Showing posts with label Other-Centeredness. Show all posts
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3.24.2015
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM....
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL." Read it once, twice, 10, 20 times, until it is written in your DNA.
"A Reading of The Letter From Birmingham Jail" – Before the Dream... There was a Letter... from Kirwan Institute on Vimeo.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY a non-fiction film commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” No longer will the Letter from Birmingham Jail be in the SHADOW of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
The film stars community leaders of Columbus, Ohio and educators and leaders of The Ohio State University. The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racial discrimination, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s.
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The film is approximately 56 minutes.
***** SPDF Day 22: ***** Day 22: “Yes, ‘alive is better!!!!’ That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life sadistically stolen from them...
SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 22: A near lifelong acquaintance who I love above all others, upon learning of this death fast wrote: "Understand your position, but I still feel alive is better than not. xxoo"
My reply: Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life savagely taken by our US backed Israeli goon squads. Every two years or so our US funded, armed, backed... Israeli goon squads go in and 'mow the lawn,' and 'remove the top soil,' that is slaughter, as the most powerful military in the world, a defenseless indigenous population of children, women and men. This last time it was 500 children, 1500 adults. This next time, and everyone knows it is coming with 18 months, could be 2,000, 20,000, 200,0000. These Naziesque Israelis know no limits thanks to the criminal enabling of we US CITIZENS these last 68 years. And much much much much worse. 7 million Palestinians have been deprived of Life by we enabling Americans for 68 years now... LIVING DEATH... in refugee camps, and worse, the open air, LITERAL PRISONS... of the West Bank and Gaza... ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS.... LIVING DEATH. ROBED OF LIFE BY WE WALKING DEAD AMERICANS.
AND IF ONE SURVEYS AND DEEPLY CONSIDERS the in-actions of the Obama Administration, the US Free Palestine 'activists,' the European Free Palestine 'activists,' the invisibility, distortion, lies... spewed by the US Zionist Controlled Media... regarding the otherwise HEROIC Resistance of the Palestinians... THERE IS CURRENTLY ZERO HOPE, ZERO HOPE, FOR EVEN ONE OF MY PALESTINIANS TO BE ALIVE. ZERO.
That is unacceptable to me. I can at least save one. I am sure of it. One can be alive if I die. And that is enough for me.
Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And from what I can see, other than the International Solidarity Movement, I may be the only person in the US that believes in every cell in my body that 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And with infinite Joy and Peace of Heart, EVERY BREATH, I'll give mine now that even just one of them may be 'alive,' sometime, in the next 20 years, who otherwise would not be. I can't think of, I can't see, anything on earth I'd rather do, or have ever done, in my 63 years. Why can't you see that?
And the Death Fast, as I've written elsewhere, is the ONLY WEAPON that can save all of creation, stopping ecocide that at this moment is 100% NOT being stopped in time, and to stop the currently unopposed take over by the Oligarchs, the Corporate Fascists, of America, rolling back American human rights to the 1800's... for centuries.... a dark ages.
My reply: Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life savagely taken by our US backed Israeli goon squads. Every two years or so our US funded, armed, backed... Israeli goon squads go in and 'mow the lawn,' and 'remove the top soil,' that is slaughter, as the most powerful military in the world, a defenseless indigenous population of children, women and men. This last time it was 500 children, 1500 adults. This next time, and everyone knows it is coming with 18 months, could be 2,000, 20,000, 200,0000. These Naziesque Israelis know no limits thanks to the criminal enabling of we US CITIZENS these last 68 years. And much much much much worse. 7 million Palestinians have been deprived of Life by we enabling Americans for 68 years now... LIVING DEATH... in refugee camps, and worse, the open air, LITERAL PRISONS... of the West Bank and Gaza... ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS.... LIVING DEATH. ROBED OF LIFE BY WE WALKING DEAD AMERICANS.
AND IF ONE SURVEYS AND DEEPLY CONSIDERS the in-actions of the Obama Administration, the US Free Palestine 'activists,' the European Free Palestine 'activists,' the invisibility, distortion, lies... spewed by the US Zionist Controlled Media... regarding the otherwise HEROIC Resistance of the Palestinians... THERE IS CURRENTLY ZERO HOPE, ZERO HOPE, FOR EVEN ONE OF MY PALESTINIANS TO BE ALIVE. ZERO.
