Monday, December 12, 2005

Missing in ACTION

Greetings and happy Monday!

well, not really- I've been active, just not so much here. As of late I've been working with "World Can't Wait" that would be a dot org if you wanna check it out. I've been creating some, painting and other things.

One project that I think is very important is taking a good hard look @ who we in the U.S. are putting to death. I've always been anti- death penalty and lately Tookie Williams of CA has re-newed my efforts. Tookie's movie "Redemption" is one not to miss.
That governor wants to hear what you think and time is ticking- fast 2 days left! Find out about "Tookie" here: http://www.tookie.com/

then write, call, fax and call again Arnold and let him know this man deserves to live and continue his good works. http://www.petitiononline.com/stw4804/petition.html

There are still about 19 thousand people living in Houston that lost homes in New Orleans. Many have made the choice to stay in this city, but many more want to go home. So... what's taking them so long? "them" them, the government- I mean come on. There are many private organizations set up to help the families that are here-I feel proud to live in this city.

I still can't believe that Bu$h and company haven't been thown out on thier asses! IMPEACH HIM!
I have reprinted below an excerpt of the eloquent message sent December 8 by British playwright Harold Pinter as he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mr. Pinter has been a leading voice in opposition to the criminal war in Iraq.

“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort - all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.
How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice. But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the International Criminal Court of Justice...
Death in this context is irrelevant. Both Bush and Blair place death well away on the back burner. At least 100,000 Iraqis were killed by American bombs and missiles before the Iraq insurgency began. These people are of no moment. Their deaths don't exist. They are blank. They are not even recorded as being dead. 'We don't do body counts,' said the American general Tommy Franks ... The 2,000 American dead are an embarrassment. They are transported to their graves in the dark. Funerals are unobtrusive, out of harm's way. The mutilated rot in their beds, some for the rest of their lives. So the dead and the mutilated both rot, in different kinds of graves.”-Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter



I'm off to California to be with my family for the holiday's next week, I'll be in Berkeley with my brother then down the coast we go to LA- AND, my Grandmother will be 92 on the 22nd!!!! WOW The entire family will be @ her home in Palos Verdes this year- this hasn't happened in a very long time. I'm excited to say the least.

I wish everyone a Peaceful, Joy-filled Holiday season. I'll be back asap
power to the peaceful,
Jess


ps- i hope my spelling/tyo's didn't throw you off too much- no time for spell check- it takes so long ! HA!