Showing posts with label Nuclear Disarmament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuclear Disarmament. Show all posts
4.21.2010
4.15.2010
"If what you do is extremely news-worthy, it might become news." SL (in CNN Nat'l Interview)
"If what you do is extremely news-worthy, it might become news." SL
Start Loving aired nationally on CNN - re: Nuclear Disarmament Summit.
Lizzie / Code Pink from Arizona was the first to tell me, yesterday? Just
now a fellow from Minnesota stopped by to say he saw/heard me in a
segment - thanked me for what Connie and I are doing (with the support
of Ellen and another benefactor).
Recent interviews include several from CNN, preliminary interview by
LA Times and an article published recently in the Kuwait Daily.
Start Loving aired nationally on CNN - re: Nuclear Disarmament Summit.
Lizzie / Code Pink from Arizona was the first to tell me, yesterday? Just
now a fellow from Minnesota stopped by to say he saw/heard me in a
segment - thanked me for what Connie and I are doing (with the support
of Ellen and another benefactor).
Recent interviews include several from CNN, preliminary interview by
LA Times and an article published recently in the Kuwait Daily.
4.13.2010
4.08.2010
MotherJones: Not Obama, Not Russia, but the GOP threatens Nuc Disarmament
MotherJones: Not Obama, Not Russia, but the GOP threatens Nuc Disarmament....
Well, actually, YOU INACTION / MIS-ACTION AND MINE IS THE THREAT.
WE STOP THE GOP, OR THEY STOP THE TREATY. PERIOD.
4.06.2010
10.01.2009
DON'T MISS THIS!!!! Proposition One In 2010 Campaign
Ellen Thomas (et@prop1.org) is wrapping up an arduous cross country campaign to spark
Nuclear Disarmament "Cells" (my word) in the states that support the
legal process called - Citizen's Initiative. PLEASE:
* Enjoy her most recent post (below)
* Explore her site (Link below)
* ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS.
We win the war of words and legislation today,
or we die in the war of blood and murder - tomorrow.
Start
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Proposition One In 2010 Campaign
Nuclear Disarmament "Cells" (my word) in the states that support the
legal process called - Citizen's Initiative. PLEASE:
* Enjoy her most recent post (below)
* Explore her site (Link below)
* ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS.
We win the war of words and legislation today,
or we die in the war of blood and murder - tomorrow.
Start
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Proposition One In 2010 Campaign
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| From Idaho to Utah to Colorado, with a side trip to Wyoming and Montana.... Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT So, now, it's two weeks later already, and again we're going to have to encapsule the multitude of experiences. Traveling takes so much TIME! Idaho was beautiful, and so were the activists in Boise, where we had two great events. Liz Woodruff of Snake River Alliance did an incredible job of planning, promoting and hosting the "Dinner For Disarmament" at the Shangri-La Tea Room (a wonderful event!).  After Boise, we went to West Yellowstone and spent the night with the Buffalo Field Campaign folks before heading through Yellowstone National Park.  The Buffalo Field Campaign was established to protect the buffalo from cattle ranchers who want them killed when they leave the Park. People come from all over the country in the dead of winter to go into the park and not only keep watch, but respectfully (with head lowered and body in a non-threatening pose) turn buffalo around if they're headed in the wrong direction. The young people at the lodge were incredibly healthy! They spent the summer cutting, hauling, and splitting wood to heat the lodge all winter.  We spent the night in Bozeman, Montana, with Jim MacDonald and Genevieve Calmes, and their boy River, hiked up to a waterfall, then took off for Pocatello, Idaho, where (former DC teacher and Statehood activist) Tom Briggs arranged a room at the university and hosted us in his home.  We then rejoined allies Snake River Alliance and HEAL Utah in Salt Lake City for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission "workshop" (hearings) about re-classifying depleted uranium (DU) as a waste stream, affecting whether DU should be brought in massive quantities into Utah. (Vanessa Pierce and Chris Carpenter of HEAL Utah, and Beatrice of the SRA, were at the table for the good guys!) Then, with the public allowed only 15 minutes of testimony at the very end of two full days of hearings, Jay managed a quote in the Salt Lake Tribune with his testimony: Before we left, we got a glimpse of HEAL's downtown offices as they were busy preparing a follow-up press conference on the Utah state capitol steps, and caught an interview with their newest staff member, brought on specifically to focus the public (and Utah's two red senators) on ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) when it comes up in the spring. Go, HEAL!  