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!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
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
A
Letter from a USS LIBERTY survivor dated 10 June 1967 and a
recollection from member of Rescue, Damage Control and Repair Team that
boarded the USS Liberty on the early morning hours of June 9, 1967.
"The
attack was the easy part; the aftermath in not being able to get our
government to address this cover up has been the bastard..."
May 20, 2009:The Attack on the LIBERTY: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship: A Book Review and Much More...
Read more...
“The
Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship” blows
apart the only American investigation that was ever conducted: the U.S.
Naval Court of Inquiry’s white wash rush job that confirmed Israel’s
claim of “mistaken identity.”
MY Interviews with USS LIBERTY Survivors:
LIBERTY means Freedom and "Never
Give Up!" Read more...
January 4, 2008: "There Can Be No Peace in the Middle East Until Israel Owns its Own Atrocities" 7th in the USS LIBERTY Series: "It was God that kept us afloat" Read more...
January 16, 2008:Disrespecting the Troops, the McCain's and Hillary 8th in the USS LIBERTY Series: "It Was God That Kept Us Alive"Read more...
INVESTIGATE THE ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY
To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama:
WHEREAS,
on June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, while operating in international
waters in the eastern Mediterranean was the target of an attack by
Israel war planes and torpedo boats; and
WHEREAS, this attack
killed 34 members of the USS Liberty’s crew and wounded 174 other United
States personnel on board in addition to causing extensive damage to
the ship; and
WHEREAS, a controversy continues to surround the
attack on the USS Liberty in that some Americans believe the attack was
deliberate while others believe the attack was a mistake by the Israeli
military; and
WHEREAS, aircraft dispatched from U.S. aircraft
carriers to aid the USS Liberty were recalled, and this action may have
resulted in the death and injury of additional American service members;
and
WHEREAS, the sailors and Marines and their families should have closure of this tragic attack and its aftermath; and
WHEREAS,
the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty is the only such naval incident
to have never been investigated by Congress; now, therefore
BE
IT RESOLVED, that we call upon Congress to immediately investigate the
attack on the USS Liberty that was perpetrated by the armed forces of
the State of Israel on June 8, 1967, in order to determine the truth
behind the attack, and bring closure to the families and crew.
"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
USS LIBERTY
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