{Wednesday, July 23, 2008}
 MDSer Richie Marini freezes in Penn Station (Photo: Mike Morice / NLN) Penn Station Freezes NEW YORK — Anti-war activists held a FREEZE action in Penn Station on Monday at 5 pm, the height of rush hour. The goal: to stop an attack on Iran. NLN’s Mike Morice’s was there to capture the Moment. link Labels: peace, radical_ideas  |
{Saturday, May 24, 2008}
 TELECTROSCOPE? In the wee hours of Tuesday, a giant drill pokes up from the depths in Dumbo (or does it?). NYT link | via Laughing Squid | visit telectroscope.net Labels: radical_ideas |
{Saturday, May 17, 2008}
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Chasing Utopia, Family Imagines No Possessions or, Voluntary Simplicity Like many other young couples, Aimee and Jeff Harris spent the first years of their marriage eagerly accumulating stuff: cars, furniture, clothes, appliances and, after a son and a daughter came along, toys, toys, toys. Now they are trying to get rid of it all, down to their fancy wedding bands. Chasing a utopian vision of a self-sustaining life on the land as partisans of a movement some call voluntary simplicity, they are donating virtually all their possessions to charity and hitting the road at the end of May. [Read More »] | Blog Labels: green, off the grid, radical_ideas |
{Sunday, February 17, 2008}
 Radical Simplicity:Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel Imagine that you are first in line at a potluck supper. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much must you leave for your neighbors behind you - not just the 6 billion human beings, but our fellow creatures and the yet-to-be-born? Some believe that recycling and use of energy efficient appliances is sustainable living. In Radical Simplicity, Jim Merkel argues that to live in a sustainable manner requires a complete rethinking of our way of life. If the world's total bioproductive area is divided by the world's population, each of us gets a 4.7-acre share. Right now Canadians use up on average 22 acres of natural resources a year. To close this gap truly requires radical solutions. Another thing I heard him say once was to think in terms of NEED and WANT when you're met with a consumer issue. "Do I NEED this item, or do I simply WANT this item? Try to stick with just what you NEED."This book came out about 5 years ago, but it's been crossing my path recently and followed me here to Easy Bake Coven. Buy Book | Order Film | Global Living Project Labels: books, environment, green, radical_ideas, recycle, sustainability |
{Saturday, September 15, 2007}
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The White Rose Society By Dorothy Snodgrass Am I foolish to dream of a White Rose Society in this country to restore our honor and atone for the needless loss of American military and innocent Iraq’s? Were it not for that distinctive T-shirt, it’s doubtful I would ever have known about the White Rose Society. But meeting a friend recently, I was attracted by his T-shirt. At the top there was a line of Arabic script, beneath that the phrase, “We Will Not Remain Silent.” I was informed that this motto dated back to 1943, when a small group of students at the University of Munich, sickened by the atrocities of the Nazi’s, especially the persecution of the Jews, formed a resistance movement, which they named “The White Rose Society.” Spending almost an entire day at the Berkeley Public Library, and assisted by a reference librarian who was equally intrigued by this Society, I unearthed a wealth of materials, the most valuable being the book, “A Noble Treason: The Revolt of Munich Students Against Hitler.” Thanks to the librarian’s computer skills, I was provided with a print-out of all four leaflets written by these students—leaflets calling for German youth to overthrow the regime.  "The name of Germany will be dishonored forever lest German youth finally rise to smash [Hitler’s] tormentors and invoke a new, intellectual and spiritual Europe.” These leaflets were not the rabid ravings of wild-eyed radicals, but rather were beautifully-written, scholarly documents with quotations from Aristotle, Friedrich Schiller, Goethe and Lao Tzu. I was especially taken by the opening sentence in the First Leaflet: “Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be ‘governed’ without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that every honest German is ashamed of his government.”Given today’s shameful Iraq war debacle, might we not substitute “honest American” for “honest German"? [Read More »] The parallels to the Iraq slaughter are obvious and the writer asks: "Why are today’s university students not rebelling at the Iraq war and other injustices?" Go. Read the rest of this piece to find out what happens to these 4 students. Thank you, Dorothy Snodgrass. Outstanding piece of work on an exceptional group of students. Related: Read the leaflets White Rose Society Martyrs Protest of the Youth Labels: activism, actvism, anarchy, human rights, protest, radical_ideas |
{Friday, February 02, 2007}
Blogged with Flock Labels: events, inbox, lsd, music, peace, poetry, radical_ideas, underground news |
{Tuesday, November 28, 2006}
