adrienne maree, the luscious satyagraha

Health Care Alternative

Watch this:

http://www.grahamazon.com/sp/whatissinglepayer.php

Read this:

The Problem:
Almost 44 million people in the U.S. are totally uninsured, and another 40 million are uninsured during some part of every year. Another 80 million are only partially covered. Worst of all, most people who don't have healthcare insurance have full time jobs.

The Solution:
Secure a system of comprehensive national healthcare for everybody in the United States. If we join together, we can get the national healthcare system we need now. We can provide coverage for healthcare, prescription drugs, mental health, dental, optical and long-term care. We can afford it NOW. We can't afford not to have it. All of this has been written into House Resolution 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, now before Congress.

Visit:

www.cnhpnow.org

Lyrics of Current Favorite Nina song

My baby never treats me sweet and gentle the way he should;
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

My poor heart is sentimental not made of wood
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
But when the weekend’s over and monday rolls aroun’
I end up like I start out just cryin’ my heart out
He don’t love me like I love him nobody could
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

Like a lonely weeping willow lost in the wood
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
And the things I tell my pillow no woman should
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
Tho folks with good intentions tell me to save my tears
I’m glad I’m mad about him I can’t live without him
Lord above me make him love me the way he should
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

a poem from karynn

work has been remarkably emotionally trying lately, and my friend karynn just sent me this poem by miguel de unamuno - it's his last poem, written after he was thrown out of the university where he taught...:

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,
The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
Don't turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.
Leave what's alive in the furrow, what's dead in yourself,
For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.

i heart vancouver

everyone let's go to vancouver! its explosively beautiful - mountains oceans beaches cafes rain rainbows sunsets its just gorgeous and dope and amazing and chill and there's endless ganja and everyt'ing is irie and socialized healthcare. sigh. i love canada! go check www.getyourvoteon.ca to see my hosts, who are doing dope prep work for their may 17th provincial election. big up olive and rubin, kevin, matt good, cass, sarahs g and d, and others who welcomed me with open arms.

me in vancouver

 

Get Your Vote On Hub   and Volunteer Rally   9:30am - 5:00pm   @ the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue 580 W. Hastings St . - Hastings and Seymour in Downtown Vancouver   LUNCH PROVIDED!       7pm – 9pm Matthew Good and Adrienne Maree-Brown   in a discussion on democracy, engagement and activism   Chin ese Cultural Centre   50 E. Pender St - Downtown Vancouver     Workshops include   Outreach        basics (how to get people to do what you want them to in five easy        steps)   Media        training (what to say, how to answer only the questions you want to and        more) Electoral        Reform (First Past the Post, BC Single Transferable Vote let’s figure it        out together.) Election        nuts ‘n’ bolts (all the gory details you need to know) Other        ideas you send to us that we can get together before March 19th        Features   Adrienne   Maree Brown, co-founder of the ‘League of Young Voters’ in the U.S.   and co-editor of “How to get Stupid White Men out of Office” will join   us to talk about recent youth voter trends and lessons learned from the U.S.   election.

Great reflection piece

Hello friends and associates from around the world,

I just watched this short online film and was struck by how much can be communicated in a short.

I encourage you to give it a look.

This wont change your life but it will provide a moment of reflection.

http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/UNEP2/UNEP2Movie.html

 

10 seconds is a long time, 10 years is a decade.
2004-2015 – The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

To learn more and participate see...
www.uspartnership.org

www.unesco.org/education/desd

grist piece

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/03/15/brown/