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Bernie Sanders calls for Donald J. Trump to "rescind" his offer to Steve Bannon. http://cnn.it/1zadgl0

From Immigration Activist To Poet - The Haiku's of John Randolph

Hello all!
Since 2008 many people from all over the world have logged onto my blog.  Although the heartbreaking, global immigration nightmare has only gotten worse, I have shifted my focus or energy to writing Haikus, which deal with the problem on a personal  - rather than a governmental - level.  God bless you all.

Haiku #1  Profoundly In Love (In honor of Domainne Du Fan Retreat, Richard Moss 8/2016)

Oh how you move me
Bittersweet tears - open heart
Profoundly in love

Haiku #2 Behold!  Heart Beating

Behold! Heart beating
Life force presence through our veins
Giving and pausing

Haiku #3 Oh To Love One's Self

Oh to love one's self
Who is it who is seeking?
Feel - don't think - Being

Haiku #4  Day Born Silently

Day born silently
Cool breezes caress the face
Soft light touches eyes

Haiku #5 Fluffy Pillow Flight

Fluffy pillow flight
Faces, animals galore
The gods are watching

Haiku #6 Habitual Judging

Habitual judging
Feigning protection inside
Feel the opposite? !

Haiku #7  Love Is Choked By Thought

Judging constriction
Mental habit - closes heart
Love is choked by thought

Haiku #8 Grace Nudges Awake!

Self involvement - talk
Judgments of others - love blocks
Grace Nudges Awake!

Haiku #9 Reflections of Grace

Flowers bloom your light
Oh Lord - are we not the same?
Reflections of Grace

Haiku #10 Close Heart - Love Grows Dim

Close Eyes - movie runs
Close Mouth - chatter box - full on
Close heart - love grows dim

Haiku #11 Welcome Self Attack!

Welcome Self Attack!
Consciousness is key
Equally sacred

Haiku #12  Love Relationship

Love Relationship
Ego's Crucible of life
Burn to perfection

Haiku #13 A Lesson Not Taught In School

We are not our thoughts
A lesson not taught in school
Discover to know

Haiku #14 How Can We All Learn?

Taught - are we not all
Believe that (which they don't know)
How can we all learn?

Haiku#15 Nighttime Clouds Passing

Nighttime Clouds passing
Blessings for countries and homes
Guardians of peace

Haiku #16  A Heart Wide Open

May I go forth God
In your timing one request
A heart wide open!

Haiku #17  Go Divine Unknown!

That which makes me tick?
Life force calling! Ready, set
Go divine unknown!

Haiku #18  Positions of Hate

"You" stories, drama
"We" justify - recreate
Positions of hate

Haiku #19  Take The Time to Feel

Take the time to Feel
Feel what is inside of you
And beside you too

Haiku #20  A Warm Bath and Food

Wish all had a bed
A window to look out from
A warm bath and food

Haiku #21  Cherish Divine Gift

Dog spelled backwards God
Companionship, love, laughter
Cherish divine gift

Haiku #22 Stories About Pain

Stories about pain
Perpetuate pain inside
Avoiding closure

Haiku #23  Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

Insane asylum
Inside head - Observe? Indulge?
Blah blah blah blah blah

Haiku #24  Distracted By Thoughts

Distracted by thoughts
How can I see you my love?
God - how can I feel?

Haiku #25  It Happens To All

Leaf turns yellow; falls
Each season - or - eighty five
It happens to all

Haiku #26  To Love and Feel Grace

To love and feel Grace
Is this not the only way dear?
To live and be free?

Haiku #27  Open hearts look - feel!

Hurtful thoughts looping
Grace is awareness and love
Open hearts look - feel!

Haiku #28. Those Willing to feel

Those willing to feel
A gift of transformation
Observe - disappear

Haiku #29  Observe Everything

Observe Everything
Thoughts, talk, felt experience
Act, react, God's love

Haiku #30  Lost and Unaware

Lost and unaware
Forgetting our state of grace
We wander in vain

Haiku #31  Living From The Past

Living from the past
Replaying as the present
Seeks resolution

Haiku #32 Remind All To See

Grace - our precious gift
Remind us of who we are
Remind all to see

Haiku #32  Like The Clouds Above

Like the clouds above -
Formations shifting; changing
Here - and then - not here

Haiku #33  Dare To Look - Dig Deep

And last - but not least
Loving ourselves - each other
Dare to look - dig deep

Haiku #34  Open Love Open

Teardrop forming, falls
From the depth of heart- it calls
Open love, open

Haiku #35  Early Morning World

Early morning world
Spacious, joyful awareness
Hear our hearts beating

Haiku #36 Look From Where They Come!

Breathing; hearts beating
To where do you go when done?
Look from where they come!

Haiku #37  Open There's More To See

Dreams - some worlds away
Cryptic themes - visit to say
Open - more to see

Haiku #38  Observe When It's Not

To feel God's presence   
Then miss this beautiful Grace
Observe when it's not


Haiku #39  You Are Not Thoughts  Love

Thinking of you Love
Void from experiencing
You are not thoughts Love

Haiku #40 In Honor of May May (Mary) Maynord

Childhood memories
Neighborhood families so dear
Lives honored;  cherished

The Book Will Help You And The World Wake Up

Please read John Ackerman's article below. Washington turns a blind eye to its corrupt, cartel-run NAFTA trading partner.