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Webtrail | November 28  Thich Nhat Hanh's Walking Meditation - Can you walk your way to a calmer mind, more resilient heart, and kinder soul? Walking Meditaion, a book CD/DVD set featuring Zenmaster Thich Nhat Hanh, and dharma teacher and principle author Anh-Huong ushered readers into becoming "fully present and alive with every step, filling each moment with peace and joy." link * Syd Barrett - A public look (You Tube) at the now-for-sale home of the late Syd Barrett, at 6 St. Margaret's Square in Cambridge. This link probably won't be up much longer, but you can check out the array of his possessions up for bid this Wednesday; includes a variety of his bright colored, hand-painted furniture, a fake Christmas tree, notebooks and more. [via] * President Bush Promises To Kill More American Troops, Ejaculate Into Iraqi Vagina: link * Protest News - Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands. link  * Absinthe Spoons might be a nice gift for someone this season. Or the whole set of glass, spoon, sugar cubes. I may snap some up for myself. I have several absinthe glasses and zero spoons. link* Quote Of The Day: What's the last thing you saw on Broadway? (the Dylan musical) "The Times They are A-Changin'. Very Cirque du so Lame." --Michael Musto (gotta love that queen) * George Bush Quote: "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'." * Today in Radical History: Nov 28 - 1944: Birth of San Francisco Digger, author Emmett Grogan. Labels: absinthe, books, peace, protest, radical_ideas, youtube |
{Wednesday, November 15, 2006}
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The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will: Mexican police gun down a counterculture hero Sarah Ferguson, Village Voice The last time I saw independent journalist and activist Brad Will was in September in an East Village yoga studio. I turned my head and found him lying on the mat next to me in the darkened room, his pale, flat stomach rising and falling serenely with the rhythm of his breathing. So on October 27, when I saw the photos posted on the Internet showing the 36-year-old Will's mortally wounded body laid out on a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, I cringed. There was that same pale, flat stomach now punctured by a bullet.  Over the course of his restless 36 years, he seemed to hit every activist node: squatting in the East Village, staging tree-sits in the Northwest with Earth First, and hopping freight trains to anarchist gatherings. He braved tear gas and rubber bullets during the anti-globalization battles in Seattle, Quebec, Prague, and Genoa (where a demonstrator was shot dead in the street by police). When the heady Seattle-style direct-action movement in the U.S. toned down following 9-11, Will took his video camera south, following the wave of popular uprisings in Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and finally Mexico. Friends say he was consumed with overlooked social struggles around the world. "He was one of the most dedicated activists I ever worked with," says Brooke Lehman, one of the owners of the radical Bluestockings bookstore on the Lower East Side, who met Will in 1998. "You could pretty much guarantee if there was a cause or an action, Will would be there. He felt a tremendous responsibility to do media where other media outlets wouldn't go, or were afraid to go." There's much more to read about the life of Brad Will. Labels: activism, actvism, radical_ideas, videos |
{Monday, March 20, 2006}
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Yippie Museum Approved A man named "Kenny the coke freak" once lived in the basement of the three-story brick building at 9 Bleecker St., just off the Bowery. In the early 1970s, when Kenny no longer could pay the rent, the Yippies moved in. More than three decades later, the counterculture group founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin is looking to turn its Bleecker Street headquarters into a museum. The state Office of Cultural Education is recommending that the Board of Regents grant a five-year provisional charter to the Youth International Party - which spearheads an annual march calling for the legalization of marijuana - at its March meeting next week. The Regents are likely to follow the recommendation.  "It's sort of going to be like the Hard Rock Cafe of radical culture," a longtime member of the Yippies, Dana Beal, a co-curator of the museum, said during a tour through the building yesterday. Mr. Beal, (of Cures Not Wars) who has a shock of white hair and a moustache like Mark Twain's, has inhabited 9 Bleecker St. since 1973.The items to be on display will include some of the cremated ashes of acid guru Timothy Leary and an American flag blazer donated by Hoffman's son, Andrew, who lives in Indonesia. [More...] Yippie Museum Approved Labels: Abbie Hoffman, marijuana, radical_ideas, Timothy Leary |
{Tuesday, January 31, 2006}
