Greetings, all cyber surfers. The speech video posted here came to my attention while visiting Occupy Dame Street in Dublin, Ireland on its first day of streaming live for a few hours. If you’ve wandered into the various chatstreams arising for the spreading occupy movement then you’ve probably experienced everything from total madhouse chaos of Occupy Wall Street in New York City to relatively coherent discussion of issues in Los Angeles–at times. Pure chance led me to Dublin’s livestream debut and its sublimity. Yes, sublimity of experiencing the positive actualization of what the internet can do for bridging the literal physical distance between people and places. People were watching and listening online the very serious and informed discussions of those occupying Dame Street across from the Central Bank in Dublin, Ireland. We watched, listened and conversed. There was discussion and communication in English and Gaelic. It was grand. After the livestream went down to cool the computer on the ground and recharge its batteries the conversation continued. It was sweet, heady stuff. Not because of the political exchange, but because of the reaching out and sharing and learning and connecting. All the things nearly impossible in the now often free for all textual brawling, trolling and raving in the Occupy Wall Street chatstream. This video shared by the wildirishpoet is a tiny part of that wonderful conscious inter-connecting. It exemplifies something important for Ireland that can be extrapolated to the rest of humanity–to manifest the sublime we’re capable of actualizing.
It’s been interesting to watch this “movement” of occupation from its inception in New York City with Occupy Wall Street. At the start it was impossible to find any coverage of the event and now, well, now even Fox News is covering OWS as best it can–with the usual suspect results of course. Still it’s telling that even right wingers are increasingly aware of the occupy movement. It’s clear some have no comprehension of the fundamental issues that are bringing people into the streets to voice discontent. The lack of understanding is a sign of what’s gone so very wrong in this culture and others. When one part of the population doesn’t really comprehend what’s got people riled up to civil disobedience then there’s a serious problem with seeing reality. It’s still easy for many to remain comfortable and cozy in their havens of home and work. But I sense that comfort will not last much longer. Chris Hedges recently penned a piece titled “Why the elites are in trouble.” Hedges hits the target right on mark. The occupation will continue until real change occurs. But what Hedges does not contemplate–at least not yet to my knowledge–is just what bringing about real positive change will entail in the long run. The One Percent and their minions may be aware and may have passed the stage of ridiculing the movement indeed–but they are nowhere near capitulating to its demands. Why should they–yet? When they have many tools of FORCE at their beck and call via the carrot of money to blow. I suspect the honeymoon period is about over for the Occupy Movement. The newness and novelty are fast fading. Roots have dug in and are spreading. Now real work is beginning–the work of awaking the rest of the population, the work of having to really deal with the power of the One Percent who will NOT “go quietly into that dark night”. This shifting of consciousness has no clear ending in sight. No one really knows just where it will lead. Oh there is all the hope for a better world for everyone. The thing is how will we get to that promised land of loving compassion for all? There are still the dark dark woods to venture through. And the history of human nature so far shows that’s not an easy journey. This is about more than just creating jobs that give everyone a living wage and enough disposable income to feed the consumer addiction. This shift in values, perspective and relating goes far beyond that and what shape(s) may eventually manifest is anyone’s guess. Oh and for those thinking this will fade and go the way of the peace movement of the 60s, I say think again. This is an awakening that knows no bounds. When the mind is free from illusions then there are no limits, no boundaries and no constraints. People often cite the Rule of Law. Well The Law is a human construct. It’s clear our current Rule of Law is fatally flawed. It does not serve the people. It serves the interests of the One Percent. Only the Laws of Nature are pure and uncorrupted by human meddling. The Laws of Nature are perfect and complex. Nature’s Law trumps human created Rule of Law because it cannot be corrupted by avarice, ego or blackmail. For humans there are laws beyond Legal Law. At the risk of sounding offhandedly simplistic I’ll call these the ”laws of doing the right things” for the “right reasons.” We want to protect the Earth because it’s our only home and it’s a Wonderful Home. We don’t have a planet to migrate to so we need to clean this one up if we wish to continue as a species. We reach out and help others because it’s what caring humans do. Some, like Tim DeChristopher, defy the human construct of Rule of Law to do the right thing–and do it without regret or remorse because they know they’re doing what needs to be done on the most fundamental levels of understanding and awareness.
The Rule of Law serves the One Percent, it’s just one tool they will use in every way they can because they enjoy being the One Percent Feudal Lords and they don’t want their luxury boats rocked by any uprising serfs. The One Percent has not yet begun to fight back. They will. It won’t be a pretty sight. They will not cede power and bow out gracefully. That’s not their style as evidenced by how they’ve become the One Percent This revolution will not be won by millions of keys shaken in the streets per the Czech’s Velvet Revolution. It’s going to be won one heart and mind at a time. And that’s damn hard work. Get ready for the long haul because once awake no one goes back to sleep. This street only goes one way–forward. To where? How long? Creating what?
