Attawapiskat Chief Spence agrees to end hunger strike Add to ...
Chief Theresa Spence
of Attawapiskat will end her hunger strike after first nations leaders
and members of the federal opposition agree to carry on the fight she ...
1.23.2013
Obama Pitched Gay Marriage to the Justices—Without Setting Foot in Court
| The Atlantic | - |
"We
the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us
are created equal -- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided
our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall," Obama said. "Our journey is not complete ...
***** vid Why [Heartless] Right Hates them: Surprise! President and Mrs. Obama Greet White House Tour
Surprise! President and Mrs. Obama Greet White House Tour
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet visitors
during an inaugural open house in the Blue Room of the White House, Jan.
22, 2013.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
***** vid WashPo: Lincoln's Army Carried him. I'm re-joining the Citizen Army that carries Pr. Obama
***** vid WashPo: Lincoln's Army Carried him. I'm re-joining the one that carries Pr. Obama
Pr. Lincoln was carried to greatness on the shoulders of the sweat and toil of a citizen army. And Pr. Obama too. I'm rejoining that army - Organizing for Action, and you need to do the same. We'll not get another chance, and neither will the next 2000 generations of those that follow us. The need is now. The time, is now.
Pr. Lincoln was carried to greatness on the shoulders of the sweat and toil of a citizen army. And Pr. Obama too. I'm rejoining that army - Organizing for Action, and you need to do the same. We'll not get another chance, and neither will the next 2000 generations of those that follow us. The need is now. The time, is now.
***** YOU. ME. NOW. WashPo: "WE'VE got to ACT." "You're right," Pr. Obama told Waxman post Inaugural.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-makes-a-moral-case-for-action-on-climate-change/2013/01/22/1d33ea98-64cf-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story_1.html
>>> ORGANIZING FOR ACTION. Got kids? Nieces? Grandkids...? You in? <<<
I'm in, with every breath, now.
Also...
>>> ORGANIZING FOR ACTION. Got kids? Nieces? Grandkids...? You in? <<<
I'm in, with every breath, now.
Also...
***** L. O'Donnell: Conservatives (r,c,Lft) Hate Truthful Citing of Constitution. MSNBC
A Sacred Sister has asked me - "What's it like to be on extended hunger strike, spiritually?"
Day 20-1 01.23.13 Deeply Tired, Recovering, Slowly... to Fight On, including my Cancer, in DC.
01.22.13 EDF Day 20: Fast Terminated. Redirecting all Energies immediately toward Pr. Obama's/Our - Organizing for Action, and therefore also to Chemo to try and slow down my Cancer
videolog Ecocide's Death Fast redoubled 01.21.13
Day 20-1 01.23.13 Deeply Tired, Recovering, Slowly... to Fight On, including my Cancer, in DC.
From a note to our Sacred Sister Diane, she, recovering from 46 days
on her most RECENT of MANY Hunger Strikes for us:
"Yes, I'm tired too, and haven't been fighting near as long
as you. Slept 12 hours last night, and just got up from
a 3 hour nap. I'm tired, bone tired, physically, and mentally.
The right thing to do sister, I'm convinced, is to, yes,
give the avatar the rest it needs. Let it recover, so
we can continue the fight.
My guess is that come early to mid next week I'll be back
in front of the Embassy, 22/7, until the Chemo begins.
I've been unintentionally pretty rough on the medical
folks in DC with my start, stop, zig, zags.... But if they
resume care for me, well, I'll try to make that happen,
I've begun already, via email; and if I can find someone
to do the chemo, radiation, whatever, I'll take it on,
aggressively, not from the comfort of friends here in DC,
or the 24 hour loving care at DC Christ House, that is willing;
but from the corner 'infirmary' of a massive DC Homeless
shelter, because I think DC is where I can best serve,
back in front of the Embassy; on the phone alongside
the rest of the Organizing for Action army...;
but the chemo, sadly, will take me down to just
6-10 hours per day at the Embassy, for the 6 month
duration, or so; and I'll lose 2 days a week or so.
on her most RECENT of MANY Hunger Strikes for us:
"Yes, I'm tired too, and haven't been fighting near as long
as you. Slept 12 hours last night, and just got up from
a 3 hour nap. I'm tired, bone tired, physically, and mentally.
The right thing to do sister, I'm convinced, is to, yes,
give the avatar the rest it needs. Let it recover, so
we can continue the fight.
My guess is that come early to mid next week I'll be back
in front of the Embassy, 22/7, until the Chemo begins.
