the night project completion is finally within sight, it would seem, on 3 of 4 projects.
Three video projects, two major seem to be completed and uploading!
The final project, yet to begun should be quite manageable.
This is the final great battle for Humanity. With or without comrades I'll fight it to the finish.
THE NEXT 30 DAYS ARE THE MOST
CONSEQUENTIAL IN HUMAN HISTORY.
TODAY is the time to be alive.
Thank you God.
GOD = REALITY. PERIOD. (The Reality of what best advances, perfects the epigenetically determined wellbeing of the species.)
The Church, Science, Capitalism, Corporatism - any and all INSTITUTIONS, being INhuman seek to indoctrinate, to addict us to "their" tRUTH, that is to draw us AWAY from God, AWAY from Reality.
This was an invaluable leap forward in clarity for me last week.
12.29.2008
MON. EVE: MAJOR TECH PROBLEMS.
Plan B 3.0 now available, free not only PDF but NOW online in AUDIO (CORRECTED / CHANGED from earlier today):
Although I expect to work through the night, Wednesday morning looks like the time of return to the Hill for the 24/7 occupation.
CAMPAIGN 1 MORE DAY OFF THE HILL - COMPUTER WORK
Tremendous technical problems, but worth fighting through.
God (Reality!) willing, by the time I return to the Hill:
- Plan B 3.0 chapters 1 and 13 will be on YouTube.
- Complete audio-book version of Plan B 3.0 will be available online to listen via mp3/Ipod
- MLK's final warning to us, "A time to break the silence" speech from Riverside Church for which our handlers shot him one year later will be edited and ready for us to blast on the Hill for when Congress returns next week. " A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
12.28.2008
Hunger Strike / Hill Occupation Day 11: Off the Hill 2 days to Communicate this to you
Don't feel bad about not seeing it. My entire adult career / training / passion / expertise / commitment was seeing large scale calamity months, years or decades before others - in time to starve it off - saving organizations in the computer industry which I did with some regular success. My whole life, on important matters, I simply "see" many, many times further than others. Simply a gift I've received, I use, and I die to share.
We've got about 30 days; NO MORE. By February 1st it will be too late for you, or me, or anyone to prevent it. No, not a civilization extinction from space. The planetary holocaust weeks away from irreversible certainty is man made - you and I made it.
And if it is going to be prevented, you and I have to do it, TODAY - BEFORE THE MILITARY - CORPORATE - INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS FORCE OBAMA INTO A "THEIR" AGENDA, "THEIR" BUDGET, "THEIR" PLAN. IT WILL THEN BE YEARS BEFORE A MAJOR COURSE CHANGE COULD HAPPEN, IF EVER - AND THAT IS YEARS TOO LATE. TODAY Obama is at the height of his political capital. TODAY the US Citizens are at the height of their readiness to participate. These stars, aligned today will be out of alignment by Feb 1.
On the Hill (so I was already totally committed, day 6 of the Huger Strike) on Christmas, I began a book I suspected was essential for me to read. Although obvously I could see why it was time to lay our lives on the line, I had no hope of effectively communicating to you "why," that we were facing calamity worth sacrificing our lives for, let alone communicating to you why it had to be TODAY, NOT TOMORROW. My only opportunity was to do my part in showing you "that" we were facing calamity worth sacrificing our lives for by doing so myself. "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. Example is the ONLY thing." Albert Schweiter.
Whereas this is the most important quote for this time, this place, and this crisis; explanation, clarity, vision, information does have a place as well. By December 26th as I completed my first reading of the book, on the Hill, I realized that the book I was reading was that vision, information Divinely articulated, impeccably researched and miraculously substantiated....
In finishing my 2nd reading today I realized the imperative of getting to a computer and:
- getting this initial alert to you, and
- creating a more extensive tool to get this information available to people, which I'll hope to complete by tomorrow or Tuesday so I can return to the Hill. The Hunger Strike continues, although to clear my head for this computer work I am taking juice tonight and probably tomorrow for which I expect to subtract one or two days from the Hunger Strike count.
What you need to do:
- Read chapter 13 of Plan B 3.0 NOW - free, online here at the Earth Policy Institute:
The Great Mobilization (pdf)
Introduction
Shifting Taxes and Subsidies
Summing Up Climate Stabilization Measures
A Reponse to Failing States
A Wartime Mobilization
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
!!!! Ignore the last section, "What you can do" unless you like masturbating - it is too late for his recommendations written months ago. Feb 1 or die. - Digest, consume the entire book cover to cover. Do it now. Better do it on an empty stomach - it is utterly horrifying - and it can save the life of all your progeny AS NOTHING ELSE CAN.
Table of Contents - NOTE: IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN MP3 PLAYER - GO GET ONE. BY MONDAY OR TUESDAY DOWNLOAD AN AUDIO-BOOK VERSION OF PLAN B 3.0 HERE OR HERE (CHANGED MON. NITE!!!). "READ" IT DURING YOUR COMMUTE TIME, LAUNDRY TIME....
- Join this Hunger Strike / Hill occupation - details here (scan around the last few week's posts (mostly one-liners)). Do it NOW. Check this site in another day or so regarding details - what you'll need, what to expect....
- GET OTHERS to join the Hunger Strike / Hill occupation. Do it now. Why Hunger Strike, and nothing else, nothing less? BUNKER BUSTER NON-VIOLENT ACTION: THE DIFINITIVE ESSAY, by Thick Nhat Hanh
- MAKE SURE THAT KUCINICH KNOWS (and unless YOU'VE gotten word to him - HE DOES NOT) THAT THE HUNGER STRIKE / OCCUPATION BEGAN 12/19 AND WILL NOT END UNTIL:
A. THE HUNGER STRIKER(S) EXPIRE, OR
B. HE COMES OUT TO TELL US THAT THE $200B SHIFT FROM WAR-MAKING TO PEACE-BUILDING IS "IN THE BAG."
Kucinich is NOT the TARGET of this campaign. Kucinich can be the/a HERO, THE CHAMPION in this campaign! HE is the one that has been calling for a Department of Peace. HE is the unimpeachable, COURAGEOUS patriot on the Hill. THIS CAMPAIGN, IF SOMEONE GETS IT TO HIS ATTENTION IN TIME, can give him the empowerment he, AND OBAMA DESPERATELY NEED AND WANT!!!!! Remember how FDR said to Sidney Hillman the Labor Leader? "Sidney I agree with everything in your proposal, it is all exactly right, now you just go back home and make me do it." If Obama tries to shift $200B from WarMaking to PeaceBuilding, WITHOUT IT COMING FROM PUBLIC PRESSURE, his administration is DEAD ON ARRIVAL. Obama knows this. BUT IF THE $200B SHIFT DOES NOT HAPPEN THEN ALL WE HAVE IS ANOTHER "ENRON," ANOTHER "MORTGAGE CRISIS," A CERTAIN IMPLOSION OF "ILLUSORY," "FAUX" GOOD WORKS BUILT ON SAND, FUNNY-MONEY, A HOUSE OF CARDS. "FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME FOR A 9TH YEAR!?!?!?!?!?" - Check this site over the next few days for information about how to join the hunger strike, etc., clarification and elaboration of the themes of this email....
There is no Feb. 2nd.
"Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, some people say what the f*ck happened."
If you value your child's, niece's or grandchild's ass.....
12.22.2008
Start's Prop 1 Park Vigil ends, Prop 1 FAST TO THE "END" ON CAPITOL HILL COMMENCES.
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