Imagine the possibilities.
What kind of world do you want to live in?
I imagine a world where no one goes without the necessities of life because of someone else’s greed; where quality education is free for everyone; where everyone gets the healthcare they need; where there is no war, where Mother Earth is loved and respected; where everyone can live a live worth living–and that’s just for starters.
This is the fifth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.
On September 21st, 2011, Troy Davis, an innocent man, was murdered by the state of Georgia. Troy Davis was one of the 99 percent.
Ending capital punishment is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, four of our members were arrested on baseless charges.
Ending police intimidation is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, the richest 400 Americans owned more than half of the country’s population.
Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, we determined that Yahoo lied about occupywallst.org being in spam filters.
Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly eighty percent of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track.
Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly 15% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing.
Ending political corruption is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of Americans did not have work.
Ending joblessness is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly one sixth of America lived in poverty.
Ending poverty is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, roughly fifty million Americans were without health insurance.
Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, America had military bases in around one hundred and thirty out of one hundred and sixty-five countries.
Ending American imperialism is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, America was at war with the world.
Ending war is our one demand.
On September 21st, 2011, we stood in solidarity with Madrid, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, Toronto, London, Athens, Sydney, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Milan, Amsterdam, Algiers, Tel Aviv, Portland and Chicago. Soon we will stand with Phoenix, Montreal, Cleveland and Atlanta. We’re still here. We are growing. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world.
You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the bosses. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, the people will speak. Join us.
We speak as one. All of our decisions, from our choice to march on Wall Street to our decision to continue occupying Liberty Square, were decided through a consensus based process by the group, for the group.
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Okay, due to technical difficulties with server, WordPress, YouTube and just about everything else that is going wacko when I’ve been attempting to blog I have no clue if this will make it to the main page or not. Is the Universe giving me an exercise in patience or what? Lately it feels like a short walk off a long pier scenario. So, I’m not being rude if I have not yet visited blogcasas, commented or replied to comments graciously posted here by you. My fingers are “tied” by the workings of the machine and cyberspace beyond my control. I hope this finds every one hale and hearty this Saturday. As for myself, I’ve about recovered from 30 days without rain and 100 plus temperatures during a stint in rural Missouri while farm sitting. Yes, it was miserable. More so for the cows, goats, chickens, dogs, mule and horse than for moi who had the luxury of air conditioning for relief. When it’s 107 degrees even being under tall trees offers little respite. When it doesn’t rain for 30 days of such heat intensity the ground cracks, the plants die, the animals wait for grain instead of grazing because there is nothing green growing. If hell is HOT then this was a little slice of hell on Earth. So please bear with me as I attempt to return to some semblance of sanity. The protests of the Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline finally inspired and motivated me to blog. I realize many people may be tired of what may appear to be my beating of a dead horse. I’m not going to apologize for the beating that will continue–of the issue not any horse living or dead. Here’s why–this is important folks, it really really is huge. The protests didn’t get much attention until Daryl Hannah was arrested–oh the uses of celebrity–and that’s not a good sign. The oil industry is banking on people being unaware and silent until they’ve gotten what they want from Obama–his signature to go ahead with this incredible disaster waiting to happen. And happen it will. Consider the impact of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico then imagine such a spill in the middle of America. Can you wrap your mind around that scenario or not? I’ve been disturbed by recent conversations with fairly well-informed and educated individuals who have had NO knowledge of the Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline. This is due in part to the lack of mainstream media coverage–and much of that has been sadly lacking or tainted with misinformation. Even local activist groups involved in Green Party/Peace/Justice/Nuclear protests have little or no awareness of what has happened in Alberta, Canada, the spills from the existing parts of the pipeline or even why people are protesting at all. This is NOT a good situation, my friends. It’s not good because the stakes are way too high for EVERYONE. Yes, your land doesn’t have to be under attack by the developers to be affected. The environmental costs are IMMENSE for 740,000 acres of boreal forest, the drinking water of 2 million people, and the rise in cancer rates such as those already experienced by the Indigenous communities in Canada who are down stream of the Tar Sands operation. The time is NOW to fight this oil addiction. Obama can stop the project all by himself. He can veto it without Congress. He has the power to stop this pipeline which will carry the oil for export out of America. We need jobs. Let the jobs come from development and implementation of clean energy sources like solar and wind–which other countries like China, Germany, Switzerland etc are already focusing upon for the future. We Americans must wake up en mass and do the right thing for the Earth or suffer the consequences–ignorance will not be bliss.
