01.02.12 I'm considering Hunger Strike / Death Fast - Idle No More Solidarity

 01.02.12 I'm considering Hunger Strike / Death Fast - Idle No More Solidarity, and to Avert Ecocide - End Global Warming

For a year or more it has been my view that unless the Indigenous Nations of the world lead us back from Ecocide, with their Lives, Unviolently, dying, as many of us as is needed, THERE IS NO HOPE. They, as sick, broken... as many are, our Indigenous of the world are probably our last remaining repository of much Humanity, Sanity, and if they don't have enough to See what is at stake,



 and enough Courage, Love, of Creation, to Joyfully Die if need be to save our children, that NO ONE DOES.

But they may.  Google Idle No More.

Chief Spence is on day 20 or so of her Hunger Strike to protect her Indigenous Nation from having it's right to meaningful life revoked by the Canadian Harper government, as I understand it.

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO HELP OTHERS HAVE MEANINGFUL LIFE.

Tho her stand is not directly against Ecocide, as is mine, as the stand of all should be, I believe it IS a stand for MEANINGFUL LIFE, and this is virtually the same.

I've communicated to an intermediary to Chief Spence,  to see what she thinks of me joining the Hunger Strike..  We are out of time to avert Ecocide.  I don't know if Chief Spence's work is the beginning of the End, but if it is not it is too late anyway.  And if it is, I have to give my last breath to make it INDEED, the End of the End, the End of ECOCIDE.  The end of any future for Children, EVER..  Anywhere.

I'll remain in Prayer, seeking in my imagination, the Wisdom, Will, Guidance of the Creator.

You, should do the same.  You do love our children.  Right?

video Loving and Blueskywoman - Idlenomore Solidarity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5OnrF_JAiw

Idle no more at Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

www.youtube.com

December 31,2012..... Interview with StartLoving on his advocacy on tar sands and support for our chief(Theresa Spence) with Blueskywoman

Daine Wilson - TruthOut - Climate Change Justice and Resistance from Doha to East Texas

Climate Change Justice and Resistance from Doha to East Texas

Chief Theresa Spence - Hunger Strike Day 20 - #idlenomore

Google: idlenomore

Man swept to sea in California trying to save dog. USA TODAY

Man swept to sea in California trying to save dog

USA TODAY

***** GET THIS STORY SEEN. DAY 35 HUNGER STRIKE. DIANE WILSON.

Why I'm On A Hunger Strike-Environmental and Injured Workers Activist And Advocate Diane Wilson

Background:

http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/unreasonablewoman

http://tarsandsblockade.org/hungerartist/

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Diane Wilson is a long time environmental activist, author and injured worker advocate on the Texas Gulf Coast.

She is presently on a hunger strike to stop Valero from investing in the Canada tar sands.

She is a cofounder of Texas Injured Workers www.texasinjuredworkers.org and a board member of the Injured Workers National Network www.iwnn.org

info@iwnn.org

For more information on the hunger strike go to http://tarsandsblockade.org/13th-action/

Workers!  Demand Valero divest from tar sands.  The life you save may just be your own.  

I’m a fourth generation fisherwoman from the Texas Gulf Coast. For forty years I have made a living on a shrimp boat plying the Gulf Coast waters, but for the past twenty-five years, I have fought a long and difficult battle with industry to preserve the health and wellbeing of our Texas bays and marine life for our children and our children’s children.

 

Today I am involved in one of my most difficult challenges. I am on the 35th day of a hunger strike that I began to convince Valero to divest from Canada’s tar sands.

 

Many stakeholders have been pulled into this fight that is so colossal and mind boggling that it can almost be called biblical and not be an exaggeration.  The indigenous tribes of the First Nation in Canada, land owners, cities’ water supplies, communities surrounding the refineries, and the very planet that we call home are all being threatened by the extraction of tar sands and the XL pipeline that is snaking its way from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

 

Workers in the refinery don’t get mentioned much and that’s pretty surprising given that workers are ground zero for exposure from the refining of tar sands.    

 

When a refinery uses a bitumen blend from Canada’s tar sands, it is using a raw material that contains large quantities of sulfur. This means U.S. refineries using tar sands generally produce more intense sulfur dioxide air pollution that is, today, not adequately regulated. The result is heightened health risks not only to communities living near tar sands refineries, but also to the workers inside.

In fact, workers are the most direct line for sulfur dioxide poisoning.

A few statistics from publicly available sources indicate that, in general, tar sands refineries spew more sulfur dioxide pollution per barrel produced than refineries that do not use tar sands. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), short- term exposure to elevated sulfur dioxide levels is associated with reduced lung function, chest tightness, wheezing, shortness of breath, respiratory illness, deterioration of the lung’s defense systems, and the aggravation of cardiovascular systems.

In addition, a refinery’s processing of tar sands leaves a toxic cocktail of 20 by-products (often at 1,000 times above the safe limit) that include the cancer-causing chemicals benzene, toluene, and hydrogen sulfide.

Now I know what some workers are going to say when they read this.  I know because I’ve asked them and they say, “Smells like money to me!” or “Not me! I’m healthy! ” Or “That’s why I have two life insurance policies.” 

