What Are You FOR?: A Call For Your Stories Of Local Progress
Good morning, my dear friends of c99. Please consider posting your stories of personal and local progressive activism and success. I yearn to read them. What are you or folks in your area doing to make things work? It would help make c99 a place where local progressive victories are celebrated. Below I will tell you more about one such conversation I had yesterday with one of my new friends here on c99 below as an example.
In the thread of yesterday's discussion of a drawing my daughter had made for me of my "tree of consciousness," Muddy Boots told us and showed us lovely photos of how she and her friends (you can tell it was her inspiration from out of her spiritual practice) have transformed their little corner of the urban hellscape into an oasis of peace, laughter, community, companionship filled with nature: a new redwood tree, plants, birds, all manner of furry friends, an so on. I hope she will post more about this amazing story of local progressive success. Meanwhile, you could see her photos in the thread
I ask for your stories of local success for what seems to me to be an important reason. Please forgive me for a few paragraphs of blunt talk.
Here is what the c99 Community Page looks like every day.
The page consists mainly three topics:
* The awful news about everything awful in America = Scream
* The awful news about how awful TOP is = Scream
* The awful news about how awful the Democratic Party/Clinton Machine is = Scream
This is very understandable. The whole of the U.S.A. is doing this for all the reasons you folks write about every day on c99 - and everywhere one goes. America's scream is heard daily and nightly around the world. And there's more screaming to come as the GOS refugees flee here over the coming months. It sure would be helpful if we could move from The Scream to something like this:
Now this is something one could work from :=)
The only way to move from The Scream to Oh Shit (let's fix it) is to focus, as it always is, on what we can control.
What can we control?
* Our selves
* Our local community
* Our c99
That. Is. It. That's what we can control.
All right then, let's get to work.
Please consider posting stories about your personal progress and your local community's progress. Tell us what folks are making work. If we could do this, over time the community page will fill up with success stories that inspire us to work for progressivism, alongside the stories of The Scream and the stories of Oh Shit!
Whaddayasay?
Peace be with us, if we work for it with peaceful hearts (usual disclaimer: if I was any good at it, I wouldn't have to say it).
gerrit
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We have a lot to learn from one another.
By posting our "memoirs of activism, activity, and life," we can help each other through good times and bad. I've found lots of support from many of the people here. We all have stories. I have journals filled with my life and the trials and tribulations I've been through and all the horrible things I've been through that haven't killed me but only made me stronger.
We are all decompressing from TOP. I get that. I still go over there and dance a bit from time to time. But this is my new place to hang out. My loyalty lies here. My loyalty lies with all of you who have been such a wonderful and supportive community. We've got something special going on here - let's run with it; let's fold it over us like a quilt to comfort us; let's have each other's backs.
Love you all!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
It is about self awareness
I have to go - I am a landscaper and last thing yesterday the guys stuck a metal stake through the water line to the house and the client had no water last night. Oh shit! We tried two fixes, but it is a new kind of plumbing and I need to not only get the blue plastic pipe, but 3/4" id not 3/4" od. So many variations in the world.
But they had a sister who lived just down the street and so they did their business down there. We are not alone in these cities. One of my favorite movie lines of all time was Crocodile Dundee in NY city - "New York must be the friendliest place on earth! Imagine 8 million people wanting to live together!"
and for the record I am a dude - that is me in the avatar pic.
I agree with Gerrit 100% - we need stories of success and community. I strongly suspect you are all surrounded by them if you looked.
"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back" - Regina Brett
Woah, Muddy B! Good luck eh. TY again for hte pics yesterday
they were a big morale boost to me.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
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Another job another friend
So we ended up replacing the water service in copper. Not that big a deal, but what they had was way outside code. I don't generally do water service lines - I leave that to plumbers. But they had no water and I could. And I did not charge much - they are retired and friends of friends. And we end up visiting and having the greatest time and Dave got to see my wee oasis and will bring his wife by and I have some plants that need a home I will give them and they gave me a great book to read and our daughters went through the same school only two years apart.
And all day long neighbors of theirs would stop by and everyone knew each other, and they all came in the back to see the wee patio we put in. Dave needs to build another planter box and Carol needs to do some planting, but the space is all laid out now. It works really well. We made a spave for a table and chairs and/or a bench, leaving another space for a ping pong table for the grandkids and lots of space for plants under the orange tree. All the neighbors loved it.
Some days life is good, even when it starts from oh shit!
"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back" - Regina Brett
Very cool, MuddyB. Your Oasis is growing so well. Ty for updt
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
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Let's Use this Space to Identify Interests and Organize
Environment and resiliency are two things that I am willing and able to write about. Been struggling with managing my time... hundreds of articles a day to sift through and summarize. But once I get the swing of it, I'll be putting out recent enviro news summaries regularly. It's all about getting into the rhythm. Gerrit, I know you and others also feature environmental issues.
I know some contributors do so in comments. What are some of the other topics that writers are willing to cover weekly or even a daily short post?
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
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Ty CuzRA, so much wisdom: Rumi once said that, "when I was
young I sought to change the world; now that I am wiser, I seek to change myself." (from memory) "We see the world, not as the world is, but As We Are." (I forgets who said that) Change ourselves and the world changes.
All the freaking and shrieking at the world doesn't change a dog damned thing. I want to read stories of how folks changed themselves and their surroundings.
I know already what Clinton is: no one has to hammer that all day long - it's like dogs barking in the night. Tell me how you're progressing in your world.
Ty my friend; give CuzR.andy my best.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Cross-posted comment on NCTim's OT for today
I'm invested in the success of c99. That success depends on content and community (above and beyond a refuge from the GOS). During this transition, though, people who have felt silenced do need to bit of screaming room. I like meaty content, but sometimes we need to just rox/sux/rant. My main issue is that the rox/sux is drowning out the meaty content. And much of that rox/sux are short clips/paragraphs, not essays that would be better in a daily thread. So, I ask, should we start a new daily OT called The Daily Scream and encourage everyone to focus their outrage at GOS in there?
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
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TBinWDC, big TY for this. I asked the same yesterday. Pls keep
asking. I got a no, but if lots of us ask, maybe it would make a difference. We could put the Munch Sream as the picture so folks'd know that is the Screaming Chapel: a safe place where they -an d the hordes of wounded to come - can scream safely.
Meanwhile, I've stuck a piece of duck tape over the left sidebar with all the comment screams. That does help.
You know, I just got back from the doc, who fixed my PTSD meds; then I had an anxiety attack outside the pharmacy (I can't go into pharmacies) while the pharmacist ewok screwed up my meds script. I am so grateful for my Lovie, who got me home safe. Well, it's time to gird up the old loins - with my trusted therapy dog beside me - my golden called Lady. We got work to do for the progressive cause. We get knocked down, we shake our heads, and get up, chin up, and keep going. There is no other way to victory. We have to work for happiness, work for the good - there is no free lunch; it's pay as you go and pay things forward when we can.
I so very much appreciate you comment: it means a lot to me. Best wishes, eh
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
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Well, Gerrit, I put the offer in the OT, let's see if its a go
Cross your fingers! And that people use it. I could even see it turning into more of a weekly thing as time goes on. And we'll all need to work to make sure it doesn't turn into a place to revel in the noxious. But for now, people are about to explode.
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
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TBinWDC, TY. I posted my sidebar duck tape tip in the OT.
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3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Speaking from a personal observation
I would like to see someone or multiple someones write a regular essay (once a week or more often) on environmental issues.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Oh yes, gg! TrueBlue put up a great post this week and is
willing to keep on if folks like it.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
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So much good stuff here I hardly know where to start . . .
I had your tree with me all day yesterday and was able to come back to the trunk many times. It helped.
I have been meaning to write an essay about how coming to this community from dk has already brought me to new hope. It's a dramatic change in outlook. Journals like this one are a big part of it.
It was also very helpful for to read the essay from a fellow who left dk several years ago about the somewhat organized effort to spread misinformation and discouragement on progressive websites. I lost track of this essay and can't find it again. I believe that is true. The republican trolls are much more obvious, but those who appear to be liberal, yet are sowing weeds among the wheat . . . they are dangerous. So your essay here about focusing on the positive stuff, that's how we can respond to the "liberal trolls" and move forward in hope.
As for my personal stories about local progress . . . I live in Texas . . . enough said. We are way way behind. I believe it is mostly due to the doctrines and leaders of fundamentalist religion here. They teach that you are not supposed to go against the preachers or people in authority. If you do, god will kill you (they don't say it so bluntly, but that is the communicated message.)
Among my friends here however (who vote in all directions), progressive values are really at the heart of what they believe. It is a weird paradigm. I think they will ultimately catch on.
Personally, I have roped off a 12 x 70 ft area where I intend to take my tractor and dig an 8 ft hole for an underground Walipini greenhouse. Just wrote to a company in Canada for a quote on a Tube Netting Roll (Hiperadobe/Superadobe) for making earth bags. Hoping my husband will jump on board with the plan soon. Probably will, since he loves new projects and digging holes with the tractor.
On the progressive political front, my teenage children are all excited about Bernie. Daughter and I went to hear him live, and son watches TYT on YouTube, etc. And my husband voted for Bernie in the primary (although that was mostly a vote against Hillary).
We do what we can do.
Thanks to everyone at c99 for the technical work and excellent writing. I look forward to reading your work every day now!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Glad to hear you are in Texas
I am as well. So happy to hear from you. Looking forward to hearing the techniques that work for your gardening. I also went to see Bernie in Austin. He had a very good crowd.
Oh Marilyn, thank you. Ty also for the greenhouse plan -
when we share our little effort, we inspire each other. When I'm cursing my mortise attachment in the garage working on the cradle for our first hip-high planter box, I can know that Marilyn and hubby are down there in dogforsaken Texas working on their greenhouse. I struggle to finish projects: if it's not a bad, bad night's sleep, its PTSD screwing up my thought-processes so I can't remember what's next, or anxiety attacks, yada yada. We just keep coming back to it, keep trying and it gets done cause we won't give up.
My planter box is cedar: 4x2 ft with drain, tube, and bucket, hip-high pressure treated wood cradle, big-ass casters, and a removable bar for the 4-ft grow lamps. It's gonna live on the deck in summer and in Lovie's sewing room in winter. It's for salad greens, seedlings, etc. I hope to get it done soon and put up a pic.
I know - hydroponics, that's next. But Lovie's a fingers-in-the-dirt girl, so this is for her.
I'm so happy for meeting you and the handful of other folks here who prefer working to yelling. I'm here to help share our work with each other. Knowing you are down there helps me.
Take good care there among the nutters. Those fools down there took the hardy Longhorn cattle their ancestors handed them and messed the breed up so much, I hear there's only about a 1000 or so pure Longhorns left. Madness.
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Speaking of hip high gardens . . .
Absolutely!
I am 58 and there is no crawling on the ground for me anymore. My potatoes are planted in a ground level bed watered by greywater, but everything else is up. In my current 7 x 16 ft green house I have everything planted in plastic trashcans with holes in the bottom. Growing tomatoes, peppers, basil, malabar spinach, and dill. Outside - we didn't have the polar vortex this year (temps in the teens), but rather have had unseasonally hot weather outside - I have 5 raised circular beds (originally keyhole gardens, but I later took out the hole). Two are 6 ft in diameter built of cinder blocks, they other 3 are built from the sides of my old above ground pool. I have cabbage, broccoli, carrots, parsnips, beets (I hope) swiss chard, onions, garlic, green beans, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, sage, rosemary, and kale. Everything looks great now. Picking carrots, herbs, cabbage, broccoli, and swiss chard now. But . . . if those 100 degree temps come too soon, it will all be dead.
The best thing about the keyhole garden concept for Texas is that you make your own dirt. You fill up your 4 ft. high structure with layers of cardboard, paper, manure, leaves, grass clippings . . . whatever . . . put potting type soil on the top . . . throw in some earth worms . . . and magic . . you have great soil! Our soil in the ground is horrible alkaline stuff.
I have rambled a bit. I really enjoy your essays and look forward to them. Thank you.
marilyn
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Morning Marilyn, these gardening structures sound amazing!
Could you take some photos for us? Maybe we could have an OT one weekend where folks could show photos of their gardening structures, eh? That'd be cool.
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Although its nothing big...
The positive steps I've taken:
I have cleared a patch of my yard for growing food this season. I wanted to start raising chickens, but that might have to wait for next year, the initial investment might be too larger for now. Planted some fruit trees last year, we'll see how they do.
My goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible in my suburban neighborhood, until I can afford to move into the country.
I make my monthly Bernie donation, of course, and a few other Progressive causes.
I'd love to find some more ways to be more involved in my area, though. I live in Maryland, a fairly progressive state, but my district is largely conservative as it includes part of the Eastern Shore.
Ty for htis, haiku. We're in the same situation. I'm in a little
village working on self-sufficiency hoping to move to an acreage when our youngest finishes local high school next year. It so good to meet people like you who are working towards the same goal. TY again.
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Gratitude for this topic Gerrit.
And a sigh of relief. It's like a call to the community. 'Let's get to work for our collective benefit.'
I am going to tell you one infinitesimal thing I am doing. Nothing earth-shattering or ambitious, very small and laughable but with larger implications. People like Rumi would appreciate this action and see the joke. In keeping with the notion that we probably take ourselves too seriously all the while forgetting what is really important, I started this project. I, like many others, feel like I am just fumbling in the dark, trying to figure out this life. So here is my big action that I am actually taking the time to brag about......I'm fermenting my own sauerkraut. I don't know a damn thing about it .....my first experiment.
Let me explain a bit why I think there are larger implications. I have always, even as a small child, connected to, and been awe-struck by nature. So that predilection has set me on the pathway to......sauerkraut (as well as other things). It's about connecting to nature by growing our own food and seeing the need, in no uncertain terms to respect the planet. Then, it is about taking that food and preserving it in a sustainable way (no refrigeration required).
My inspiration for this project came directly from a book. A very excellent book (one I highly recommend) called 'The Art of Fermentation' by Sandor Katz. In the introduction Katz lays out a philosophy that resonates absolutely with me and, I think, with members of this community.
He goes on (for pages) but I will try to glean the most pertinent aspects:
So that is just a taste of this book. It is such a rich source and the author is so enthusiastic that I just have to love him. His philosophy is the one I would like to emulate, learn from, and embrace. It is very like the one you Gerrit seem to espouse.....the one that says.....let's get to work and do it the right way. Cheers.
Sauerkraut
randtntx
You will enjoy making sauerkraut! This is the third year I have made it. Fermentation is also great for dill pickles.
Three things I learned . . .
Good luck!
Marilyn
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Somewhat in a similar home-made attempt,
last year I tapped 5 of my maple trees near the house, collected sap and made maple syrup. Several trials along the way. I discovered that it is very hard for 60-ish me to carry 5 gal buckets of sap through three feet of snow. And to handle those further. My setup was rather unprofessional. I only made enough for me, I wasn't planning to go into production. But I did it all myself. And now have the knowledge to do it again, and ideas on how to do it better. This year I will see if the logs I inoculated with mushroom mycelia will give me edibles. In the woods, fresh logs are always a possibility. A minimal investment for a relatively expensive bought product.
[the phoebes arrived last night!!!]
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I don't know what phoebes are riverlover.
I'm thinking they are those little flying insects that fish love to eat. You seem to be happy about their arrival though, so I assume that is good. Your maple syrup project is very neat. I can't do that down here in Texas but I'm wondering about your mushroom project. I love mushrooms and would like to try cultivating some if I could.
Phoebes are actually birds ;)
They signify the first migration in after the robins and the redwing blackbird males. They have very loud FEE BEE calls. All summer. Gets annoying after a while. They build nests on protected projections like par lights.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Ha, I like that
I was at least right about the flying part. I will have to listen for the characteristic FEE BEE call next time I am up north.
Mushrooms and Texas
I am in Texas too, and would love to grow mushrooms! All of my attempts thus far have failed. I did buy one of those kits made with coffee grounds and hung it in my kitchen. We had one little crop. When you watch YouTube videos on mushroom growing, it seems like most of those folks are in Canada. I did see one guy from Texas having success and another from New Mexico. Maybe we need to bury a shipping container like RaggityAnn is planning to do, and turn it into a mushroom farm?
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
TY riverlover, I'll pass the sauerkraut tips to Lovie. I got an
idea for help with the heavy lifting. Here in Ontario, all the high school kids have to do 40 hours community work to be permitted to graduate. In our village the youngsters help folks all over the village and on the surrounding farms.
Our local school is big on RE. They run solar power from the rooftop and have a Green credit for working in the school's greenhouse and the school's summer farmers market. Its next door. 20 years of army life screwed up my back; as it gives out I'm steadily loses pride and this summer, Lovie's gonna find us some co-op or Greed-credit kids to help me lift stuff.
I hope you could get similar help. Check your local schools for similar programmes.
We got a northside spot that's perfect for mushroom logs. Lovie has her little pretty shade flowers there and she gives me the beady eye when I suggest a spot there for mushroom logs :=) But I'm working on it!
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3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Thanks so much
I appreciate your hints. Will incorporate them into my practice.
I cut my initial batch of cabbage by hand and will definitely taste my sauerkraut daily. We did not plant pickling cukes this year but am going to try and ferment okra this year. My book tells me okra is beautiful that way.
I never thought of doing it with okra . . . thanks!
What a great idea.
I sort of have a love/hate relationship with okra. I like it - pickled, fried, in soup. It likes to be watered, but loves 115 temps. It is the perfect Texas veggie. But when you pick it, that scratchy plant makes you itch forever!
When people tell me . . . "you need to grow what grows in your climate." I'm like . . . "you mean we are supposed to live on frickin okra!!!"
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
I get it, rand. TY for this. I have Sandor's Katz's book too! We
love pickled veggies. That's how food used to be eaten through winter before refrigeration. And will be again - real soon, when the lights start flickering.
We're learning how to pickle. Lovie is great at canning, we got racks of canned food but actual pickling is new to us. We're gonna start pickling farmers market and u-pick veggies this summer and hope to can some of our homegrown veggies this fall.
It's not small what you're doing. It's huge, huge, huge. Corporations and govs want us helpless so they can exploit us. Fighting back is a big undertaking. We handful resiliency workers here on this thread - amidst all the poor screaming darlings - can help each other so much just by sharing our little baby steps. We are walking to freedom, my friend. Best eishes and big TY.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Xeriscaping
In addition to trying to share more environmental news here (and at work), I need to get back to my garden. Last spring/summer was pretty much a wash, but the plants did survive. A few years ago I tried my hand at amateur xeriscaping and put in plants that are regionally appropriate and pretty drought resistant once they are established. I also did some retaining wall work, and a "stormwater friendly" gravel and stepping stone pathway. This year, I need to work on it a bit more. Some of the plants need some TLC, but others are established. The garden this year will be a mix of plants that need watering and others that will survive on rainfall only with a little bit of assistance in extended dry periods.
WDC and other urbanized areas have a problem with stormwater, as you probably guessed from my first environmental news recap earlier this week. It's my goal to reduce runoff from our yard, thus the porous walkways and retaining walls. I'm also working with our landlord to encourage him to get a rainwater barrel to connect to the roof gutters.
Our yard doesn't do well for veggies, too many trees. Tried for a few years to no avail. Very sad.
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
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I've had some luck TrueBlue,
with putting plants in pots on the patio. The mint is fabulous there even in the heat of the summer. I also start some tomatoes in pots there and later, when it gets too hot, move them to a shadier spot.
Ah, how cool is that Gerrit?
Let us know how all that pickling goes. So much to learn, so little time. But it is fun. Next up on my list is to try and ferment some of the herbs an spices I grow like basil, oregano, thyme, sage, etc.
With herbs (the few I can reliably grow)
I like to try vinegar infusions or oil infusions. So easy! Some are actually tasty, and look good in attractive bottles.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Yes, I have read about herbal infusions.
I have yet to try them but will do.
Just Figured Out
You reference to nefarious activity. Duh?
We work together well considering we were completely uncoordinated.
