It seems obscene that we’re having July 4th celebrations going on while all of this is happening at the border. FYI, this evening, 7/3, Rev. William Barber will be addressing the nation on political violence against immigrants and people of color. Barber is an outspoken activist and behind the Poor People’s Campaign. His sermon will be livestreamed via https://www.breachrepairers.org/ . Click on July 3rd Sermon.
I heard, but havenot been able to varif, that one of the Texas-I believe-a Ms. Wilson has question why their are very few teenage girls in the camp that she visited. This camp is a private one. She noticed when questioning the lack of sanitary items that there were none for young girls. Very interesting.
Yogagirl, I feel a lump in my throat and a knot in my stomach. There is so much hidden, yet to be revealed. Someone in the news yesterday -- I can't recall who -- predicted that a whistleblower will come forward. He believed that a secret video would come out. Don't know whether he was speculating, or whether he actually knew something.
Meetoo, deetoo ?
I am heartbroken for these children in all ways.
And yogagirl, it is far too horrible for us to want to know but we do...and its everything they are now saying about the liberals only it's them doing sex trafficking kind of horrors.
Pray for divine thunderbolt to strike human decency into their perverted non sentient beingness.
Border Patrol's Oversight of Sick Migrant Children - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/border-patrols-oversight-sick-migrant-children/593224/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2019-07-03T16%3A52%3A36&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR39UnlT3UsR073c1BIBkNMObyl1RfK8GbQrpQ42a_AwyUZV1P1rdK8Q7oU
I can see a whistleblower coming forward and I hope it is soon. The other day on facebook (which I review once a day to keep up with my yogafriends) there was an interview witha a former female border patrol officer and she tells a harrowing story that included sexual harrasment and assault against female officers by their male counterparts. SHe said it was a male dominated society and stopped just short of calling them animals. This is why I wouldn't be surprised to hear from a whistleblower and soon. She said they were trained to treat the immegrants like the lowest animals and the abuse was voilent.
Don't forget the Lights for Liberty vigil is taking place this Friday night. I was originally going to go to the one if the main sites in Manhattan, but it turns out 19 planned gatherings have popped up in my home state of Connecticut. Right now there are 725 gatherings planned both for the US and in several foreign countries (check out the directory here). There's also going to be an online international vigil.
Just wondering whether some of you might be interested in a daily silent minute of prayer/meditation for the migrants? We could agree to do it at a designated time, wherever we are, on a daily basis. There's spiritual power in numbers.
My brother and sister-in-law are missionaries in Ecuador, working among a native South American tribe.
For those who don’t know, Venezuela is in economic crisis. Food and basic supplies are so scarce and expensive, hundreds of thousands flee to find a better place where they can work to feed their children and send home money to family. Many flee to and through Ecuador, where they live.
Daily Ross and Mary are working to help meet immediate physical needs, listen to heartbreaking stories, and share the hope found in Christ. They are partnering with a local church with ties to a church in Venezuela.
I am so touched by their mission. While I am not particularly religious, their faith and journey/commitment to it has basically put them in a position to help people in a very tangible way. I thought I would share here how these people are approaching a migrant crisis which is very different than how the United States government and people are dealing with it. The compassion and willingness to meet people, look them in the eye, listen and offer comfort and understanding is something we are all capable of and something I think Christians are actually called to do but one does not need to be a Christian of course. They are not fixing a difficult problem that is beyond their and these poor refugees abilities to repair and this situation is not perfect. However, children are not being torn from their families, people are not herded like factory farm chickens into pens. People are being treated with dignity.
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Oh, Rowsella ... you and I would have a very interesting conversation, I bet. My husband was born and raised on the mission field in Ecuador; my brother-in-law and his wife are currently there on a mission, as well. My comments criticizing evangelicals for their hypocrisy, my anger at and lack of faith in faith communities for actually helping people has made me a bit of a pariah in my husband's family. I've found it very hard to keep the peace and be diplomatic in these times when I see the thin line running between working to help people and that "help" being in the form of proselytizing. Your family appears to be doing God's actual work; that's wonderful to see.