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12.22.2010

WashPo: Pr. Obama - Leader of the Year

WashPo: Pr. Obama - Leader of the Year
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My reason for choosing him as leader of the year is that he, more than anyone else, has guided, pushed and often persuaded skeptical and independent legislators to...

12.07.2010

Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Holding Steady Since Midterms

President Barack Obama has maintained support in the mid-40% range since the midterm elections, including a 46% job approval rating for the most recent week of Gallup Daily tracking. In contrast, approval of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton fell in th

"All Participation in Overprivilege is Sin." SL

"All Participation in Overprivilege is Sin." SL

11.26.2010

6 months in prison - Saint Louis Vitale, and friend SOA (thru Tears of sorrow, and awe)



SOA Watch News & Updates
Speaking Truth to Power
David Omondi and Father Louis Vitale Sentenced to Six Months in Federal Prison -- Incarcerated in Georgia Jail

Four human rights activists were in court on Tuesday, November 23 after being arrested and charged with federal trespassing at Ft. Benning, Georgia on November 20 and 21. During their arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Nancy Smith and Christopher Spicer pled not guilty. Their trial is set for January 5. Franciscan priest Fr. Louis Vitale, OFM and David Omondi of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community pled no contest and put the SOA on trial through their statements in court. Fr. Louis and David were sentenced to the maximum 6 months in jail. While nonviolent resisters are being sent to prison, those responsible for the use of torture manuals at the SOA have never even been charged for their crimes. Father Louis and David are presently in a Georgia county jail.

Write to the prisoners:
Because they may be transferred at any time, cards and letters to David may be sent to his community for forwarding: David Omondi, c/o The Los Angeles Catholic Worker, 632 N. Brittania St., Los Angeles, CA 90033. Louis' mail may be sent to the Nuclear Resister for forwarding at P.O. Box 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733.

Click here to read the letter that vigil speaker Father Alberto Franco wrote to all the prisoners of conscience from the November vigil and please feel free to ad your own message to the prisoners in the comment section below the letter text!

On Saturday, November 20, twenty-two others were arrested on city and state charges, including unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, and parading without a permit. Two were charged but not taken into custody. Some were blockading the highway leading into Fort Benning with a sign that read, "Stop: This is the End of the Road for the SOA". Many of those arrested were not intending to risk arrest but were swept up as they walked back to their cars after they left the permitted protest following the vigil on Saturday. These included journalists and a Columbus, Georgia resident who came out of a barber shop to take a photo of the protest. The SOA Watch Legal Collective is collecting testimony and photos of the indiscriminate arrests that took place on Saturday afternoon. Stay tuned!

On Sunday, November 21, Columbus Recorder's Court Judge Michael Cielinski found 21 of the 24 who were arrested by the city guilty on all charges. Two were convicted in a state court the next day. All were released from jail by Monday, with fines and bonds as high as $4,152.50. The SOA Watch community stepped up in a big way, supporters maxed out their credit cards at ATMs to ensure that no one had to stay another day in the Muscogee County Jail. Those who were arrested still have to answer state charges, and expect to be arraigned in January.

For more information about the Ft. Benning protest, visit www.SOAW.org.

Photos from the November Vigil:

To view more photos by Linda Panetta, click here!




To view more photos by Linda Panetta, click here!

Contact us.

Our mailing address is:
SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, D.C. 20017, USA

Our telephone: (202) 234 3440

Click here to fund the campaign to close the SOA.

11.25.2010

Limbaugh - Anti-Christ, Anti-God, Anti-Good: Rush Limbaugh slams President Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Declaration thanking Native Americans

How dare he! Rush Limbaugh blasted President Obama on Wednesday for thanking the Native Americans and using "every cliché" during the White House's official Thanksgiving proclamation.

"Only irresponsible idiots care about Obama's Presdncy, etc. US, Humanity is what we should care about." SL

"Only irresponsible idiots care about Obama's Presidency, etc. 
US, Humanity is what we should care about."  SL

Obama looking weak for reelection

MiamiHerald.com - Steven Thomma - ‎6 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama emerges from a bruising midterm election with uncertain prospects for the next one in 2012, ...


