Eileen fleming's Blog – December 2008 Archive (4)

The Times They Are a'Changin'- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Now! Began on Face book on November 15, 2008 by an Italian with a vision for a Global V Day with his message to VMJC: Vanunu Mordechai John Crossman:





"For the little I can, [I will] try to move the conscience of the largest number of people possible, to try and break the chain of hatred that choke you and all the people of the area. Keep struggling. One day soon you will come to Rome to wipe away the ghosts of the… Continue

I IMAGINE something similar to this letter accompanying a pair of my shoes.



December 17, 2008





The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500





Dear President George W. Bush,







As a NONVIOLENT person deeply anchored to what Jesus taught, I would never throw anything at you or any other.







These silver slippers are sent as a gift of remembrance of that little child of Bethlehem… Continue

Shministim means “twelfth-graders” in Hebrew and military service is mandatory upon graduation from Israeli high school.



The Shministim are Israeli youth of conscience who refuse to serve in the Israeli Army because it is the force that enforces Israel’s 40+-year occupation of indigenous Palestinians.



The first Shministim letter was sent to Prime Minister Golda Meir. In 2008 alone, one hundred youth have signed the following letter, which cost them a jail term in an… Continue

On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned, "We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living."





About 2,000 years ago, when Christ was about 33, he hiked up a hill and sat down under an olive… Continue