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How can we get through the mounting crises, ecological and economic, in a time of political conflict and confusion? We believe we provide solid, unique answers, based on reaction so far to these articles:

Good News for Mother Earth and You: When Our Division Is Over
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/799/1/
"...you may be convinced we have already sealed our fate and that humans may well go extinct possibly in a matter of decades, tracking the worst potential climate chaos. So why bother to hang around and breathe out your carbon dioxide?"

The Challenge of Unity Amidst Economic Crisis and the End of Growth
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/798/1/

This was in the Bay Gaurdian -Rick

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/11/18/cop-group-coordinating-occupy-cr...
11.18.11 - 11:23 am | Shawn Gaynor |

A national group with ties to Homeland Security helped paln the Occupy Oakland busts

As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on?

The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “The president’s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.”

** MARK YOUR CALENDARS! **
September 24th and 25th, 2011

7 Years & Still Growing!!!
HIP HOP 4 PEACE!
2 Day Festival
Free, All Ages, Drug & Alcohol Free

Back in Vancouver...
Pioneers of Cuban Hip Hop
OBSESIÓN!
Direct from Cuba

Saturday September 24
1-7pm
PEACE IN THE STREETS
ALL DAY OUTDOOR PARTY
Downtown Vancouver, BC

Sunday September 25
11am-3pm
THE SCHOOL OF HIP HOP: FORUM & WORKSHOPS
Bonsor Recreation Complex
Multi-Purpose Room
6550 Bonsor Avenue
Burnaby, BC
(South East of Metrotown Center)

On September 24th and 25th Vancouver will host the 7th Annual Vancouver International Hip Hop Festival 4 Peace! The Festival will be two days of performances by local and international artists including MC’s, Breakdancers, DJ’s and Graffiti artists.

Charlotte Renninger has graduated from Evergreen!
Congratulations, and thanks for all your good work at Media Island!

Here's the meeting notes as taken. Really, I think this is about how our meeting went:

"everything that every human does, we're all in this together... even secret people guys from the military, or weird secret society groups, the only way we're going to ave any solidary is by realizing we're all in this together. I love every single thing that you guys are doing, but i love you guys i love y ou i love you i love you, i love you more than i love myself. I love you I...(trails off into distance)"

Arland --"Bottom baseline is now a phone line!"

Keeping the content as Public Service and Community Billboard oriented

Monitors

Keeping the Sound down to combat noise complaints

Construction

We don't have fast enough editing equiptment

HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12494

The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the "Peaceful Atom." For a half-century they have been told that what's happening now at Fukushima would never occur.

Our hearts and souls must first and foremost go out to them. As fellow humans, we must do everything in our power to ease their wounds, their terrible losses and their unimaginable grief.
We are also obliged---for all our sakes---to make sure this never happens again.

US embassy cable recommends drawing up list of countries for 'retaliation' over opposition to genetic modification

by John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk, 3 January 2011

The US embassy in Paris wanted to penalise the EU after France moved to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety.
The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.

In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.

This is from the Post Carbon Institute. A well spent 3 minutes! -Rick
http://www.youtube.com/v/cJ-J91SwP8w

This is from AlterNet -Rick

By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet
Posted on November 11, 2010, Printed on December 4, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148818/

Veterans Day, which Americans celebrate on November 11, was originally called Armistice Day, to commemorate the cessation of fighting in the Great War of 1914-1918. In the United States, the idea that this was “the war to end all wars,” (a phrase coined by H.G. Wells in a pamphlet of that name and echoed by Woodrow Wilson with equal earnestness) was challenged by an outspoken and persecuted peace movement, including poor farmers and black Americans conscripted at disproportionate rates.

Recession Schmecession!
"45,000 Troops Ready to Shop!"

Does this make you feel better about society and the economy, or not?

I can't stand it that we can't do anything about these creeps operating cloaked in a US flag. Very few in this country dare even fess-up to the truth of how incredibly bad this agency has been from the beginning in 1947. This is the first I've heard of Obama's CIA connection. Doesn't it figure...

By Megan Iacobini de Fazio

I found this on inter press Service -R Check it out:

http://www.ipsnews.net/index.asp