From Salt Lake City we drove to Colorado, by way of Canyonlands and Arches national parks, incredibly beautiful places to wake up in the morning. We drove through Moab, Utah, and visited the site where uranium mine tailings are finally being cleaned up from where they've been resting beside and polluting the Colorado River for the past 50 years, 2 miles from downtown.  It was disturbing to see that the only thing keeping the dust from flying as they dig was a sprinkler. At Idaho National Labs, the contractor has built a structure around where they're working so none of the dust escapes. In Colorado Jay gave a great talk at the University in Boulder (thanks to Duke Austin of Students for Peace & Justice).  Meanwhile Ellen videotaped a presentation by Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center which was happening simultaneously in another building across campus. Leroy Moore, a co-founder of RMP&J, passed around a petition asking that Rocky Flats not be opened to the public as a nature preserve, as currently planned.  We also visited RMP&J offices and heard about their work. They have a wonderful photograph of some of the 16,000 people who linked hands and surrounded Rocky Flats in 1983, one of the many citizen actions which ultimately led to the temporary shutdown of that plutonium pit four years later, and final shutdown in 1992. We visited Rocky Flats, and were surprised to discover that there's virtually no security, and perhaps a dozen construction firms have offices right beside or on Rocky Flats.  Today we leave for Oklahoma, where we'll be speaking in Oklahoma City (on the 4th) and Norman (Oct 3rd), where we came through early on our tour back in June. Then we'll be going to Kansas City, where we have a series of events the 5th - 7th, Columbia (the 8th), and St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis we'll be at St. Louis Public Library, Carpenter branch, 3309 S. Grand Ave., on October 10th at 3 pm. From there we drive to The Farm in Tennessee on the 11th, then to Aiken, South Carolina, then back home to DC. Ellen will be going on to North Carolina and Florida, Jay will stay in DC. Meanwhile we're planning our next tours. Ellen will be in Vermont for town hall meetings in February, and hopes to connect with folks who have already expressed interest in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Jay may go to support the Los Alamos Blockade over spring break (proposed at Think Outside the Bomb by Lisa Fithian), and will join Ellen in New York the first week in May for the NPT review at the UN. Then we'll head north and west and try to get to all the other states we weren't able to visit on this tour. Please let us know if you want us to visit your town & group! Ellen, Jay, Troy and Sophia the Peace Dog       |
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9.14.2009
"DON'T MISS" DN! Segments today. HUGE!
- >>>>>> DN! Artists Protest Isreal Tel Aviv in Toronto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3bk_nBuXgc <<<<<<<<<<<<
- DN! NYT Exposes Nationwide Water Contamination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H6voDtR7Cg
- DN! 'Post-Racial' Presidency??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRW1viSlAPE
- DN! Hiroshoma Mayor Calls for Nuclear-Free World by 2020 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMAxed4jI1k
- DN! Six Activists Arrested at Protest Against Army Experience in PA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65G1sVSB45M
- DN! ALL Protest BANNED at G20 in Pittsburgh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_i5PNBgdlg
- DN! US Agrees to Talks with Iran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxheAGJqKw
8.06.2009
Keeping Anti-Nuclear Vigil 24/7 Since 1981. Fighting for no more Hiroshimas.
Source: http://prop1.org
"Hey Thomas, God bless you brother. Your work continues thanks to Connie, Ellen, B. You did enormous service to humanity brother, and I know you are continuing upstairs. Poor God. :-) . Love you brother. Thanks again for all you Love, and work for us. Start."
"Hey Thomas, God bless you brother. Your work continues thanks to Connie, Ellen, B. You did enormous service to humanity brother, and I know you are continuing upstairs. Poor God. :-) . Love you brother. Thanks again for all you Love, and work for us. Start."
2.20.2009
ANTIWAR: U.S.-Israel Storm Clouds Ahead? [With Jesus and King we just sat back and watched. With Obama?]
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=14282
But the clear priority stabilizing Southwest Asia is being given by the new administration and the abrupt change in the rhetoric emanating from Washington about Iran – not to mention abiding concerns regarding Iran's ability to destabilize Iraq – clearly run counter to Israel's efforts to depict Tehran's nuclear program as, in Netanyahu's words, "the greatest challenge facing the leaders of the 21st century..." And it will surely make it more difficult for him or anyone else in the next Israeli government to "harness the U.S. administration to stop the threat."
