What Can One Shy Grandmother Do?
August 15th, 2000
I didn't go to college until I was 50, and was the most receptive to education I'd ever been. It was there that I
first realized things were NOT really right with our country. I found out about millions of people struggling
against bad laws*, the economics of the drug war, the inhumane conditions in our jails and prisons, the dwindling
constitution, and America's lost sense of freedom and justice for all.
I was crushed.
How many times over the last 10 years has another truth brought tears of disappointment and anguish? Soon, I found
out that to know the truth hurts worse if you do nothing about it. So, I looked to the spirit within myself, thought
of my grandchildren's future, and asked with passion, "What can I, one small, shy grandmother, do?"
...And my journey began.
The Journey for Justice is an empowering, enlightening, spiritually evolving trek through rural America. No, I
don't mean the Christianity of a church particularly, but rather of the spirit of concern, compassion, and common
sense that will lead us to a better way.
The first Journey for Justice in Ohio focused like a microscope on legal medical access to marijuana for
patients, medical rights. The second journey, Wisconsin style, included the POWDs, who are really political
prisoners: They've committed no violent act. They were imprisoned because they stepped outside "politically
correct", snubbed the status quo (called "Freedom of Choice" in bygone years). By the third journey through Florida,
we had begun to find out about the conditions all inmates are living in, and realized that, for the safety of society, prisons
should be a healing place. The Florida journey stopped at jails and prisons and churches and courthouses across the state.
Our mission was to educate and enlighten the public about the conditions patients will live in when the long arm of the law sweeps
them into the crowded courtrooms and Florida's bulging prisons.
This, the 4th leg, the Journey for Jubilee Justice traveling through Texas, has evolved into a journey for peace, a
national and international plea for a better way. We want an end to the thirty-plus drug war, the quick release of
non-violent political prisoners, and a cleaning of our prisons so that they are places of healing. We want leaders with
wisdom, mercy, vision and truth. We want candidates to discuss human rights, and harm reduction, and lifting the spirit of man,
for we understand that it will be the healing of the people that will lead to the healing of the nation.
*It's not hard to spot a bad law: Anytime the law is in violent conflict with compassion and common sense, it is a
BAD LAW and must be changed.
Join us in sharing the vision as we travel through Texas September 20th through the 29th.
Check the schedule page for ways you, too, can be a part of the spirit of Jubilee Justice.
For More Information on What You Can Do Visit www.journeyforjustice.org
Or Contact Us
Kay Lee
Jodi James
Kevin Aplin
2613 Larry Court
Eau Gallie, Florida 32935
321-253-3673
Visualizing Love,
Kay Lee, Founder/Director
2613 Larry Court
Eau Gallie, Florida 32935
MAKING THE WALLS TRANSPARENT
http://www.zyworld.com/kay~lee/garywaid.htm
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