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Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" and "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010"
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Vets With Ptsd And Compassionate Cannabis Laws
Medical research has shown medical marijuana has been very successful in treating PTSD and it's symptoms. Approximately 20% of veterans returning from Iraq/Afghanistan are being diagnosed with PTSD.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Prisoners, Refugees, Gandhi's and Free Radicals
The prison swap between Israel and Hamas began on Tuesday with the freeing of Sergeant First Class Gilad Shalit.
Israel is to begin freeing over 1,000 potential Palestinian Gandhi's that have been locked up for resisting the occupation of their homeland.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 An Apache named Rubin, his Turquoise Turtle and Thanksgivings
"Rubin had straight shoulder length jet black hair and a chiseled body. Her hair was short and shaggy like Meg Ryan's in Top Gun. She had a cute body but always wore cargo pants. I found out later she worked as a prison guard and was 47 going through a major menopause. Rubin was fixing up her handyman special and they had hooked up"."
Marge interjected, "They weren't a couple, they just had sex."
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Letter to Israeli Supreme Court Justices RE: Mordechai Vanunu
Today, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected Mordechai Vanunu's petition to cancel the injunction forbidding him from leaving Israel. I responded via the postal service and the World Wide Web to the Judges...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 More Failures to report by The Media and Censorship by WIKIPEDIA: Regarding Vanunu and Israel (1 comments)
"Vanunu told the world that Israel had developed between one hundred and two hundred atomic bombs [in 1986!] and had gone on to develop neutron bombs and thermonuclear weapons. Enough to destroy the entire Middle East and nobody has done anything about it since."
Sunday, October 2, 2011 The 3rd of this October and Vanunu Mordechai (1 comments)
Unless Israel changes the date again, Mordechai Vanunu will learn the Court's decision on October 3, 2011 if he will be allowed his inalienable right to leave the state and here's hoping what Vanunu said in 2006 will not be a self-fulfilling prophecy......
Thursday, September 29, 2011 The Slow Hand of Justice and Israel's Wall
[Jerusalem]--After nearly five years since a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli border policeman killed 10 year Abir Aramin, her family was awarded $430,000 by an Israeli court.
Perhaps the most positive aspect of this story is that the state of Israel has admitted responsibility.
Monday, September 26, 2011 From Wall Street to D.C. and THE Change to Believe In and Work For (1 comments)
On Sept. 17th hundreds of protestors took it to the streets at Bowling Green Park in Manhattan, home of the charging bull in New York's Financial District, to "take the bull by the horns."
On 22 September 2011, US House of Representative Edward J. Markey took the Nuclear Bull by it's horns and wrote......
Saturday, September 24, 2011 The Third Rail and Forcing Obama to earn his Nobel (1 comments)
Today at the United Nations President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas formally requested full United Nations membership and stated, "I don't believe anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application for full admission in the United Nations" and citizens of conscience can help force President Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize...
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Why Rick Perry Gets it very wrong about Israel Palestine (5 comments)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been to Israel more than any other presidential candidate and he believes he's on a mission from God. In his 11 years in office he also wrested much power away from that states Legislature.
This citizen of conscience for US House of Representatives has been to Israel seven times since 2005, but I spent my time in occupied Palestine, on my mission from God: seek truth and report it!
