New Report on Yemen & Reissue of Petition

Plz see the additional URLs at end of this post



Let's light our little candles & do what we can to protect journalists worldwide.

So increasingly disturbing to see yet another new report from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism sent by Jeremy Scahill's twitter account 29 March
or cut/paste this link:

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/03/29/arab-spring-saw-steep-rise-in-us-attacks-on-yemen-militants/ or CLICK here

If you haven't signed this petition yet, you may want to add your name to this one: Release Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye -- here or if there is a catch or stop on the link -- simply select - copy - past onto search engine the following:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/release-yemeni-journalist-abdulelah-haider-shaye/signatures

(Note my signature as #10 -- see Journalist Jeremy Scahill's as #60 and the passionate #72 for a heartpouring to which I'm sure many of us can relate. The number of signatures are growing...Plz add your's and help get this one out.)

Release Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye



the double-photo found on Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com column for March 14, 2012

Watch for other such petitions & urge personal letters to the White House of all kinds. This one act is precious for this one brave journalist...we must address and end this trend. (To jail, intimidate, isolate and imprison journalists who are merely doing their work and doing it well -- how can we let this continue? Just look back a little ways in history. We must not let history repeat itself in ever larger circles of injustice.)

The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald and others have been recently offering a corroborated and detailed account of how Shaye came to be in jail and why the US government is determined to keep him there:

Why are key US officials encouraging the keeping of such a pardoned and respected journalist in prison in Yemen? (Respected US and other journalists claim he's merely been using his rare access to cover various sides of the Yemen conflict for Aljazeera and other reports.)

This ACTION will only take a few moments of your precious time. Also see video at Iona Craig's site www.ionacraig.com or GO here Iona Craig is a freelance journalist based in Sana'a, Yemen and the Times of London Yemen Correspondent. She also writes for the Sunday Times, the Irish Times and regularly contributes to USA Today, the National (UAE) and Index on Censorship. She says: "Anyone who follows (my) blog will know I've been bleating on about the imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdul Elah Haider Shaye for some time. Iona Craig)

Added on 2 April 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/abdulelah-haider-shaye-yemen-journalist_n_1348354.html or CLICK here

Also Search Jeremy Scahill and Nation or DemocracyNow.org to watch what he may say next about this landmark case...

Thanx for coming by...keep the good word going out & your candle lit:)

The Path of Forgiveness is Best...

Bangladesh Native (And American Citizen) Rais Bhuiyan continues to keep FORGIVENESS central in his work, talks, interviews and movement/site: World Without Hate dot org.

I keep returning to this particular article:

Forgiveness Is Subject Of Play Written By Glastonbury Teacher
January 06, 2012|By KATHLEEN MEGAN, kmegan@courant.com,
The Hartford Courant GLASTONBURY

Annie Renaud had a very important question for Rais Bhuiyan during a fourth-period class Friday at Glastonbury High School."Do you think there is any crime that is unforgivable?" Annie, a freshman, asked.

"Well —" Bhuiyan responded, pausing. "On a regular basis, we ask God, 'Please forgive me.' Why you cannot pass it to others? …There is nothing you can't forgive, if I can forgive my attacker who tried to end my life. It's just a matter of practice."

Find entire article here

Shocking! This Day and Week in History Monday 19 Monday 2012

GO to One Heart for Peace blog for March 19 2012

"Nowruz: Celebrating Spring"

-- marking the Persian New Year and celebrating the prominent Iranian American community and its vast cultural legacy. (excerpt taken from article below)...
Danielpour's "Toward a Season of Peace" is a seven-movement oratorio in Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Aramaic and English...


Richard Danielpour,
composer. Pacific Symphony.

SEE article entitled: "Persian culture celebrated at American Composers Festival"
--featured in LA Times Entertainment March 18, 2012 (and several other US & world media sources...

(I went to High School and spent some of my College/University years in Orange County and applaud this elegant selection. I will BEG that an audio and written transcription of this once-in-a-lifetime work for art, beauty and world-peace be available to the general public! Below the featured article, find other special features which highlight Spring, Iran, Bangladesh and the World at large. These Persian artist/musicians -- with their bounteous background -- are leading the way: let's follow them in their love of humanity, beauty, and creation. Connie)

This event held in Costa Mesa -- a major city of Orange County, Calif -- will feature Iranian conductor Farhad Mechkat and the WORLD premiere of an oratorio by Iranian American composer Richard Danielpour.

