My bragging wall

look.. i earned my own permanent press pass as a stringer to the United Nations office  for interpressservice

Banned for your music

i do not know where i heard the story of when Mercedes Sosa performed in Buenas Aires

she was under a government ban to not siing

solo lo pide a dios

the plaza of the cinco de mayo was full

government snipers were on the roof tops

and sosa

turned to her band

and signaled
and they played

and she stood in front of the microphone
completely silent

as the crowd sang her
signature songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIrot1Flczg

when i told this story
to my friend
peggy seeger

she
said

imagine
being
banned
for
your
music

Moving South in Winter

I just read that the cost for student lving expenses at the University level for a Master;s Student, which is what I am and have been for the last forty years.. is seven hundred US per month

so no wonder i am feeling like a grande dona here in Santo Domingo with my

two thousand six hundred dollar retirement

no, please,

call me Dona... that is with the gngng letter n thing that i cannot find on my keyboard...

Full Disclosure

I need to now identify myslef for the sake of full disclosure

My legal name is

Elizabeth Parish Eames Roebling

Born New York City, April 15 1947
US Passport Number 71167776

Parents, Betty Waldo Parish, Society of Mayflower Descendants etcher and engraver, Richard Comyn Eames, New York Yacht Club

Educated Friends Seminary, Middlebury College, Hunter College, BA< Ecole du Montcel (Jouy-en/ Josas France) Escuela Francisco Marroquin, Antiqua Guatemala

Employed. InterPress Service

I adopted the name of Roebling in honor of my paternal great aunt Emily Roebling, wife of the engineer  builder of the Brooklyn Bridge whose wedding veil I wore at my marriage. The Roeblings one of the founding families of the State of New Jersey. John Augustus emigrated from German at the beginning of the 18th Century.. settled in PA.. and started engineeering bridges. He had been trained in engineering in Germany but knew that the future of bridges was suspension and that the establishment in Germany would not let him build them thers.

I am a serving member of the Asheville Quaker Meeting, here on peace witness.

I was diagonosed with bipoler disorder after having served 40 days in a British prison for shooting my mouth off over the war in Ireland when it was under marshall law. I stayed in the same private mental hospital as Johan Nash for six weeks and was placed under lithium carbonate for 30 years.

With the help of my Quaker Meeting, I came off of lithium and went on to the new psychiatric medicinces.

I have smoked marijuana off and on since I was twenty years old. I have never found it to be addictive in that I could always stop. I have been somking tobacco since I was 14 and am completely addicted. But I have found that both marijuana and tobacco are medicinal medicines. The marijuana is the best psychiatric medicine that I know.

This war on drugs is merly a war between the north and the south the patent medicines pharma and hte
gnaga

look

we

can

work

this
out

really

we

can

build a bridge
we
do
we
not

something
in
lace
curtain
irish

Breaking News

Here is finally unravelling the mystery of why this Quaker was called to this island.

Haitian Oil exceeds that of Venezuela

http://www.worldoil.com/haiti_could_have_larger_oil_reserves_than_venezuela.html

News of Relief work from Caritas

Haïti sous les effets de l'ouragan Sandy qui passe sur la Caraïbe depuis le mercredi 24 octobre

PORT-AU-PRINCE (25 octobre 2012) – La population haïtienne, particulièrement celle du Grand Sud du pays, subit depuis le mercredi 24 octobre 2012, les effets du mortel ouragan Sandy qui se déplace à une vitesse de 20 kilomètres par heure avec des vents pouvant souffler jusqu'à 130 km/h.

Les fortes pluies déversées sur diverses régions du pays ont fait trois morts dans la Grand ‘Anse et quatre dans  le département du Sud, selon les informations des agents pastoraux de Caritas Haïti et d’autres sources dont la Direction de protection civile (DPC). Plusieurs régions sont encore sous la pluie. Selon le Centre National  de météorologie d'Haïti et la Direction de la Protection Civile, il faut s’attendre à 300mm de pluie sur les plaines et près de 500 sur les massifs montagneux.

Déjà de nombreuses zones du pays sont inondées. "Les régions les plus touchées sont la Grande’Anse, le Sud et les Nippes", a constaté Jude Castra Pierre, responsable du Programme de Gestion des Risques et Désastres de Caritas Haïti. "Nos équipes sur le terrain partagent en permanence des informations avec les agents de la DPC sur la situation des populations dans les zones à risque.