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Jesus Christ, PIA's and Nuclear Resistance (1 comments)
Today, the third of The Y-12 Thirteen were sentenced for nonviolently resisting the the criminal activities of the America Government.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 Ten Years After 9/11: What We Know and Where Do We Go? (5 comments)
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Hackers, Worms, and Israel-USA Collusion Versus Gaza-Palestine and Human Rights (3 comments)
While hard working American tax payers face economic hardships, 81 members of Congress neglected listening to their constituents during this summers recess to take a lobbyist-funded trip designed to pressure them into sending even more tax-payer-funded weapons to the Israeli military which will be used to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 The Y-12 Thirteen, MADE in USA WMD and Mordechai Vanunu
Come September, The Y-12 thirteen nuclear resisters will be sentenced for their July 5th 2010 nonviolent civil disobedience protest against USA MADE Nuclear Weapons.....Come September, Vanunu's appeals to have his Israeli citizenship revoked and the restrictions denying his right to leave the State of Israel are to be decided by Judges in Israel.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 66 Years of USA Nuclear Insanity (2 comments)
his August 6th and 9th mark the 66th anniversaries of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 If I Can't Laugh it's NOT my REVOLUTION and the Colbert SuperPAC Nation (2 comments)
As I am deadly serious about reaching Stephen Colbert and also Jon Stewart- for another of my dreams is that Jon would read and discuss my third book, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010" I have been speaking up on Youtube and I also TWEETED this message to Colbert's SuperPAC Nation...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Nuclear Weapons and Hypocrites in High Places (3 comments)
The United States and most of the Western world agreed to accept Israel's special nuclear status. In other words, Israel did not join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but it received special status, and pressure was not exerted on it with regard to this topic. Ambiguity is the Israeli-American policy. Without the West's agreement, there would be no ambiguity.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 Last Night, Today and Rebuilding the Dream (1 comments)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all [people] are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights...that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among [people] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the people to ALTER or to ABOLISH it."
Sunday, July 3, 2011 It's Always About The Money So On With This REVOLUTION! (1 comments)
President 'Nuclear Free World' Obama called on Congress two days before this Independence Day to make a deal and announced, "Nothing can be off-limits. We've got to cut the deficit."
Monday, June 27, 2011 Mr. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Tear Down This Wall! (1 comments)
"We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. If you seek peace tear down this wall!"
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Mayors of America Unite to tell Obama and Congress: End the Wars and Keep The Money at Home
The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.
Monday, June 6, 2011 SECURITY Alert RE: Mordechai Vanunu and Facebook (1 comments)
"The Shen Beet, you know, like your FBI and the Mossad, like your CIA."-Mordechai Vanunu, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker"
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Israel's Best Friends are its Worst Enemies (6 comments)
Only if we truly love our friends will we always tell them the truth and call them on their bad behavior; and when religion and politics get in bed together, we the people for JUSTICE and PEACE get screwed.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Musical Nailings and Reflections on Tikkuning (2 comments)
"Delight in creation and take your dreams into our politics and institutions. We live in the midst of a suicidal economy, motivated by love of money. We have reached a dead end. What we need to turn it around are hearts in love with life. How do we do it? FIRST we..."
Saturday, May 28, 2011 An Evening with Helen Thomas and Flashback to John Lennon and Vanunu Mordechai (11 comments)
I asked Ms. Thomas what she would advise anyone who wanted to go into the field of journalism and she told me: "You cannot have a democracy without an informed people...The job is to follow the truth and report where it leads you!"
Saturday, May 14, 2011 The Birth of Israel and Pain of Palestine (2 comments)
"The formula is simple and it's reduced to four words every kid in the world knows: Tell me a story. It's that easy."- Don Hewitt
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 The Fierce Urgency of All Thing Nuclear: A Book Review in Light of Current Events (3 comments)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, who has been held at Guantanamo since 2006, told interrogators that al-Qaeda will detonate a nuclear device if Osama bin Laden were captured or killed, according to classified files released by the WikiLeaks website.
Saturday, May 7, 2011 Mother's Day Manifesto 2012 (1 comments)
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The only trouble is they are not aware they can get it."-John Lennon
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Bye Bye Bin Laden but Hello Obama! (2 comments)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad involvement in the terror upon America, "By his own account"stemmed from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel."
Abdulmutallab's attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, was fueled by "his sympathies toward the Palestinians and anger over Israel's actions in Gaza."
