tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.comments2023-07-06T21:59:50.180-07:00Subversive PeacemakingLeonard Eigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211690207308023413noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-17790106260695947692013-03-16T11:45:31.029-07:002013-03-16T11:45:31.029-07:00Your blog looks great Dad :) keep it up!!Your blog looks great Dad :) keep it up!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-91710719624358396042012-06-29T00:41:42.759-07:002012-06-29T00:41:42.759-07:00Nice job dad. Your blog looks good. Just showing a...Nice job dad. Your blog looks good. Just showing a couple of my friends your site and what you do. Keep up the good work.<br />xoxoxoxoxo<br />love you very very much<br />claraClara Eigernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-42308443493038296942011-12-01T14:56:56.041-08:002011-12-01T14:56:56.041-08:00It looks like the Jubilee Economics Ministries con...It looks like the Jubilee Economics Ministries contingent took this place by storm. <br /><br />We were really moved by your testimony of the Seattle incident, and later on, I brought it up in time to mention it in our podcast (Lee and I) as a bit of a warm up for our main interview. Lee immediately notified me that he knew of you from earlier on. <br /><br />The new show we just released features a friend of ours, Rev. David Miller, who has been showing his face in the Occupy San Diego scene, and who offered his thoughts on that and his effort to be part of a faith presence there. So far it's been a more balanced and safer place to be than your experience would suggest.<br /><br />The episode is at: http://goo.gl/P7NpM —hopefully it will add to the intelligent Occupy related talk out there.<br /><br />Ed Lucas, <br />producer, http://thecommongoodpodcast.comEd Lucashttp://thecommongoodpodcast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-69404159975268579312011-11-26T17:18:15.372-08:002011-11-26T17:18:15.372-08:00I found this site by looking for Dennis Serdel, wi...I found this site by looking for Dennis Serdel, with whom I went to high school. I haven't seen him since just after he got back from Vietnam and was surprised to see that we both write, and we are both interested in in similar issues--disengaging from war, for one, and Palestine for another. I'm impressed by his poetry, here and elsewhere on the Internet.Deborah Montesanohttp://thepoliticali.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-40900908530801899462011-11-22T14:33:57.977-08:002011-11-22T14:33:57.977-08:00This is beautiful and powerful. Thank you Rev. Lan...This is beautiful and powerful. Thank you Rev. Lang. My friend and colleague at Jubilee-Economics.org, Lee Van Ham, passed this on to me.Rick Zemlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-15723176606357411012011-11-22T10:09:35.843-08:002011-11-22T10:09:35.843-08:00Rich, My words, weak beside your recent experience...Rich, My words, weak beside your recent experience, thank you for your lament. It is a time to lament. If we do not lament, we do not feel, see, hear the overwhelming destruction of the superpowers to creation. Our lament is likely our deepest expression of love for creation, Creator, and country. I hear it in yours. Clearly! Thank you.<br /><br />My wife and I attended Occupy San Diego for the first time last night. Your lament fits the reality we experienced.<br /><br />I will be linking people to this blog through our own website and Facebook.<br /><br />Lee Van Ham<br />Jubilee Economics Ministries, www.jubilee-economics.orgLee Van Hamhttp://www.jubilee-economics.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-14291932940268138482010-08-12T07:57:12.897-07:002010-08-12T07:57:12.897-07:00Someone should make a version of this poster for I...Someone should make a version of this poster for Iran instead of Iraq. Instead of Uncle Osama, put Uncle Ahmadinejad there. In fact the Iranians have made a stunt recently - they've dug mass graves in anticipation of an invasion, for the attackers. This could be included in there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-60368613760002912772009-06-19T10:32:29.714-07:002009-06-19T10:32:29.714-07:00Correction on historical note: CW pacifism thrived...Correction on historical note: CW pacifism thrived during the Spanish Civil War(a conflict that drew in a lot of secular leftists) and WWII, not the Spanish-American War as stated. Thanks for the inspiring quotes from Tom Cornell and others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-61858013604382613482009-04-29T08:30:00.000-07:002009-04-29T08:30:00.000-07:00I invite you to see a new book on Joseph Kony and ...I invite you to see a new book on Joseph Kony and the LRA, titled, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, available at Amazon. See more at www.firstkillyourfamily.com.Peter Eichstaedthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551333804893499387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-5078371138358565492009-04-26T15:09:00.000-07:002009-04-26T15:09:00.000-07:00WOW! What a day and what a way to involve