Wednesday, February 01, 2012

#Occupy for Rivers



The United States is home to more than 250,000 rivers. Of those 3.5 million miles of river:

*235,000 miles have been channelized
*More than 600,000 miles are impounded behind dams
*More than 25,000 miles have been dredged for navigation

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One of my recent photos:

Ain’t it grand?

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Poem: “haiku pusher"


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Monday, January 30, 2012

#Occupy for Mountains

Born in the glorious violence of two tectonic plates pressing against each other until the land lifts and folds over itself, mountains link the sky to the ocean floor and have fired human (and animal?) imaginations since, well...forever.

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Serving & protecting

Posted on 01/30 at 04:40 AM
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

#Occupy Militant Movies

Since I’ve already told you how today’s occupantscan learn from the labor movement and how important it is to #occupy filmmaking, how about a union-themed movie classic as a path toward activist inspiration? Read on…

Name the best-known early 1950s film with a union theme? Easy. That would be On the Waterfront. But Waterfront was not the early 1950s film with a union theme that Noam Chomsky called, “one of the greatest films ever made...couldn’t get it out of my mind for weeks.” That would be the sadly neglected 1953 film, Salt of the Earth.

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Mixed messages

Posted on 01/26 at 05:08 AM
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