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Since it is Shabbat I'm going to keep my remarks brief..

1. Preemptive US military attacks without Congression approval violate the US constituion.

2. Preemptive attacks by the USA and the state of Israel violate the UN charter, a treaty that both countries have signed.

3. The Iranian regime has done terrible things, but as always, it will be the civilians of all sides that will be suffering thanks to this idiotic war.

4. The state of Israel's decision to participate in this attack is a terrible, terrible thing, which will result in Jewish people around the world being blamed. The folly of doing this during the Jewish holiday of purim, and the Islamic holiday of Ramadan compounds this terror. Contrary to what many mainstream Jewish institutions have told us, the state of Israel is not making life safer or better for Jews in diaspora, but …

PLEASE BOOST!

This is HUGE: On March 28, millions of Americans will rise up for the next nationwide NO KINGS Rally of nonviolent action, demonstration, and protest.

The flagship event will be at the Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul—the heart of the movement against ICE and fascism, where Minnesotans are rising up in resistance after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

MoveOn, hundreds of partners, and thousands of volunteers are actively planning a massive surge of protests, with millions of Americans across the USA taking to the streets.

It is poised to be the largest day of protest in U.S. history.

For more information, please visit:
mobilize.us/
Indivisible.org/

Looking at some clothing in the archives today. Here's a jumpsuit worn by Thalia Campbell on the 1981 march from Wales to Greenham Common in protest at proposal to site cruise missiles at the US army base. She dyed it purple, inspired by the colours of the women's suffrage movement.

A photograph of a purple jumpsuit hanging over a rail in a museum objects store. You can see other clothing on the rack covered in protective white sheets, and a draw of banners in the background. The jumpsuit is a faded purple colour, with some ribbons hanging off one of the pockets. There are patches of mud on it left over from the march that it was worn for.

With 100,000 people in The Hague to demonstrate for peace in Gaza. All dressed in red, to tell the Dutch government it had crossed a red line in its failure to address genocide.

We passed the Peace Palace, housing the International Court of Justice. And the 18th century lawyer in front of the Dutch Supreme Court had received a 🍉 umbrella.

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Statue of 18th century judge, but now with umbrella in colors of a water melon, and a sign “stop genocide”
Protestors, dressed in red, on thr Malieveld, with a view on central station and the government offices
The Peace Palace in The Hague, with protestors in red before it
Protestors dressed in red with a palestinian flag, in the sun, in between britht green trees

reviewed The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh: The Miracle of Mindfulness (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Penguin Audio)

In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thích Nhất Hạnh …

Sage Guidance for Practitioners at All Experience Levels

I've read from others that they consider Thích Nhất Hạnh's The Miracle of Mindfulness to be useful only to beginning meditators, but I think it is so much more than that. Especially with the context given in translator Mobi Ho's introduction that the book was originally written as a long letter, and then having read the book myself as someone who has been meditating for years, it is clear to me that the book is equally valuable or perhaps even more valuable as an inspiring reminder to practice and how practice can be done.

Beyond the main text of the letter, I was impressed by the list of practices and the selection of suttas/sutras at the end. I have read very few manuals of meditation which left with the feeling that they were enough to cultivate a practice, but this one is written and put together in such a …