  Berkley 1968 - Portland 2002 Stew Albert a prominent anti-Vietnam war activist, an early supporter of the Black Panthers and a founder of the Yippie radical protest group, died Monday at age 66 in Portland, Oregon. Initially diagnosed with Hepatitis C, he spent a whole year enduring grueling chemotherapy. He spoke openly about it on his website, documenting each day and each weekly shot. He was finally declared free of the disease only to be diagnosed with liver cancer this past December. The ultimate Fuck You. (My sister passed away this past Thanksgiving also from liver cancer from Hep C.) We spoke thru email about Hep C, how it sucked and how the treatment felt worse than the disease. I was always inspired by his spirit. From 1968 in Chicago throughout his life. People with true 60s ideals are a rare breed. Tom Robbins said, Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Stew certainly believed in magic. On his website...from Judy "Stew will be buried tomorrow (Wednesday) in Jones Pioneer Cemetery in Portland. He will be wrapped in a tallis (Jewish prayer shaw), holding a stuffed flower from the Haight and wearing his kick-ass Frye boots and our wedding ring." There are beautiful sentiments expressed on his website, Bay Area Indymedia, Infoshop News, SFGate, and on Counterpunch.  More On Hepatitis C Allen Ginsberg died from complications of it. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, & Nash, both had liver transplants and still suffer from it. Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, suffered from it and died of liver cancer in 2001. Penny Arcade, the 55-year-old performance artist for the East Village avant-garde art scene since Andy Warhol roamed the city, also suffers from it. Miles Keaton Andrew, a 52-year-old author who contracted it when he experimented with intravenous drugs as a teenager, has kept a blog, www.mkandrew.com, since 2001 about his experiences battling H.C.V. His blog has received a million hits in the past year. “I understand the whole stigma thing,” he told The Villager. "There are a lot of people like me who might have experimented with drugs. Some of us got sick from it and it isn’t anything to be ashamed about." Hep C Life After Interferon is another blogger who documents his experience with it. Labels: 60s, activism, actvism, antiwar, art, drugs, Ken Kesey, loss, protest, radical_ideas, Stew_Albert |
{Tuesday, October 25, 2005}
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"Scrota Contra Vota" (2000-) is a form of radical political comment for 50 percent of the elective population. Your scrotum counts! Attention, male individuals (biological and/or gender)! Please undress and sit down on a flat bed scanner and scan your scrotum. Anatomize the hi-res JPEG to monochrom via email. As a form of protest, monochrom reserves the right to send these digital images to various public people of political interest. NSFW - Obviously, a site full of scrotums in all their glory won't be safe for work. But for the curious, take a peek and see if you recognize anyone. heh heh Link Labels: NSFW, protest, radical_ideas |
{Wednesday, August 24, 2005}
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Imagine for a moment that you could take all the spin off the Iraq conflict from the main stream media, the administration, the pundits, etc. And think about the money spent on the current military, the loss of lives from the war, the weapons of mass destruction that never were...Colin Powell is extremely embarassed about that now. Just consider the undisputable facts. Have you noticed the intensity at which the American public is speaking out against the war? It's not the radical militants demonstrating and raising hell like we did in the sixties, where we all knew each other or had similar lifestyles and beliefs. Now, it's a mixed bag. It's your neighbors, your grandmother, and your priest peacefully demonstrating and they're mad as hell. As long as I've spoken out against war and marched and been cuffed and maced in the name of peace, I can tell you that this is an unprecedented and different vibe against the war. It's already more unpopular than Vietnam ever was. If the Iraq war continues much longer, I fully expect to see everybody in the street. Labels: 60s, Iraq, peace, radical_ideas, sixties |
{Monday, July 04, 2005}
 * Demonstrators arrive in Scotland today to protest the G-8 Summit. Hundreds of black-clad anarchists and anti-G-8 protesters clashed violently with police in Scotland's capital Monday, as demonstrators sought to keep up pressure on world leaders ahead of a summit of wealthy nations. * [Watch Video] * G8 Radio Stream * The Guardian has a nice recap on Live 8.  * The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army is looking for fools and rebels, radicals and rascals, tricksters and traitors, mutineers and malcontents to join its ranks.You don't need to like clowns or soldiers, you just need to love life and laughter as much as rebellion. If you think you've got what it takes then follow your nose & join CIRCA! The Clowns have been sent in and Scottish authorities are bracing for chaos. CIRCA's latest gathering is near the G8 Summit in Scotland, July 4-8. Labels: protest, radical_ideas, radio, videos |
{Saturday, May 07, 2005}
