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This was passed on to me by my friend Leah Barlow. It comes from Ran Prieur.

How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth
December 19, 2004

1. Abandon the world. The world is the enemy of the Earth. The “world as we know it” is a deadly parasite on the biosphere. Both cannot survive, nor can the world survive without the Earth. Do the logic: the world is doomed. If you stay on the parasite, you die with it. If you move to the Earth, and it survives in something like its recent form, you can survive with it.

Our little world is doomed because it’s built on a foundation of taking from the wider world without giving back. For thousands of years we’ve been going into debt and calling it “progress,” exterminating and calling it “development,” stealing and calling it “wealth,” shrinking into a world of our own design and calling it “evolution.” We’re just about done. We’re not just running out of cheap oil — which is used to make and move almost every product, and which gives the average American the energy equivalent of 200 slaves. We’re also running out of topsoil, without which we need oil-derived fertilizers to grow food; and forests, which stabilize climate and create rain by transpiring water to refill the clouds; and ground water, such as the Ogallala aquifer under the Great Plains, which could go dry any time now. We’re running out of room to dump stuff in the oceans without killing them, and to dump stuff in the atmosphere without wrecking the climate, and to manufacture carcinogens without all of us getting cancer. We’re coming to the end of global food stockpiles, and antibiotics that still work, and our own physical health, and our own mental health, and our grip on reality, and our will to keep the whole game going. Why do you think so many Americans are looking forward to “armageddon” or the “rapture”? We hate this shitty world and we want to blow it up.

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A Bioregional Perspective: the place vocation
by Alejandro Meitin

Communities are identified with systems that are environmentally recognizable through a comprehensive totality definable as the place vocation. This integration of the place’s symbolic role and the form built in the natural landscape has been represented by art in most cultures.

Advanced research on immunodeficiency recognizes that the human body is connected to the environment by means of a neurochemical communication network that determines our health and wellbeing to a great extent.

Thus, in order to be connected with the environment, it is not necessary to develop a sense of sentimentality or mysticism, not even a vital and intense sense of connection with nature. It is simply necessary to understand the place vocation and to “give advantage” to that feeling, recognizing that the environment -its cultural and natural manifestations- is only an extension of who we are.
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In this way, the bioregional perspective of place vocation is strengthened for the purpose of integrating an emergent movement arising from a communal life experience in the form of an autonomous area in which the antipower of cultural and natural remnants grows and acquires corporeal existence in the co-operation, in the flow of life, in the consideration of a movement displayed as a social doing. The work installed through this doing emerges in the experience of collective life and creates the world.

Read the whole article at greenmuseum.org

Soldiers Speak Out is a powerful, first-hand testament to the reality of the military experience told entirely in the words of American veterans who have been to war and are now opposing it. We hear how they came to join the military, about their experiences in training and in war, and what led to the turning point when they decided they could no longer, in good conscience, participate in the war or keep silent. This half-hour documentary sheds light on the growing and courageous anti-war and anti-occupation movement within the military and their families, and serves as a counter-recruitment and organizing tool for activists, schools and organizations. It provides a sober view of the war in Iraq and an important counterpoint to the ’stay-the-course’ rhetoric of the Bush administration.

source: empowermentproject.org
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This is a beautiful song and video written by Ian Rhett.

http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/

lyrics:
http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/lyrics.html

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i’m really emotional today.
this song makes me cry

tired of watching all my friends party party
tired of watching myself struggle struggle struggle
trying just to get by
trying to bring a smile to another
trying to find what happiness looks like for me

while greed, war, disease, destruction ravage our heritage, our family

tired of feeling like nothing matters
tired of feeling like we have no voice

tired of being ineffective
tired of being afraid

tired of being lied to
tired of not knowing the truth or anything close to it.

tired of being american

http://www.projectcensored.org/
No Disclosure on $Billions for Homeland Security
Cola vs. the People in India
Dismantling the Internet
Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu Stock
US Controls Colombian Reproductive Rights
KBR’s Gulf Coast Slaves
US Terror Watchlist 80,000 Names Long
Air War in Iraq
Power Plants Go Unregulated

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No Disclosure on $Billions for Homeland Security
Reviewed by Nick Ramirez

The details of how $8 billion in Homeland Security funds have been spent remain a mystery to the public. Many states do not reveal specifics on what has been purchased, providing only
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Brazil is fueling its cars with ethanol made from sugar cane: NY Times Article.