I heard Tavis Smiley and Cornel West talk yesterday on CNN (I was in the pre-op room, so CNN was the best of the worst options) and the only thing I could think of was: "when will the government classify them as 'domestic terrorists'. We have the law now....so broad it can encompass anyone who can be held indefinitely for any imaginary excuse." It's made me very sad that we came to this. "Yes We Can" was not supposed to mean that. It was not supposed to mean supporting big banks and let people starve, lose their homes and their jobs. And yet, by comparison, Obama is an angel. Which made me even more sad. Luckily, they put me under general anesthetic afterwards....:-)


The Poverty Tour

Native American wisdom: "There is always a dream dreaming us."

"There has always been a dream.  Everything is still the dream.  All that we call creation and Creator is the dream.  The dream continues to dream us and to dream itself.  Before anyone or anything was, there was a dream, and this dream continued to dream itself until the chaos within the dream became aware of itself.  Once the awareness knew that it was, there was a perspective for other aspects of the dream to comprehend itself.  One of the emerging dream energies, or "complexes", that came from the chaos of the dream and still remains in the dream as a way for the dream to recognize itself, is called "human beings".  Human beings required a way to have perspective and reference, and because of this, another energy emerged from the dream, and this is known today as "time".  It is from the two energies of dream and time that the third was given birth to, and that third one is known as the "dream time".  Dream time is also known as "mind", which is by nature luminescent and pure.  And the dream time mind is reflected by the emptiness of awareness."

....which is the reason why Western psychological norms would never work for Native Americans.

with thanks to Eduardo Duran

Aung San Suu Kyi tells of Burma's struggle for freedom and its cost

"What is this passion? What is the cause to which we are so passionately dedicated as to forgo the comforts of a conventional existence?" she asks. "Going back to [former Czech dissident leader] Václav Havel's definition of the basic job of dissidents, we are dedicated to the defence of the right of individuals to free and truthful life. In other words, our passion is liberty."

From The Guardian

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, that diminishes the fear."

Rosa Parks

Keep going Wisconsin!

Who would have thought..., but we turned this into history.  I'm so proud of all of you who took a part in these protests!  It's good to draw some attention every now and again...:-)

we hear you, Wisconsin!

http://front.moveon.org/50-photos-from-the-50-state-rallies-to-save-the-american-dream/?rc=tw

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