SPDF Day 16: Medical Update. My doc was alarmed by my bloodwork the other day and called me in first thing this morning. It has been only 16 days without food but my potassium has plunged and heart attack is not far behind, and I have another months work to do here on Capitol Hill so, although that would be an immensely merciful way for me to terminate this, much more pleasant than the options I face, the timing is not good Bless her heart, she is trying twice a day potassium tablets on me and zantac to try and make the pain of it manageable, and if that doesn't do it, she'll do IV. She wants me back Monday for more bloodwork and Tues to consult on the results. She is truly and Angel. She is Truly an Angel. A pretty young Georgetown Med grad that devotes her life to we homeless, and does her vacations healing folks in Haiti.
I guess low potassium is a pretty bad thing. Three years ago on a hunger strike, day 17, they took me to the ER, large hospital, waiting room full, knife wounds, etc, they did a triage nurse thing, blood sample, I went back to my seat in the waiting room expecting to be an hour or so. In seconds ahead of everyone they had me back in the ER shirt off, IV in, fluids, potassium, working on me for 5 hours.
3.18.2015
***** Day 16: “MY LIFE COUNTS FOR NOTHING TO ME COMPARED WITH SAVING EVEN ONE PALESTINIAN…
**** SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 16: 'My life counts nothing to me compared with the merest possibility of reducing by even one day, for even one of my 7 million Palestinians, their torment, torture, terrorization, degradation, dehumanization by we Americans and the Israelis these last 68 years.' My soul has known this for years, and I follow my Soul, long before I understand what it is telling me, but as I was staggering to Capital Hill this morning after seeing my Doc, mercifully, this clarity came to my mind. Clear as day. Clear as day.
3.17.2015
***** SPDF Day 15: Chris Hedges, "How do we resist? How, if this descent is inevitable, as I believe it is, do we fight back?
***** SPDF Day 15: Chris Hedges, "How do we resist? How, if this descent is inevitable, as I believe it is, do we fight back? Why should we resist at all? Why not give in to cynicism and despair? Why not carve out as comfortable a niche as possible within the embrace of the corporate state and spend our lives attempting to satiate our private needs? The power elite, including most of those who graduate from our top universities, academics, politicians, the press and our liberal and intellectual classes, have sold out for personal comfort. Why not us?"......
This is how Fox News spreads hate: How right-wing media tells lies about Islam
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/17/this_is_how_fox_news_spreads_hate_how_right_wing_media_tells_lies_about_islam/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
The Pope says the Quran is a book of peace and that Islam is a peaceful religion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1140549/Pope-says-Koran-book-peace-Islam-peaceful-religion.html
SPDF Day 15: MLK Jr, “Like anybody, I would like to have a long life.
SPDF Day 15: MLK Jr, “Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”
***** vid. Day 15: MLK Jr. "I submit to you tonight that no man is free if he fears death...
Minute 23, especially - "I submit to you tonight that no man is free if he fears death. But the minute you conquer the fear of death, at that moment, you are free. You must say, somehow, "I don’t have much money. I don’t have much education. I may not be able to read and write. But I have the capacity to die."
Full Transcript Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/25/exclusive_rarely_seen_film_king_a
SPDF Day 15: Apparently there is some problem with my blood chemistry. My doc...
SPDF Day 15: Apparently there is some problem with my blood chemistry. My doc has reviewed the test results and wants me to come see her tomorrow morning, which I will. The Terminal part of this campaign will be pretty tricky. I have zero support, am all alone in this. And at the end negotiations will be needed with hospital, police, psychiatrists... that I be allowed to become one of the statistics, that I may die so a Palestinian child has a chance of living. I'm praying my doc keeps helping me so my brain doesn't go before my body does.
SPDF Day 15: To a dear dear sister since childhood: “Do not ache over my condition. I have never been so Joyful. Ache for the condition of our millions of Palestinians …
SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 15: From a dear dear sister since childhood: "i am aching over your condition..i do understand...yet i want you to be taken care of along with the rest of humanity...SENDING MY LOVE x." My reply: "Do not ache over my condition. I have never been so Joyful. Ache for the condition of our millions of Palestinians. Ache for every young person you know on earth. Ache for every person and creature in the future. Ache for everyone you know in America just a year or two hence, it is all collapsing, economy, fascism, police state, plantation Amerika. Ache for everyone above the age of 12 today that will look back in horror and agony, just a few years from now, and shake in agony as they say, 'MY GOD, WHY DIDN'T I SHAKE OFF MY DENIAL AND STAND FOR GOOD, WHILE THERE WAS STILL A CHANCE.'
