Prayer circle at a secret prison

You ever wonder what a secret prison looks like in suburban America? There is one in Brooklyn Heights Ohio, bordering interstate 480. There is no signage. The windows are uniform, and black from the outside. It is landscaped and maintained, and there are boulders by the entrance. Part of the parking lot is open, and part is enclosed in a high and strong fence (perhaps it would make it good for Trump's border wall.

 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center

 925 Keynote Circle, Brooklyn Heights, Ohio

Brooklyn Heights policeman talking with Homeland Security policeman.

                         Tuesday June 26, 2018                      

                                                                 

Friends of HOLA [click] had a prayer circle outside the secret prison. Some three hundred people came. WEWS TV-5, and WJW TV-8 recorded some of the event.

Most everyone had a sign. A series of speakers, both clerical and lay spoke. There were many quotations of Scripture, especially from the Books of Moses:

Exodus 22:21; 23:9;
[21] Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt. [22] You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. [23] If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry
9] Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. 

Leviticus 19:33-34; 
[33] If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him: [34] But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. 

Deuteronomy 10:19;
[19] And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Three female rabbis, a UCC minister, a Catholic priest, and a Buddhist teacher spoke. The latter quoted from Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night...Rage, rage against the dying of the light". Yes, rage against the injustice being done. He pointed out that samurai were Buddhists and they did not back down. Some of the people had been there a week earlier when over 200 agricultural and food processing workers were interned here after two large ICE raids. People read poems, and the experience of immigrants that were forced to flee their old countries. One woman spoke of coming here at night to organise others to bring food and water; the police of the prison were surprised, and did not know how to handle that.

The last speaker was Veronica Dahlberg of Hola. She had been there several times when other people were arrested, and sent off to other prisons, or readied for deportation.

The event ended with a verse of Amazing Grace, and then We Shall Overcome.

2018 Miscellany #7

setting up for a Liszt concert at the Hungarian Cultural Garden

Left Shark at the Duck Tape Festival in Avon

And this began with, "Can i pet your dog?".

ghost Greyhound sign facing the innerbelt freeway

Homeless Jesus at St. Matthias Parma.
Hungry and Thirsty by Timothy Schmalz

Old Stone Church on Public Square also has one, on its front steps

barbed wire added, to an old bridge from the steel mill now a decoration at a shopping center, to discourage climbing

Brinden Harvey played Troilus in Cleveland's outdoor Shakespeare Festival's Troilus and Cressida. The play concerns the Greek and Trojan war. The Greeks were in camouflage fatigues with a patch of the Greek flag, The Trojans wore green fatigues with a created City of Troy patch.

new clean green can

Immigrant Mother

Joseph Turkaly. Immigrant Mother. Croatian Cultural Garden, Cleveland. 14th June 2018.

[see earlier post click]

 With the catkins caught by web, she almost is crying.

 Is this work not similar to many icons, and other works honoring Mary, the Mother of God? And in so many parts of the world (and in America) are not émigré families in pathetic situations?

late spring evening Lakewood park

The parking lot was full, and many activities were going on. One activity was baseball. The procession of walks in this ball game, did not seem to end. At least six consecutive base on balls were thrown. I heard the idiotic chatter, "good eye". Yes, i remember that from boyhood too. Hell, Cyclops could have been batting. The catcher was busy. The coach came to talk to his pitcher, the pitcher stayed in. Perhaps, the second pitch later, the batter swung on one high and outside, strike one. The crew and me proceeded to the lake promenade.

these beach anchor jacks are called tetrapods or dolosse [dolo sing.]

Sunset was scheduled for 9.03 p.m.. When it came, there was applause (i think a few seconds early, so i did not begin the public appreciation, this time).

University Circle walkabout

bell tower of Church of the Covenant Presbyterian

a side entrance door of the church

Medical Library with owls and classical heads

 

Owls were sacred to the goddess Athena, and she was the goddess of wisdom. This is an entrance to the medical library. The heads would be Hippocrates and Galen. They are not identified, but they are. Hippocrates (*b.C. 460, 370☨), the father of medicine, was bald. Galen (*129, after 200☨) was a physician, surgeon, philosopher, and writer. His texts were studied up to and through the Renaissance.

Not a gargoyle, but a grotesque, rain spout is over his head

 

 

Cleveland Art Museum

trees are dressed in polka dots

something is getting out

U.C. Methodist "oil can" church in background

Republican speak: deep state = rule of law

Mike Lofgren is a former Republican appartchik that coined the term "deep state" in 2014. For normal people the term is related to the "military-industrial complex" or bureaucratic inertia; but for the conspiracy lunatics, and the sort of bomb throwers as Steve Bannon it is more nefarious. Now, Bannon was the chief at Breitbart (an ultra-conservative agit-prop organisation). Bannon became the chief campaign and governmental propagandist for Trump. Now, when Trump or trumpsters find themselves hindered by the system of laws, the Constitution, ethics, tradition, jurisprudence, decency, et alia they cry "deep state".

The political reporter, Molly Ball, in referring to the upcoming G-7 meeting in Canada likened Trump to a skunk at the picnic.

Grays Armory

Next to Erie Street Cemetery and Playhouse Square is a a castle fortress building. Memorial Day 1893 the year stone was set for Cleveland Grays Armory. This Saturday past, they had an open house and celebration of the 125 years since. Before the National Guard system, there were local militias. Cleveland's was formed in 1837. They did see military action from 1861 to 1918. Since then they have been a sort of men's club and honor guard for public occasions.

The drill hall was, for a time, the largest auditorium in town. the first performance of the Cleveland Orchestra was there. In 1970 a Wurlitzer organ was installed, it had come from an Erie Pennsylvania theatre.  Besides the keyboard console for the organist, there are over 1400 pipes. Some are inside the overhead projection from the stage, and large wooden pipes are visible left and right.

 There are some foot operated special effects pedals.

In the lobby there is a uniformed mannikin and a cannon captured from the Confederates.