Earthtribe-Gather

31 May 2006 @ 05:56
All so very often, issues of importance to all of us become framed in an Us versus Them paradigm. Who amongst us here harbors for a moment the thought that there is an avenue for agreement, common cause, and coordinated and compatible action between the Rainforest Action Network and the Corporate-Banking Empire. Yes, the RAN, that “anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-business, illegal, immoral, radical, dangerous, socialist, communist, pot-smoking, draft-dodging bunch of hippy freaks.” What are the possibilities that such an organization might be involved in a reasonable conversation with Citibank, Bank of America, and J.P.Morgan Chase, amongst others? Here is an article which when printed out comes to ten pages, and therefore might take a few extra minutes to read through, and leads to the thought that there might be just some slim possibility for a “shift in the fundamental architecture of the economy”; and that there might come a time in some not too distant future, “when we were looking over the abyss – there would be a quantum shift in thinking that would bring about profound systemic change to the way we deal with food, energy, transport, and manufacturing, changes that would then bring about an ecologically sustainable society in our lifetime.”
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Weatherman

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24 May 2006 @ 04:16
The world is going up in flames. The great fire is beginning. Nuclear weapons are no longer necessary. The planet is cooked. More and more individuals are going to make more and more decisions about what they think they need to do.
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You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
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Ice-Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert
By Geoffrey Lean
The Independent UK
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Nation of Clowns

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11 May 2006 @ 05:13
"We've turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating clown food, watching clown shows,"
James Howard Kunstler
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Morena Amoora

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2 May 2006 @ 04:32
Morena Amoora
Lila Pechresky
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Neta Shezaf
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Morena Amoora.
Two women. One Flamenco. The other, Middle Eastern Dance.
A duet, a solo, another solo, another duet and then the duets and the solos entwine one another, for seventy minutes. The only background is a colorful arched gateway, mosaic pillars, leading into the graceful curve of a middle eastern peak. Darkness on the other side of the gateway, from which the dancers emerge in the beginning, putting together an image of their mutual Bharatanatayam roots, then each emerging into her own style, and their ensuing dialogue. A drummer and a violinist to the left, slightly back from the dance floor, in their own dialogue, alternating solos and duets, and at various times with the dancers, who also used background recorded music to dance with.
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Indian Dance
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A moment in beauty passing by.
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Maybe All This

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22 Apr 2006 @ 17:50
by: Wislawa Szymborska
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Maybe all this
is happening in some lab?
Under one lamp by day
and billions by night?
Maybe we’re experimental generations?
Poured from one vial to the next,
shaken in test tubes,
not scrutinized by eyes alone,
each of us separately
plucked up by tweezers in the end?
Or maybe it’s more like this:
No interference?
The changes occur on their own
according to plan?
The graph’s needle slowly etches
its predictable zigzags?
Maybe thus far we aren’t of much interest?
The control monitors aren’t usually plugged in?
Only for wars, preferably large ones,
for the odd ascent above our clump of Earth,
for major migrations from point A to B?
Maybe just the opposite:
They’ve got a taste for trivia up there?
Look! on the big screen a little girl
is sewing a button on her sleeve.
The radar shrieks,
the staff comes at a run.
What a darling little being
with its tiny heart beating inside it!
How sweet, its solemn
threading of the needle!
Someone cries enraptured:
Get the Boss,
tell him he’s got to see this for himself!
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Portal

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