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Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! I am on my mobile version of the door-to-door, going town-to-town holding readings/gatherings/discussions of my book “But What Can I Do?” This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels since 9/11 as I engage in dialogue and actions. It is steaming with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society we want ALL to thrive in.

 

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DAY 10: THE CRIMINALIZING OF REFUGEES

You are looking at 6 people: Two womyn, one who is obviously pregnant, one child, one teenager and two men. They have walked all the way from Ecuador – facing & surviving all unimaginable violence & danger,
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DAY9: RED SKIES AT NITE

Can you tell I’m the daughter of a Coast Guard man?
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DAY 9: MILITARY OCCUPATION

A few more folks have joined us to banner from the Mexico side of the river, as we face at least 5 branches of the military: the Texas National Guard, the Texas State Military Guard, the Army Reserves, State Highway Patrol, and the Border Patrol. Over 200 soldiers
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DAY 8: What – did you think that the barbedwire wrapped buoys are gone???

What did you think the buoys are gone? Just because the federal government declared them unconstitutional and ordered the state of texas to remove them, doesn’t mean the state complied. Only when Mexico pointed out that the buoys were on the Mexican side of the river, did the state of texas then move them, not out of the river but closer to the u.s. side.
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DAY 8: PIEDRAS NEGRAS

Certain similarities of housing Piedras Negras and Accra except it seems every average person’s dwelling in Accra has some little structure in front for a store!
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DAY 7: MOST WANTED

n I first saw this from afar plastered on the outside of the door to the shelter, I thought it looked like the wanted posters in the post office. Maybe cartel or gang members,
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DAY 7:MIGRANT SHELTER PIEDRAS NEGRAS

We visited a ‘small’ shelter for migrants inside Piedras Negras. Today, there were ‘only’ 104 refugees coming from Cuba, El Salvador, Venezuela, Honduras, and Guatemala.
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DAY 6: HARLEY BOATS

I hope you can listen to this – and then turn up the volume 10 times. I’m taking this video from a good distance away, at the edge of the city Piedras Negras.
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DAY 6: WOMYN-FILLED

Prior to joining the action on the banks of the Rio Grande, we worked today with one of the local organizations promoting Humanitarian Rights of Migrants folks providing…
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DAY 5: WHERE DO WE PUT THE BODIES?

Soooooo while human beings seeking asylum is all but over on the Texas border, and the shelter has the fewest number of folks
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