Just Beginning

No preamble, folks, just starting this blog off with a bang.  You'll just have to find out what all this blog will be about by sticking with me for a while, as I hope you'll do.  One-handed typing isn't conducive to eloquence, I'm finding (I'm fine and on the mend), and really, it's beside the point.  Right now, what matters most to me is working, day by day, to build a more just world, by all means possible.  I'm hoping folks will drop by and share their ideas and experiences, and perhaps take away a few new thoughts as well.  

First up, the case of Mohammed Omer.  This Palestinian journalist writes for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and was going home to Gaza last week after accepting the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (which he shared with Dahr Jamail).    He was strip-searched at gun-point and physically abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby Border crossing as he tried to enter the West Bank from Jordan.  You can read details about his experience here. You can sign a petition protesting Israel's treatment of journalists here. Omer is presently hospitalized in Gaza with cracked ribs and other injuries.

I owe a debt of thanks to bookish for getting me off my duff and on with this blog.  Please go pay him a visit and ask him what the teapot looks like!

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll come back soon.