Cascadian Radical Faeries's topics - tribe.net

Traveling faerie looking for place to crash in Seattle on Sat.

Labyrinth — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:16:24 GMT

I know it's short notice, but if there's anyone in the Seattle area that can accommodate a faerie overnight... train layover. He has an electric chair... not sure what kind or such. But will have more info.

Please email me at gryphoenix@live.com or feel free to call me at 509.885.4345.

Love and light to all!

Tower

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

The Call to the Winter 2010 Gathering of Radical Faeries at Breitenbush

kyooverse — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:43:57 GMT

http://www.radfae.org/breitenbush/docs/bb_winter_2010_CallAndRegistration.pdf

You have to see it.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Samhain 2009 at Wolf Creek

SageTattoo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:27:49 GMT

Samhain 2009 at Nomenus Sanctuary for Radical Faeries and Friends in Wolf Creek, OR

October 25th-November 2 2009

Nomenus Sanctuary
541-866-2678
Nomenus@hughes.net

This year, Samhain/Halloween falls on the weekend, the only pre-planned events are:

Thurday Oct 29th- Strut yer stuff K(no)W yer talent S(ho)W
Friday Oct 30-Libation/Ritual Drunky/Intentional Drinking Night
Saturday Oct 31—Samhain Shamanation Fire and Community Ritual
Sunday Nov 1—Shhhh Be Quiet Living People/Dead Folks Ancestor Dinner Party
***
And now we are coming to it.
The elders return to childhood landscapes
Uninitiated mixed-blood survivors
Stride the pathways, trails and groves.
They come under the Earth
To the hidden dreaming spots,
To the night of stars
And the circle,
To the Goddess of the Dance—
Who bribed the night watchman, entered the inner chamber late and
Danced alone.
She moves at glacial speed,
Startles up flocks of parrots and hawks,
She shows the bears and salmon the
Depths of the whole Universe,
That the mountains and the rivers remain
On the surface of the sea and sky.
She tells them
The spirits will begin to speak to them
When those who are ready for it
Come to it,
Give up hoping to be eternal
And quit fighting dirt.
***
We send our call to all directions:
East West North South
far above and down below and CENTER:
to all who are likely to hear
and to the unlikely as well:
to our whole extended Radical Faerie family:
freaky brother/sisters, odd uncles and aunties, queer cousins
kinfolk of all genders, all hankerings, all ages, all classes
newbies, prodigals, elders and crones.
hear it, and GET HERE!

What Kinds of Things Happen at a Gathering?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trick or Treating, Frolicking, gamboling, sauntering, carousing.
Dressing up, flirting, making friends, hanging out, making out.
Connecting with the earth and the ancestors.
Cooking big delicious meals and doing the dishes together.
Praying, having visions, receiving guidance.
Singing and drumming around the fire at night.
Making magic, doing ritual, celebrating the turning of the Wheel.
Speaking and hearing each other in heartspace.
Doing massage. Playing in the woods. Swimming in the Creek.
Exploring and loving the Land.

Between the heavens and the earth The way now opens to bring forth The Hosts of those who went on before-
Hail! We see them now come through the Open Door

Welcome to Samhain 2009!!!!

Samhain at Wolf Creek is celebration, communion, and ritual.
It is also camping, in the Oregon Woods, in October.
Take it from us Queen, a happy gathering means preparing for all weather scenarios!!!
It is usually sunny and hot during the day, and can be downright chilly at night.
This being Oregon, it may rain. Pack a couple of tarps.
Come Prepared to Rough It.

Helpful items to bring:

Self-responsibility
A clearly divined Intention
Tricks or treats for trick-or-treating
A tent, tarps for your tent, sleeping bag, flashlight
A tote bag while you are carrying things when you are away from your tent.
Condoms
Warm clothes and hat for chilly nights,
An umbrella or such in case it rains
towels
Biodegradable shampoo and toothpaste, (all water drains into the Creek!)
Books and pictures of Faerie lore and ancestors
Fabulous outfits and drag to share.
Willingness to pitch in where help is needed
Drums and musical instruments
Tarot cards, tools of magick
Body paint, glitter, nail polish, sex toys
Art supplies and craft projects, poetry to read,
Boundaries.
Something to write on.
An idea for a circle or workshop
A vision
Songs and stories to share
A sense of humor.
Appreciation for our differences
A number for the talent show,
Your best most fabulous friends
Love Love Love

No Thank You’s:

Speed, heroin, meth or cocaine—not in you, not on you, not in your car.
Violence or intolerance.
Fire, smoking, candles, or incense on paths or at campsites.
Crabs, parasites, or cooties LOL
Please bring only natural safe burning items for our community fires.
The Samhain fire consumes and transmutes that which we release there.
Symbols are powerful; synthetics poison the air of your brother/sisters.
Don't Bring a Mess * Don't Be a Mess * Don't Leave a Mess

SOME THOUGHTS ON SUBSTANCES…

There is an ongoing dialogue in our community regarding substance use.
These are our intentions for the use of medicines such as tobacco and other herbs and substances:
*To create a strong container and a clear conduit for our personal and tribal magic.
*To respect the diversity of experiences, beliefs, and boundaries around substance use.
*To support the healing work of those in recovery or struggling with addiction.
*To honor the medicine spirits and to ask for their blessings.

SPECIAL NEEDS
This is a camping scenario! We have very limited indoor space reserved for those with SERIOUS health concerns or disabilities. These spaces are for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in the gathering. So if you are able, please Camp It Up Honey!
When requesting special needs housing, please let us know what your special needs are and how we can help you meet them. We will do our best to accommodate special needs visitors. Those faeries who can’t deal with a camping scenario can book a room at the beautiful historic Wolf Creek Inn.
To reserve special needs space for the gathering, please contact the Wolf Creek Sanctuary
541-866-2678
Nomenus@hughes.net

The ReachAround(also known as the Money Talk)

Gatherings cost money.We need food, electricity, propane and lots of other stuff to make this happen.
The requested donation for this gathering is $35 dollars per day, more if you can, less if you can't.
We invoke the twin sisters:
NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds)
and GAYAABAGS (Give As You Are Able But Always Give Something)
Giving to the Sanctuary is a powerful act of abundance magic. By giving to support this sacred place, we place our money on the altar so Spirit can bless it and return it to us. This is especially important in a time when so many are worried about money. Begone modalities of scarcity!!! Thank you for your generosity, which strengthens this community and the magic that we share. May what we give come back to us 3 times 3 times 3!
Help raise $$$$ needed up front for groceries and propane by donating online now!
Use a credit or debit card -- no PayPal account required.

www.nomenus.org/donate.html

HELP WANTED
This Gathering happens because we choose, for a time, individually and as a community, to take care of each other and the land we're walking on. To live like loving family on a living Earth. For this Gathering to be sustainable, for it to flow in a good way and be fun for everybody, each single person needs to do their share....plus a little bit more.

So if you see something that needs attention (garbage needs taken out, a mess in the parking lot that has been there for three days etc.), don't just trip on down the trail like it's some other queen's job. Take the initiative!

A lot of love and work goes into this gathering. Meals need to be cooked, propane hauled and firewood cut, shitters cleaned and stocked, fire stations ready, circles and rituals led, trash hauled.

What's your part?
Where's your give-back?
How do your skills align?
What's your super-power?
Your highest bliss?

HERE ARE SOME GATHERING JOBS. WHAT'S YOURS?
• FUN-Raisers: Organize delightful events to raise energy and money for the gathering and the Sanctuary.
• Kitchen Queens: Help the kitchen flow smoothly. Plan menus, help with ordering, manage the kitchen, support the cooks.
Ideally shared by several people. Be Kitchen Queen for a Day!
• Flowmeister: Help people hook up with jobs needing to be done. Be the logistical lubricant that makes the whole gathering run smoothly.
• Transportation Coordinator: Organize rides to & from Greyhound Grants Pass, Medford airport, Klamath Falls train station, and beyond.
• Zombie Surgeon General: Make sure the first aid kits are stocked and organize other Zombie Nurses (first aid / emergency response).
At the Gathering (see the Barn door for signups):
• Registration: Hang out at the Kiosk or the Barn to greet and orient new arrivals.
• Templekeepers: Help clean and tend the Garden House, Barn, and Temple of Love
• Firewood Czar: Organize woodcutting parties while looking all butch with a chainsaw.
• Fire Tenders: Help with firewood and keep our tribal fires burning.
• Cooks: Sign up with a couple of friends to cook a meal. Nourish your Faerie kin and make their tummies happy.
• Dishwashers: Dishwashers eat first and get blowjobs.
• Garden/Greenhouse: The Sanctuary can always use help with permaculture projects. Please check with land fae before helping out.
• Ritual Planning: Help hold the container and guide the energy for our communal magic.
• Shitter Patrol: Keep our trusty shitters clean and well-stocked. A humble yet vital job.
• Trash Hauler: Carry trash and recycling off the Land so we leave ZERO TRASH FOOTPRINT.
• Zombie Nurses: Be a clear and grounded presence to safeguard your fellow Faeries.

Some thoughts on Dogs (and other familiars)
Dogs roaming free can cause problems for the gathering.
No matter how lovely and well-behaved your dog may be, a pack of uncontrolled dogs on the land tends to bark, fight, poop, and sometimes bite.
They harass the land chickens and chase away wildlife.
For the comfort and safety of all, we ask:
PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG TO THE GATHERING.
A kennel is available in Merlin, the next town south, where you can board your furry loved one for $10/day. It is called Creekside Boarding, (541) 471-7144, ask for Donna.
(Mary, the land dog, lives here, and the rules are different for her.)

Thank you for respecting these requests!

WOLF CREEK WISH LIST
Since you are coming anyway, why not bring some useful items to gift the land?

For fire safety:  rakes (5) burlaps sacks (10-20) air horns (5)

First Aid Supplies: tecnu, ace bandages, alcohol prep pads, bandages (varying sizes)  band-aids, epi-pens, snake bite kits, iodine, little plastic close-able bottles ,aspirin & non-aspirin pain relievers

Household: immersion blenders w/ attachments, standard blender, knife blocks, medium sauce pan w/lid & handle, toaster oven, coffee maker (regular consumer grade w/on-off switch), canning preserving equip., mason jar, sprouting jar lids (standard canning jar size, vented), foot scrubby door mats (2), front loading industrial washing machine, record player stylus, digital camera, pleather couch (no mites), plastic mattress covers w/zippers, incense, sage

Maintenance: framing hammer, lumber 2x4, 2x6, plywood, redwood decking, cordless drill ,screws/nails, steel roofing tile for new kitchen floor/walls

Pet Food cat food dog food

Beautiful Fashionable, Drag 55' gallon drums for shit & water, Gardening supplies - handpruners, equipment, and SEEDS,  A better Land Truck, Permaculture Books,  Aquarium Bubblers - for compost tea aeration, A Chicken Tractor, Bench tools – chopsaw, Screens for drying, Care Packages, Faucets, for the handwashing sink, A solar shower sink, Faciliation training for community members, couch for the media room

Drums, Musical Instruments, Carts and Wheelbarrows!!!! Prayers of Love & Abundance,  electrical service panel for the farmhouse (100+Amp)., electric hot-water heater (40+gal, very-well-insulated), water pressure gauge, water meter (gallons, to use on wellhead), use of a surveyor's (differential) GPS; and surveying help, 5-gallon buckets with lids, Commercial Juicer,  Bookcases, Small dressers and shelves for Theresa, One gallon Jars, Aliens Cut My Hair – DVD, Blank CD's  

REGISTRATION!!!!

!!! Right this minute, please email us your registration form, or better yet, print it out and send it with a check. Make checks payable to Nomenus. !!!

Nomenus

Attn: Samhain 2009

PO Box 312

Wolf Creek, OR 97497

541-866-2678

Nomenus@hughes.net

www.nomenus.org

REGISTRATION FORM

Samhain 2009

Nomenus Sanctuary for Radical Faeries and Friends

Wolf Creek, OR

Sunday October 25th through Monday, November 2nd 2009

Faerie Name: ____________________________________

Mundane Name: _________________________________

Address (If you want): _____________________________

Email Address: ___________________________________

I'm planning to be at this fabulous gathering

from _______ to _______, for a total of ______days.

I know you are asking $35/day (more if you can, less if you can't,

No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds), so I am enclosing $________

I would love to help with (X marks the spot):

___ Rituals

___ Firewood

___ Cooking

___ Dishwashing

___ the Know Your Talent Show

___ Holding a Workshop or Ritual

___ Coordinating Rides for _______________ (city name)

___ Being a Zombie Nurse

___ Other ________________________________

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is- infinite.
- (Wm Blake)

Hugs and kisses!!!! See you Soon!!!!
This Samhain Call brought to you by Gathering Calls of Gatherings Past, and the Conspiracy to Organize a Samhain Gathering.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 4 replies

ride needed to wolf creek samhain

seanfancy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:40:03 GMT

cute boy needs ride can contribute seattle to samhain very flexible, open schedule too. :-) please contact.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Mabon~

Aeolus — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:33:37 GMT

Mabon~
By Aeolus Crowlaw

Within this Circle from my hand Cast
Electric Blue Truth of Spirit Be known.
I Am. Therefore I call this place Magick.

Blow now Winds of Fall. Dazzle us with the Dance of Leaves.
Help take flight the realization of Beauty. Threshold of the East we set before you our hope. We honor you. Welcome to our circle. Hail and Welcome.

Campfire burning bright. Trance us into movement. Flickered flames cross wood releasing the essence of it’s life. As we release our Life’s time here bring us the realization of impermanence. Threshold of the South we set before you our will. We honor you. Welcome to our circle. Hail and Welcome.

Ocean Wave crash to the Shore. Receive us into weightlessness. The world above mirrored below in the Dark Depth of Mystery. Cool Spiral of Relief caress us and bring us the Peace of Faith.
Threshold of the West we set down before you our weary and tired selves. We honor you.Welcome to our circle. Hail and Welcome.

Ancient Forest our silent sentinels. Guide us back and to the beginning of all things. The story of time is written on your leaves. Life is ending and beginning over and over in ten thousand layers at your feet. Bring us the Wisdom of the wholeness. Threshold of the North we set before you the fragile reality of our bodies. We honor you. Welcome to our circle. Hail and Welcome.

Beloved Goddess ___________. Goddess of the Harvest, Mother of us all. Divine Creatrix. Your work in the Cycle is never-ending.
We honor and thank you for giving us a good harvest. All things have their time and tonight poised on pointed toe between the Light and the Dark we stretch out our selves and raise our faces to you to be seen and accounted for. We welcome you Mistress to our Circle. Be known Beloved Lady. Hail and Welcome

Beloved God____________. Lord of the Harvest, Father of us all.
Divine Creator. Your work in the Cycle has come to be. We honor you and Thank you for giving us a good harvest. All things have their time and tonight poised on pointed toe Between Light and Dark we stretch our selves and raise our faces to you to be seen and accounted for. We welcome you Lord to our Circle. Be Known to us Beloved Man. Hail and Welcome.

Tonight we honor You Beloved Androgyne. Two as One. As the Berdache, As the Fae, as the Gender Fluid, Blending into One Truth. One Soul. _______________ Ladylord, Mistermama, Ko, in this time that has no time in this space that never existed. Bestow us balance so we may Divine Compassionate Empathy for Ourselves and others.We Welcome you Divine Union within to our circle. Beloved Being be known Hail and Welcome.

The Harvest is coming in. We celebrate as we take from the Garden of our Soul the ripest and most ready fruits. As we meander between the things we planted we taking stock of what worked and what just didn’t thrive.

We allow our selves to realize the bounty within your own life that this year has brought. We Celebrate this moment by just being present. Now is not the time to worry, Now is time to be at peace and come into focus. Receive the truth of our year. This is a time of plenty. Take into your self abundance. Fill up the Cornucopia with the ripest juiciest blessings of the heart. Let it overflow with our gratitude for life and all that it brings us.

To the Inbetween, neither here nor there where our deepest magick resides. The threshold of what could be. Sun in one hand Moon in the other The Earth body channels like a Helix open to our fullest potential. Here there are no restraints of the worldly obligations. Bring us into illumination where Energy is the Guide.

I connect to that witch I am thankful for. For Bringing me to this moment I honor……………………
All these things known and unknown I humbly and graciously accept and honor you.

I release that witch I am thankful for. The Challenges that have brought me to this moment I honor………….
All these things known and unknown I humbly and graciously
Release and honor you.

I raise the Cup. It is the Grail, the vessel of life, within swirling life essence. The fruit of the vine has been given/taken to honor this time. May it’s spirit warm the blood and awaken the life force. Tonight we drink to the Balance. To the Goddess and Her Children!

I raise the Knife. It is the Sword of Truth, the Harvester, Judgment meet this Loaf of bread made from grains of this years crop. May each slice release the Love and care it took in it’s tending. Tonight we eat in Gratitude. To the God and His Children.

We open our arms. It is time open to that witch our opposite. May we embrace the Mirror as we embrace our tribe one by one. Tonight we Hug each other and honor the differences that make us identical.
Joyous Mabon to you.

Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon. As we take the hand of Mother Night and Walk into the Mystery of our Magick, Shine On. Beloved Goddess as the stalks fall beneath the sickle grant us courage to full fill our destiny.

Not the Moon But the Sun. As the Brightness of Summer fades as we let go of long days of Light illuminate us from within. Beloved God as we take account of what is was and yet to be and to be no more grant us The faith to full fill our destiny.

Divine Union of Energy, Both Receptive and Projective as we take our next step allow us to remember the duality within ourselves.
Honor and Thanks to you Hail and Farewell!

Harvest Lord, Sacrificed Savior as we take our next step allow us to remember to be selfless and receive the bounty due us as your child. Honor and Thanks to you Hail and Farewell!

Harvest Queen, Creator/Redeemer/Sustainer as we take our next step allow us to remember to tend the Soul nourishing our selves and others by our actions and receive the bounty due us as your child. Honor and Thanks to you Hail and Farewell!

To the North we honor all the creatures of and the Earth herself.
Hail and Farewell.

To the West we honor all the creatures of and the Ocean herself
Hail and Farewell.

To the South we honor all the creatures of and Fire himself
Hail and Farewell.

To the East we honor all the creatures of and Wind himself
Hail and Farewell.

I take this circle up into my blade. In perfect light and perfect love I send it into the universe to do our bidding.
So it is, So mote it be

The circle is open yet, unbroken may the love of the Goddess and God be ever in our hearts.
Merry meet, Merry part and Merry may we meet again.

Joyous Mabon Everyone.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Faeposium Proposals Deadline Sept 12th

Kit — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:10:40 GMT

A Faeposium UPDATE!!!!

Faeposium 2, is quickly approaching, just three weeks away (October 2-4 @ Voice Factory San Francisco).

What is the Faeposium? A Radical Faerie Conference, Urban Gathering and Performance Event in San Francisco.

Check our website for details and updates:

www.faeposium.org

The deadline for Workshops, Papers and Performances is Saturday Sept 12th (see website), and priority will be given to those that meet the deadline, but others will be considered too. We will be coming up with a cut off date as we see how things are shaping up.

We are having a fundraiser next Saturday:

A Beer Bust Benefit “DEEP WOODS DADDY” Saturday Sept 19th 4-7pm

Hole in the Wall ---1369 Folsom Street----Ten Bucks.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

FAEposium 2 (the call)

everdmann — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:39:39 GMT

‘tis time, ‘tis time……

FAEposium 2

Radical Faerie Conference, Urban Gathering and Performance Event

October 2 to 4, San Francisco

This call goes out to Radical Faeries to join together in San Francisco this October 2 to 4, 2009, to invigorate and inspire each other and to help lay the way for Radical Faeries around the world to achieve higher levels of awareness and cooperative action.

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the first national Radical Faerie gathering in 1979, we are gathering together once again to reflect upon and celebrate our hirstory, accomplishments and creative genius.

We are planning a gorgeous event of sharing information, thought-provoking ideas and reflections, and scrumptious entertainment. Last year’s FAEposium was intellectually juicy and gorgeously fun. We think this year’s event is not to be missed!

This, our second annual FAEposium, is no stodgy academic conference, but a mixture of faerie performance, inspirational papers, thought-provoking panels and lively discussions. We take as our model the classical Greek Symposia which were a mix of philosophical thought, entertainment, laughter, feasting, and propitiation of the gods.

What topic are you passionate for our community to talk about? Submit a proposal to facilitate that conversation! We’re interested in whatever creative ideas, wisdom or performative genius you would like to offer to the greater faerie community. We are not terribly impressed by academic credentials, but we are impressed by new ideas, provocative propositions, entertaining presentation styles, and thinking that may affect the development of our community and its future.

