wildleaf's blog

by Gerardo Torres Zelaya (Español abajo.)
Secretary General, Los Necios Political Organization (OPLN)
International Committee, National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP)

The beginning of a year always brings with it a series of promises and illusions and of course 2011 is no different. When the boundry of 12 midnight was crossed, Honduras began a new year in the middle of what can become the most important moment in its political history and at the same time left an unforgettable decade.

Media Island's Weekly News Roundup:

Mother Jones: What killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit

Media Island Weekly: Olympia's Arts, Activism and News Roundup. Dec. 30- Jan. 5, Issue 3

http://mediaisland.org, 816 Adams, St. SE, 360.352.8526

Michael Moore: I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.

Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-im-posting-bail-...

PMR is up and active again because the Strikers are expected to return around the October 18-22 through Tacoma. I missed the recent meeting but if you've been to one before you know the drill. It's exciting, intense and never particularly well organized. Which might be why it survives as being one of the most unique parts of the culture of Olympia.

Indy media get ready for some raw footage of young people getting halled away by police dressed like storm troopers while large military vehicles loom in the background? Mainstream media get ready to criticize people standing up for what is obviously right if you cover anything at all?

The US is building two naval bases in Panama. I missed this development until yesterday as did many news sources I regularly  check. Here is a nice opinion piece on it.

http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_15/issue_16/opinion_03.html

Then there is this article:

http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/us-navy-bases-in-pa...

Which really gets into the ludicrous nature of the whole thing. These bases should be as resoundedly condemned as the ones in Colombia.

I was happily surprised that the Nobel Peace Prize went to Al Gore in 2007. Climate change and George Bush were both giving me nightmares at the time. Gore's big award gave a big middle finger to Bush and climate change deniers which made me rest a touch better. I began to think to myself things are beginning to change... change.... change......