I've found myself rather busy since Trump was elected. I guess the options are get busy or go into hiding!

I initiated a call for creation of a statement that would go to our elected officials...

Dear Tommy,
I do not consider this to be the commercial "Wine Country." I moved here 24 years ago to live in the natural Redwood Empire. Then Big Wine's well-paid lobbyists re-branded us Wine...

Dear Tommy,
I appreciate you, the good work you do, and your love of music and poetry. However, there is a bigger picture here. The Wilson's may allow the rest of us to have a few crumbs from the...

Another victory against Big Wine was reported in today’s PD. A link and the article on the Wilson Winery follow. We still have a lot to do to hold back the Wine Empire from further industrializing,...

Thank you for writing this. My young great-nephew and niece are part Pomo and even though they don't dance outside their family group, this is just common sense in so many ways.

During the Oct 12th Farmer's market there was a Pomo dance troup performing. One of my former students was one of the lead dancers. When I talked to her about the event she related to me that the...

It does not matter if the victim has remained silent. Good for her. Articles that focus on the victim's life are inappropriate. Whether she had met the perpetrator before is of no consequence. No one...

:hmmm: There is a beautiful healthy apple orchard located next to Apple Blossom School on Watertrough Rd.,Sebastopol,Ca. This is a older apple orchard with many trees subject now to being cut down...

How about calling them by their name. Just because they are older and wiser doesn't mean they don't like to hear their names. The only difference between the young and the old is the life experiences...

I want to take up just one sentence in Barry's article:
"The camps quickly gained undesirable elements that could not be jettisoned since there as no agreed on demand."

(with thanks for others...

Ballots will be mailed today. Vote NO!

Here's why:

https://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/

Read. Don't just go by what the entrenched staff spouted on the air, when they violated policy. There...

Yes, and most of what we say and do is fair in love and war... You've raised something you call human behavior, and regulate and change. Here's another term — status quo. Here's one: Corporate...

This Poem


This poem is dangerous; it should not be left
Within the reach of children, or even of adults
Who might swallow it whole, with possibly
Undesirable side effects. If you come across...

Some people have been attracted to Ron Paul's candidacy and to libertarian thinking by Paul's opposition to foreign wars and to the war on drugs. Many of them fail to look more deeply into the real...

What I think: Flags and the nationalism they represent are a big part of the problem. They are used to justify aggression against foreign countries and to foment inter-nation prejudice.

Please...

Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided

Winter Solstice

Perhaps
for a
moment
the typewriters will
stop clicking,
the wheels stop
rolling,Winter Solstice

Thanks phloem!
You are correct, Norman Solomon will be running for Lynn Woolsey's seat in the house if (according to Solomon) she "decides not to seek re-election".
I stand corrected.:Thanks:

This is a time for heroes to speak up and reclaim American democracy. Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Tom Udall of New Mexico are two such heroes.

This is worth hearing,
Liz:waccosun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWPCvdv8Bk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL6555F48499A00DF3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWPCvdv8Bk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL6555F48499A00DF3

Also, this is worth seeing -- "HOME":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=share

November 22nd, 2011 1:51 PM
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
https://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/where-does-occupy-wall-street-go-here
By...

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Occupy Santa Rosa’s First Week Contrasts with Wall Street’s Moral Principle

By Shepherd Bliss

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/images/OSRlogo.pngThe inspiring grand opening of Occupy...

Hi,

The dozens of folks who are occupying the lawn in front of City Hall are being forced to take all their gear back to Peace and Justice Center each evening and then go and sit in the cold. They...

At this stage it doesn't matter if there's one demand or dozens. The Wall Street Occupation is a template and a model that is being duplicated around the country. The most important thing is that the...

Well put! - Barry

https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/275078_814330617_1945696711_q.jpg
Derrick Kardos

An open letter to the media:

you're still not getting it.
your...

I can't follow what you are saying, but the nut of the problem is that the monied-class (corporations and the wealthy) have a disproportionate "right" to elect the government. One theme I'd like to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auczvawjhvI
this is a video of us getting into the Federal Reserve Board to testify against the merger of Capital One and ING. Your own Sebastopol folks you will see...

The blossoming of a new wave of evolutionaries is unfolding right in front of the Federal Reserve! The young are not allowing themselves to be pinned down to a goal or a demand, compost the...

There's an Occupy Santa Rosa scheduled for Saturday, October 15. I wondered why the organizers were waiting so long and was told it was the day called for, to occupy the planet, by the Occupy Wall...

I think we should occupy city square in Santa Rosa for one day and night to express out thoughts and come together as a collective. Are the WACCO people interested in this? If so, email me:...

Hi, Waccsters. Since the murder of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia a few days ago (is that really all it's been?), there has been the beginning of a ground swell, heartily endorsed by Michael...

I admire and support Paul's opposition to the wars, but Ron Paul supporters remind me too much of Obama supporters in 2008. They believed what they wanted to believe, never mind any evidence to the...

It appears that in Petaluma, all of these resources were wasted last week, with 987 stops, no arrests.

In a state bleeding in red ink, with school cutbacks, higher fees for college students, is...

I support the bill. I met Michael Allen in the Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County back in 2001 and he quickly impressed me with his intelligence, sense of humor and commitment to social justice....

What do you guys think about publicizing the location of DUI checkpoints? I have to say that the first thing that comes to mind is that the next thing would be a an "app" that gives you easy access...

from delancyplace.com:


In today's excerpt - one of the great American stories that has been told and told
again, including on these pages, is about when Jackie Robinson was signed by Branch...

https://www.truthdig.com/images/truthdig_masthead.gif

Chris Hedges' Columns
The Election March of the Trolls
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_election_march_of_the_trolls_20110829/
...

America was quite fine for the past 10,000 years before the creeping crud settled , America was ruined when the Europeans arrived.

Tribal Society is the best way to grow Children.

both these sites are political with revisionist history containing very little actual information about the first two english colonies. no wonder you confuse jamestown and pilgrims. your definitions...

We may think that clothes are less expensive until you look at the hidden costs

1) Cheap labor in poor countries means 12 -16 hour days, in unhealthy factories often including child labor where...

it -would- be nice were it so. you don't need to "just stuff it". But you were indeed born into the dominant ethnicity, you benefit from it frequently, so excessive whining about the times when it's...

Published on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by The Toronto Star
Tycoons Laughing All the Way to the Bank

by Linda McQuaig
There are likely few characters less loved in America these days than hedge...

Instead of a social order based on mutual support and caring - on sharing
of power, resources and responsibility, we have this: the abuse of power
made possible by its concentration in the hands...

Thanks to all who attended the design review meeting and spoke their concerns about the CVS project. I think the community's comments were heard and, judging by the comments of the committee, taken...

Personally I like the Morning Mix much better than the recent (post-Kris and Philip) incarnations of the morning show. The topics and guests are more what I'm interested in. I hope the savekpfa...

I used to be neutral about this horrendous conflict between the so-called "SaveKPFA" faction of entrenched workers on the one hand, and KPFA/Pacifica management and many staff and supporters on the...

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/18/18664455.php

Even if we take into account people who actually work day to day in their businesses, I would venture to state that the vast majority of the top income "earners" can not in any reasonable sense be...