In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Specifically, I held the "O" for a while across from Natick Common with Kim Nguyen and a dozen others, mostly the regulars, who have been out every week, Saturday noon to 1 p.m. or longer, for peace, since before the U.S. military invaded Iraq.
With very, very little media coverage, as they couldn't help but mention. Need to write to the list about coordinating media-- and food, every gathering should be a little bit of a party too.
My comment: Another Jew against ghettos.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-gaza
END THE HEALTH CRISIS IN GAZA!
Target:
United Nations Human Rights Committee and Israeli government
Created by:
Save Gaza Campaign
END THE HEALTH CRISIS IN GAZA
Since Israeli government declared Gaza as "hostile entity" on 19th September 2007,Israel blocks delivery of essential medicines to Gaza Strip and doesn't allow Palestinian patients to go outside of Gaza for urgent treatment.
Dad said he was one of the nicest members of the club, and was upset that he'd offended this four-year-old child:
"I don't celebrate Christmas! Why is everyone always wishing me a Merry Christmas?!"
Another piece of key PWGD strategy, from Nancy Davies look at the current situation of the social movements in Oaxaca, Mexico:
On an inexpensive GPS cell phone designed to save the lives of people traveling across the U.S.-Mexico border.
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2007/11/safe-passage-for-illegal-borde.html
I'll get one, so I'll be able to find my way way into Mexico. ;-)
The United States faces economic crisis.
One of the earliest, most visible reactions to that has been the scapegoating and violent targeting of people from places in which our government has caused economic crisis.
Except for all the people he knows and what he's actually done, Henri Poole's thoughts could be mine exactly:
Filed under "Homeland Security" on Congressperson Ed Markey's site. Just using the term Homeland Security is a pact with the ghost of Mussolini.
Why did you vote for the "homegrown terrorism and violent radicalization" bill?
Thought it sounded good and didn't do much? Maybe. But it also puts the U.S. on track for criminalizing social change when critical changes become increasingly obviously needed. This criminalization of dissent is a tactic employed by U.S.-supported repressive governments in Latin America and elsewhere, most evidently at the moment Colombia.
Jakob: Chickens are stupid.
Mom: Your father had a pet chicken. He was fond of that chicken. He said they're not as stupid as you think they are.
[Now I remember Dad talking about this also-- come when it was called, follow him around and all.]
For the record, Jeff Dorchen speaks the truth.
Secular Jew is codeword both for all Jews and pretty much all fairness or liberty tinged social progress.
http://mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/moments/moment_perfectjew.html
Listen to him say it. This is language my father would understand.