Then stuff happens.

The experts say 870,000 workers get sick and 55,000-60,000 die each year in the United States from an occupational disease. Then the experts add the caveat that these numbers are undoubtedly underestimates. How much of an underestimate?  Well, as much as 69 percent of illnesses and injuries never make it to the Bureau of Labor statistics.  And the vast majority of workers with an occupational illness never receive any benefits from workers compensation.

Ask any injured worker who’s developed an illness brought on by exposure to a chemical and he can recite a litany of reasons why help never comes.

Work related illnesses are difficult to identify, especially those with long periods between exposure and illness.  Part of the problem is simply an absence of data on the health effects of hazardous exposures.  Absolutely nothing is known about potential toxicity for more than 85percent of chemicals in use in industry.  In addition, routine training on known hazards and their effects is lacking.  The average doctor receives 4 hours or less of training in occupational medicine in a 4 year medical school curriculum.

But the major reason is Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) reliance on employers self-reporting.  Employers have strong incentives for underreporting illnesses or not at all.  Businesses with few illnesses on the job are least likely to receive inspections from OSHA, they have lower worker compensation insurance premiums, and they have a better chance of winning government contracts.

There are other reasons.  Employers and Worker compensations Insurers have major incentives to deny a connection between a workplace exposure and disease.  Every occupational disease that is not recognized saves them money by socializing the cost on to someone else, mostly injured workers, their families, and taxpayers. 

Workers themselves may not want to suggest their health problem is work related, fearing they might lose their job or suffer retribution from an employer angered by a Workers Compensation claim.  Workers report widespread harassment and intimidation when they report an injury or illness.  Reports, testimonies, and new accounts show that many employers fire or discipline workers who report injuries or illnesses or complain about a safety problem.  Other employers add demerits to a workers record for reportable illnesses or injuries or absenteeism that resulted from an alleged safety violation.

This is all just to say:  Workers!  Demand Valero divest from tar sands.  The life you save may just be your own.  

Biden May Be the Most Influential Vice President Ever. National Journal

Biden May Be the Most Influential Vice President EverNational Journal

nd 'FEW PEOPLE CHOOSE WAR, THE NEWTOWN SLAUGHTER, FAMINE, ECOCIDE, POVERTY, INJUSTICE.... WE CHOOSE TO WORSHIP OUR FLESHLY SPIRIT. THESE ARE JUST THE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES.' Loving

nd 'FEW PEOPLE CHOOSE WAR, THE NEWTOWN SLAUGHTER, FAMINE, ECOCIDE, POVERTY, INJUSTICE.... WE CHOOSE TO WORSHIP OUR FLESHLY SPIRIT.  THESE ARE JUST THE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES.' Loving

nd ' 'Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth.' This was not Jesus threatening punishment. This was Jesus warning us of the self-inflicted pains of worshiping our Fleshly Spirit.' Loving

nd ' 'Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth.'  This was not Jesus threatening punishment.  This was Jesus warning us of the self-inflicted pains of worshiping our Fleshly Spirit.' Loving

nd 'What did Jesus mean, 'You say 'Lord, Lord, but your Hearts are far from me? I don't know you.' You speak, live, act... from your dead Flesh, but not your Soul, your Heart, the Creator's Kingdom.' Loving

nd 'What did Jesus mean, 'You say 'Lord, Lord, but your Hearts are far from me? I don't know you.'  You speak, live, act... from your dead Flesh, but not your Soul, your Heart, the Creator's Kingdom.' Loving

nd 'Our western society - the bloodiest, Deadliest of gauntlets for the Spirit of Loving. Kills our kids.' Loving

nd 'Our western society - the bloodiest, Deadliest of gauntlets for the Spirit of Loving.  Kills our kids.' Loving

nd 'Most all western children die, in Soul, Heart, by 13 or so. Few ever to be re-born.' Loving

nd 'Most all western children die, in Soul, Heart, by 13 or so. Few ever to be re-born.'  Loving

nd ' 'most all western marriages are 'still-born.' At most one partner with any capacity for Loving.' Loving

nd ' 'most all western marriages are 'still-born.'  At most one partner with any capacity for Loving.' Loving

nd 'My Family - Daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mother, father...: Those devoted to our globally Neediest Family.' Loving

nd 'My Family - Daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mother, father...:  Those devoted to our globally Neediest Family.' Loving

nd 'Biko, lynched blacks of the 30's... inspired emulators only AFTER their death.' Loving

nd 'Biko, lynched blacks of the 30's... inspired emulators only AFTER their death.' Loving

nd 'Hallmarks of the Fleshly Spirit worshiped: Selfishness, Fear, Anger, Cowardice, Ego.' Loving

nd 'Hallmarks of the Fleshly Spirit worshiped:  Selfishness, Fear, Anger, Cowardice, Ego.' Loving

