WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
HomeBlogApril / May 2012 April 13, 2012: To: President Obama, New York Corporate News Desks and my cyber-attackers
April 13, 2012: To: President Obama, New York Corporate News Desks and my cyber-attackers
April 13, 2012:To: President Obama, New York Corporate News Desks and my cyber-attackers
I am spreading the news, I am leaving very soon- for my homeland, New York, New York.
Before I fly away, I will mail the following to President Obama and if all goes as planned, before next Friday, I will have knocked on the doors of CBS, NBC, ABC, The Daily Show and Colbert Report, FOX and DemocracyNOW! to hand deliver copies of the following News-Press Release- and I will be carrying my AIPAC PRESS credentials with me.
President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
As you promised from Prague in 2009:
"As the
only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral
responsibility to act. When we fail to pursue peace, then it stays forever
beyond our grasp. We know the path when we choose fear over hope. To denounce
or shrug off a call for cooperation is an easy but also cowardly thing to do.
That’s how wars begin. That’s where human progress ends.
"The voices of peace and progress must be raised together...Human
destiny will be what we make of it...Words must mean something."
And
so, I offer a few words of mine as a candidate of conscience for US HOUSE of Representatives
that I will be hand delivering this week, to Corporate Media News Desks in
Manhattan.
21 April 2012: Global Call to Free Mordechai Vanunu,
Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower and a New York Event
In
2004, Yoko Ono awarded Mordechai Vanunu the GIMME SOME TRUTH Peace Prize
stating, "Hopefully he can come and receive the award himself. He did
complete his sentence, it's not as though he's a criminal. It's possible that
he can't come - the point is that it's another statement, a statement that
the whole world can share and think about. People power is stronger than the
power of institutions."
Yoko
Ono has been silent ever since, but Eileen Fleming, author, reporter and
candidate for US House of Representatives imagines John Lennon would not; so
she will be at Strawberry Fields in Central Park on 21 April 2012, offering
Chapter 23: "LENNON CONNECTION"
from her third book, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai
Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010"
to mark the first day in the 9th year, after 18 years in jail, that Israel's
Nuclear Whistle Blower has been denied the right to leave Israel.
New
York, NY (PRWEB) April 12, 2012
21
April 2012, marks the first day in the 9th year since Mordechai Vanunu,
Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower emerged from 18 years in a windowless tomb
sized cell after telling the TRUTH and providing the photographic proof that
led nuclear physicists to conclude Israel had manufactured upwards of 200
nuclear warheads by 1986.
The
Facebook Cause Free Mordechai Vanunu
with 5,417 current members has issued a GLOBAL CALL for Public Action for
Vanunu's FREEDOM.
Among
the few, thoughtful, committed citizens of the world who have been calling
for Vanunu’s Freedom is Author, reporter and a 2012 candidate for US HOUSE of
Representatives from Florida, Eileen Fleming.
Eileen
will be at Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York City, at noon on 21
April and will read excerpts from her third book, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's Freedom of Speech Trial
and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010" and answer questions
regarding her seven trips to Israel Palestine since 2005.
Eileen
believes as did thirty-six members of the US House of Representatives, who in
1999 signed a letter to President Clinton calling for Vanunu's release from
prison because they believed, "we
have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to
articulate a brighter vision for humanity."
President
Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the
need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to
adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards.
When
Helen Thomas asked President Obama about Middle East Nuclear Weapons, he said
he did not want to "speculate" but the State Department has reams
of documentation regarding Israel's Nuclear Weapons and Vanunu told Fleming:
“President
Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. In 1963, he forced
Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the
sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The
nuclear reactor is only for peace.’
“When
Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators
would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the
Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways.
From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that
hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
“Nixon
stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result,
Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs.
Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.”
On
18 March 2012, Vanunu wrote, “the way to prevent any war with Iran is By
demanding, making many programs about Vanunu's Freedom now struggle, and
publishing again all the interviews, Videos, and Dimona Photos. Telling
Israel the first step in the Path for M.E. disarmament is let Vanunu go
NOW!!"
I
am Eileen Fleming for US House and I approve of all of my messages.
Mordechai
Vanunu at St. Stephens Church, east Jerusalem because, "St. Stephen was
the first Christian martyred for Freedom of Speech." Photo copyright Meir
Vanunu, Nov. 2007
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"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel