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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." ~Alfred North Whitehead~
"...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism." ~~Emma Goldman~~
From: The Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~Jimi Hendrix~
I'd like to meet:
The creative, the artistic, the painters of words, anyone passionate in their beliefs, the champions of great causes, people with open minds, and anyone courageous enough to live their ideology; especially the beacon lighthouses of humanity and those that give hope to the oppressed.
I am a firm believer of the arts and the inherit knowledge of the creative process. Art transcends the human consciousness, deceives the ego and liberates the soul. Through art, life becomes frozen movements in time; immortalized eterinity. As Eckart Tolles writes in the Power of Now, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
I believe the beauty between each of us is the ultimate art form; to love, to be human. "Love must be the mother of the arts, not architecture, not structure, not function. True art always involves the observer in the participatory gesture of being, or what we call love." ~Adi Da Samraj~
Poets, writers, artist, humanist, compassionate hearts and leaders, who as Dr. Angelou says, "enliven their creative voices...to try to create a love...a climate where, you belong to everybody and every body belongs to you".
~To Music by Rainer Maria Rilke~Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.Feelings for whom? O you the transformation of feelings into what?-: into audible landscape. You stranger: music. You heart-space grown out of us. The deepest space in us, which, rising above us, forces its way out,- holy departure: when the innermost point in us stands outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other side of the air: pure, boundless, no longer habitable.Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Featured Artist
"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P.F. Sloan in 1965. Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire.
The song is a grave warning of imminent apocalypse, and considered by some to be the epitome of a protest song. It expressed the frustrations and fears of young people in the age of the Cold War, Vietnam, the nuclear arms race, and the civil rights movement.
Political influence: "Eve of Destruction" was used as a rallying cry by supporters of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which changed the voting age from 21 to 18.
DISSENT MAGAZINE
“Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude it’s influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in it’s intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.†~Thomas Jefferson~Source: The Thomas Jefferson Library TJ to Thomas Pinckney, 29 May 1797
Rebels With A Cause
The "Beat Poets" & "The Song Protesters"
all fight the "War on Irrationality" with words.
Listen to Jack Kerouac speak.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions ...The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quietly insinuates itself into manners and customs, and there it...goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.Plato Republic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The 1930's was the extreme opposite of the greedy hoarding monopolies and flaunting flash of the previous decade of the "Glided Age". In this decade, the "gliding" was that of the Dust Bowl; reflections of everything parishable in the vastness of a "wasteland". Y. P. Harburg and Jay Gory revealed this plight with Brother Can You Spare a Dime . (Harburg has said of his narrator in that play, that he isn't bitter, "He's bewildered. Here is a man who had built his faith and hope in this country. . . . Then came the crash. Now he can't accept the fact that the bubble has burst. He still believes. He still has faith. He just doesn't understand what could have happened to make everything go so wrong" (quoted in 1971, Green 69)."It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." ~Henry Ford~
Music:
Masters of War Unauthorized video of Bob Dylans great classic "Masters of War". Images of Vietnam war, civil rights, klan, Bush, MLK, John Lennon.
"All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today"
~Yip Harburg~
"I Ain't Marching Anymore" Sung by Phil Ochs
Today we morn your passing.
Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Hazel Dickens , Phil Ochs , Cat Stevens, Billy Bragg .
SONGWRITERS: Diane Warren, Jackson Browne, John Lennon, Lucinda Williams
COMPOSERS: Leonard Cohen, Yip Harburg, Hans Zimmerman, Debussey, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach, Henry Cowell, Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass, Giacomo Puccini (La Boheme)
GUITARISTS: Roger McQuin, Richard Thompson, Artie Traum, Chuck Mauldon, Joni Mitchell
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Leonard Cohen's Democracy
by John Bliemer
Enviromental Songs
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ENVIOLINK.ORG
The Enviromental News Network"
WORLD WATCH
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Movies:
America: Freedom to Fascism
Television:
"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
Listen to the Alex Jones Show
Occupation: Radio host, conspiracy theorist, television host, film producer.
Websites:Info Wars & Prison Planet & Prison Planet TV& The Jones Report~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Watch real performers! Enjoy Art~
Or just go out explore all the wonders of Portland and the sounds of the never ending magic of the Indie Music Scene! SPLATTWORKS!
The Ship is Under Sail
Theatre, arts, culture, politics, and snark from a practicing playwright and recovering journalist, STEVE PATTERSON .
Books:
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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush -
The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis by Paul Levy
The Fox in the Hen House: How Privatization Threatens Democracy by Si Kahn & Elizabeth Minnich
The State vs. The People, the Rise of the American Police State by Clare Wolf & Aaron ZelmanGuns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond A
The Case for Anarchy by Charles Demers
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Henril Ibsen , Frank Court, Oscar Wilde.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ***Anais Nin***
Authors: Anais Nin's, Eve Ensler, Micheal Albert, Mark Green, George Orwell, Dan Barker , Fredich Nietzshe, David Henry Thoreau, Kant Emmerson and
"The Beat Poets"
How the USA is becoming a Police State by Zack Smith
Is America a Police State? by Congressman Ron Paul. Dr. Paul at Project Freedom
Police State USA!
**WAKE UP America!!!**
Read! Read! Read! Read!
Tree of Life
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An educational Hemp Video by
The Human Revolution
HEMP: the next Revolution!" Saturday August 18, 2007 "New Mexico is the 12th state to legalize marijuana for certain medical uses, but it's the only one calling for state-licensed production and distribution of the drug.Also Friday, Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate, sent a letter to President Bush urging the federal government to allow states like New Mexico to implement medical marijuana programs without fear of federal prosecution." By Associated Press Writer Barry Massey
Heroes:
#33 Wonder Sara Eugene Oregon
Leonard Cohen, "A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes" by Even Hell Has it's Heroes
Norm Chomsky, Paul Levy , Helen Thomas, Yuri Kochiyama, Arundhati Roy , Harriet Tubman , Dr. Maya Angelou , Paul Levy, Neil Young.
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
Democrats.comAmericans Are Brainwashed!
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
~Sinclair Lewis~
INFORMATIVE WEBSITES FOR PROGRESSIVES Fight the War on Irrationality ..Topple Bush
New Deal Magazine
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After Downing Street
Bush Flash
Common Dreams
Democracy Now!
Democrats
Coporate Crime Reporter
Corp Watch
Move ON: Democracy in Action
S.C.A.R.I
Socialist Worker
The Smirking Chimp
Topple Bush
World Cain't Wait!
“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.â€
"The War Prayer," a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.
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