oneBrightpearl

All the universe is one bright pearl- we do not speak of two pearls or three pearls...your whole body is a radiant light. Your whole body is Mind in its totality...your whole body knows no hindrance. Everywhere is round, round, turning over and over.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Letter to a Friend as Gaza Burns

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Thank you for your note. It is with a sick heart that i write this from my kitchen table. About 3 mos ago i made a vow to my partner that i...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

The City of the Dead

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The City of the Dead in Cairo is an ancient graveyard that for decades has been home not only to the dearly departed i...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

New York City Mayor de Blasio Visits AIPAC

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The new mayor gives a speech to AIPAC. In the speech, he said visiting Sderot, a city near the Gaza Strip especially moved him. Mr...
Friday, January 24, 2014

A New Exhibit at the Museum

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On Jan 11th, the 12th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo, WAT opened a new exhibit at the museum of American History- an interactiv...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Free Djamel

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CCR client Djamel Ameziane, one of the first men interred at Guantanamo Bay, has been sent from Guantánamo to Algeria against his will...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Tension Between “Never Forget” and “Looking Forward, not Backwards”

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It is reported that this year the commemorations for 9-11 will be “low key”. The names of the dead will be read. Bells will toll. ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Hunger Strike Song

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Day 96 of a Hunger Strike at Guantanamo. The vast majority of the prisoners are participating. Many are being force fed. Contact your Con...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

I've Seen Them Before

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i haven’t looked at the images from Boston. i’ve seen them before. In Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and myriad other places. i haven’t rea...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

Land Day is Everyday, Everywhere

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In the end they will take it. Why not surrender? Relent . Give up. Decades of struggle. Stones vs. tanks. Like arrows vs. Gatl...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

In Honor of Mahmud Zagout

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Thirty-seven years after the first Land Day demonstrations, Israel continues its expropriation and colonization of Pa...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Third Day of Spring, 2013 (#2)

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This morning in the news, there is a photo of a man set on fire in Egypt and an entire neighborhood in Burma burning. ...

The Third Day of Spring, 2013

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Tragedy everywhere, ongoing thru time. In the moment, peace arises. On the fire escape a mourning dove coos. The sun, a fiery orange, illum...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

10 Years on i Remember

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10 years on. i remember peaceful people failed to stop the crime perpetrated on the Iraqi people by my government. One day justice will b...

Caught

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i wrote this 10 years ago today, just 1 mo after returning from Iraq with Voices and CPT. In the ensuing years, millions marched to no ava...

Among the Date Trees

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On the anniversary of the start of the Iraq bombing and invasion, i dug out a piece i wrote 10 years ago when i was in Iraq with CPT and Vo...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

I Watch the News

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Broken hearted i watch the news. Arafat Jaradat is dead. Thirty years old. A son, a husband, and a father--2 young...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Imagine

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Can you imagine fleeing your home in terror? Can you imagine fleeing your home in terror and consoling your children, who have fled in ...
Friday, December 28, 2012

The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee

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December 29 th marks the 122 nd anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It is a story that remains fresh in the lives of many in...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Expendible Lives

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Children are killed. 20 by a man in a school in a small, "peaceful" community in Connecticut. 35 in Gaza, a place wracked by vi...
Friday, December 14, 2012

A Tear for Sandy Hook, None for Gaza

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Gaza, Palestine; Dec 2012. A bomb landed in an olive grove 100 meters from this child's home. An 8 year-old c...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Fares was the Generator

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Fares Al-Basyouni was 8 years old. At 10:30 pm on Fri. 16 Nov. 2012 an Israeli warplane bombarded an olive grove in the east of Beit Hanou...
Friday, December 07, 2012

No Country Would Tolerate Missiles

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Walid al Nassasra and two of his daughters stand staring into the pit where his brothers sheet-metal roofed, cinder-b...
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i am a human rights activist, writer, photographer, and videographer. i have traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza), to bear witness and document the effects of war on communities and the struggle to retain human dignity in the face of oppression. i advocate for justice, reconciliation, and nonviolent strategies in the face of violence and oppression.
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