7.15.2015

Nonviolent resistance in Palestine: steadfastness, creativity and hope

https://www.opendemocracy.net/civilresistance/katherine-hughesfraitekh/nonviolent-resistance-in-palestine-steadfastness-creativity-and-hope

‘This Ends Now': Boston-area SJPs call for BDS in response to Israel’s obstruction of Freedom Flotilla

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/response-obstruction-flotilla

7.14.2015

***** Halt! Stop! Read this: Time for a Jewish reformation? Mark Braverman, American Jew

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/time-jewish-reformation

nd. Denial: fighting to bury the truth that is within yourself.

Denial: fighting to bury the truth that is within yourself.

7.13.2015

The most widely read, most beloved, most instrumental author to the American Revolution died friendless: Thomas....

The most widely read, most beloved, most instrumental author to the American Revolution died friendless: Thomas Paine, yes, that, Thomas Paine . Now, bring to your mind the magnitude of what he did that became the country known as America. Realize, that America never would have become without Thomas Paine. he was far and away the most widely read author pre revolution in the United States. Think about that. Now think about this: he died virtually friendless. 6 people came to his funeral and three of them were black as I recalled. Why? Because he was against the status quo of rule by the elites. For him the so-called American Revolution was simply I change from a British ruling elite to a domestic ruling elite. The masses remained subjugated. Blacks remained subjugated. Women regain remained subjugated... All by way of plan and intention from the ruling elites. Thomas Paine's very being was against this. This was known. So within moments of the Revolutionary War being won he became pariah, persona non grata, unwelcome, friendless. This is my understanding from an article I posted yesterday from the penultimate scholar Chris Hedges entitled, 'In extreme times liberals are a dead [ absolutely useless ]force.'

***** Sons of man have nowhere to lay their head. Loving without living in absolute solidarity is not Loving. That which is not Loving is exactly that which is at war against Creator, Creation.

Sons of man have nowhere to lay their head. Loving without living in absolute solidarity is not Loving. That which is not Loving is exactly that which is at war against Creator, Creation.

nd. I am my global family. We are dying. We are profoundly unsafe. I am working with every atom of my being to make me (my glogal neediest, all of us) more safe.

I am my global family. We are dying. We are profoundly unsafe. I am working with every atom of my being to make me (my glogal neediest, all of us) more safe.

***** nd. Why would I want to live in the luxury of a homeless shelter, let alone a rent-subsidized efficiency by the White House... when billions of my family could never in 1000 years dream of such luxury? (I abhor the idea. Moving back onto the DC streets by this weekend, intensifying my fight for our neediest Family.) "The golden rule is to steadfastly refuse to have what [billions] cannot [have]." Gandhi. Indeed. "A son of man has nowhere to rest his head." In fact.

***** nd. Why would I want to live in the luxury of a homeless shelter, let alone a rent-subsidized efficiency by the White House... when billions of my family could never in 1000 years dream of such luxury? (I abhor the idea. Moving back onto the DC streets by this weekend, intensifying my fight for our neediest Family.) "The golden rule is to steadfastly refuse to have what [billions] cannot [have]." Gandhi. Indeed. "A son of man has nowhere to rest his head." In fact.

***** I hold contempt for the feeling of loving. I revere totally and absolutely Loving as a way of Being... being Christian, Christlike, Serving the Neediest from the Soul in Solidarity... by whatever words, or no words at all.

I hold contempt for the feeling of loving. I revere totally and absolutely Loving as a way of Being... being Christian, Christlike, Serving the Neediest from the Soul in Solidarity... by whatever words, or no words at all.

***** HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: "Call the Zionists what they are: NAZI CRIMINALS....If we want to stay real human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals,” Meyer said. The hate of the Jews by the Germans “was less deeply rooted than the hate of the Palestinians by the Israeli Jews,” he observed.

***** HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: "We must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals....If we want to stay real human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals,” Meyer said. The hate of the Jews by the Germans “was less deeply rooted than the hate of the Palestinians by the Israeli Jews,” he observed.

In last interview, Auschwitz survivor urged Palestinians “not to give up their fight”

7.12.2015

Blessed Are the Poor: Pope Francis Visits Paraguay Slum

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/blessed-are-poor-pope-francis-visits-paraguay-slum-n390741

***** Episcopal Bishops Did Not Reject Divestment from Israel

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7756296

Protesters against coal-fired power plant stage hunger strike

http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/protesters-against-coal-fired-power-plant-stage-hunger-strike/106797/

Paramedical staffers are on a hunger strike nationwide in protest against the outsourcing and privatisation of health services and demanded filling up of positions that are lying vacant for a long time.

http://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/delhi/health-workers-on-hunger-strike-nationwide/74734.html

Hunger strike planned to demand water

http://news.gnom.es/news/hunger-strike-planned-to-demand-water

***** Pope Francis’ Speech on the Poor and Indigenous Peoples

http://time.com/3952885/pope-francis-bolivia-poverty-speech-transcript/

***** VIDEO: Chris Hedges: In Extreme Times, ‘Liberals Are a Dead Force’

http://m.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_liberals_cannot_propel_resistance_part_1_of_3_20150709

Bloomberg Business: 6. The Climate Is Still Screwed The shift to renewables is happening shockingly fast, but not fast enough to prevent perilous levels of global warming. About $8 trillion, or two thirds of the world's spending on new power capacity over the next 25 years, will go toward renewables. Still, without additional policy action by governments, global carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector will continue to rise until 2029 and will remain 13 percent higher than today's pollution levels in 2040.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/the-way-humans-get-electricity-is-about-to-change-forever

Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images

http://thrivalroom.com/understand-israeli-palestinian-apartheid-11-graphics/

7.11.2015

Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jan/08/cut-working-week-urges-thinktank?CMP=twt_fd

After settlers attack Palestinian family on road to Bethlehem, wife suffers miscarriage and husband is arrested

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/bethlehem-palestinian-miscarriage

***** Until this Bernie Sanders shows up I will fight the new Bernie Sanders with all of my ability. If this old Bernie Sanders shows up I will fight for him with everything I've got..... Bernie Sanders in 1988 declares Israel's actions reprehensible

http://www.alternet.org/1988-bernie-sanders-condemned-israeli-attacks-palestinians-reprehensible?sc=fb

***** VLOG. One microscopic step for humankind, one giant step in my personal attempts to serve humanity...... (click link for vlog and transcscript.)...

