*******We have been lower on money than we have been in past recent years. Please help if you can. We are also requesting donations of new Christmas gifts for the families who stay with us as well as families who have stayed with us recently. Thank you for your attention.
Our community bids a fond farewell to Charita who has moved to Mississippi. We are sure she will continue to do good work there. She will be missed by all, and we thank her for her good service. We still have Lincoln, Alex, Brian, Lauren, Taz, Michael, Amada, the Marquette U. students (Sarah, Yasmeen, Jill) and others who offer hospitality to our homeless families at Casa Maria, Pat’s House, Harmony House. Kevin coordinates our Wednesday prayer services. Larry and Roseanne care for the guests at Mapendo House. Roberta, Kay and Binnie serve people at the baby and children’s clothing shed, Reda and Anne tend to the adult clothing shed, Jim and Chris pick up furniture and appliances from donors and give it to those without anything for their apartments. Don picks up salvaged food from Just One More and brings it to Casa Maria and others who come every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to take the food for their families. He also helps prepare meals for the hungry and supports the Street Angels who tend to those who sleep under the viaducts. We thank all those who donate to help us in our work. We are all volunteers and depend on others for financial help. We continue to demonstrate against the wars, the proliferation of guns and other weapons. the training of our young to do violence to others in the military and the institutions who make money from taking Moms from their children. We are a nonviolent community committed to changing the hearts and minds of all from violence and hatred to peace, love and caring. This is the reason why Christ came to us. Let us heed His message. We are also in need of more volunteers willing to live a life of simplicity and the joy of helping others. Please let us know if you'd like to join our ministry! -----Don Timmerman
DON’S JOKES
Sonny: Mommy, I can’t stop going round in circles. Mommy: Stop complaining or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor. Kids today don’t know how good they have it. When I was young I had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the TV channel.
Actually, people, my name isn’t Mrs. Santa Claus…It’s Barb. I am not defined by my husband. Give a man a fish, and you feed a man for a day. Give the man a Santa suit, and feed him for a month. Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes in her/his own way by going to the mall of her/his choice. One of the angels asked God where they were going on vacation. God said, “Not Earth again. That’s for sure. I went there about 2 thousand years ago, got a Jewish girl pregnant, and they haven’t stopped talking about it since."
The man who wrote the Hokey-Pokey died peacefully in his sleep. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him inside the coffin. They put his left foot in. Then the trouble began. Did you hear of the invisible man who married an invisible women? Their kids weren’t much to look at either.
INTERESTING FACTS
Five protesters, Henry Stoever of PeaceWorks, Tom Fox, CEO and president of the National Catholic Reporter; Sunny Jordan Hamrick, a member of the Christian community Jerusalem Farm in KC; Lu Mountenay, a Community of Christ minister in Independence; and Brian Terrell, a Catholic Worker in Maloy, Iowa, and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, based in Chicago. who crossed the property line May 28 in Kansas City, Mo., at the new nuclear weapons parts plant come to trial Friday, Dec. 7. The five were arrested and soon released on Memorial Day, during PeaceWorks’ annual remembrance of the more than 150 deaths from contaminants from the old plant for making parts for nuclear weapons.