That is unacceptable to me. I can at least save one. I am sure of it. One can be alive if I die. And that is enough for me.
Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And from what I can see, other than the International Solidarity Movement, I may be the only person in the US that believes in every cell in my body that 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And with infinite Joy and Peace of Heart, EVERY BREATH, I'll give mine now that even just one of them may be 'alive,' sometime, in the next 20 years, who otherwise would not be. I can't think of, I can't see, anything on earth I'd rather do, or have ever done, in my 63 years. Why can't you see that?
And the Death Fast, as I've written elsewhere, is the ONLY WEAPON that can save all of creation, stopping ecocide that at this moment is 100% NOT being stopped in time, and to stop the currently unopposed take over by the Oligarchs, the Corporate Fascists, of America, rolling back American human rights to the 1800's... for centuries.... a dark ages.
3.23.2015
SPDF Day 21: My health is my Palestine Family, my flesh and blood. There health is mine...
From a FB contact: "James, I will worry about your health as much as I wish, this doesn't have to bother you at all, how are you doing"
My reply: "Hi. I never try to control another person. Ever. But I do control my time, as is my duty to G_d. All I have to say about my health is here - . My health is my Palestinian Family, my flesh and blood .Their health is mine. I have none other, and right now, no one is saving them. They and I are Dead."
My reply: "Hi. I never try to control another person. Ever. But I do control my time, as is my duty to G_d. All I have to say about my health is here - . My health is my Palestinian Family, my flesh and blood .Their health is mine. I have none other, and right now, no one is saving them. They and I are Dead."
This man lives alone in a radioactive town to care for abandoned animals. I really had no choice he said.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/one-man-many-horse-town#.lkvwao3Zw
3.22.2015
Vid. An amazing story of a dying girl's wish and some incredible sportsmanship
http://www.upworthy.com/an-amazing-story-of-a-dying-girls-wish-and-some-incredible-sportsmanship-ah2-8b?c=ufb3
3.20.2015
vlog. SPDF Day 18: Is there really no one besides a dearest loved one you would gladly give your life to save...?
vlog. SPDF Day 18: Is there really no one besides a dearest loved one you would gladly give your life to save? Well, then all is lost.
If you would give your life or anyone it would probably be for someone extremely close to you. In our society this is normal, for the last 6000 years this is normal. If normal continues your nieces and nephews, children and grandchildren, have no future other than a living material Hell. I suppose this is unfair. I suppose it is not kind. But it is the fact.
Global warming is destroying earth and the final seconds to stop that are passing as we speak. What American democracy there was is being replaced by some combination of oligarchy, fascism, and the last seconds to stave it off prior to an unstoppable dark ages of innumerable decades or centuries, the seconds left to stave off are passing now.
These are both immensely abstract issues from which we are distracted by a multitrillion dollar economy based on addiction to stuff, and the lies and illusions that go along with that. This is why a freeing Palestine, finding that as I think I would, you too would gladly give your life for any of the seven million Palestinians that have been so tormented for going on 70 years now, this is why this is so instrumental to the first two problems that I mentioned.
The Terrorization of Palestine is the most concrete, most evil, most immense horror facing humanity today. It requires less imagination to see the victims and to find the compassion within ourselves to happily trade our life for even one of theirs. I don't know that such a thing as such mass mobilized compassion has happened before in history in the numbers that this will require. It is not going to happen. But unless it does there is no hope of stopping global warming or global police state.
If that mass heroic mobilization happened for Palestine there is a prayer, because an awakened heart doesn't stop when it has solved the problem at hand. It looks around at the rest of its human family. So in the army that mobilized to free Palestine before the next slaughter would be an army that would subsequently mobilize against those other two problems. There is no other situation that can raise the army.
If not you, who? If you don't become the change, who is going to? No one, is the answer you should find the courage to face.
