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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"
http://www.youtube.com/user/eileenfleming
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, February 5, 2010 What a 20th century Christian Anarchist Can Teach US ToDAY!
Anarchy is best understood as Rebellion against UNJUST laws.
Dorothy Day was a 20th century socialist, radical reporter who became a Christian Anarchist and the lone voice to rise up against retaliatory VIOLENCE after Pearl Harbor.
SHARE Thursday, February 4, 2010 Smoking Guns and Bulls-eyes: Israel rewrote the rules of War for Gaza
Israeli human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, noted that a high-ranking officer who was quoted today in "The Independent" who served as a commander during Operation Cast Lead,
was "a smoking gun."
That gun has been smoking since July 2009...
SHARE Thursday, February 4, 2010 Israel is NOT and Never was a Democracy
"The terms "democracy' or "democratic' are totally absent from Israel's Declaration of Independence. This is not an accident. The intention of Zionism was not to bring democracy. It was solely motivated by the creation in Eretz-Isrel of a Jewish state belonging to all the Jewish people and to the Jewish people alone. This is why any Jew of the Diaspora has the right to immigrate..."-Ariel Sharon
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 18, 2010 What Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. might say to Bono and US!
King knew that the only hope for real change ""lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit...declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism"The choice is ours, and we must choose in this crucial moment of human history."
This summer Bono is scheduled to perform in Israel and I imagine MLK might say to him and US...
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 29, 2009 The Good out of the Misery in Gaza: Love in Action and Global Conscience
Gratitude may be the highest expression of love, but it just may be sacrificial love in action being expressed by the thoughtful, committed activists who have converged in Cairo that could light the fire for real change and be the good to come out from the misery in Gaza.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 24, 2009 On Claire's 'street with no name' in the little town of Bethlehem, 2009
"Do Americans understand what happens to children when they are buried alive? We need a solution fast so that our children can live like American children! We want human rights! When Hillary Clinton visited Jerusalem and said the wall was not against the Palestinian people, she killed us too! Christians who do not care kill us too!"
SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2009 The Twelve Days of Christmas and an Open Letter to The House
Our call is simple"As Jews, people of many faiths and people of conscience, we can no longer stand idly by Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Our call is three-fold: Break the Silence, Lift the Siege, Pursue Peace
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 6, 2009 The Vanunu Opera
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings is a proverb that means do NOT assume the outcome of anything until the finish.
Thirty-three years ago, Mordechai Vanunu began listening to Wagner, a 19th century German composer...
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 5, 2009 "If nothing changes-Jerusalem will burn"-Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
"I just came back from Sheikh Jarakh- I see Jerusalem in flames, and know that my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I saw or the dread in my heart."
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 21, 2009 Gilo and Last Straws
This week's announcement of Israel's plan to build 900 more dwellings in Gilo with a price tag of NIS 1.86 million for a 5-room apartment has garnered international criticism as well as from the US.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 13, 2009 From Sgt. Pepper's to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's 'Plan'
On Nov. 8, 2009, Haaretz reported on a "classified, unreleased" portion of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's 'Plan' that offers elements of Netanyahu's call for "economic peace" and adds justice and common sense.
"The reports indicated that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state."
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 7, 2009 Hillary, Congress Bury Goldstone Report, Shirking Accountability for US Role in Gaza Raids
The Ileana Ros-Lehtinen/AIPAC driven House Resolution 867 boiled down to a call for censorship of the Goldstone Report without "any endorsement or further consideration" from the Obama Administration, rife with inaccuracies and undermines support for the universality of human rights.
It is no surprise that Congress is trying to cover their culpable asses for during the 23 days of Israeli assault on Gaza...
SHARE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Parliament, Mordechai Vanunu, Kuttab, Congress and Goldstone
On October 27, 2009, in the House of Parliament, two UK politicians are on the record discussing Israel's nukes and Mordechai Vanunu.
Last Friday, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced H.Res.867, calling on the Obama Administration to “oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration†of the Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone Report.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2009 Dear Jon and Message to The Media
The News Media should be interviewing Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Anna Baltzer, Jon's job is to entertain us, but once again, he lead the mainstream media to where many of US already are.
Jon also performed under duress from 'friends' who put him under pressure to censor the highly anticipated appearances of Dr. Barghouti and Baltzer.
SHARE Monday, October 26, 2009 A little R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Even for War Criminals?
We Americans value highly our freedom of conscience and speech; but political messages always go down better with a little honey.
And what the establishment does not know how to deal with is NONVIOLENCE and a sense of humor.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 24, 2009 Cold Hearts, Blind Eyes and Israeli High Court Justices
A freak cold front blew through Florida last night and the thermometer on my porch read 54 degrees, but what chilled me to the bone this morning was...
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 17, 2009 Wake Up US Government: Go for the GOLD and Walk with the Wind!
The 23 days of Israel's attack on the people of Gaza was fueled by US-supplied weapons paid for with US tax dollars. We the people who pay taxes in the USA provide $30 billion annually to Israel which has consistently misused U.S. weapons in violation of America's Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts.
Imagine how many American citizens could receive basic health care with that!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 11, 2009 John Lennon's 69th, me and U2
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know we all want to change the world, but when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out: IN!
This monster's back is Apartheid in the 'Holy' Land, which is in pieces: Bantustans!