What to do? Get informed, get very well-informed. There is plenty of information online to be had via the alliance of environmental groups and individuals taking action: 350.org, Dirty Oil, Tar Sands Action, Indigenous Environmental Network, Peaceful Uprising, Rising Tide, Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, the Governor of Nebraska–getting the sense that a lot of people might be on to something serious? I sure hope so. We only have one Earth that supports our existence. No money will buy another planet for our children. Learn, share, act any way you are able no matter how small it might seem, but do not be silent. This is not the time for apathy.
If you don’t care about the Tar Sands Oil Development in Alberta, Canada, now, will you when it spills across the middle of America and contaminates your drinking water, soil, and air? By then it will be too late. Just ask the people who LIVE around the Tar Sands, the Niger Delta, the Amazon and the Gulf of Mexico what wonderful things Big Oil has done for their lives. We’ve got to grow up and kick our oil addiction today. We’ve got to stop denying our responsibility and the part we play in the supply and demand game for the MOST PROFITABLE industry in the world. An industry that only gives back death and destruction of the Earth. Wake up. Speak out. Change. Grow. Evolution begins in your mind. Imagine and create a new world without dirty oil. It’s time to rise out of the muck.
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Clicking the Time photo of Al Gore in his TN office ought to take you to his journal entry on Dirty Fuel.
So Al Gore finally found his blog and his phone–or his “assistants” did –and endorsed the Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline Protest. And it’s about time too. Gore has the power to draw media attention like few others. Come on, 2.2 million tweets! Where are those 2.2 million folks? Maybe they’re calling the perpetually BUSY White House phone line? Maybe 2.2 million tweeters are planning to tweet the White House? Imagine the mainstream media coverage world-wide IF Gore had put HIS body on the ARREST line outside the White House in DC. at the very start of the two week protests. Oh yeah. Would 2.2 million have followed Gore’s lead? Or would they just tweet to their twittering hearts’ content? I don’t know. BUT, I’d sure like to see it happen. Daryl Hannah got the media coverage flowing. What’s Al Gore, the man of Uncomfortable Truth, willing to do PERSONALLY? Why hasn’t he been out there with Hansen, McKibben, Hannah, the First Nations People and the youth of Power Shift?
Oh hey, Al, maybe YOU can call Ms. Clinton and get her to mention the protests to Mr. Hope and Change (not so far) Obama? Hmm? Come Gore, it’s a such a little chore for big fish like you in that D.C. pond. Seriously, no one cares what the like of moi does–but Al Gore–the man who had the presidency swiped from under his nose–lots of people pay attention to his every move. Come on, Gore, give us more!
PS. Mr. Gore, there’s this guy, Tim DeChristopher aka Bidder 70, in jail for disrupting an illegal land auction by bidding on land to save it from illegal gas and oil development, and well, Mr. Gore, Mr. DeChristopher put it all on the line to defend the Earth. Need I write more? Sorry, I don’t “tweet”
The other night by pure chance I viewed “Someplace with a Mountain” on my local PBS station KCPT 2. Lately, as in ever since the GOP attack on funding for PBS the station seems to have found some sort of backbone and has been airing programs dealing with environmental issues. Perhaps this schedule was lined up long ago–but the timing is currently rather interesting from my perspective. Now if they start giving air time to Al Jazeera news as they do for the BBC news late at night, then we’ll know for sure that a revolution is at hand in American media. But, for whatever reason, this wonderful and terribly disturbing independent film aired during prime time. Thank you, KCPT, for presenting ”Someplace with a Mountain.” This film is the result of one man’s encounter with some very traditional people living on the Island of Puluwat. The Islanders have a serious problem caused by US. Yes, US, if you’re living in an industrialized country while reading this then you too have contributed to their problem in one form or another. Why? Because it’s the industrialized countries, USA at the top of the list, that are responsible for the pollution that is affecting the lives of the Island people. These people don’t pollute the Earth. Their traditional sustainable lifeways have not created any toxic oil spills. They don’t drive cars. They don’t have money. They don’t destroy their environment for profit like we do. Yes, we do, every one of us by virtue of how we currently LIVE. Our actions have led to rising sea levels which are responsible for the destruction of the atolls on which the Puluwat have lived for thousands of years. Think about that for a moment—people living in the same place for a few thousand years and it’s not a toxic waste dump. What are they doing right and what are we doing wrong? They live in harmony and balance with nature. We do not. We rape the world for everything we think we “need.” Or we allow the people who run oil corporations to do it for us. Or we allow the use of nuclear power and suffer the consequences as are the Japanese–who will share the toxic waste with the entire world in one form or another over time. All because of what we think we require in order to live what we deem is the “good life.” Well is it the good life when your water can be set on fire? When your soil is full of toxic chemicals? When our children are born with diseases due to the food and water consumed by their parents? If we have such a “good” lifestyle, then why are so many people addicted to legal and illegal drugs? If life is so great then why are we waging war around the globe? People talk about escaping to islands with beaches and no stress. Hmm. Gee, why is that? Well consider that such islands with peaceful beaches will be no more because of our greed and how that plays out in environmental ways. Heat the planet, melt the ice, raise the sea levels and the islands are the first to feel the pain of going under water. Bye, bye atolls everywhere. So sorry but since you have no oil or diamonds or anything else that feeds our industrial addictions your islands mean nothing in the Wall Street–World Bank scheme of things. Okay, have I rained on your Earth Day? Well, I’m not apologizing because we’re all past due for accepting responsibility for the way we live and how the way we live affects us, the Earth and other people who don’t live as we do.