Is this a sad prospect. I can't speak for you, but for me it is the most joyful prospect. The prospect of giving my life to save even one Palestinian? That's heaven. The much more minuscule, but real prospect, that I could be part of the start of raising the army that could save all future for humankind? Do I find that sad? I feel it is what I was born for. I feel it is what you were born four. My learning and study tells me it is what we're all born for, but we have forgotten, we have been taught to forget by our ultimately sick culture.
If you would give your life or anyone it would probably be for someone extremely close to you. In our society this is normal, for the last 6000 years this is normal. If normal continues your nieces and nephews, children and grandchildren, have no future other than a living material Hell. I suppose this is unfair. I suppose it is not kind. But it is the fact.
Global warming is destroying earth and the final seconds to stop that are passing as we speak. What American democracy there was is being replaced by some combination of oligarchy, fascism, and the last seconds to stave it off prior to an unstoppable dark ages of innumerable decades or centuries, the seconds left to stave off are passing now.
These are both immensely abstract issues from which we are distracted by a multitrillion dollar economy based on addiction to stuff, and the lies and illusions that go along with that. This is why a freeing Palestine, finding that as I think I would, you too would gladly give your life for any of the seven million Palestinians that have been so tormented for going on 70 years now, this is why this is so instrumental to the first two problems that I mentioned.
The Terrorization of Palestine is the most concrete, most evil, most immense horror facing humanity today. It requires less imagination to see the victims and to find the compassion within ourselves to happily trade our life for even one of theirs. I don't know that such a thing as such mass mobilized compassion has happened before in history in the numbers that this will require. It is not going to happen. But unless it does there is no hope of stopping global warming or global police state.
If that mass heroic mobilization happened for Palestine there is a prayer, because an awakened heart doesn't stop when it has solved the problem at hand. It looks around at the rest of its human family. So in the army that mobilized to free Palestine before the next slaughter would be an army that would subsequently mobilize against those other two problems. There is no other situation that can raise the army.
If not you, who? If you don't become the change, who is going to? No one, is the answer you should find the courage to face.
Is this a sad prospect. I can't speak for you, but for me it is the most joyful prospect. The prospect of giving my life to save even one Palestinian? That's heaven. The much more minuscule, but real prospect, that I could be part of the start of raising the army that could save all future for humankind? Do I find that sad? I feel it is what I was born for. I feel it is what you were born four. My learning and study tells me it is what we're all born for, but we have forgotten, we have been taught to forget by our ultimately sick culture.
vlog. SPDIF day 17: this death fast is for everyone I know and everyone I do not know. This death fast is against everyone I know, and everyone I don't know. (If the shoe does not fit, don't wear it.)
This death fast is for everyone I know , and for every one I do not know, born and to be born in the future. I experience all of these as part of me. I experienced all of these as part of my family. That's just how it is with me.
And this death fast is a protest against everyone I know , and everyone I see involved in the so called free Palestine effort. Against individuals? Of course not. Against grossly inadequate, cowardly, self serving behavior of nearly all the individuals involved? Absolutely.
Every one of the people I'm describing may be doing exactly what history requires. But to my trained eye none, with a certain exception of Diane Wilson (on other crucial issues), and the possible exception of very few others, with the near certain exception of the international solidarity movement activists in Palestine, with the near certainty exception of some other activists in Palestine. With the fairly certain exception of much or most of Hamas, heroic, intelligent, informed freedom fighters.
But I just mentioned dozens of people on a planet with seven billion. This death fast is a protest against the behavior of almost everyone, above the age of 12, on earth, particularly we over privileged in the United States . We are behaving like the walking dead people that we are. In willful, catatonic denial . Fiddling while Rome burns. Not lifting a finger so that our nieces and nephews, our children, our grandchildren, have a future remotely worth living in terms of democratic society , a planet habitable , other than the police state that is being developed in Palestine for export to the elites around the world.
And this death fast is a protest against everyone I know , and everyone I see involved in the so called free Palestine effort. Against individuals? Of course not. Against grossly inadequate, cowardly, self serving behavior of nearly all the individuals involved? Absolutely.
