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Uranium Processing Facility—at the
Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Now that the cold weather seems to have past and it is now in 40’s and 50’s and sunny more days it is time to change the photo on top of this page. I will search for one tomorrow and ask my friend to change it. I even felt so spring like I purchased some seeds today. Soon I can plant seeds in the sun room, transform them outside to the hoop box and eventually into the garden.

A friend in Chicago published my word essay Drone in my Gut to a list of peace people, especially Catholic Workers. I thought of sending it to her after last Friday’s action where hundreds gathering to protest drone warfare and to shut down Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, northwest of Las Vegas. You can watch a video of the action here.

A friend in Texas wrote me about how it is necessary at times to be “indifferent” to keep ones sanitary. I wrote back agreeing but that we had to be careful not to be numb to everything and to be asleep to the world around us. Here are some of my suggestions:

“One solution is the monastic life of people like Thomas Merton. But even that would be hard in our age of email, twitter, Facebook etc. But Merton by withdrawing did see deeper in the present. Another way, I am trying to practice but failing, is to watch less news. Addiction to news can be overcoming and make us numb. Prayer and silence are good ways to get awake. Limiting the number of talks you go to and number of issues you are involved in. The ‘powers to be” (rulers of the Empire) throw more and more at us and we get more divided. Diversity is seen at good but is really division. Just think what we could do about hunger if most of the groups dealing with the issue worked together to rid our country and world of hunger. Every night of the week there are talks about some issue. I try to limit by attendance so I can really listen and do something about the issue in a specific way here at home. Of course doing works of mercy keeps one grounded. When you sense the suffering and pain of ER at hospital you feel. Avoid malls and stores with a lot of noise. There is so much going on in these place you need to get numb or have a headache.”

I ended by asking him for his suggestions to keep the balance of feeling but not be overwhelmed. Do you have suggestions?

President Barack Obama’s on March 7, 2015 gave a speech on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, praising the courageous leadership of nonviolent demonstrators fifty years ago. Yet modern day nonviolent activists languish in Leavenworth, McKean, and Brooklyn federal prisons, serving terms from three to five years, for the July 28, 2012, Transform Now Plowshares action at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Obama’s Justice Department had charged Megan Rice, then 82 years old, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed with sabotage, invoking a little used statute originally intended for wartime saboteurs. When the three learned of US plans to build a new multi-billion dollar nuclear weapons production facility—the Uranium Processing Facility—at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, they selected it for the site for the Transform Now Plowshares action. Fully aware of the grave personal risk they were taking, they entered the high security, deadly-force-authorized security zone at Y-12 and painted biblical peace slogans on the walls of the nation’s radioactive nuclear bomb material storehouse—the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility. They surrendered peacefully when accosted by security. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified at one of their hearings the United States is not keeping its Nonproliferation Treaty commitment made while he was serving as Attorney General and declared the weapons production activity at the Y12 complex “unlawful.” We praise the nonviolence actions of 50 years ago while ignoring the nonviolent action of today.

So we must ‘wake up’, ignore many things but take a stand on questions of conscience like US violating the Nonproliferation treaty of the United States. Be awake and practice ‘selective indifference.’

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