More and more I am convinced that all of life is about learning how to live with this amazingly heavy and inspiring responsibility.

Wonder what’s going on?

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

We have to re-think our escape to canada….

There are realms of my life and work that are apparently separate, but they are beginning to merge in unexpected ways. I do not know where it is leading. I remain cautiously optimistic.

For a moment there, it felt like a turn around. As if fascism, that hate that permeates American discourse, was taking it on the chin.

Join OCA and Food and Water Watch June 19-25, to take the Starbucks challenge and protest or leaflet Starbucks cafes in your neighborhood. Let’s educate Starbucks’ patrons about Fair Trade and rBGH. Help us reach our goal of 300 actions!

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.

It’s funny, isn’t it, that when you find your self saying ‘it’s all good’; it rarely ever is.

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

Understandably the thought of “Controlling the Internet” appears to be a daunting task. In fact; could they do that? Isn’t there a hodgepodge of networks and technologies that is this wonderful melting pot for the whole world to share in? And it’s diversity almost impossible to control because of it’s complexity?

As of now, the simple answer to that is:
YES
They can control all of that.

I recently came across some of the new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoners. I found myself thinking – I know that there are good people out there who are supportive of our current leadership, but I cant help but feeling that these people are truly not paying attention at a common sense level.

V-Day 2006: Until the Violence Stops. I was given the privilege to be part of the cast of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler, presented on the campus of the University of Utah last night and benefiting programs for the prevention of violence against women and girls here in Utah. Although I have seen the Vagina Monologues 3 or 4 times previously, it was incredibly moving to be part of the cast representing women of different ages from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This experience moved me to post on DS after a long absence.

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 who [...]

We’re do I start again?

I just got back from the Green Festival, and boy am I ready to take this fight to the next level.

“If I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus,” wrote Parks. “I was tired of giving in.”

I had to re-post this list. Love DOES make a marriage.

This will give you a little insight to what these California propositions are and why they could be irreversibly detrimental to public eduation.

This is just a snapshot into the differences between public and private schools, and what would happen if we let vouchers enter the picture.

For the first time in history, a marriage equality bill has passed through a state legislature. The bill could reach Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk this week.
The Governor has indicated that he will veto this historic legislation.

Tonight I had a vision.
I’m one who acts out their vision.
I’ve decided that starting next Monday I will walk to work. I will retire my car. I will retire using oil.
I can survive without oil. Can you?
I will contact the LA Times. I will tell them what I’m doing. I [...]

“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

Mandatory reading programs are stifling teacher and student creativity. Are we really raising “factory model” children? What impact to the reading programs that we are required to teach have on the WHOLE child?

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.

What do you want? A headline? Just read it!

The special election is coming up, and here’s something our governator is proposing for teachers…