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Thursday, April 11, 2013
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Sunday, April 07, 2013
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A week after crude oil inundated an Arkansas neighborhood, on-site observers describe a Walking-Dead-like scene, reeking and empty but for men in Hazmat suits, where Exxon has imposed something like martial law - taking over every task from wildlife and environmental officials, enforcing a no-fly zone overseen only by an Exxon official, telling residents panicked about their sick kids and plummeting property values nothing at all, virtually banning media coverage of the damage and, today, threatening to arrest an InsideClimate News reporter for criminal trespass when she entered their Command Headquarters looking for information. Her evidently big mistake: Walking up to a table with a sign that said "Public Affairs."
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Auntie Dave: The Daily Bleed a/k/a Disclaimer: 4/4 Dorothy Dix & etc.
listen, you will
hear the deafening song of the stars
a silence brilliant and ringing as ice
a lovesong, it seems, made out of no love
and no song,
and the earth here to hear it.
— Tobey Hiller, "Night"
Industrial Strength Web Version:
http://recollectionbooks.com/
text excerpts:
DOROTHEA DIX
Advocate of humane treatment for so-called "mentally ill."
Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF THE MAGNA OF PHRYGIA,
a reliquary embodied in a small meteorite. An ecstatic
procession with the magna mater in a chariot drawn by
lions, castrated priests leaping & dancing & gashing
themselves to a din of Flutes, cymbals & drums.
______________________________
1802 -- Dorothea Dix lives.
We All Are Born Mad.
Some Remain So.
Reformist, who called attention to "the present state of
Insane Persons confined . . . in cages, closets, cellars,
stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, & lashed
into obedience!"
1812 -- England: Luddite Riots at Stockport;
Mr Goodwin's steam-looms destroyed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1846 -- Lautréamont lives, Montevideo. In French, see Raoul
Vaneigem's "Isidore Ducasse et le Comte de Lautréamont dans
les Poésies,"
http://library.nothingness.
1896 -- Tristan Tzara, French poet/essayist known mainly as
the founder of Dada, lives, Moinesti, Romania.
1914 -- Marguerite Duras lives (1914-1996), Gia Dinh,
Indochina (Vietnam). French novelist, representative
of "nouveau roman", screenwriter, scenarist, playwright,
& film director, internationally known for her screenplays
of "Hiroshima Mon Amour", directed by Alain Resnais
(1959) & "India Song".
She was also member of the French Resistance
during German occupation. Her books include
The Sea Wall; The Ravishing of Lol Stein;
Destroy, She Said.
1914 -- US: Unemployed riot in Union Square, NYC.
1915 -- Blues guitarist Muddy Waters lives.
http://www.muddywaters.com/
1915 -- A blurb in The New York Times (April 4, 1915)
lists a petition of bankruptcy filed against John Rompapas
Books & Postcards at 325 Madison Street in New York.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1958 -- England: 4,000 begin first of what will become
eleven consecutive annual Easter protest marches from
London to Aldermaston AWRE spy base in England.
1967 -- Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against the Vietnam
War & calls for common cause between civil rights &
anti-war movements, Riverside Church, New York City.
1968 -- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, shot & killed
in Memphis while visiting city in support of striking
sanitation workers during the Poor People's Campaign.
Exactly a year ago, addressing a huge anti-war rally he
calls the US government (quote):
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
After today's assassination, African Americans
revolt in more than a hundred US cities.
The government will deploy 75,000 National Guard troops.
When the smoke clears, 39 people are dead & 2,500
injured.
1969 -- US: CBS-TV touches off censorship controversy by its
cancellation of the irreverent & anti-war "The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour."
1977 -- British CBS releases the Clash's self-titled first
album, a 14 song disk containing such punk battle cries as
"White Riot," "Police & Thieves" & "London's Burning."
CBS in the US refuses to release it until 1979 &
even then gets rid of the more virulent songs. Meantime,
Americans buy 100,000 imported copies of "The Clash",
making it one of the biggest-selling import records
of all time.
1984 -- Oceania: Winston Smith opens his journal.
It doesn't look good for our hero.
Thankfully, he has Big Brother to
help him through his difficult times.
1985 -- US: Congress rejects Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Reagan's appeal for support for Nicaragua contras.
His administration provides aid illegally.
Reagan's administration takes to the high ground,
staking out the low ground. Rife with moral
neuters & criminals from top to bottom, it secretly
provides illegal aid. Involves the White House, the
CIA, the military & various other government
departments.
Apparently one must destroy
democracy to preserve democracy...
1999 -- Lower East Side community organizer Armando Perez
dies of injuries suffered in an assault.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, Nov 3, 2009
Slain New York City community, social justice activist.
"Armando was not afraid of death, but no one expects
to find it around the corner in a flurry of blows."
http://www.thevillager.com/
http://tenant.net/Tengroup/
________________
"I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the
line between sanity & madness so many times that
I had all but rubbed it out."
— Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon,
by Roger Zelazny
"I can see that you have a lot to unlearn."
"If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival,
forget it."
— Hugi; Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Courts of Chaos,
Roger Zelazny
" . . . the issue is not whether you're paranoid . . . The
issue is whether you're paranoid enough."
— Max, in Strange Days
"If you hadn't screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin (8:30) to Calvin (6:30)
"I let my mind wander and it didn't come back."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin
"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality
I accept."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin
_______________
DISCLAIMER:
Use of formerly advanced computing technology does not
imply an endorsement of Western Industrial Civilization.
_______________
— Auntie-Disclaimer 1997-7882
hear the deafening song of the stars
a silence brilliant and ringing as ice
a lovesong, it seems, made out of no love
and no song,
and the earth here to hear it.
— Tobey Hiller, "Night"
Industrial Strength Web Version:
http://recollectionbooks.com/
text excerpts:
DOROTHEA DIX
Advocate of humane treatment for so-called "mentally ill."
Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF THE MAGNA OF PHRYGIA,
a reliquary embodied in a small meteorite. An ecstatic
procession with the magna mater in a chariot drawn by
lions, castrated priests leaping & dancing & gashing
themselves to a din of Flutes, cymbals & drums.
______________________________
1802 -- Dorothea Dix lives.
We All Are Born Mad.
Some Remain So.
Reformist, who called attention to "the present state of
Insane Persons confined . . . in cages, closets, cellars,
stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, & lashed
into obedience!"
1812 -- England: Luddite Riots at Stockport;
Mr Goodwin's steam-looms destroyed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1846 -- Lautréamont lives, Montevideo. In French, see Raoul
Vaneigem's "Isidore Ducasse et le Comte de Lautréamont dans
les Poésies,"
http://library.nothingness.
1896 -- Tristan Tzara, French poet/essayist known mainly as
the founder of Dada, lives, Moinesti, Romania.
1914 -- Marguerite Duras lives (1914-1996), Gia Dinh,
Indochina (Vietnam). French novelist, representative
of "nouveau roman", screenwriter, scenarist, playwright,
& film director, internationally known for her screenplays
of "Hiroshima Mon Amour", directed by Alain Resnais
(1959) & "India Song".
She was also member of the French Resistance
during German occupation. Her books include
The Sea Wall; The Ravishing of Lol Stein;
Destroy, She Said.
1914 -- US: Unemployed riot in Union Square, NYC.
1915 -- Blues guitarist Muddy Waters lives.
http://www.muddywaters.com/
1915 -- A blurb in The New York Times (April 4, 1915)
lists a petition of bankruptcy filed against John Rompapas
Books & Postcards at 325 Madison Street in New York.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1958 -- England: 4,000 begin first of what will become
eleven consecutive annual Easter protest marches from
London to Aldermaston AWRE spy base in England.
1967 -- Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against the Vietnam
War & calls for common cause between civil rights &
anti-war movements, Riverside Church, New York City.
1968 -- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, shot & killed
in Memphis while visiting city in support of striking
sanitation workers during the Poor People's Campaign.
Exactly a year ago, addressing a huge anti-war rally he
calls the US government (quote):
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
After today's assassination, African Americans
revolt in more than a hundred US cities.
The government will deploy 75,000 National Guard troops.
When the smoke clears, 39 people are dead & 2,500
injured.
1969 -- US: CBS-TV touches off censorship controversy by its
cancellation of the irreverent & anti-war "The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour."
1977 -- British CBS releases the Clash's self-titled first
album, a 14 song disk containing such punk battle cries as
"White Riot," "Police & Thieves" & "London's Burning."
CBS in the US refuses to release it until 1979 &
even then gets rid of the more virulent songs. Meantime,
Americans buy 100,000 imported copies of "The Clash",
making it one of the biggest-selling import records
of all time.