Performances

We invite live performances that offer more than art for art’s sake (or camp for camp’s sake)—we want to encourage thoughtful performances that engage and inspire the audience through their content, beauty or complexity.

Workshops, Panels and Presentations

These offer an opportunity to discuss and record our history; explore ideas that you feel passionate about that would be of interest or benefit to the Radical Faerie Community; examine issues confronting the Radical Faerie movement at this critical time; consider ways in which Radical Faeries in urban and rural settings can develop new gatherings and create new sanctuaries; provide venues for skill-sharing of many different types; explore the most pressing needs facing Faerie sanctuaries to help insure their strong future.

The FAEposium is a chance to share our collective and individual wisdom, and creative genius with the larger faerie community and the rest of the world. If you care about where our community is, you probably have something to say and we want to help you express it... using presentation styles most comfortable and best suited to you. Presentations, papers, panels and performance might include a variety of performance approaches, multimedia presentation, spoken word, music, drag, dance, new ideas and provocative propositions.... anything that gets us thinking, feeling and ready to move forward!

During the FAEposium, we’ll honor the gods and goddesses at a Radical Faerie Bacchanal with libations, bangin’ tunes, lovely food and much good conversation stimulated by all that has come before. Afterwards, we will honor Hestia by cleaning up after ourselves. We very much hope you can join us.

Documentation & reflection, creating a rich and varied snapshot, a mirror for us and a place for future Radical Faeries to look back at, is part of this year's Faeposium vision. We welcome you to join us in this process.

Getting Involved

If you would like to propose a paper, panel, workshop or discussion, email Marcus Greatheart at: faeposiumworkshop (at) gmail.com.

If you would like to propose a performance, contact the FAEposium Performance Curator at: faecurators (at) gmail.com.

If you would like to volunteer, contact Evie at: faeposiumvolunteer (at) gmail.com

If you would like to donate to make this a wonderful event, go to www.faeposium.org and click on donate.

As we approach the event there will be more information, schedules, locations and updates on our website at: www.faeposium.org

RFD Magazine, promoting rural queer culture since 1974, is our Fiscal Sponsor this year. www.RFDMag.org.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Kwai offers Photo Sessions by donation Fri and Sat (4-5 Sept) in Seattle, next week in Portland

kwai — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:18:45 GMT

Hi All, want some nice photos of yourself, your art, your love? I'm offering photography sessions by donation: head shots, home grown erotica, family pics, whatever. Let's get together and have fun!
Depending on time, we might download and edit together on the spot, or I'll post to a private part of my web site for your pleasure.

Check out my work at www.KwaiLam.com (and FaeryPhoto.com, still under re-building).

About me: 30+ years experience, published in a variety of publications including RFD, the Advocate, Magical Blend, etc., many shows...

Blessings around.
Kwai
PS. Portland bound for Queer Magic after this...same offer will apply there. 800.439.1151 or kwai@kwailam.com

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

HOT INK - TATTOO PARTY in Portland, OR on August 15

DirtyDuck — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:44:36 GMT

SATURDAY August 15th
“HOT INK - TATTOO PARTY”
9pm to 2am
Dirty Duck Tavern, 439 NW 3rd Ave at Glisan
* A hot tattoo party for Men and Women. Come show off your ink!
* Tattoo Contests with prizes – Sexiest Tattoos, Biggest Tattoos, and more!
* Famous Tattoo Artists in attendance!
* Gift Certificates and Coupons from Tattoo Studios
* Free Clothes Check
* Free Motorcycle Parking Out Front!
* Live Entertainment!
* High NRG music!
* $4 cover benefits Esther’s Pantry charity
* more details at www.dirtyducktavern.net

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

ride needed from pdx to sgrf

ATOMIC! — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:07:02 GMT

want to leave on Wed 29th of july. anyone headed?

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Happy Solstice Ya'll

Aeolus — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:23:35 GMT

Joyous Solstice to you all from Arcata California....
Love
Aeolus and Elwood Charming

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Ride Offer East!!!

Griffyn — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:14:28 GMT

Hello all Beautiful Fae,

I will be driving out East to Kentucky from WA as the Beginning of June! If you're headed that a wayz and can help with some driving (it's a stick and gas as u r able) then tribe or email me at TheRebelPrince@yahoo.com) xoxo
i have only two requests: no green or illegal substances please, & valid DL Thanxxx*

***magikk is in the air
Just Prince (aka Elijjah)

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Support Domestic Partnership in Washington

harold — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:31:06 GMT

http://eqfed.org/campaign/DeclineToSignPet_71

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Lets communicate/coordinate/collaborate/carpool!!!!! Join Wolf Creek Rideshare Yahoo Group!

Cloud_Forest_Creature — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:31:40 GMT

There is now a Yahoo group to aid the facilitation of rideshares to and from the Wolf Creek sanctuary.

Folks headed to WC for Beltane - festivities start the 27th, that's about two weeks away from today, I encourage us to network and make sure none of our family is left behind that could otherwise make it. If you need a ride, if you could offer a ride please make use of this tool.

the group can be accessed via the link below.
groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfcreek_rides/join

** A Note to those traveling from and through the Seattle area. From now until the 26th I am available to coordinate rides. Message me via tribe ***

Peace

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Seattle Area Carpooling to Wolf Creek for Beltane

Cloud_Forest_Creature — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:43:43 GMT

Hey Fae!

I was wondering if Folks in the Seattle Area with plans, tentative or solid, to visit wolf creek for Beltane want to start an email list for carpooling? I am volunteering myself as a coordinator for this, so please message me via tribe with your email, your location and your prospective dates of travel. Beltane is coming up quick so I'd like to get a quick start on this.

Lets see the area represent in full!

::quetzal::

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

PORTLAND EXHIBIT

J'DYSATTVA — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:34:27 GMT

Designing the Future:
Architecture+Landscape+Urban Planning+Transportation+Social System Design

Art Exhibit Opening Reception: Thursday, April 2nd, 5-10pm
Exhibit Duration: April 1-April 31

As the future of the earth hangs in the precarious balance of an unknown fate, SEA Change's upcoming exhibit unites Portland's progressive designers, fostering cross-pollination that catalyzes future designs for an equal, peaceful, compassionate, just future. This visual fusion of evolutionary designers will put the puzzle pieces together of how to integrate nature and society. Architectural plans for coexisting with the environment, building community, and transitioning from oil to sustainability take shape in natural playgrounds, graywater systems, neighborhood energy utilities, and cat palaces...

Artists/Designers: Mark Lakeman + Tryon Life Community Farm + Ed Carpenter + Northwest Neighborhood Energy + Planet Earth Playscapes + Rick Potestio + TransitionPDX + Recode + Portland Peak Oil + Trimet + Cascadia Commons + Living Gardens + Alec Neal + MotiveSpace + Sebastian Collett + CON COR

SEA Change
625 NW Everett, Gallery 110, Portland 97209
Hours: Tue-Sat 11-6
www.seagallery.wordpress.com

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Wolf Creek BELTANE! Call & Registration Online!

Chance Flash — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:10:47 GMT

Beltane Gathering 2009
at Wolf Creek Nomenus Radical Faerie Sanctuary

LOVE THE LAND WORK PARTY
Monday 4/20 to Sunday 4/26
BELTANE GATHERING
Monday 4/27 to Sunday 5/3

NEW ONLINE REGISTRATION
1. Read the Call
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhdh89pj_83dqkb3xdn

2. Register Online
http://www.queermagic.org/?q=beltane_registration

3. Donate Online
http://www.nomenus.org/donate.html
Help raise $2K needed up front for groceries and propane -- donate online now!

Join the mailing list: groups.google.com/group/wolf-creek-beltane
Contact: wolf.creek.beltane@gmail.com

See you around the Maypole!
Love, the All-Star Mystery Crew

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Banyan & Toddmary need a pt home

Banyan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:11:30 GMT

Tm and I are moving from Wolf Creek Sanctuary to get medical care in Seattle.
We are probably moving to Marrowstone Island and need a place to rent 1-2 days per week so that TM can get care for his stroke(speech therapy and yoga) and I can get HIV care. We need a King County address and we will be in town probably overnight each week.

We can afford up to $200 a month for four nights or so. We could pick days of the week that work best for you.

Is this you????

Blessed Be!

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

"Sunset Hill Day Spa" A Seattle Faerie Event 2/14/09

kyooverse — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:13:04 GMT

It is my pleasure to announce that the "Sunset Hill Day Spa" (3rd
annual?)will be happening again this year!

This is going to be a special, one day gatherette on Saturday,
February 14th, hosted by MoonSong, David & volunteers. This event
will coincide with the Winter Gathering at Breihtenbush Hot Springs
for faeries who wish to gather in spirit for a relaxing day of fun.
Please feel free to come or leave at anytime during this event.

We will be starting with Seattle Faerie coffee "at home" from 10am
until noon and we'll be graced with the guest appearance of Lulu
Latte, who will be whipping up your favorite coffee drinks, (tea will
also be available). You are requested to bring your favorite brunch
dish to share and your favorite pizza topping for dinner later that
evening.

At Noon we will start with an opening ritual, casting the circle and
opening the magic of Faerie space for 12 hours of nurturing,
spiritual connections, healing, and of course FUN! After morning
coffee & brunch the "Sunset Hill Day Spa" will be pronounced open for
our pleasure and will feature:

Japanese-style hot tub - Massage room – Nail polish bar – Facial
treatments
Music/drumming – Fabulous drag exchange area – Outdoor chill space
Games – Door prizes! – Video lounge - Sun deck - Libations

At 5pm the dinner / pizza party will start and include whatever
toppings participants bring to share… We will also be voting on
which movie we will watch after dinner is finished.

The movie selection will start at 7pm and may have a short
intermission (hot tub will be available until 9pm). Cleanup and
departures will be around 10pm, after a short closing ritual.

What to bring: food for the brunch table, your favorite topping for
pizza. For the spa you may want towels, bath robe, bath toys, etc….
Drag for the drag exchange area, musical instruments, drums, and
games if you like... If you have special needs, bring what you need
to be comfortable.

*** Although the where and phone was published, out of misplaced respect for the Faerie who wrote this, I won't publish their public information. If you are interesting in going, please contact me for final information -- ok? And "misplaced" because I don't know whether it would be a problem because I didn't ask, but my respect stands. *winks*

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

wolf creek winter camp?? -- call for interest!

lopeyja — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:00:40 GMT

hi everyone,
last year during february at wolf creek we had an amazing winter camp wherein we skillshared so much! we made pemmican, smoked meat, studied and applied primitive building skills, observed flintknapping, brain-tanned deer hides, and much more. finisia and the hoop were a big influence on the life practised there, and finisia herself attended.

i want to do it again! and i can't do it alone. so! i am calling for primitive skills folks who want to share their skills in wilderness survival, who would be interested in joining us for a week in mid-february, to plant garlics, possibly do some agriculture too (barley/greenhouse), learn braintanning, rain catchment systems, primitive building, storytelling, food preservation, bicycle maintanence, and whatever you can bring to the longhouse!
dates aren't set, but we can make this happen together.
love,
lopi!

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Seeking ride to Breitenbush winter gathering

Holly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:52:35 GMT

Hey faes,

I'm looking for a ride to the Breitenbush winter gathering for myself (from Vancouver, BC) & Kiss (from Seattle). I'm willing to travel to Seattle (or possibly Portland) to join a car pool if I'm not able to arrange something from Vancouver.

Please email searchling@hotmail.com if you're able to help us out.

Blessings,

Holly ;-)

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Winter Gathering 2009 at Breitenbush Hot Springs

damien — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:29:59 GMT

The Call for the 2009 Winter Gathering of radical faeries at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon is out. More info here:

http://www.radfae.org/breitenbush

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Check out my new fae calendar!

carlos-ity — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:21:22 GMT

Hey, this is a call-out for anyone interested in obtaining my new "fadick'L Mary CalendARRR -2009". Take a look at this website for details:

www.angelfire.com/folk/magixnartz (scroll down for the promo picture of the lovely hippie man then click on him!)

There are now samples of this calendar in my gallery, so do take a look if you're at all inclined!

See also the green promo flyer at the main radical faerie site, please.

And, yes, I've made the samples in my gallery intentionally rough, so that you are pleasantly surprised when you get yourself a copy.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Radical Faerie Symposium and Cabaret Nov. 8th Check it out!

ganesha — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:27:21 GMT

Radical FAEposium and Cabaret
Honoring John Burnside

Saturday November 8th 3:30pm

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street (@23rd) San Francisco

Join us for a Radical Faerie Symposium* and Cabaret
(a project of QRC, the Quest of the Radical Crosspollinators)

Featuring:
Talks and Discussions on Faerie Culture;
Film and Video screenings by Fearie Filmmakers;
Readings and Live Performances by III, Storm, Rio Corazon, Jupiter, Crystal Cobra Faerie Oracle, Jim e Sparkle Pants, and many other gorgeously talented faeries

$5-20 sliding scale
(no one turned away for lack of funds)

(Please bring a pillow to sit on if possible)

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

Alexander — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:04:21 GMT

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

Well girls and boys that favourite holiday season is upon us again. It is time to gather the family and hang the pumpkins on the good old Halloween tree. Time to unbutton and zip down those over stuff pants after eating lots of tasty Vegan tofu turkey on Thanks Taking Day. Time to gather the neighbourhood kids in good cheer as we sing the traditional Election Fraud hymns. There is that great holiday called Bonfire Night to celebrate the rebellious actions of some guy. And who could forget that this Autumn season ends with an early Festivus. Hopefully this year there will be lots of "Airing of Grievances" followed by unusual amount of "Feats of Strength" to give us all that holiday joy and maybe even a "Festivus Miracle" or two.

It is my favourite time of the year. Memories of building leaf men from freshly fallen leaves. My childhood memories of kicking piles of leaves and leaf ball fights. But what is so important not to forget to purchase or make a traditional V for Vendetta mask. I often wear mine to work and when picking up the kids from after school. Right now as you read this stores are filling their stocks and shelves with those beautiful V for Vendetta masks. Yes that is right the mask popularised by the graphic novel and movie. Just imagine you sporting on a fashionable V mask with your hoody or jacket or any other appropriate attire. You could even don on some foxy black Jacobean Era outfit.

But you say "uncle Evergreen V, I ain't got no money to buy me a V for Vendetta mask, cuz the big business bailout also called the Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008 has left me penniless and I ain't got no job either due to outsourcing." I am so glad you asked me that question little Tiny Tim. Here is a shiny brand new penny for your thoughts. Well if you have just a little money for two colour prints then I have a deal for you. You can actually download a papercrafted V for Vendetta mask. This two page colour print out has tags or folds on the various sections of the mask to where you fold and glue the paper mask together. This can be a fun group project with friends and like minded people. You can even work side by side with your significant other or meet some like minded individuals for those heated discussions over steamy issues about civics and social justice. Make it a shared event with friends, neighbours, co-workers, classmates and family. It can be found at the following link:

papercraft-guyfawkes-pdf.zip
http://www.zshare.net/download/161188971bb2c38b/

I will add to this a round of applause to the first person or persons who can make a viral video going step by step on the print out to a well glossed version of the infamous V mask. Yes that is right a viral video rewarded with a round of applause from me.

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

Evergreen V

PS ... please watch

Remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ga7wsBd9_M&feature=user

V for Vendetta in Kinetic Typography
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8332842891866779485&ei=LmjqSLeQG4nGqQKIzMmbDA&q=V+for+vendetta&vt=lf&hl=en

November 5 V Speech
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4857964137818958423&ei=-GvqSKSrA5OwrAK17uT8BA&q=V+for+Vendetta+Revolution&vt=lf&hl=en

V speech
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2118953091665527418&ei=-GvqSKSrA5OwrAK17uT8BA&q=V+for+Vendetta+Revolution&vt=lf&hl=en

Poster for a Free Cascadia "Be the Evergreen Revolution"
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/evergreenrevolutionnovemberv.jpeg

Another site with the Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta) mask in PDF format
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/guyfawkesmask.pdf

Image of the Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta) make after construction
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/guyfawkesdemomask.jpg

And please forward this message and make it "go viral!"

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

returning to Oakland Oct 19, looking for ride to WC or PDX

jerryb — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:09:01 GMT

I return from my jungle adventures Oct. 19 to Oakland and am looking for passage north and maybe a couch to surf on for a night or 2. If anyone can help or knows of anyone who has space, please let me know :)

Bendiciones!
Mana

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

8/29-9/2 Men’s Labor Day Camping

bartchurch — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:05 GMT

MEN'S LABOR DAY ECO-CAMPING WILDERNESS TRIP
8/29-9/2 Friday-Monday (or Tuesday if you can stay an extra day),

In this amazing 3-4 day hiking & camping adventure, Sierra Willoughby, a queer US Park Service Forest Ranger who has worked for 7 summers in Mt. Rainier, will introduce us to the incredible wild flowers meadows, sub-alpine lakes, glacial & volcanic geology, and stunning waterfalls of one of the oldest national parks and one of the largest expanses of old growth forest in the Northwest.

FACILITATOR: Sierra Willoughby is a National Park Service Ranger who has worked for seven summers at Mt. Rainier National Park. He has a M.S. in Geology and passionate knowledge of the plants, animals, geology (both glaciation & volcanism) of Mt. Rainier. He has hiked and led hiking trips all over the world for about 20 years.

DONATION: $150-$200 sliding scale donation includes delicious veggie meals & camping fees; proceeds benefit Manifest, a non-profit men's wellness community.

INFO: Bart at 503-223-8822 x1

RSVP website: manifestpdx.org/calendar

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Anyone need a ride to Breitenbush (leaving from So. Oregon)

wiscocheez — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:40:38 GMT

Hey Faeries ~

Im headed up to the gathering on Wed morning and if anyone needs a ride, I have space. Im leaving from Ashland, but can pick you up along the way if you live close to the 5. Let me know

Blessings,
Da Lish

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

A “Taste of Square Dancing"

Mark — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:29:19 GMT

Modern Western Square Dancing is nothing like you remember from grade school! With Puddletown it is upbeat and energetic without a single hay-bale in site. Our “Taste of Square Dancing” events allow us to share the fun with everyone for an evening.

Square dancing is fun for all ages and is a great alternative to the bars for the gay community. It is a highly social activity, one of the few where gay men, lesbians, straight people, and all the other groups that are part of the gay and lesbian community all join hands (literally) to dance, and the first night of lessons is often the first time we see people who are about to become life long friends.

We hold our “Taste of Square Dancing” events right before the next cycle of lessons begins so if you fall in love with Square Dancing like we all have, you can jump right in and join us! http://www.iagsdc.org/puddletown/taste.php

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Looking for a place to stay - the night of August 12, 2008 in Portland

faeriebud — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:28:12 GMT

Dear Faeries,

I am so excited to be going to BB! I arrive at the Portland Airport from Kelowna at 2:50pm. I would love to stay with a Faerie or Faeries for that night before going to Breitenbush the following day. Can anyone offer me refuge?

Faeriebud ( Kevin )

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Mead Moon

Aeolus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:02 GMT

Tomorrow is the Mead Moon. Tonight we dance it into being. Here is some WISHCRAFT for you to enjoy as you read it allow these wishes to be given to you. I wish you celebration. I wish you reprieve from the harshness of life. I wish you Love of your partners, friends, family and the random stranger that smiles and changes the flow of energy. I wish you Peace in your heart calming, soothing Peace that resets all your energy centers. I wish you illumination in the dark places. I wish you a windfall of cash that pays all those bills. I wish you orgasms that identify every hair on your body. I wish you a burst of creative ideas. I wish you success in your job, I wish you a way out of something you feel stuck in. I wish you acceptance from all you encounter. I wish you hugs from the people you love so much you could cry just thinking of their way of being, I wish you the best next step you could imagine. I wish you strength to help your Self and Others, I wish you Joy vision the ability to find the Joy. I wish you Flower Power go ahead and smell one. I wish you a nap. I wish you a delicious meal cooked for you and served in your favorite way. I wish you a walk in the woods. I wish for you a moment of sweet release. i wish for you a dream come true. i wish for you the recognition of your merit. I wish for you to feel your worth. I wish for you something ideal. I wish for you a glimmer of hope. I wish for you satisfaction. I wish for you a smile that lasts and lasts. I wish for you Healing Touch. I wish for you Healing.I wish for you a great surprise. I wish you a vacation. I wish for you to receive all the Universal Love you can handle. I wish for you expansion of potential. I wish you positive self image. I wish you validation. I wish you Magick. I wish you the knowledge that you are DIVINE and a child of the Goddess and God. I wish you a change of heart in a constant disappointment. I wish you Love that transforms the Soul. I wish you an unexpected present just for being you. I wish you understanding of your boundaries. I wish you a voice to speak your truth in a way that you are heard and not discredited. I wish you a way out of trouble. I wish you stamina. I wish you release from Karma. I wish you a way to give back to the world that makes you happy. I wish you knowledge of the Way to Happiness. I wish you the ability to show others the way. I wish you resolution to an ongoing situation that is bothering you. I wish you wonderment. I wish you physical strength and health. I wish you Animal Magick. I wish you a talent you never knew you had. I wish you to reach back when someone reaches out. I wish you a victory you have been waiting for. I wish you a break through in you life. I wish you a sense of how far you have come on the journey. I wish you limitless opportunities put before you. I wish you feel cared for and about. I wish you the ability to let go. I wish you feel safe and protected. I wish you satiation. I wish you the power to go on when you just can't believe it. I wish you a poem or prose of delight. I wish you Faerie Magick and Faerie sight. I wish you a personal audience with the Goddess and the God. I wish you Love everlasting. I wish for you to wish again and again. Sail these wishes from my heart deep down where only I can know and I let them go on the winds to circle the Earth and find all my brothers and sisters. All my being I will it so . All my being I Love. I will it and it is .

