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ejb

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About Me

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!! the importance of knowing and understanding your rights is vital if you want to participate in a democracy - or if you happen to find yourself in a 'democratic' police state. some very helpful resources:
know your rights! - what to do if questioned by police, fbi, customs agents or immigrations officers [national lawyers guild, .pdf file]
dealing with police - general guidelines for activists [national lawyers guild, .pdf file]
questions and answers about civil disobedience and the legal process [national lawyers guild, .pdf file]
rights of protesters [aclu - florida, .pdf]
your rights to demonstrate and protest [national lawyers guild, .pdf file]

a few personal promos:
a nonviolent solution to the iraq war i'm calling it the 5 step program for iraq war addicts.
pippiepics protest photos, personal shots, art gallery, pride pictures & more. most photos by myself or sondra .

burn your clocks manifesto:
one thing, above all, dictates our lives: time. human divisions of time. completely turns your body against its nature, makes it ignore its own biological clock for the sake of following a schedule someone other than the body's owner has determined is important. before industrialism, clocks werent good for much other than telling monks when to pray; no one used them. and then: organized labour. block scheduling. assembly lines. consumerism explodes. education becomes driven to achieve the goal of getting a job in the western capitalistic dog eat dog world. ultimately: credit cards, debt, a soul-less society more concerned with buying the latest trend and keeping up with the dates & times assigned to them despite what their bodies are capable of. the result: stress, add, heart attacks, anxiety problems, skyrocketing depression. the solution? burn your clocks.how to revolt*:
step one: burn your clocks.
step two: burn your televisions.
step three: burn your money.
step four: ignore major media corporations, magazines, newspapers, etc, and form local news coaltitions. actively research every story produced by these corporations and deliver corrected versions.
step five: stop burning oil, coal, trees, and everything else that releases carbon dioxide in large amounts. start implementing community use of renewable energy (solar, wind). begin research as to other potential sources, regardless of profit.
step six: convert religious centers into community centers; remove all iconography and plant community gardens.
step seven: begin mass collection of man made materials for recycling and removal from the flow of materials. stop utilizing man made materials and rely only upon natural materials (naturfacts) and limited use of recycled old world goods.
step eight: dismantle large nations. redraw maps based upon small community settlements. rely on no one but your community members and yourself for the supply of your basic goods.
step nine: elect community leaders whose only given power is to coordinate production efforts with neighboring communities, thereby enabling certain communities to focus on one area (food production) while another can specialize in a different area (clothing production). trade goods and distribute evenly.
step ten: collect and destroy all weapons, including bombs, guns, gases, and all tools not necessary for work.
step eleven: live in harmony with nature and each other. enjoy life as the gift it is, not as a neverending quest to survive within a system.

*steps are subject to change as conditions do. you will be informed of any updates or revisions as they occur.

OCTOBER 5 - WORLD CAN'T WAIT PHILADELPHIA PROTEST VIDEO (even i make an appearance or two ... look for the "we are the deciders" sign)


Mumia Abu-Jamal on Nazi Germany's history repeating in modern day America:


My Interests

abortion rights, activism, anarchy, anti-globalisation, anti-homophobia, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-war, australia, calgary, calgary flames, canada, canadians, cats, civil rights, communism, counter-strike, democrats, driving, earthquakes, england, environment, fair trade, feminism, freedom of speech, gardening, gay rights, gender, genderfuck, geology, girls, green party, guitar, guster, harry potter, hockey, homosexuality, honesty, human rights, hurricanes, independent media, independent music, italian food, journals, lesbians, liberals, libertarian party, lyrics, making a point, mohawks, montreal canadiens, music, mythology, natural disasters, ndp party, news, organic food, paganism, pagans, pink floyd, poetry, politics, punk, queers, ranting, religion, reporting, revolution, rollerblading, sarcasm, satire, ska, sleep, soccer, spirituality, sporks, spring, storms, tattoos, thinking, tornados, toronto, video games, volcanos, weather, words, writing, xbox

I'd like to meet:

Ani Difranco, Justin Sane, Jesus, Ghandi, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Martin Luther King Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal; anyone interested in changing the world.