1984 -- Oceania: Winston Smith opens his journal.
It doesn't look good for our hero.
Thankfully, he has Big Brother to
help him through his difficult times.
1985 -- US: Congress rejects Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Reagan's appeal for support for Nicaragua contras.
His administration provides aid illegally.
Reagan's administration takes to the high ground,
staking out the low ground. Rife with moral
neuters & criminals from top to bottom, it secretly
provides illegal aid. Involves the White House, the
CIA, the military & various other government
departments.
Apparently one must destroy
democracy to preserve democracy...
1999 -- Lower East Side community organizer Armando Perez
dies of injuries suffered in an assault.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, Nov 3, 2009
Slain New York City community, social justice activist.
"Armando was not afraid of death, but no one expects
to find it around the corner in a flurry of blows."
http://www.thevillager.com/
http://tenant.net/Tengroup/
________________
"I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the
line between sanity & madness so many times that
I had all but rubbed it out."
— Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon,
by Roger Zelazny
"I can see that you have a lot to unlearn."
"If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival,
forget it."
— Hugi; Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Courts of Chaos,
Roger Zelazny
" . . . the issue is not whether you're paranoid . . . The
issue is whether you're paranoid enough."
— Max, in Strange Days
"If you hadn't screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin (8:30) to Calvin (6:30)
"I let my mind wander and it didn't come back."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin
"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality
I accept."
— Bill Watterson as Calvin
_______________
DISCLAIMER:
Use of formerly advanced computing technology does not
imply an endorsement of Western Industrial Civilization.
_______________
— Auntie-Disclaimer 1997-7882
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Friday, February 08, 2013
Daily Sniffle 2/8 PROSER ENFANTIN
. . . I heard the song
Of the world's last whale
As I rocked in the moonlight
& reefed the sail.
It'll happen to you
Also without fail
If it happens to me
Sang the world's last whale.
— Pete Seeger
Today's Bleed updated, web page in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0208.htm
excerpts:
PROSER ENFANTIN
Utopianist, Saint-Simonian "Pope",
gender egalitarian.
Japan: MASS FOR BROKEN NEEDLES. Day of rest for needles.
(Don't leave them in your arm, puleeeze!)
NIRVANA DAY (Buddhist).
FEAST OF STANKY BUTTS.
________________________
1878 -- Austria-Hungary: Jewish theologist Martin Buber lives.
"During one of our discussions a classmate pulled
out a copy of Kenneth Rexroth's Bird in the Bush
& read some passages from his essay on Buber. I
immediately borrowed it, devoured it, &
was never quite the same again."
— Ken Knabb, Confessions of a Mild-Mannered
Enemy of the State
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/autobio.htm
1906 -- Henry Roth (1906-) lives. American author who gained
international fame with his novel Call It Sleep (1934).
Other forgotten writers from the 1930s who have been
"rediscovered": Nathanael West, Daniel Fuchs, Edward
Dahlberg, John Peale Bishop, Jack Conroy, Tess Slesinger,
Nelson Algren, Meyer Levin, Albert Halper.
1910 -- Norway: Hans Henrik Jæger, (1854-1910),
writer & anarchist, dies.
"Your face holds all the love in
the world. Moonlight steals across
your face so full of Earthly
beauty & Grief. For now Death
extends her hands of Life & a
band is made between the
thousands of generations who are
dead & the thousands of
generations who are to come"
— Edvard Munch
Nature writhes at a too early dying,
behind the palace the sun hangs ruby red—
We sniffle at the sharp perfume of winter,
and shiver slightly: Hans Jæger is in the air!
— Jens Bjørneboe, excerpt, "Before the Solstice:
Hans Jæger in Memoriam"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/JaegerHans.htm
1912 -- US: IWW free speech fight; vigilantes beat Industrial
Workers of the World organizers for exercising free speech
rights in San Diego, California. Some are tarred & feathered,
forced to kiss the American flag & run out of town by the good
citizens.
1917 -- US: Igal Roodenko, nonviolent activist, lives.
A regular contributor to WIN Magazine.
Roodenko was instrumental in abolishing the chain gang
system when he wrote an expose of it for the New York
Post. Through the years, Roodenko continued to protest
racism & militarism (in 1963 he organized what turned out
to be the first demonstration against U.S. military
involvement in Vietnam) & was arrested at least 10 times
for his stands, even being deported from Poland in 1987.
Biographical piece on Roodenko at Swathmore Library,
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG151-175/dg161irood.html
1921 -- Russia: The "Anarchist Prince," geographer, theorist,
& militant, Peter Kropotkin dies.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lenin offers
a state funeral & burial in Kremlin Wall, which is refused.
100,000 people attend Kropotkin's funeral procession on
Feb. 13 — organized by Alexandre Atabekian & others —
& it is the last non-state-sponsored mass assembly in the
Bolshevik Worker's Paradise for the next 70 years.
____________________________
I remember, said Emma, the cairn on the mountain ridge
a heap of broken stones & broken branches
with tokens attached of horsehair or rag
& the cry: "The waters before us
flow now to the Amur.
No mountains more to cross."
— excerpt from the poem,
"The Death of Kropotkin," by Sir Herbert Read
___________________________
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/KropotkinPeter.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Kropotkin/kropotkinAllStar2.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ReadHerbert.htm
1926 -- US: Neal Cassady (The First Third) lives,
Salt Lick City, Utah. All Mormons seek to emulate him.
1969 -- Leopoldo Méndez (1902-1969) dies.
Méndez was a printmaker, painter &
muralist. Like Posada, he is known
primarily for his politically charged
prints depicting the horrors of war,
struggles of laborers and parodies
of capitalist greed & fascism. He
helped found the long-lived Taller
de Gráfica Popular (TGP) in 1937.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/1999/mendez/
1998 -- Novelist Halldor Laxness, 95, dies, at
a nursing home northwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness
1998 -- Bill Gates has his (free!) pie & eats it too.
The ol' Pie Brigade, it "delivers."
http://www.pieman.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhe0H8RDNcc
2005 -- US: ARTerror? Austrian artist Robert Jelinek —
founder of the artist's collective "Sabotage" — flies in carrying
art & literature for an exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary
Arts Center.
Homeland Security (de Fine Arts Dept.?) confiscates 33
passport-works by artist Heimo Zobernig, educational
leaflets, & personal items from Jelinek.
Officials justify seizing the art because it is "produced by
an anarchy group called Sabotage which does not believe
in international borders."
2006 -- Spain: Ricardo Taddei, an Argentine policeman wanted
for 161 cases of kidnapping & torturing "leftist" dissidents during
Argentina's Dirty War, is arrested after 20-years, in Madrid.
___________
"To live outside the law, you
must be honest."
— Bob Dylan
___________
People are treated like passive objects, not active subjects.
After degrading being into having, the society of the spectacle
has further transformed having into merely appearing.
The result is an appalling contrast between cultural poverty
& economic wealth, between what is & what could be.
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not
die of starvation," Vaneigem asks, "entails the risk of dying of
boredom?"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists
___________
— anti-Entrails, 2013 more or less than more
Of the world's last whale
As I rocked in the moonlight
& reefed the sail.
It'll happen to you
Also without fail
If it happens to me
Sang the world's last whale.
— Pete Seeger
Today's Bleed updated, web page in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0208.htm
excerpts:
PROSER ENFANTIN
Utopianist, Saint-Simonian "Pope",
gender egalitarian.
Japan: MASS FOR BROKEN NEEDLES. Day of rest for needles.
(Don't leave them in your arm, puleeeze!)
NIRVANA DAY (Buddhist).
FEAST OF STANKY BUTTS.
________________________
1878 -- Austria-Hungary: Jewish theologist Martin Buber lives.
"During one of our discussions a classmate pulled
out a copy of Kenneth Rexroth's Bird in the Bush
& read some passages from his essay on Buber. I
immediately borrowed it, devoured it, &
was never quite the same again."
— Ken Knabb, Confessions of a Mild-Mannered
Enemy of the State
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/autobio.htm
1906 -- Henry Roth (1906-) lives. American author who gained
international fame with his novel Call It Sleep (1934).
Other forgotten writers from the 1930s who have been
"rediscovered": Nathanael West, Daniel Fuchs, Edward
Dahlberg, John Peale Bishop, Jack Conroy, Tess Slesinger,
Nelson Algren, Meyer Levin, Albert Halper.
1910 -- Norway: Hans Henrik Jæger, (1854-1910),
writer & anarchist, dies.
"Your face holds all the love in
the world. Moonlight steals across
your face so full of Earthly
beauty & Grief. For now Death
extends her hands of Life & a
band is made between the
thousands of generations who are
dead & the thousands of
generations who are to come"
— Edvard Munch
Nature writhes at a too early dying,
behind the palace the sun hangs ruby red—
We sniffle at the sharp perfume of winter,
and shiver slightly: Hans Jæger is in the air!
— Jens Bjørneboe, excerpt, "Before the Solstice:
Hans Jæger in Memoriam"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/JaegerHans.htm
1912 -- US: IWW free speech fight; vigilantes beat Industrial
Workers of the World organizers for exercising free speech
rights in San Diego, California. Some are tarred & feathered,
forced to kiss the American flag & run out of town by the good
citizens.
1917 -- US: Igal Roodenko, nonviolent activist, lives.
A regular contributor to WIN Magazine.
Roodenko was instrumental in abolishing the chain gang
system when he wrote an expose of it for the New York
Post. Through the years, Roodenko continued to protest
racism & militarism (in 1963 he organized what turned out
to be the first demonstration against U.S. military
involvement in Vietnam) & was arrested at least 10 times
for his stands, even being deported from Poland in 1987.
Biographical piece on Roodenko at Swathmore Library,
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG151-175/dg161irood.html
1921 -- Russia: The "Anarchist Prince," geographer, theorist,
& militant, Peter Kropotkin dies.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lenin offers
a state funeral & burial in Kremlin Wall, which is refused.
100,000 people attend Kropotkin's funeral procession on
Feb. 13 — organized by Alexandre Atabekian & others —
& it is the last non-state-sponsored mass assembly in the
Bolshevik Worker's Paradise for the next 70 years.
____________________________
I remember, said Emma, the cairn on the mountain ridge
a heap of broken stones & broken branches
with tokens attached of horsehair or rag
& the cry: "The waters before us
flow now to the Amur.
No mountains more to cross."
— excerpt from the poem,
"The Death of Kropotkin," by Sir Herbert Read
___________________________
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/KropotkinPeter.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Kropotkin/kropotkinAllStar2.jpg
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ReadHerbert.htm
1926 -- US: Neal Cassady (The First Third) lives,
Salt Lick City, Utah. All Mormons seek to emulate him.
1969 -- Leopoldo Méndez (1902-1969) dies.
Méndez was a printmaker, painter &
muralist. Like Posada, he is known
primarily for his politically charged
prints depicting the horrors of war,
struggles of laborers and parodies
of capitalist greed & fascism. He
helped found the long-lived Taller
de Gráfica Popular (TGP) in 1937.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/1999/mendez/
1998 -- Novelist Halldor Laxness, 95, dies, at
a nursing home northwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness
1998 -- Bill Gates has his (free!) pie & eats it too.
The ol' Pie Brigade, it "delivers."
http://www.pieman.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhe0H8RDNcc
2005 -- US: ARTerror? Austrian artist Robert Jelinek —
founder of the artist's collective "Sabotage" — flies in carrying
art & literature for an exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary
Arts Center.
Homeland Security (de Fine Arts Dept.?) confiscates 33
passport-works by artist Heimo Zobernig, educational
leaflets, & personal items from Jelinek.
Officials justify seizing the art because it is "produced by
an anarchy group called Sabotage which does not believe
in international borders."
2006 -- Spain: Ricardo Taddei, an Argentine policeman wanted
for 161 cases of kidnapping & torturing "leftist" dissidents during
Argentina's Dirty War, is arrested after 20-years, in Madrid.
___________
"To live outside the law, you
must be honest."
— Bob Dylan
___________
People are treated like passive objects, not active subjects.
After degrading being into having, the society of the spectacle
has further transformed having into merely appearing.
The result is an appalling contrast between cultural poverty
& economic wealth, between what is & what could be.
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not
die of starvation," Vaneigem asks, "entails the risk of dying of
boredom?"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists
___________
— anti-Entrails, 2013 more or less than more
Monday, February 04, 2013
Daily Bleed, Feb. 4 Kosta Axelos
Winds & tides
Two little waves to drown me.
— Jacques Prévert, excerpt, "Quicksand"
Daily Bleed web page, 84 entries in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/
excerpts,
FEBRUARY 4 — KOSTAS AXELOS
Greek philosopher, communist, resistance fighter.
TORTURE ABOLITION DAY.
Somebody call the CIA.
TROMBONE LIBERATION DAY.
_________________________
1819 -- Monarchy for the People!
Emperor Norton I, true ruler of these United States, lives...
& well he lives!
He ate without paying at whatever restaurant, lunchroom,
or saloon took his fancy. Created his own money, which
was honored all over Frisco Bay.
The Emperor called for a world of leisure & creativity, a
country of the mind without borders, in which all were
engaged in their most creative work.
1869 -- Wobbly "Big Bill" Haywood lives, in Salt Lake City, Utah
— where all good Mormons try to emulate him. Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW) honcho.
Carl Sandburg wrote a piece for the International Socialist
Review casting Haywood, imprisoned along with the rest of
the IWW leadership on wartime sedition charges, as a kind of
20th-century John Brown.
http://www.kued.org/
1894 -- Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, dies in poverty.
Two little waves to drown me.
— Jacques Prévert, excerpt, "Quicksand"
Daily Bleed web page, 84 entries in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/
excerpts,
FEBRUARY 4 — KOSTAS AXELOS
Greek philosopher, communist, resistance fighter.
TORTURE ABOLITION DAY.
Somebody call the CIA.
TROMBONE LIBERATION DAY.
_________________________
1819 -- Monarchy for the People!
Emperor Norton I, true ruler of these United States, lives...
& well he lives!
He ate without paying at whatever restaurant, lunchroom,
or saloon took his fancy. Created his own money, which
was honored all over Frisco Bay.
The Emperor called for a world of leisure & creativity, a
country of the mind without borders, in which all were
engaged in their most creative work.
1869 -- Wobbly "Big Bill" Haywood lives, in Salt Lake City, Utah
— where all good Mormons try to emulate him. Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW) honcho.
Carl Sandburg wrote a piece for the International Socialist
Review casting Haywood, imprisoned along with the rest of
the IWW leadership on wartime sedition charges, as a kind of
20th-century John Brown.
http://www.kued.org/
1894 -- Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, dies in poverty.
This bent metal serpent
holy horn with lids like beer
mug/ with phallic tail why did they invent you
before Coleman Hawkins was born ?
excerpt, 'The Sax Bit' by Ted Joans
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1899 -- Philippines: Revolt against the non-imperialist benevolent peace-loving
US occupation forces begins. The American genocide of Filipinos follows.
In November 1901, the Manila correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger reports:
'The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement;
our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men,
women, children, prisoners & captives, active insurgents &
suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that
the Filipino as such was little better than a dog...."
1900 -- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977) lives. Poet, surrealist,
libertarian.
Worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of rebellion
& revolt. Participated with the surrealists, but refused to
join the Communist Party with Andre Breton, whom he
made fun of in "Mort d'un monsieur". A talented screen
writer, his credits include "The Children of Paradise."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1922 -- US: Capablanca plays 103 simultaneous chess games,
in Cleveland (102-0-1).
1957 -- Hey, You Maroons!
Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies.
holy horn with lids like beer
mug/ with phallic tail why did they invent you
before Coleman Hawkins was born ?
excerpt, 'The Sax Bit' by Ted Joans
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1899 -- Philippines: Revolt against the non-imperialist benevolent peace-loving
US occupation forces begins. The American genocide of Filipinos follows.
In November 1901, the Manila correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger reports:
'The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement;
our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men,
women, children, prisoners & captives, active insurgents &
suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that
the Filipino as such was little better than a dog...."
1900 -- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977) lives. Poet, surrealist,
libertarian.
Worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of rebellion
& revolt. Participated with the surrealists, but refused to
join the Communist Party with Andre Breton, whom he
made fun of in "Mort d'un monsieur". A talented screen
writer, his credits include "The Children of Paradise."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1922 -- US: Capablanca plays 103 simultaneous chess games,
in Cleveland (102-0-1).
1957 -- Hey, You Maroons!
Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies.
That's all folks!
1957 -- Writer, painter, book illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias dies.
1957 -- L'Art brut
Talks by Ralph Rumney (L'Art brut de vivre
[The Outsider Art of Living]) & Asger Jorn (Industrie et
beaux-arts, extrêmes de l'unité situationniste [Industry &
Fine Art: The Two Extremes of Situationist Unity]), Taptoe
Gallery, Brussels (a "monosonorous talk" is presented by
Yves Klein two days later).
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1962 -- Russia: Take Me Out to the ol' Gulag?
Newspaper "Izvestia" reports baseball
is an old Russian game.
Babe Ruthsky, Mickski Mantle,
Barry Bondkaslavsky Bondkaslavsky...yeh!
1968 -- The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster
Neal Cassady, pulls his last prank — collapses & dies along
railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
who poverty & tatters & hollow-eyed & high sat up
smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz ...
— aLLEN gINSBERG
Cassady: cultural renegade, your
ultimate school bus driver.
"The bus came by & I got on, that's when it all began
There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to
Nevereverland"
— 'The Other One', The Grateful Dead
http://www.litkicks.com/
1980 -- Guinean novelist Camara Laye dies (b.1928). Wrote
L'Enfant noir (The Dark Child) & Le Regard du roi (The Radiance
of the King, 1956). Among the very earliest major works in
francophone African literature. The Radiance of the King is
described by Kwame Anthony Appiah as "One of the greatest of
the African novels of the colonial period."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1982 -- Erica Roe, a busty bookseller, streaks topless
at Twickenham at the rugby international between
England & Australia, capturing headlines with her
40-inch bust during the height of the Falklands War.
"I was supposed to be at work in my bookshop..."
Her streak has been voted into the top (sic)
100 Greatest Moments in Sports.
1998 -- Brussels: International Pie Brigade commandos, created by
pie-throwing anarchist Noël Godin, delivers a pie to Bill Gates
(Seattle boy makes good: "the richest man of the world") to cries of :
"Entartons, entartons le polluant pognon!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1999 -- US: In NYC plainclothes police officers fire 41 shots
at Amadou Diallo (22), a Bronx street peddler & immigrant from
Guinea, who was unarmed in front of his Bronx home.
Daillo died from 19 gunshot wounds (great shots these cops).
The four shooters were later indicted for 2nd degree murder.
Surprisingly most cops who murder their victims are never
convicted...
& these four are — surprise! — acquitted.
2005 -- US: We can't make stuff up like this department:
Its fun to shoot people... It's a hoot...
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around
for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said.
"You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So
it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/
Adopt a sniper...shot down:
Students were selling bracelets bearing the motto
"1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide."
2010 -- France: Greek philosopher, resistance fighter, communist,
journalist, editor, publisher, Kostas Axelos dies, Paris. Advocate of
"Open Marxism" to transcend the political-ideological role of Marxism
& to "pose fruitful questions & demystify 'existing realizations,'"
arguing, like Marx, that the opposition between work (necessity) & play
(freedom) needs to be abolished.
"When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no
food, they call me a communist."
— Archbishop Helder Camara,
Brazilian liberation theologist
___________________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
1957 -- Writer, painter, book illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias dies.
1957 -- L'Art brut
Talks by Ralph Rumney (L'Art brut de vivre
[The Outsider Art of Living]) & Asger Jorn (Industrie et
beaux-arts, extrêmes de l'unité situationniste [Industry &
Fine Art: The Two Extremes of Situationist Unity]), Taptoe
Gallery, Brussels (a "monosonorous talk" is presented by
Yves Klein two days later).
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1962 -- Russia: Take Me Out to the ol' Gulag?
Newspaper "Izvestia" reports baseball
is an old Russian game.
Babe Ruthsky, Mickski Mantle,
Barry Bondkaslavsky Bondkaslavsky...yeh!
1968 -- The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster
Neal Cassady, pulls his last prank — collapses & dies along
railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
who poverty & tatters & hollow-eyed & high sat up
smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz ...
— aLLEN gINSBERG
Cassady: cultural renegade, your
ultimate school bus driver.
"The bus came by & I got on, that's when it all began
There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to
Nevereverland"
— 'The Other One', The Grateful Dead
http://www.litkicks.com/
1980 -- Guinean novelist Camara Laye dies (b.1928). Wrote
L'Enfant noir (The Dark Child) & Le Regard du roi (The Radiance
of the King, 1956). Among the very earliest major works in
francophone African literature. The Radiance of the King is
described by Kwame Anthony Appiah as "One of the greatest of
the African novels of the colonial period."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1982 -- Erica Roe, a busty bookseller, streaks topless
at Twickenham at the rugby international between
England & Australia, capturing headlines with her
40-inch bust during the height of the Falklands War.
"I was supposed to be at work in my bookshop..."
Her streak has been voted into the top (sic)
100 Greatest Moments in Sports.
1998 -- Brussels: International Pie Brigade commandos, created by
pie-throwing anarchist Noël Godin, delivers a pie to Bill Gates
(Seattle boy makes good: "the richest man of the world") to cries of :
"Entartons, entartons le polluant pognon!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1999 -- US: In NYC plainclothes police officers fire 41 shots
at Amadou Diallo (22), a Bronx street peddler & immigrant from
Guinea, who was unarmed in front of his Bronx home.
Daillo died from 19 gunshot wounds (great shots these cops).
The four shooters were later indicted for 2nd degree murder.
Surprisingly most cops who murder their victims are never
convicted...
& these four are — surprise! — acquitted.
2005 -- US: We can't make stuff up like this department:
Its fun to shoot people... It's a hoot...
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around
for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said.
"You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So
it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/
Adopt a sniper...shot down:
Students were selling bracelets bearing the motto
"1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide."
2010 -- France: Greek philosopher, resistance fighter, communist,
journalist, editor, publisher, Kostas Axelos dies, Paris. Advocate of
"Open Marxism" to transcend the political-ideological role of Marxism
& to "pose fruitful questions & demystify 'existing realizations,'"
arguing, like Marx, that the opposition between work (necessity) & play
(freedom) needs to be abolished.
"When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no
food, they call me a communist."
— Archbishop Helder Camara,
Brazilian liberation theologist
___________________
— anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
Monday, January 07, 2013
Press Release: Kansas Farmer's Union, 07 Jan. 2013
Leonardville workshop to benefit beginning farmers
McPHERSON, KAN.- Jan. 7, 2013 - Kansas Farmers Union (KFU) is hosting a Beginning Farmer Workshop on Saturday, Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Nelson's Landing Restaurant, 107 N. Erpelding, in Leonardville, Kan. The workshop will feature speakers and a panel of producers from across the state of Kansas.
"In the future, we'll see a number of farmers considering retirement and the next generation will have to step up and take the lead. We know they're out there, it's just a matter of finding them and helping them find the resources they need to become the next generation of Kansas family farmers," Nick Levendofsky, KFU Special Projects Coordinator, said.
Workshop speakers include Donn Teske, former financial advisor, discussing the financial aspect of farm transition; Char Henton and Becky O'Donnell, Kansas Agricultural Mediation Service; Charlie Griffin, Kansas Rural Family Helpline; Rhonda Janke, K-State Sustainable Agriculture; Barb Depew, Kansas Farm-to-School program; Chuck Otte, Geary County agricultural extension agent; and Bernard Irvine, attorney specializing in real estate and contract matters.
Following the morning and early afternoon speakers, there will be a producer panel made up of individuals from across Kansas with varying specialties. These producers will talk about their operation, some of the challenges and successes they've experienced, and answer questions from the crowd.
The following panelists will share their experiences: Darrell Parks of Manhattan, sustainable pasture pork; Ed Reznicek of Goff, Kansas Organic Producers general manager; Jason Schmidt and Herb Bartel of Hillsboro, organic farming and grazing partnership; Warren Sutton, green bean grower, Norway; Dan Kuhn of Courtland, "Depot Market" growing and marketing wholesale and retail produce; Dale Strickler of Jamestown, grazing specialist; Robert Nutsch of Norway, produce growing on less than one acre; David Heiens of Abilene, organic producer; and Chris Janssen of Scandia, high tunnel produce grower.
Workshop registration, including lunch, is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.kansasfarmersunion.org. To RSVP, call Nick at 785-527-0941 or email kfu.nick@gmail.com. This workshop is offered by Kansas Farmers Union, thanks to a grant from Farm Aid to help beginning farmers find mentors.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Daily Bleed, 19 Dec. 2012
"Circles & globes haunt me: oranges, Japanese billiard
balls, Venetian lanterns, jugglers' hoops, the round ball
of the goalkeeper who wears a jersey. I shall have to
establish, to regulate, a whole internal astronomy."
— Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Daily Bleed, web page in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/
excerpts:
DECEMBER 19 -- PHIL OCHS
Emblematic American protest folksinger of the Sixties.
Alternate Saint:
ÉDITH PIAF
Iconic French chanteuse, cultural & political rebel.
Hindu FESTIVAL OF THE GODDESS SANKRAT
The Gods Wake up after six months of sleep. A day
for exchanging gifts, feasting & visiting.
______________________________
1776 -- Thomas Paine publishes his first
'American Crisis' essay.
"These are the times that try
men's souls...."
1883 -- Ruben Dario's "Oda a la Union Centroamerica" is published.
"Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life & death."
1894 -- Senya Flechin lives (1894-1981), Russia.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1910 -- France: Criminal, author/playwright, Saint Genet lives.
Daily Bleed Saint 2003-4.
See Sartre's existentialist biography, Saint Genet:
Actor & Martyr.
1915 -- France: Edith Piaff lives (1915-1963). French
singer, cultural rebel, who entertained POW's while refusing
to sing for Nazis during WWII. Edith encouraged a number
of anarchist songsters like Leo Ferre & François-Henri Jolivet.
"Édith Piaf. If her life wasn't anarchy,
then I misunderstand the term."
— Bleedster Larry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%
1917 -- US: During this month libertarian feminist poet
Louise Olivereau is convicted for antiwar activities &
sent to a Colorado prison.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1924 -- French writer Michel Tournier lives.
"A dead myth is called allegory.
The writer's function is to prevent
myths turning into allegories."
1936 -- Germany: University of Bonn withdraws
author Thomas Mann's honorary doctorate. Bad German.
1940 -- Songster Phil Ochs lives El
Paso, Texass ("Joe Hill", "War is
Over"). His music didn't sell; most
famous for songs protesting a war
everyone wants to forget. A folk singer,
a "protest" singer, a freedom rider, a
suicide. His boyish voice challenged the
history of his time, or tried to.
Now they sing out his praises on
every distant shore,
But so few remember what he was
fightin' for.
Oh why sing the songs & forget
about the aim,
He wrote them for a reason, why not
sing them for the same?
& now he's bound for a glory all his own,
& now he's bound for glory.
"While the Movement died a natural death,
the music died by hanging."
— John Berendt, 1976
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1946 -- Reenactment of Boston Tea Party in Boston.
(Fashionably late?) Glorifies the destruction of
property by vandals — who inspire "Eugene anarchists"
during WTO protests in Seattle 1999.
See Jesse Walker's "The Broken Blue Line: How to start a riot",
http://reason.com/archives/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1969 -- Italy: "Is the Reichstag Burning?", tract by Gianfranco
Sanguinetti & signed 'Friends of the International,' published.
Sanguinetti knew —when he & other members of the Italian
section of the SI wrote & distributed "Il Reichstag Bruccia?"
— that the state's secret services were the real culprits for
acts of terrorism such as the bombing of the Piazza Fontana
(12 December), & he knew why they had been called into
service in this fashion.
http://www.notbored.org/
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1982 -- US: Dwight Macdonald, social critic & combative
journalist, dies.
Deserted Trotskyism & moved on cheerfully & with
characteristic insouciance to pacificism & anarchism.
In the 1950s, he was a fierce anti-Communist cold warrior
&, later still, an even fiercer opponent of the Vietnam War
& a great enthusiast of the student radicals of the 1960s.
1990 -- Austin Train dies in a bomb blast at his own trial.
Once the world was a wind-up toy, we watched it spin & dance
We watch it now from the other side of our last remaining chance
& the world falls down like some tired bull in a crimson Spanish ring
We've learned to love it far too late to save it from anything
"The Sheep Look Up", Words & music: Kathy Mar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1994 -- Zapatista rebels in Southeastern Mexico slip
through army siege & briefly occupy 38 towns in
Chiapas state, crippling Wall Street investments in
Mexican bond market.
http://www.zapata.com/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/
2001 -- Argentina: Government declares state of siege,
trying to stop the worst looting & riots in a decade,
sparked by austerity measures & poverty.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
2005 -- Bolivia: Evo Morales becomes the latest lefty
to win a Presidency in South America.
_____________
Moe: "When the roll is called
up yonder I'll eat pie."
Curly: "Pi r²?"
Moe: "No, pie are round; cake
are square."
Curly: "Oh."
Moe: "No, O are round, also."
http://www.
_____________
—anti-RoundSquares, 1997-2012
balls, Venetian lanterns, jugglers' hoops, the round ball
of the goalkeeper who wears a jersey. I shall have to
establish, to regulate, a whole internal astronomy."
— Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Daily Bleed, web page in full,
http://recollectionbooks.com/
excerpts:
DECEMBER 19 -- PHIL OCHS
Emblematic American protest folksinger of the Sixties.
Alternate Saint:
ÉDITH PIAF
Iconic French chanteuse, cultural & political rebel.
Hindu FESTIVAL OF THE GODDESS SANKRAT
The Gods Wake up after six months of sleep. A day
for exchanging gifts, feasting & visiting.
______________________________
1776 -- Thomas Paine publishes his first
'American Crisis' essay.
"These are the times that try
men's souls...."
1883 -- Ruben Dario's "Oda a la Union Centroamerica" is published.
"Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life & death."
1894 -- Senya Flechin lives (1894-1981), Russia.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1910 -- France: Criminal, author/playwright, Saint Genet lives.
Daily Bleed Saint 2003-4.
See Sartre's existentialist biography, Saint Genet:
Actor & Martyr.
1915 -- France: Edith Piaff lives (1915-1963). French
singer, cultural rebel, who entertained POW's while refusing
to sing for Nazis during WWII. Edith encouraged a number
of anarchist songsters like Leo Ferre & François-Henri Jolivet.
"Édith Piaf. If her life wasn't anarchy,
then I misunderstand the term."
— Bleedster Larry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%
1917 -- US: During this month libertarian feminist poet
Louise Olivereau is convicted for antiwar activities &
sent to a Colorado prison.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1924 -- French writer Michel Tournier lives.
"A dead myth is called allegory.
The writer's function is to prevent
myths turning into allegories."
1936 -- Germany: University of Bonn withdraws
author Thomas Mann's honorary doctorate. Bad German.
1940 -- Songster Phil Ochs lives El
Paso, Texass ("Joe Hill", "War is
Over"). His music didn't sell; most
famous for songs protesting a war
everyone wants to forget. A folk singer,
a "protest" singer, a freedom rider, a
suicide. His boyish voice challenged the
history of his time, or tried to.
Now they sing out his praises on
every distant shore,
But so few remember what he was
fightin' for.
Oh why sing the songs & forget
about the aim,
He wrote them for a reason, why not
sing them for the same?
& now he's bound for a glory all his own,
& now he's bound for glory.
"While the Movement died a natural death,
the music died by hanging."
— John Berendt, 1976
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1946 -- Reenactment of Boston Tea Party in Boston.
(Fashionably late?) Glorifies the destruction of
property by vandals — who inspire "Eugene anarchists"
during WTO protests in Seattle 1999.
See Jesse Walker's "The Broken Blue Line: How to start a riot",
http://reason.com/archives/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1969 -- Italy: "Is the Reichstag Burning?", tract by Gianfranco
Sanguinetti & signed 'Friends of the International,' published.
Sanguinetti knew —when he & other members of the Italian
section of the SI wrote & distributed "Il Reichstag Bruccia?"
— that the state's secret services were the real culprits for
acts of terrorism such as the bombing of the Piazza Fontana
(12 December), & he knew why they had been called into
service in this fashion.
http://www.notbored.org/
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1982 -- US: Dwight Macdonald, social critic & combative
journalist, dies.
Deserted Trotskyism & moved on cheerfully & with
characteristic insouciance to pacificism & anarchism.
In the 1950s, he was a fierce anti-Communist cold warrior
&, later still, an even fiercer opponent of the Vietnam War
& a great enthusiast of the student radicals of the 1960s.
1990 -- Austin Train dies in a bomb blast at his own trial.
Once the world was a wind-up toy, we watched it spin & dance
We watch it now from the other side of our last remaining chance
& the world falls down like some tired bull in a crimson Spanish ring
We've learned to love it far too late to save it from anything
"The Sheep Look Up", Words & music: Kathy Mar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1994 -- Zapatista rebels in Southeastern Mexico slip
through army siege & briefly occupy 38 towns in
Chiapas state, crippling Wall Street investments in
Mexican bond market.
http://www.zapata.com/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/
2001 -- Argentina: Government declares state of siege,
trying to stop the worst looting & riots in a decade,
sparked by austerity measures & poverty.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
2005 -- Bolivia: Evo Morales becomes the latest lefty
to win a Presidency in South America.
_____________
Moe: "When the roll is called
up yonder I'll eat pie."
Curly: "Pi r²?"
