Informative Article posted on Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Website

Published on Thursday, July 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Written by Jeff Cohen

And yet another…war…and another….always money for war….but never enough for indispensible things like education, housing, healthcare….when will we wake up Americans?

At least among many people I know, there will be a mass exodus from doing business with AT&T after reading this article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

Today at the most war-glorifying, soldier-heroing ceremony ever – the ceremony that repeatedly bellowed the lies of this war of spreading freedom & democracy while protecting our freedom & democracy – we stand in the middle of the parade route and represent the voice of peace. We (including our 77 yr. old elder) are spit on, screamed at, threatened, materials snatched from our hands & ripped up, as we stand on the grounds of peace.

Why is the hard fought, 35 years of work by the alternative organic community at risk?

The vital issue at stake is something called “net neutrality” – it is the concept that that everyone, everywhere, should have free, universal and non-discriminatory access to all the Internet has to offer.

With the recent victories against the inane California Propositions proposed by Arnold Swarzenneger, it got me thinking about a repeal of proposition 227. Back in 1998 California Proposition 227 essentially banned bilingual education in schools throughout California. This amounted to a vicious assault, primarily against Spanish speaking immigrants, spearheaded by then Republican governor Pete Wilson [...]

“While magic as I understand it is more a craft than an art or a science, the basic principle holds. The medium of magic is consciousness — one’s own consciousness, that of other people, and (more controversially, at least within the worldview of modern industrial culture) that of other-than-human entities of various kinds. The tools of magic are will, imagination, and the innate structures of consciousness itself, constellated through formal patterns of symbol and ritual. The goals of magic are defined by the individual magician.”

–John Michael Greer

The following comes to me via Freepress.net. It is the prepared text for Bill Moyers’ eloquent speech to the National Conference for Media Reform on May 15, 2005. The event in St. Louis was organized and hosted by Free Press.net

I was just thinking about Andrei’s latest blog Taking a Vow of Connectedness and how many of us share love for the various creatures that inhabit this existence with us. I received this image of my Cat Irie today, taken by my friend Jane Pereda. I offer this image as a simple example of our [...]

i rise in the morning…

Alexander Gorlov’s helical turbine, a device that’s 100 inches long and resembles “an oversize beater from an old handheld mixer,” can harness kinetic energy from any body of water, including canals, open oceans, and rivers.

Facism Anyone?

If you thought news about the Bush government in action could not get creepier, here are two related updates from the Organic Consumers Association

Who are all of these people …

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

–Cesar Chavez

Old pond…

Pitch-black Eucalyptus tower above us; dark sentinels against the ambient light of the city.

Even before the Patriot Act was enacted, the FBI had the power to conduct surveillance of people who were suspected of engaging in criminal activity.

Time moves geologically across our hearts and minds, our physical existence weathering choices and experience. We rise and fall in our individual eternities

The intimate 135-seat North Beach venue is an elegant setting for Nalley, who is fast becoming internationally known for her breathtaking charisma; an assured vocal style wholly her own, and every bit the chanteuse of the 1930’s and 40’s.

Huun-Huur-Tu I am galloping across grassy Siberian steppes on a bronze colored horse. Glancing backwards, alluvial plains and arid plateaus of Mongolia have receded into resonant after images and lingering sepia dust. The musical illuminations I transport are extraordinarily rare and beautiful. I carefully adjust the leather straps of my rucksack, and then tuck pearl [...]

Marc Bathmuthi Joseph “Racism got off on his own P.R., said, I’m the star of this show, here y’ go. Nothing to say until Capitalism slipped into the frame, ‘hey baby what’s your name?’ Racism spitting game, but Capitalism was looking-she flipped in on him like he was a two-bit hooker. He took her and [...]

I enjoy how Mr. Collins bares his soul, moving imaginatively and fancifully through time, poking fun at history, himself, the laws of allegory, gravity and metaphor…

Thank You For Gifts Received I do not have a specific driving force as I enter into the great Blog of it all, except to say that I am honored to be invited to share my thoughts with the collective “you” who converge here. I have received many blessings from friends and family. This moment [...]