people,...WOW! What a day and what a way to involve people, young, middle aged and old on a someway sunny Saturday. I marvel at the end of the day for some they set out for Spokane to 'rescue' peers. Good Work! TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-50837464035039747912009-03-28T16:49:00.000-07:002009-03-28T16:49:00.000-07:00I'm glad you appreciate the linkage of information...I'm glad you appreciate the linkage of information and action. I try to do that whenever possible. Regarding Dave Reichert, I don't why you got that specific message, but I often get the message that he only accepts messages through his official Congressional Website. Here is the link to it: http://reichert.house.gov/Contact/ZipAuth.htm <BR/><BR/>Thanks again,<BR/><BR/>LeonardLeonard Eigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08211690207308023413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-37925020090630803962009-03-28T01:29:00.000-07:002009-03-28T01:29:00.000-07:00I really like a blog like this that makes it easy ...I really like a blog like this that makes it easy to do something about the content. While it worked for our senators, for some reason this is the message I got trying to automate the message to Rep. Dave Reichart<BR/>"Outside Constituency. This alert is not available for this ZIP Code. Please click here to see other alerts"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-31224263347811802482009-02-28T14:07:00.000-08:002009-02-28T14:07:00.000-08:00If you would like a copy of Dennis Serdel 61 poems...If you would like a copy of Dennis Serdel 61 poems in his recently published book "Peace Speaks from the Mirror"<BR/><BR/> Books are $12 plus $4 for postage and mailer = $16 due.<BR/> Make Money Orders or Checks payable to:<BR/>Dennis Serdel, 339 Oakwood Lane Perry,<BR/>Michigan 48872<BR/> <BR/> Money Orders sent next day, Personal Checks after 3 days.<BR/><BR/>Posted by Tom SheaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-75971252840771860372009-01-10T13:12:00.000-08:002009-01-10T13:12:00.000-08:00As you continue your worthy endeavor of blogging a...As you continue your worthy endeavor of blogging about King this week, here is the contents of a two page flyer I prepared (email me for a nicely formatted version at Angie@WhatNewsShouldBe.org) which may also inspire you and your readers. <BR/><BR/> <B>See if you can take to heart the words King spoke just four days before he was gunned down (these next 4 paragraphs).</B><BR/><BR/>“First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood. . . . Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. . . <BR/><BR/>We are challenged to rid our nation and the world of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. Two-thirds of the people of the world go to bed hungry tonight. They are ill-housed; they are ill-nourished; they are shabbily clad. I’ve seen it in Latin America; I’ve seen it in Africa; I’ve seen this poverty in Asia. . .How can one avoid being depressed when he sees with his own eyes evidences of millions of people going to bed hungry at night? How can one avoid being depressed when he sees with his own eyes God’s children sleeping on the sidewalks at night? In Bombay more than a million people sleep on the sidewalks every night. In Calcutta more than six hundred thousand sleep on the sidewalks every night. They have no beds to sleep in; they have no houses to go in. How can one avoid being depressed when he discovers that out of India’s population of more than five hundred million people, some four hundred and eighty million make an annual income of less than ninety dollars a year. And most of them have never seen a doctor or a dentist. <BR/><BR/>As I noticed these things, something within me cried out, "Can we in America stand idly by and not be concerned?" And an answer came: "Oh no!" Because the destiny of the United States is tied up with the destiny of India and every other nation. . .Not only do we see poverty abroad, I would remind you that in our own nation there are about forty million people who are poverty-stricken. . .this is America’s opportunity to help bridge the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. The question is whether America will do it. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will. In a few weeks some of us are coming to Washington to see if the will is still alive or if it is alive in this nation. We are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. . . We are coming to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty. . . yes, it will be a Poor People’s Campaign. This is the question facing America. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. <BR/><BR/>America has not met its obligations and its responsibilities to the poor. One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will talk in terms of things we’ve done. Yes, we will be able to say we built gargantuan bridges to span the seas, we built gigantic buildings to kiss the skies. Yes, we made our submarines to penetrate oceanic depths. We brought into being many other things with our scientific and technological power. It seems that I can hear the God of history saying, "That was not enough! But I was hungry, and ye fed me not. I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was devoid of a decent sanitary house to live in, and ye provided no shelter for me. And consequently, you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness. If ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me." That’s the question facing America today."