Now is the time for a little herding, before the site personality is disaffected.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Gotcha mate. TY NCTim. I'm gonna pound the drum on that &
post as much practical stuf i can find on my mac. You should see a folder organization on a mac with a 10-yr now ptsd man :=) It's a disatrophe! ( Here we make up words as necessary - that one's from my oldest at 5 yrs old!)
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
I am FOR kittens.
But they seem to keep appearing even without my help.
I am against fracking...but that means I am FOR stopping fracking. It was about two years ago, now, a local activist got word of a company that got a permit in our county to do some exploratory drilling. My partner searched county records to confirm it, and found copies of the permits. I helped her decipher township and range notation to figure out where they were, We then fired up the biplane, armed with a GoPro camera, and flew over the sites to document any activity. None taking place yet...good. Teamed up with another activist friend who had recently been elected to the city council, and got a reporter from Tucson to come down here to our little corner of Arizona for an interview. City Council member, and my partner, were both interviewed on camera, and the spot made it onto the Tucson news. Oil Services company CEO got word of it, denied any plans to do any fracking, or even exploratory drilling. Argued vehemently, sicked lawyers on us...but apparently just by raising awareness of the permit, they lost interest, and left the state. It was a pretty fly-by-night operation anyway (unlike the biplane...which is strictly fly-by-day).
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Fracking and the bizarre
The North Carolina republican super majority, bought and paid for by Art Pope and AFP, never saw an ALEC bill they didn't like. They rammed through a fracking bill and NC has negligible shale deposits. The east already suffers from fertilizer and pesticide contamination of the water tables and is basically sand. We have our first Republican majority, that NC has had in decades and these dimwits are on a vendetta. Among our sponsored bills, was a bill making it illegal to publicize what is in fracking fluids.
I rarely watch TV. My love for the NCAA tournament stimulates majority of my yearly consumption. This year the political advertisements are surreal. Richard Burr, various congress dullards and governor candidates are trying to outflank one another to the right. What a sorry bunch.
I grew up in Western PA. We go back to visit and the drive through WV and PA is infuriating the cancer that is fracking and mountain topping is observable from the highway. I can not imagine living near these pustules. During one of the trips, there was a news story about a fracking services company that caught fire. The company contacted the volunteer fire department and the fire department declined to come on the property. I don't blame them.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
"bowing low...) Wow, Bisbo. Way to frack the frackers!!!
If you have time could you write something or show us some footage? Folks gotta see this.
TY for getting it, as you always do - from way out in front of us :=) 'bowing again" - makes it hard to type...
Take your example: We are against fracking. Sure, that's the easy part. But we are FOR clean earth, water, air, local success, etc, so we work our arses off to stop fracking."
BTW mate, pls help me pound the drum hard to form the "site personality" NOW before it remains an ER=Chapel for the poor darlings. I'm gonna need help. Anyone else too, please....
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My partner was definitely the driving force
on that project...as she had been getting a community garden started, and also in getting the grassroots Bernie movement going in the county. I have to work, and am gone three or four days a week for that...but I support and help her where I can. And I support and will help in giving this place a proper personality, too, Gerrit. I will see what I can come up with for a real essay.
I'm groggy this morning (and last night!) getting back from a difficult three day trip. My biggest concern has long been anti-war...but I will try to come up with something pro-kids growing up with all their fingers, and parents, and friends.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Congratulate her from us, pls. TY, Bisbo and rest up, mate.
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My small contribution
is participation in a weekly Peace vigil at the local courthouse. Our numbers have dwindled down to three of us, me and two octagenarians, one of whom has not been well. I am afraid this might be our last year as it seems that no one is eager to give up their Saturdays to do this.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Oh, that is important work, gg. I wouldl ike to help with such
activities. There's nada here in the boonies, but lots of activism in Ottawa. I want to pull myself towards myself on this issue this summer. I'm also casting about for a way to support our First Nation communities who are keeping out the various nefarious (oops, that rhymes) pipeline projects.
Low bow to you for this important work. I hope you know what a difference it makes in the universe (and in karma). Pass our admiration and regards to the last two elderlies. Thank them for not shouting at the darkness, but light candles instead. Blessings be upon them.
Best wishes,
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.