Announcement from Via Campesina: Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest against the indolence of the dominant countries and capitalists of the world gathering for the conference of the UN Framework [...]
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18 Oct
Bioneers 2010: Dispatch from an Earth Community Movement
Once again, the 3-day Bioneers mother-ship has landed and departed, and a thousand pods of social and environmental change have dispersed across the globe, refreshed and re-energized. Or to use the less technological metaphor by Janine Benyus, founder of the Biomimicry Institute, “This is kind of a seasonal migration ceremony, Bioneers. If we were migrating [...]
13 Oct
Green Party Candidate Laura Wells Arrested Outside CA Gubernatorial Debate
Tonight was the last big debate in California’s governor’s race between the Democrat Jerry Brown and GOP Meg Whitman. And while the event was broadcast live from Dominican College in San Rafael, with Tom Brokaw moderating, it is not likely that very many people know what was happening outside the hall. Laura Wells, California’s Green [...]
13 Aug
SF Community Congress this weekend
Please come out to this important event next weekend and be part of San Francisco history! 2010 Community Congress Saturday, August 14, 9am – 5pm, and Sunday, August 15, 9am – 1pm University of San Francisco, Fromm Hall (please note change of location) The Community Congress will be held on August 14-15th to bring together [...]
4 Jul
Brief Thoughts on Declarations of Independence
This week’s The Stone in the NYT hosts some interesting reflections on Founding Fathers’-era ideals of liberty, happiness, equality and what they might mean in today’s world. Especially germane is the ever-widening sphere of who counts in our circle of morality–who is the subject of those rights of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” that [...]