Mead moon and Honey wine, celebration for us all it's time. Let go and let be... Pleasure You Pleasure Me. Let it be. Let it be... Full Moon Goddess Bold and Bright guiding us to Midnight Delight. Waiting wrapped in cooling mists open my hands from these clenched fists. Mother Goddess Sister Night Help me let go of this Fucking Fight. Soothing, Cooling, noticing beyond. Of things that bring the things I'm fond. Raise the cup and fill it up tonight it's time to be, The Fool, the Lover, the Dreamer of Dreams the one who lives in me. Arise Sweet Soul and Meet the Moon Help is on it's way. Let go of trouble, fear and fright and trials of the day. Put down the woe, package and bag, put on the glitter and treasured drag. For tonight the light is bright and your Magick is full of might. So drink it in and move your bone and know this now YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Faeries far and Faeries wide circle up like you, to make these wishes and more wishes and make this Magick True. Heart beat, Sacred Breath, I Whisper and I Shout and I will this Magick into being , to the world I Send it out. Do my bidding hear me now to the sacred Soul of Fae and to my tribe I humbly bow.

Blessed Be on the Full Moon
Love
Aeolus~

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Planning Meeting THIS WEDNESDAY in Portland about the 2008/08/08 Doug Honours Ceremony

Alexander — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:09:28 GMT

Planning Meeting THIS WEDNESDAY in Portland about the 2008/08/08 Doug Honours Ceremony

from Collin's post

Wednesday is now the night for Community Outreach at 7 PM. We will meet again at the new Virginia Cafe, 820 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97205. A very important discussion that will take place this Wednesday is preparation for the Doug Honours Ceremony at Peace Arch Park, August 8th, 2008.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

getting to the crux of fae youth/elder visionary seeing, re: women on our lands

carlos-ity — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:31:13 GMT

This is an excerpt of an exchange i'm having with a certain elder in our community. i thought i'd share it here with an invite to add to my (and your?) consciousness on this topic. Feel free to take this and post it on other faerie communal sites/boards!

i have to say that while i find myself on the fence on this topic, i am in agreement with you and the other elders whom have been taking the stand your are speaking of. Having said that, i see that the youth that you all have collectivley held on your shoulders (i.e. after, what, more than 20 years of fae community) are now only trying to take fae sensibility into places that their desires are going. New directions like becoming inclusive of women; and that those new directions make sense in today's realities as these youth feel them.

Even tho they are missing the polytricks of a lot of this, i think (i.e. where their approach has become "black and white" or "either/or").

Still, my own seeing is that the way in which this is happening sounds a lot like the political police (i.e. today's version of COINTELPRO) are influencing the nastier parts of how this vision wants to be implemented; i.e. as "each side" seemingly remains incapable of bridging between (and empathizing with) each others' positions. [Note: What the contexts of this seemingly impossible gap are, are perhaps many even tho i think they can all 'boil down to' one prevalent phenomenon, the one doing with "the generation gap"--which in itself is an artificially-promoted gap led by the political police both overtly and covertly]

Where our oft-spoken empathy *should* bring ecstatic room (much room) for dissent and grey area seeing, in actuality we are experiencing the superficiality of those claims and desires that have not been able to be practiced in such a way where they can be pivotal when *it truly counts*.

As far as faggot-centered decision-making on this? Well, a lot of the young generation are in on this; they are the leaders as far as i can tell; sooo, that means, FAGGOTS ARE making these decisions, divisive as they are, apparently.

i know my own experience in the context of faggots wanting women on the land; in the initial phases of women being invited, they become *more equal* than common faggot males like myself. So that's certainly an interesting phenomenon. Our need for sanctuary is being relegated to the sidelines as womenfolk are recruited (right word?) into the creation of something more dynamic (ultimately) than earlier renditions of faggotry and faggot community.

So it's the transition that i think we ought to cast our magick upon, my friend.

But of course, we are dealing with such in the context of more than 30 years of political police/Rollback efforts to divide our generations from each other (and not to mention the ramifications and reflections of oppressed faggot elder sensibilities now judged without empathy and in the most alienating ways; i.e. the prevalence of the phenomenon called "objectification" of each other amongst the elder portion of faggots, and today's safer approaches where "objectification" has to be evolved from in the younger generations' desires).

What do YOU think about all of THIS?

re: My friend said, in part:
but I truly feel they have no interest in understanding the roots of the fae movement and more pointedly the purchase of Wolf Creek. Because I know where those ideals came from and who made some of those decisions I am now the bad guy... Guess what.... I didn't really fit into any group when i was younger and now I find I do not fit in with another group.... another one that is finding no problem in opressing me.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Job Opening In SE PDX

Drew — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:40:50 GMT

Our little hippie store is accepting resumes for a part-time retail position that could evolve into management. We are seeking self-motivated, responsible and creative people. Must be able to multi-task and work unsupervised. We sell clothing, drums, glassware (smoking accessories), free trade items, crystals, masks, incense etc. Is an awesome job for the right person.

Position must be filled post haste - so please drop off your resume in an envelope to the attention of Drew. No phone calls or e-mails please.

Namaste,

Drew

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

ride to WC for witchcamp/permaculter share

Cloud_Forest_Creature — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:30:49 GMT

H i !

I live in seattle and i want to go to witchcamp and permaculture share. (7/19-8/03)
thing is, i dont have a car. sad? no, not really, but inconvenient for sure..

so..

do you wanna take me with you?
yes!?
Alright!
Im even a low maintenance travel companion. like a cat, i can take care of myself!
And i come with all the great perks; i have money for gas, we can rendezvous in seattle or portland (seattle preferred, as i live here), capable of introvesion AND extroversion - i can match the mood!, good natured and friendly Itll be no time before we ride together again! truly!

see you soon,

xoxo
Oso

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

HELP>port to wolf creek for "the dance"?...

Sizzle — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:59:40 GMT

i arrive in portland this coming tues eve at 9:05 pm,
from wash, dc.... long trip...
looking for a ride to the sanctuary for "the dance"
call me if you can help me out asap...202-321-3263
blessed be
kuggs and hisses
siz'l moon song

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Oregon Country fair pass sought; faerie camp out nearby?

kwai — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:13:50 GMT

Hi All, a longtime dream of mine is to get a 'pass' for the Oregon Country Fair and stay in at night for the festivities...any leads would be appreciated... I can offer a variety of skills: from running group kitchens to healing energy work, reiki and massage to photography, video and web & marketing design...

This will be a special year for me: my 50th!

Hugz around
Kwai from Santa Cruz

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Re:Wolf Creek ride?

Cloud_Forest_Creature — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:49:17 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a ride down to Wolf Creek for Beltane. I live in seattle and do not have a car, as may be expected by a post like this. In exchange for a ride i would be willing to trade gas money and some potentially interesting conversation. My would have been a ride changed plans. I have never been to WC, or a radfae gathering, and really wanna make it! Help my beltane wish come true!

thanks,

Oso

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

greetings from a neighbour.

patrick — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:42:58 GMT

hello. i live in the peace river country bioregion to the north east of cascadia. i might be one of the only peace country people that thinks in bioregional terms. at least i haven't ever met anyone who isn't so busy making money in the oilpatch, forestry or agri-business to think outside the paradigm. i would love to be proven wrong and find some like minded folks.
are there any members here that live in the peace?

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Moving to Portland

AfflictedNeptune — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:20:48 GMT

Forgive the east coast boy, for he does not know, but is Portland Cascadian? In any event, Im moving to Portland in June. If you get to SMS now and then, you may know me as Flash. If not then you will know me as Flash.

I'm moving to Portland in June on a wing, a prayer and a 3 month housesitting job. Need help with all the other stuff. You know, friends, lovers, tricks, jobs, communities, housing...all that.

Drop me a line if you're in the Portland area.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 2 replies

3 movies on Post Cheap Petroleum Cuba

Alexander — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:05:31 GMT

3 movies on Post Cheap Petroleum Cuba

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4981871524314644822&q=peak+oil
Cuba The Accidental Revolution PT-1
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5350731284170267256
Cuba The Accidental Revolution PT-2
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3045843288423571289

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
thescarface1989
52 min 46 sec - 30-Sep-07
for Video iPod/Sony PSP

In 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba experienced an 'energy famine.' Transportation and agriculture virtually came to a stop due to lack of diesel fuel and fertilizer shortages. This film explores what changes were put in place. The makers of the film "The End Of Suburbia" went to Cuba to explore it as a test case for what the conditions after Peak Oil would look like. This is that story.

This documentary takes you through various aspects of life in Cuba - Economy, transportation, health-care, agriculture, education - and explores how they dealt with the dramatic reduction of fossil fuels to a mere fraction of their pre 1990 levels. It was nice to meet the people, see the sights, and hear the sounds. The overall feeling was that the Cubans had improved the quality of their life (after a difficult "Special Period"). Their health was better, greater sense of community, better food and healthier land. I was left with the question: Why should we wait until we run out of oil? Let's do it now. The part that I did not expect was how it challenged my understanding of the difference between a Communist country and Capitalism. Did you know that a greater percentage of Cubans own their own home than in America? More farmers now own their own land? Sort of turns the notion of what a "Free-Market" is on its head! Check it out

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4981871524314644822&q=peak+oil

Cuba The Accidental Revolution PT-1
thescarface1989
45 min 37 sec - 17-Oct-07
for Video iPod/Sony PSP

Cuba: The Accidental Revolution are two one-hour documentaries celebrating the country’s success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how it’s latest revolutions, an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine are having repercussions around the world.

Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Part 1), airing Sunday, July 30 at 7 P.M. on CBC Television, examines Cuba’s response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. At one time Cuba’s agrarian culture was as conventional as the rest of the world. It experienced its first “Green Revolution” when Russia was supplying Cuba with chemical and mechanical “inputs.” However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 ended all of that, and almost overnight threw Cuba’s whole economic system into crisis. Factories closed, food supplies plummeted. Within a year the country had lost over 80% of its foreign trade. With the loss of their export markets and the foreign exchange to pay for imports, Cuba was unable to feed its population and the country was thrown into a crisis. The average daily caloric intake of Cubans dropped by a third.

Without fertilizer and pesticides, Cubans turned to organic methods. Without fuel and machinery parts, Cubans turned to oxen. Without fuel to transport food, Cubans started to grow food in the cities where it is consumed. Urban gardens were established in vacant lots, school playgrounds, patios and back yards. As a result Cuba created the largest program in sustainable agriculture ever undertaken. By 1999 Cuba’s agricultural production had recovered and in some cases reached historic levels.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5350731284170267256

Cuba The Accidental Revolution PT-2
thescarface1989
45 min 37 sec - 17-Oct-07
for Video iPod/Sony PSP
In Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Part 2), airing Sunday, August 6 at 7 P.M. on CBC Television, we learn that the country has been blockaded since 1961, but today Cuba has the highest quality of life in the region, the highest life expectancy, and one of the highest literacy rates in all of Latin America.

With the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba lost the foreign exchange needed to pay for expensive drugs and medicines. As a result, much of Cuba’s medicine today is based on medicinal plants. These are grown on farms, processed in small labs and made available to patients through an extensive network of medical clinics. Today Cuba’s advances in alternative medicine could have important consequences for other countries around the world.

Cuba boasts other firsts as well: The Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana is regarded as the flagship biosciences lab in the developing world. Cuban scientists are working on an HIV vaccine, a meningitis vaccine, a Hepatitis C vaccine, and other pharmaceuticals.

Cuba has also embarked on a program of medical internationalism. There are 25,000 Cuba doctors serving in 68 poor countries around the world. The Latin American School of Medical Science has 10,000 students from developing countries primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean. They are educated for free with the understanding they will return to their home countries to practice.

Fidel Castro has survived many perils and at 78, he is rumoured to suffer from a number of afflictions. As his health declines the world wonders: what will become of Cuba’s Green Revolution after he is gone? Even now Castro presides over a political system, which although socialist, has an economy where bartering and quasi-entrepreneurial practice seemingly influence many trades and professions, including the “green” sector. There is also ever-increasing pressure from Canada and European nations for the U.S. to come to terms with Cuba’s political dissent

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3045843288423571289

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

day of the dead dance

everdmann — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:36:12 GMT

Dear hearts, the Day of the Dead is coming up next Sunday evening. With a great new location, live musicians, the creative energies of the Cauldron, and the blessing of the ancestors, it's coming through even more fabulous than last year.

Here's how you can help:

* Invite your friends. People of all ages, genders, and traditions are welcome -- they don't have to be Faeries or pagans. The Call is below -- feel free to forward it or post it online.

* We are looking to borrow the following:

Rugs or large carpet pieces
Folding tables and chairs (especially in quantity)
Tablecloths
Floor lamps
Long extension cords
Power strips

We promise to treat them with care and return them promptly and in good condition. If you have any of these or know where we can borrow them, please drop us a line at info@queermagic.org.

* We need helpers!

Picking up and returning borrowed items (flexible)
Space clearing/setup (Saturday afternoon)
Decorating (Sunday early afternoon)
Final fluffing (Sunday late afternoon)
Door/hostess 5-7 p.
Feast: 4:30-7 p.
Cleanup: Sunday after the event and Monday << help especially needed!

If you can lend a hand for an hour or two, drop us a line at info@queermagic.org.

A bunch of us will be out of town this week at Samhain in Wolf Creek, so there may be a lag in phone and e-mail response. We'll get back to you just as soon as we return.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Free Cascadia

Daniel — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:33:34 GMT

I've established a couple of new sites and I've posted them on the yahoo group but I forgot to mention them here.

We're trying to become the de facto Cascadian independence group to help everyone organize around Cascadia and free ourselves of this dying empire.

The sites are:

The Evergreen Revolution - A peaceful organization site to help us coordinate (it's still being constructed)
http://www.evergreenrevolution.org

The Cascadian Guard - Mercenary watch blog. This is my blog where I post anything of relevance regarding Mercs and their potential influence in Cascadia
http://www.cascadianguard.org

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

The Call for Samhain at Wolf Creek 2007

stella_maris — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:32:07 GMT

WOLF CREEK SAMHAIN 2007
October 27 thru November 9, 2007

Come Faeries, as the wheel of the year turns toward darkness and the dead draw closer, let us gather at our Sanctuary. Let us join in the Wild Hunt for the Barley King, so the land will be fruitful and the King return with the spring. As the veil between the worlds thins, let us remember, invoke and heal our ancestors back to the beginning of time. They, our allies on the other side, offer us power immense, frightening and deep-if only we dare call on them!

Come honored elders: we need to hear your stories of our ancestors and the origins of our tribe. We, the new fae of our tribe, implore you to come forward through the Dark, join us at the hearth and share your stories of our ancestors--your friends, your loves, lovers and rituals past. Together we will weave the web of our history, beautiful and rich with lessons, laughter and stories.

They deserve your remembrance, we deserve your companionship, you deserve our love. Come home. We miss you. The Land misses you. We want the wisdom of lessons hard won! Let us share in our history, lest we repeat rather than build upon it.

We call you to join in stepping through the crack between the worlds, to work with our ancestors, the custodians of our community and the earth. Meet the ones who have come before and will follow us. Become them and allow them to become you, and their memories will become in you, for they are who you are becoming. You stand on their shoulders, we dance on the pile of their bones. Someday others will stand on us, invoke our power, call on us as allies and chant our stories.

Come to Wolf Creek, where the land is replete with our-story of gatherings past and lovers departed. From its early days as a Maoist Sissy Commune, Faggots and Class Struggle (1976), to Nomenus's Homecoming (1986, with the Pink Poodle Procession), to the many faery gatherings and Narayas since, we build upon the energies and memories of ancestors and allies, seen and unseen, called and released (and sometimes unreleased 'cause we forgot).

The time for hurt and division is over. Long past. We invite you to look beyond the hurt, leave the labels, hunt the healing. We invite you to join with us in magical work this Samhain to burn and put to rest the struggles that (we allow to) divide our tribe: gender, generation, drugs, looks, and other aspects amongst our infinite arsenal of arbitrary alienations.

Here we can draw on the wisdom of our ancestors: "Twelve steps is 9 steps too many," Gryphon Blackswan, a fierce faery who lived at Wolf Creek and drove a pink hearse used to say, "I have a three-step program: breath in, breath out, and get over it" (the last accompanied by a loud finger snap and diva's wave.

It is time to lay to rest the metaphor of war, to celebrate the richness that our diversities offer as we co-create the multiverse. Ritually we invoke the shadow beliefs that lie at the heart of this conflict, to give them to the earth so they can become rich loam for new community, new dreams.

Let us come together on Saturday, October 27th, and create a container. Let us cast, scrye, sing, make sacred celebration -- burn, release, renew, re-wild -- share stories, mourn, frolic, make love, and share our harvests.

We are calling you. The land is calling you. Come home for Samhain!

Practical Stuff
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Sat 10/27: Arrivals & Registration
Sun 10/28: Opening Circle
Tue 10/30: The Rite of the Barley King / Libation Night / Clean and Sober Sweat Lodge
Wed 10/31: Samhain Fire
Thurs 11/1: Day of the Dead
Fri 11/2: Men's Circle
Sat 11/3: Closing Circle
Sun 11/4: Departures
Fri 11/9: Lunar Samhain (for those feeling the call to stay or return)

Other potential events:
Workshop on making fetish offerings
Heart circles
Reiki attunements
Dumb Feast
Sacred flogging circle
Labyrinth walks
Spiral dance
Know-Talent Show
Loving the land and each other
Your ritual/workshop/offering here!

MAKING IT HAPPEN

This gathering is created and sustained by each one of us. Our magic flourishes with what we each bring to the land.

Suggested donation is $35 dollars per day, more if you can, less if you can't, no one turned away for lack of funds. Please register ahead of time (see below).

We will prepare meals and dine together as a family three times a day. Vegetarian, vegan, and allergies will be respected, as long as you let us know your needs.

If you are a vegan/veggie cook, please consider helping out in the kitchen. Your eating options are only as good as the skill of the cooks. Meat eaters, this goes for you too -- when only vegan/veggies are in the kitchen, guess what gets prepared?

HOW CAN I HELP?

Queen, we thought you'd never ask. Here are some jobs just waiting for your loving attention. Check the Barn door for signups.

Volunteer Coordinator: The "unseen hand" that helps people hook up with jobs needing to be done.

Firewood Czar: Organize woodcutting parties while looking all butch with a chainsaw. (By the way, if you can come down and spend a few days cutting wood between now and then, that would be fabulous. Also needed is an extra chainsaw at the gathering.)

Firetenders: Help with firewood and keep our tribal fires burning.

Cook: Sign up with a friend to cook a meal. Nourish your Faerie kin and make their tummies happy. E-mail Atomic (glamarchy at riseup.net) if you'd like to cook.

Dishwasher: Dishwashers eat first, and are considered especially desirable as sexual partners.

Ritual Planning: Help hold the container and guide the energy for our personal and communal magic.

Shitter Patrol: Keep our trusty shitters clean and well-stocked. A humble yet vital job.

Welcome Wagon: Hang out at the Qiosk in the Parking Lot and greet new arrivals.

Zombie Nurses: Be a clear and grounded presence to safeguard and provide first aid to your fellow Faeries.

Zombie Surgeon General: Make sure the first aid kits are stocked and organize other Zombie Nurses.

To volunteer and find out more about planning for this Gathering, check out tribes.tribe.net/wlfcrksam07.

