I've been a West County resident since the early 90's. I've chosen to live here for one main reason -- it's an escape from much of the corporatizing that's going on most everywhere else. I've...

https://video.pbs.org/video/2260099527

Very powerful, especially the ending.
Just came out yesterday.
Will they stop unwanted development?

I think it is called reparations, some people get it and some don't. I think there are a lot of black Americans still waiting for their forty acres and a mule. Indian casinos are the revenge of the...

Anyone who knows Kenyon Webster personally (rather than making assumptions about him because you don't like the facts that he states in the City Council meetings) knows that he is a man of real...

Hey, Frank, your bitching and moaning about the alleged promise-breaking by the Indians misses the point that they should not have had to make any promises to us in the first place. Get it through...

It's hard for me to take criticisms of Indian casinos seriously; not that the criticisms aren't in varying degrees valid, but rather because the Indian casinos are teeny, tiny potatoes compared to...

Dear Fellow Bioneers:

Several of you have written to us to express your passionate objections to Greg Sarris’ plenary at Bioneers 2012, and we would like to respond. “We” are Melissa Nelson, a...

Aug 12, 2012
I want to post publicly what I said to Kenyon in person recently, which is that I offer my apologies for the tone of this article. While I still think the main point of the article,...

I particularly appreciate your rebuttal of the idea that this all happened "a long time ago." Among Native Americans, Pomo people are among those who suffered the most recent atrocities. Of the...

Tommy,

Why don’t you come to the lecture or inquire within the Tribe about the facts of what we are doing with our profits for the environment? Why don’t you look into the huge amount of money my...

I support your concern for the environment, Tommy, but telling the Indians what they can or cannot do on their own continent is not an appropriate response. You could have a much more positive effect...

I just went on line & read Bioneers' description of Greg Sarris:

The Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and professor of Native American Studies at Sonoma State...

Press Release From Occupy Santa Rosa Solidarity Action:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcJZa9_FXFw
(4:28 minutes)

Solidarity Statement in English, French and Spanish is below the press...

Fed up with KPFA Infighting? Vote No on the Recall
By Henry Norr

Friday June 29, 2012 - 12:55:00 PM...

I am sick at heart that station funds are being used to finance this charade. Talk about ironic. Shame on SaveKPFA! </SPAN>

The on-air discussion today between Rosenberg and Wilkinson showed up...

From: Chandra Hauptman,
Former KPFA LSB member

Vote "NO" on the recall of Tracy Rosenberg from the KPFA LSB and the Pacifica National Board.

If you need more info you can:

1. listen to...

I do not understand why we are celebrating the Supreme Court's affirmation of most of Obamacare (viz., "While we won today at the SCOTUS...."), because this supposed success represents the...

Sonoma County and Santa Rosa are criminalizing poverty by arresting those who lack shelter. Neither the County nor the City have nearly enough beds, and those who are left to sleep outside can be...

If you're a listener sponsor of KPFA 94.1FM you will be receiving a ballot in the mail. I urge you to vote NO! on the recall of Tracy Rosenberg.

When I was on the KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) I...

This is inspiring I wanted to share it:
https://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/away-from-rio-a-big-victory-for-a-small-conservation-group/?pagewanted=print

JUNE 25, 2012, 12:12 PM
Away...

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif
<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">The Great Abdication...

>>>I have heard men on this board assume that I am responsible for defending the points in the articles I post. I have no interest in doing so, nor do I think I should.

Dear Ubaru--

...

This is so refreshing to hear, Miles. Thanks!

On the question of "meaning" and "how it works," some of the most useful and fascinating thinking is still Eugene Gendlin's 1962 doctoral...

"organizing principle" doesn't imply an active principle. Who/what organized stars into constellations?<br><br>Organization is emergent and observed, it isn't necessarily order imposed on chaos by...

>>>How do you respond when someone posts something you do not agree with on a conscious community board?

Dear Ubaru--

I'm not sure whether you're objecting to Ron's calling the material you...

I'm guessing Rockwell is either wealthy or a servant to the wealthy class. This type of freedom for them is the "gated community" mentality of the super rich. Why do you post this blather? If you...

boy, it's so easy! I'm sure that all those consequences would be exactly what happens. It's the way it's always been before!


No more federal (and by implication, much less public) land? or...

This doesn't surprise me from my own experiences with the medical business. I recently read an article in from one of the news services or bigger publications like the NY Times or Washington Post...

thank you, thank you & more!!!
:heart:

Thursday, June 7, 2012
This is from SolomonforCongress.com The intrigue continues.
Peggy Day

Latest on Ballots Remaining to Be Counted


California’s Secretary of State Designates Ongoing...

It's actually a pretty slow track. The posted excerpt highlights what I don't like about RP and is common among his supporters. OK, to be fair, it's just common...<br><br>The enumeration of times...

Occupy Sebastopol 6/2/2012


We lost a great woman on Saturday. Geneva Folsom passed away with her daughter by her side. She was Sebastopol's oldest occupier and one of the brightest, strongest...

Third party votes, are a way to send a message and register ones protest about the current system. Which for me, is important.

For me too. But beyond that, even in our winner-takes all system...

I’d like to remind voters that an election is NOT a popularity contest or a game to be won. Someone may be young, socially adept, charming and truly kind but that does not automatically make him the...

He'll vote for big business everytime, as long as they support his campaign. Please, please, please vote Carrillo out of office.

Efren Carrillo's $160,000 campaign war chest is further proof that Efren believes in government of the 1% by the 1% and for the 1%.

Every controversial vote Efren cast was in favor of the big...

Ernie Carpenter posted a very clear statement regarding why he is running for Efren's seat.

I moved it to our article section. See it here: Why I am running for the Board of Supervisors.

Barry

Unfortunately, there are too many inaccuracies in efren's "priorities" to get my vote.

I'm voting for someone who's already been proven with a 16 year track record...not somebody who will...

I noticed that Carrillo isn't a friend to the environment, his vote can be bought and paid for, and he only serves the interests of big business and corporate greed. Let's hope enough people have...

The Chamber has a list of some of them in the area. You can find it at https://www.sebastopol.org/community_meeting_facilities.html It's certainly not all but all that we are aware of. If...

Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President of the USA, was interviewed on the Women's Spaces Show by its host Elaine B. Holtz and is available for viewing at...

Greetings!

I had lived in San Diego for years - once 'America's finest city'. Now it's like a little LA - thanks to 'development'. Twelve years ago, I noticed vacant commercial properties...

Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary Measures

By Peter Phillips


“Don't waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever...

Carillo campaigns like he went to the Karl Rove school of politics.

A few facts:</SPAN>

When Efren Carrillo first ran for Supervisor, he ran on a promise to stop all gravel mining in the Russian River. After he won the election, he not only let mining continue,...

The vineyard scenario across the state has changed so rapdily in ten years. With the threat to not only natural habitat and the environment, but of creating a monoculture within Sonoma County, I can...

The Parable of the Old Men and the Young is a poem by Wilfred Owen which compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had...

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young


So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the...

Let's take the Dutro plant, for instance: Millions of tax dollars that were spent on reinvigorating Schollenberger park have been squandered by vote for Dutro to proceed. The park, along with three...

Solidarité avec les etudiants du Québec!

You are probably aware - and in case you are not:

There is a student led revolution happening right now in Montréal and Québec.
On the 100th day of the...