But the clear priority stabilizing Southwest Asia is being given by the new administration and the abrupt change in the rhetoric emanating from Washington about Iran – not to mention abiding concerns regarding Iran's ability to destabilize Iraq – clearly run counter to Israel's efforts to depict Tehran's nuclear program as, in Netanyahu's words, "the greatest challenge facing the leaders of the 21st century..." And it will surely make it more difficult for him or anyone else in the next Israeli government to "harness the U.S. administration to stop the threat."
2.18.2009
INDEPENDENT UK: Helen Caldicott. "We must act with a sense of dire emergency." ["Why did you ignore her?!?!?!?" your child asks. And you will say ______????)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/credo--helen-caldicott-424003.html
Credo: Helen Caldicott
The Australian paediatrician was named by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the most influential women in the world. She is a fervent anti-nuclear campaigner
- I believe that women have the fate of the Earth in the palm of their hands. Some 53 per cent of us are women and we really are pretty wimpish. We don't step up to the plate...
- I believe that money is the root of all evil. When people start believing that materialism will produce ultimate, lasting happiness, it is a sure sign that they will be intensely unhappy. One third of Americans are on anti-depressants. Instead, what they should be doing is lifting their souls, not their faces.
- I believe in the sanctity of nature. I believe we can save the planet. We are smart enough to do that, but we must act with a sense of dire emergency.
2.04.2009
THOMAS GOES OVER THEIR HEADS: DN! 80% NUC REDUCTION OBAMA TO PROPOSE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_EFyS2p78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R2tRPggRA
ABC Online, Australia - 6 hours ago
Russia says they are all for a new treaty with the US on a limitation of offensive strategic weapons. (Reuters: Sergei Karpukhin ) Russia has welcomed a new ...
Times: Obama Wants New Russia Nuke PactCBS News, NY - 7 hours ago
The Times of London reports today that President Barack Obama is working toward a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Russia that could see both ...Russia welcomes Barack Obama call to cut nuclear weapons
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours ago
Russia has welcomed US President Barack Obama's call for a new round of international talks to cut stockpiles of nuclear weapons. ... THE MI COMPLEX WILL FIGHT THIS TO DO THE DEATH. And you? Me? We?
9.15.2007
}}}} EMPYRE EMPIRE. Start Loving {{{{
I suggest that this post is more of physics and physiology than of metaphysics or philosophy.
In brain surgery TARGETING is entirely crucial.
In saving the world / Iraq / Iran / Palestine / Congo / Cuba / Haiti / Darfur... TARGETING of our scarce energy is entirely crucial.
I submit to you that Nuclear Weapons / Bombing Iran / Darfur Genocide / Occupying Iraq / Bush / Katrina Neglect... are the SYMPTOMS, not the CANCER to be TARGETED.
The CANCER to be TARGETED
is the
SPIRIT of EMPIRE
in ourselves,
and that is devouring all Spirit of Humanity world-wide. The CLEANSING FIRE, THE SURGEON'S LASER BEAM TO BE AIMED WITH ENTIRE CARE, TO EMPYRE THE CANCER OF EMPIRE, IS
THE FIRE OF LOVE,
OF HUMANITY;
OUR HUMANITY.
I would EMPYRE Empire.
I would give Fire to the world,
a fire to entirely consume Empire
leaving the world blazing
with the Fire of Sisterly Love / Humanity.
Let's burn;
in time.
“Someday after mastering
winds, waves, tides and gravity,
we shall harness
the energies of love.
And then, for the
second time in the
history of the world,
man will discover
fire.”
winds, waves, tides and gravity,
we shall harness
the energies of love.
And then, for the
second time in the
history of the world,
man will discover
fire.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
God willing I will have served my immediate purpose here at the Peace House and return to the 24 hour / day US Forces / Iran / Iraq Vigil at the Capitol Monday.
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!!! WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
IGNITE THE FIRE
click the MATCH.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY!!click the MATCH above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
You see the dynamics of EMPYRE EMPIRE in "Dances With Wolves" in the opening sequence - the battle that is a genocidal stalemate until....
The armies are across the field from one another...
Agonizing, slow, mutual slaughter...
One person faces the madness, they are dead already...
Quietly, alone one rides out -WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO
As in EVERY CRUCIAL STRUGGLE, the odds are impossible...
But HOPE and POSSIBILITY, HUMANITY are in the ATTEMPT....
}}}}}}}} ALL IT TAKES IS ONE MATCH. YOU? {{{{{{{{
The Infection of "Possibility" Spreads...
And spreads....
And Salvation is at hand.
_________________________
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
click the match.
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
click the match.