Every one of the people I'm describing may be doing exactly what history requires. But to my trained eye none, with a certain exception of Diane Wilson (on other crucial issues), and the possible exception of very few others, with the near certain exception of the international solidarity movement activists in Palestine, with the near certainty exception of some other activists in Palestine. With the fairly certain exception of much or most of Hamas, heroic, intelligent, informed freedom fighters.
But I just mentioned dozens of people on a planet with seven billion. This death fast is a protest against the behavior of almost everyone, above the age of 12, on earth, particularly we over privileged in the United States . We are behaving like the walking dead people that we are. In willful, catatonic denial . Fiddling while Rome burns. Not lifting a finger so that our nieces and nephews, our children, our grandchildren, have a future remotely worth living in terms of democratic society , a planet habitable , other than the police state that is being developed in Palestine for export to the elites around the world.
3.19.2015
***** vlog. SPDF Day 17:I EXPECT TO TERMINATE THIS DEATH FAST...
SPDF Day 17: I expect to terminate this death fast within the next few days. I'm no expert on missiles but I know that some are equipped with an abort mechanism. Anyone that launches a campaign of any sort and regardless of changing circumstances is unwilling to change their plans as a zealot, a madman. This death vast was begun on the day, on the night before, Netanyahu was here in Washington enabling Congress to demonstrate its complete corruption, and his as well. It was a time of complete darkness. Utter hopelessness. Absolute shamefullness among the cowardly inadequacy of the American Free Palestine activities.
We American activists don't do what's needed. We do what's convenient. We do what feels good. We do what attracts money, followers, accolades, while enabling us to continue on with our over privileged lifestyles. The exceptions prove the rule.
I think that may have changed now. No, it has changed. The question is how substantial is the change, and will it continue.
I posted earlier today some discussion of my analysis of the situation. At the core is the widely covered news that the Obama Administration may have been given enough license by this criminal Netanyahu and his criminal Israeli country to act aggressively to impose the international law of record, the 1967 borders and the right of return for the 3.5 million Palestinian refugees. I make not the slightest assumption that tomorrow's headlines might not reverse all this. But I do make the assumption, it is my analysis, that A. it could be substantive, and B. It changes the clarity of the situation with in which I am on Death Fast. Even the most infinitesimal candle in a room of absolutes darkness and be seen. Well I could be that candle on the day, and on the days since, Netanyahu was here in town. But for the moment the room is no longer nearly so dark with these obvious considerations on the part of the Obama Administration.
I suspect that I'll not reach a final conclusion for several days. I'll continue to watch the news for clues as to whether this is substantive or illusory. But within hours or days I think there is an excellent chance that the best way I can serve the part of my family that is Palestine is to terminate this death fast, regain strength, continue my online work, probably continue my vigil and work, and to watch for the next point of clarity as to how I can serve, which could well be, if the next absolute darkness appears even almost immediately, to launch another death fast.
As I wrote in an immensely important post the other day, I feel not the slightest hesitation to have my life terminate now, this instant, if it can save one Palestinian in the next 20 years. But the clarity for that at the moment may have been lost, and there may now be new and better opportunities to serve even more. I'll see.
I will, I AM giving my Life for Palestine, for the infinite Joy of it. The only variable is how to best serve in doing that. I'll continue to re-calculate breath, by breath, by breath.
We American activists don't do what's needed. We do what's convenient. We do what feels good. We do what attracts money, followers, accolades, while enabling us to continue on with our over privileged lifestyles. The exceptions prove the rule.
I think that may have changed now. No, it has changed. The question is how substantial is the change, and will it continue.
I posted earlier today some discussion of my analysis of the situation. At the core is the widely covered news that the Obama Administration may have been given enough license by this criminal Netanyahu and his criminal Israeli country to act aggressively to impose the international law of record, the 1967 borders and the right of return for the 3.5 million Palestinian refugees. I make not the slightest assumption that tomorrow's headlines might not reverse all this. But I do make the assumption, it is my analysis, that A. it could be substantive, and B. It changes the clarity of the situation with in which I am on Death Fast. Even the most infinitesimal candle in a room of absolutes darkness and be seen. Well I could be that candle on the day, and on the days since, Netanyahu was here in town. But for the moment the room is no longer nearly so dark with these obvious considerations on the part of the Obama Administration.