One microscopic step for humankind, one giant step in my personal attempts to serve humanity.

A few of you know that for months now I have been contemplating a radical escalation in my attempts to serve, a radical escalation in my personal commitment, a substantial escalation in personal risk my person and physical wellbeing.

Well, in the last month or so I have been working diligently to see if I could stabilize my body, and strengthen it enough, to move out of the shelter, far to traditional and comfortable a refuge, back into the streets where by every argument I would be consuming much less resources. And if I could determine that my body was strong enough then I needed to see if I could make arrangements that would provide me a modicum of material support, particularly the availability of my computer gear, and my advocacy gear, my posters, what I sit on, etc.

And then finally could I secure the financing, the Financial Resources, the donations required for what I had in mind.

What I had in mind is a self en closed, solar powered vehicle called the Elf from Organic Transit, a small company out of Durham North Carolina. A company that I visited a week ago yesterday traveling on Megabus, where I spent maybe 5 hours asking questions and pondering all the ramifications very deeply.

http://organictransit.com/

Yesterday, was the culmination.

A complete stranger emerged with 1/3 funds required, and the longest, lifelong supporter of my work for humanity (the only one) came forth with the other 2/3. No one else to did. But it was exactly Just enough.

So yesterday the seller of this Elf solar bike and I reached a verbal agreement, and roughly next Thursday or Friday by travel 30 miles from DC, to pick up the Elf, and drive it back to DC, a rather long virgin voyage for me, but this is not the time for timidity.

There are four aspects to my advocacy here in DC: full human rights for all Palestinians including the millions of refugees who have been brutally and mercilessly driven from their land against all law against all morality; the end of greenhouse gases from our burning of fossil fuels through the promotion of renewable energy; decency, respect and huma ity for the poorest among us including the poorest among us here in United States including the homeless; and a new way of being which is vastly less resource consumptive and vastly more contributory of our resources and varied being to the well being of humanity, and all creation. What I will be attempting to my satisfaction is the fulfillment of my best possible attempt to serve all four of those objectives more powerfully, much more powerfully, then I have been able to serve as far.

Within a month, much sooner if I am able, the Elf will include graphics promoting full human rights for Palestine, renewable energy, and LIVE FULL SOLIDARITY... START LOVING. The fact of my life, living on the streets at a projected cost of 100 to several $100 per month, will be the exemplification and promotion of an infinitely more joyful alternative to the life that I have lived even up until now, a life of ungodly resource squandering on my person and the few people associated with the closely. Sinful. Unsustainable. Suicidal for the species and for all creation.

Yes, I'll now be at substantial physical risk sleeping on the streets. This is unchartered territory. I will be easy prey including for rogue police who want to head off such a radical and potentially threatening form of homelessness. I'll be easy pickings for the Zionists who would love to see me tortured and go away.

My only concern with such issues is that I not throw away my body and therefore my ability to do my work so I think in detail of how to secure the Elf, though rarely if ever will it be out of my site, how to make it slightly less attractive to bash my head in as I'm sleeping, or to vandalize the Elf.

The biggest point of sadness is that it is too wide to fit between the security pylons that ring the White House where I'm sitting at this moment. Sometimes I will park it about two blocks away, and I've already discussed this with the secret service who are quite intrigued with the idea what I'm doing I think. I'll park it in a high visibility area where someone wanting to vandalize or steal would think twice, and I'll walk here with just the gear that I have with me now. Other times when I would have come to the White House on weekends I will park and sit with my posters in the Elf at the very top of the park on K street where there is a significant drive by and were many of the tourists enter the park. It might be that the Elf and the signage on the Elf will be a significant draw. I'm concerned this might not be the case but it's worth a try. And if almost all the time that I've been coming to the White House I now go down on the mall, most likely down by the Washington monument, and or near the (1st) Holocaust museum, I think that what I lose by being here in the park is gained by the much heightened statement that the Elf and it's signage and will make.

And when Congress is in session I expect that for the foreseeable future that will remain my top priority, being on Independence Avenue outside of their office buildings were they slither to and fro to the capital to do their token voting, their bidding for their corporate financial masters. And again my advocacy will be amped up in all respects by the presence of the Elf parked by where I will be sitting with my signs.

It is a miracle that that stranger emerged out of nowhere to cover a third of this project. It is a miracle that my sole, lifelong supporter stepped forward and had the resources at their disposal; truly, for anyone that knows the situation, a totally unexpected Marichal. But it happened.

nd. I have made no more important progress in my life than moving from listening to someone's words before I watch their deeds. To do otherwise....

is to encourage hypocrites, the group that Jesus most reviled, encouraging others to do the same. I can't think of a message that Jesus lived and spoke of more centrally, urgently, than how deadly hypocrisy, lip service, is to an individual soul, and to the Holy Spirit in those around such people. Your lips say Lord Lord, but your hearts are far from me.