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"We have to get ready for it." ...
The Earth Is Full
Paul Gilding, former head of Greenpeace and now a freelance activist, social entrepreneur and 'economic transformation' advocate, says his personal mission and purpose is to signal the warning that a transition of society and a shift towards more sustainable economies and energy systems is the primary fight of the 21st century.
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This crisis is coming. But we can cope with the crisis. It's going to be ugly and messy, but we can cope with the crisis." Despair must be replaced with determination and mobilization, Gilding says, "We have to get ready for it."
On every level...
Beekeepers Fear Harmful Effects Of Pesticides
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Beekeepers say a new pesticide is killing bees.
Hunh....
The thing is, you can't really leave Occupy, for the simple reason that Occupy has no borders.
It's not an organization. It has no membership. It has no mandatory events. The whole discussion of what is and what isn't Occupy has always been spurious. Occupy is everything that calls itself "Occupy" and everything that someone else calls "Occupy," which is, more or less, everything. And, anyway, I still attend the occasional meeting, drop by Union Square to say "hi" to friends.
But I did stop working actively on the movement, and I stopped because two things changed. First, as deeply and wholeheartedly as I continue to respect those who are still devoting themselves to OWS, I came to think that the movement was not moving in a direction that I wanted to go; that the internal problems I'd been struggling with since I arrived (more on this soon) were getting worse, not better and that those problems were not isolated or incidental but were in fact coded into the cultural and ideological foundations of the movement. Second, I suddenly lost all appetite and energy for the work I was doing on the movement; with very little warning, I went from indefatigable to torpid.
It is these two transitions that I hope to explore through these posts. I am not the only one to have stepped back from the movement, in the past couple months. Many devoted activists have gone their separate ways lately, and if we hope someday to build a stronger movement, we'd better think hard about why this has happened. But let the impatient beware: I can't explain all this in a hurry.
But then there's also this....
How Occupy Wall Street Plans to Take Down Bank of America--And How You Can Help
Never look away...
Documents show Britain initiated extraordinary rendition of Libyan woman
Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, she says, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher. They taped her stomach, her arms and then her chest. She was bound tight, unable to move.
Chris Hedges thought provoking as usual...
The Real Health Care Debate
“We have the solution, we have the resources and we have the money to provide lifelong, comprehensive, high-quality health care to every person,” Dr. [Margaret] Flowers said when we spoke a few days ago in Washington, D.C. Many Americans have not accepted the single payer approach “because people get confused by the politics,” she said. “People accept the Democratic argument that this [Obamacare] is all we can have or this is something we can build on.”
A word to the wise is infuriating.
~Hunter S. Thompson
Apologies for the delay and the skeletal news links. We're on hippie time this morning, but we're. still. here. What's happening in your world?