Friday, April 22, 2011 SECURITY'S Vendetta Against Vanunu Mordechai and This Day in History (1 comments)
This Thursday begins the 8th year after 18 years in prison that Mordechai Vanunu has been under 24/7 surveillance by Israel's version of America's CIA-FBI: Mossad-Shabbak who have had a vendetta against Vanunu ever since he exposed their lax SECURITY in Israel's 7-story underground WMD Facility in 1986.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Justin Bieber thinks he's seen Jerusalem (3 comments)
[Jerusalem, Israel]--After his performance in Tel Aviv last week, Justin Bieber enlisted hordes of security guards to keep fans and photographers away so he could visit religious landmarks in Jerusalem and "walk where Jesus did." .
The Sabeel Way, transforms the traditional Christian tradition of meditating upon the journey that Christ took as he carried his cross to where he was crucified...
Sunday, April 3, 2011 What Martin Luther King, Jr. Could Have Said to Netanyahu and US (3 comments)
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever and if repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history."
Monday, March 14, 2011 Gaddafi's Buying Time: But The Times Have A'Changed (1 comments)
"The rebellions that have been raging in the Middle East are largely a result the new technology that made access to information very easy. It is not only oppression that causes rebellions; it is the knowledge of deprivation and the rights of the people. This combination brings unstoppable rebellions."
Monday, March 7, 2011 The "Illegal' Bishop of Jerusalem and the Christian EXODUS from the 'Holy' Land (2 comments)
[Jerusalem] The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Reverend Suheil Dawani, has been forbidden to live in Jerusalem because his permit/visa was revoked by Israel's Interior Ministry.
Because the Bishop remains in Jerusalem without the permit, he could be arrested for being in Israel illegally and sentenced to prison, or he might be forcibly removed.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 Hot, Loud, Angry and Political for Justice (1 comments)
It wasn't just a hot one in O'Town on the last Sunday of February because the thermometer registered 83 degrees in the shade at Lake Eola during the first Arab American Cultural Festival, but because of the heat that emanated from voluptuous belly dancers, award winning Debkeh dancers, singers and passionate hip hop poets who energized the crowd of thousands and...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 WHEREAS Politicians Sign Proclamations: People Must Hold Them Accountable (1 comments)
[Orlando, Florida] On 10 February 2011, Mayor Buddy Dyer was scheduled to sign onto the Mayors for Peace "Cities Are Not Targets" , which is an initiative to abolish nuclear weapons by the year 2020, and it was to be one of the many highlights of OLA Fest 2011.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 Vetoes and LEADERS! (2 comments)
Obama's first VETO: And when leaders fail people will LEAD!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Thinking Globally, Working Locally and AGITATING for TIKKUN (5 comments)
This Saturday a 45-minute drive away from me, Tad Daley will be showcasing a film presentation of 'COUNTDOWN TO ZERO' and facilitating a conversation regarding his book, Apocalypse Never, and I will be in the audience to learn and then report what I learn.
To the best of my middle age memory, I met Tad at either the first or second TIKKUN Conference for Spiritual Progressives and what follows is my reflection of TIKKUN
Thursday, February 10, 2011 The NOW and The Olive Branch (3 comments)
The Olive Branch is SACRED to all of Father Abraham's offspring's for Jew, Christian and Muslim share the story of Noah and the DOVE of PEACE who returned with the Olive Branch of PEACE after the flood-and haven't we All had ENOUGH of the flood of blood, hate, racism and Military Occupation?
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Yes We Can; Yes We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW! (3 comments)
"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. Let us bridge our divisions, build upon our hopes, and accept our responsibility to leave this world more prosperous and more peaceful than we found it. Together we can do it. Words must mean something."-President Obama
Thursday, January 27, 2011 Don't Be A Sellout Macy Gray
The Palestinian aspiration for a viable independent state is also negated by the Wall, for it isolates villages from their mother cities and divides the West Bank into disconnected cantons: which in Afrikaner is spelled Bantustans and universally understood as ghettos!