I've been unintentionally pretty rough on the medical
folks in DC with my start, stop, zig, zags.... But if they
resume care for me, well, I'll try to make that happen,
I've begun already, via email; and if I can find someone
to do the chemo, radiation, whatever, I'll take it on,
aggressively, not from the comfort of friends here in DC,
or the 24 hour loving care at DC Christ House, that is willing;
but from the corner 'infirmary' of a massive DC Homeless
shelter, because I think DC is where I can best serve,
back in front of the Embassy; on the phone alongside
the rest of the Organizing for Action army...;
but the chemo, sadly, will take me down to just
6-10 hours per day at the Embassy, for the 6 month
duration, or so; and I'll lose 2 days a week or so.
A Sacred Sister has asked me - "What's it like to be on extended hunger strike, spiritually?"
What's it like to be on extended hunger strike, spiritually? I'm
Honored by your question.
What is it like to accept pregnancy a 2nd time, or a 3rd? Well,
no, I never have, but I think there is a similarity. It is not done
to seek the pain of birth, but is run toward for the Joy of the
possibility to create Life! That's my guess.
Hunger Strike, as diane would do it, Chief Spence, Gandhi... is
an ultimate expression, Act of, and PARTICIPATION IN Loving -
It is an Unviolent War Shriek, out of Love - "What is at stake,
what is needed is so Sacred, I'm here to offer the
Ultimate Price I can Pay, with JOY, the Gift of my Life, so that
others, so that Creation, might have Life." This is to participate IN the Divine
Work of Creation. I've never thought of it quite this way, except
that you've asked me to share, but this is how it is, most all the time.
And, it is to participate, constantly, in the Ultimate Agony of what
we are doing to our most vulnerable, most Sane brothers and sisters,
and the most pure of Creation - Creation itself, the trees, animals,
fish... our Children, our GrandChildren, in FACT, the next 200
billion children.
There are times of distracting, debilitating physical weakness,
discomfort, nausea, pain, hospitalization sometimes...
but much more often, there is a freedom from the physical
distractions, demands and energies associated with maintaining
one's own physical life. Eating, metabolizing food itself, takes
a huge amount of physical energy, and in my experience, at least, for
many weeks of the Hunger Strike, that energy is released to
use by the Spirit - resulting in hugely heightened Wisdom, Awareness,
Insight.
Now, as Gandhi was emphatic, unless a Hunger Strike is undertaken
and maintained out of Universal Love, Universal Family IT SHOULD
NOT, AND MUST NOT BE DONE! But if it is, I suspect that what
I've experienced and outlined here, is not too dissimilar from the experience
of others, including Chief Spence.
It is for the most part, a deeply Humbling Participation in Creation,
with the Creator. A Deep Dive into the Heart, of oneself, into
those of even a totally oblivious and near Dead Human Family.
It is Not Bliss. But it IS Divine. It is OF the Divine, and Within
the Divine, in Partnership.
And a final caution to all, especially Chief Spence - the Hunger Strike is NOT OVER when calories begin to be consumed!!! This can be the most taxing, most exhausting, most dangerous time. The digestive track has gone totally dormant, within 4 days of the Hunger Strike beginning. Restart is exhausting, and unless one very carefully consumes limited amounts of easily digested foods, at best, they will have a very unpleasant experience with their bowels, and at worst, could wind up in the hospital, or worse. Tho I've been on more 35-50 day hunger strikes than I can recall, I don't have re-entry down to a science. But knowing now what is called the BRAT diet - Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast - has been a great help to me. Please be certain that people working with Chief Spence know this.
Also, re-entry is a very challenging time as well. Hunger Strike for 20, 30, 40... days is a near-death experience, slow-motion seppuku. It is very important that people around Chief Spence try very hard to provide her many days of space, support, and protection for her work to psychologically return to the living, and to re-chart her course of service.
With the above, sister, maybe I misunderstood your question. Please
tell me further how I can help with your question.
Loving. Sakihiwew
Honored by your question.
What is it like to accept pregnancy a 2nd time, or a 3rd? Well,
no, I never have, but I think there is a similarity. It is not done
to seek the pain of birth, but is run toward for the Joy of the
possibility to create Life! That's my guess.
Hunger Strike, as diane would do it, Chief Spence, Gandhi... is
an ultimate expression, Act of, and PARTICIPATION IN Loving -
It is an Unviolent War Shriek, out of Love - "What is at stake,
what is needed is so Sacred, I'm here to offer the
Ultimate Price I can Pay, with JOY, the Gift of my Life, so that
others, so that Creation, might have Life." This is to participate IN the Divine
Work of Creation. I've never thought of it quite this way, except
that you've asked me to share, but this is how it is, most all the time.