WHAT TO BRING

Indoor sleeping space is available for those with special needs. (This year there will be additional space in some of the caretaker houses.) Please call the Sanctuary ahead of time to reserve a space.

Otherwise, it's a camping scenario. Samhain has been 9 degrees before, so come prepared for the COLD and WET.

Tent, tarps, sleeping bag, flashlight
Hot water bottle
Warm clothes, hat, gloves, long underwear
Raingear
Towel
Biodegradable shampoo and toothpaste (all water drains into the Creek!)
Weatherproofed pictures and offerings for Ancestor Altar
Books and pictures of Faerie lore and ancestors
Fabulous outfits and drag to share
Drums, musical instruments, songs to share
Tarot cards, tools of magick
High heels, floggers, cuffs, leather, furs, lace
Body paint, glitter, nail polish, sex toys
Art supplies and craft projects, poetry to read
An idea for a circle or workshop
Favorite recipes and cooking skills
Willingness to pitch in
A vision of what you want this community to be/look like/feel like
A sense of humor and appreciation for our differences
A number for the talent show
A clearly divined Intention
Your best and most fabulous friends!

If you can bring food for the gathering -- such as day-old bread or enough other healthy yummy food to feed 75-100 people -- that is simply fabulous! Please call and let us know ahead of time so we can plan it into our shopping.

SANCTUARY WISH LIST

If you have any of these items, please bring them to donate to the Sanctuary.

We want to create a stockpile of non-perishable food in case of emergency, so whole grains and beans (5 lbs or more of rice, oats, beans, etc.) and canned food are especially welcome.

Canning supplies (quart jars, rings, lids, pectin)
Towels
Water glasses, plastic cups, coffee mugs, bowls
Five-gallon buckets
Candle-making supplies for Imbolc (paraffin, beeswax, wicks, molds, etc.)
Mattresses, especially a queen-sized mattress for the Whores' Bed in the Barn (please call ahead of time before bringing mattresses)

SOME THOUGHTS ON SUBSTANCES

These are our intentions for the use of medicines such as tobacco and other herbs and substances:

*To create a strong container and a clear conduit for our personal and tribal magic.
*To respect the diversity of experiences, beliefs, and boundaries around substance use.
*To support the healing work of those in recovery or struggling with addiction.
*To honor the medicine spirits and to ask for their blessings.

There is an ongoing dialogue in our community regarding substance use, particularly smoking. There will be a talking circle on Sunday, 10/28, to discuss our community agreements on these topics, with the goal of making sure these are agreements that everyone can live with.

COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS

We ask you to respect these agreements while at this Gathering:

*Please use all substances intentionally, mindfully, and with respect for yourself and those around you.

*Please smoke only in these areas:
In the Smoking Circle behind the Barn
Behind Garden House
On the South side of the firepit
In the parking lot

*Please DON'T smoke on the paths, at your campsite, in Garden House, in the Barn, or on the North side of the firepit.

*Halston and the Heart Circle are substance-free space. Please don't smoke, use, or be under the influence in those places.

*Please use alcohol in moderation, and only in the parking lot. The exception is Libation Night, beginning after dinner on Tuesday, October 30th, when there will be ritual use of alcohol in circle.

*Please be responsible for all items you bring to the Sanctuary. If you pack it in, pack it out. Please leave your camping space and our whole Sanctuary in a better condition than you found it.

Please NO:

*Speed, heroin, or cocaine-not in you, not on you, not in your car.

*Violence or intolerance.

*Fire, smoking, candles, or incense on paths or at campsites.

*Pets. Yes, your dog is lovely. But a dozen dogs in a barking, fighting, pooping pack? Not so lovely. For the safety and comfort of everyone at the Gathering, please leave your dog at home. A kennel is available in Merlin, the next town south, where you can board your furry loved one for $10/day. It is called Creekside Boarding, (541) 471-7144, ask for Donna.

ITEMS FOR THE SAMHAIN FIRE

Please bring only natural safe burning items for our community cauldron. The Samhain fire consumes and transmutes that which we release there. Symbols are powerful; synthetics poison the air of your brother/sisters. We will have supplies for making non-synthetic fetish offerings to the fire which you can charge with your intent.

Don't Bring a Mess * Don't Be a Mess * Don't Leave a Mess

REGISTER TODAY!

By registering today, you can make the whole Gathering run a little smoother. Or in other words, registering early plays a poignant part in preventing piss poor planning and petty performance.

The suggested donation is $35 per person per day (more if you can, less if you can't, no one turned away for lack of funds). Please plan to contribute energy in its crystallized form (i.e. money if you can), and also in the form of work, love, and participation.

!!! Right this minute, please email us your registration form, or better yet, print it out and send it with a check. Make checks payable to Nomenus. !!!

Nomenus
Attn: Samhain 2007
PO Box 312
Wolf Creek, OR 97497
541-866-2678

Nomenus@budget.net
www.nomenus.org

REGISTRATION FORM
Samhain 2007

Nomenus Sanctuary for Radical Faeries and Friends
Wolf Creek, OR
Saturday October 27th through Sunday, November 5th

Faerie Name: ____________________________________

Mundane Name: _________________________________

Address (If you want): _____________________________

Email Address: ___________________________________

I'm planning to be at this fabulous gathering
from _______ to _______, for a total of ______days.

I know you are asking $35/day (more if you can, less if you can't,
No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds), so I am enclosing $________

I would love to help with (X marks the spot):
___ Rituals
___ Firewood
___ Cooking
___ Dishwashing
___ the Know Your Talent Show
___ Holding a Workshop or Ritual
___ Coordinating Rides for _______________ (city name)
___ Being a Zombie Nurse
___ Other ________________________________

What is your intention for the Samhain Gathering at Wolf Creek?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Triple Global Crises

Alexander — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:11:09 GMT

Triple Global Crises

From Empire to Earth Community: Author David Korten on "The Great
Turning"

Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3
Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript
Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend
Purchase Video/CD

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
The International Forum on Globalization and Institute for Policy
Studies is hosting a three day teach-in this weekend
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction." We speak with, among others, David Korten - publisher of
the magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures and author of "The
Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community." [includes rush
transcript]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific advisory group
has revealed that less than two percent of the money spent by the
federal government on climate change research is used to study how
climate change will affect humans.
According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million dollar a year
on examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that
figure in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated
$275 million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state QUOTE "The loss of
existing and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest
threat to the future success" of climate research.

This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization and Institute
for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

We speak with four guests from the forum. We begin with David Korten:

David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the World". He is the
co-founder of Positive Futures Network, and publisher of the magazine
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
titled "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community."

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

JUAN GONZALEZ: A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific
advisory group has revealed that less than 2% of the money spent by
the federal government on climate change research is used to study
how climate change will affect humans.

According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million a year on
examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that figure
in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated $275
million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state, "The loss of existing
and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest threat
to the future success" of climate research.

AMY GOODMAN: This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization
and Institute for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

Today, we're joined by four of the guests in that forum. We begin
with Vandana Shiva and David Korten.

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker,
director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and
Ecology, and the founder of Navdanya, "nine seeds," a movement
promoting diversity and use of native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993
recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood
Award. She's the author of many books, her latest, Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.

David Korten, also with us, author of When Corporations Rule the
World, cofounder of Positive Futures Network and publisher of the
magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! David Korten, let's begin with
you. The Great Turning, explain.

DAVID KORTEN: Well, essentially, this gets to the basic theme of the
conference, that we humans have come up at a defining moment in our
experience, in which we're confronting the limits of the ecosystem at
a time when we are in a condition of extreme inequality between the
rich and the poor, and we're dependent on an economic infrastructure
that, in turn, depends on the assumption of everlasting cheap oil.
Now, we've essentially come up to the limits.

What my book, The Great Turning, does is puts it into our current
situation to the deeper context of 5,000 years of human experience,
organizing ourselves, both our relations among nations and among --
all the way down to among family members, based on dominator
hierarchy. And what this -- the underlying pattern of societies, with
a few people on the top, many people on the bottom, and the majority
of the society's resources being expropriated by the ruling elites in
order to maintain a system of domination. And we have played that out
for 5,000 years, empire through empire, each one falling in turn, is
it, through internal corruption and the devastation of its resource
base. And now we're encountering that on a global scale.

And what -- the key point of this conference is that we are facing a
monumental decision point in human experience in which we have to
actively choose our future. And virtually none of the options on the
table being discussed deal, in any adequate way, with the depth of
the problem, and many of them are actually ultimately
counterproductive. What the establishment is doing is looking for
solutions that will maintain the system of power, but not necessarily
deal with the fact that we have to address in fundamental ways our
human relationship to earth and to the life support system of earth.

And in an already overpopulated world, we absolutely have to deal
with the issues of equity and redistribution of not only income, but
ownership, control and access to resources, so that everyone has a
secure means of living. We also, of course, have to be fundamentally
reconstructing our infrastructure to create an infrastructure that is
consistent with living and balance with the earth, localizing our
economies, bringing an end to war and violence and the massive misuse
of resources to support military establishment.

So what this conference is doing, which is also what my book The
Great Turning does, is bring all of these various crises that we're
facing as a species into a common framework that helps us see the
depth of the solutions and the very dramatic nature of the solutions
turning from systems of domination to systems of partnership and
reestablishing a sense of human community and of living communities
that bring us humans into balance with earth.

JUAN GONZALEZ: David Korten, in the United States we're confronted
here with a mass media system now where the oil companies and the
chemical companies are actually the ones advertising their changes
now, in terms of dealing with global warming. It's an enormous
hypocrisy that the very companies that are involved in the worst
aspects of what is happening to the world are now the ones that are
promoting in their advertisements a consciousness about it.

You talk about the prosperity narrative and how the prosperity
narrative distorts the reality of what's happening with global
warming. Could you talk about that?

DAVID KORTEN: Yes. Part of breaking out of this, breaking out of what
I call the cultural trance of empire, is to recognize the stories,
essentially the lies, that the system feeds us to keep us locked into
this trance. And the key in the empire prosperity story is the idea
that money is wealth, that economic growth is the key to prosperity,
that when people are making money, they are creating wealth, and the
idea that inequality is essential to growth because the rich people
have the money to invest, and so we should honor rich people, we
should welcome inequality, because in the end it makes us all better
off. Now, we're seeing that play out, of course, in the corporations
now, you know: we're benevolent, and so forth.

But the thing that -- you know, I spent thirty years of my life
working on third world development, on the effort to end poverty in
low-income countries. And it took me a long time, but I finally came
to realize that mostly what economic growth is about is rich people
expropriating the resources of poor people to turn them into the
garbage of the consumer system in an accelerating rate in order to
make money, which increases the power of people who -- for people who
already have more than they need.

Now, what we need to come to recognize is that real prosperity is
grounded in the health of our children, our families, our communities
and nature, and that a real economic system promoting real prosperity
is one that is serving the health of children, families, community
and the environment. And it absolutely requires a substantial degree
of equity and sharing of resources to assure that everyone's needs
are met. And you begin to see the -- you know, the stories
fundamentally contrast, and they lead to totally different kinds of
outcomes, in terms of how we allocate resources and even how we think
about what it means to be human at our most foundational values.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva, talk about how this plays out on the
ground in places like, well, your home country, India.

VANDANA SHIVA: Well, the triple crisis is really seriously converging
on India, India being one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of
all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We
hear of outsourcing of jobs in the information technology sector. We
don't often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the
third world, the resource-intensive, resource-hungry industry like
steel and iron and aluminum and automobile manufacture. India now is
going to be the home of making cheap cars for the rest of the world.
But every car then requires land, which is grabbed from tribals,
peasants. It requires aluminum and steel, which needs to be mined. It
requires coal, which needs to be mined.

And just as when the first colonization took place, it was assumed
that the earth was empty, terra nullius, no matter how many
indigenous people existed. India, a land of 1.2 billion people, is
being treated as an empty land for global capital, making 80% of
India redundant.

But people are fighting back. And place after place, in Dadri, in
Nandigram, in Singur, people are just getting together in a new earth
democracy and saying, "This land is our land. We will decide what we
do with it. You cannot force a polluting industry on us.
Globalization cannot force it." And we are really seeing a whole new
political practice emerge.

India is engaged in this debate also centrally in another way that
brings the resource question: the alternative -- fuel alternatives to
global warming, as well as the new militarization, on a global scale
together. The three, four options being offered to contain emissions
are biofuels, which, in fact, will increase emissions; carbon and
emissions trading, which is reversing the "polluter pays" principle
and is making the society pay the polluter, rewarding them with
credits. Most of these credits are then being given to polluting
industry: HFC companies, sponge iron plants, cutting down forests and
then planting palm oil. These are becoming clean development
mechanisms, which are really dirty.

But the dirtiest of all, dirtiest of all the new clean options is
nuclear. The US-India nuclear agreement is being offered as a clean
energy option, as a solution to climate change. But it is, in effect,
an instrument of permanent war. In the Hyde Act, which overrides the
India-US agreement, Iran has been mentioned fifteen times. An
agreement between India and the US mentions a third country fifteen
times. This is about a new security policy, a new security policy in
which a militarized empire seeks the last resources of the poorest
person and wants to use the worst form of violence to appropriate the
resources that people need for living.

And across the world, people are saying, "No. We want peace. We want
democracy. We want sustainability. We will live in a different way."
And those alternatives are growing. Our work, in Navdanya, we are
saving seeds that can tolerate the salt after cyclones, seeds that
can survive the floods, in which we have lost 2,000 people in India
this particular extreme monsoon. And around the world people are
creating alternatives, so we really have these two trends right now:
one, a declining trend, but very visible trend because it's so
violent, and violent is always visible; and the other, a peaceful
trend and nonviolent trend, quiet, but much more pervasive.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Vandana Shiva, you've been a spokesperson for years
over the impact on the world's agriculture, of this corporate
dominance. A new battleground has developed recently in Burma with
Bayer and Bayer's efforts, the German giant, in terms of rice. Could
you talk about that?

VANDANA SHIVA: Yeah, but it's not just the German giant in Burma.
It's the American giant, Monsanto, literally killing Indian farmers.
Since 1997, I've been doing studies in every area where farmer
suicides have happened. These happen to be the cotton belt, the
cotton areas where Monsanto has now gained total monopoly. The Bt
cotton seeds that Monsanto is selling have pushed farmers to the
edge, because of the high prices, because of the high levels of
failure and the high requirements, exactly like the rice of Bayer for
Burma will be.

As the corporations that came out of warfare gained control over the
chemical industry for warfare, they became agrichemical giants,
because they deployed chemicals used for war into agriculture. Over
time, they bought up the seed industry. Over time, they bought up the
biotech industry. And, of course, these guys are the same people who
sell us the medicine in pharmaceuticals. So what we've got, a
convergence of death. We've got a convergence of destruction.

And in India, we are witnessing this destruction from the seed end
through Monsanto's monopolies on seed, and that is why I have been
working with Indian farmers, both to save our native seeds and save
our freedom, and do the seed Satyagraha, like Gandhi a hundred years
ago in South Africa -- and we're remembering Steve Biko today -- when
Gandhi started the Satyagraha, the non-cooperation with an unjust
brutal regime. But the global economy has become an unjust brutal
regime. And everywhere -- we are defending the Yamana, because they
want to even use the land where the rivers flow for real estate. I
don't know why land becomes real estate when it moves into the hands
of the rich, and it's treated as nobody's land, no man's land, when
it's generating survival for the poor. So India is definitely at the
heart of the new debate about the real democracy.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva and David Korten, I want to thank you for
being with us. Vandana Shiva's latest book is Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. David Korten's latest book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. They're
both part of the International Forum on Globalization that is holding
a conference this weekend in Washington, D.C. at George Washington
University at the Lisner Auditorium.

When we come back, we'll be joined from two others who are
participating: the author and professor Michael Klare and the British
climate change activist Simon Retallack.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1421257

Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third
World"

Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3
Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript
Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend
Purchase Video/CD

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
We speak world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana
Shiva about India and global resource depletion. Shiva says, "India
is one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of all the pollution
and energy-intensive production of the world. We hear of outsourcing
of jobs and informational technology sector. We don't often enough
hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the third world."
[includes rush transcript]

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. She
is also a physicist and ecologist and the Director of the Research
Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology. She is the founder of
Navdanya -"nine seeds", a movement promoting diversity and use of
native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993 recipient of the Alternative
Nobel Peace Prize -the Right Livelihood Award. And she is the author
of many books, her latest is "Earth Democracy: Justice,
Sustainability, and Peace."

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

JUAN GONZALEZ: A new study from the nation's preeminent scientific
advisory group has revealed that less than 2% of the money spent by
the federal government on climate change research is used to study
how climate change will affect humans.

According to the report issued by the National Academies, the U.S.
Climate Change Research Program spends just $30 million a year on
examining the impact of global warming on humans. To put that figure
in perspective, the United States is spending an estimated $275
million per day on the Iraq war and occupation.

Spending cuts have also resulted in the grounding of earth-observing
satellites. The authors of the report state, "The loss of existing
and planned satellite sensors is perhaps the single greatest threat
to the future success" of climate research.

AMY GOODMAN: This weekend, the International Forum on Globalization
and Institute for Policy Studies is hosting a three day teach-in
titled "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Climate Change, Peak
Oil (The End of Cheap Energy) and Global Resource Depletion &
Extinction."

Today, we're joined by four of the guests in that forum. We begin
with Vandana Shiva and David Korten.

Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker,
director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and
Ecology, and the founder of Navdanya, "nine seeds," a movement
promoting diversity and use of native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993
recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood
Award. She's the author of many books, her latest, Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.

David Korten, also with us, author of When Corporations Rule the
World, cofounder of Positive Futures Network and publisher of the
magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. His most recent book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! David Korten, let's begin with
you. The Great Turning, explain.

DAVID KORTEN: Well, essentially, this gets to the basic theme of the
conference, that we humans have come up at a defining moment in our
experience, in which we're confronting the limits of the ecosystem at
a time when we are in a condition of extreme inequality between the
rich and the poor, and we're dependent on an economic infrastructure
that, in turn, depends on the assumption of everlasting cheap oil.
Now, we've essentially come up to the limits.

What my book, The Great Turning, does is puts it into our current
situation to the deeper context of 5,000 years of human experience,
organizing ourselves, both our relations among nations and among --
all the way down to among family members, based on dominator
hierarchy. And what this -- the underlying pattern of societies, with
a few people on the top, many people on the bottom, and the majority
of the society's resources being expropriated by the ruling elites in
order to maintain a system of domination. And we have played that out
for 5,000 years, empire through empire, each one falling in turn, is
it, through internal corruption and the devastation of its resource
base. And now we're encountering that on a global scale.

And what -- the key point of this conference is that we are facing a
monumental decision point in human experience in which we have to
actively choose our future. And virtually none of the options on the
table being discussed deal, in any adequate way, with the depth of
the problem, and many of them are actually ultimately
counterproductive. What the establishment is doing is looking for
solutions that will maintain the system of power, but not necessarily
deal with the fact that we have to address in fundamental ways our
human relationship to earth and to the life support system of earth.

And in an already overpopulated world, we absolutely have to deal
with the issues of equity and redistribution of not only income, but
ownership, control and access to resources, so that everyone has a
secure means of living. We also, of course, have to be fundamentally
reconstructing our infrastructure to create an infrastructure that is
consistent with living and balance with the earth, localizing our
economies, bringing an end to war and violence and the massive misuse
of resources to support military establishment.

So what this conference is doing, which is also what my book The
Great Turning does, is bring all of these various crises that we're
facing as a species into a common framework that helps us see the
depth of the solutions and the very dramatic nature of the solutions
turning from systems of domination to systems of partnership and
reestablishing a sense of human community and of living communities
that bring us humans into balance with earth.

JUAN GONZALEZ: David Korten, in the United States we're confronted
here with a mass media system now where the oil companies and the
chemical companies are actually the ones advertising their changes
now, in terms of dealing with global warming. It's an enormous
hypocrisy that the very companies that are involved in the worst
aspects of what is happening to the world are now the ones that are
promoting in their advertisements a consciousness about it.

You talk about the prosperity narrative and how the prosperity
narrative distorts the reality of what's happening with global
warming. Could you talk about that?

DAVID KORTEN: Yes. Part of breaking out of this, breaking out of what
I call the cultural trance of empire, is to recognize the stories,
essentially the lies, that the system feeds us to keep us locked into
this trance. And the key in the empire prosperity story is the idea
that money is wealth, that economic growth is the key to prosperity,
that when people are making money, they are creating wealth, and the
idea that inequality is essential to growth because the rich people
have the money to invest, and so we should honor rich people, we
should welcome inequality, because in the end it makes us all better
off. Now, we're seeing that play out, of course, in the corporations
now, you know: we're benevolent, and so forth.

But the thing that -- you know, I spent thirty years of my life
working on third world development, on the effort to end poverty in
low-income countries. And it took me a long time, but I finally came
to realize that mostly what economic growth is about is rich people
expropriating the resources of poor people to turn them into the
garbage of the consumer system in an accelerating rate in order to
make money, which increases the power of people who -- for people who
already have more than they need.

Now, what we need to come to recognize is that real prosperity is
grounded in the health of our children, our families, our communities
and nature, and that a real economic system promoting real prosperity
is one that is serving the health of children, families, community
and the environment. And it absolutely requires a substantial degree
of equity and sharing of resources to assure that everyone's needs
are met. And you begin to see the -- you know, the stories
fundamentally contrast, and they lead to totally different kinds of
outcomes, in terms of how we allocate resources and even how we think
about what it means to be human at our most foundational values.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva, talk about how this plays out on the
ground in places like, well, your home country, India.

VANDANA SHIVA: Well, the triple crisis is really seriously converging
on India, India being one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of
all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We
hear of outsourcing of jobs in the information technology sector. We
don't often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the
third world, the resource-intensive, resource-hungry industry like
steel and iron and aluminum and automobile manufacture. India now is
going to be the home of making cheap cars for the rest of the world.
But every car then requires land, which is grabbed from tribals,
peasants. It requires aluminum and steel, which needs to be mined. It
requires coal, which needs to be mined.

And just as when the first colonization took place, it was assumed
that the earth was empty, terra nullius, no matter how many
indigenous people existed. India, a land of 1.2 billion people, is
being treated as an empty land for global capital, making 80% of
India redundant.

But people are fighting back. And place after place, in Dadri, in
Nandigram, in Singur, people are just getting together in a new earth
democracy and saying, "This land is our land. We will decide what we
do with it. You cannot force a polluting industry on us.
Globalization cannot force it." And we are really seeing a whole new
political practice emerge.

India is engaged in this debate also centrally in another way that
brings the resource question: the alternative -- fuel alternatives to
global warming, as well as the new militarization, on a global scale
together. The three, four options being offered to contain emissions
are biofuels, which, in fact, will increase emissions; carbon and
emissions trading, which is reversing the "polluter pays" principle
and is making the society pay the polluter, rewarding them with
credits. Most of these credits are then being given to polluting
industry: HFC companies, sponge iron plants, cutting down forests and
then planting palm oil. These are becoming clean development
mechanisms, which are really dirty.

But the dirtiest of all, dirtiest of all the new clean options is
nuclear. The US-India nuclear agreement is being offered as a clean
energy option, as a solution to climate change. But it is, in effect,
an instrument of permanent war. In the Hyde Act, which overrides the
India-US agreement, Iran has been mentioned fifteen times. An
agreement between India and the US mentions a third country fifteen
times. This is about a new security policy, a new security policy in
which a militarized empire seeks the last resources of the poorest
person and wants to use the worst form of violence to appropriate the
resources that people need for living.

And across the world, people are saying, "No. We want peace. We want
democracy. We want sustainability. We will live in a different way."
And those alternatives are growing. Our work, in Navdanya, we are
saving seeds that can tolerate the salt after cyclones, seeds that
can survive the floods, in which we have lost 2,000 people in India
this particular extreme monsoon. And around the world people are
creating alternatives, so we really have these two trends right now:
one, a declining trend, but very visible trend because it's so
violent, and violent is always visible; and the other, a peaceful
trend and nonviolent trend, quiet, but much more pervasive.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Vandana Shiva, you've been a spokesperson for years
over the impact on the world's agriculture, of this corporate
dominance. A new battleground has developed recently in Burma with
Bayer and Bayer's efforts, the German giant, in terms of rice. Could
you talk about that?

VANDANA SHIVA: Yeah, but it's not just the German giant in Burma.
It's the American giant, Monsanto, literally killing Indian farmers.
Since 1997, I've been doing studies in every area where farmer
suicides have happened. These happen to be the cotton belt, the
cotton areas where Monsanto has now gained total monopoly. The Bt
cotton seeds that Monsanto is selling have pushed farmers to the
edge, because of the high prices, because of the high levels of
failure and the high requirements, exactly like the rice of Bayer for
Burma will be.

As the corporations that came out of warfare gained control over the
chemical industry for warfare, they became agrichemical giants,
because they deployed chemicals used for war into agriculture. Over
time, they bought up the seed industry. Over time, they bought up the
biotech industry. And, of course, these guys are the same people who
sell us the medicine in pharmaceuticals. So what we've got, a
convergence of death. We've got a convergence of destruction.

And in India, we are witnessing this destruction from the seed end
through Monsanto's monopolies on seed, and that is why I have been
working with Indian farmers, both to save our native seeds and save
our freedom, and do the seed Satyagraha, like Gandhi a hundred years
ago in South Africa -- and we're remembering Steve Biko today -- when
Gandhi started the Satyagraha, the non-cooperation with an unjust
brutal regime. But the global economy has become an unjust brutal
regime. And everywhere -- we are defending the Yamana, because they
want to even use the land where the rivers flow for real estate. I
don't know why land becomes real estate when it moves into the hands
of the rich, and it's treated as nobody's land, no man's land, when
it's generating survival for the poor. So India is definitely at the
heart of the new debate about the real democracy.

AMY GOODMAN: Vandana Shiva and David Korten, I want to thank you for
being with us. Vandana Shiva's latest book is Earth Democracy:
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. David Korten's latest book is
called The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. They're
both part of the International Forum on Globalization that is holding
a conference this weekend in Washington, D.C. at George Washington
University at the Lisner Auditorium.

When we come back, we'll be joined from two others who are
participating: the author and professor Michael Klare and the British
climate change activist Simon Retallack.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1422203

Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil

Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3
Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript
Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend
Purchase Video/CD

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
We speak with Michael Klare, author of "Blood and Oil: The Dangers
and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum." Klare says, "There's a second war underway in Iraq that's
a war for the control of the oil wealth. That's a war that is pitting
Kurds against the Arabs of the country, Shiites against Sunnis, and
Shiite against Shiite. Because eventually the Americans are going to
leave and the people of Iraq know this." [includes rush transcript]

Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at
Hampshire College. He is author of several books including "Blood and
Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on
Imported Petroleum."

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

AMY GOODMAN: Last week, tens of thousands of people attended Farm Aid
here in New York City. It's an annual concert to raise support for
family farmers. This is the musician Neil Young, one of the
organizers of Farm Aid.

NEIL YOUNG: Transporting food around the world to other countries and
using all of that fuel and all of that packaging and all of that air-
conditioning fuel and all of those things that need to happen to get,
say, a tomato -- since that's on our mind today, we're coming with a
tomato now -- from Chile to California, it costs a lot of
environmental damage just getting that one tomato up there.

And so, if you look at the world and you figure one of the things
about our big agriculture is that we want to feed the world --
doesn't that sound great? You know? We're going to help everybody.
OK, you know, that's great. But I don't think it's really that way. I
think we ought to feed ourselves, the people that are close to us,
and we ought to let the people around the world feed themselves with
their own crops so that we don't go in there and take their food crop
away and give them a cash crop and then say we're going to give you
food. And that's what we do. We have people growing textile materials
and cotton and things in third world countries, and we do business
with them through China, and we do all of these things with our
economics. And we undermine the sustainability of the countries that
we say we're helping. And then, if these countries don't cooperate
with us, we control their food supply.

AMY GOODMAN: Musician Neil Young at the Farm Aid concert this past
weekend.

As we continue looking at issues of climate change, energy and the
environment, we're joined by two more guest speakers at this
weekend's International Forum on Globalization in D.C.: Michael
Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire
College, author of a number of books, including Blood and Oil: The
Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum; and Simon Retallack, head of the climate change team at
the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, coauthor of the
new report, "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent
Climate Change."

We're going to turn first to Michael Klare. President Bush spoke last
night, addressed the nation, talked about why we continue the war in
Iraq. Can you talk about the connections between war and oil or, as
you put it, the title your book, Blood and Oil.

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, Amy, good to talk with you. There are really two
wars now underway, I think, in Iraq, maybe more than two. There's the
US effort to retain, as what President Bush said last night, an
enduring presence in Iraq. And I believe that's connected to our,
that is America's, long-lasting geopolitical imperative of being the
dominant power in the Persian Gulf. And, of course, he also refers a
lot to Iran, now the next threat perceived on the horizon to American
dominance. So one part of the war in Iraq, I believe, have always
believed, is part of this long-standing US effort to dominate the
region geopolitically and control the oil spigot from the Gulf, where
two-thirds of the world's oil is located.

But there's a second war underway, and that's a war for the control
of Iraq's oil wealth. And that's a war that is pitting Kurds against
the Arabs of the country and Shiites against Sunnis, and Shiite
against Shiite, because eventually the Americans are going to leave,
and the people of Iraq know this, and they are now fighting amongst
themselves for who's going to control that territory. And I believe a
lot of the violence in Iraq today is really about that struggle for
control of Iraq's oil wealth. And American soldiers are caught in the
middle of this.

And I think, frankly, that American military leaders have come to
understand that the prospect of an Iraq, of a national Iraq, has been
lost. That war has been lost. What's left is the fighting over the
remains, the carcass of Iraq.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Michael, on the issue of Iran, especially with all the
saber rattling, and even among many of the Democratic candidates for
president you find some of the same saber rattling toward Iran. Iran
is a huge nation. It is not only oil rich, but considerably
developed, with a huge population. What kind of -- your analysis of
the sense among military people about even talking about any kind of
military action or extension of what's happened in Iraq into Iran?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, we tend to forget that the US military is not a
monolithic organization. I'm sure if you ask the ground forces, the
Army and the Marine Corps who are baring the brunt of the fighting in
Iraq, they'll say, you know, "Not over my dead body do we want to go
to war with Iran." They are stretched to the limit. They couldn't
take on another single mission anywhere in the world. So they're
saying, "Please don't start any trouble in Iran."

But if you ask the Air Force or the Navy, they feel differently.
They're not overstretched in Iraq. They might feel very differently
about it. They might be looking for missions And I think, in fact,
that the military is divided on this, as is the administration.

It's clear that Condoleezza Rice, I believe, and others of a more
realistic nature, I suppose you'd say, think that attacking Iran
would be a tremendous mistake. But there are clearly ideologues,
neoconservatives, led by the Vice President, who are strongly
committed to attacking Iran. And I fear that they're prevailing in
this debate and that before the administration leaves office that we
will see an attack on Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Simon Retallack, who is just in from
Britain for the International Forum on Globalization conference. What
is "climate porn"?

SIMON RETALLACK: Good question. It's a phrase that authors of a
report that we commissioned in London came up with to describe the
way in which some journalists, some environmentalists and even some
politicians use alarmist language to talk about climate change, in a
way that you might see headlined, certainly in British newspapers,
saying almost "the end is nigh," using biblical terms to describe the
impacts of climate change. It's a phrase that is certainly not used
to undermine the science. It certainly doesn't mean to do that. What
it seeks to do is try to encourage people to think about what sort of
language will be necessary to motivate the public to take action.

If we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that
there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that
it's happening, it's going to be devastating on a global scale,
without giving people the option and making the solutions clear to
act, then I think we're going to turn people off. So it's part of
some research and a long-running project that we're engaged with to
try to find ways of simulating climate-friendly behavior amongst the
public.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Simon, in the previous segment, Vandana Shiva talked
about what she called a fallacy of using fixes like trading in
pollution credits in the United States. So you've analyzed what the
EU is doing in terms of this kind of approach. Could you talk about
that?

SIMON RETALLACK: Yes, certainly. I mean, one of the most commonly
adopted solutions in the world for dealing with climate change has
been the support for cap and trade schemes, where there's a cap
placed on emissions and companies get given quotas, and they can
trade them to meet their reductions. The big problem with the
European scheme, and I foresee a problem with potential US-wide
schemes in the future, is that the caps placed on industry have been
far too weak. Governments have over-allocated pollution permits to
industry, which has meant that the cost of a ton of carbon on the
European markets is far too low, and it isn't delivering the step
change in investments that we need to see in renewable energy and
energy efficiency to do our bit to avoid dangerous climate change.

We're at a critical point, not just in the EU, about here in the US
now, where finally, with a Democratically controlled Congress, we're
going to see this full attempt to pass a cap and trade bill through
Congress. We've got to make sure, and anyone who's listening to this
and watching this needs to do their part to ensure, that the right
caps are put in place. At the moment, most of the bills before
Congress only envisage far too little emission reductions by 2050. We
need to see at least 80% cuts in emissions, at least, by 2050, with
early action being critically important, too, if we're to avoid the
most dangerous impacts from climate change. And we need to put
pressure on our representatives and senators in the US to ensure that
adequate action is taken at this critically important point.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Michael Klare and ask you a
question about the research in global climate change. I was just at
Stanford University. They have the GCEP program, that is Global
Climate Environment Program, that got something like $225 million
from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Shlumberger and Toyota. You have
University of California, Berkeley, got something like half-a-billion
dollars from BP. They call it "Beyond Petroleum" now, British
Petroleum. How is this corporate control of academia or funding of
academia affecting the research? Are you concerned about this?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, I think everybody should be concerned. What I
think is going on is that the oil companies themselves have realized
what we'll be talking about tonight, which is that we're coming to
the end of conventional petroleum -- that is, liquid petroleum, the
stuff that you stick a drill in the ground, and it comes gushing out.
The days of easy-to-find liquid petroleum are over.

And the oil companies understand this, even if their propaganda says
otherwise. And they want to control whatever is going to replace it,
whatever new liquid fuels come online. So they want to invest
billions of dollars into the research, into whatever new fuels are
going take the place of conventional petroleum, whether it's biofuels
or synthetic liquids from tar sands or shell oil or whatever the next
fuels will be, so that their companies can dominate the production
and the marketing and the retailing of these liquids and retain the
monopoly on our energy, as they have now.

So, of course, we should be very deeply worried about it, because it
could foreclose other solutions that probably would be healthier for
all of us, in the sense that David Korten was speaking about earlier,
of a more egalitarian, a more healthy form of energy system.

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Klare and Simon Retallack, I want to thank you
for being with us. Both will be speaking this weekend, beginning
tonight, at George Washington University at Lisner Auditorium, part
of the International Forum on Globalization. Michael Klare's latest
book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's
Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Simon Retallack is with the
Climate Change Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, just in for this conference. Thanks so much for being there.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1422209

"Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist
Language to Talk About Climate Change

Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3
Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript
Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend
Purchase Video/CD

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
We speak with British climate change expert, Simon Retallack about so-
called "climate porn." Retallack says, "It's a phrase that's
certainly not used to undermine the science...But if we talk about
climate change in a way that makes it appear that there's nothing we
can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that it's going to be
devastating on a global scale...I think we're going to turn people
off." [includes rush transcript]

Simon Retallack, head of the Climate Change Team at the Institute for
Public Policy Research in Britain. He is the co-author of the new
report "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent Climate
Change."

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help
us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our
TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.
Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

AMY GOODMAN: Last week, tens of thousands of people attended Farm Aid
here in New York City. It's an annual concert to raise support for
family farmers. This is the musician Neil Young, one of the
organizers of Farm Aid.

NEIL YOUNG: Transporting food around the world to other countries and
using all of that fuel and all of that packaging and all of that air-
conditioning fuel and all of those things that need to happen to get,
say, a tomato -- since that's on our mind today, we're coming with a
tomato now -- from Chile to California, it costs a lot of
environmental damage just getting that one tomato up there.

And so, if you look at the world and you figure one of the things
about our big agriculture is that we want to feed the world --
doesn't that sound great? You know? We're going to help everybody.
OK, you know, that's great. But I don't think it's really that way. I
think we ought to feed ourselves, the people that are close to us,
and we ought to let the people around the world feed themselves with
their own crops so that we don't go in there and take their food crop
away and give them a cash crop and then say we're going to give you
food. And that's what we do. We have people growing textile materials
and cotton and things in third world countries, and we do business
with them through China, and we do all of these things with our
economics. And we undermine the sustainability of the countries that
we say we're helping. And then, if these countries don't cooperate
with us, we control their food supply.

AMY GOODMAN: Musician Neil Young at the Farm Aid concert this past
weekend.

As we continue looking at issues of climate change, energy and the
environment, we're joined by two more guest speakers at this
weekend's International Forum on Globalization in D.C.: Michael
Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire
College, author of a number of books, including Blood and Oil: The
Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
Petroleum; and Simon Retallack, head of the climate change team at
the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, coauthor of the
new report, "Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent
Climate Change."

We're going to turn first to Michael Klare. President Bush spoke last
night, addressed the nation, talked about why we continue the war in
Iraq. Can you talk about the connections between war and oil or, as
you put it, the title your book, Blood and Oil.

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, Amy, good to talk with you. There are really two
wars now underway, I think, in Iraq, maybe more than two. There's the
US effort to retain, as what President Bush said last night, an
enduring presence in Iraq. And I believe that's connected to our,
that is America's, long-lasting geopolitical imperative of being the
dominant power in the Persian Gulf. And, of course, he also refers a
lot to Iran, now the next threat perceived on the horizon to American
dominance. So one part of the war in Iraq, I believe, have always
believed, is part of this long-standing US effort to dominate the
region geopolitically and control the oil spigot from the Gulf, where
two-thirds of the world's oil is located.

But there's a second war underway, and that's a war for the control
of Iraq's oil wealth. And that's a war that is pitting Kurds against
the Arabs of the country and Shiites against Sunnis, and Shiite
against Shiite, because eventually the Americans are going to leave,
and the people of Iraq know this, and they are now fighting amongst
themselves for who's going to control that territory. And I believe a
lot of the violence in Iraq today is really about that struggle for
control of Iraq's oil wealth. And American soldiers are caught in the
middle of this.

And I think, frankly, that American military leaders have come to
understand that the prospect of an Iraq, of a national Iraq, has been
lost. That war has been lost. What's left is the fighting over the
remains, the carcass of Iraq.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Michael, on the issue of Iran, especially with all the
saber rattling, and even among many of the Democratic candidates for
president you find some of the same saber rattling toward Iran. Iran
is a huge nation. It is not only oil rich, but considerably
developed, with a huge population. What kind of -- your analysis of
the sense among military people about even talking about any kind of
military action or extension of what's happened in Iraq into Iran?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, we tend to forget that the US military is not a
monolithic organization. I'm sure if you ask the ground forces, the
Army and the Marine Corps who are baring the brunt of the fighting in
Iraq, they'll say, you know, "Not over my dead body do we want to go
to war with Iran." They are stretched to the limit. They couldn't
take on another single mission anywhere in the world. So they're
saying, "Please don't start any trouble in Iran."

But if you ask the Air Force or the Navy, they feel differently.
They're not overstretched in Iraq. They might feel very differently
about it. They might be looking for missions And I think, in fact,
that the military is divided on this, as is the administration.

It's clear that Condoleezza Rice, I believe, and others of a more
realistic nature, I suppose you'd say, think that attacking Iran
would be a tremendous mistake. But there are clearly ideologues,
neoconservatives, led by the Vice President, who are strongly
committed to attacking Iran. And I fear that they're prevailing in
this debate and that before the administration leaves office that we
will see an attack on Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Simon Retallack, who is just in from
Britain for the International Forum on Globalization conference. What
is "climate porn"?

SIMON RETALLACK: Good question. It's a phrase that authors of a
report that we commissioned in London came up with to describe the
way in which some journalists, some environmentalists and even some
politicians use alarmist language to talk about climate change, in a
way that you might see headlined, certainly in British newspapers,
saying almost "the end is nigh," using biblical terms to describe the
impacts of climate change. It's a phrase that is certainly not used
to undermine the science. It certainly doesn't mean to do that. What
it seeks to do is try to encourage people to think about what sort of
language will be necessary to motivate the public to take action.

If we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that
there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that
it's happening, it's going to be devastating on a global scale,
without giving people the option and making the solutions clear to
act, then I think we're going to turn people off. So it's part of
some research and a long-running project that we're engaged with to
try to find ways of simulating climate-friendly behavior amongst the
public.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Simon, in the previous segment, Vandana Shiva talked
about what she called a fallacy of using fixes like trading in
pollution credits in the United States. So you've analyzed what the
EU is doing in terms of this kind of approach. Could you talk about
that?

