At this time of shock, sadness, and outrage, please turn your concern to the safety of the flotilla’s 700 passengers whose fates remain unknown nearly twenty-four hours after the attack.

Email the  template letter below to your senators and representative with your request they make 2 calls on your behalf — then call them Tuesday [...]

The Freedom Flotilla is the Berlin Airlift of our time. Or rather, it could be.

In 1948, the United States and British governments responded to the Soviet blockade of Western Berlin with massive humanitarian aid operation, delivering food, medicine, and other essential supplies.  But this time, our governments are failing us. Because they failed to take a [...]

Way cool to be on the internet, here at 35,327 feet above the Rocky Mountains!

My goals for this trip to Washington: 
(1) to meet with sister groups working to build peace and justice  to tell them of our work, especially on behalf of Al Aqaba village, and explore a pilot project using a new connection technology we’ll be developing at [...]

I ask for your urgent attention. On Tuesday, just after I sent my email to ask your help to win the GlobalGiving Challenge, we received word that the Israeli Army entered Al Aqaba village to issue very serious orders that may quickly lead to the demolition of the homes of seven families and the demolition of Al Aqaba’s new Peace road. The families are required to evacuate their homes by Dec 17th.

Al Aqaba is scrambling to file petitions in time. We need your help, in parallel to the village’s efforts to save homes and roadside. During this Thanksgiving break, please plan to send an email both your Senators and Representative requesting they call the Israeli Embassy and the State Department on your behalf. Our State Department takes this very seriously and visits Al Aqaba often. Because of your calls to Congress through the years, many Senators and Congressmen care too. Just think about it for now — I’ll post a model letter for you to use.

 Last summer, a hundred people made large & small donations to our projects and they earned the “Most Donor” grants at GlobalGiving.com.   We won the awards, we made amazing progress with each project –  but have yet to reach our fully-funded goals to complete these projects.   I ask your help to win GlobalGiving’s “Give More [...]

Leila, beloved mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, is also a writer mourned in the blogosphere. Her now famous piece, “Hello Kind World,” http://bedouina.typepad.com/doves_eye/2008/10/hello-kind-world.html, ends with the following advice:

“So please, friend, bless what you have and let go of fear for the future. Today is the only day you have got. You are breathing. Enjoy your breath. You are alive. Enjoy your life. You have a daughter and parents. Love them. Bless everybody who comes across your path. And the work? Whatever. Bless your work, too. Bless your town, your bills, your possessions. You are lucky to be here for all of it. If some of it gets taken away, well fine, something else will take its place. You are an amazing confluence of billions of variables and nobody else is having your life right this minute.

Enjoy! And don’t worry about hope. Just breathe and appreciate your breath. Everything arises from that.”

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