There is a divide in the United States that played out last week, as it does every year, that typifies the chasm between Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day. Black versus Nothing may not be the first divisive pairing you think of when you think of opposing groups in the U.S. You probably think of […]
Poetry and a Day Commemorating Assassination.
I am participating in a “blog hop” today with another post of mine about the remembrance of the assassination of President Kennedy. I wanted to include this poem, Braided Dreams, that was accepted as one of the poems of the week by Poets Against the War, but it isn’t about Kennedy, not really. It does […]
We MUST Stop TPP Fast-Tracking
ALL we are saying is Stop the Fast Track and have the Congress do what it is charged to do per trade agreements. This “agreement” has been concocted in secret, and even our Congress is not allowed to see, without personal supervision, keep a copy, nor discuss what is in it. Over 600 corporations have […]
Back from Going to Meeting — Activist Style
Tear Down the Walls Welcome and Plenary I ran across some people today that I met a few years ago through connections made during my very active times in the Women’s Peace Movement; also talked to people who are having other conferences here in Tucson in April, 2014. I adore the conference subtitle… “Change the […]
Gone to Meeting – Tear Down the Walls
Ready to head off to to National Conference that is happening here in Tucson! Finally! Does anyone else come from a part of the country where “Go to Meetin’” was a phrase used for going to church or describing things associated with that action? A “go to meetin’” hat might be one’s good hat, as […]
Baja Arizona Revived! ¡Viva Baja!
Thank you Paul Eckerstrom for showing the world, via Alex Wagner on MSNBC a few minutes ago, that Tucson is not nuts, like much of the rest of Arizona. You can see an earlier MSNBC interview with him, from 2011, on the Tucson Weekly site. Free Baja Arizona! You have done more than Representative Ron […]