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- 13 Aug 2013, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
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- 7 Sep 2013, Jeffersonville, Vermont
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- 12 Oct 2013, Mankato, Minn.
- Spiral Dance
- 26 Oct 2013, San Francisco
- Earth Activist Training
- 5 Jan 2014, Cazadero, California
- "Social Permaculture: Nurturing Effective and Creative Groups"
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Category Archives: Uncategorized
My State of the Union
During Obama’s State of the Union message, I was scheduled to give a talk at Northern Arizona University on “Women Taking Action: Using the Insights of the Feminist Movement.” As part of it, I decided to write the State of the Union as if Obama were suddenly possessed by the spirit of the nurturing, caring, [...]
Also posted in climate change, sustainability Tagged carbon, climate, education, elders, farms, feminism, future, greed, health care, permaculture, society, soil, technology, transition, values 7 Comments
Now That The Election is Over…
Organizing after an Obama victory is like bicycling with the wind at your back, instead of peddling into a stiff head wind. I’ve lived and organized through the victories of Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush, and believe me, this is better! And we have a lot of organizing to do.
Also posted in Occupy movement, climate change, political activism Tagged 350.0rg, climate change, Elections 2012, Obama, Occupy Wall Stree 22 Comments
Emerald City–Some Milestones
Our Emerald City Green Entrepreneurs Training is going strong—here’s some highlights of our first three weeks.
Emerald City–Starting a Green Entrepreneurs Program in Bayview Hunters Point
We are finally starting our new Emerald City Green Entrepreneurs Program—a collaboration between Earth Activist Training, our program that combines permaculture, spirit and activism, and Hunters Point Family, which runs programs for youth and young adults in Bayview Hunters Point, the San Francisco neighborhood with the highest rates of poverty, crime and violence...In the afternoon, we have our first real hands-on project, starting seeds and making soil mix. And they all dive into the work—once we hand out gloves! Actually putting your hands into the dirt will be another long-term learning process. I find it enormously sweet to watch these big, burly guys so seriously and delicately planting the tiny seeds of collards.
Travels and Occupies
But even more than troubles with the cops and city authorities, the biggest challenges the Occupy movement faces seem to be internal. How do we make decisions together? How do we resolve our own conflicts within our groups? Once we’ve said “We are the 99%”, how do we set standards of behavior and say what is okay and what is not? Once we’ve renounced force and coercion, how do we enforce those standards when we do set them?
Also posted in Occupy movement, collaborative groups, political activism Tagged Occupy Boston, Occupy Minneapolis, Occupy Minnesota, Occupy Vancouver, Occupy Wall Street 7 Comments
The Truth About Lisa Fithian
What do you do when a friend is slimed by Fox News? If you respond, do you simply feed the venom? But if you don’t respond, do their lies stand, unchallenged? Or is it a badge of honor to be called out by Fox, however nasty it feels?
Also posted in political activism, social justice 11 Comments
My Day–The Short List
Something is happening. Occupations are springing up all over the place. One of the young women organizers told me she’d passed on my consensus download to someone about to start Occupy Mississippi! There are union folks here from Wisconsin, displaced stockbrokers from New York, laid off policy wonks from here in DC, affable former corporate managers from Texas, ex-cons from the ‘hood here in DC, a lot of homeless people, and students who’ve woken up to the fact that they are debt-slaves. What will happen if ordinary folks all over the country get addicted to having a say in the decisions that affect their lives?
Also posted in climate change, political activism, social justice Tagged OccupyDC, October2011 7 Comments
Thanks for Making our Kickstarter Campaign a Success!
Our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie is over—and thanks to the incredible, generous support we’ve received, we did fantastically well, raising $76. 327 from 1431 donors! That puts us in the top fifty of most-funded Kickstarter campaigns.
Also posted in Fifth Sacred thing movie Tagged Fifth Sacred Thing, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Fifth Sacred Thing movie 3 Comments
A Tale of Many Meetings
When we crunched the numbers, we realized that our original Kickstarter goal was too low. We’re grateful to have reached it, and it’s probably just enough to let us squeak by, but in reality we need more to keep the project moving forward in a way that’s sustainable. That’s why we’ve upped it our real goal of $100,000. And we are deeply grateful for anything you can contribute to that end.
Permaculture in Palestine