On Dec. 6, the night before the trial, PeaceWorks will hold a Celebration of Hope from 7:30 to 9 pm at St. Mark’s Hope and Peace Lutheran Church, 3800 Troost. And on the trial day, Dec. 7, at 12:30 pm, the line-crossers and supporters will gather in the courthouse foyer for reflections before the trial, which begins at 1:30 pm in Court C of Municipal Court, Locust and 11th Street. The trial may note the high cost of nuclear weapons, with the Department of Energy requesting a budget of $804 million for the KC operations for fiscal year 2019. ----NCR
In Libya, a group of nearly 80 refugees refused to leave a docked ship in the Libyan port of Misrata saying they fear torture and imprisonment. Libya’s detention centers are routinely exposed to torture, rape, beatings, extortion and other violations of human rights. The refugees were headed to Europe by boat earlier this month, before being returned to Libya, --Dec. 10th is the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It would be good to read it. It is part of the U.S. Constitution. --- Amnesty International
"Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people, the theft of their lands, and the relentless assault on their culture. Participants in a National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience." -- Text of a plaque on Cole's Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock
“Casino payout” occurs when tribes disburse unused profits from Indian gaming to individual tribal members for their personal use. However, simply operating a casino does not guarantee tribal riches or mean that tribal members receive such payouts. Contrary to popular belief, fewer than 15% of Indian tribes operate prosperous casinos. In addition, only the 573 federally recognized tribes are eligible to operate casinos; more than 400 tribes in the U.S. are not federally recognized. Like all Americans, Native Americans pay federal income tax on any income they earn, including casino earnings. They do not pay state tax for income earned within reservation boundaries. ----Mother Jones
Last week, at least 250,000 liters of oil spilled from a floating storage tanker during a massive storm, and the extreme weather prevented clean-up crews from containing the spill. The full impacts are still unknown, but it’s already being called the worst spill in Newfoundland history. -----Canadian Public Radio
U.S. Navy released details of a plan to seize more than 600,000 acres of public land in central Nevada to expand a bombing range. The land under threat includes rich habitat for mule deer, important desert springs and nesting sites for raptors like golden eagles. If approved by Congress, the 1,536-page plan would transform entire valleys and mountain ranges into bombing targets. Combined with another proposal to expand the Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range, the military is attempting to grab 1.75 million acres of public land in Nevada—an area larger than Delaware.----EcoWatch 11/18/18
According to some estimates, California saves up to $100 million a year by using prison labor at $1 an hour to fight its biggest environmental problem. In 2017, prisoner firefighters spent four million hours on active fires.----Democracy Now, 11/19/18
More than two billion people do not have access to clean water. They risk disease or even death by drinking dirty water because they have no other choice. But you can change that. And 13 million Yemeni civilians are at risk of famine, and 500,000 children could die in a matter of months, but the U.S.- supported bombings of Yemen continue. A child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. ----Concern Worldwide
America’s perpetual warfare abroad has led to an increase in white supremacist violence at home. - Frontline PBS and ProPublica
The Pacific is the deepest of our oceans and its Marianna Trench region has a mind-blowing depth of almost seven miles. The Pacific Ocean is bigger than the total land mass of all the continents combined! It too is very polluted, mostly by the military. The U.S. sanctions cost Venezuela $6 billion this year ICE is currently imprisoning a record 44,000 people—an all-time high. The figure is 4,000 more people than Congress has granted funding for ICE to hold. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have not responded to requests to explain where the additional money was coming from --The Daily Beast Amount of FEMA funding that has been transferred to ICE this year : $9,800,000 ----Harper’s Index
When TOMS sells a pair of shoes, a new pair of shoes is given to an impoverished child. To date, TOMS has given away about 60 million pairs of shoes. ---Trivia Today
A recently leaked federal study found that refugees to America brought in $63 billion more in government revenues than they cost in the last 10 yrs. ---Occupy Democrats
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: December, the trees are bare, all is brown, unless frost or snow are covering the fields and trees. A time of stillness. A time of reflection. Sometimes a time of discomfort. When I walk in the woods now all is silent. My thoughts are my only company. A celebration is coming in this quiet time, in this waiting time. The celebration of Christ’s coming into the world. No longer an eye for an eye for Christ’s message of love is celebrated this month. In the form of his birth, in a very humble setting, his life was not accumulating wealth but giving of himself and sharing the message of loving care for others. We all celebrate Christ’s birth in different ways. But I pray we each take time to listen to Christ’s message of love and then put it into practice in our world. We will then be truly glorifying the birth of Christ in our world. Peace, Roberta
Thurs.,Dec. 6 –VIGIL OPPOSING SEPARATION OF FAMILIES outside ICE, Broadway and Knapp Sts. starting at Noon. A Jericho Walk is done each Thursday at 9 a.m. at ICE.
Tues., Dec. 10 ---Human Rights Day. Please join Amnesty International in writing letters asking world leaders to observe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No death penalty. No discrimination. No unjust detentions. Fair trials for all.
Thurs., Dec. 13 ----Vigil Against ROTC at Marquette U. starting at Noon at 15th & Wisconsin. M.U. is a Christian institution that must not teach the military cause which is to kill, not love, one’s enemies.
Thurs., Dec. 20 ---Vigil Opposing Gun Proliferation at Noon at Brew City Shooters’ Supply on 43rd & Lincoln. A gun’s only reason for being is to do violence to another. Stop the violence! Stop the flow of guns into our communities.
