[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] sleepwalking into the drone age - "I Met a 16-Year-Old Kid. 3 Days Later Obama Killed Him"

[E. Wayne Johnson]

BEING just contaminates the VOID.


On 6/21/2012 1:35 AM, Karen Medina wrote:
> Eleanor wrote:>   Instead of waving banners that are often violent
> sounding go to Africa or Palestine and work on bringing people
> together.
>
> In response to this particular comment, I like a tee-shirt I bought
> for Stuart at the anti-NATO demonstration that said, "Existence is
> Resistance"
>
> It was a pro-Palestinian group selling the shirt. I bought it because
> every Palestinian IS performing non-violent resistance every moment of
> their lives.  [Watch the movie, Budrus.]
>
> But how often does the non-violence make the news?
>
> There are numerous groups in Israel and Palestine working together,
> not just for understanding but for inclusion in society and equal
> rights and basic human rights. How often do we hear of these? Can you
> even name one group?
>
> I am not promoting violence in any way. I am just saying that, damn
> it, we should know about the non-violence! The average person in the
> Unites States only hears what the U.S. media gives them. Wake up and
> see the non-violent movements and the overwhelming number of
> non-violent individuals. But we are not going to find them unless we
> go look for them. LOOK for THEM.
>
> As for the idea of going to Palestine, don't go to the area, unless
> you really want to. We need to do so many things here to change the
> United States' policies that allow (and encourage) the Israeli
> government to continue their abuses*.
>
> At the very least, become a part of the Urbana-Champaign Peace
> Initiative, see the film, Budrus. Listen to Mark Braverman. See the
> film, Fatal Embrace. It is a great group. They take the non-violent
> road very seriously and I believe they are a route for mutual
> understanding.
>
> Personally, I take the road that Martin Luther King Jr. took in his
> Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (and several times after that as
> well).
>
> Each U.S. citizen that does not take a stand is committing violence by
> allowing the U.S. (a democracy) to continue to support Israeli
> violence.
>
> -karen medina
> * A short list of the abuses the U.S. supports Israel in doing:
> bulldozing Palestinian homes, taking over more and more Palestinian
> land, using resources (like water) from Palestinian land for luxuries
> (like swimming pools), restricting trade of the Palestinians, using
> weapon of mass destruction on civilians, restricting movement on
> Palestinian land, sending troops into Palestinian territories, just to
> name a few.
>
> ---
> [I picked up on the Palestine idea, mostly because the point about
> Africa is way too broad to even start a conversation. Are you talking
> about South Africa, the Congo, Ethiopia, ... where to even begin to
> know what you are trying to indicate????]
>
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