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“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Walt Whitman

Guess you have to be 84 and under to qualify for getting arrested, oops, I mean pepper-sprayed. . . Seriously, would that we all recognized the “delicious near-by freedom of death,” what shaman Carlos Castenada refered to as that which sits on your left shoulder always. It would render us, finally, fearless. The Slacker Face […]

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Beaming from above the candlelit march on the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday: “Another world is possible. We are unstoppable.”

11.18.11 – 12:33 PM Awesome by Abby Zimet A dazzling lightshow manifesto splashed across the Verizon building last night as thousands of Occupy Wall Streeters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. Interview and some great stories with its masterful creator here. “I can’t charge you money. This is for the people.” — Denise Vega, the projects-born, […]

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Here come the pill-poppin mamas, grandmas, aunties, nieces, daughters — and movie stars! Geez! Get over it.

That the industrial/medical/pharmaceutical industry has insidiously managed to slap, even clamp another layer on the predatory capitalist/consumerist mind control programs of American politics, education and media does not surprise me. That, now, one in four American women, some of them “celebrities”! (ooh! aah! then it must be okay!) take medication for a “mental disorder” does […]

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And even more auspicious news: not just individuals anymore, but whole communities are deciding to shun big banks

I’m beginning to get really excited to see so much auspicious news in just a few days (see this and this), all of which seems, to me, to be decidedly trend-setting. As for this priest, Fr. Eddie, did he have “permission” from his bishop? How free are those who function in hierarchies like the Catholic […]

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More auspicious news: big ag on the block for pesticide crimes against human beings

Following on the heels of yesterday’s auspicious news, I came across this, published on the eve of the Global Day of Action. Unfortunately, the Permanent Peoples Tribunal “has no legal weight.” And let’s face facts: even if it did, the courts are so corrupted that it wouldn’t matter. What does matter is that this systematic […]

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