Moe: "No, pie are round; cake
are square."
Curly: "Oh."
Moe: "No, O are round, also."
http://www.
_____________
—anti-RoundSquares, 1997-2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Sustainability Action News, 16 Oct. 2012
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SMART METER WIRELESS RADIO FREQUENCY A POTENTIAL HEALTH HAZARD
On 12 April 2012, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine issued a position paper on electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) health effects, calling for immediate caution regarding smart meter installations. President elect of the AAEM, Dr. Amy Dean, said "Immediate action is necessary to protect the public's health." - Precaution Needed on Smart Meter Installation.pdf.
There was an international day of action to stop smart meters on 4 October - Stop Smart Meters! - and we regret this Newsletter was on hiatus then. Lawrence resistance is already behind the curve, because Westar began installing smart meters in January of this year. There have been instances of them installing smart meters over the objections of home owners. Westar claims, as yet, they are using smart meters only to monitor use rates, not to interfere with privacy and the use of home appliances - "yet", they say, but when?. Smart Grids offer new opportunities for electronic trespass. Plus, do you really want the utilities remotely-controlling your appliances? And that's just the indoor part. On the outside of each building, the Smart Meter will transmit an even more powerful wireless frequency to a central hub installed in local neighborhoods. And RF exposure from house-to-house signals could accumulate from possibly 100-to-500 of your neighbors' meters as well - The Problems with Smart Grids.
But there are things you can do. If Westar already installed one at your home, you can use this Sample Letter to Utility Opposing RF Trespass to demand it be removed (you can download it and tailor it to your needs). Address it to: Mark Ruelle, President, and Matt Lehrman, SmartStar Program Analyst, Westar Energy, Inc., 818 S. Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas 66601.
If Westar has not yet installed one at your home, you can send the letter, and put a mechanical lock on your existing analog meter - Defend Your Analog Meter.
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FOOD NOT LAWNS ¤ COMMUNIVERSITY CLASS #2301 A
Wednesdays, 17,24 October 2012, 2 remaining sessions, 7:00-9:00pm - $$
UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, 2411 Charlotte Street, KC MO
Grow food not lawns! Increase local food security, improve your diet, beautify your surroundings, build community, reduce pollution and energy use (It takes 87 calories of fuel to transport one calorie of perishable fresh fruit from west coast to east coast). As supporters of the Food Not Lawns national movement, we will hold four sessions dealing with topics that include whole system design, garden preparation, permaculture, water-wise gardening, seed saving, planting, and free resources. Presenters include master and highly-qualified gardeners. Class fee is $18, plus $5 for materials; bring picture ID. Register at UMKC Communiversity. More info at Food Not Lawns KC, or
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KKFI COMMUNITY RADIO ¤ ECOLOGICAL SHOWS THIS WEEK
Host Richard Mabion will be discussing "Dismantling Racism in the Environmental Movement in the Black Community".
Few if any black professionals are getting grants to work with black
people, and environmental organizations are predominately white, even in
the black community.
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BIONEERS CONFERENCE ¤ "EMERGENCE"
Friday-Sunday, 19-21 October 2012 - $$$
San Rafael CA
The Bioneers are social and scientific innovators who develop solutions that mimic nature's operating systems. They are visionaries who, in their own communities, are creating a healthy, diverse, equitable and beautiful world. With phenomenal effectiveness, the Bioneers reach tens-of-thousands of people at their conference and simultaneous satellite conferences, through their year-round radio show, by their professional intensive seminars, in their Eco Schools program, and by their Democracy School training. There are dozens of simultaneous regional conferences with speakers and workshops and major speakers beamed live from the San Rafael conference - Bioneers beaming to regional conferences.
The conference lineup matches prior years quality with presenters such as:
Revolution From the Heart of Nature
It's all alive; it's all connected; it's all intelligent; it's all relatives
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PERMA-BLITZ WORK DAYS TO INSTALL PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY GARDEN
Sunday, 21 October 2012, 10:00am-5:00pm
AND - November 4, 17, and 24, 2012
1304 Penn. St. Permaculture Garden, Lawrence KS 66044
These four perma-blitzes will transform an empty city lot into a lush permaculture community garden. The Kansas Permaculture Collaborative has been holding design charettes to develop and plan the garden. On 21 October, a water line will be installed, and water catchment swales will be staked on level contours. The next three days will involve more volunteer labor, so please consider helping. The second day is to begin modifying the site with a pond, a rain garden, and fence posts. The third day will focus on growing-bed preparations with sheet mulch, manure and topsoil, spreading wood chips on paths, and detailing the pond and rain garden. And the final day will entail planting many berry bushes, fruit trees, brambles, and support species like flower bulbs, comfrey, garlic, etc.
Materials donations are welcomed too. If you can find some large corrugated cardboard at appliance or bedding stores, please bring lots. If you are thinning out any plant material from your garden, we could use it - for a list of species we need, and other questions, please contact Steve at (785)691-7305 or <moringse@gmail.com>.
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CULTIVATING A HEALTHY LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM IN DOUGLAS COUNTY
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 8:30am-3:00pm - FREE
Dreher Building, Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St., Lawrence KS 66046
(a healthy, local lunch will be provided for $10)
This workshop will feature a presentation by Kimberley Hodgson of Cultivating Healthy Places. As a certified planner and registered dietitian, Ms. Hodgson conducts policy-relevant research and provides technical assistance to private, public, and non-profit organizations on the design and development of healthy, sustainable communities. Workshop participants will learn why community leaders should engage in planning local food systems, how communities are revitalizing their food system through policies and programs, and how we can foster healthier citizens and a vibrant agricultural economy here in Douglas County. For more info contact Eileen Horn, Sustainability Coordinator, at <ehorn@douglas-county.com>.
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STOCKING THE PANTRY WORKSHOP
Saturday, 27 October 2012, 1:00-5:00pm - $$
University of Manhattan, 1221 Thurston St., Manhattan KS 66052
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Is it wise, or even needed, to allow utilities to practice "big brother"
energy conservation? Should Westar be allowed to power-down your air
conditioner or appliances using wireless radio frequency signals through a smart meter? Because the price you pay is both loss of privacy, and a high likelihood of health effects from the 900 MHz to 5 GHz radiation (900 million cycles per second to 5 billion cycles per second).
Health effects from smart meters can be genetic mutation, metabolic disorders, central
nervous system disorders, pace maker disruption, and more. And the
World Health Organization has classified RF radiation as a class 2B
carcinogen.
On 12 April 2012, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine issued a position paper on electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) health effects, calling for immediate caution regarding smart meter installations. President elect of the AAEM, Dr. Amy Dean, said "Immediate action is necessary to protect the public's health." - Precaution Needed on Smart Meter Installation.pdf.
There was an international day of action to stop smart meters on 4 October - Stop Smart Meters! - and we regret this Newsletter was on hiatus then. Lawrence resistance is already behind the curve, because Westar began installing smart meters in January of this year. There have been instances of them installing smart meters over the objections of home owners. Westar claims, as yet, they are using smart meters only to monitor use rates, not to interfere with privacy and the use of home appliances - "yet", they say, but when?. Smart Grids offer new opportunities for electronic trespass. Plus, do you really want the utilities remotely-controlling your appliances? And that's just the indoor part. On the outside of each building, the Smart Meter will transmit an even more powerful wireless frequency to a central hub installed in local neighborhoods. And RF exposure from house-to-house signals could accumulate from possibly 100-to-500 of your neighbors' meters as well - The Problems with Smart Grids.
But there are things you can do. If Westar already installed one at your home, you can use this Sample Letter to Utility Opposing RF Trespass to demand it be removed (you can download it and tailor it to your needs). Address it to: Mark Ruelle, President, and Matt Lehrman, SmartStar Program Analyst, Westar Energy, Inc., 818 S. Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas 66601.
If Westar has not yet installed one at your home, you can send the letter, and put a mechanical lock on your existing analog meter - Defend Your Analog Meter.