Music:

Ani Difranco, Anti-Flag, Against Me!, Alanis Morissette, The Ataris, Bad Religion, Blur, Boston, Bouncing Souls, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, The Code, Dead Kennedys, Dispatch, Dropkick Murpheys, Fatboy Slim, Gogol Bordello, Goldfinger, Green Day, The Guess Who, Guster, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, The Juliana Theory, K's Choice, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Less Than Jake, The Matches, Moby, MxPx, NoFX, Ok Go, Operation Ivy, Pennywise, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Rancid, The Real McKenzies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rise Against, Rusted Root, Save Ferris, Sex Pistols, Silverchair, Sleater-Kinney, The Soviettes, Sublime, Supertramp, Tegan and Sara, Tiger Army, The Unseen, Useless I.D., The Vandals, The Weakerthans, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

TIMZ - Iraq [TIMZ is an Iraqi-American rapper]

Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon:


Ben Harper - Better Way:

Movies:

America: Freedom to Facism, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Empire Records, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Iraq for Sale, Kill Bill volume 1, Kill Bill volume 2, Lilo and Stitch, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Syriana, Tank Girl, V for Vendetta, The Wall, Why We Fight

America: Freedom to Facism [full movie]:


Iraq for Sale [full movie]:

Loose Change: 2nd Edition [full movie]:

Television:

i am anti-television. ask me why.

Books:

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins), Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), Armed Madhouse (Greg Palast), MisEducation (Noam Chomsky), Bee Season (Myla Goldberg), Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond), Collapse (Jared Diamond), The Fifth Miracle (Paul Davies), A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn), V for Vendetta (Alan Moore), Watchmen (Alan Moore), William Shakespeare, Magaret Atwood, Audre Lourde, Edgar Allen Poe, The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), In Dubious Battle (John Steinbeck), The Metamorpheses (Ovid), Phillip Larkin

Heroes:

Ani DiFranco. My mom. My grandmother. The National Women's Party. Second wave feminists. Everyone involved in the Stonewall Riots. Revolutionaries committed to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, equality, fraternity, and all the rest of that good jazz.
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My Blog

you should read this.

i don't get it. maybe it's me? maybe i'm just trying to read too much into things, taking things too personally. probably is me. seeking definition from a fucking enigma. come on erika, you know bette...
Posted by ejb on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:03:00 PST

return

first blog in damn near forever. please don't expect wisdom. i'm not really used to thinking much these days. i'm on autopilot from work. and, y'know, life. it's never as simple as it should be. could...
Posted by ejb on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:11:00 PST

how the public lost its right to...

so i opened my door yesterday morning on my way out to work (in the tropical storm, huzzah!) when a headline on the sunday issue of the news journal (delaware's excuse for a newspaper) caught my eye. ...
Posted by ejb on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:33:00 PST

free speech or a crime?

flags replaced with swastikas in washington "'This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime,' Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon." not that i'm disagreeing that i...
Posted by ejb on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:22:00 PST

daylight savings global warming; guilt in the modern world

another pictoral commentary on american society: once again i have no words. incoherent sputtering perhaps, but words? no. i did, however, find the right words last night during a debate over wheth...
Posted by ejb on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:50:00 PST

i'm FREE

this is it. my last day of classes at this fucking university. ever. ever ever ever ever. now, as soon as i finish all of my papers, i will be celebrating my graduation with a case of alcohol poison...
Posted by ejb on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:27:00 PST

effects of women's products on women; news

3amish. eh. it must be the last week of the semester... i am only somewhat coherent, as i've been awake since somewhere around 7am. it must be may. only in may do i work 12 hour days. don't even get ...
Posted by ejb on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:02:00 PST

1 picture, 1000 words... if it didn't leave me speechless

so i thought i'd read an article today about the new bible classes that have been introduced into one georgia county's school system. i expected the usual "we should learn about religion" proselytizin...
Posted by ejb on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:13:00 PST

on family

my slavery to school continues. until may 18th you'll get nothing better out of me than personal ramblings and half finished thoughts. i'm working on a personal essay that i should be finished soon. t...
Posted by ejb on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:55:00 PST

house stories/global warming hits home

so tired. i could just sleep. and sleep. typing this with my eyes shut. hoping that i can find the motivation within myself to do things that i care nothing about. read: homework. i am in a very wei...
Posted by ejb on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:32:00 PST