Steve Hochman, Special to the Los Angeles Times

March 18, 2012
Carl St.Clair, the music director and principal conductor of Orange Country's Pacific Symphony, was a bit taken aback at one of the programming choices for the 2012 edition of the organization's American Composers Festival...

There's a world premiere of an oratorio by Iranian American composer Richard Danielpour and collaborations between the symphony and Persian music troupe the Shams Ensemble.

And to kick off each of the first three nights in the four-day festival at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Iranian conductor Farhad Mechkat — a "distinguished hero," St.Clair says, for his progressive efforts at the helm of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in the years leading to the 1979 Islamic revolution — is being flown in to lead the orchestra in a classic he handpicked for the event.

But it's that choice that gave St.Clair pause: "The Dances of Galánta" by Zoltán Kodály. Yes, a suite of pieces written in 1933 by a Hungarian composer from folk dances of his childhood home town.

What does this have to do with Nowruz or Persian American culture?

"The specifically Iranian part of it is myself!" Mechkat says.

He laughs heartily at his declaration but stands by his selection.

"The theme of the evening is the coming of spring," says Mechkat, whose résumé includes bringing the Tehran Symphony Orchestra to world-class stature in the years before the revolution. "The joyful celebratory character of Kodály's music is most apropos."

St.Clair, though, wasn't so sure. After all, the rest of the program is at once directly tied to the theme and impressively ambitious.

Danielpour's "Toward a Season of Peace" is a seven-movement oratorio in Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Aramaic and English, sung by soprano Hila Plitmann and the Pacific Chorale, capping the composer's midlife reconciliation with, and exploration of, his Persian heritage. The Shams Ensemble has crafted arrangements of traditional material for collaborative performances with the symphony.

(Plz Note! :) And in preparation for his role (for this premiere Carl) St.Clair took on intensive study of Persian history and culture, developing a passionate attachment to the mystical verse of 13th century poet RUMI -- the key figure in Persian/Sufi arts...

PLZ READ the rest and leave your comments under this unique LA Times article -- where I happily just left the FIRST comment: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-persian-music-20120318,0,3188357.story

You may want to find this article with a simple online search as transcribing the LA url seems tricky right now -- happy reading and Nowruz Mabarak!

ACTION: Petition on behalf of Yemeni Journalist

the double-photo found on Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com column for March 14, 2012

Sign easy/quick petitions here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/release-yemeni-journalist-abdulelah-haider-shaye/ or CLICK: here Plz blog and disseminate both plain and easy to access URL. Watch for other such petitions & urge personal letters to the White House of all kinds. This one act is precious by itself for this one brave journalist -- yet such an action is even greater as this is a trend we must address and end. (To jail, intimidate, isolate and imprison journalists who are merely doing their work and doing it well -- how can we let this continue? Just look back a little ways in history. We must not let history to repeat itself in ever larger circles of injustice.)

Send out this CALL to Release Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye

The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill and others have been recently offering a corroborated and detailed account of how Shaye came to be in jail and why the US government is determined to keep him there:

Why are key US officials keeping a journalist in prison in Yemen?

This ACTION will only take a few moments of your precious time -- GO to ipetitions.com pass it on...See petition for Release Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. Join the movement! Sign now!

Also see Iona Craig's site ionacraig.com (Anyone who follows this blog will know I've been bleating on about the imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdul Elah Haider Shaye for some time. Iona Craig)

See related items in post just below for even more information.

Plz add your own comments -- send emails letters to WH or
place a call to the President Pronto (keep calling until you get a REAL voice) we need more people underlining this special need soon!

Let's keep reminding our officials about their worldwide, national and personal legacy. We have to use our creativity, intuition, expertise, love of peace and personal pens to "Hit HOME" to our own officials. Our children need us to do this for them and as an example to them.

KEEP watching Amnesty International and Amnesty I/USA because this is the kind of work, letters, corroborated files and petititions they do 24/7 and get on board.

Catching Up with Top News (Mostly Alternative Sources)

"This Yemeni is NOT a terrorist but a journalist" (Jeremy Scahill)...US authorities may hold key to his release:

See Jeremy Scahill's expert reporting in a number of places now
Alternet.org here and here


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Scathing outcries from Pakistan and US (Scott Horton among many others) against the use of drones in Pakistan

Confirmation by experts that fracking causes earthquakes

UP-To-the-moment concerns about the possible planned release of genetically-modified mosquitos (Florida Keys?)

I plan to add more on these and other top stories soon...