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FOOD NOT LAWNS ¤ COMMUNIVERSITY CLASS #2301 A
Wednesdays, 17,24 October 2012, 2 remaining sessions, 7:00-9:00pm - $$
UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, 2411 Charlotte Street, KC MO
Grow food not lawns! Increase local food security, improve your diet, beautify your surroundings, build community, reduce pollution and energy use (It takes 87 calories of fuel to transport one calorie of perishable fresh fruit from west coast to east coast). As supporters of the Food Not Lawns national movement, we will hold four sessions dealing with topics that include whole system design, garden preparation, permaculture, water-wise gardening, seed saving, planting, and free resources. Presenters include master and highly-qualified gardeners. Class fee is $18, plus $5 for materials; bring picture ID. Register at UMKC Communiversity. More info at Food Not Lawns KC, or
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KKFI COMMUNITY RADIO ¤ ECOLOGICAL SHOWS THIS WEEK
Listen
at KKFI-FM 90.1, or web-streaming at http://www.kkfi.org/
(courtesy Mike Murphy, KKFI Programming Committee)
Friday, 19 October 2012, 4:00am ¤ If You Love This Planet
David Freeman will talk on the "Urgency to Fight the Nuclear, Gas, and Coal Industries to Save the Earth". He is former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority where he stopped construction of eight nuclear power plants. He is currently adviser with Friends of the Earth's nuclear program.
Friday, 19 October 2012, 9:30am ¤ Bioneers Radio Series
Bioneers presents "The Alphabet vs. the Goddess: How the Technology of Images is Feminizing the Planet and Restoring the Environment". Is it just a coincidence that the wholesale destruction of the environment paralleled the decline of Goddess-worshipping cultures and the traditional power of women in society? Author and surgeon Leonard Shlain provocatively attributes both to the rise of alphabetic literacy.
Monday, 22 October 2012, 5:00am ¤ Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku
Explorations covers the world of science, war and peace, and the environment. The first half hour is Dr. Robert Lanza on the "Future of Biotechnology". The second half hour is Lester Brown on the "State of the Earth".
Monday, 22 October 2012, 6:00pm ¤ locally produced Eco-Radio KC
(courtesy Mike Murphy, KKFI Programming Committee)
Friday, 19 October 2012, 4:00am ¤ If You Love This Planet
David Freeman will talk on the "Urgency to Fight the Nuclear, Gas, and Coal Industries to Save the Earth". He is former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority where he stopped construction of eight nuclear power plants. He is currently adviser with Friends of the Earth's nuclear program.
Friday, 19 October 2012, 9:30am ¤ Bioneers Radio Series
Bioneers presents "The Alphabet vs. the Goddess: How the Technology of Images is Feminizing the Planet and Restoring the Environment". Is it just a coincidence that the wholesale destruction of the environment paralleled the decline of Goddess-worshipping cultures and the traditional power of women in society? Author and surgeon Leonard Shlain provocatively attributes both to the rise of alphabetic literacy.
Monday, 22 October 2012, 5:00am ¤ Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku
Explorations covers the world of science, war and peace, and the environment. The first half hour is Dr. Robert Lanza on the "Future of Biotechnology". The second half hour is Lester Brown on the "State of the Earth".
Monday, 22 October 2012, 6:00pm ¤ locally produced Eco-Radio KC
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BIONEERS CONFERENCE ¤ "EMERGENCE"
Friday-Sunday, 19-21 October 2012 - $$$
San Rafael CA
The Bioneers are social and scientific innovators who develop solutions that mimic nature's operating systems. They are visionaries who, in their own communities, are creating a healthy, diverse, equitable and beautiful world. With phenomenal effectiveness, the Bioneers reach tens-of-thousands of people at their conference and simultaneous satellite conferences, through their year-round radio show, by their professional intensive seminars, in their Eco Schools program, and by their Democracy School training. There are dozens of simultaneous regional conferences with speakers and workshops and major speakers beamed live from the San Rafael conference - Bioneers beaming to regional conferences.
The conference lineup matches prior years quality with presenters such as:
- Annie Leonard
- Paul Hawken
- Andy Lipkis (Tree People)
- John Liu (Chinese permaculture)
- Bill McKibben
- Asher Miller (Post Carbon Institute)
- Vicki Robin (Your Money or Your Life)
- Carolyne Stayton (Transition U.S.)
- Sandra Steingraber
- Daniel Wildcat (Haskell
University), and more.
Revolution From the Heart of Nature
It's all alive; it's all connected; it's all intelligent; it's all relatives
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PERMA-BLITZ WORK DAYS TO INSTALL PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY GARDEN
Sunday, 21 October 2012, 10:00am-5:00pm
AND - November 4, 17, and 24, 2012
1304 Penn. St. Permaculture Garden, Lawrence KS 66044
These four perma-blitzes will transform an empty city lot into a lush permaculture community garden. The Kansas Permaculture Collaborative has been holding design charettes to develop and plan the garden. On 21 October, a water line will be installed, and water catchment swales will be staked on level contours. The next three days will involve more volunteer labor, so please consider helping. The second day is to begin modifying the site with a pond, a rain garden, and fence posts. The third day will focus on growing-bed preparations with sheet mulch, manure and topsoil, spreading wood chips on paths, and detailing the pond and rain garden. And the final day will entail planting many berry bushes, fruit trees, brambles, and support species like flower bulbs, comfrey, garlic, etc.
Materials donations are welcomed too. If you can find some large corrugated cardboard at appliance or bedding stores, please bring lots. If you are thinning out any plant material from your garden, we could use it - for a list of species we need, and other questions, please contact Steve at (785)691-7305 or <moringse@gmail.com>.
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FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR
DISASTER ¤ 1 YEAR, 219 DAYS
More radioactive water leaks at Fukushima
As we approach 600 days since the meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi, the prospects of a "quick" and "complete" clean up are increasingly beyond reach. The lesson, of course, is that this is a "pandora's box" technology that cannot be contained once released. Just this week, a pipe carrying radioactive water to a purifier burst (which begs the question also, what becomes of the radioactive residue retained in the "purifier"?). And it's not the first time; the company said it had trouble with the same pipe in August, when 4 tons of water leaked out - Further leak at Fukushima, photos reveal other damage.
We suggest readers avail themselves of reports from the following sources: Green Action Japan - Green Action Japan : Beyond Nuclear - Beyond Nuclear; Japan Focus - Japan Focus; and Fairewinds Associates - Fukushima Updates.
More radioactive water leaks at Fukushima
As we approach 600 days since the meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi, the prospects of a "quick" and "complete" clean up are increasingly beyond reach. The lesson, of course, is that this is a "pandora's box" technology that cannot be contained once released. Just this week, a pipe carrying radioactive water to a purifier burst (which begs the question also, what becomes of the radioactive residue retained in the "purifier"?). And it's not the first time; the company said it had trouble with the same pipe in August, when 4 tons of water leaked out - Further leak at Fukushima, photos reveal other damage.
We suggest readers avail themselves of reports from the following sources: Green Action Japan - Green Action Japan : Beyond Nuclear - Beyond Nuclear; Japan Focus - Japan Focus; and Fairewinds Associates - Fukushima Updates.
CULTIVATING A HEALTHY LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM IN DOUGLAS COUNTY
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 8:30am-3:00pm - FREE
Dreher Building, Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St., Lawrence KS 66046
(a healthy, local lunch will be provided for $10)
This workshop will feature a presentation by Kimberley Hodgson of Cultivating Healthy Places. As a certified planner and registered dietitian, Ms. Hodgson conducts policy-relevant research and provides technical assistance to private, public, and non-profit organizations on the design and development of healthy, sustainable communities. Workshop participants will learn why community leaders should engage in planning local food systems, how communities are revitalizing their food system through policies and programs, and how we can foster healthier citizens and a vibrant agricultural economy here in Douglas County. For more info contact Eileen Horn, Sustainability Coordinator, at <ehorn@douglas-county.com>.
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STOCKING THE PANTRY WORKSHOP
Saturday, 27 October 2012, 1:00-5:00pm - $$
University of Manhattan, 1221 Thurston St., Manhattan KS 66052
(courtesy, Amber Lehrman)
Ever wondered what to have on hand in case of a short term power outage? Or a longer term outage? Then again, a true crisis? Or do you just want to know what foods keep well and how to store them? This workshop will answer all of that by discussing specific supplies you should have available for anything from a 2 day power outage to a multiple week crisis. We will also do hands on demonstrations of several skills useful in an emergency situation. The workshop will end with a delicious meal made from supplies discussed in the workshop.
Pre-registration is required, and to register, go to http://tryufm.org/ and click on Non-Credit Classes. You can search by any of the methods given (date, topic, instructor). The workshop will be taught by Amber Lehrman, who can answer questions about course content at jajlehrman@yahoo.com. For questions about registering, please contact the Univ. of Manhattan at 785.539.8763 or info@tryufm.org.