Fri., Dec. 21- Fight Back Caroling Caravan, 4pm to 7pm, meet at the Mothers Organizing Center, 2711 W. Michigan in Milwaukee 414-342-6662
Our community bids a fond farewell to Charita who has moved to Mississippi. We are sure she will continue to do good work there. She will be missed by all, and we thank her for her good service. We still have Lincoln, Alex, Brian, Lauren, Taz, Michael, Amada, the Marquette U. students (Sarah, Yasmeen, Jill) and others who offer hospitality to our homeless families at Casa Maria, Pat’s House, Harmony House. Kevin coordinates our Wednesday prayer services. Larry and Roseanne care for the guests at Mapendo House. Roberta, Kay and Binnie serve people at the baby and children’s clothing shed, Reda and Anne tend to the adult clothing shed, Jim and Chris pick up furniture and appliances from donors and give it to those without anything for their apartments. Don picks up salvaged food from Just One More and brings it to Casa Maria and others who come every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to take the food for their families. He also helps prepare meals for the hungry and supports the Street Angels who tend to those who sleep under the viaducts. We thank all those who donate to help us in our work. We are all volunteers and depend on others for financial help. We continue to demonstrate against the wars, the proliferation of guns and other weapons. the training of our young to do violence to others in the military and the institutions who make money from taking Moms from their children. We are a nonviolent community committed to changing the hearts and minds of all from violence and hatred to peace, love and caring. This is the reason why Christ came to us. Let us heed His message. We are also in need of more volunteers willing to live a life of simplicity and the joy of helping others. Please let us know if you'd like to join our ministry! -----Don Timmerman
DON’S JOKES
Sonny: Mommy, I can’t stop going round in circles. Mommy: Stop complaining or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor. Kids today don’t know how good they have it. When I was young I had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the TV channel.
Actually, people, my name isn’t Mrs. Santa Claus…It’s Barb. I am not defined by my husband. Give a man a fish, and you feed a man for a day. Give the man a Santa suit, and feed him for a month. Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes in her/his own way by going to the mall of her/his choice. One of the angels asked God where they were going on vacation. God said, “Not Earth again. That’s for sure. I went there about 2 thousand years ago, got a Jewish girl pregnant, and they haven’t stopped talking about it since."
The man who wrote the Hokey-Pokey died peacefully in his sleep. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him inside the coffin. They put his left foot in. Then the trouble began. Did you hear of the invisible man who married an invisible women? Their kids weren’t much to look at either.
INTERESTING FACTS
Five protesters, Henry Stoever of PeaceWorks, Tom Fox, CEO and president of the National Catholic Reporter; Sunny Jordan Hamrick, a member of the Christian community Jerusalem Farm in KC; Lu Mountenay, a Community of Christ minister in Independence; and Brian Terrell, a Catholic Worker in Maloy, Iowa, and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, based in Chicago. who crossed the property line May 28 in Kansas City, Mo., at the new nuclear weapons parts plant come to trial Friday, Dec. 7. The five were arrested and soon released on Memorial Day, during PeaceWorks’ annual remembrance of the more than 150 deaths from contaminants from the old plant for making parts for nuclear weapons.