And, it is to participate, constantly, in the Ultimate Agony of what
we are doing to our most vulnerable, most Sane brothers and sisters,
and the most pure of Creation - Creation itself, the trees, animals,
fish... our Children, our GrandChildren, in FACT, the next 200
billion children.
There are times of distracting, debilitating physical weakness,
discomfort, nausea, pain, hospitalization sometimes...
but much more often, there is a freedom from the physical
distractions, demands and energies associated with maintaining
one's own physical life. Eating, metabolizing food itself, takes
a huge amount of physical energy, and in my experience, at least, for
many weeks of the Hunger Strike, that energy is released to
use by the Spirit - resulting in hugely heightened Wisdom, Awareness,
Insight.
Now, as Gandhi was emphatic, unless a Hunger Strike is undertaken
and maintained out of Universal Love, Universal Family IT SHOULD
NOT, AND MUST NOT BE DONE! But if it is, I suspect that what
I've experienced and outlined here, is not too dissimilar from the experience
of others, including Chief Spence.
It is for the most part, a deeply Humbling Participation in Creation,
with the Creator. A Deep Dive into the Heart, of oneself, into
those of even a totally oblivious and near Dead Human Family.
It is Not Bliss. But it IS Divine. It is OF the Divine, and Within
the Divine, in Partnership.
And a final caution to all, especially Chief Spence - the Hunger Strike is NOT OVER when calories begin to be consumed!!! This can be the most taxing, most exhausting, most dangerous time. The digestive track has gone totally dormant, within 4 days of the Hunger Strike beginning. Restart is exhausting, and unless one very carefully consumes limited amounts of easily digested foods, at best, they will have a very unpleasant experience with their bowels, and at worst, could wind up in the hospital, or worse. Tho I've been on more 35-50 day hunger strikes than I can recall, I don't have re-entry down to a science. But knowing now what is called the BRAT diet - Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast - has been a great help to me. Please be certain that people working with Chief Spence know this.
Also, re-entry is a very challenging time as well. Hunger Strike for 20, 30, 40... days is a near-death experience, slow-motion seppuku. It is very important that people around Chief Spence try very hard to provide her many days of space, support, and protection for her work to psychologically return to the living, and to re-chart her course of service.
With the above, sister, maybe I misunderstood your question. Please
tell me further how I can help with your question.
Loving. Sakihiwew
1.22.2013
01.22.13 EDF Day 20: Fast Terminated. Redirecting all Energies immediately toward Pr. Obama's/Our - Organizing for Action, and therefore also to Chemo to try and slow down my Cancer
01.22.13 EDF Day 20: Fast Terminated. Redirecting all Energies immediately toward Pr. Obama's/Our - Organizing for Action, and therefore also to Chemo to try and slow down my Cancer
Speech Gives Climate Goals Center Stage.
Speech Gives Climate Goals Center Stage.
From a post earlier today, with updates.
I've taken today to ponder deeply what I heard from Pr. Obama, press sources I respect, recent developments with our Sherioc Sister Chief Theresa Spence, brother Robinson.... It is clear for me that what moral support my Fast in solidarity with Chief Spence / Idle No More might provide, is even more miniscule than what help I might be to our next 200 billion kids, by immediately redirecting my efforts toward the emerging Organizing for Action, alongside the Godsend - Pr. Obama.
With Organizing for Action there is for the first time a major opportunity to give our kids a future other than Ecocide Hell, seriously attacking Green House Gasses. And that may well drag me, us, into other fights as diverse as gun control, gay rights, debt, 2014 election... to get the political capital needed for the necessary legislation to avert Ecocide by Green House Gasses, in the next 4 years. But it will be a full on, 4 year fight, requiring that the House be reclaimed in 2014, and therefore I need to attempt to secure and undertake as rigorous and promising a Chemo, Radiation, whatever, treatment plan as physical support, and Medicare, can provide me. Note: I had forgone chemo, radiation, whatever as unacceptable because it would have prevented me maintaining the Canadian Embassy vigil going on 8 months now, and was unneeded given my Death Fast; but with what now is needed of me, a longer, sustained fight if the cancer can be slowed down; I need to attempt to secure and undergo the treatment.