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**Update--May 11, 2005 WAYNESVILLE - Pastor Chan Chandler submitted his resignation to the members of East Waynesville Baptist Church on Tuesday, a move some said was the only way to resolve current tensions at the church. link Members Say Church Ousts Kerry Supporters A Baptist pastor in North Carolina has touched off an exodus in his church by declaring Democrats are not welcome as members. The Rev. Chan Chandler of East Waynesville Baptist Church in Waynesville ex-communicated nine members who refuse to support President Bush, according to WLOS-TV in Asheville, N.C. Another 40 have left in protest in a controversy that began before the election last November and came to a head Sunday. "He preached a sermon on abortion and homosexuality, then said if anyone there was planning on voting for John Kerry, they should leave," said Selma Morris, a 30-year member of the church. "That’s the first time I’ve ever heard something like that. Ministers are supposed to bring people in." "[Chandler] told us that if we didn't support George Bush we needed to resign our position and get out, or go to the altar and repent, and support George Bush." Chandler, who could not be reached for comment, has insisted his actions are not politically motivated. North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek sharply criticized the pastor Friday, saying Chandler jeopardized his church's tax-free status by openly supporting a candidate for president. A contributor to the leading liberal weblog Daily Kos wrote: "For those that thought that there has not been a full scale war lanched against liberals; for those who didn't take the radical right's promise to "eradicate liberals" seriously, I present to you, Exhibit A: East Waynesville Baptist Church has just kicked out all its Democratic members." This sad spectacle is the predictable consequence of the radical religious right's insistence on measuring a person’s religion by social-political litmus tests. How soon will others follow suit? [more »] Labels: asheville, elections, liberal, protest, radical_ideas |
{Tuesday, April 26, 2005}
 Are anti-drug technologies and mind-control vaccines the future of the drug war?You may not have heard about it yet -- but you will. The first mainstream media report was in a British newspaper report dated July 25, 2004. The headline read, Children to Get Jabs Against Drug Addiction. In it, we learn that a "radical scheme to vaccinate children against future drug addiction" is being considered by the British Government. Under the plan, doctors would "immunize children at risk of becoming smokers or drug users with an injection." The article claimed the scheme would function "similarly to the current nationwide Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccination program. Childhood immunization would protect adults from the euphoria experienced by users, making drugs such as heroin and cocaine pointless to take." Is this the future of the drug war? A nightmare dystopia where children are inoculated against feeling forbidden euphoria? [more »] Labels: addiction, antiwar, drugs, radical_ideas |
{Thursday, April 14, 2005}
 There are so many new ear piercing options today. To hear my teenage daughter and her friends talk about them or witness their latest piercings is a daily lesson in style and creativity. My son, who's much older, has always been artistic and displays a host of body modifications. When he was younger he liked to see me cringe when he appeared with a new tat or piercing. That was fifteen or so years ago. You didn't see it as much back then here in Smalltown, USA. He now owns a nice shop that does body piercing, tats, and henna apps and lives in another state so I don't see him as much.Back to the earrings--the lower the number, the larger the pierced hole. You wear a larger earring to stretch the hole and ideally, you go up in size until you have a hole large enough to put a pencil through.  When I hear them speak in numbers and fractions I know they're probably talking about gauges or plugs or eyelets. I think. When I heard them speak of tunnels, orbitals and industrials, I had to step in and get educated. I remember a time when two holes per ear were radical. Damn. I am turning into my Mother. Labels: radical_ideas, Skyler |
{Tuesday, March 08, 2005}
 V for Vendetta is now underway. . . BERLIN, GERMANY, March 4, 2005 – The Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver, the creators and producer of the revolutionary, $1.6 billion-grossing Matrix trilogy, have launched production on the action thriller V For Vendetta, starring Natalie Portman (Star Wars: Episodes I-III, Closer, Garden State), James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, Resident Evil) and Stephen Rea (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game) in Berlin, Germany. Filming began March 7, 2005. [via: chromewaves] * "Veal Pen". The new "it" phrase. * International Women's Day is being celebrated globally. Did you celebrate youself today? * What makes you feel sensual? Take the quiz on Every Woman Is A Goddess. * Music for you website at Music Video Codes. Slap on your pop-up blocker and go! MusicVideoCodes.com is the largest Music Video Code provider on the Internet today. We provide two types of codes for each video. The code just below the video is intended to be used on any website, blog, or profile that allows embed HTML tags. * Coming Soon - Mazal Tov Cocktail - An encyclopedia of jewish Radical Culture.  May inspiration fill your heart and hands, run down your legs and cause spontaneous dancing.Labels: goddess, music, radical_ideas, videos |
{Wednesday, August 25, 2004}
  Dylan is set to focus on significant and influential periods of his life in the first of three books called simply Chronicles: Volume One. Now, in a book his publisher describes as "extraordinary, revealing and surprising" and "a beautifully written, singular achievement", he is going to speak for himself.