On Dec. 6, the night before the trial, PeaceWorks will hold a Celebration of Hope from 7:30 to 9 pm at St. Mark’s Hope and Peace Lutheran Church, 3800 Troost. And on the trial day, Dec. 7, at 12:30 pm, the line-crossers and supporters will gather in the courthouse foyer for reflections before the trial, which begins at 1:30 pm in Court C of Municipal Court, Locust and 11th Street. The trial may note the high cost of nuclear weapons, with the Department of Energy requesting a budget of $804 million for the KC operations for fiscal year 2019. ----NCR
In Libya, a group of nearly 80 refugees refused to leave a docked ship in the Libyan port of Misrata saying they fear torture and imprisonment. Libya’s detention centers are routinely exposed to torture, rape, beatings, extortion and other violations of human rights. The refugees were headed to Europe by boat earlier this month, before being returned to Libya, --Dec. 10th is the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It would be good to read it. It is part of the U.S. Constitution. --- Amnesty International
"Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people, the theft of their lands, and the relentless assault on their culture. Participants in a National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience." -- Text of a plaque on Cole's Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock
“Casino payout” occurs when tribes disburse unused profits from Indian gaming to individual tribal members for their personal use. However, simply operating a casino does not guarantee tribal riches or mean that tribal members receive such payouts. Contrary to popular belief, fewer than 15% of Indian tribes operate prosperous casinos. In addition, only the 573 federally recognized tribes are eligible to operate casinos; more than 400 tribes in the U.S. are not federally recognized. Like all Americans, Native Americans pay federal income tax on any income they earn, including casino earnings. They do not pay state tax for income earned within reservation boundaries. ----Mother Jones
Last week, at least 250,000 liters of oil spilled from a floating storage tanker during a massive storm, and the extreme weather prevented clean-up crews from containing the spill. The full impacts are still unknown, but it’s already being called the worst spill in Newfoundland history. -----Canadian Public Radio
U.S. Navy released details of a plan to seize more than 600,000 acres of public land in central Nevada to expand a bombing range. The land under threat includes rich habitat for mule deer, important desert springs and nesting sites for raptors like golden eagles. If approved by Congress, the 1,536-page plan would transform entire valleys and mountain ranges into bombing targets. Combined with another proposal to expand the Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range, the military is attempting to grab 1.75 million acres of public land in Nevada—an area larger than Delaware.----EcoWatch 11/18/18
According to some estimates, California saves up to $100 million a year by using prison labor at $1 an hour to fight its biggest environmental problem. In 2017, prisoner firefighters spent four million hours on active fires.----Democracy Now, 11/19/18
More than two billion people do not have access to clean water. They risk disease or even death by drinking dirty water because they have no other choice. But you can change that. And 13 million Yemeni civilians are at risk of famine, and 500,000 children could die in a matter of months, but the U.S.- supported bombings of Yemen continue. A child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. ----Concern Worldwide
America’s perpetual warfare abroad has led to an increase in white supremacist violence at home. - Frontline PBS and ProPublica
The Pacific is the deepest of our oceans and its Marianna Trench region has a mind-blowing depth of almost seven miles. The Pacific Ocean is bigger than the total land mass of all the continents combined! It too is very polluted, mostly by the military. The U.S. sanctions cost Venezuela $6 billion this year ICE is currently imprisoning a record 44,000 people—an all-time high. The figure is 4,000 more people than Congress has granted funding for ICE to hold. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have not responded to requests to explain where the additional money was coming from --The Daily Beast Amount of FEMA funding that has been transferred to ICE this year : $9,800,000 ----Harper’s Index
When TOMS sells a pair of shoes, a new pair of shoes is given to an impoverished child. To date, TOMS has given away about 60 million pairs of shoes. ---Trivia Today
A recently leaked federal study found that refugees to America brought in $63 billion more in government revenues than they cost in the last 10 yrs. ---Occupy Democrats
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: December, the trees are bare, all is brown, unless frost or snow are covering the fields and trees. A time of stillness. A time of reflection. Sometimes a time of discomfort. When I walk in the woods now all is silent. My thoughts are my only company. A celebration is coming in this quiet time, in this waiting time. The celebration of Christ’s coming into the world. No longer an eye for an eye for Christ’s message of love is celebrated this month. In the form of his birth, in a very humble setting, his life was not accumulating wealth but giving of himself and sharing the message of loving care for others. We all celebrate Christ’s birth in different ways. But I pray we each take time to listen to Christ’s message of love and then put it into practice in our world. We will then be truly glorifying the birth of Christ in our world. Peace, Roberta
Thurs.,Dec. 6 –VIGIL OPPOSING SEPARATION OF FAMILIES outside ICE, Broadway and Knapp Sts. starting at Noon. A Jericho Walk is done each Thursday at 9 a.m. at ICE.
Tues., Dec. 10 ---Human Rights Day. Please join Amnesty International in writing letters asking world leaders to observe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No death penalty. No discrimination. No unjust detentions. Fair trials for all.
Thurs., Dec. 13 ----Vigil Against ROTC at Marquette U. starting at Noon at 15th & Wisconsin. M.U. is a Christian institution that must not teach the military cause which is to kill, not love, one’s enemies.
Thurs., Dec. 20 ---Vigil Opposing Gun Proliferation at Noon at Brew City Shooters’ Supply on 43rd & Lincoln. A gun’s only reason for being is to do violence to another. Stop the violence! Stop the flow of guns into our communities.
Fri., Dec. 21- Fight Back Caroling Caravan, 4pm to 7pm, meet at the Mothers Organizing Center, 2711 W. Michigan in Milwaukee 414-342-6662