CITY OF JOY--CAMPAIGN AND HOW WE CAN SUPPORT

[see post below]

I have to go and work now [work off computer] but I want to leave you this,

I am going to be contacting, see what we can do here, to support,

my prayer is that there are MORE CITIES like this for WOMEN, in not only the Congo, but in Afghanistan, Rwanda, as well as

missions, of WOMEN, in the West, supporting WOMEN, in countries where they are left with no choice but to prostitute to UN workers or starve [girls as young as nine],

or who kill themselves

or who eventually die from rape trauma [physical and emotional trauma].

NOT ONLY THAT,

but I'm going to be researching ways to DEMAND JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN EUROPE,

BOYCOTTING COMPANIES THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE

HOLDING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE, ETC

I have a lot of work to do,

for now, see: http://healingtraumaindrcongo.blogspot.com/

I was aware of the diamond industry [blood diamonds] and have not bought diamonds since I learned, because of [not that I buy diamonds but you get my point]

I also think,

there needs to be accountability for the past Christian missions who were very much involved with the Belgium government/and the ENSLAVEMENT of this nation,

including reparations.

That is my opinion, I want to leave you with a article by a woman who works in the Congo or who did work, about what she said, about not only do they need those here to go there and grieve with them,

but that there is a need for justice. There can be no true healing without justice, its not just a quick 'I forgive you for gang raping me and blowing my vagina to bits' and ANY woman in America who is so naive to think it is,

is not only shallow, she has not understood the gravity of sin or suffering. I can only imagine, what hell these women continue to go through,

it really makes me furious...and honestly,

I don't see how we can enjoy life or even have any peace or rest, knowing that there are thousands, no, millions, of women

who suffer like this,

and we have paid for the products that have been the CAUSE OF THEIR EXPLOITATION AND SUFFERING.

How can we live with ourselves in the prosperous nations? Seriously,

and then to say we know Christ?

I can't, sorry but I simply cannot,

I am having a LOT of trouble with Western Christianity, not distorting what I read in the Bible or polluting my own heart, in how I perceive God.

Put it this way,

I can no longer even read the mainstream patriarchal Christian blogs anymore, especially those by women....

safe in homes, husbands as gods, the 'male' as gods,

God in the image of Man and woman outside that,

its really beginning to annoy me,

just one article I read today from one Christian missionary and how much suffering she sees daily and girls prostituting to UN workers, they have no choice, its either that or starve, or they are trafficked and forced to anyway,

and I see women in This country, with their 'better than thou prostitute' and yuck,

seriously,

I came back to Jesus but you know something, I WANT NO PART OF THAT.

even with this CPSIA law, its just 'me, me, me,

never mind the connections between women, sewing, history and the culture AND how it ties into women's economic oppression worldwide,

most simply just DO NOT CARE,

they can't see beyond their ivory towers of comfort,

is it no wonder, we are losing it all in this nation?

well, here's the blog: http://healingtraumaindrcongo.blogspot.com/

and here is the article, I mentioned [that whole blog is awesome and heartbreaking, these are true women of God and when I doubt God identifies with women, this is a blog that I can see,

evidence, that He not only identifies, He cares. I'm sorry to say, I don't see that in the majority of Christian women blogs I have seen thus far, from mainstream American denominations, sorry but I just don't,

and its no wonder I feel more at home among feminists who object to Christianity [because of the gross deliberate abuses done to women in the name of God and in Christ, the justifications of abuse, etc., the tolerance and permissive culture of misogyny],

than I do in the majority of churches.

Sad, truly Sad

going to church is no different than all the other 'its a man's world' groups, its like, heaven is an all male boys club, with women as sex and work servants [or baby machines],

you know,

I dare wonder,

IF, IF abortions were ONLY female fetuses, IF THERE'D BE ANY OBJECTION?

You know what I think,

I doubt it, very much, in fact, I don't even think there would be a wince....not a march, protest, nada, nothing,

it would be so invisible, because it would only be worthless females, IF there was any objection, by the Pope, the Church, the Mainstream, it would ONLY be,

if there were labor shortages or 'race' shortages...THEN there would be demand for saving the FEMALE FETUS, because ONLY of the need,

for wombs. NOTHING MORE.

THAT'S HOW I SEE GOD-JESUS, WHEN I LOOK ONLY AT THE CHURCH--its a good thing I read the Bible and don't go to church or run to the mainstream for answers...in fact, its why I reject them.

on the Congo:


Start with One

April 29, 2008 by globalgirlnetwork

By Tonya Sargent


“If I can’t yet mourn a million people who left this world in a single day, I’ll start with one, and move from there.” These are the words of Barbara Kingsolver’s character “Leah” from her Poisonwood Bible—a novel set in Congo in the 1960s. And this is why I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo last year.


A few years ago I heard about the horrific war that had been occurring there for the past decade with over nine countries involved and a shocking death toll of over four million people—more than all wars added together since WWII. Half of these deaths are children. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been brutally raped and mutilated and countless young boys have been forced to become child soldiers. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. I couldn’t bear to think I had lived my life in oblivion to this atrocity and I felt I needed to go see these faces and hear their stories first hand, to be a witness to their suffering. Statistics are mind numbing, but faces are real. And if you can’t yet mourn for four million people, maybe today you can just start with one and move from there.

read the rest here: http://globalgirlnetwork.com/2008/04/29/start-with-one/