Many thanks to Dianne Rhodes for collecting, assessing and donating – excellent material for understanding today’s world. The “library” is at my place; half of it is lent out. Most of the items are available at your local Library, too. Get a video, invite 4 friends to come over and watch it with you! Len is adding a couple […]
short video, an excellent tool for citizens who are re-claiming democracy, popularized by the Occupy Movement. Explanation from Wikipedia is appended. 350.org Have you seen the 1% get “mike check’d” yet? If not, you’ve got to see this video–Ohio State students rock the human microphone at a gas fracking conference, promising we won’t stop until […]
Leo writes: The first of this movie is more or less new to me. The last half is something most of us guessed was the problem, but it is so well explained and illustrated, be sure to watch all of it. Sandra speaking: The movie is 2 hours. Click on the icon in the bottom-right […]
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1122020/monsanto_bayer_and_dow_face_trial_for_systematic_human_rights_abuses.html Matilda Lee 16th November, 2011 Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal accuses biotech giants Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont and BASF of promoting dangerous pesticides including endosulfan, paraquat and neonicotinoids The world’s major agrochemical companies, Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont and BASF, will face a public tribunal in early December accused of systematic human rights violations. They […]
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch […]
“Successful social movements are emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, and involve the dedicated efforts of many people, each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions.” MORE, KORTEN”S WORK: 2010-05-07 David Korten, Agenda for a New Economy. The revolt against Wall Street, Around the world. 2011-02-22 Korten, David
CONTENTS “OCCUPY POLICE” GROUP IN THE U.S. (FOLLOWS ON HEELS OF “OCCUPY MARINES”) OCCUPY MARINES, OCCUPY POLICE, TRIGGERING ALARM BELLS IN THE CENTRES OF POWER?? (a, b, c, d) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 1. “OCCUPY POLICE” GROUP IN THE […]
I would like everyone to read “Women Who Run with the Wolves”! Google — there’s lots of information. Here are the first two articles I tried, both excellent: http://www.radiancemagazine.com/issues/1994/wolves.html Women Who Run with the Wolves An interview with author and analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés By Isabella Wylde From the Radiance Winter 1994 Issue “I am […]
From an excellent website: Marge Piercy: The Low Road (from We Are Everywhere) The Low Road What can they do to you? Whatever they want.. They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can’t walk, can’t remember. they can take […]
Thanks to Hart who writes: There is a German custom at the year end: dropping molten lead into a bucket of water. The resulting lead shapes are used to predict the future. The German paper “Die Zeit” had a short article this morning about experts’ predictions of the future. A much better article with the […]