Thursday, January 20, 2011 Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via The New York Times (1 comments)
Both Mr. Edgar Vasques, State Department Media Affairs Officer and Ms. Nicole Thompson, Press Relations Officer for Clinton, have been gracious to me and Ms. Thompson even raised my hopes when she told me "it is not impossible to receive an answer from the Secretary of State."
Thursday, January 6, 2011 Gaza Youth Manifesto, MLK and Common Sense
In December 2010, a group of young Palestinian cyber-activists crafted the Gaza Youth's Manifesto for Change, which has garnered nearly 8,000 Facebook supporters thus far...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Dreams and Do You Want to be Healed? (1 comments)
On the afternoon of my very first day in Jerusalem, I told Mother Agapia about my dream and what I had seen at the Pool of Bethsaida.
She shrugged and smiled, then told me about the Jerusalem Interfaith Peace Conference with satellite link to the world that was happening the Sunday after the Thursday I was scheduled to return to the USA. I knew immediately that I needed to attend...
Friday, December 31, 2010 Ending the Year with same old prayer: Freedom for Vanunu Gaza and Palestine (1 comments)
One of the very first questions I ever asked Vanunu was if he chose the name John Crossman because of St. John of the Cross, the Spanish mystic poet and Carmelite brother who was an ardent disciple of Theresa of Avilla's reforms.
Vanunu replied, "I haven't read him."
Not many have, and even fewer understand what he was talking about...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2nd Anniversary Reflections of Operation Cast Lead (1 comments)
America is the worlds largest arms supplier to Israel and under a Bush negotiated deal with Israel-which Obama signed onto during Christmas time 2009, we the people who pay taxes in America will also provide another $30 billion in military aid to Israel over the next decade...
Sunday, December 26, 2010 John Lennon, Dorothy Day and Christmas 2010 in the UK (1 comments)
On the cusp of Christmas 2010, Catholic Workers in London inspired by the words of John Lennon and the practices of Dorothy Day got out of bed and headed to their local shopping mall to shutdown the army recruitment center...
Friday, December 24, 2010 Mystical Christmas Eves and why I am 'flaming' Fleming
On Christmas Eve evening of 2007, I picked up my snail mail and opened up a card from Jerusalem. Vanunu made me laugh out loud, for he addressed it to: "Eileen Flaming" not Fleming, which is my actual name.
I picked my Christmas Eve mail up three years to the very hour to when I had first read an article by Jerry Levin about Vanunu's 2004 Christmas Eve arrest for attempting to travel from Jerusalem to Bethlehem...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 The Little Town of Bethlehem in Occupied Territory and Music of the Season (3 comments)
Palestinians like Claire are imprisoned on the Israeli side of the wall and the once economically thriving and vibrant main street in Bethlehem is now a ghost town for stores and restaurants have been abandoned.
Rachel's tomb and Claire's tomb are divided by the concrete barrier which is topped by guard towers and patrolled by soldiers in battle gear.
Claire's home is less than 500 yards inside Bethlehem...
Friday, November 26, 2010 Vanunu and Pollard: Time for Compassion and Common Sense (1 comments)
Jonathan Pollard was born in 1954 in Texas and grew up in an affluent family in Indiana. Until 1998 Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy, although it granted him citizenship in 1995.
Mordechai Vanunu was born in 1954 in Marrakesh, Morocco and grew up in an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village in Israel. Vanunu has been seeking to terminate his Israeli citizenship since 2004 and has applied for asylum
Saturday, November 13, 2010 May Aung San Suu Kyi's Light Shine on Tel Aviv and onto Berlin 12.12.10 (1 comments)
Suu Kyi has become an icon for the struggle to rid the Southeast Asian country of decades of military rule. Her freedom has always been a key demand of the Western nations and immediately upon her release she was welcomed by world leaders and human rights organizations. Amnesty International had called her a prisoner of conscience. Amnesty also shines the light on poor human rights records of both regimes and states.