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KANSAS ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM
Saturday, 10 November 2012, 9:00am-3:30pm - FREE
Fiedler Auditorium, Kansas State University, 17 St. & College Heights Rd., Manhattan KS 66506
Ever wondered what to have on hand in case of a short term power outage? Or a longer term outage? Then again, a true crisis? Or do you just want to know what foods keep well and how to store them? This workshop will answer all of that by discussing specific supplies you should have available for anything from a 2 day power outage to a multiple week crisis. We will also do hands on demonstrations of several skills useful in an emergency situation. The workshop will end with a delicious meal made from supplies discussed in the workshop.
Pre-registration is required, and to register, go to http://tryufm.org/ and click on Non-Credit Classes. You can search by any of the methods given (date, topic, instructor). The workshop will be taught by Amber Lehrman, who can answer questions about course content at jajlehrman@yahoo.com. For questions about registering, please contact the Univ. of Manhattan at 785.539.8763 or info@tryufm.org.
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KANSAS ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM
Saturday, 10 November 2012, 9:00am-3:30pm - FREE
Fiedler Auditorium, Kansas State University, 17 St. & College Heights Rd., Manhattan KS 66506
(courtesy, Kim Bellemere, KNRC)
This forum entitled "Making Connections, Growing the Grassroots", will focus on the history and future of environmental stewardship in Kansas, brainstorm new ideas for expanding the work of forum participants, and build partnerships with others across the state. It is co-sponsored by Kansas Interfaith Power & Light and the Kansas Natural Resource Council. For more info go to - Kansas Environmental Forum at K-State University. To register send an e-mail to <ksenviroforum@gmail.com> with your name, organization, address and phone.
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SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK MEETING
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6:30pm
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LAWRENCE SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD
DOUGLAS COUNTY FOOD POLICY COUNCIL
Monday, 19 November 2012, 7:00pm
The Food Policy Council seeks to identify the benefits, challenges and opportunities for a successful, sustainable local food system. By advising the Douglas County Commission on public policies that will support local producers, preserve local agricultural resources and land, and create more local jobs, the F.P.C.. hopes to improve the community's access to a local food supply and distribution networks. For more info go to Dg County Food Policy Council.
We welcome suggestions for Newsletter items. Please send items to
Join the Sustainability Action Network by clicking this link - Become a Member of S.A.N. - and follow the instructions. The S.A.N. mission is to bring awareness of the global crisis caused by climate change, energy vulnerability and economic instability to communities in the Kansas River bioregion, and the tools needed to re-skill and re-localize our economy and create a more socially just and ecologically sustainable world.
Current S.A.N. projects include:
6) Growers' Land Trust - organizing interested stakeholders to acquire prime farmland in the urban fringe for land-based economic development and regional food security.
7) Eco Village Land Trust - Designing and focalizing a sustainable intentional community near Lawrence.
"THE TRANSITION COMPANION" ¤ AVAILABLE FOR $27
As a guidebook for local transition communities, Rob Hopkins has published this sequel to the original Transition Handbook. For your copy, e-mail Michael at
To subscribe to this newsletter, please click this link »Subscribe to the Sustainability Newsletter. Enter your name and e-mail address, and follow the instructions. The system will send you a confirmation message with a "Confirmation Link" which you MUST click in order to complete your subscription confirmation. If you don't get the confirmation message, check in your junk mail folder for blocked as spam.
This forum entitled "Making Connections, Growing the Grassroots", will focus on the history and future of environmental stewardship in Kansas, brainstorm new ideas for expanding the work of forum participants, and build partnerships with others across the state. It is co-sponsored by Kansas Interfaith Power & Light and the Kansas Natural Resource Council. For more info go to - Kansas Environmental Forum at K-State University. To register send an e-mail to <ksenviroforum@gmail.com> with your name, organization, address and phone.
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SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK MEETING
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6:30pm
Lawrence Public Library, 7th & Vermont St., Lawrence KS 66044
Local Solutions for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Possible discussion topics:
Local Solutions for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Possible discussion topics:
- 1304 Penn. St. Garden Perma-blitz - 17 Nov. & 24 Nov.
- Lawrence OnBoard rideshare program
- Annual Campaign fund raising progress
- workshops: Rainwater Catchment Design, Food Pickling & Fermentation
- Kansas Community Garden Grant writing
- U.S.D.A. SARE grant writing
- S.A.N. generic business cards
- S.A.N. website upgrades
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LAWRENCE SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD
Wednesday, 14
November 2012,
5:30pm
location TBA, Lawrence KS 66045.
The November agenda is not yet available. The S.A.B. meets monthly to discuss any and all aspects of furthering sustainability policies and practices by the City of Lawrence government and private persons. The public is welcome. Minutes are finalized in about a month after each meeting http://www.lawrenceks.org/wrr/
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KANSAS CITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 4:00-6:00pm
Mid America Regional Council, Rivergate Center 2nd floor, 600 Broadway, KC MO
location TBA, Lawrence KS 66045.
The November agenda is not yet available. The S.A.B. meets monthly to discuss any and all aspects of furthering sustainability policies and practices by the City of Lawrence government and private persons. The public is welcome. Minutes are finalized in about a month after each meeting http://www.lawrenceks.org/wrr/
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KANSAS CITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 4:00-6:00pm
Mid America Regional Council, Rivergate Center 2nd floor, 600 Broadway, KC MO
The Environmental Management Commission promotes
environmental awareness and resource efficiency to the City's
leaders and staff, to assist the progress of Kansas City toward
sustainability. The General public is encouraged to attend and
observe meetings and to join and participate in its efforts.
More information is at KC
Environmental Mgt Commission
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Monday, 19 November 2012, 7:00pm
location TBA, Lawrence KS 66044
The Food Policy Council seeks to identify the benefits, challenges and opportunities for a successful, sustainable local food system. By advising the Douglas County Commission on public policies that will support local producers, preserve local agricultural resources and land, and create more local jobs, the F.P.C.. hopes to improve the community's access to a local food supply and distribution networks. For more info go to Dg County Food Policy Council.
We welcome suggestions for Newsletter items. Please send items to
Join the Sustainability Action Network by clicking this link - Become a Member of S.A.N. - and follow the instructions. The S.A.N. mission is to bring awareness of the global crisis caused by climate change, energy vulnerability and economic instability to communities in the Kansas River bioregion, and the tools needed to re-skill and re-localize our economy and create a more socially just and ecologically sustainable world.
Current S.A.N. projects include:
1) Kansas Permaculture Institute- formal training of
permaculture designers, and issuing them PDC
Certificates - Kansas
Permaculture Institute.
5) Water Rights & Watersheds - protecting the water commons, the source of all life, from privatization and contamination, and restoring our watersheds.
2) Kansas Permaculture
Collaborative - freely and
informally sharing knowledge and resources about
sustainable food production and dwellings -Kansas Permaculture
Collaborative.
3) Bicycles
&
Electric Vehicles
- promoting
bicycles, utility tricycles, and neighborhood electric
vehicles, including infrastructure and pro-active
regulations.
4) S.A.N.
Weekly Newsletter-
informing and encouraging people to be active in the
Sustainability Action Network, or other action-driven
groups.
5) Water Rights & Watersheds - protecting the water commons, the source of all life, from privatization and contamination, and restoring our watersheds.
6) Growers' Land Trust - organizing interested stakeholders to acquire prime farmland in the urban fringe for land-based economic development and regional food security.
7) Eco Village Land Trust - Designing and focalizing a sustainable intentional community near Lawrence.
8) Energy Conservation & Renewables
- advancing a green economy through decentralized renewable
energy and conservation.
9) Collaboration with sister organizations
- such as: Films
for Action; The
Light Center eco-village; Kaw
River Valley Food System farm-based economic
development; Cosmic Beauty School
urban homestead; Cultivate Kansas City;Transition
Kansas City; Kansas River Valley Growers
fighting for local water rights; the National Sustainable Energy
Network; the Kansas
City Food Circle, and more.
S.A.N. sponsored organizations (informal as yet):
1) Transition Kaw Valley - initiating transition to a relocalized post-carbon community by means of an energy descent plan - Transition Kaw Valley
2) Lawrence Fruit Tree Project - educating and inspiring the community to grow and steward perennial food plants and increase local food security - Lawrence Fruit Tree Project
S.A.N. sponsored organizations (informal as yet):
1) Transition Kaw Valley - initiating transition to a relocalized post-carbon community by means of an energy descent plan - Transition Kaw Valley
2) Lawrence Fruit Tree Project - educating and inspiring the community to grow and steward perennial food plants and increase local food security - Lawrence Fruit Tree Project
"THE TRANSITION COMPANION" ¤ AVAILABLE FOR $27
As a guidebook for local transition communities, Rob Hopkins has published this sequel to the original Transition Handbook. For your copy, e-mail Michael at
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