SIMON RETALLACK: Yes, certainly. I mean, one of the most commonly
adopted solutions in the world for dealing with climate change has
been the support for cap and trade schemes, where there's a cap
placed on emissions and companies get given quotas, and they can
trade them to meet their reductions. The big problem with the
European scheme, and I foresee a problem with potential US-wide
schemes in the future, is that the caps placed on industry have been
far too weak. Governments have over-allocated pollution permits to
industry, which has meant that the cost of a ton of carbon on the
European markets is far too low, and it isn't delivering the step
change in investments that we need to see in renewable energy and
energy efficiency to do our bit to avoid dangerous climate change.

We're at a critical point, not just in the EU, about here in the US
now, where finally, with a Democratically controlled Congress, we're
going to see this full attempt to pass a cap and trade bill through
Congress. We've got to make sure, and anyone who's listening to this
and watching this needs to do their part to ensure, that the right
caps are put in place. At the moment, most of the bills before
Congress only envisage far too little emission reductions by 2050. We
need to see at least 80% cuts in emissions, at least, by 2050, with
early action being critically important, too, if we're to avoid the
most dangerous impacts from climate change. And we need to put
pressure on our representatives and senators in the US to ensure that
adequate action is taken at this critically important point.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to Michael Klare and ask you a
question about the research in global climate change. I was just at
Stanford University. They have the GCEP program, that is Global
Climate Environment Program, that got something like $225 million
from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Shlumberger and Toyota. You have
University of California, Berkeley, got something like half-a-billion
dollars from BP. They call it "Beyond Petroleum" now, British
Petroleum. How is this corporate control of academia or funding of
academia affecting the research? Are you concerned about this?

MICHAEL KLARE: Well, I think everybody should be concerned. What I
think is going on is that the oil companies themselves have realized
what we'll be talking about tonight, which is that we're coming to
the end of conventional petroleum -- that is, liquid petroleum, the
stuff that you stick a drill in the ground, and it comes gushing out.
The days of easy-to-find liquid petroleum are over.

And the oil companies understand this, even if their propaganda says
otherwise. And they want to control whatever is going to replace it,
whatever new liquid fuels come online. So they want to invest
billions of dollars into the research, into whatever new fuels are
going take the place of conventional petroleum, whether it's biofuels
or synthetic liquids from tar sands or shell oil or whatever the next
fuels will be, so that their companies can dominate the production
and the marketing and the retailing of these liquids and retain the
monopoly on our energy, as they have now.

So, of course, we should be very deeply worried about it, because it
could foreclose other solutions that probably would be healthier for
all of us, in the sense that David Korten was speaking about earlier,
of a more egalitarian, a more healthy form of energy system.

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Klare and Simon Retallack, I want to thank you
for being with us. Both will be speaking this weekend, beginning
tonight, at George Washington University at Lisner Auditorium, part
of the International Forum on Globalization. Michael Klare's latest
book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's
Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Simon Retallack is with the
Climate Change Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, just in for this conference. Thanks so much for being there.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1422224

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

REquired REading

shadow — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:53:12 GMT

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, July 4th, 1776:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

The Call for Queer Magic: The Cauldron (September 21-23, Portland OR)

stella_maris — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:25:09 GMT

QUEER MAGIC: THE CAULDRON
September 21-23, Portland Oregon
An Urban Gatherette
to Vision, Plan, and Organize
Queer Magic 2008

THE CAULDRON is the crucible of creation
where vision quickens and thickens into form...

WE ARE Queer People of Spirit
of various sexes, genders, and orientations
who identify with the traditions and culture
of the Radical Faeries.

OUR VISION is
a pangender urban gathering
called Queer Magic
in Portland Oregon in 2008
where Faeries and friends
can come together to share
our various forms of magic
(which we define as everything we do
with passion and heart and awareness of Spirit).

OUR INTENTIONS are
to revel in our fabulous variety
to practice, share, and celebrate our magic
to step more fully into our sacred Queer work
and to bless our community and this city.

THE CAULDRON
is an intimate gatherette
(space is limited!)
to vision, plan, and organize
a larger Queer Magic gathering
to take place in 2008.

THE CAULDRON
is an immersive container
where a posse of self-empowered instigators
can build trust, hang out, spark ideas
and get down to some serious play
this September 21-23 (that's soon!).

THE CAULDRON
will be held in a residential garden paradise
(the fabulous Chicken Ranch in North Portland)
where we will cook / dance / circle / chant / pray
laugh / plan / drum / dream / scheme together.

THE CAULDRON
like Queer Magic itself
is a co-created, DIY, hands-on experience
where Structure and Chaos make passionate love
in the back seat of a speeding convertible
with Spirit at the wheel
in a chiffon scarf and big sunglasses.

THE CAULDRON
will demonstrate that organizing
can also be organic and orgasmic
and the planning process
indistinguishable from the party.

THE CAULDRON
is a seedbed for an ongoing
community of magical practice
whose work is barely revealed
and whose potential is immeasurable.

THE CAULDRON
will culminate
in an Autumn Equinox event
for the whole community
on Sunday, September 24 (details to come).

THE CAULDRON
is not for tourists
or do-me queens
or scaredy-cats
or those with rigid expectations.

THE CAULDRON
is for community organizers
and other magical practitioners
at any level of experience
who share the vision for a Queer Magic gathering
and want to form a committed working circle
and an ongoing community of practice.

J O I N U S ! ! !

LOGISTICS
The Cauldron begins Friday evening, September 21
and ends Sunday evening September 23.

You can camp at the Chicken Ranch,
or you can sleep at home if you live in Portland,
or we can find you a spot at someone's house.

Registration is $25 to 75 sliding scale
and includes seven cooperatively prepared meals.

REGISTRATION
To register your intention to attend,
come to the next meeting
in person or by phone
Mondays, 7 p.m.
August 27, September 3, 10, 17
at the Chicken Ranch
6507 N. Princeton St., Portland
Call-in Number: 712/451-6000
Access code: 471457#

If you want to join us
but you cannot make it to a meeting
call Stella at 503/753-5396
or e-mail info <at> queermagic.com.

IF YOU'RE NOT CALLED TO THE CAULDRON
but you're excited about Queer Magic
then e-mail info <at> queermagic.com
to get on the mailing list for information
about Queer Magic 2008.
There will be lots of other opportunities
to come and play with us!

www.queermagic.org (work in progress)
info <at> queermagic.org

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Wolf Creek Samhain 07 call

ATOMIC! — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:15:12 GMT

Like it say up above... lets get ready lets get set lets gear up....
Samhain
Wolf Creek 2007
A Call To All Radical Faeries
Come Frolic In The Darkness of the year! All are welcome. The gathering covers a period from OCT. 26 - November 11th, with the intent of covering both the 31st as well as Lunar Samhain (the dark moon happening on the 9th of november.) Suggested contribution is $35 per day more if you can less if you can’t no one turned away for lack of funds... Please remember to pack for camping in cold wet weather, and please when thinking of offerings to the Samhain fire keep in mind that synthetics (ie plastics nylon, polyesther etc) are toxic when burned, so wear your faux pearls but please burn something else! If you wish to contribute effort torwards meals please contact Atomic on the land, we can always use inspired cooks! Indoor housing is only available on a special needs basis and must be reserved in advance. While preregistration is not necessary it is awful helpful... Return the slip to us by mail or email us with the info!
Wolf Creek Sanctuary
PO BOX 312
Wolf Creek OR, 97497

nomenus@budget.net
Also: Those who wish to bring dry goods and supplies such as sponges as a donation to create emergency non parishable food bank at the sanctuary, will experience much gratitude.
and as always: NO COKE, NO Heroine, NO speed. NOT on yourself in yourself, in your car or in your tent. Don’t come a mess don’t make a mess Don’t leave a mess!
I’m coming to Samhain!

Faerie Name:
_____________________________________

When? From:________________________
Till:_________________________________

Wanna help?
Kitchen? ____________________

Organizing?______________________
Vegan? yes/no Vegetarian? yes/no
Allergies:_________________________
Special dietary needs?__________________

Also I am setting up a tribe for folks interrested in getting this plannin' in gear... kitchen girls especially take note.... These gatherings are better if we get everyone in on the action!

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

More on the possible Nuking of Portland

Alexander — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:20:35 GMT

More on the possible Nuking of Portland

If you have not heard there is a growing concern the fascist elements within the US corporate and government structures may use a mock scenario to actually nuke Portland Oregon and then use Presidential Directive 51 to declare Bush dictator and to declare war on Iran.

Some articles giving background:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363204.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363284.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363408.shtml

Updated articles:

Swan Island Networks role in Portland drills
author: Mr_DNA
press release is from 1 year ago, but seems to shed some light on their role in the upcoming operations.
http://www.rainsnet.org/press/pr/pr0818066778.asp

Portland Seeks Designation as First 'Synthetic City'

Technology in the war on terror now key to homeland security

Portland, OR - August 18, 2006 -

On Friday, August 18, a group of federal, state and local officials, academics, and private sector leaders will convene on the campus of Portland State University to talk about a potential transfer of power. Under discussion is the notion that technology used to fight the war on terror abroad could soon be applied to homeland security needs... and that Portland, Oregon could be an early test-bed for such transfers.

According to the Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS), a central player in the development of homeland defense technology solutions, the primary military technology under consideration for transfer is "synthetic city" software—a digital information platform that fuses data from a variety of real-world sources, such as 9-1-1 centers, atmospheric sensors, smart buildings, health networks, and intelligent transportation systems—then organizes and displays it all in a 3-D geographical modeling and simulation environment.

"Our military friends are going to be demonstrating some very cutting edge technology—sort of the ultimate Sim City," explained RAINS' chairman Charles Jennings, "They'll be displaying virtual version of the real Portland, with real-time data inside." Jennings is the CEO of Portland-based Swan Island Networks.

The "Synthetic Portland" conference brings together participants from around the country, representing all levels of government, large federal contractors and system integrators; information technology vendor companies; universities; hospitals; and various types of non-governmental service organizations.

Also participating will be representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration; United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM); the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency; and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

"We are excited to have such an innovative technology conference in Portland—especially since its ultimate purpose is to increase public safety," said Matt Lampe, the City of Portland's Chief Technology Officer. This new technology, like the Internet, was developed by the military and now, the military is actively exploring its use and potential in civil environments to improve emergency response, transportation systems and sustainability practices.

The central purpose of new synthetic city technology is to generate predictive models that can be used by the real city to prepare for and manage emergencies, increase public safety, and generally improve urban quality of life.

According to Jennings, "Although it could have been held anywhere, having this conference in Portland makes perfect sense. To connect previously stove-piped information systems in new ways, you need a city with a culture of both innovation and collaboration—two of Portland's best qualities."

"This is a unique opportunity to look at new, advanced technology and how that technology could help in the event of disasters or security problems. Portland State University does leading edge research in computer security, and we're interested in how that research can be used for application in areas that will be discussed at this symposium. That makes our campus the perfect venue for this event," said Mike Burton, Vice Provost of Portland State University and RAINS board member.

Sponsors of the event, in addition to RAINS and PSU, include Oregon Economic & Community Development Department; Portland Development Commission; Siemens; Online Business Systems; the Zeno Group; and Swan Island Networks.

About RAINS
RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security) is a public/private partnership formed in 2001. RAINS has forged alliances with technology companies, multiple research universities, critical infrastructure providers, local, state and federal agencies, and first responders. Its Connect & Protect information sharing service was launched in 2003, and has successfully delivered hundreds of thousands of alerts. Connect & Protect was described as a "radical breakthrough" by WIRED Magazine (December 2005). Connect & Protect was also a finalist for the inaugural Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security, a partnership of Mitretek Systems and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

For RAINS information:
Tel: 503-796-5804
info@rainsnet.org
contribute to this article

update 16.Aug.2007 15:07
Mr_DNA link

According to Sherry Lamoreaux, Marketing Communications Manager of Swan Island Networks:

1. Swan Island wanted to be a part of the Noble Resolve exercise but is not now participating and has no information regarding it.

2. RAINS is no longer an active organization. In her words, it has been "dormant" since around June of this year.

3. Swan Island Networks CEO and RAINS founder, Charles Jennings, will be on vacation beginning at the end of this week or next week.

found at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363597.shtml

__

Regarding Noble Resolve
author: fellow worker
8/10/07 naval vessel spotted at Port of Portland docks-maybe part of Noble Resolve nuke exercise?
While I was at lunch break on 8/10, I was sitting outside the Gunderson lunch room on the south bank of the Willamette, across from a Port of Portland facility. I saw an unidentifiable navel vessel, smallish, uniform battleship grey, apart from the blue and yellow bands encircling the stack. I was only able to make out numbers on the bow, either 23 or 28. No other markings, flags or symbols were visible, and I only wish I had my binoculars with me. Based on the projected blast pattern from "The Day After" Report as seen on www.lonestaricon.com, I am thinking this may be part of the exercise to come.
contribute to this article

specifics 16.Aug.2007 10:32
Mr_DNA link

Do you know which Terminal this is docked in or closest to?

unusual license plate 16.Aug.2007 11:17
hum link

seen this plate this morning heading into downtown

probably not "Noble related" but it caught my eye

it was hard to read all the print on the plate

picture at http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2007/08/363573.jpg

posted at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363568.shtml

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

New Member: Intro 2U: C my page/Send Add?

Merton — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:19:57 GMT

Hello Dear Tribe Members,

Just Wanted to Introduce Myself…
Hope you will want to see my page, send an add, and even write a testimonial:
http://people.tribe.net/d6aa2e9c-308c-4ab8-b937-d29e5f46af62

I am author, artist, illustrator, filmmaker, and photographer, Merton Parrish. I am a devotee of Priapian Spirituality (Priapus), and have a special devotion to my fellow gay, bi and str8 m4m men. I live in the midwest with my partner of eight years. I am 44 years young.

Because the M4M life and Priapian Spirituality has been such a joy to me, I am here to provide information on these things for my m4m brothers. I would like to share with you my blogs, writing, art, and the various pages I have created on the net. I hope to be of service to you, connect with you, and become friends with you here on Tribe.

I will enjoy knowing you visited my page. I would be so pleased if you would add me as a friend and write a testimonial, and hope that you will also bookmark my Tribe page, and bookmark the various pages I've listed in my links section (I think you will enjoy my regularly updated 360 and Blogger Blog in particular… http://mertonparrish.blogspot.com/ and http://360.yahoo.com/mertonparrish )

Finally, I'd be happy to chat/cam/IM/Em with you (for friendship, worship, or to answer any questions you might have about M4M life or Priapian Spirituality). Detailed contact info is below my signature…

Peace, guys!

Merton :)
*************************
Tribe page:
http://people.tribe.net/d6aa2e9c-308c-4ab8-b937-d29e5f46af62

Email:
Preferreddad@aol.com

My Y_hoo IMs:
Numeroushats2 (for camming with guys nationwide)
Numeroushats3 (for rt with Indianapolis guys/guys who visit Indianapolis)
MertonParrish (for questions re: m4m/Priapian Spirituality)

Note: If you send an add to my IM list for any of the above IMs, make sure your age, sex, and location is on your profile and 360. Ty! :)

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Doug Honours Ceremony July 7th at Champoeg (BE THERE!)

Alexander — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:57:34 GMT

Doug Honours Ceremony July 7th at Champoeg (BE THERE!)

The Activism for a better Cascadia begins 7/07/2007:
Join us for the Doug Honours Ceremony were we will gather to honour local/northwest activists and philanthropists by awarding them Doug Flags. This event is the start of the movement, and where else than where it all started 164 years ago at Champoeg (pronounced sham-POO-ee), Oregon. Champoeg features a unique combination of history, nature, and recreation. This is the site where Oregon's (i.e. Cascadia) first provisional government was formed by a historical vote in 1843.
At the event we will discuss future goals and initiatives, networking, participate in history tours, enjoy a potluck picnic, and enjoy a wonderful ceremony.
Reservation is for Riverside lot #3 and our event begins at 8am and ends at 8pm.
Discussion will begin at 11:30am History Tour will begin at 1pm
Potluck Dinner at 5pm
Ceremony will begin at 7pm

Reservation ends at 8pm.
For those who wish to come to the park early you can enjoy swimming,
disc golf, biking, hiking, bird watching, etc.

Directions:
Take I-5 South if traveling form North Cascadia, or take I-5 North if traveling from South Cascadia to exit 278, and then follow these directions:

1. Take exit 278 toward Donald/Aurora National Historic District 0.2 mi
2. Turn right at Ehlen Rd NE 2.5 mi 3 mins

3. Continue on Yergen Rd NE 1.0 mi 1 min

4. Turn right at Case Rd NE 1.4 mi 2 mins

5. Slight left at Champoeg Rd NE 0.9 mi 2 mins

6. To: Champoeg State Heritage Area: 7679 Champoeg Rd NE, St. Paul, OR 97137.
Where would you rather be on a Saturday Afternoon? Come to Champoeg Park on 7/7/07 for the Doug Honours Ceremony. If you wish to attend please send an email to savepac17@yahoo.com. Please RSVP ASAP as space is limited! Please bring food and drink (beer in cans or bottles-- no kegs!) for the Potluck. Everyone is responsible for their own lunch.

Again, please RSVP ASAP!

Onward Cascadia!

P.S. Stay tuned for updates and check the Calendar on the Yahoo Group
regularly for possible changes.
P.S.P.S. RSVP ASAP!
Doug Honours!

Just a reminder to everyone to come to Champoeg on July 7, and please vote for your favorite Cascadian person/institution/politician to get an honourary Doug flag. They were just delivered today, and they are beautiful. Just click on the link below, click on "Add Record", and fill out the form with the numbers of your choices in your prefered order.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/database?method=reportRow\ s&tbl=2

1: Cascadia Green Building Council (3 offices: PDX,SEA,VAN)
2: Discovery Institute
3: Sightline Institute
4. Futurewise
5: The Tyee
6: Mercy Corps
7: Save the Redwood League
8: Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project
9: Whidbey Institute
10: Ecotrust
11: Cascadia Wildlands Project
12: Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center
13: Village Design Institute
14: Governor Christine Gregoire
15: Governor Ted Kulongoski
16: Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campognola
17: Steve Novick (after the election)
18: Tom McCall (posthumous, to family)
19: Ernest Callenbach
20: Portland Freeskool
21: Lost Valley Nature Center
22: Breitenbush Hot Springs
23: Northwest Intentional Communities Association
24: Cascadia Commons Cohousing
25: Tryon Life Community Farm
26: Portland Peak Oil
27: 1000 Friends of Oregon
28: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
29: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
30: Lorry Lokey

click the following link to vote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/database?method=reportRows&tbl=2

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

QUEER DRUM CIRCLE

*thump* — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:14:24 GMT

full moon june 30th ... drum circle sauvie island ... in the early evening ... north end of collins beach

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Oregon and Washington Secession Poll at the Thom Hartmann Show

Alexander — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:45:39 GMT

There's talk in Vermont of seceding from the U.S. Are you in favor of Oregon or Washington seceding as well?
Yes

87.56 %

No

12.44 %

http://www.620kpoj.com/pages/thom_hartmann.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/

http://republic-of-cascadia.tripod.com/

get a locally produced Doug (Cascadian Flag) here
http://www.smallflags.com/FLG/Cascadia.htm

Cascadian (CAS) oval car sticker
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?clear=true&number=104981041

Viva Cascadia! (Kwanesum Chinook Illahee)

homepage: http://www.620kpoj.com/pages/thom_hartmann.html

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Community Supported (f)Agriculture at Feral Fruits Farm

harlan aka harzipan — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:25:37 GMT

Dear friends, our vegetable & flower subscription program starts in only ten days! Sadly we've only sold a little more than half of the shares we need to sell to make this program possible. We know there's thirteen more people out there that want yummy food and fresh flowers... Here's a little about our program: Every wednesday for 21 weeks we deliver your share of the harvest to a house in SE PDX close to Hawthorne. In exchange you give us 250.00 up front to help cover our early season costs and keep our little farm going. Our CSA is super cheap because the share sizes are SMALL. They are specifically designed for singles and busy couples. All of our plants are grown without any yucky stuff (we're MOrganic if your will). We do however pour phenomonal amounts of love and magic into the land where we grow.Our veggies and flowers are mostly fancy ld heirloom varieties chosen for their beauty, flavor and nutrition. Who doesn't want all this love in home? So support these faggot farmers and write or call us to sign-up or ask ANY questions. Time is running out for us and for you...