!!click the match above!!DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
!!! WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
8.16.2007
OURS IS THE EVIL GENERATION. P. BERRIGAN
Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is derived from Scapegoating:
"With all my heart, I agree with Gerard that the Gospel alone will destroy scapegoating and needless killing. The Gospel alone offers the truth and strength necessary to disarm and eliminate nuclear terror. But the unknown quantity are Christians and our disbelief.
Luke's Gospel (11:29) speaks of an "evil generation", and ours is certainly that. No sign is allowed this generation except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And that sign is the Cross - the execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
Fidelity to that sign will not be easy, but it will not be hard. His yoke is easy, and His burden light. (Mt. 11:30). We are not to be afraid, Just believe. (Mk. 5:36)"
Luke's Gospel (11:29) speaks of an "evil generation", and ours is certainly that. No sign is allowed this generation except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And that sign is the Cross - the execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
Fidelity to that sign will not be easy, but it will not be hard. His yoke is easy, and His burden light. (Mt. 11:30). We are not to be afraid, Just believe. (Mk. 5:36)"
8.14.2007
Phil Berrigan Quotes
- Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.
- "Peacemaking is not only a central characteristic of the Gospel, peacemaking is the greatest need of the world today. We are the daughters and sons of God, and that means we are called to be peacemakers."
- "There is no freedom without love."
- "You are the answer."
- "Don't get tired."
- "War on terrorism by the U.S. is impossible. We are the number one terrorist."
- “We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to war-makers when they try to defend their current war: if they’re moving their lips they're lying.”
- Herein lies a riddle. How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
- "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
- "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
- "War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."
8.11.2007
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS
[Maybe later I can return and share this point more clearly. For now please help me by a patient and thoughtful reading.]
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF
THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS:
Anti-Nuclearism, Abortion-Rights-ism, Anti-Zionism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianityism, Communism, COMMUNITYISM, Corporatism, Democratism, Evangelicalism, Free-Palesitineism, Pacifism, Hinduism, Islamism, Judaism, Militarism, "MY-CHILD"-ISM, "MY-FAMILY"-ISM, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protestantism, Right-To-Lifeism...
HOW CAN THIS BE!?!?!?
"Thou shalt have
no value as high or higher than
CONSCIENCE / HUMANITY /
LOVE / KINDNESS."
Start Loving
It is not that any
of the above "isms"
are per-se bad.
It is that they
have been elevated
ABOVE
the Humanity /
Conscience / Love / Kindness /
ALMIGHTY POWERS -
LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH
which they were
CREATED TO SERVE!!!
"ISM" - THE ULTIMATE
DISPLACEMENT OF THE
ALMIGHTY GOOD
DISPLACEMENT OF THE
ALMIGHTY GOOD
ISM, of the 3 deadliest sins
(The other two being
RECREATIONAL SEX AND
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY"),
SEEMS
THE MOST LIKELY TO
MURDER THE NEAR SAINTS
THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
THESE NEAR SAINTS SEEM
NOT TO SEE THAT
THEY HAVE ELEVATED THEIR ISM,
PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM,
ANTI-NUCLEARISM, ANTI-ZIONISM...
ABOVE THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
(The other two being
RECREATIONAL SEX AND
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY"),
SEEMS
THE MOST LIKELY TO
MURDER THE NEAR SAINTS
THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
THESE NEAR SAINTS SEEM
NOT TO SEE THAT
THEY HAVE ELEVATED THEIR ISM,
PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM,
ANTI-NUCLEARISM, ANTI-ZIONISM...
ABOVE THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF
THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS:
Anti-Nuclearism, Abortion-Rights-ism, Anti-Zionism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianityism, Communism, COMMUNITYISM, Corporatism, Democratism, Evangelicalism, Free-Palesitineism, Pacifism, Hinduism, Islamism, Judaism, Militarism, "MY-CHILD"-ISM, "MY-FAMILY"-ISM, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protestantism, Right-To-Lifeism...
HOW CAN THIS BE!?!?!?
"Thou shalt have
no God before Me!"
Bible
no God before Me!"
Bible
"Thou shalt have
no value as high or higher than
CONSCIENCE / HUMANITY /
LOVE / KINDNESS."
Start Loving
It is not that any
of the above "isms"
are per-se bad.
It is that they
have been elevated
ABOVE
the Humanity /
Conscience / Love / Kindness /
ALMIGHTY POWERS -
LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH
which they were
CREATED TO SERVE!!!
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