Mexico is massacring its citizens and nobody seems to have noticed

Three Amigos Summit the perfect time to hold President Enrique Peña Nieto accountable for human rights violations

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, with U.S. President Barack Obama, center, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila, last year. The Three Amigos are meeting in Ottawa this week.  (Susan Walsh / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)  

By John M. Ackerman

Mon., June 27, 2016

This time it is impossible to look the other way. The Mexican government is normally adept at managing public opinion so the responsibility for the violence and human rights violations ripping apart the country falls on the shoulders of local officials or organized crime groups. But on June 19th that narrative was broken under the heavy weight of the facts.

The press originally reported a “clash between teachers and police” in the town of Nochixtlán in the southern state of Oaxaca. The authorities claimed their agents were unarmed and the protesters had fired on them first. The new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, was carefully neutral in her first public evaluation of the incident, stating simply that she “lamented the loss of human lives.”

But during the ensuing days the awful truth has trickled out. Thanks to the reports of journalists on the scene, the Mexican government has been forced to accept that the police were in fact heavily armed. And the evidence now points to the commission of a brutal massacre by federal forces against peaceful protesters. These forces are under the command of Mexico´s President Enrique Peña Nieto and receive significant funding from the United States government under the Merida Initiative.

It all began when a group of rural, elementary school teachers closed a highway that runs through the small, mostly indigenous town of Nochixtlán. They were protesting the government´s neo-liberal education reforms and in favour of the release of two top teacher union activists, who had been taken as political prisoners a week earlier.

Instead of negotiating with the protesters, or using limited force to liberate the highway, the federal government decided to violently quash the uprising. Peña Nieto sent hundreds of masked police officers armed with high-powered automatic rifles and tear gas to run off the protesters. In response, the surrounding communities called for reinforcements. Church bells ran, a form of SOS call to the surrounding villages, and hundreds of residents appeared on the scene in support of the peaceful teachers. Although some of the reinforcements did throw rocks and launch fire crackers at the riot police, none of the protesters were armed nor were the lives of law enforcement officials put at risk.

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The police acted with desperate vengeance. According to eyewitness accounts, plain clothes police first set fire to buses and cars in order to create the impression of chaos and thereby “justify” the upcoming brutal attack. The uniformed agents then opened fire on the innocent crowd. Nine protesters were killed, dozens wounded and many others arbitrarily arrested by law enforcement, who grabbed anyone they could get their hands on. Amid the chaos, the police even interrupted a family funeral taking place in the town cemetery to haul off to jail dozens of the attendees who had no connection to the protests.

The federal police also indiscriminately launched dozens of tear gas canisters from land and air during the assault. One of them landed in the patio of a health clinic, which was attending to the wounded, forcing it to close down and thereby putting numerous lives at risk.

Such attacks by Mexico´s highly militarized federal police on the civilian population are not rare. Excessive use of force has become commonplace in recent years, especially since the beginning of the Peña Nieto administration in December of 2012. Civilian deaths are normally presented as the result of frontal combat with narcotraffickers or “criminals.” In fact, local and international government and non-governmental organizations have unveiled the systematic abuse of human rights by security forces in Mexico.

But this time the violation of human rights is particularly glaring. The victims cannot be presented as “criminals” even by the most creative imagination. They were all peaceful protesters, teachers and community members, standing up for their rights. In response, the government turned a sleepy, rural town into a war zone.

Mexico has erupted in protest. Teachers have taken to the streets throughout the country, even in regions such as Monterrey where such activism is rare. Tens of thousands of students and doctors have also mobilized in solidarity. The indigenous communities of Oaxaca have taken action and highways remain blocked throughout the state. This Sunday there was an enormous protest march in Mexico City organized by the principal opposition party, Morena. The international solidarity movement, in Argentina, Spain, France, England, Canada and the United States has also jumped into action. Both the National Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Human Rights Commission have initiated investigations of the attack.

Meanwhile, official diplomatic circles in the United States and Canada have remained silent, pretending as if nothing has happened. This is particularly worrisome given the fact that this Wednesday Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Peña Nieto will meet in Ottawa for their first “Three Amigos Summit.”

Obama has been an adamant defender of the Mexican President and has not dared to call him out once for the grave human rights violations and corruption scandals, which have marked Peña´s presidency from day one. Trudeau has made the positive step of offering to remove the visa requirement for Mexican visitors to Canada imposed by Stephen Harper in 2009, but also seems to be disconnected from what is actually happening on the ground in Mexico.

In the face of the silent complicity of the U.S. and Canadian governments, civil society in all three countries should use the opportunity of this week’s summit to make their voices heard. They should forcefully condemn the violent repression and democratic breakdown taking place in Mexico and reach out a helping hand to their brothers and sisters south of the Rio Grande.

John M. Ackerman is a professor at the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), editor-in-chief of The Mexican Law Review and a columnist at Proceso magazine and La Jornada newspaper. www.johnackerman.blogspot.com , Twitter: @JohnMAckerman