11.17.2010

"GOD IS THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN; 'TRUTH' GANDHI CALLED IT. EVERY SINGLE SECOND WE DON'T HEED, WE'RE SATANS." SL

"GOD IS THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN;
'TRUTH' GANDHI CALLED IT.
EVERY SINGLE SECOND WE DON'T HEED,
WE'RE SATANS."
  SL

URGENT!!!!! Gandhi: "EVERY Evil Today - The Root is Personal Profit - The Body-killing Cancer." SL "Unto This Last," by John Ruskin

"EVERY Evil Today - The Root is Personal Profit -
The Body-killing Cancer."

DECADES of the Religion of Personal Profit, CANCER
ON THE BODY OF HUMANITY, are finally killing the
Body of Humanity - CERTAIN CONSEQUENCE,
leisions, tumors, crippling, and Death follow
biological cancer:
* Terrorism
* Bombs on Planes
* Climate Destruction
* 2million in US Prison
* Dying middle class
* Rising US Fascism...
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Two Writings created Gandhi: 

* 1 was "Unto This Last," by John Ruskin
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* The other, the root work of it is:
"The Gospel in Brief," by Leo Tolstoy,
Francis Fowlers translation
http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Brief-Texts-Contexts/dp/0803294328


11.15.2010

Obama's Recovery Act Fail! Penny Ice Creamery

Vice President Joe Biden calls Kendra Backer and Zach Davis, the owners of The Penny Ice Creamery in Santa Cruz, CA to thank them for sharing their story in a YouTube video and to congratulate them on the success of their business. Their dream of opening an ice cream shop that makes "really great ic

11.13.2010

"Start, a dear 'Friend' just was massively cruel. Have you advice?"

"Friend, I'm honored and glad that you asked. I do feel I have a view worth sharing, but of course you'll need to decide its applicability and validity for you.

Most of my life to date I'd be deeply impacted by mean or cruel behavior directed toward me. But not, thank God, at all for 8 years or so now. Zero. My Heart hasn't hardened at all in that time, quite the opposite. But my Understanding of Life has grown ever so much.

Here's how the breakthru for me came. Someone had been just hideous to me, and the thought that came to me was - 'Uh, under what circumstances would Teresa of Calcutta (substitute your own personal hero of Humanity) have behaved that way to me?' 'UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE, EVER.' Immediately what clicked was that the behavior was clinically "sick," "ill...." I happen to be trained in psychology so understand that I mean "clinically" sick; I'm not throwing stones. Well, in seeing that I was receiving sick behavior, two things happened within me then, and since in such situations: 1. I no longer took it personally, which if I did, would paralyze me with hurt, rage, self-doubt..., and 2. It put my relationship to the inflicter in perspective - they were sufficiently unhealthy that a "healthy" relationship with them was obviously impossible, massively unlikely, unworthy of the time and effort....

Soooo, with all this did I then, and do I now in such situations respond instead with a sense of superiority? Does a good MD feel superior to a sick client? NO! But with the clarity I've just outlined to you I'm able to move on emotionally to the Life of Service where Joy is to be found, and not get bogged down. And, I've learned the humility that Jesus had, "no one comes to me except that the Father brings them." Such sickness that can be so hurtful IS NOT CURABLE DIRECTLY by us. It just isn't. AND IT FEEDS ON THE ATTEMPT BY THE WOUNDED PARTY TO HEAL IT! Sooooo, I just move on. If Our Father, Fate, Chance softens / heals the heart of the wounding party at some future date, YAHOO, I'm there to celebrate! But I leave that in Our Father's hands, and move on, realizing that by refusing to get derailed by cruelty done to me, and devoting myself to folks that desperately need, and can absorb my Loving service, I'm being the Light that could possibly lead to a regrowth of Humanity in the person that was horrible to me.

I don't know if this is helpful to you at all. If it is somewhat helpful, but provokes another question or so, please feel free.

Your brother, sl

ps: Of course, with all I've said above, of course this was enormously hurtful to you at the time, but I think it needn't be hurtful going forward.

10.24.2010

UTTERLY PROFOUND. Rabbi opposing Qur'an burning - "The world...

UTTERLY PROFOUND.  Rabbi opposing Qur'an burning -

"The world is not divided into Jews, Christians, Muslims
[Left, Right, Republican, Democrat, Progressive...].
The world is divided into Good people, and Bad people;
Smart people and Stupid people."  Paraphrase

"Choosing Pleasure Chooses: War, Lovelessness, Joylessness, Lifelessness." SL

"Choosing Pleasure Chooses:
War, Lovelessness, Joylessness, Lifelessness."  SL