BLOCK POWER - PART III
Jim Tull
Posted: 05/10/2007
As I personally go about my daily business in life, expressing through my actions a reluctant allegiance to the big culture and its systems, I also carry with me some fluidly changing version of the following reminders:
Release your faith in the capacity of our dominant culture, its systems and tools, to save us from social oppression and biological extinction. Though some of its tools (solar panels?) may be employed in the cultural hereafter, they are
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We are at War, out there and in here
Joseph E. Newsome
Posted: 05/09/2007
It's a rainy, dreary morning. The occasional flash of lightning and clap of thunder brings me back to the present moment. Like most Americans, especially those with young adult sons, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a constant source of angst. I cannot fathom any positive end to the ugly mess we've created.
In this moment of contemplation, I also realize that there is much more to worry about than this war-for-oil against our
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Electing Hillary would be Un-American
Joseph E. Newsome
Posted: 05/01/2007
History is teaching us that a second round of Bushs governing the nation can be far worse than the first.
It is reasonable to assume that a second round of Clintons would yield the same dismal results.
Extreme caution should be exercised next year before giving Hillary Rodhan Clinton the nod to lead our nation, no matter how qualified she might be.
Setting a pattern of reducing our presidential leadership pool to 2 super-powerful and rich
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Superpower
Karina Lutz
Posted: 04/30/2007
We live in a land where the people preparing food
have no time or patience to wait for fruit to ripen.
We live in a land where adults give children presents of toys
that train them to press the buttons that shoot and bomb
aliens, critters, invaders, anyone else coming towards them.
No time to look.
We live in a land where it is considered a luxury to need a car
to get to day care to get to work
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5 Tips on How to Save the Human Species
Phil Edmonds
Posted: 04/23/2007
There is good news and bad news. First the bad news. Let's face it: we are in serious trouble. All the signs are there. The depletion of our national resources, global warming, the loss of several species of life, all kinds of weapons proliferation, etc.
Now for the good news. Just maybe we have a chance to turn this around. A combination of these five tips just might save the human species:
1. Come out of our
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chestnut, elm, maple
Karina Lutz
Posted: 04/23/2007
I know I am dreaming but I cant wake up.
I shake myself, but it is not the earth body, it is the dream body
that shudders.
I know I am dreaming when I drive down Maple Street,
simultaneously mourning the dying maples;
loving them as I kill them with my exhaust.
I know I am dreaming when I turn onto Chestnut Street
and there are no chestnuts.
I know I am dreaming when I turn onto Elm Street
and the grand
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Block Power - Part II
Jim Tull
Posted: 04/23/2007
LESSONS
Radical isn't always dramatic. And it's not always a matter of getting to the root of a problem. Sometimes it's about getting to the root of what we need to do to get what we most want out of life. Block parties and consultation exchange directories don't do much, in the wider scheme of things. But efforts like these point in a direction of a life we might prefer to live over what we have
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Moving Toward a Green Economy
Greg Gerritt
Posted: 04/14/2007
I have been involved in a recent set of discussions about the economy and its relationship to the ecology of the earth. Some of the participants in the discussion believe that everything is fine, poverty is going down, incomes are up. I have been arguing that the rise in income that we see in many parts of the world is the destruction of natural capital that humans claim
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This is Our War, Not Bush's
Joseph Newsome
Posted: 04/01/2007
Democracies function better when their citizens are fully awake, face reality squarely, and everyone has a voice or at least think they do. We must all take responsibility for the decisions our leaders make, especially when it comes to the business of war.
In the USA, it is hard to deal with any subject of consequence and not have one's race influence their perspective. While this may be unfortunate, it's still true.
I am an
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Show Me What You Got
Atty. Richard Rose
Posted: 04/01/2007
In May, 2005 the Attorney General of the United States, Alberto R. Gonzales, identified gang and gun violence as a national priority for the Department of Justice.
The Rhode Island U.S. Attorney's Office has a two tiered approach to address the problem. We combine aggressive enforcement with an educational outreach component we call Street Smarts. The enforcement strategy is simple. We aggressively pursue all gang and gun crimes within the District. Gang membership will trigger
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Block Power
Jim Tull
Posted: 04/01/2007
Nobody went to jail. No one burned down the State House or forcibly removed the President of the United States from office. What a few people on our city block on the south side of Providence decided to do instead was something more radical, if less dramatic. We tried to get our neighbors to turn to each other a little bit more for personal support. As radical - meaning 'getting to the root' - as
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