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Just wanted to share a site with folks that I recently came across. SHFT was co-founded by Adrien Grennier (Entourage) and is a great example of someone putting their exposure and notoriety to good use in a beneficial way.
Climate Campaign to Asheville, NC ~ November 30, 2011
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, The Global Warming Reader, and other defining books
on the environment has become a galvanizing force in American politics. McKibben will be speaking
at UNCA's Lipinsky Hall on Wednesday , November 30th as part of his current national tour. This free program begins at
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
The seed planted, grows, flowers, withers and dies; its joy of beauty brought to the living eye, needless to its purpose or reason to decry, for it is the nature of Being, that it is most alive.
Life gives us many opportunities to explore the unknown and known sections of our universe. For some of us we take pride in rediscovering new aspects of the known and for others discovering aspects we don't even know we don't know. All of Humanity has the desire to discover, this pioneering aspect of life is what gives us vigor and accomplishment.
I spent several hours sitting in front of the White House this past weekend. It was a nice day, save for a little rain. It happened that on that same day, 242 other everyday normal individuals (mothers, fathers, teachers, students, clergy, and even a WWII veteran) chose to sit there with me, calm and peaceful, in front of the of the Presidential Mansion.
Got to know about this from your flyer @ Baldy 2nd floor, UB. I really did not expect to find anything remotely metaphysical there. Most UB students are degree zombies who are too steeped in the material world to care about raising their consciousness.
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense!  When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won't be separate powers anymore.
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Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? … are things so bad?
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Sky thunderous, dark; the river raging black
Trembling land under foot, starting to crack
Rolling ominous clouds, lightening clap
Will the day’s sun ever come back
How long will tumultuous conditions last
Human patience for change is wanning fast
Resources to survival limited by contrast
Political will to remedy scarce, but much bombast
We all enjoy clean air and don't have enough of it. Fifty years ago, you could see from miles away. Now we are lucky if we can see just down the road. But there is good news.
The Canary Coalition, based in Sylva, NC, is a fantastic organization. They are doing great work to change the poor air quality. But that costs money, unfortunately. I wish it were different, but that is how it is.
At the Tate Modern in London, British Petroleum seeks to capture our imagination by hitching its BP sunflower logo to the Miro exhibit. The artistic experience is then reduced to a dangerously passive consumerism. Only the Earth itself, a kind of freak storm inside, can free us from such a damaging lie.
We tried to let all the victimized life of BP come through us on Monday.
In recent days we have challenged the devils in the Deutschbank in Dusseldorf, and the ING and UBS in Amsterdam, and HSBC in Liverpool - laying our hands on the cash machines and calling our demons. What are these exorcisms? Why these muscular hexing prayers at the ATM? Of course the big banks have their famous bad practices - redlining, foreclosures, demolitions of communities.
This excellent youtube speaks about outer upcoming July 4th celebration. What will we really celebrate? Let's make a healthier world. Please take a look.
What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, this is now an American fact of life. Yes - corporate researchers have discovered a circuit in our brains that actuates our shopping.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
