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(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Thinking Globally, Working Locally and AGITATING for TIKKUN 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

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 10, 2011
The NOW and The Olive Branch 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?

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Yes We Can; Yes We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW! "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

SHARE        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!

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 20, 2011
Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via The New York Times 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."

SHARE        Friday, January 14, 2011
Occupiers who became victims of their Military Occupation Broke the Silence "There is a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you serve in the territories and how fucked in the head you get."- Former Israeli soldier

SHARE        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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Dreams and Do You Want to be Healed? 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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 31, 2010
Ending the Year with same old prayer: Freedom for Vanunu Gaza and Palestine 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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 28, 2010
2nd Anniversary Reflections of Operation Cast Lead 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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 26, 2010
John Lennon, Dorothy Day and Christmas 2010 in the UK 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...

SHARE        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...

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Little Town of Bethlehem in Occupied Territory and Music of the Season 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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 26, 2010
Vanunu and Pollard: Time for Compassion and Common Sense 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

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 13, 2010
May Aung San Suu Kyi's Light Shine on Tel Aviv and onto Berlin 12.12.10 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.

SHARE        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

SHARE        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...

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 31, 2010
Lovers and Friends Speak to Israel and US! "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...

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 23, 2010
Dirty Laundry and the Mainstream Media 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."

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 21, 2010
The International Community and Mordechai Vanunu's 56th Birthday 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!

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