Two of our workers, Sabine and Caitlin, teamed up with neighbors and the 21st Street Co-op to make a long-empty lot into a block accessible growing space. For those interested in supporting this work, please email 21stCoopMKE @ gmail. com
The next step for asylum seekers is to be processed and allowed to enter the United States, to welcome them into our communities and support them in rebuilding their lives. We are hoping that people will show their hospitality, not hostility, to the homeless refugees. We do not understand how the U.S. can say it has no facility for them. After all, the U.S. has over 700 military bases in the world which could be used for housing the homeless. We all know what Christ told us to do…”feed the hungry, heal the sick and shelter the homeless.” ---Don Timmerman
Sign the pledge to support and welcome immigrants: actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge-to-welcome-immigrants
DON’S JOKES
This spring we went with my grandfather to Ireland. He had not been there in 25 yrs. We took him to his favorite pub. When we came in a guy in the back yelled, ‘Oh gosh, He’s back!’ You know you’re getting old when you lean over to pick something up off the floor, and you asked yourself, Is there anything else you need to do while you are down here? This old guy was talking to his neighbor telling him about the new hearing aid he just got. “It cost a fortune, but it works perfectly.” Really,” said the neighbor. “What kind is it?” “Ten thirty.” What did the bread do on vacation? It loafed around. After a big fight with her husband, the farmer asked, “Where did you leave the tractor?” The husband replies, “In the Mill field.” “But there’s no way into the Mill field!” “There is now.” Minimum is a tiny woman in England.
INTERESTING FACTS
Saudi Arabia gets 23% of all US weapons sales abroad Despite the U.S. rhetoric about supporting global democracy, the U.S. sold weapons in 2022 to 57% of the world’s authoritarian regimes.-----Defense News
There is a wave of lawsuits against gun makers. There’s simply an effort to say: guns are a product, like cars, like medicine, like cigarettes, and we should have the tools at our disposal to confront abuses within that industry.” The U.S possesses about 40% of all the guns in the world. Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, and a host of other killers have received lavish praise from some politicians.----Democracy Now
Daniel Penny, the U.S. Marine veteran who made national news by choking to death Jordan Neely, a homeless, mentally ill Black man on a New York City subway car, raised $2.7 million from the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. ----Democracy
Now Protesters Shut Down New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to Demand Fair Housing in New York, hundreds of people led a march that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday, protesting soaring rent prices and demanding elected officials address the city’s worsening housing crisis. Protesters called for new legislation that would protect tenants from sudden evictions and rent hikes, as well as for the city to enact a program for rent assistance.-------Democracy Now
The cost of homeownership has increased by 71% since 2020. The cost of household fuel and utilities in the average U.S. city has increased 127% since 2000. At least 104,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for organ transplants. At least 59,235 organs were discarded since 2013. Portion of U.S. adults who own at least one AR-25 : I in 20
Portion of college students who report having used TikTok for help studying: ½. Portion of those students who report learning more on TikTok than they do in class: 1/3 --- Harper’s Index
“God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.” ----DOROTHY DAY
The spiritual and corporal works certainly go together, and often involve suffering. Nonviolent resistance to nuclear buildup has led to the imprisonment this last month of two Catholic workers, Robert Ellsberg and Brian Terrell, in Rocky Flats, Colorado.
The Costs of War Project's Stephanie Savell released a new study suggesting that there may have been another 3.6 to 3.7 million indirect deaths that can be attributed to the conditions created by war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, in total, we may be talking about almost five million dead people from the American war that began as a response to al-Qaeda's devastating air assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. HALF of the proposed Pentagon budget — approximately $443 BILLION — is estimated to flow directly to weapons contractors like Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and others who have amassed more than $7 TRILLION from taxpayers over the past twenty years.----- 60 Minutes
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Events:
Wednesday, June 7 ---- Actions to Close Guantanamo Bay Prison. Contact Peace Action for details. Ultimately, no president has been able to close Guantánamo because once something is created outside the law, it's almost impossible to bring it back inside the law. In 2002, the US opened a prison at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 9/11 attacks had occurred just months before, and the US was capturing hundreds of men in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wanted a place to hold and question them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it existed outside of US and international law. The detainees didn’t have to be charged with a crime to be imprisoned, and the US could hold them as long as they liked. By 2003, there were nearly 700 men imprisoned in Guantánamo, but there was backlash from around the world. When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he pledged to close Guantánamo. It is still open! -Don Timmerman
Monday, June 19 ---- Juneteenth Day, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery by marking the day enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free, Slavery still exists. Let’s continue to work for the freedom of all slaves both here and abroad.
Thursday, June 29 ----ANTI-GUN Vigil at Noon at Dunham Sports store, 2027 S. 108th St. The Gun Violence Archive reports nearly 17,500 people across the U.S. have been killed by firearms so far this year, with 70 separate mass shootings in the month of May. Dunham advertises and sells guns and assault rifles. If we continue to support gun violence and those who make and proliferate them people who profit from these will keep making and distributing them in our society, and the more people will die from guns and other assault weapons. “Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.”