The #1 Threat to Peace in the World -- Guess Who? It's U.S. World polling is unanimous on this point: The US is behind an arc of violence stretching from Latin America to the Middle East.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/1-threat-peace-world-guess-who-its-us
Israeli forces yesterday morning arrested seven Palestinian children in the Silwan neighbourhood of Jerusalem, pls48.net reported
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17560-israel-arrests-14-children
“Radicals of a different sort”: How the reactionary right is plotting to steal the White House For all America's progress, the right's quest to control who votes just won't die. Here's their latest disgrace
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/17/radicals_of_a_different_sort_how_the_reactionary_rights_plotting_to_steal_the_white_house/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
***** 9 reasons America is a lousy place to raise kids With income inequality on the rise, only the rich can afford to raise their children with any degree of comfort
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/17/9_reasons_america_is_a_lousy_place_to_raise_kids_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
***** Robert Reich: In Our Horrifying Future, Very Few People Will Have Work or Make Money Think you're safe because you're a professional? Think again
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-our-horrifying-future-almost-no-one-will-have-work-or-make-money
Why conservatives hate college The right's decades-long war on academia and "liberal professors" is about defining an elite "populists" can oppose
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/31/why_conservatives_hate_college/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF day 15: terribly sick last night and this morning. Arrived...
SPDF day 15: terribly sick last night and this morning. Arrived here on Capitol Hill by 7 a.m. I was on the hill yesterday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. The sickness is, I think, a self inflicted wound. Night before last I learned that my body can no longer tolerate a potassium tablet. I thought it could tolerate a magnesium tablet, but it turns out I am sadly mistaken. My stomach hurts like hell and I have waves of nausea. I have lost much of my strength but mercifully a hand truck I ordered arrived last night which makes it somewhat more possible to transport my stuff to and from Capitol Hill and this weekend to and from the White House.
3.16.2015
SPDF Day 14: "If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters...
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers
and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be
more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Israeli occupiers, go to the polls By Gideon Levy The masters (and mistresses) are off to vote Tuesday, in what Israel proudly (but falsely) calls a “celebration of democracy” in “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/.premium-1.647198
Muslims and Jews living in peace in Morocco
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/03/154051/muslims-jews-living-peace-morocco/
***** SPDF Day 14: I’M NOT LETTING ALL THAT IS GOOD GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.
Yes, of course I expect to make little or no difference. But I do think my death will somehow save one person in my Palestinian family over the next 20 years or so. And that alone is worth the price to me. But there is a prayer, as minuscule as it is, that by showing the only way to avert the world's calamities, the death fast, voluntarily paying the price of our own life so that another, or others may have one, that by doing this, another, others, someday may follow. Thereby taking the chance for a future worth living for my human family from zero to something more than that. Is that worth my life? A million times if I could offer it.
***** 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.
Israel is facing the same kind of struggle that many other countries have encountered -- between democracy and theocracy. Unfortunately, Israel has recently been headed in the wrong direction. I will again become a supporter of Israel when it lives up to the ideals in its Declaration of Independence by putting human rights and social justice above sectarian concern and treating its minorities as truly equal citizens.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/herb-silverman/why-i-no-longer-support-i_b_6869098.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
As Israel heads to the polls, peace in the region seems more distant than ever
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/israel-heads-polls-peace-region-seems-more-distant-ever
Israeli poll offers no Palestine respite Any challenge to Netanyahu from the Zionist Union does not mean it offers a better deal to Palestinians
http://gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/israeli-poll-offers-no-palestine-respite-1.1472591
Netanyahu: If I'm elected, there will be no Palestinian state In a definitive disavowal of his Bar-Ilan two-state speech, prime minister makes last-minute attempt to draw voters from Bennett's Habayit Hayeudi
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647212
Report Print this item The Most Dangerous Woman in America.SEATTLE—Kshama Sawant
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_most_dangerous_woman_in_america_20150315
***** SPDF day 14: are we really so sick, so degenerate, so pathologically self centered, that we think my life.... detail
***** SPDF day 14: are we really so sick, so degenerate, so pathologically self centered, that we think my life, our own life, even the life of our own children is the ultimate value to which everything else should be subordinated, in this year of 2015 when everything that is good and decent on earth is passing the final seconds when it can be saved? Really? In the face of a ecocide forever my life is more important than a chance to stop that? In the face of the final death of democracy in America my life is not worth giving now for that? Really? With the likelihood that in another 18 months another 2000 or more Palestinians will be slaughtered, with the certainty that millions of Palestinians every hour of every day will be, are being, terrorized, tormented, tortured, terminated... by the US, Israeli, goon squads, my life is not worth giving for that? Insanity. Disgusting degeneracy. Enough. Join me or keep your maudlin sympathy to yourself. Enough! Enough!!! Enough of this madness. More at start-loving.blogspot.com
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