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
Prayer
is best understood as being in the moment, sharing love and opening to
transcendence and not petitioning a big daddy in the sky to be our errand boy
and fulfill our desires.
President John Adams
declared May 9, 1798, to be "a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and
prayer," during which citizens of all faiths were asked to pray "that
our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it". [1]
President Abraham Lincoln
issued a proclamation that “set apart a day for National prayer and
humiliation…[because] we have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other
nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God…forgotten the gracious hand
which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us;
and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these
blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel
the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God
that made us!
“It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the
offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and
forgiveness…I do, by this my proclamation, designate…a day of national
humiliation, fasting and prayer” in the hope that God would respond by restoring “our
divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and
peace. [2]
President Obama’s National
Day of Prayer PROCLAMATION asked “for wisdom, compassion, and discernment of
justice as we address the great challenges of our time. We are blessed to live
in a Nation that counts freedom of conscience and free exercise of religion
among its most fundamental principles…[and] let us remember in our thoughts and
prayers those people everywhere who join us in the aspiration for a world that
is just, peaceful, free, and respectful of the dignity of every human being.”[3]
"Prayer is also the struggle for human justice. It is the fight to remove
killing stereotypes, to hurl back ignorance of prejudice, and to protect the
holiness of creation. Prayer is the corporate, political act that serves to
equalize opportunity so that privileged and underprivileged might have the same
chance." [4]
Thomas
Merton, 20th century Trappist monk poet, social critic and mystic
warned Christians that,"The duty of the Christian at this time is to do the
one task God has imposed upon us in this world today. The task is to work for
the total abolition of war. There can be no question that unless war is
abolished; the world will remain constantly in a state of madness. The church
[meaning all Christians] must lead the way on the road to the abolition of war.
Peace is to be preached and nonviolence is to be explained and practiced."
1. Adams, "A Proclamation," March 23, 1798; printed in
the Philadelphia Weekly Magazine, March 31, 1798.
4. Bishop
John Shelly Spong, "WHY CHRISTIANITY MUST CHANGE OR DIE" page 147.
Praying for an End to Nuclear Weapons
The United Nations opened a month-long conference in New York this
week to review ways to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. Prior to
the conference, leaders from several religious traditions gathered at an
interfaith chapel across from the UN to pray for the abolition of all
nuclear weapons. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and others
offered prayers, chants, songs, and special readings. Watch excerpts of
the service, where some of the participants included Buddhist peace
activists; Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki,
Japan, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing, who brought a scorched
piece of a statue of Mary from the cathedral that was destroyed in the
attack; a Shinto chant leader; Rev. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary
of the National Council of Churches; a Native American prayer-song
leader; Buddhist and Muslim readers; and Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
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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
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