Much love ya'll,
harlan and zac
(360) 983-3569

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

need a ride SF - Wolf Creek Naraya

everdmann — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:53:30 GMT

I need a ride from the bay area to WC naraya. I have a drivers license, insurane and gas money. can drive a stick.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Ecotopia the utopian novel that inspired Cascadia

Alexander — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:29:54 GMT

Ecotopia the utopian novel that inspired Cascadia

I came across a pirated copy of Ecotopia in
pdf format for anyone to download and get others interested (maybe
as wall paper the whole book on a public accessable wall might be an
idea). I would recommend dowloadingt it and passing it on before it
is yank from the site:

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/aipotoce.pdf

Sorry Ernest Callenbach .. but I think the need for the paradigm
shift should out weight the payment for royalties in this case.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Fascism in Aberdeen-Help us stand up to the government tomorrow

Alexander — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:46:28 GMT

Fascism in Aberdeen-Help us stand up to the government tomorrow
author: Ray Kavick
Please HELP us!
Hello,
We are here, in Aberdeen, getting ready for shit to go down. Today there was the first little rally. We got together at a nearby boat launch, marched on the street to the port where we could see the death machines and then dispersed. The whole time we were surrounded by cops. I talked to a woman who had lived in Aberdeen for 50 years and she had never seen anything like it before. Today was EXTREMELY low key and still the police were all over us. Remember, this is a really small town. I expect this shit in Seattle and Portland. I learned to expect it in places like Tacoma. But Aberdeen!
Anyway...firstly, before I tell you anymore:

COME TO ABERDEEN ON SUNDAY! There is a car pool leaving from Olympia at the corner of Harrison and Division. Be there at 12:30 to get a ride. There is a bus to Aberdeen that leaves from the Olympia Transit Center. Check the Gray's Harbour Transit website for times. We are meeting, in Aberdeen, at the 28th Street landing at 2 pm. Directions to meeting spot are in a previous post on this site.

Now, on with the story. We were all at a taqueria eating lunch. Some of us went out to have a smoke. One of us found a bunch of broken toys behind the taqueria dumpster. One of the toys was an orange tipped plastic gun. The individual picked it for 15 second, we all giggled and the individual put it back. Within 2 minutes, the cops were there, 8 cruisers with two pigs each, respnding to a "person carrying a gun."
They were watching us the whole time, found an excuse to harass us and swarmed in. We gave them buckets of shit and humiliated them. The workers in the taqueria were on our side and the pigs took off.
Later, a group of us went to a punk show. The owner had told us we could speak for a few minutes in order to spread word of the action tomorrow. Right before the break between sets, the pigs showed up and told the owner of the venue that if he let us speak they would send the riot squad in and bust up the show. The owner yelled at them, calling them nazis, fascists, pigs. The cops did more to spread the word than we did. The owner told us it'd be best to leave and we understood.
Again...this is Aberdeen we're talking about. Yes, they're redneck piece of shit cops. But they are getting a shit load of help from everywhere. They knew a lot of us before we got there from all those miles of tapes they had. Luckily, being dumb hicks, they gave themselves away. We KNOW they are listening to our conversations, we KNOW they are tracking us through our cell phones and we KNOW they studied the tapes from previous actions. So now we, and you, know what not to do tomorrow.
Small towns are being militarized the same way cities have been in the past. This is the pattern. Small police forces are being taught tactics they havent used for decades, tactics they use when there is large scale discontent.

Come to Aberdeen on Sunday and help us.

In Earnest,
Ray Kavick

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/358976.shtml

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

5/12 What does your soul long for?

bartchurch — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:00:40 GMT

MEN’S SOULFORCE:
Through tarot imagery, storytelling, ritual, & labyrinth
Explore your passions/joys, wounds/fears, & the allies/keys that unlock them
5/12/07, Sat, 4:00-10:30 pm

Do you sense a deeper force operating in your life - a force that knows what you long for and what you're really capable of? Through exploring tarot imagery, story-telling, journaling, ritual, & walking a labyrinth, you can discover aspects of your Soul Force - the stories that propel you to be authentically powerful.

You can playfully and simply tell stories and create your own rituals to look more deeply at your passions/joys, wounds/fears, and the allies & keys that help you invoke parts of your soul’s story. In this workshop we’ll create a quiet, sacred space, and from within that place we’ll ask “Why am I here?” And then we will listen, and keep on listening. We don’t need burning bushes or perfect answers, just what’s true for now.

CO-FACILITATORS:: Paul H. Richard, a life-coach specializing in archetypal psychology, soul mentoring, and the use of evolutionary astrology, tarot, labyrinth, & other shamanic techniques to discover your soul's purpose; James Fabish is a licensed massage therapist & perpetual student and practitioner of the healing arts.

DIVERSITY: We welcome & are strengthened by adult men of all ages, sizes, shapes, colors, orientations, spritualities (and none), and backgrounds (including trans guys). Thanks for helping us increase the diversity of men who get invited to this event by forwarding this invitation to friends & colleagues who might be interested.

COSPONSORS: MenSpirit is a joint project of three non-profit organizations, Q-LAND, LoveTribe, & Spirit Hawk, empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Bart at 503-223-8822 or events@qland.org or website: qland.org

RSVP website: lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

May 2nd 1843 Oregon Country

Alexander — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:27:13 GMT

May 2nd 1843 Oregon Country

From 1843 to 1849 Oregon was a country. Of course before the Europeans it was a "country" too, but 1843 was the first Anglo American recognition of that republic.

Today (well yesterday was) is the anniversary of the day there was an election to create
a European style republic in the Pacific Northwest. The country was
called Oregon and even minted its own money called beaver money.
The "beaver" side of the Oregon state flag maybe the original flag
of the country that included the current state of Washington, Idaho,
western Montana (west of the Rockies), a small portion of western
Wyoming (west of the Rockies) and British Columbia. The settlers
casting that vote were a mix of French, American (Bostans), British
and Metis males (most were married Native women). There is
arguement as to there goal of the "provisional government".
Obviously the pro American expansists were modivated by the idea of
manifest destiny for the US while the employees of the Hudson Bay
Company were ordered to cast votes to stop American interest in the
area, but what is often left out of that history are individuals
like Osborne Russell who favored (was even on one of the first
executive committees and ran as first governor) total independence
of the country of Oregon. Another aspect that is totally neglected
by historians we the development of a new grouping population that
was a mix of Native peoples with the new settlers (not all
were "Anglo American" settlers like the American National mythology
will suggest). This new population spoke as their "mother tongue"
Chinook Jargon (literally from their mothers and fathers who were of
mixed cultures) and for these people this region was not just
called "Oregon", but Chinook Illahee (the land of the Chinook Jargon
speakers). The ethnologist Hortatio Hale of the US Exploring
Expedition of 1841 described the use of Chinook Jargon during his
stay at Fort Vancouver by a new emerging culture of Chinook Illahee
in the 1840s:

"These are Canadians and half-breeds married to Chinook women, who
can only converse with their wives in this speech, and it is the
fact, strange as it may seem, that many young children are growing
up to whom this factitious language is really the mother tongue, and
who speak it with more readiness and perfection than any other."

some links of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Oregon_Lyceum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Champoeg_ Meetings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Executive_ Committee_(Oregon_Territory)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Osborne_Russell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Provisional_ Government_ of_Oregon
http://www.oregonpioneers.com/ govt.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Oregon_Country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Beaver_Coins

Dr. McLoughlin advocated for an independant country

I just want to stress this one note in one link( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Lyceum) about the Oregon Lyceum:

During these debates in Oregon City the European settlers argued about whether an independent country should be formed, or if a provisional government should be formed.[5]

The group advocating an independent country tended to be British, including Dr. McLoughlin and the his HBC employees.[5] The Catholic block that consisted of mainly former French-Canadian trappers also sided with McLoughlin on this issue.[5] Their goal was to prevent the territory from becoming a part of the United States by forming a new country.[5] McLoughlin's attorney , introduced a resolution on his behalf to the Lyceum as follows:

"Resolved, That it is expedient for the settlers of the coast to organize an independent government."[5]
That resolution was adopted by the Oregon Lyceum.[5]

cited from
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk056div10))

all posted at
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/358782.shtml?discuss

further down in the thread of the Portland Indy Media post:

More rousing Cascadian independence precedent 03.May.2007 00:24
citizen joe link

In reasearching a lecture on Cascadia I gave in January at Reed College, I uncovered some interesting bits of information regarding the Oregon Republic. Contemporary sources discussed the topic of an independent nation, but by the 1890's there was no mention of the subject. Joe Meek's line in the sand at Champoeg was drawn to divide those for organizing a government, from those opposed to a government, not to divide those for the American side from those for the British side. The government formed was independent, as Meek himself said on his trip to Washington DC in 1848 following the Whitman massacre "I am Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the Republic of Oregon to the Court of the United States"

A few more rousing words about Cascadia on our national holiday:
"In the legislative committee for 1844, and in the executive committee also, who were revolving in their minds the question of an independent government; that is a government owning no allegiance either to the U.S. or Great Britain, but which should lay the foundations of an empire on the Pacific Coast... as strong as any state or power on the American continent"
Fuller Victor, Frances, River of the West 114, 116

And of course Thomas Jefferson "One Day I see a free great and independent empire on the banks of the Columbia River," 1813

Tear down the stars and stripes and hoist up the Doug flag of Cascadia

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Cascadian Bike Tour May 14 - 31st

Alexander — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:58:54 GMT

Cascadian Bike Tour May 14 - 31st

I just got this post and think its a perfect event to unite causes and awareness of Cascadia. It would be nice to see photo graphics (ideally in the news paper) with this bike tour under the "Doug" (Cascadian banner).

I would think that causes could be represented like critical mass, local economy, Cascadian bioregional awareness, the free schools, anti-imperialism, ecological sustainablity, carbon free living, permaculture and so much more of what Cascadia should be and is.

the post I recieved:

Tribe Alert: Cascadians
From: Bryan
Title: What are the most noteworthy sustainability and...
I'm helping to organize and will be taking part in a bike tour from Vancouver, BC to Berkeley, CA, to help build awareness of and live out the ideals of the organization BALLE, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Our trip will take us through Oregon along the coast on Highway 101 (we may also be detouring through Portland for a day). I'd appreciate any recommendations for projects, businesses, and sites that are worth stopping for--independent, local businesses making a mark for their practices or promotion of local living economies, great sustainability and self-sufficiency demonstration sites, and the like. We are especially looking for places right along Hwy 101, as it is difficult for us to make our schedule while detouring much from our route.

The trip begins May 14 in Vancouver and ends May 31 in Berkeley. We expect to ride the Oregon coast May 18 - 24.

For more information on the bike ride (which is open to and seeking new participants!):
balleseattle.org/projects/balle-on

reposted in http://cascadians.tribe.net/thread/920ffc88-c42e-4040-b56d-88a34e2ce8d4?newpostingid=fb789b71-dbc0-40a1-9892-be478c2a2683#fb789b71-dbc0-40a1-9892-be478c2a2683

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Launch may with Activism ... Cascadia Spring

Alexander — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:25:21 GMT

There are two current political events happening that has had a call out for banner drops and stenciling: MayDay adnd a Day for calling Impeachment of the current Fascists in power (below are two posts on them). Added to this is the anniverary of the creation of the Oregon Independence Government back in 1843 at Champoeg. It would be nice to see a week of Cascadian activism in honor of that moment in time when the Oregon Country (bascially most of the bioregion of Cascadia) briefly was an independant country (third post below).

CASCADIA NOW OR WA BC UNITED . FREE (banner drop)
http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2007/04/358162.jpg

WEDNESDAYS SPRING TRAINING: STENCIL AND BANNER MAKING! GET READY FOR MAYDAY!!!
author: Mb e-mail:e-mail: mb(at)resist(dot)ca
Wiether you just wanna accesorize your affinity, or play with the spray this ones for the artist in you.

This is a spring training workshop. "SPRING TRAINING" is a month of workshops focused on educating and empowering the broad community to act for social justice!
The fun never stops at blue heron infoshop

Wednesday at 7PM
in the blue heron infohop (formerly the SAO, GCC 34, Reed College)

Wednesday's spring training workshop! Get ready for mayday! Or just plain "accesorize" your affinity with some rockin banners and signs! Sound fun? Well check this workshop out!

STENCIL MAKING WORKSHOP

Thomas will be doing a workshop on DIY stencil fun. Make shirts, make friends, remake the boring-as-fuck corporate aesthetic! All materials will be provided, just bring your beautiful selves and some dirty clothes.

This is a spring training workshop. "SPRING TRAINING" is a month of workshops focused on educating and empowering the broad community to act for social justice!

--------------------------------

Stick around the basement of GCC cause after the workshop...

ADELIT@S, NICKTAB, AND FLY THE COOP JUG BAND
WEDNESDAY-8pm-PING PONG ROOM (down the hall from blue heron)

Mexican folk influenced punk outfit Adelit@s is playing a show Wednesday
in the Ping Pong room with acoustic rocker Niktab, and the old timey
favorites, Fly the Coop Jug Band, starting at 8pm. This is a benefit for the Sin Fronteras paper that we'll be printing for Mayday. There is also a show at the Portland Collective Housing (PCH House) on Saturday, April 28, with Adelit@s, Rag and Bone Men, Smile Whiskey, and DJ Dimon (of Gogol Bordello). If you're going to miss them on Saturday, hear them for free on Wednesday.

Come find out about the amazing work Sin Fronteras Portland is doing and hear some kick ass music.

Sin Fronteras Mission Statement
Sin Fronteras Portland formed to confront the growing violence, and economic disparity caused by the U.S./Mexico Border (and all national borders) and U.S. Imperialism. The movement for immigrant rights and border justice has been focused on pandering to politicians, and trying to "reform" blatantly racist laws. We do not believe white supremacy can be "reformed". Where we see the left in the United States has failed, we seek to participate in the building of popular social movements towards economic and social justice; here in the belly of the beast.

Portland Sin Fronteras is committed to bringing the popular resistance struggles of Latin America across the U.S. border into the heart of the global capitalist empire. We seek to educate, mobilize and empower people by disseminating the radical ideas and culture from these struggles. We seek to inspire and build with others, towards taking action in our lives and our communities against racism, militarization, liberalism and build our vision of another world. A world driven by needs and not profit, a world where freedom of movement is about people not global financial interests.

Our focus as a group lies in building and understanding the border and in fighting white supremacy; and our aim is to combat capitalism as a system of domination and to link the anticapitalist struggles of Latin America toour own struggles here at home.
LIBERTAD PARA TOD@S!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/358263.shtml

May 5 this Sat on I-205 Freeway Overpass Banner Blitz
author: Joe Anybdy (reposting) e-mail:e-mail: iam@joe-anybody.com
Reposting From An Email I Just Recieved
Sounds Like A Good Idea To Me
"I-205 Freeway Banner Blitz"
MAY 5th ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

PLANNED ON SERIES OF I-205/CLACKAMAS OVERPASSES

Well, there we were, "Shivering in the rain again", yesterday at our
anti-war protest on Sunnyside Road at I-205. We had our family of
four on one side of the overpass with 'BRING THEM HOME", "END THE
WAR', AND "HONK TO END THE WAR". On the other side of the overpass
was about 5 from the PDX911TRUTH group, with their '9/11 WAS AN INSIDE
JOB"; "BUSH LIED", AND "GOOGLE WTC7". It was very effective to have
one side focused on one message for each of our groups.

There weren't alot of us out there. But, the reactions from passersby
was very reactive -- lots of honking with thumbs up and peace -- and
lots of "the bird". A wadded up bag was thrown at David's back.
But by far, we usually get 10 to 1 honks in favor of our protest.

But, we need more folks out there with us -- on a regular basis. It
is only one hour a week. Would you please commit to being there with
us? Bring family and friends. Bribe them with a treat afterwards!
It's a great way to release pent up stress about the war. You feel
great after doing it. Plus, you meet new friends! Shivering in the
rain is nothing compared to what our troops are doing in Iraq. We do
this in our support for them, to get them home!

But, on May 5th, we are going to need an extra lot of people. We're
planning to do several overpasses in a row -- BAM! BAM! BAM! with
giant "SUPPORT THE TROOPS - BRING THEM HOME!" and 'UNJUST WAR IS
MURDER', 'IMPEACH BUSH!" etc. -- our message will not be ignored
this way. So come out to one of these protest sites along I-205, near
Clackamas, on Saturday, May 5th at 1pm-2pm. Bring large signs. You
can print out super large letters on a 8-1/2 x 11" paper (one letter
per page), cut them out and paste to a white or black painted
cardboard. Then, seal it with a sprayed or brushed on lacquer. Or
paint huge letters onto a large sheet and drape over the fence (not
over traffic, though). Remember not to obstruct vehicle or pedestrian
traffic in any way.

Protests at these I-205 Exits, between 1pm-2pm

Johnson Creek (need contact person)
SE Otty Road (need contact person)
SE Monterey Avenue @ I-205 (Keith Humphrey wayimp@yahoo.com)
SE Sunnyside (David Brownlow 503-307-3851 dave@davebrownlow.com and
Tim Titrud 503-701-3481mailto: 503-701-3481SixLeaves@aol.com )
SE Sunnybrook (Mark Pritchard 503-631-2507 harpy@ccwebster.net)

Thank you!

Suzanne Brownlow
Believers Against The War
http://www.believersagainstthewar.org/

homepage: homepage: http://www.joe-anybody.com

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/358158.shtml

May 2nd 1843 Founders Day Champoeg
author: Ecotopian Yeti
May 2nd marks Founders Day which in 1843 was the first western style democracy west of the Rockies. Maybe for Cascadians this should mark a day to honor our Bioregion. Today Founders Day is honored on May 6th with events at Champoeg State Park

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/

For many Cascadians the first days of May should hold a value for several different reasons. For those conscious of labour movements (workers and the politally left) May Day was the international workers day marked with historical tragedies. This should be a history everyone should learn and honor those that fought and still fight for the rights and safety of all of us. For those Cascadians who honor various religious or spiritual paths associated with changing seasons and Nature then May Day marks an ancient holiday often celebrated as Beltaine. Also the day following May Day should have historical signifigance for Cascadians, Oregonians and the people of the various states and provinces that were the Old Oregon County. May 2nd marks the anniversary of "Founders' Day" the day in 1843 when European and mixed settlers in the French Prairie (within the Willamette Valley) at town of Champoeg voted to create the first independent western style democratic government. Those dedicated to preserving American national mythology about those events often simply claim it was an election decide on whether the Oregon Country should join the USA. The reality as in many cases with nation-state mythology is that the situation was far more complex that Amerikan nationalists would have people believe. Almost half voted against formation of an independent government for various reasons. For some because they were employed by the Hudson Bay Company that already managed for British citizens (including French Canadians and Metis) juridical matters in the region. For some it was fear that the US Americans were quickly spreading across North America using Anglo-American immigration to change the political landscape and therefore challenge any and all other residence of the region (Texas, California and the rest of the Mexican Cession where in the process of Amerikanization at the time). Some voted in favor of the formation of a government because of the lack of legal status for some residents that migrated from the US (the Ewing Young case was the prime legal case for that reason). Others voted for establishment of a government with the idea of a Republic of the Pacific in mind independent of the US (Osborne Russell even ran for the first Provisional Governor position in 1845 from the Independents stance). Thomas Jefferson himself sent the Corp of Discovery as a scientific exploration and deplomatic mission to the lands west of the Stony Mountains (the Rockies) not as US Amerikan national mythology suggests as exploring future conquest or annexation, but originally Jefferson envisioned the region as a future Republic of the Pacific independent and on its own path to a parallel democratic tradition. It was American expansionists like president Polk with a the campaign slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" and American nationalist journalist John Louis O'Sullivan with his concept of Divine American Imperialism in the concept of "Manifest Destiny" that drove the idea that the Oregon Country was the "property" of American Empire. Of course all this ignored what Native People and other residents thought in the region.

In Chinook Jargon the land west of the Rockies was called Chinook Illahee meaning land of the Chinook Jargon Speakers.

Using historical and civil events to deconstruct our shared history maybe one method to getting the meme out about Cascadia.

Unfortunately today the park system does not celebrate Founders Day on its origianl May 2nd, but does honor that historic event on May 6th at Champoeg (near Wilsonville).

www.champoeg.org/

homepage: homepage: http://republic-of-cascadia.tripod.com/

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/338582.shtml

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Newbie

baesparza — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:00:11 GMT

Hi, I'm Bradley. I live just south in Seattle in the formerly small town of Kent. I play rugby with a primarily gay team, the Seattle Quake. I love nature and I am also a person of simple needs really. I feel strongly about living here because of my family, the beauty and the fact that I was born here and all my molecules are from here. ;-)

I am new to Radical Fairies, so any direction or information would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. USA out of the Pacific Northwest!!

