Toby Blomé - 2016 Tom Paine Courageous Spirit Awards
Channel: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY
Date: 2016-02-03

Toby Blomé receiving her 2016 Tom Paine Courageous Spirit Award from Cynthia Papermaster on behalf of the BFUU Social Justice Committee is video #3 of 7 videos (12:44). She decided to share her award and the stage with her Code Pink Women For Peace Comrades. Toby Blomé's remarks were completely devoted to her work against the illegal use of drone bombings to target individuals and whole villages in sovereign countries that the US is not at war with. The "War on Terror" is the excuse to use state violence anywhere a sitting American executive decides to attack on behalf of his corporate puppet masters. It has been widely reported that targets are chosen by the President in weekly meetings on Tuesday in the White House.

This annual event is where the SJC gives recognition to several social justice activists who we feel show the living spirit, the dedication, and the principles expressed within our precious common heritage represented by the American Revolutionary writings of Thomas Paine. Paine was the author of “Common Sense”, “The Crisis Papers”, The Rights of Man”, and “The Age of Reason”, and "Agrarian Reform". Each award has unique language for work of the individual being rewarded.

For your heartfelt commitment to end war by standing for Peace through Justice; For your courage in actions against Drone warfare and the repression of Whistle-Blowers; For your exemplary vision of a Sustainable Mother Earth and for a Society based on Universal Human Rights; We recognize you as being TRULY in the Living Tradition And the SHINING SPIRIT of TOM PAINE.

The Tom Paine Courageous Spirit Awards were held on January 29, 2016 in Historic Fellowship Hall 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. 

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