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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.
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The Walls of Berlin and Bil'in |
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 Garth Hewitt: From the Broken Heart Of Gaza |
FACTS ABOUT THE WALL from friends in Bethlehem
Read the truth about the Wall and what is happening today in the Holy City of Bethlehem. |
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"We're on a mission from God."
Jake Blues/John Belushi "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"
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"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
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"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free."
John 8:32
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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 |
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Home  Best of WAWA New Orleans: 2008 July 30, 2008
WAWA Blog July 30, 2008: The Under Served of New Orleans: Part Two in a Continuing Series
Dog is God Backwards
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http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/07/29/p27324
[Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, July 29, 2008 ] When the levees broke after The Storm of August 2005, Richard Colar and Princess, his Siberian husky, were trapped in their attic on Desire Street for three days until some flotsam floated by and morphed into a makeshift raft.
"The water was twelve feet high and we waited on a rooftop until we were rescued. We had one day on dry land before I was evacuated to North Carolina, but they wouldn't let me take Princess. I had to leave my daughter with a neighbor."
A few days later, the neighbor phoned that the authorities had also forced her to evacuate and an animal-rescue team took Princess away to parts unknown. After weeks of Internet searching, Richard found his way to the Humane Society of the US and connected with Cory Smith, the program manager for animal-sheltering issues.
"I know God sent Cory to me."
Corey and many other HSUS staffers located a depressed and stressed Princess at a shelter in Ohio. A flight home was not an option due to her critical condition, so Cory organized a caravan of volunteers to drive Princess to North Carolina.
Richard recalled, "The lady who was with her told me, that moments before I even entered the room, Princess got up on her legs for the first time and started looking around. The second I walked into the room Princess was already waiting for me! As soon as I sat down, she sat on top of me and curled up in my arms, like a baby."
Richard and Princess have been living in -but Princess stays mostly under- the FEMA trailer in the back yard of their home that is still uninhabitable.
"People we trusted, local people ripped us off," Richard and his mother both tell me.
The walls inside of the home on Desire Street are askew with gaps around the door frames caused by the pressure of the water surge that forced the home off its foundation. The contractors apparently did not own a plumb line and as I walked through the unfinished rooms, I felt as if I had entered a page in a Dr. Suess book.
Richard's mother, Georgianna Mitchell had gone to work the day The Storm hit and was unable to contact any family for seven weeks. "My boss put me up for three weeks until I was allowed to go back home. My sister was on the bridge for a whole week and she had just gotten out of the hospital diagnosed with lung cancer. My 82 year old aunt was in the Super Dome and half the things that went on there, you couldn't print; all the rapes, robberies and people dieing.
"The saddest part now is the way they dole out the money to the needy. We got a lot of thieving politicians and the government money hasn't all filtered to the people. I have been out of my house for three years now, but I am grateful to God that I have always been able to work and pay rent. The one good thing after The Storm is how the churches came together, and we all know, you just can't trust the government."
Mrs. Mitchell drove me to the infamous levee that broke and wrecked all the havoc. Where homes had once stood, only a few brick steps to nowhere and a few cornerstones of foundation are visible among the weeds. The only neighbors are skeletons of homes that didn't fall and a few that have been repaired, "Those are the homes of people who refused to leave," she tells me.
Only seven out of seventeen homes on Desire Street appear to be inhabited three years after The Storm. Mrs. Mitchell sighed then said, "Who knows where all those families are now?"
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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
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UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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. -Article 19. |
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway. © 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith " In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
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“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 |
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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 |
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“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 |
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"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
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