<BR/><BR/><I>(The full text of Dr. King’s sermon entitled “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” containing the above quotes can be read here: http://tinyurl.com/82npj . Dr. King delivered it at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968, and you can listen to two audio excerpts of the sermon at that same website.)</I><BR/><BR/><B>****Today, more than forty years after Dr. King gave that sermon, 41 percent of humanity still shit in the streets because they have no access to sanitation, one-quarter of humanity is still forced to live without electricity, and 30,000 KIDS DIE UNNECESSARILY EACH DAY (See www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org for the proof, along with an article about the statistical accuracy of such numbers). If you are indeed up for King’s challenge, you’ll need to seek out that world perspective he spoke about and get the real front page news on your own, because news which affects the largest number of people in the most serious ways is rarely covered in TV news shows and newspapers!! This website, www.WhatNewsShouldBe.com, is one of the places you can find it. It is only when information about the most pressing issues facing humanity is widely known that the needless death and suffering can be stopped. As this and other websites demonstrate, it doesn’t have to be this way because THERE IS ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE (see proof at www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org.) Please pass on King's challenge to others. Thank you and Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.</B><BR/> <BR/>Angie at www.WhatNewsShouldBe.com<BR/>Angie@WhatNewsShouldBe.orgUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03785783584327930683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-40822131350070220672008-12-30T16:39:00.000-08:002008-12-30T16:39:00.000-08:00There is an excellent children’s book called Other...There is an excellent children’s book called Other People’s Shoes. It does a great job of teaching kids the importance of kindness inside of a very captivating story. You should check it out! Here is a link: www.eloquentbooks.com/otherpeoplesshoes.htmlUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03646079207329773947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-83648790550200126932008-11-16T17:32:00.000-08:002008-11-16T17:32:00.000-08:00The Urban Rest Stop can serve as a critical arm to...The Urban Rest Stop can serve as a critical arm to assist homeless people to get jobs and other helps by providing a temporary phone and address for mail<BR/>and emplyer calls back. In the Traverse City, MI, a small town that serves a large rural area, Grace church uses some space to do everying that Seattle's Urban Rest Stoop does, except health exams. This could be a ministry for regional churches outside Seattle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-65658013764550719072008-11-02T17:36:00.000-08:002008-11-02T17:36:00.000-08:00For readers uncomfortable with "Politics" and "Jes...For readers uncomfortable with "Politics" and <BR/>"Jesus" in the same title and essay check Webster:<BR/>"Politic " root = relating to a citizen; and "citizen" root = an inhabitant. Wasn't this in part the focus of the life of Jesus?Tom Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13710339327343057998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-28025381715223017752008-11-02T15:09:00.000-08:002008-11-02T15:09:00.000-08:00"Love your God with all your heart...AND love your..."Love your God with all your heart...AND love your neighbor as (love) your self." Thus was Jesus' definition of what constitutes Christianity. Perhaps it could be said all denominations are fraudulent in direct proportion to the square of the ratio of the distance they deviate from this definition?<BR/><BR/>ErnieErniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08440854367130654730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-76461254190267083512008-09-22T09:11:00.000-07:002008-09-22T09:11:00.000-07:00As always, you give us plenty to think about and a...As always, you give us plenty to think about and act on! Thanks Leonard... I will forward your blog on to my fellow "blog buddies."Glynishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347280517995248414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2270287145580428034.post-85247025634900797092008-09-21T21:21:00.000-07:002008-09-21T21:21:00.000-07:00YAY! Leonard! Thanks for the thoughtful info and ...YAY! Leonard! Thanks for the thoughtful info and opportunities to participate. SueOAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079153805328309767noreply@blogger.com