Code Pink Journals CodePINK Journals

Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! I am on my mobile version of the door-to-door, going town-to-town holding readings/gatherings/discussions of my book "But What Can I Do?" This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels since 9/11 as I engage in dialogue and actions. It is steaming with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society we want ALL to thrive in

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Journey For Justice: These Three Truths: the end

There are three truths we MUST know & make sure EVERYONE in our circle of humans beings knows about refugees at our border:

1) These people are being forced to flee their homelands because of the destruction & chaos our u.s.ofa. policies of dominance, exploitation & violence - through our military, corporations, agencies & churches - are being committed against them & their land

2) There are drug & human being trafficking organized crime cartels because OUR COUNTRYMEN are buying the drugs and bodies of womyn & children, and their labor & also the labor of men

3) The racist, anti-human 'wall' is the worst, cruelest, most destructive visible justice and environmental disaster we have willingly inflicted upon Mother Earth & not just humans but animals, plants, birds, insects - all of nature along 2,200 miles of our SHARED border.

Lastly, do not allow Biden or anyone else get away with saying we have humane policies operating at our border. We do not. The Department of Homeland Security was not created to care humanely for those escaping the destruction and violence of our power.

And suffer no delusion: the whiter people are, the less inhumane their treatment; the darker skinned people are, the more anti-humanely they are treated.

Like threatening Haitians with deportation to the torture prison of Guantanamo - Haitians who white western people of France, England & the u.s. have been punishing for over 200 years for having the nerve to fight for their own freedom & win

Journey for Justice December 18th. Day 18 San Diego/Friendship Park

Pacific Ocean at her southern most u.s.ofa. border where there is a Friendship International Park. This is the only place on the border where family members divided by this wall could come to touch fingers thru the 3" opening between posts. But then border police decided people could pass things to each other - so called 'contrabanb' so an additional layer of tiny holed fencing was added.

This is also the place where 50 years ago, Patricia Nixon ordered her body guards to lower the 3 strands of barbed wire fencing separating Mexicans from u.s.ofa. folks.

She said she thinks that one day soon there will be no border fence between our countries - like it was just a few years earlier.

This is the last place the 'wall' stands the previously 'normal' height of 18'. tRump tried unsuccessfully to extend the 30' wall thru this international friendship park during the last days of his administration. Now Biden is taking up his mission.

This is where families divided by the wall come with their new born babies or their terminally ill elders to say their first hellos or last goodbyes.

But since covid, even this little bit of touching fingertips has been denied.

Journey For Justice Dec 18th, Day 18: Just can't get away from it

You just can't get away from it - I walk about 20 feet down the trail out of the campground & there it is, bulldozed & cut on top of maybe a 1500 foot peak

I take the 1.5 mile walk from the campground toward the ocean where the 'wall' is always in view - as is the giant "cheap" hotel on the other side of the border that could probably provide a room for every sojourner passing thru.