Believing we are all connected can be both a matter of faith and a
matter of science. When individuals share such stories, we know we are
all part of one experience. Thank you, Ray.
May we all collectively direct our meditations towards a better nurtured
and educated future world. May we realize that our lack of confidence to
overcome such injustice is but arrogantly imagined--that we, in fact, do
not expect enough of our ability to effect change. With a unified
vision, we can reclaim sanity, restore and eventually leave a world we
proudly leave to our children.
To all, a healthy New Year, replete with the grace and vitality of a
healing world.
Natalia
On 1/1/2011 4:56 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
This is what it's all about. When I was in college, the ministers
in the Presbyterian churches in Tulsa, Oklahom would preach about how
the news always spoke of American dead and that others were less
important and that this was wrong! In a nation that parades
religion around as a requirement for office, there is bloody little
listening to it.
Thank you Natalia for this statement. In 1994 I directed a Gypsy
Carmen that was about the Gypsy Holocaust during WWII [at LaMama
theater here in New York City]. I kept a picture of bodies at the
base of a waterfall in Rwanda in the front of my score, floating like
logs, to remind me that it was and would continue in the fabric of
humanity. Later it would be a child in Iraq during the American
Master's Arts Festival. From Vietnam, and my friend Kim Phuc
running down the road screaming from the Napalm, to the present time
when the agent orange still ravages the newborns of Vietnam we seem
stuck in a pattern of horror unbelieved and unimagined. When
America invaded Iraq, Kim sat in the corner of a Catskill mountain
cabin and said "I can't believe they're doing it again" as she wept
bitterly. That was the last time I saw Kim. Thank you again Mike
and Natalia for your truth.
REH
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/It makes blood boil for anyone who has toiled through the reports of
collateral damage of about 5 million Iraqis, which includes over one
million dead, 1million plus widows, and 4.5 million displaced. No
infrastructure, little food or potable water, and depleted uranium
soil for half a million years to come. The innocents arrested and
tortured, whose numbers so far outweigh the numbers killed on 9/11 by
non-Iraqis, that one has no choice but to conclude the US doesn't give
a damn about collateral damage. Nor do the sick soldiers who execute
these atrocities, nor do any of the Americans who supported this war.
No one is so stupid as to think that the loss was entirely American,
and where there remains such posturing, I'm sure it could be
permanently scared out of them with a little bit of America's own
water-boarding treatments. America and her government had this coming,
for the sake of accountability, just as all other potentially damaging
leaks change the playing field to one of greater need for responsible
actions. The internet is being used responsibly where governments,
military and industry are trying to keep secret their blundering and
misguided dealings.
Media, most often controlled, is looking bad and irresponsible too,
and rightly so. Just for Iraq alone they should have lost their jobs.
And still, having today realized how swept up they became in Bush's
bandwagon to wealth, they would never have the nerve to do what
Assange did in any format. If not Assange, then who? Neither
government, military nor Multi-National would ever risk such openness
because integrity is what the wage earners are supposed to possess,
not the world leaders. Certainly not those in media we hope will at
least expose profit in deceit.
*Natalia*///
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