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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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"We're on a mission from God."
The Blues Brothers "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
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Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again"
Tom Paine
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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  Blog October / November 2012 October 21, 2012: KAIROS, Conscience and Apartheid
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October 21, 2012: KAIROS, Conscience and Apartheid |
October 21,2012: KAIROS, Conscience and Apartheid
BACKGROUND INFO:
Kairos USA
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June 2011 a group of U.S. clergy, theologians and laypersons
inaugurated a new movement for American Christians. The impetus for the
formation of Kairos USA was the 2009 call of our Palestinian sisters and brothers in Christ
to stand with them in their struggle for their fundamental human
rights. In taking a bold, prophetic stand for justice in the Holy Land,
we are also expressing our love for our sisters and brothers in Israel
who for their entire history as a state have been suffering from the
social, psychological and spiritual costs of militarization and war
itself. There is an urgent need to support nonviolent resistance to
oppression on the part of Palestinian and Israeli civil society and to
continue to build the growing international grassroots movement that
will break the current political logjam.
We lift up the example of the 1985 South African Kairos document "Challenge to the Church"
that called its own government and the church itself to rise up and
name the evil of apartheid, signaling the beginning of the end of the
system that had so poisoned their society. We recall the central role of
the church in the Civil Rights movement in our country, when the
courage of African American pastors spread throughout the churches of
our land, changing the political and social landscape of America.
Kairos USA is committed to the following goals:
- Provide a home for American Christians in their work for a just peace in Israel/Palestine, bridging the denominational, racial, and evangelical-mainline divides.
- Call for pilgrimages to the Holy Land that witness the suffering and connect with those working for peace.
- Disseminate the “Call to Action: a U.S. Christian response to the Palestine Kairos document.”
This document will be accompanied by study materials for churches,
schools and local groups and serve as a catalyst for conversation,
learning, connection, and action.
- Develop a contemporary theology of land, peoplehood and
promise that will enable clergy, scholars and laypersons to better
pursue open conversation, study, and positive action.
- Connect denominations, congregations, and peace organizations here in the U.S., and link to Kairos movements across the globe.
- Connect with congregations in Palestine and Israel, and with civil society organizations in the region working for peace and human dignity.
South Africans expose Palestine ‘bantustans’ on billboards
The handy “disappearing Palestine” map postcards have hit the big time.
This month, two South Africa advocacy groups, BDS South Africa and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance have posted the maps on 12 billboards across the country.
The campaign coincides with a large African National Congress event
that is expected to bring in hundreds of international guests.
“These images stand as fingers pointing at us for our ignorance and
inaction,” said South African activist Stiaan van der Merwe. “They stand
as images of shame towards South Africa in not standing and acting in
solidarity with Palestine living under an apartheid regime—an apartheid
regime which, in terms of international law, is far worse than what we
practiced and experienced in South Africa.”
As Ali Abuminah of The Electronic Intifada notes in his article,
the map should resonate with South Africans who lived during the
Apartheid era. The isolated Palestinian-controlled areas in the West
Bank are reminiscent of the bantustans in which white South Africans
tried to corral millions of black South Africans.
“We who benefitted from international solidarity do not as a country
stand out in leading solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians against
an apartheid regime,” said van der Merwe, who is a member of the
national working committee of the newly-formed Coalition for a Free Palestine.
“What has happened to our conscience?”
Earlier this year, similar ads posted in New York metro stations generated a firestorm of controversy. http://www.kairosusa.org/?q=node/59#overlay-context=node/62%3Fq%3Dnode/62&utm_source=KUSA+Oct+2012+NL&utm_campaign=October+Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Citizens of Conscience: And So it Begins...
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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 |
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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.
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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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