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Children’s Crusade for Climate Recovery
Extended childhood is a relatively modern invention of western culture. In ages past, teenaged children were considered to be full adults possessing a mature sense of responsibility and reasoning...
View ArticleOregon Legislature Steals Ball Then Drops It
After Jackson County banned the open cultivation of genetically engineered crops and three other counties moved forward on similar bans, the Oregon legislature passed 863 which preempted local...
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Monsanto’s “Discredit Bureau” Really Does Exist [UPDATE]
Roundup (probably carcinogenic to humans) sold at my local store.Reuters is reporting that Monsanto is demanding a sit-down with members of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International...
View ArticleLast Night I had the Strangest Dream… [update]
I am neck-deep in a local political campaign. Suffice to say, my stress level is over the moon. I generally do not write personal diaries; however, this is an exception.When I am under stress, my body...
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USDA Tentacle of Monsanto 'Discredit Bureau'? (POLL)
Monsanto has fallen on evil days recently. The World Health Organization and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reclassified Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Glyphosate as “probably...
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Changing the Conversation: Climate Change to Climate Recovery
Climate news gets worse every day. The eye slides away; the heart falters. There seems little hope when we consider that if the world could, by some political miracle, reduce carbon emissions to zero,...
View ArticleCarl Hiaasen on Homeboy Rubio
Carl Hiaasen is the relentless self-proclaimed "Kick Ass" Miami Herald columnist who has been plaguing Big Sugar and corrupt South Florida politics for decades. Imagine what that newsroom must be like...
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Pagans for Pope Francis
Is the Earth moving under our feet? Are the artificial divisions which have kept Americans in separate camps unable to unite for a common purpose losing their power? From the remarkable movement to...
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Bernie Meetup in Deep Red Rural Oregon
This is what democratic grassroots looks like in rural Oregon and it’s the last house down a long gravel road.We’d stopped by my cousin’s house in town and, after wrangling over GPS coordinates, he...
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Defend Progessive Values: DFA Petition
In response to Senator McCaskill's attack on the populist progressive values with which Bernie Sanders has been thrilling overflow crowds, Democracy for America (DFA) has posted the following petition...
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Abraham Lincoln Endorses Bernie
Bernie's crossover appeal not only transcends Party; it also reaches across the Pearly Gates. My town has an All-American Anyone Can Join, Fabulous, Fantastic Fourth of July Parade where all you do is...
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Rural Oregon for Bernie: Meet Up! [update with RSVP link]
Like userexists, I am going out of town but wanted to post what we are doing in our neck of the woods. We formed a small action team at the first Meet Up I attended in an adjacent small town. I live...
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Be the Campaign You Want to See
I've been know to wear a hat sporting a seemingly live chicken. (photo below the orange public sign). I never leave the house without donning my hat with the Bernie sticker or my Bernie button....
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Organizing for Bernie July 29 with POLL
Bernie is rolling up his sleeves for us. However, he has made it clear that he cannot launch this Political Revolution alone. Each time that Bernie Sanders speaks to the increasingly larger crowds who...
View ArticleJuly 29 Meet Up Music Lineup (Update: Bernie "singing")
H/T to LoneStarMike for two great suggestions that I had missed when they were posted earlier.Bernie has said that July 29 is the most important event for his campaign. If you are not signed up to...
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Bernie Already Keeping Promises
Whenever I've seen videos of Bernie in front of crowds of tens of thousands all chanting his name, I have been struck by his reaction. Another candidate might have beamed and soaked up the adulation....
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Political Revolution in My Town
About a week before our July 29 meeting for Bernie, I got a call from someone who needed a ride to the event, and she turned out to be our special guest. Willa Kenoyer worked on Bernie's first...
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15 NOW PDX All Atwitter Over Bernie PDX Rally
The Pacific Northwest is as far off the beaten presidential Primary path as you can get, yet Bernie has chosen Seattle and Portland as his next stop. I believe that this move is part of Bernie's unique...
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Portland: It's BERN Season! (Rally Volunteer Sign up & More)
Portland is ready. The Bernie Venue Shuffle has upgraded the event site to accommodate expected crowds, from a 13K capacity to the 19K MODA center. With one week's notice, Bernie's Portland Rally is on...
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28,000
Bernie was energized by the huge crowd that filled the arena to the rafters with a huge overflow crowd outside! Symone Sanders, his Press Secretary, opened with a rousing unifying speech that had the...
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