I suspect that I'll not reach a final conclusion for several days. I'll continue to watch the news for clues as to whether this is substantive or illusory. But within hours or days I think there is an excellent chance that the best way I can serve the part of my family that is Palestine is to terminate this death fast, regain strength, continue my online work, probably continue my vigil and work, and to watch for the next point of clarity as to how I can serve, which could well be, if the next absolute darkness appears even almost immediately, to launch another death fast.
As I wrote in an immensely important post the other day, I feel not the slightest hesitation to have my life terminate now, this instant, if it can save one Palestinian in the next 20 years. But the clarity for that at the moment may have been lost, and there may now be new and better opportunities to serve even more. I'll see.
I will, I AM giving my Life for Palestine, for the infinite Joy of it. The only variable is how to best serve in doing that. I'll continue to re-calculate breath, by breath, by breath.
3.16.2015
***** SPDF Day 14: THE LAW OF SOCIAL CHANGE IS THE LAW OF SUFFERING, OF PAYING THE PRICE.
Social change happens when enough suffering has been seen to occur, or seen to be likely to occur, that previously passive onlookers cannot stand the pain, get off the sidelines, and massively apply pressure to their leaders to bring the pain to a stop. Apartheid South Africa. Slavery in America. Women's suffrage. Tahrir square Egypt. The civil rights movement. The liberation of India from the British.
Due to the total corruption of the US media and the US Congress by the American and Israeli Zionist lobby the Palestinian slaughter is somewhere between invisible to the all important US people, and totally corrupted in the picture that they are shown. They are not shown the innocent population being terrorized tortured tormented and terminated for 68 years. Unbelievably heroic freedom fighters. They are shown terrorists, backward Arabs, blood thirsty Muslims. Lies, horrible evil lies. But that is what the American public sees.
But congress, at least, can see people sitting and dying of death fast on Capitol Hill. And if they are white, disciplined, respectful, peaceful, dignified, it is more difficult to tar them with the Islamic terrorists brush. It is slightly more difficult to ignore them.
And there is this thing called the Internet. And with the Internet some one, or those, dying to save the life of even one Palestinian child, those doing so on Capitol Hill, can have some visibility to the rest of the world.
I have no doubt that the current probability given all the so called free Palestine activism in America, the current probability that the Palestinians will ever be free, restored to their full human rights, and avoid complete extermination, is zero. I defy anyone to on the basis of fact dispute that. That is 100% unacceptable to me.
The Palestinians are part of my family, part of my flesh and blood. I cannot accept, I will not accept, this probability. I have no doubt that by my giving my life to death fast here on Capitol Hill my life can count at least as much as one Palestinian child who they, and my fellow Americans, cannot see, I can accelerate the process by at least that one life. And I can think of no option available to me that I would rather take.
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SPDF Day 14: I visited my doctor this morning
SPDF stop Palestine death fast day 14: I visited my doctor this morning and she was wonderful. She seemed to understand what I was doing, unlike prior fasts I have been on. I told her I hoped she would help keep my mind going as long as my body does. I hoped she would check my blood work periodically and she agreed that that would be a good idea and she wants to and will do so. I am very grateful. My last fast by day 17 I was in the hospital with dehydration and dangerously low blood potassium. The other day I purchased potassium tablets, took one last night and was up half the night with a horrible stomach ache. Potassium taken either IV or by mouth on an empty stomach is very very very painful. I told my doc of this. She insisted on doing blood work today. And if and when she sees my potassium going lower she thinks she can get me tablets that will be much easier to absorb.
3.15.2015
pic. SPDF Day 13. Elephant Legs.
pic. SPDF Day 13. Elephant Legs. After 13 days of no food the protein level in the blood has flat-lined, and the protine helps retain water in the blood. No protein,the fluid escapes the veins and pools in the legs and thighs. Uncomfortable. 3.12.2015
3.10.2015
3.09.2015
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