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Update: The site will be down starting about 9pm EDT tonight. With luck, I can get things finished up by morning.
As administrator of this site, I've neglected Green Commons for a while. My apologies for that neglect, which is the result of not only stressful familial responsibilities, but also political frustrations in general.
It looks like I will have some time today and Monday, 5/26, to reacquaint myself with the site, check out the newer members, do a version upgrade, clean up the database and fiddle with the backend a bit.
A number of fixes and improvements are needed, but because of my long absence, I may not be aware of all of the problems being experienced.
So please use this thread to tell me anything you think I might not know. If we've discussed your issue via email, you do not need to repeat it here, unless you just need to vent :-) .
I'll need to take the site offline to do some of that, which will probably be in the PM on Monday. So please make your comments/suggestions now. If you want to contact me directly rather than post here, use the feedback form while we're online, and greencommons (at) gmail (dot) com when we're not.
The Dalai Lama was making a presentation at the University of Michigan, and was asked by a graduate student studying sustainability "What is your advice to help us maintain hope given the magnitude of the challenge?"
After explaining that the people all across the world have become more aware of environmental concerns in recent decades, and have organized around environmental concerns into Green Parties across the globe, he asks if there is a Green Party here. The audience chuckles, and the Dalai Lama says "If you have a Green Party, I want to join." I know! Amazing, right?
If you care to watch, the video is posted at Green News and Opinion.
FREE PUBLIC HEARING
ON THE CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET
Thursday, May 22, 2008
7:00 pm – 8:30 PM
Holy Faith Episcopal Church
260 N. Locust Street, Inglewood, CA
SPEAKER:
Nancy Berlin, Director, California Partnership
CAP is a coalition of over 40 Californian anti-poverty grassroots organizations
GUEST OF HONOR:
Curran Price, CA State Assembly
QUESTION AND ANSWER:
Walter Johnson, Holy Faith Episcopal
Justice and Mercy Commission
ACTION STEPS:
Cathy Deppe, 9to5 Los Angeles
National Association of Working Women
For More Info: Walter Johnson 310-450-5017
Well, it’s official. In an interview with ABC news, White House resident George Bush said, …”yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue (using torture).
Technorati Tags: The North American Bioregional Congress is coming to Tennessee in 2009. Its three hundred or so participants will arrive at The Farm, in Summertown, next September. They will spend a week in intensive interaction, and then journey back to their respective bioregions, inspired through communion at the Congress to ever more deeply reinhabit their home watersheds and bring their friends and neighbors back–or is it forward?–to Earth as well.
If you are looking for a book that unblinkingly, unemotionally, lays out exactly how, and how badly, we are screwing up this planet, you are looking for Lester Brown’s Plan B 3.0.
If you are looking for a book that gives some idea of what could be done to at least soften the impact of the crash that is happening, you are looking for Lester Brown’s Plan B 3.0
Technorati Tags: an original song for the Green Party! actual recorded version of this coming soon!
My wife sez this ain’t in accord with the Laws of Attraction but I say if you can’t laugh at your troubles you’ll never get rid of ‘em…..
(IF YOU’RE A) GREEN PARTY FIGURE
Are you tired of the Republican
Tired of the Democrat?
Tired of old-boy leadership
The Green Party of Tennessee met in a smoke-free back room at Nashville’s Italian Market last Saturday. I’d like to say we decided the future of Tennessee, with Party co-chair Katey Culver playing the part of capa di tutti capi, but overall I’m afraid our effect on Tennessee politics is just not that powerful.
Technorati Tags: As a kid, two of the first adult books I read that made a deep impression on me were Neville Shute’s On the Beach and Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, both of which portrayed the lives of everyday people in the aftermath of nuclear war.
Technorati Tags: As a kid, two of the first adult books I read that made a deep impression on me were Neville Shute’s On the Beach and Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, both of which portrayed the lives of everyday people in the aftermath of nuclear war.
Technorati Tags: Thank You for the poll, and having included Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has taken positive green action. With his deeds Bloomberg has reached out to the Green Party.
That is why we've have collected 11,000 petition signatures in Virginia, and submitted them to the state board of elections. Putting Michael Bloomberg on the ballot for President, and Ron Paul on the ballot for Vice President as Independent Greens in in Virginia.
When everybody started saying "Let's have a conversation about race", I wrote a blog post saying "No, Let's Not." (see on Green Commons Let's Talk About Race? NO! Let's Not on January 26th). My first post was a reaction to Uzodinma Iweala's Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Racism in 'Post Racial' America" (with 'post racial' in quotes) criticizing the "media-concocted fiction" that "not speaking about race is the equivalent of making progress."
I still say: No! No! No!
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UPDATE:
MY COMMENTARY POSTED ON LOS ANGELES TIMES WEB SITE
Posted on The Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com, Wednesday, May 07, 2008
NO MORE RACE TALK
By Alex Walker
Enough about Obama and Wright. This election is about Bush. (Read More...)
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One of the Ten Key Values of the Greens is Community-based Economics. My friend Tian invested his GWB "economic stimulus" check in a pair of custom made shoes. He posted a photo essay here. http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Nook/NewShoes.shtml
Technorati Tags: A couple of years ago, my friend Ginny Welsch ran for US Congress here in the 5th District, which, unlike many bizarrely gerrymandered districts in this state, neatly encompasses Nashville and its near suburbs, and is known as an island of Democratic Party dominance in a sea of rural, redneck Republicanism.
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