This change in direction catches me at a somewhat deep physical and mental low - I'm tired, after 4 years of life-on-the-line, body-in-the-way, all out unviolent war for our children's future; and I Pray for understanding as I yet again shift gears in this new direction. And frankly, a bit older now, my body is rebelling, facing the cancer now as well; from a homeless shelter while I get chemo, and the streets, WHERE I NEED TO BE, IN FRONT OF THE CANADIAN EMBASSY, AS MUCH TIME AS I CAN.... Ugh. And now I'm imposing on folks, imposing on the system, for RESOURCES! ARGH!!!! I HATE THAT. What a frickin, old, wimp!
Make no mistake! I'm not tired if the fight. I'm just, well, tired, at the moment. I'll recover; soon, I expect.
More from today's earlier post:
01.22.13 Day 20: Heard Pr. O yesterday. Expecting to Terminate the Fast; Devote to Pr. Obama's/Our Organizing for Action
Barring anything to the contrary, I expect that by tonight I'll have decided to terminate the Fast and redirect my Life in the direction of Pr. Obama's / Our, Organizing for Action army against Climate Change / Ecocide - and I suggest you, and everyone you know, do the same. Now.
As I've maintained loudly, for 5 years now, Pr. Obama is the greatest Leader the world's ever seen. I know almost nothing, except High Stakes, Complex Leadership - what I've studied and practiced my entire adulthood, as an "Organizer" within and between high-tech businesses, while Pr. Obama started by doing it in disadvantaged neighborhoods of color. I "know" Pr. Obama better than anyone I've ever encountered or heard of except his immediate staff, no credit to me, but that's the fact of it.
Now, Pr. Obama has an army, Organizing for Action, enabling him to go after Ecocide, which in my small way I've begged for, and helped build - including over 700 phone calls (32nd most productive caller in the nation at one point I was) to get him elected, preventing Romney, btw, who would have been the final nail in the coffin of our American experiment, and in Earth's ability to support diversity of Life.
I know of no activist, no environmental activist, that KNEW that if and when he could, Pr. Obama would fight to Avert Ecocide with his very being. But I always knew it, having honed my Vision for Leadership my entire life. It was obvious. And Now, thanks to fellow citizens from the American Center, he 'can,' he has a way - us, in Organizing for America - a citizen Army. And until I see otherwise, I expect by tonight, to have redirected from the Fast, to that Army.
Mother Nature will give us no more time. We've run the clock out on our children's future. Pr. Obama, a Truth Seeker, a father, our Brother... knows this, and a lot more. Join him. Join us.
Should I abort the Fast, my digestive tract will be in chaos as it re-learns to consume normal calories - making an immediate return from recent refuge here in Phila, to the streets of DC, the Canadian Embassy, ill-advised for a few days, at least.
Yet, if I re-direct, I'll also need to make a priority securing and enduring cancer treatment, provided that I can make lodging arrangements that satisfy the hospital / care facility but arrangements that leave me free to fight in the Army on each of those days I'm not in treatment or recovering therefrom.
Also...
videolog Ecocide's Death Fast redoubled 01.21.13
Pr. Obama's Inaugural Speech Was Bold, But Following Through Won't Be Easy. TIME
vid L. O'Donnell: Gun Control Advocates - Reagen, Nixon, Bush I, Bush II
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50502473
Those behind the NRA: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50502474
Who is Tom Selleck, today, besides NRA Board Member: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50502480
Gov. Howard Dean - NRA HQ folks "crazy people:"
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50490025
Those behind the NRA: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50502474
Who is Tom Selleck, today, besides NRA Board Member: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50502480
Gov. Howard Dean - NRA HQ folks "crazy people:"
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#50490025
nd 01.22.13 Day 20. Physically and Mentally very Tired, and feeling unwell.
nd 01.22.13 Day 20. Physically and Mentally very Tired, and feeling unwell.
Pr. Obama's Inaugural Speech Was Bold, But Following Through Won't Be Easy. TIME
| TIME | - |
... address after being sworn in at the presidential inauguration at. Rob Carr / Pool / Reuters. President Barack Obama
gives his inauguration address after being sworn in at the presidential
inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan ...
01.22.13 Day 20: Heard Pr. O yesterday. Expecting to Terminate the Fast; Devote to Pr. Obama's/Our Organizing for Action
Barring anything to the contrary, I expect that by tonight I'll have decided to terminate the Fast and redirect my Life in the direction of Pr. Obama's / Our, Organizing for Action army against Climate Change / Ecocide - and I suggest you, and everyone you know, do the same. Now.