Sunday, November 7, 2010 All Things Nuclear: US, Israel and Iran
"All things must pass, all things must pass away. Sunset doesn't last all evening. A mind can blow those clouds away. Now the darkness only stays the nighttime; in the morning it will fade away. It's not always going to be this grey; all things must pass, all things must pass away."-George Harrison
Monday, November 1, 2010 Iran, Pulling Teeth and Wrestling with the Violence Within
After months of preparation for my 5th of November 2010, trip to Iran with FOR: Fellowship of Reconciliation, I learned this morning I need a 'special' visa to meet with Media and I erupted-lost my temper with one of the coordinators.
Only a few hours prior, I published...
Sunday, October 31, 2010 Lovers and Friends Speak to Israel and US! (1 comments)
"Thomas Friedman is one the world's foremost journalists and a New York Times columnist. Last week, he published an unusually harsh critique of the Israeli government over its policy on the Palestinian issue. Among other things, he likened Israel to a "spoiled child."
Many US Christians ascribe to a theology that uncritically support the Israeli government's policies...
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Dirty Laundry and the Mainstream Media (3 comments)
Isidor Feinstein, better known as I. F. Stone or Izzy Stone was an independent radical investigative journalist who noted:
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
"If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem."
Thursday, October 21, 2010 The International Community and Mordechai Vanunu's 56th Birthday (1 comments)
We are determined to publish the unbelievable denial of your civil rights to leave Israel, as well as to freedom of movement and speech by the Israeli Supreme Court together with our outspoken demand to enable you to receive the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal personally in Berlin on December 12th this year.
Hence have a happy birthday today!
Millions of people all over the world are on your side!
Thursday, October 21, 2010 The First Book Review is Gratefully Received and I am Walking in Memphis! (2 comments)
Her visits to Israel and her meetings with Vanunu and others in her efforts to publicize the story the mainstream media largely ignore - especially in the US - is inspiring...Beyond Nuclear is also an affirmation of the ability of human beings to speak out, their willingness to take enormous risks with their own personal safety and to refuse to be cowed by the might of the State.- MJ Maguire, Author of The Night Traveller
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Every Tattoo Tells a Story and Expresses the True Ken O'Keefe (2 comments)
"Our greatest responsibility is to hand over a better world to all children, and the 800,000 children in Gaza, are my children. I would rather die in pursuit of justice than back down. How can anyone accept the unacceptable!"
Saturday, October 9, 2010 John Lennon's 70th and the Vanunu Connection (5 comments)
At 9 am on 11th October 2010, Mordechai Vanunu is scheduled to return to the Israeli Supreme Court seeking the rescinding of the draconian restrictions that have deprived him of his inalienable elementary civil and human rights ever since he emerged from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell for telling THE TRUTH!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Headline Story of Oct. 5, 1986 and what's happened since (3 comments)
In 1986, "The Sunday Times reports this incredible news that Israel's underground plutonium plant has material for two hundred nuclear warheads of advanced design, but not a word have I read about it or heard from the US media! It makes me wonder about all the iron curtains the media and government have raised as a shield from the truth."
Monday, October 4, 2010 Global Engagement for Equal Human Rights and Ken O'Keefe's Speaking Tour (1 comments)
Mavi Marmara survivor, Ken O'Keefe began a two week non-stop speaking tour through Oregon, Washington State and Victoria, Canada, stating, "I see this world as a move-able object and any sane person can see the world needs to be changed and I believe we can do it."
The statehood of Israel was contingent on upholding the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Sunday, September 19, 2010 If I can't laugh and "If I can't dance, it's not my Revolution."-emma goldman
The night Jon Stewart announced a "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert" joined in with a "March to Keep Fear Alive" this American 'girl' was dancing to every song ZZ Top and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the St. Pete Forum.