The 304-page tome is due out on October 12, published by Simon and Schuster and will be followed about a week later by an updated edition of Lyrics: 1962-2001, a compendium of lyrics to nearly every Dylan song. Link Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, edited by Dave Eggers et al. (Knopf, 239 pages, $24.95). Anyone who ever loved Bob and Ray or Mad magazine in its heyday or Lenny Bruce will revel in this den of satirical-to-bizarre humour. Typical entries: Lefty icons Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn provide (unused) audio commentary for a DVD of The Lord of the Rings; Ezra Pound reviews the worst films of all time on Italian radio ("Bambi: Filth."). Most of the 50 entries are very short. Some are very funny, others a bit flat; none suffers from the great McSweeney's dread -- drabness.
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Needs Funding For Research - Did you know that Hepatitis C killed twice as many people as AIDS did last year in the US. Go to Petition and Sign Here
John McCleary's, "The Hippie Dictionary" book is chock-full of pointed editorializing, slang and swear words culled from the vernacular of the 1960s and 1970s hippie youth, who questioned authority and created their own counterculture. I particularly liked this statement of his:In his entry on Presiden John F Kennedy's assassination, he wrote, "It is interesting tonote that liberals are the ones who are killed in their prime, and conservatives die old in their soft beds. This world would ba a better place in which to live if John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther Kind, Jr, had lived to die in their soft beds." more » NY Post Claims Weather Underground To "Wreak Havoc" During the RNC. A number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground have recently been released from prison and are in New York preparing to wreak havoc during the Republican National Convention, The Post has learned. (via RNC Watch)
All Stresses Out And No One To Choke? - Unload that gun and Check out the 35 Symptoms of Menopause first.
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{Thursday, August 05, 2004}
 'The Streets Belong to Us' - NYC activists call for a day of civil disobedience on August 31.
Creative Demonstrations Fringe NYC Imagine 04 Artist's Network Theaters Against War Posters New forms of public protest, many of them remarkably theatrical—pacifist puppet shows, bell-ringing conclaves, Republican makeovers, even radical baton twirling. Artists and organizers involved in RNC protest planning spoke about fresh takes on dissent—costumes and/or props required. RNC-Aug 30 - Sep 2 August 31 Counter Convention RNC Not Welcome RNC Pundit Patrol RNC Watch Not In Our Name Protest Posters Visual Resistance Mear One Obey Giant Robbie Conal Labels: protest, radical_ideas |
{Thursday, May 06, 2004}
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:: Why Rumsfeld Should Go
A few years ago his Pentagon ruled that the United States would no longer be bound by the Geneva Conventions; that Army regulations on the interrogation of prisoners would not be observed; and that many detainees would be held incommunicado and without any independent mechanism of review. Abuses will take place in any prison system. But Mr. Rumsfeld's decisions helped create a lawless regime in which prisoners in both Iraq and Afghanistan have been humiliated, beaten, tortured and murdered -- and in which, until recently, no one has been held accountable. Lead Editorial May 6, 2004, from the Washington Post. [more...]  :: Taboo Tunes
A history of banned bands and censored songs. Filled with raunchy sex ditties, morbid murder ballads, blasphemous satanic songs, paeans to intoxicating substances, and radical political anthems, Taboo Tunes lays the censors' stories bare. Far from merely recounting dusty history, Taboo Tunes casts a much-needed spotlight on current concerns over civil liberties and artistic freedom in the post-9/11 world. Looks like an interesting book. I remember when Louie, Louie was considered obscene, although I couldn't understand the lyrics, and was surrounded by many rumors. It was even investigated by the FBI. See this Smoking Gun link. [link] :: We're going to LEAF this weekend. Lake Eden Arts Festival. All types of music and fun improv troupes as well as sufi meditation chanting, tribal belly dancers, a lake, camping facilities, and more.  Oh, cool. My Prozac fits into my Pez dispenser.