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: Spring is a glorious season, the leaves are green and lush on the trees. New flowers are blooming in my garden every day. First I saw a beautiful rose, the next day the peonies began to bloom, on the third day an elegant, luxurious, purple Iris graced my garden. Their beauty filled me with joy and surprise. I took pictures of each new arrival, thinking I would send them to my sister, Nancy, but this year the photos will stay in my phone. My sweet sister Nancy died last month. The loss of my sister is lessened by the beauty of Spring. Butterflies are beginning to flit around in my garden, which made me think of an old proverb, “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”. Nancy’s life is over, but she too, has transformed into something new and beautiful. I hope everyone will find healing and joy in God’s creation. Peace, Roberta
The next step for asylum seekers is to be processed and allowed to enter the United States, to welcome them into our communities and support them in rebuilding their lives. We are hoping that people will show their hospitality, not hostility, to the homeless refugees. We do not understand how the U.S. can say it has no facility for them. After all, the U.S. has over 700 military bases in the world which could be used for housing the homeless. We all know what Christ told us to do…”feed the hungry, heal the sick and shelter the homeless.” ---Don Timmerman
Sign the pledge to support and welcome immigrants: actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge-to-welcome-immigrants
DON’S JOKES
This spring we went with my grandfather to Ireland. He had not been there in 25 yrs. We took him to his favorite pub. When we came in a guy in the back yelled, ‘Oh gosh, He’s back!’ You know you’re getting old when you lean over to pick something up off the floor, and you asked yourself, Is there anything else you need to do while you are down here? This old guy was talking to his neighbor telling him about the new hearing aid he just got. “It cost a fortune, but it works perfectly.” Really,” said the neighbor. “What kind is it?” “Ten thirty.” What did the bread do on vacation? It loafed around. After a big fight with her husband, the farmer asked, “Where did you leave the tractor?” The husband replies, “In the Mill field.” “But there’s no way into the Mill field!” “There is now.” Minimum is a tiny woman in England.
INTERESTING FACTS
Saudi Arabia gets 23% of all US weapons sales abroad Despite the U.S. rhetoric about supporting global democracy, the U.S. sold weapons in 2022 to 57% of the world’s authoritarian regimes.-----Defense News
There is a wave of lawsuits against gun makers. There’s simply an effort to say: guns are a product, like cars, like medicine, like cigarettes, and we should have the tools at our disposal to confront abuses within that industry.” The U.S possesses about 40% of all the guns in the world. Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, and a host of other killers have received lavish praise from some politicians.----Democracy Now
Daniel Penny, the U.S. Marine veteran who made national news by choking to death Jordan Neely, a homeless, mentally ill Black man on a New York City subway car, raised $2.7 million from the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. ----Democracy
Now Protesters Shut Down New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to Demand Fair Housing in New York, hundreds of people led a march that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday, protesting soaring rent prices and demanding elected officials address the city’s worsening housing crisis. Protesters called for new legislation that would protect tenants from sudden evictions and rent hikes, as well as for the city to enact a program for rent assistance.-------Democracy Now
The cost of homeownership has increased by 71% since 2020. The cost of household fuel and utilities in the average U.S. city has increased 127% since 2000. At least 104,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for organ transplants. At least 59,235 organs were discarded since 2013. Portion of U.S. adults who own at least one AR-25 : I in 20
Portion of college students who report having used TikTok for help studying: ½. Portion of those students who report learning more on TikTok than they do in class: 1/3 --- Harper’s Index
“God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.” ----DOROTHY DAY
The spiritual and corporal works certainly go together, and often involve suffering. Nonviolent resistance to nuclear buildup has led to the imprisonment this last month of two Catholic workers, Robert Ellsberg and Brian Terrell, in Rocky Flats, Colorado.
The Costs of War Project's Stephanie Savell released a new study suggesting that there may have been another 3.6 to 3.7 million indirect deaths that can be attributed to the conditions created by war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, in total, we may be talking about almost five million dead people from the American war that began as a response to al-Qaeda's devastating air assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. HALF of the proposed Pentagon budget — approximately $443 BILLION — is estimated to flow directly to weapons contractors like Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and others who have amassed more than $7 TRILLION from taxpayers over the past twenty years.----- 60 Minutes
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Events:
Wednesday, June 7 ---- Actions to Close Guantanamo Bay Prison. Contact Peace Action for details. Ultimately, no president has been able to close Guantánamo because once something is created outside the law, it's almost impossible to bring it back inside the law. In 2002, the US opened a prison at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 9/11 attacks had occurred just months before, and the US was capturing hundreds of men in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wanted a place to hold and question them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it existed outside of US and international law. The detainees didn’t have to be charged with a crime to be imprisoned, and the US could hold them as long as they liked. By 2003, there were nearly 700 men imprisoned in Guantánamo, but there was backlash from around the world. When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he pledged to close Guantánamo. It is still open! -Don Timmerman
Monday, June 19 ---- Juneteenth Day, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery by marking the day enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free, Slavery still exists. Let’s continue to work for the freedom of all slaves both here and abroad.
Thursday, June 29 ----ANTI-GUN Vigil at Noon at Dunham Sports store, 2027 S. 108th St. The Gun Violence Archive reports nearly 17,500 people across the U.S. have been killed by firearms so far this year, with 70 separate mass shootings in the month of May. Dunham advertises and sells guns and assault rifles. If we continue to support gun violence and those who make and proliferate them people who profit from these will keep making and distributing them in our society, and the more people will die from guns and other assault weapons. “Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.”
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: Spring is a glorious season, the leaves are green and lush on the trees. New flowers are blooming in my garden every day. First I saw a beautiful rose, the next day the peonies began to bloom, on the third day an elegant, luxurious, purple Iris graced my garden. Their beauty filled me with joy and surprise. I took pictures of each new arrival, thinking I would send them to my sister, Nancy, but this year the photos will stay in my phone. My sweet sister Nancy died last month. The loss of my sister is lessened by the beauty of Spring. Butterflies are beginning to flit around in my garden, which made me think of an old proverb, “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”. Nancy’s life is over, but she too, has transformed into something new and beautiful. I hope everyone will find healing and joy in God’s creation. Peace, Roberta