Saturday, September 18, 2010 "In a Nutshell, There is a Deep Schizophrenia in the Holy Land." (7 comments)
"In a nutshell, there is a deep schizophrenia in the Holy Land; what we see, hear and talk. Zionism is the original sin; Zionism is an untouchable icon. You can curse Mohammad, you can curse Mary, but not Zionism."- Professor Albert Aghazarian, July 19, 2007, during Sabeel's 2nd International young Adult Conference: 40 Years in the Wilderness"40 Years of Occupation...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 The Settlements are a Symptom the Disease is The Occupation
At a Red Sea resort on September 14, 2010, the second round of direct talks between the leaders of Israel and Palestine delved into some core issues, but President Obama's special representative to the Middle East, George J. Mitchell, declined to say whether the two sides made any progress regarding Israel's moratorium on settlement construction, which is due to expire on Sept. 26, 2010.
Sunday, August 29, 2010 Message to Glenn Beck Christians regarding the Holy Land (2 comments)
On 8/28/10 Glenn Beck announced that "America today begins to turn back to God" at his "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
Beck caused me to recall Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" a scalding critique of American Christianity that King addressed to his "Dear Fellow Clergymen".
Thursday, August 12, 2010 Response to Israel Minister of Justice vis a' vis Human Rights of Mordechai Vanunu (1 comments)
After 5 years of petitioning the Israeli Government to FREE VANUNU, I received a three page, 13 point letter from the State of Israel Ministry of Justice The Human Rights and Foreign Relations Department on July 29, 2010.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 International Petition for Full Freedom for Mordechai Vanunu (1 comments)
All Vanunu has wanted since he emerged from 18 years in a tomb sized windowless cell on April 21, 2004, has been the right to leave Israel and fade into the world, to have a job, a home and family.
An International Petition written by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Gerry Grehan, Chair of the Peace People, Northern Ireland is seeking cosigners
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Vanunu Speaks After 78 Days in Solitary (8 comments)
On August 8, 2010, Israel released Mordechai Vanunu from solitary confinement, but his torture continues, for Israel still denies Vanunu the right to leave the state.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 Back to Tikkun and on with the Revolution (2 comments)
"Compassionate Caregivers: Medical Cannabis. Two locations, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week."
Jack mused, "Now that my third anti-inflammatory has been pulled, I can't do narcotics in moderation, and I am not ready for joint replacement; I wonder if maybe this is an invitation from You to move out here?"
Monday, July 19, 2010 Mairead Maguire: a Noble Laureate who does not rest on her laurels (1 comments)
Maried Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and persists to envision and work for what many find unimaginable: justice and peace in Israel Palestine. She emailed me the following:
Saturday, July 3, 2010 Making Plans from Tennessee to Iran (2 comments)
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."-John Lennon
Saturday, June 19, 2010 June 18, 2010: Amnesty International Regarding Mordechai Vanunu (1 comments)
In a 18 June 2010 report Amnesty International accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement.
Sunday, June 13, 2010 There's Nothing Christian about Zionism (31 comments)
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism-NOT what Jesus was about at all!
Saturday, June 5, 2010 How and Why I got 'On-board' with The FREEDOM FLOTILLA to Gaza (4 comments)
I am an American without a drop of Arab blood within me and my org has been an endorsing org of the FREEDOM FLOTILLA, since I learned about it at the 27th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Washington, D.C. Conference on 10 June 2007.
Among the invited speakers who did NOT show or send a representative were Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Republican National Committee.
Saturday, May 29, 2010 Beyond Theism and On with Evolution: Part One in a Series (3 comments)
"Any god who can be killed ought to be killed."- Clifford Stanley, Episcopal Priest and Professor of Theology
Two thousand years ago, there was lively debate about whom the very first WIDE AWAKE man was and until the Church got in bed with Emperor Constantine, the churches were hot beds of individuality and not the institutions that have become big business today.
Thursday, May 20, 2010 In the Beginning and the Now of Nakba
Every May 15th since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Palestinian Exodus from the Holy Land, known as Nakba, meaning their "day of the catastrophe" is commemorated as the day the expulsions and flight of Palestinians from their towns and villages began when Israeli troops forced them from their homes and created over 750,000 refugees who are still denied the right to return to their property.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 The NPT and Prayer (1 comments)
Prayer is also the struggle for human justice. It is the fight to remove killing stereotypes, to hurl back ignorance of prejudice, and to protect the holiness of creation. Prayer is the corporate, political act that serves to equalize opportunity so that privileged and underprivileged might have the same chance.