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{Tuesday, April 13, 2004}
 The Bushiad and the Idyossey
Demonstrates that when power-mad, testosterone-poisoned religious fanatics in league with greedy multinational corporations wield unlimited military might, all humanity is vulnerable. Well done! [link] via Liz Donovan  PBS had a great documentary on Emma Goldman last night, who it was reported, was expelled by the US for promoting anarchy and revolution. On a cold December morning in 1919, just after midnight, Emma Goldman, her comrade Alexander Berkman, and more than 200 other foreign-born radicals were roused from their Ellis Island dormitory beds to begin their journey out of the United States for good.
We are having a huge thunderstorm and hail here in North Carolina last night and this morning. Hope my old roof holds up. Nasty. Labels: anarchy, documentary, radical_ideas |
{Sunday, April 04, 2004}
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:: US Tanks Crush Iraqi Protesters
At least two followers of Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada Sadr have been killed after throwing themselves in front of US tanks during a demonstration in central Baghdad. "There were two or three dead among the protestors who threw themselves under American tanks, which could not avoid them on Tahrir square," said Sergeant Abbas Mohamad. Reason #8724 why the war in Iraq sucks. [link] :: Google Is Watching You Once it was a plucky upstart, but now the multi-billion-dollar firm is charged with invading our privacy. If their GMail is NOT a hoax, and they're able to get tons of people to sign up with them, that will be too much valuable information for one outfit to have at their disposal. If they aren't tempted themselves to do something nefarious with it, someone else will surely tempt them with lucrative offers. [link] Labels: Iraq, radical_ideas |
{Sunday, February 01, 2004}
 » Rickie Lee Jones leans hard to the left and doesn't care who knows, saying liberal and left aren't dirty words. To accentuate her point, she breaks into "Ugly Man", one of her newer songs about a politician who's just like his father. "Tell Somebody", about of all things, the Patriot Act. "Chuck E's in Love", a sentimental crowd favorite was both a solo effort and an extended backup vocals display; the old Gerry & The Pacemaker's classic "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" was a surprise tune. And "Satellites" - always a favorite, still echoes long after it's over. Her voice was the shining star; the main attraction. Very soulful, fun & playful, sorrowful, and sometimes child-like. Filling up aching ballads with her poetic lyrics, unleashing her inner radical, she's equally about the music and the message, remaining faithful to her vision.
» Henry Rollins is rumored to have recently bought real estate here in Asheville, NC. He has a Feb 29 Orange Peel concert here. Too many Divas, not enough stage.Labels: asheville, liberal, music, radical_ideas, Rickie Lee Jones |
{Saturday, October 25, 2003}
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Mass March On Washington, DC today at 11:00.
135 cities bringing buses to DC. Joint action in San Francisco. Bring the troops home now - End the occupation of Iraq - Money for jobs, education & healthcare - Not war. When I first demonstrated against Vietnam in 1969, it was mostly a sea of us hippies and radicals. I was maced and spit on. A year or two later, people started listening and I found some of my professors and other square johns were also attending the rallys. Fast forward a few years and a few incidents later, and everyone was pissed about Vietnam. And the war was finally over. I see the same thing, same progression, happening here. First I was an idiot to question going to war in Iraq, much less protesting it. Now, more people feel the same way. Soon, I hope, it'll be over. Ok. Somebody help me off the back of this flatbed truck. Soapboxes are for wusses. In honor of the Nov. 4 release of Robert Plant's Sixty Six to Timbuktu two-CD solo compilation, VH1 Classic will air a Plant special Nov 1 and 4. Chip Music - post-karaoke, rock-and-roll Game Boy, bastard blues. [Ollapodrida via Wired] Targeting Diebold With Electronic Civil Disobedience [Why-War provides all updated links] Students from three more American Universities have joined the civil disobedience: MIT, USC, and Purdue. Unfortunately, as we reported yesterday, Swarthmore College is now actively engaging in the suppression of this information by summarily disconnecting any Swarthmore student who provides a link to this page [why-war.com]. Former President Bill Clinton announced Thursday that his foundation and four pharmaceutical companies have reached an agreement to reduce the cost of HIV/AIDS drugs by at least 45 percent in about a dozen Caribbean nations and four African countries. I like that he's still globally involved in humanitarian deeds. saturday morning me// 
hazelnut coffee#2/cig#1/guilt trip #7387105494304/ long maroon dress/black shawl/leg warmers/ballet flats/ hair: styles d' egg-beater/fragrance: eau de dog slobber/ lis'ning: all my trials-by joan baez/ so how about you?/  What is this fresh hell?Labels: drugs, Iraq, music, radical_ideas, Robert Plant, Saturday Morning Me |
{Saturday, July 05, 2003}
 Saturday already? Good Morning...