See “Someplace with a Mountain” and consider how you’ve helped destroy a people’s home and potentially their culture and them. Yes, they have the hope of relocation thanks to Yap. But that is not a reality yet. The Puluwat have done nothing to you or me. But we have done plenty to them–ignorance is no longer an excuse thanks to Steve Goodall’s film. This is the age of information. We’ve got it at our fingertips. Now how are we going to use it for the future of our survival–and that of the Puluwat Islanders?
We live in a closed system on Earth. We are all connected. Everything is connected via the natural world which is the home of everyone and everything. We require an unpolluted environment in order to live. We all are responsible for keeping our home clean–and this includes all the people in the dirty energy industries. We’re overdue for a change to sustainable lifeways. We may not make the transition in time to save ourselves if the status quo continues to be maintained.
Ongoing events in Japan offer a view of our possible future.
click for greenpeace archives
From Japan to Oregon, with regrets.
Japan radiation killing sea life, warning for Oregon coast fishing industry
We share the world. We share our waste. We share the air. We share the water. We share the soil. We will share the same fate no matter where we live or our social-economic-political status–because that’s how the “science” of the Earth operates. What are we waiting for?
Usually we feel more comfortable with all that we can see with our eyes in the daylight hours. But what of all we never see now just because it’s the dark of night or the deepening gloom of storm skylines? Joseph Conrad wrote of the darkness of the heart–but what of darkness of the mind and spirit? What of the darkness of the world at large that is often ignored or hidden? Why hide what we’re proud to accomplish? There are “sunshine laws” regarding political work for reasons. One reason is that politicians do not always act in the best interests of anyone except themselves and the people who fund them. Yet many other nefarious and questionable actions are often played out during every day’s sunny times. Mysteries are not universally negative affairs. Much goes on during the nocturnal hours that is useful and positive for many animals and plants. Some of us are more creatively productive in the between times of twilight and dawn. What’s in motion during these transitional periods of light? It seems we are in a one such time of change and how we deal with the need to evolve to live in balance with other people and natural world of which humans are a part will decide how much longer our species gets to enjoy day and night.
Do you thrive in the in between light and dark times?
The time has come to wage war with our wallets as weapons. Yes folks, the only thing that any political entity in the USA has any respect for is money. The profit margin is the battleground for the unfolding economic-social-political class war. Since money is what has been making the world go round according to the agendas of the corporate elite, then money can stop their greedy worlds from going round. We are going to have to become very well-informed about who owns, manufactures, and sells everything we purchase so that we gain some control of how our money is used. The growing efforts in Wisconsin for waging this sort of wallet warfare may provide everyone with a beginning playbook for what needs to be done in order for us to have a say in how we live and work. This goes beyond voting whenever there is an election. This involves how we live and work and play every day of our lives. Every choice we make with our wallets becomes a vote, a political action. Here in lies a form of great collective power based upon informed choices every day. It will require mindfulness, will power and unity to be effective. Take note, there are more of “us” than there are of “them” aka the rich corporate elite. We have the strength of numbers. Now, the question is, do we have the strength of conviction to act for the long-term? Our actions will impact our children’s lives, the environment, and the state of the rest of the world.
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Consider what gasoline you pump into your car, which toilet paper you purchase 52 weeks a year, and where your breakfast, lunch and dinner comes from. Think about all the money you earn and spend–and who gains from it. Yes, America–it’s Wallet War Time.
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