Thursday, May 6, 2010 Mother's Day Manifesto 2010 (2 comments)
The genesis of Mother's Day in the U.S.A. began when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community and fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Reigniting the NPT
The NPT/Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was created in 1968, and maintains that nuclear weapons proliferation can only be curtailed if nuclear countries move toward disarmament.
On May 5, 2005, Kennedy-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said, "I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and dreadfully dangerous."
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 The Wall/Fence in Bil'in: 2005-2010 (1 comments)
The fifth Bil'in International Conference "on popular resistance to network and strategize in support to end the Israeli occupation and free Palestine" concluded on Friday, April 23rd with five demonstrators arrested and one Israeli activist taking a direct hit into the forehead which fractured his skull after Israeli soldiers shot him with a tear gas projectile.
Saturday, April 17, 2010 Deja Vu: Vanunu, Kamm, Blau and the Fragility of Freedom (1 comments)
Twenty-four years after the Mossad kidnapped Mordechai Vanunu from Rome after luring him from London. The prey this time is Uri Blau, an investigative journalist for the Israeli daily Haaretz, who went into hiding after writing a series of reports exposing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders. Blau faces a lengthy jail term for espionage and Israeli security services have warned they would "remove the gloves" an
Friday, April 2, 2010 What the Shin Bet and Israeli Court Cannot Gag (1 comments)
On March 27, 2010, the U.S. based, "Global News Service of the Jewish people" the JTA, Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Anat Kam, a 23 year old journalist has been held under secret house arrest by Israel since last December based on allegations that during her military service she leaked classified documents suggesting the Israeli Forces violated laws dealing with targeted killings.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Message to President Obama regarding Biden in Tel Aviv
Inspired by an email conversation of concerned global citizens and tax paying American's, this Message to President Obama RE: Biden in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010 Rachel Corrie, The New Fourth Estate and Israeli Justice
On 10 March 2010, in Haifa, northern Israel, the family of Rachel Corrie, brought a civil suit against the Israeli defense ministry for Rachel's death under the wheels of a US Made Caterpillar D9R Bulldozer.
Friday, March 12, 2010 Questions for Candidate Palin and Sister Sarah
Jesus called politicians foxes, and in the country where Sarah Palin is being touted as presidential material, the issue of faith in politics has never been more deadly.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 The Daily Show, Sarah Palin, Microsoft and back to Mordechai Vanunu (1 comments)
Because I watch The Daily Show, I learned Sarah Palin was on a Jay Leno show. She got a few laughs, but nobody was talking about Palin's connections to the top leaders of "the New Apostolic Reformation/NAR; a religious movement that makes geographic maps of where demons reside.
Sunday, February 28, 2010 What Alfred Nobel Might Say to the Peace Prize Committee regarding Mordechai Vanunu (5 comments)
"My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace."-Alfred Nobel
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Why 'THEY" Hate US and back to 9/11 (5 comments)
On THAT DAY we call 9/11, THE MEDIA assumed the role of secretaries taking down dictation from Big Brother who manipulated we the people with FEAR of the other.
Corporate controlled media failed US miserably by not asking WHY did a few [and back then it was just a few] people in the world hate US so much that they could target and murder innocent people?
Sunday, February 14, 2010 Message to President Shimon Peres and the You Tube Nation (7 comments)
Inspired by the Colbert Nation's activism, the Founder and Senior Correspondent for WeAreWideAwake.org has issued a call to the You Tube Nation to Do Something to help free Mordechai Vanunu.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 Happy Valentine's Day from a Prophetess of Love (13 comments)
"Soon after I had published the pamphlet "Common Sense" [on Feb. 14, 1776] in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Tom Paine
On with The Revolution!
