Teamwork well applied

If you ever get collared by a pissed off cop in the middle of a large protest, you better hope you have friends like this kid has. These folks are very lucky that there weren't more police around at the time or the response wouldn't be pretty no doubt. It took some real guts to do what they did. Cheers:)

Steep Slopes

The more I think of it, the more I have to laugh at myself that I ever seriously entertained the notion that there would be a global coordinated reduction of greenhouse gases. Clearly people in industrialized countries have already waited until it is too late. It really sucks how not acknowledging something has no bearing on whether or not it exists. Here are some new last ditch efforts.

One thing that is unassailably bad

Recently Bob Watson, a top British science advisor recommended that the UK prepare for a 4C rise in global temperature. Extinction anyone? Here, read for yourself. And this too.

One thing that is unassailably good

This took place on Haida Gwaii. 

Paving It Over

I just ran across this view of Los Angeles taken by NASA. I know it is a cliche to say that humans are paving over paradise. But shit, just look.

Speaking of Courageous People

I just finished Endgame (both volumes) by Derrick Jensen, I have to say that I am impressed that he had the guts to write what he did. 

It got me to look into Native resistance and within a very few minutes of searching I came across The Republic of Lakotah. All I have to say, is that Oyate Wacinyapin and the people who support him amaze me.

Also, John Trudell has some good things to say about drunken Indians. It hit me pretty hard.

The Hands Over Our Mouths

I am reading The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order by George Monbiot.
He writes a weekly column for The Guardian, he has a very colorful past as well that includes an attempted citizen's arrest of John Bolton (remember that guy?) in May. Wow! Talk about huzpah!
He wrote a good column recently on fair trade and small farms.
Read it if you like.

Opacity

Every once in a while I run into speakers who are able to articulate a sense of reality that I couldn't put to words. I am so glad I ran into Tim Wise.
I am reading his book White Like Me, please go to your nearest public library and check it out.

A Catchy Slogan

Persistence

I am in the middle of reading "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman.
In chapter 9, he discusses the North Pacific Gyre, aka Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Black History Month

Mos Def reads the words of Malcolm X.

Nods

Just a few things been runnin' through my head . Mostly half developed thoughts about stockholm syndrome and how it relates to everyday social/mental structures.
Saul Williams has a few good things to say about it as it pertains to hip hop.

Memories and Dreams

"What recalls another to us most vividly is precisely that which we had forgotten because it was unimportant: it has remained as it was, unaltered by our thought."
~Proust

Theory and Practice

"We have Art that we may not perish from Truth"
~Nietzsche

I like this idea much better

Thank goodness for common sense. Thank goodness for the work less party!

An Expository Speech from Brother Ali

I may not have much agency over it, it's just good to hear someone say it. Especially with such hot drums.

News Years

Been reading Jensen's book "The Culture of Make Believe" and feeling a strange, hopeful, inkling of the thoroughly twisted ways that us humans shape our perceptions of the world. In that spirit, here's a resource for a way to avoid the inevitable "existential bitch-slap" as James Kunstler would say. I suppose it's all about knowing when to say when.