A political page
January 2003
Published on Sunday, January 26, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
The Human Cost
'Does Tony Have Any Idea What the Flies are Like That Feed Off the Dead?'
by Robert Fisk
And we had 100+ people in an anti-war march in LONGMONT on Saturday the 25th.
November 2002
After the elections. There are glimmers of hope: go Nancy Pelosi!
"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
I am going to stop collecting things. Not because they no longer need collecting, but because I am doing other things.
Read
Common Dreams and
Indymedia. Listen to
BBC radio. Don't give up the struggle for peace.
September 2002
From
http://www.oocities.org/pierremal/LCJD/events.htm
Longmont Citizens for Justice and Democracy will hosted a peaceful demonstration at 6th and Main in Longmont starting at 5 pm on the evening of September 11, 2002. We feel the correct response to the tragedy that occurred last year, claiming the lives of American and later Afghani civilians, should be one of peace and self-reflection as a nation. We oppose a war against Iraq. Like minded people are invited to join us. At 6:30 pm we marched peacefully to Small Circle Imports at 1139 Francis Street for an evening of silence, meditation, and prayer for peace for all people.
JUly 2002
Yes, Virginia there are liberals in Longmont :
Longmont Citzens for Justice and Democracy
May 2002
A sinus infection and other things kept me from doing this month - but the world went on without me.
I moved earlier notes to a separate page: click on 2002, Jan-Apr: notes on the War for early 2002. click on 2001 notes on the War to go there.
Israel has weapons of mass destruction. Nobody mentions that.
"There is a real lesson in this. If you scratch the surface of the poll numbers about Bush and Ashcroft's overwhelming support, you get down to a lot of people with a lot of questions. Some of them are afraid that they are alone in what they are thinking. What it takes to get them excited and to get them involved is for them to see someone standing up so that they will know they are not alone."I don't know why it's dated 17 days early??"
For the distinctive feature of all the programs the administration has pushed in response to real problems is that they do little or nothing to address those problems.
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January 2001
Hail to the Thief
September 2000
World Bank Protest in Prague
OK..let's start the new millenium by FREEING Leonard Peltier!
Today the International Treaty banning land mines went into effect. But the United States is not a signatory state.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: WILPF.
Checkout Granny D's page
I'm Granny D, and in my 89th year, I am walking across America from California to Washington, D. C. I shall walk about ten miles a day. Call me crazy, call me God-sent, I am on a crusade. My purpose is to create a groundswell for Campaign Finance Reform to eliminate the cancer. My goal is to convince Congress that We, The People, do care about Campaign Finance Reform.
This page was inspired by two things: A KGNU sponsored talk by Noam Chomsky and reading The Reinvention of Work : A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time by Matthew Fox.
Noam Chomsky spoke (among other things) about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International is a good place to start reading about it.
He also spoke about the Multilateral Agreement on Investing(MAI).
And Matthew Fox? He speaks about reconnecting a person's work to the work of the cosmos and doing meaningful work (as opposed to a job). These pages are my hobby, but starting here I try to make it also an effort to communicate some of the work that needs to be done, and that communication becomes part of my own meaningful work.
This doesn't mean I don't see my "day job" as meaningful: I do, and I think it even connects to Fox's paradigm. But working this page gives me a more direct cnnection to the work of the universe.
An analogy: I am a t'ai chi player. T'ai chi is (among a lot of other things) about connecting to the earth. I can get connected through several layers even when I do t'ai chi in a hotel room 10 stories up, but I feel slightly more connected doing t'ai chi barefoot on the ground. I don't often have the opportunity, but once in a while I take it. This page is the "barefoot t'ai chi" of my work in the world.
Other good pages:
UNICEF report on
The State of the World's Children
Tim Weaver pointed me to COLORS MAGAZINE . Vol 29 was on toys...nice graphics, but dig down and learn about how land mines are the Furbys of Afghanistan.
The Engaged Buddhist Dharma Page . Send the Dalai Lama an e-birthday card!
An excellent article from the American Psychological Association on
Hate Crimes Today:
An Age-Old Foe
In Modern Dress.
A Frontline story on Jesse Jackson.
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