Does Birth Order make sense?
Strengths and Weaknesses of The First Borns. Good Team Player, Organized, List Maker, Leadership Ability. Strengths and Weaknesses of The Middle Child. Peacemakers, Independent Thinker, Unspoiled, Realistic. Strengths and Weaknesses of The Last Born Child. Charming, Likable, Manipulative, People Oriented. I am a first born and I gotta agree with being a 'list maker'. In fact, I'm compulsive about it and have been since I was a little girl. Before bed I'd lay out everything for the next morning. Then get out my notebook and write: 7:00am--wake up. 7:05am--brush teeth, 7:08am--have breakfast, 7:23am--fix hair, and so on for the whole day. I began this at about 9 years old. I also kept a notebook on theYankees, and all their stats. Pretty weird. Try to match each of the following opening lines with the correct novel on the Famous First Words Quiz. ...via fimoculous After six years, Lollapalooza tours again. Starting tonight, July 5 - Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, Ind. Fun Link Of The Day: Inflatable Bras from Frederick's of Hollywood in 1960. Yep. Pump 'er up with air. #G looks so sharp and pointy, I'll bet she could poke a spider in the ass with those things. ...via The Presurfer  Top Ten Worst Cars of the Millenium. Have you ever owned one of them? I've owned #5 and #10 before; my parents bought #9 once. The comments on their selections is very funny. ...via The Presurfer
Stew Albert is still around and raising all sorts of good radical hell. If you ascribed to the radical thinking of the Sixties, his Yippie Reading Room is just the place for you. Quote For Today "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln saturday morning me//
green tea/bagel & cantelope/ back to benson & hedges/ jean shorts/patti smith tee t/barefoot/braid/ listening: Richard Thompson/ smelling: Husbands cinnamon toast/ hows about you?/ Keep your hands where I can see them. Labels: 60s, music, Patti Smith, radical_ideas, Saturday Morning Me, sixties, Stew_Albert, tea |
{Sunday, June 08, 2003}
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Oh, Blogger, what am I going to do with you?
The word for the day is Revolution, children. As in, we almost had a __________, or Why don't we start a __________? A Trip Back to the Contradictions of the Stormy 60's The Weather Underground, a movie-documentary is now playing in New York and a few select venues around the country. During the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration, a group of white-bread, upper-middle-class college students took up guns and explosives to plot the violent overthrow of the United States government. Sam Green and Bill Siegel's energetic and incendiary documentary, The Weather Underground, tracks the history of this radical political group, the Weathermen, and examines the psychology and politics which led its members to commit countless acts of terrorist activism. FBI files on the Weathermen.  Steal This Movie, a 2000 movie about Abbie Hoffman and his life as an organizer, hippie radical and his life on the run is currently playing on cable and at your neighborhood video store. He also wrote a book called, Steal This Book that got a strange reception at book stores at the time and Steal This Urine Test. My copy also got stolen. So did my Soul On Ice copy. That summer I worked the phones at a Crisis Hot Line where we also had that book and others with a note to steal and to drop off your books, as well. But I remember him as an exuberant champion of the underdog and a founder of the Free Store feeder of the poor, and 1/7 of the Chicago 7.
