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Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
Here's where the left/right political lines evaporate into meaninglessness, and we are forced to realize that there are only two political options: Local control and self-government, or central-state-government control and fascism. Centralist or decentralist. Those are the only real political paradigms we have. Everything else is a fictional choice.
99% of Democrats and Republicans are Centralists who want to eliminate all of our rights to self-government and control everything from distant corporatist bureaucracies.
Many sustainability activists and progressives like Richard Heinberg and Mike Ruppert have realized that decentralization is the only path to sustainability and...
The “Food Landscape” of the Social, Political and Economic World is changing fast. Trying to keep up on all that is happening is a challenge.
Introducing my new e-News Paper The Food Watch Daily. It is an automatically generated news paper from selected RSS feeds and Twitter accounts covering food; issues, regulation, legislation and solutions.
The paper is released every day at 10 am Eastern Standard time. After it is released I will be hand selecting articles and videos to publish as well as edit the overall content, when my time allows...
So now we're getting our best policy recommendations from hip-hop artists. Hip-hop artist Russell Simmons said the following yesterday: "And what we’d like is for the people to control their future," Simmons said, describing the constitutional amendment he is supporting that would ban private donations for U.S. politicians running for federal office. "We want to believe that the politicians are making decisions on the part of the people who elected them. And that’s what’s the flaw, fundamental flaw, in our democracy."
That kind of sums up the problem in a nutshell doesn't it. You would never hear anything like it from our bought and sold national politicians. But here's the problem. The public doesn't buy it either! I have...
This inspired blog post from an #OccupyPhilly resident connects the dots between the #OccupyWallStreet movement and the idea of the Commons that we've been championing here are Vermont Commons for close to six years. Give it a read - and share your wisdom. And to get you in the mood - here's a photo of the #OccuptMontreal encampment. Still standing, as far as I know.
Outside the Circle: Occupation in Philly, Day 20 (October 25)
Commons Not Capitalism
This post about “day 20” is less about a...
The occupation of Burlington’s city hall park has entered into a common trend that the nation wide movement of occupations share now, becoming a refuge for the homeless. This issue made it to the attention of Vermont’s mainstream media today Nov. 9th on WCAX after a letter was mailed to Burlington’s Mayor Bob Kiss, stating that the city’s at-capacity Homeless Shelters were referring people to the encampment and the occupiers didn’t have the training nor means to correctly provide assistance to the homeless.
In the WCAX report (VIDEO), The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) is quick to deny the...
(Video below) Vermont guerilla gardeners at Occupy Wall Street plant Organic seeds from the grassroots Vermont based seed company High Mowing Seeds. These activists, though not affiliated with High Mowing, are fulfilling their philosophy:
"we believe in re-imagining what our world can be like. We believe in a deeper understanding of how re-built food systems can support health on all levels – healthy environments, healthy economies, healthy communities and healthy...
Come be a part of this "Bill McKibben + Viperhouse + Moving People = Moving Planet" production, assembled in conjunction with HigherMind Mediaworks, performed LIVE on the Vermont Statehouse lawn in Montpelier on Saturday, September 24 @ 3:00.
...And support raising awareness on behalf of 350.org.
Thanks for Robin Lloyd, founder of Vermont's Peace And Justice Center and member of Vermont Commons' Editorial Board, for sharing this amazingly insightful essay from Charles Eisenstein. See the September issue of Vermont Commons for a book review on Eisenstein's work by Ron Miller.
This article explains clearly why the so-called "stimulus" and other Keynesian economics concepts often held up by my fellow Progressives as essential actually make our situation worse. The infinite-growth paradigm and debt-based money MUST end, for it is destroying our ecosystem and enslaving all of humanity in perpetual debt-servitude. There is another way. There are alternatives.
Suppose you give me a million dollars with...
9/11 was the transformative event of our time, for ill, not good. It sparked multiple wars producing more of them, as well as repressive domestic crackdowns.
It also launched a Global War on Terror (GWOT), another on truth, human and civil rights, social justice, rule of law principles, and democratic values wherever America and its NATO partners show up.
9/11 is the U.S. of Empire's grand epistemological experiment - how do you actually know what you know about the events of that day, and what does the evidence suggest?
"The Gods of the Empire are not the Gods of Vermont...
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