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I think that public employees need to have the right to collective bargaining. I was married to a high school teachers who, being a good teacher, would occasionally cross swords with the...

Sorry to be brutally honest, but it seems that "we the people" lost control of Sebastopol a long time ago ... we seem to be on the fast track to gentrification, if you could call a garish CVS in the...

I have met Nils at a Transition event and he is the real thing. I also met Mike Thompson years ago. He is famous for his advocacy of Big Wine. He seems to have never met a pesticide that he did not...

I just don't know how as a progressive Sebastopol resident you can support someone who is backed by real estate, construction, gravel mining,developers, and really big wineries. And no environmental...

Linda Hopkins has come under fire because much of her funding comes from interests that seem to be at odds with her professed values. I watched the video of the Sebastopol forum, and in particular...

Both Tom and Jeremy mention the issues of pensions " at the top" being an issue. You should know that these six figure pensions belong to Administrative Directors and Managers NOT seiu1021 rank and...

Greetings, Sonoma County Family!

36024My name is Nils and I am your candidate for United States House of Representatives in CA's 5th District.

Many of you have already received your ballots. I...

Yes, well, it seems "they" are finally admitting there is no democracy here (as has seemed evident for quite some time), and they have no interest in what the people want. How did they get into the...

Anniversary


The day will come

when you’ll be dead longer
than alive—thankfully

not soon.
There are of course years

thanks, lisa.

lynda's support FROM GRAVEL MINING COMPANIES PLUS REALTORS AND BIG AG AND WINERIES (plus EFREN'S ENDORSEMENT)... uhhhh, what part of this do people not understand?

does anyone...

Slam unions all you want. They are not perfect, little is, except Mother Nature.

However, through the history of our country, unions - groups of workers - are the main democratic force, standing...

The Stream of Enough


After decades of meandering hither and yon,
like a sleep-deprived pilot with neither destination nor flight plan,
attaching tentatively wherever I landed,
as you learn...

The Pact


It was broken before
We arrived, the pact with
Life. Shattered like crystal
Heaved in fearful fury. All our
Lives, we walk across
The sparkling glass
Bleeding out breathing

SHEEEESH: 716 of these unelected "super delegates" = 5 1/2 MILLION voters.
U.S. elections need redoing from EVERY angle.
long way to go to get to democracy. best, jude

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Buddha's Dogs


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and I already...

Government
Standing next to my old friend
I sense that his soldiers have retreated.
And mine?
They're resting their guns on their shoulders,
Talking quietly.
"I'm hungry," one says....

Dover Beach


The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full,
the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;
on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and...

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Applying for a poetic license

The line was surprisingly long
The wait - nerve wracking
List credentials:
Classes, check
Workshops, check
MFA, check
Conferences, check

From A Window

Incurable and unbelieving
in any truth but the truth of grieving,

I saw a tree inside a tree
rise kaleidoscopically

as if the leaves had livelier ghosts.
I pressed my...

Pay Heed to the Magic


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magicians’ mischief
the sleight-of-hand that splays the deck of...

three pears in paris
(paring it down)


the poetry lesson


she wrote a poem about three pears
and a tangerine in paris
“it could be pared down”

Coming Home


The war came home today,
the buddy burned to ashes,
the howling headaches in the night,
the gun beside us in the bed,
the wife and daughter turned to ghosts,
strangers turned to...

I said that to emphasize my disgust with Hillary Clinton. I am equally disgusted and applauded by Trump. I would never vote for either of them. However, if someone held a gun to my head and said I...

I agree with Dorothy and Ron with regards to supporting Tom's non-violent direct action in the streets. This is certainly to his credit. I think that we need more such creative actions to draw...

The Cure At Troy

Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols

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Wild Common Prayer


I dreamt you were whole again, radiant, calm: your hair still golden but
tinged with red — a halo of rosy, burnished light — and your hands
untrembling in your lap. I was...

If you have a choice between colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy, take the former, by all means. Sigmoidoscopy is one of the more uncomfortable ways medical science has devised to spend a few hours on a...

This is the LETTER TO THE EDITOR in YESTERDAY'S PD


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Dear Sebastopol Planning Commission members and director, City Council members, Mayor Sarah Glade Gurney, & City Clerk,

I drove by the corner of Pleasant Hill and Elphick roads this morning, as I...

The Powwow at the End of the World


I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam
and topples it. I am told...

Candidate Hopkins,
As long as you understand that I have in no way criticized your values, ability to choose, your farming, your family, children, grass roots, your goats and alpacas, your pets, and...

I have been a KOWS broadcaster since the station opened. I believe In free speech community radio as an important resource for political awareness and action as well as vital in an emergency. I...

Traveling Through the Dark

Traveling through the dark I found a deer
dead on the edge of the Wilson River road.
It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:
that road is narrow; to swerve...

MORE FODDER FOR OPPOSITION


Following is a summary of points fully detailed and substantiated elsewhere by civil engineer Richard Canini. He sent a similar version to City Council:

A. Santa...

We want so much to believe in someone, and most of the time the reality never quite measures up to our expectations.

But then there are those heroines who rise up armed with factual truth and a ...

a few weeks ago i wrote Julie Coombs and quoted Big Yellow Taxi to her. she wrote back to me, and said it wasn't "All" the Trees....ugh
Don't it always seem to go, no matter who you vote for, they...

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I made this video because I love Santa Rosa, my home of 22 years. I love the beauty of our natural world,...

I find the following interview with former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren an engaging commentary on how and why things go as they do on the national and international scene:

How the Powers...

Following is a detailed copy of an engineer's report done in 2006 when the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) spent $3000 to ascertain if the same antenna intended for their organic farm now...

Bedtime


We are a meadow where the bees hum,
mind and body are almost one


as the fire snaps in the stove
and our eyes close,

Considering that politics these days is year round, 24/7, then there really is no time or place to change the "rules" as you state should be done before the “game” Because now there is no "before...

Any research shows that the super delegate system is an establishment filth that is regularly challenged. You disparage democracy in action.

ok, to pile on with Dixon... actually, though, this isn't intended as that. You're the poor unfortunate who gets to stand in for the huge number of Americans who seem to feel like you do, 'cuz...

No, our country has just become more aware of a racial divide that has always existed (which should come as no surprise in a country founded on the twin pillars of genocide and slavery). It seems...

I remember when Obama was first elected ... I was standing outside looking at the stars absolutely wrapped in joy ... the thought that we had pulled together and elected an intelligent black man to...

At 8 am yesterday/Wednesday morning in a cold wind promising rain, one other protester and I arrived at Courthouse Square. The other protester had an emergency situation at work and soon had to...

I was originally elated at the death of Justice Scalia because I believe he had a horrible impact on the Supreme Court. Reality set in after hearing Mitch McConnell pull his usual bullshit by vowing...