You can make a poster here. He asked for it all So I gave my life and love Crabs were a bonus [via: haikooties] Quote For Today "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." ~ J.M. Barrie Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2? Labels: 60s, Abbie Hoffman, books, documentary, films, radical_ideas, videos, Weather Underground |
{Tuesday, March 18, 2003}
 Good Morning...
MoveOn is suggesting we put lights in our windows to keep the light of reason and hope burning, to let others know that they are not alone, and to show the way home to the young men and women who are on their way to Iraq. If you will light a candle or even string some old Christmas lights, stop by and sign their list. Protesting against the war this time around is so much different than the protesting I did in the late 60's, early 70's. Of course, it was a different time. But, I can now separate the man or woman from the mission. Before, I not only protested the Vietnam war, I protested against everyone who was fighting for it. Loudly. I hated all the participants. Now, I have a slightly different opinion of the soldiers, airmen, marines, etc. I don't know if they've changed, but I'm not fueled by hate for anything. Years ago, many protests were organized by radical groups; now, just a few. College protests and rock concerts were accompanied by the National Guard or cops in riot gear on a regular basis. Not only was the war an issue, but women's rights were being born; civil rights were in their infancy. There was a lot of hate, lots of drugs, lots of sex, lots of violence. A very painful time to grow up in. A time of hope, then disillusionment, hope, disillusionment. Hope when we all came together to protest the unfairness of Vietnam, when we all dug Jimi, Dylan, Zeppelin, the Stones; getting high and high hopes of an intellectual, spiritual revolution that could change the world. Disillusionment, with Watergate, Nixon, Dead Kennedys, Watts. Hope again; the strength we had at Woodstock, the march on the Washington Monument, and the newfound Equal Rights Amendment. Disillusionment again; Four Dead in Ohio, and Martin Luther King shot, riots and fires in the streets. A very different time, indeed. The Little Mermaid's penis, Jessica Rabbit's beaver? Got my attention. Take a look for yourself. It's kinda silly; mostly hidden items or something that appears to be something else. Send a message in a bottle. Fill out the form, pick your exotic beach location, and the kind folks who live there will toss your message in a bottle out to sea. This looks like loads of fun. Most high school yearbooks now online. See if you can find yours. Winking Jesus site. See if he winks at you. It has changed some people's lives, so it says. Holy vulnerability, Batman! [via: linkydinky.com] Don't like Bush? Send him a pretzel. [via: blogdex] Flashbacks 1977-Anita Bryant's Cure--A spoof of her claim to cure homosexuality in 10 days from the folks at National Lampoon. Anyone remember her and the uproar she caused? [via: crackbaby.com] Prayers ascending today for my best friend, Dena. Her liver may have tried to shut down so she went into the hospital last night. If you offer prayers to anyone, could you please add one for her? You know it's another bad day when you see that the local gas station's ladder is leaning on its gas prices sign.
Labels: 60s, drugs, Iraq, Jimi Hendrix, Led-Zeppelin, Martin Luther King, protest, radical_ideas |
{Sunday, February 16, 2003}
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*Sunday morning coming down...
This Ain't Your Mother's Vietnam War Protest What a successful weekend of global anti-war protest. Even in the cold and rain, we [Asheville, NC] had 10 times as many protesters show up as last time. {I only stayed about 2 hours.} It's a slice of PTA, Little League and Bible School, with a few of us old school radical and hippie protesters thrown in. Hell, it's a cross section of Americana 'in your face' and that's a beautiful thing. Send a Condom to Africa in the President's Name In his recent State of the Union address, President Bush promised to provide funds for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in Africa and the Caribbean. However, the president's extremist allies are now demanding that not a dime be spent on condoms as a means of preventing AIDS. Their solution? Abstinence only. Our solution? GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER 1. Sag, You're it. 2. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy. 3. 20 questions shouted into your good ear. 4. Kick the bucket. 5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over. 6. Doc Goose. 7. Simon says something incoherent. 8. Hide and go pee. 9. Spin the Bottle of Mylanta. 10. Musical recliners. [via: C:\My Documents\] You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing.
*UPDATE: 1:01pm Google bought Blogger/Pyra. I wonder what this may mean to us Blogger users, if anything? Will Blogger become Bloogle, or Boogle, Glogger? Seen at Gary Turner's [via: Dan Gilmore's EJournal] Labels: antiwar, asheville, condom_ads, protest, radical_ideas |