***** nd 'THE SOLE PURPOSE OF LIFE, EVERY BREATH: HELP PEOPLE HAVE MEANINGFUL LIVES.' Loving

***** nd 'THE SOLE PURPOSE OF LIFE, EVERY BREATH: HELP PEOPLE HAVE MEANINGFUL LIVES.' Loving

nd 'Nonviolence: Exacts a Massive Political Price for Violence. Violence (of any form), by activists gives Carte Blanche. Insanity. Unconditional Defeat.' Loving

nd 'Nonviolence: Exacts a Massive Political Price for Violence.  Violence (of any form), by activists gives Carte Blanche.  Insanity.  Unconditional Defeat.' Loving

Gallup: Obama is again most admired man. USA TODAY

Gallup: Obama is again most admired man

USA TODAY

nd 'Loving's not what we've been taught. Loving's what we do from the Heart for our very Neediest. Lusting is all the rest.' Loving

nd 'Loving's not what we've been taught.  Loving's what we do from the Heart for our very Neediest.  Lusting is all the rest.' Loving

nd 'Those that Stood with Jesus: A. Right, B, Ctr, C. Left, D. None of the above.' Loving

nd 'Those that Stood with Jesus: A. Right, B, Ctr, C. Left, D. None of the above.'  Loving

nd 'Of COURSE I've been rejected by near all. I'm of a completely different family; not Fleshly, any longer; but Loving.' Loving

nd 'Of COURSE I've been rejected by near all.  I'm of a completely different family; not Fleshly,  any longer; but Loving.'  Loving

nd 'Nothing matters now that's less than a one, by one..., Revolution of Priorities - from Flesh to Loving, Heart. 1800 years we've worshiped Flesh. How has that worked for ya?' Loving

nd 'Nothing matters now that's less than a one, by one..., Revolution of Priorities - from Flesh to Loving, Heart.  1800 years we've worshiped Flesh.  How has that worked for ya?' Loving

nd 'Christ-ians: Kamikazes of Loving.' Loving

nd 'Christ-ians:  Kamikazes of Loving.'  Loving

nd Corinthians 13: NOTHING - every act, thought, breath... that is without Love.

nd Corinthians 13: NOTHING - every act, thought, breath... that is without Love.

NOTE: Little added to Tracking Plan B. There's no news, just HIstory. We've known what was needed for 30 years or more now.

NOTE:  Little added to Tracking Plan B blog  TPB .  There's no news, just History, re-written by the millions of words per day - pure intellectual masturbation - McKibben, Romm, et al.  We've known what was needed for 30 years or more now.  We obviously want NOT to act, but to run out the clock on our Affloholic binges.

Who gives a f*ck about our kids, and grand kids.  NOT US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OBVIOUSLY.

12.30.12 'Early, painful Death without Chemo, Now. Impossible to stop the vigil, Now. - My "Inconvenient Truth."' Loving

An "Inconvenient Truth,"  Get it?  LOL!

Seriously, that IS my inconvenient truth.  And yours?  What is stopping You from giving 100% to avert eternal Ecocide for our next 200 billion kids?

I've learned quite a bit about staying warmer out here and have adjusted my procedures accordingly - carefully carry as much heat from my sleeping-bag body into my sweaters, coat, socks, each pant leg, mittens... as I dress in the morning.  Second's count!  If I'm too slow or lax, and it is a cold arm, or let, I put into cold clothing, it may take me all day to warm up again. 

DON'T LET YOUR CLOTHES GET DAMP. 
DON'T LET YOUR CLOTHES GET DAMP. 
DON'T LET YOUR CLOTHES GET DAMP.  
DON'T LET YOUR CLOTHES GET DAMP. 

 An entire day about 3 days ago, deeply cold, damp... caused me to do some learning.

Plus, my body is acclamating.  Our physiology is amazing.  Things physically change, after days.  2 weeks ago where 45 degrees felt realllllly cold, now it is 34 degrees.

And, keep out the wind, with a tarp, jackets, object to block the wind.  Just 5 mph of wind drops the effective temperature 5-10 degrees.

The last 3 days or so have been near 100% prayer, meditation, reflection... for me.  This is extremely unusual, but not unprecidented for me.  The several weeks prior when I read and re-read the INDISPENSIBLE creators of Gandhi and MLK Jr - Leo Tolstoy's "Gospel," and "Kingdom of God...", it is like they were a near body-crushing (in a Good way) work-out for my nervous system, and it has taken at least these last 3 days for my nervous system to adjust, digest, grow, and recover.  Astonishing.  Am I recovered enough today to begin further study?  Don't know yet.

nd 'Ritualization, etc: Brilliant scheme for Castrating Jesus' teachings about Living.' Loving

nd 'Ritualization, etc: Brilliant scheme for Castrating Jesus' teachings about Living.' Loving

nd 'Loving, Spirit of: Uses it's body like an revered, but Expendable avatar, a respected tool.' Loving

nd 'Loving, Spirit of: Uses it's body like an revered, but Expendable avatar, a respected tool.' Loving

nd 'God is, =, is the Spirit, Force, of Loving, in you, others, the Universe.' Loving

nd 'God is, =, is the Spirit, Force, of Loving, in you, others, the Universe.' Loving