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We did it!
I am listening to president elect Barack Obama giving his acceptance/victory speech and I finally really understand why my Mom's generation called Kennedy's government "Camelot".
I had given up on government, mainstream society, all of it-just waiting for the Earth herself to shake us off like some many irksome fleas.
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Chemical pollution and the (lack of) EPA
Well I just ranted all that in the last post, went to check my email to log out and get to bed and I got a mail from EArthjustice about urging lawmakers to do seomthing about it so copying the link and some of the page of the action below. Nice to know someone is doing something about it at least!
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Tibet
Not well enough to write a real post but in case anyone has not yet seen the news I wanted to mention what's going on in Tibet and ask that everyone who prays, please pray for the people there. It is a very sad and bad situation-like all instances of colonization-for both the indigenous people of the region and the colonists, who as far as I know ( Read more... ) -
Burma
Subject: They're shooting monks in Burma
Hi,
Have you seen the news?
After decades of brutal dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising. In the past few days, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters, led by Buddhist monks, have flooded the streets of Rangoon. But yesterday, the military started shooting monks and journalists.
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social studies test thingy
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade11/socialstudies.htm
wow. I rock-I didnt miss ANY;-) of course if I had missed any it would have been astonishingly lame since understanding this stuff is necessary for understanding the stuff Ive been researching forever;-)
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Jimmy Carter gets it right again-as usual;-) This is copied from Tompaine(you can read it at the link as well)
The only thing I take issue with really, is that the ENTIRE Israeli state is a colonization of Palestine-just as the entire US state is a colonization of the many nations who were here before. No one really thinks we can ship all the white ( Read more... )