Caritas Haïti félicite la DPC qui a pu évacuer plus de cinq mille personnes dans le Sud, les Nippes et la Grande’Anse. Mais les dégâts matériels sont nombreux : les eaux ont emporté les cultures et des têtes de bétails. Nos agents sur le terrain ont constaté que de nombreuses localités sont totalement sous les eaux à Petite-Rivière de Nippes, Baradères (Nippes), Solon (Sud), Carcasse (Grande-Anse). Plusieurs villes sont également isolées à cause des routes et des ponts coupés.

De nombreuses églises et presbytères sont inondés. Dans la localité de Solon, les eaux ont détruit le matériel scolaire et l'entrepôt de l'école presbytérale où était stocké les provisions de la cantine. Mais la population veille et prie.

Caritas Haïti, présente dans les dix départements du pays à travers près de 300 points locaux et dix directions diocésaines, continuer de suivre la situation. Elle est en train de mettre en place un plan d’intervention.

"L'institution a déjà contacté ses partenaires locaux afin de répondre aux besoins urgents des communautés. Elle félicite Catholic Relief Services qui met à sa disposition des kits d'hygiène et des kits de cuisine, Cordaid (Caritas Hollande) qui lui offre des bâches, des jerrycans et Trocaire pour son appui logistique. Ces matériels seront bientôt disponibles dans les Directions diocésaines concernées pour être distribués aux sinistrés", informe Mildrède Béliard, Directrice de Communication et de Coopération à Caritas Haïti.

Caritas Haïti profite de l’occasion pour présenter ses sympathies aux nombreuses familles sinistrées, aux victimes et parents des victimes de l’ouragan Sand. Elle appelle la population à respecter les consignes de sécurités de la DPC pour éviter que le bilan des dégâts soit plus lourd.  

A propos de Caritas Haïti : Fondée en 1975 par la Conférence des Evêques d'Haïti, Caritas Haïti débute ses activités par des dons humanitaires. Nourriture, médicaments, moments de convivialité sont offerts et organisés pour secourir les exclus et les plus pauvres de la société. Les programmes et projets de Caritas Haïti s'adressent à des groupes organisés tels les groupements de femmes, groupements de planteurs, comités d’irrigants, groupes de crédit, mutuelles de solidarité, comité de santé, etc. Caritas est la seule institution humanitaire représenté dans tous les départements du pays et dans plus de 300 paroisses.

Mildrède Béliard

Directrice de Communication et de Coopération

31, Delmas 65 - B.P. # 13197 - Delmas, Haiti, W.I.

Téls: (509) 2813-1690 | 2249-0347 | 2249-1690

Fax: (509) 2249-0128

Cell: (509) 3804 0211

now we start the real work

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Poison Fruit

I see the USA now through an electronic lens of print and video. I have not lived there for eight years now nor have I visited in two. So it is becoming a foreign country to me. But my heart is breaking to see and hear the pictures and news that are coming out of my homeland.

My friends are mostly marginal. Many of my family are marginal as well. No one is doing well. Even my more prosperous friends and family are concerned about the violence, and the prospects for their children.

From a distance, it looks like an even fight for the presidency between two qualified and reasonable men.

This is not the case.

Because the giant think tank that is behind Mitt Romney is organized, funded, and the very personification of corporate control. Read his economic plan. Then read Rand Paul's budget plan, which got 16 votes on the floor of the US Senate and understand that the intention of this wing of the Republican party is out to bankrupt and dismantle the Federal government.

They will not fund regulatory agencies. They will dismantle Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to Dependent Chirdren, privatize Social Security, institute a voucher system for private schools.

The Federal budget is only to be used for the defense of the nation.

I do not stand completely opposed to this.For instance, now with the Faith Based Initiavite, we are now federally funding Bible based Christian missionary agencies.

Except for the fact that Clear Channel, which is owned by Bain, supports voices like Rush Limbaugh who has been spewing hate speech over the America that I love for years.

I lived in the buckle of the Bible belt. We did a Listening Project from our Quaker meeting  with the local pastors who came out so vehemently against gays/. I know a lot of these folks/ who i am sure flooded Chick Fil a in Asheville and are still '/// to be kind and good hearted and simple folk,,, tobacco farmers and banjo players.... not the sort of people who would have Rush Limbaugh to dinner.

 I lived with them for 20 years. They are not evil people.

But there is this wierd twist in the word of God where it gets written down and then the Book of Revelation got included and folks do not seem to know their hearts any more.

I do not understand the Book of Mormon although I have read a bit of it.

I have met several Mormons here who definitely walk their walk. And others along my life who also appeared to be gentle and loving people.

So I am not questioning Mr Romney's religion, even though I do not understand it.

But it does appear that the fruits of Mr Romney's tree is poisonous.