For all those beautiful people I have spoken with on the phonebanking this morning (and those I will speak with later today and tomorrow!!!) For those wonderful, smart folk who are going out EN MASS to canvas their neighbors and spread the word about the best candidate that has run for the Democratic party nomination in almost 100 years!

I just checked my state's rules to write in Bernie if Shrillary somehow manages to pick up the presidential nomination instead of him.

The Hamlin Marsh Wildlife Management Area is about a mile from my house. At some point, I'm not really sure when, the DEC put in a wheelchair accessible hunting blind. The parking area and trail to the blind, as well as the blind itself, are a prime birding area. All a two minute drive from my front door :).

Hamlin Marsh Wildlife Management Area - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Morning resilience c99ers. Some of you are living in rural areas on acreages. I'm in a village in rural Ontario, planning to buy an acreage next year, when our last child graduates high school. I've made a list of property search criteria for the happy day when we can go look. I wonder if it might be helpful for you, and also if you might have additions, modifications, links, resources, and/or stories of your property search to share.
More below the grass.

The mind control is everywhere. The only way to become more free is by leading an intentional counter-culture lifestyle, practicing daily conscientization in one's own being and using every single opportunity to conscientize one's children.

The single best place to conscientize one's immediate family, especially the children, is the Family Dinner Table. More below.

him in the hallway?

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Pope meets with Bernie Sanders, thanks him for addressing Vatican on the 'moral economy'

Vatican City - Pope Francis met US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday morning before leaving for a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, a participant at the meeting said.

How well do you know the democratic socialism that Bernie is reviving across the continent? When you discuss with friends what Bernie means, do you have the full picture? Corporatist capitalism has erased most of FDR's New Deal democratic socialism and today's people have no memory of it. It is most helpful to have a general overview of the benefits of democratic socialism when talking with capitalist-formed people.
Here's Part One: http://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-democratic-socialism...
This diary series explores the outlines of Bernie's economic philosophy. We do so using a famous book that came out when a young Bernie Sanders was forming his economic philosophy: Small Is Beautiful (1973), by the post-WWII British economist E.F. Schumacher. It is subtitled "Economics As If People Mattered." We follow the four parts of the book very closely and attempt to tie it to Bernie's economics. Have no fear: there's no technical language, or math, or any Marx. Well, it's a long-form essay and the language is from the 70s, but so am I :=) Don't be deterred: read it in stages.

If you'd like to see a town that has transitioned to democratic socialism, see Totnes, a small market town in Devon, England, the town that created the Transition Town movement:
http://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-transition-town-totn...
http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
Please follow me for more below for the democratic-socialist corrective to the dismal science.

Good morning early birds. Here's a little bit of seed for thought over coffee. Tear along the edge for more.