As I've maintained loudly, for 5 years now, Pr. Obama is the greatest Leader the world's ever seen. I know almost nothing, except High Stakes, Complex Leadership - what I've studied and practiced my entire adulthood, as an "Organizer" within and between high-tech businesses, while Pr. Obama started by doing it in disadvantaged neighborhoods of color. I "know" Pr. Obama better than anyone I've ever encountered or heard of except his immediate staff, no credit to me, but that's the fact of it.
Now, Pr. Obama has an army, Organizing for Action, enabling him to go after Ecocide, which in my small way I've begged for, and helped build - including over 700 phone calls (32nd most productive caller in the nation at one point I was) to get him elected, preventing Romney, btw, who would have been the final nail in the coffin of our American experiment, and in Earth's ability to support diversity of Life.
I know of no activist, no environmental activist, that KNEW that if and when he could, Pr. Obama would fight to Avert Ecocide with his very being. But I always knew it, having honed my Vision for Leadership my entire life. It was obvious. And Now, thanks to fellow citizens from the American Center, he 'can,' he has a way - us, in Organizing for America - a citizen Army. And until I see otherwise, I expect by tonight, to have redirected from the Fast, to that Army.
Mother Nature will give us no more time. We've run the clock out on our children's future. Pr. Obama, a Truth Seeker, a father, our Brother... knows this, and a lot more. Join him. Join us.
Should I abort the Fast, my digestive tract will be in chaos as it re-learns to consume normal calories - making an immediate return from recent refuge here in Phila, to the streets of DC, the Canadian Embassy, ill-advised for a few days, at least.
Yet, if I re-direct, I'll also need to make a priority securing and enduring cancer treatment, provided that I can make lodging arrangements that satisfy the hospital / care facility but arrangements that leave me free to fight in the Army on each of those days I'm not in treatment or recovering therefrom.
Also...
videolog Ecocide's Death Fast redoubled 01.21.13
Pr. Obama's Inaugural Speech Was Bold, But Following Through Won't Be Easy. TIME
1.21.2013
Climate Change Given Prominence in Obama's Address. New York Times
| New York Times | - |
WASHINGTON - President Obama
made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his
second Inaugural Address on Monday, setting in motion what Democrats say
will be a deliberately paced but aggressive campaign built around the ...
Obama promises action on climate change. Politico
| Politico | - |
President Barack Obama
promised to take action on climate change in his inaugural speech
Monday, putting the issue at the forefront of his agenda for the second
term.
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WOOHOO! Grace and Humanity from John McCain??? USATODAY
| USA TODAY | - |
President Obama
and John McCain were rivals in the 2008 presidential election and still
disagree on policy. But that didn't stop the Arizona Republican from
offering an olive branch via Twitter.
videolog Ecocide's Death Fast redoubled 01.21.13
Chief Spence Vid Interview 01.20.13 http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/01/vid-interview-day-41-hunger-s...
Loving's Video Log 01.18.13 http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/01/videolog-011813-edf-day-16-is...
Diane Wilson Hunger Strike Day 46 http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/01/oh-god-you-need-to-see-this-h...
1.20.2013
***** VID INTERVIEW Day 41 Hunger Strike Chief Theresa Spence
1.19.2013
Pr. Obama - Climate Change in his sights. Guardian
| The Guardian | - |
When
the firebrand Republican senator Ted Cruz went on conservative Laura
Ingraham's radio show last week, the topic of conversation swiftly
turned to Barack Obama.
nd ' "Greatest leader in the history of the world," since 2007 I've declared that, with certainty. Virtually no one else saw, or even still see, except Michelle, and his immediate staff, and occasionally, Rachel Maddow.' Loving
nd ' "Greatest leader in the history of the world," since 2007 I've declared that, with certainty. Virtually no one else saw, or even still see, except Michelle, and his immediate staff, and occasionally, Rachel Maddow.' Loving
' 'Occupy,' you NEVER were the 99%. You never even tried. We, Org. For Action, Were and ARE.' Loving
| Politico | - |
“We've
got to keep working on growing the economy from the middle out, along
with making meaningful progress on the issues we care about -
immigration reform, climate change, balanced deficit reduction, reducing gun violence, and the implementation of ...
| The Guardian | - |
... comprehensive immigration reform, measures to combat climate change and negotiations over the fiscal cliff. In a video accompanying the launch, Michelle Obama said that Organizing for Action represented "the next phase of our movement for change.
| Progress Illinois | - |
Instead, the heavily tech and social media dependent campaign will be turned into a grassroots non-profit called Organizing for Action with the aim of moving forward the issues and policies that united his supporters in the first place. "We have the ...
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