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 7 replies

Within Cascadia: Chee Savish and Dancing Hawk Native Lifeways

Alexander — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:27:15 GMT

Chee Savish and Dancing Hawk Native Lifeways

The following are two groups that I think are very very valubale:

http://www.cheesiwash.net/

This is so so SKOOKUM (cool), I just stumbled across this site and its
exactly what I would like Cascadians to return to be. Take a look at
their recipes and basic ideas.

Chee Siwash
Portland Aboriginal Lifeways
http://www.cheesiwash.net/

The word "chee" is Chinook Wawa for "new" and "siwash" is Chinook Wawa
for "Indiginous Person" (meaning "American Indian") derrived from the
French word for "savage". Ok Chinook Jargon is not up to modern
Cascadian English political correctness standards, but I believe if we
can re-incorporate Chinook Wawa into our daily language we will end up
with a new synthesis of Chee Chinook or a very very distinct Cascadian
English.

__________

http://www.dancinghawk.com/

This is another site that seems to be connected with "Chee Siwash"

Dancing Hawk Native Lifeways
http://www.dancinghawk.com/

about the school

Dancing Hawk School of Simple Living is a school dedicated to
helping people learn to capture happiness, and live in tune with the
world around them. We are in the process of becoming a 501c(3) non-
profit institution.

Our primary focus is running native living programs and classes. We
have several different types of classes, from workshops a few hours
long to longer-term primitive projects.

Dancing Hawk also likes to bring the joy and wisdom found in the
wilderness to the greater community. We do outreach talks and events
both formal and festive.

Last, but not least, be sure to see the photos in our gallery.
Nothing tells the story of experience like our photos do.

Your wild guides, past and present: Kiliii Yu & Troy Julian
kiliii@dancinghawk. com

Kiliii has taught primitive skills and indigenous cultural teachings
at the Rabbitstick and Wintercount Rendezvous, the Falling Leaves
Rendezvous and Oberlin University. He has also spent time among the
Haida of the Northwest Coast, Aborigines of Central Australia, and
several indigenous peoples of Ecuador's highlands and rainforest. He
considers his mentors: Lynx Vilden, Jon Young, David Jagamarra, and
Margaret Matthewson.

Troy has been a longtime field instructor at the Outback (formerly
Walkabout) program in Salt Lake City as well as Outward Bound in
North Carolina. He has also taught at the Rabbitstick Rendezvous.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Namaste Fae

Aeolus — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:29:27 GMT

Greetings all My name is Aeolus. I live up in British Coulmbia. Just wanted to say a High There. If anyone has any faerie connections here I would love it. Beltane plans anyone? Any sancutary space around here. I am a Short Mountain faerie relocated and a little removed from my Faemily. In Light and Love~
You Canadian Fae Friend
Aeolus~

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Ostara Is Upon Us

Sizzle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:40:21 GMT

Ostara Is Upon Us
Vernal Equinox: Tuesday March 20th 2007@ 8:07 pm est

The vernal equinox, the world is poised on the brink, suspended between the cold months and the new warmth of the growing season. The world is coming alive with green shoots and animals seeking mates. Ostara is one of the Lesser Sabbats, usually celebrated anywhere from March 19th to 21st. Some celebrated on the fixed date of March 25 (Lady Day), while others celebrate on the next full moon (a time of increased births). While the equinox is a solar holiday, Eostre is a lunar goddess. This may be viewed as symbolic of the goddess (the moon) and the god (the sun) coming together in completion. Other names by which this Sabbat may be known are Oestara, Esther, Eostre's Day, the Rite of Eostre or Rites of Spring, Alban Eilir, Festival of the Trees, and the Bacchanalia. The Christian holiday of Easter is determined as the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox.

According to the Venerable Bede (673-735), the Anglo-Saxons called the fourth month "Esturmonath" for the goddess Eostra. Her festival became the celebration of Christ's resurrection when Anglo-Saxon and German peoples were converted to Christianity. While English and German Christians still attach the name of Eostra to their most sacred holiday (Easter or Ostern), other European languages base the name on the Hebrew word "pasah," to pass over, reflecting the Christian holiday's Biblical connection with the Jewish Passover.

All cultures living in temperate climates celebrate the coming of spring with rituals and festivals. This was one of the most important of spring festivals among pre-Christian Germanic tribes, dedicated to the goddess Ostara, a goddess associated with the "east" and thus "dawn" and "morning light." Ostara is a time to celebrate the renewal and rebirth of Nature herself, and the coming Summer. Light and darkness are in balance, as are masculine and feminine energy, yin and yang. Ostara is a fertility festival celebrating the rebirth of the God and the awakening of life from the Earth. Some Wiccan traditions worship the Green Goddess and the Lord of the Greenwood.

The Spring-cleaning tradition derived from the old witches who engaged in a cleansing each spring followed by setting up a hedge of protection. All motions involving scrubbing of stains or hand rubbing the floors should be done "clockwise." This custom aids in filling the home with good energy for growth. Another Spring tradition for ancient pagans and magicians was to dig a small trench around the outer perimeter of their home. At each quarter they would bury an egg. A modern practitioner might also add iron, old rusty nails, metal keys, old razor blades, pins and needles or witch bottles filled with the above items to diffuse magical attacks and spiritual negativity. (If you are unable to dig a perimeter, you can improvise by placing iron keys above your door, and pentacles and sigils drawn on pewter or parchment paper under your carpet or floorboards.

As a time of cleansing and renewal, Ostara is an excellent time to begin some new project. It is an excellent month for prosperity rituals or rituals that have anything to do with growth. Spells for improving communications, fertility, and abundance are especially strong at this time. Some Pagan customs include ringing bells and lighting new fires at dawn for cures, renewed life, and protection of the crops. A common belief in nineteenth century Germany touted the curative properties of water drawn early on Easter morning. One nearly universal craft is decorating hard-boiled eggs.

Eggs have long been a symbol of rebirth. They have been found among the grave goods of Anglo-Saxons, within the tombs of the Egyptians, and were placed on the fresh graves of the deceased Greeks. In ancient time, eggs were gathered for use in the creation of talismans and ritually eaten. The gathering of different colored eggs from the nests of a variety of birds has given rise to two traditions still observed today, the Easter egg hunt and coloring eggs in imitation of the various pastel colors of wild birds. Some believed that humankind was inspired by watching birds weave nests to begin weaving the first baskets. This is perhaps the origin of the association between colored Easter eggs and Easter baskets.

The custom of coloring eggs seems to be limited to the Germanic countries, Slavic countries, and America. In Scotland and Ireland, the custom is virtually unknown. Each spring in Germany, bakery windows are filled with elaborately painted eggs. Eggs are also hung from flowering branches to make "egg trees." Easter is celebrated in Germany more enthusiastically than it is anywhere else in the world with decorations up a good month before the festival. There are parties, egg hunts, and other celebrations weeks in advance of Easter itself.

In many places, it is traditional to keep Easter eggs or shells all year to ward the family and cattle against harm. They are also used specifically as a charm against hail and lightning. For this reason, great care and thought goes into the creation of egg decorations, egg-trees, boiled and decorated eggs for eating, and hare cakes.

Eostre is a goddess of the moon, an ancient measurer of time. The lunar month of 28 days gives us thirteen periods in 364 days, equivalent to the solar year. The hare, though viewed as a symbol of fertility, is also a symbol of the moon. Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of the moon, midwifery and weaving, has a rabbit totem. Mexican panels of 600-900 AD show her giving birth to and suckling a rabbit, and another shows the rabbit representing phases of the moon.

The Egyptians called the hare Un, which means open, to open, and the opener. The month of April, the first month of the spring season, comes from the Latin “to open.” Un also means period of time. The hare as "opener" symbolizes the New Year at Easter, and fertility and the beginning of new life within the young. Since the hare can sleep with its eyes open, the Romans equated it with vigilance and believed that rabbits watched over everything. According to one story, Buddha placed the rabbit in the moon after it voluntarily gave itself as food for one of Buddha's hungry friends. In another, a rabbit jumped into a fire to feed a hungry Indra and out of gratitude, Indra placed the rabbit in the moon. Rabbits were significant totem animals however and eating them was prohibited in Britain and Egypt. A Scottish superstition suggested that eating rabbit was equivalent to eating one's grandmother.

In Asian myth, rabbits and the moon are virtually identical. The Rabbit in the Moon sweeps its surface clean with bound horsetails according to Japanese stories. The rabbit pounds rice into flour, making mochi which means both rice flour and full moon. The Sanskrit word, cacadharas also means both moon, and "that which carries the hare."

Rabbits also represent immortality and vitality. Pliny the Elder stated that rabbit meat enhanced one's beauty and radiance for a week afterwards, and Chinese myth believed rabbit meat was essential for vitality. According to Chinese myth, the rabbit is a symbol of longevity. Its fur turns white at age 100 and blue at 500. In Eastern Asian myth, rabbits created an elixir of immortality. The Algonquin trickster rabbit, Manabozho, is thought to embody all life-giving energy.

In Greece, live rabbits were popular love gifts, indicating sexual intentions. European wedded couples in the Middle Ages exchanged rabbit-shaped rings. Rabbit's popularity as a sex charm or fertility totem is related to its' natural cycle. A rabbit's gestation period is approximately one month, and it tends to be the first animal to give birth in the springtime, continuing to have litters of kits during the year. In Asian folklore, a rabbit may become pregnant simply by staring at a full moon, licking a male rabbit's fur under a full moon, or running across a moon-lit water's surface.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Queeruption Vancouver Now Starting August 1st

Travis — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:50:55 GMT

With roughly 5 months to go, the Queeruption Vancouver organizing collective made the decision to extend Q10 by a day. Q10 will now run for a full week, from August 1st to August 7th.

Adding an extra day will give us all more time for workshops, discussions, performances, and actions. Also, we will have more time to get to know each other, make friends, etc.

Hopefully this won’t create a problem for anyone or disrupt travel plans too much. See you in August!

-The Queeruption Vancouver collective

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Greeting and Salutations

Labyrinth — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:41:13 GMT

Namaste, Rad Fae of the Great NorthWest!

Just want to introduce myself. I'm new to this tribe, and would love to get aquainted. My hubby and I have been active in the Faeries in the area for several years here in Dallas, TX. Luck has it that we will be moving to WA in the next couple of months. This is a return home for me, and a new sojourn for my beloved.

Please feel free to say hello anytime. Also, any info on Faerie friendly places in WA would be immensely appreciated.

Much thanks and love,

Tower and Tapestry

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 4 replies

A Introduction and Request

howaboutudance — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:15:34 GMT

Hey All

Many of you pdx guys may remeber I have been going to Satyrday Coffee for three weeks straight.

I have a request:

I just got a job in portland but need housing, If anyone can offer a room to rent out up to $400/mo respond back.

Thanks

Mikey

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

... if you aren't going to Breitenbush Winter Gathering... consider this in Seattle

kyooverse — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:23:01 GMT

Sunset Hill Day Spa & Resort - A Seattle Radical Faerie Event

Date: Saturday February 17, 2007
Time: 12:00 pm - 12:00 am
Location: Ballard
Street: 6002 32nd Ave NW
City State Zip: Seattle, WA 98107
Phone: 206.783.6264
Notes: This is going to be a very special, 24 hour weekend gatherette hosted by MoonSong. This event will coincide with the Winter Gathering at Breightenbush Hot Springs for those faeries that are unable to attend and wish to gather in spirit for a relaxing weekend of fun. There is no registration for this event and no cost to attend. Please feel free to attend all/any events that fit your personal schedule for the weekend, meaning that you are welcome to come or leave at anytime during this event.
contact: zmoonsong at comcast dot net

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

New Orleans Radical Faeries present the 18th annual Brigid Ball

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:12:21 GMT

The New Orleans circle of Radical Faeries
cordially invite you to the 18th annual

Imperial Coronation and Costume Ball
In Honor of Saint Brigid

Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, 7 pm
One-Eyed Jack's, 615 Toulouse St.
New Orleans, Louisiana

$10 suggested donation
No one turned away for lack of funds

Color: psychedelic fringe (a lavender Shakespearean experience)

To volunteer, plug in and help out, write Firefly: erikrosengren@yahoo.com
For more info on the New Orleans Radical Faeries: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NOLAFaeries/

>> Please forward widely! <<

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Queeruption Vancouver: August 2-7 2007

Travis — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:31:48 GMT

This summer Queeruption is taking place in the area around Vancouver Canada, in Coast Salish First Nations territory. Queeruption is a radical, DIY, anti-commercial, non-hierarchal gathering that usually occurs every year in a different city around the world. Queeruption is an event where radical queers of all genders and sexualities can gather together and share ideas and desires, plan actions and take inspiration from all the amazing people around us. For more information on Queeruption, check out www.queeruption.org.

Queeruption Vancouver will not take place inside the city. Instead, it will occur in nature outside of the city. We hope by doing this we will be able to bring environmental and ecological issues to the forefront of this gathering.

Queeruption works on the principle that everyone who comes to the gathering contributes to make it happen. So if you have ideas on workshops, discussions, skill sharing, etc, please email us! If you have ideas and/or experiences with queer eco-villages, sustainability issues, environmental activism, animal rights, aboriginal issues, bioregionalism, green anarchism, local plants and animal species, astronomy etc. etc. we would really love to hear from you, and we'd love it if you'd like to organize a workshop!

You can email the Queeruption Vancouver collective at q10vancouver@queeruption.org

You can also subscribe to the Q10 Vancouver mailing list. Simply send an email to majordomo@lists.queeruption.org with the words 'subscribe q10vancouver' in the body of the email.

See you in August!

-Queeruption Vancouver
q10vancouver@queeruption.org

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Evie and I hope you´ll join us at Starland near Joshua Tree 12-28-06 thru 01-02-2007

Alexis — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:11:16 GMT

we can do as much or as little as we want ! The massage exhange afternoons are awesome......the camp fires and heart circles are magical......group showers are a kick............let´s meet up at Starland
StarlandRetreat.com
Alexis
AlexisDeBram@hotmail.com

and from my New Orleans Faeire friend Jay Tombstone:

Posted by: jaytombstone
Fri Dec 8, 2006 8:45 am (PST)

... On the twelfth day of Christmas
Some faerie gave to me...

TWELVE HOURS IN DRAG
ELEVEN lashes lashing
TEN potheads toking
NINE D.J.s spinning
EIGHT inches cut
SEVEN big ass beers
SIX cameras flashing
FIVE DRAG QUEENS
FOUR voting booths
THREE costume changes
TWO much time

WITH Glitter, Don And Other Faeries

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 2 replies

12/19 Love Your Low-Back

bartchurch — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:09:42 GMT

The lower back is the source of so much power, and when that power doesn't flow, so much pain.

Your lower back deserves simple, practical, & loving support in this stressful time of year . . .

MEN TOUCHING WITH HEART:
Effective, Simple Strategies for Preventing/Coping with Low Back Pain
Tues, 12/19, 7:00-10:00 pm

A Licensed Physical Therapist, Ted Ellquist, who has extensive training in the McKenzie Method of pain management & prevention, will be teaching men how to use better posture, body mechanics, stretches, and healing touch techniques to cope with or prevent low-back pain.

These techniques will be presented in an interactive way, so you'll have the chance to both give & receive healing touch & stretches throughout the workshop. After experimenting with various techniques, you'll receive significant time on the techniques that seem to work best for you. You can learn more about the McKenzie Method and Ted's training & experience at www.backinactionpt.com

DIVERSITY: Event open to adult men of all ages, sizes, shapes, colors, orientations, experience levels, and backgrounds (including trans guys). Thanks for helping us increase the diversity of men who get invited to this event by forwarding this invitation to friends & colleagues who might be interested.

CO-SPONSORS: MenSpirit, a joint project of three non-profit organizations, Q-LAND, LoveTribe, & Spirit Hawk, empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Bart at 503-223-8822 or healingtouch@qland.org or www.qland.org

RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

12/2 Create a job you’ll love . . .

bartchurch — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:54:16 GMT

CREATE A JOB YOU'LL LOVE:
Men's Right Livelihood Workshop
12/2, Saturday, 4:00-10:30 pm

Because men are trained to define themselves by their work, having the wrong job or no job at all can be a major source of stress. In this practical, fun, and affirming workshop you’ll join a group of men who support one another in figuring out:

1) PASSIONS: What are your interests & passions? If you’re depressed or have no idea, what were your passions/interests when you were a kid or young adult?
2) WHO? what kinds of people you most enjoy working for and with?
3) WHAT NEEDS? what kinds of needs/challenges you most enjoy helping
address?
4) WHAT ORGANIZATIONS? what kinds of organizations/businesses you might
enjoy working for or with?
5) WHAT SKILLS? what your skills, experience, & special knowledges are?
6) WHAT ROLES? what roles do you most enjoy playing in work (creator, manager, data collector/analyzer, or supporter)
7) ALLIES? who your allies are for setting up informational interviews with?
potential employers or investors/partners?
8) NEXT STEPS? how you can get on-going support for taking concrete action
towards your right livelihood vision?

TEAMWORK: Finding your great job takes teamwork. Come join a group of men who are serious about finding a great job and want to help one another get started on and sustain effective action. We will use journaling, story-telling, brainstorming, and action-planning to help you create a job you'll love. Out of this workshop you'll also be invited to join an on-going support group to sustain your efforts to create a job you’ll love.

DIVERSITY: This workshop is for adult men of all ages, sizes, shapes, colors, orientations, experience levels, and backgrounds (including trans guys). Thanks for helping us increase the diversity of men who get invited by forwarding this invitation to friends & colleagues who may be interested.

CO-SPONSORS: MenSpirit, a joint project of two non-profit organizations, Q-LAND & LoveTribe, empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Bill at 503-223-8822 or createyourjob@qland.org or www.qland.org

RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Alexander — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:13:59 GMT

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment
Something Is Extremely 'Rotten In The State Of Denmark'

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 10, 2006

The latest Democrat "saviour" to flip flop 180 degrees in light of
their victory is Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Presumed to become
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January, Conyers today
said that impeachment of President Bush "is off the table."

"In this campaign, there was an orchestrated right-wing effort to
distort my position on impeachment, " Conyers said in a statement
released by his Judiciary Committee spokesman. "The incoming speaker
(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.) has said that impeachment is off the
table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment
is off the table."

Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the
grounds for impeachment in a 350 page long report called "The
Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War"
and later updated to add "illegal domestic surveillance. "

For a while Conyers was the darling of left leaning bloggers and
readers everywhere:

At this site, we are especially proud of the new Conyers
Report, "The Constitution in Crisis." By purchasing this book, you
have the opportunity to own a part of history and help the
Congressman hold the Bush Administration accountable. Your
assistance in helping Congressman Conyers become the next Chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee will bring us one step closer to
getting the American people the answers from this Administration
that they deserve.
- www.afterdowningstr eet.org

Conyers is so admirable. One of the very few in Congress who still
has integrity and principles. It is too bad that he does not get
more MSM coverage but why would they do that? He might upset the
Republican and Corporate plans for total control and could expose
their nefarious doings.
He is risking much by not following the official DNC program too, in
addition to challenging the Bushies.
- Huffington Post

In december 2005, upon release of the report, Conyers stated:

The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima
facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the
allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated.
Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to
whistleblower laws... The Report also concludes that these charges
clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct... In response to
the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have
introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee
with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush
Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible
impeachable offenses.

So Conyers was already underway with setting up investigations into
impeachable offences, but now he says that impeachment is off the
table? Clearly he has been given orders to toe the party line or
face the consequences.

Despite the fact that 86% want to see the President impeached,
leading Democrats have already ruled this out. The same leading
Democrats that voted for the war in Afghanistan, for the Patriot
Act, for Homeland Security and against a bill that simply condemned
torture of prisoners in Iraq.

After Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Conyers is the latest Democrat
to show us their true colours once in power.

Conyers and the other Democrats highlight precisely why we need to
regroup, consolidate and redouble our efforts in light of the
theatrical shift of power in Washington to the left. Because as soon
as this happened, overnight, the truth movement lost a great deal of
support from those that believe the job is now done.

Taking note of many reader comments over the past few days I have
noticed a startling uprise in the amount of negative and dismissive
feedback from some readers. Evidently those who expected us to be
out dancing in the streets at the news of a Democrat landslide in
Washington have been bitterly disappointed.

We have never once suggested that the solution to a corrupt and
fascist Neocon leadership is a passive and capitulating Democrat
sideshow leadership, so why is it any surprise that we are
continuing on the same course as before?

Comments such as the following emphasize my point:

"You can only have it one way. What the hell is up with you people.
The whole time the Bush regime was in power you begged for change.
Now you have it, but your still complaining. "

Yes we are seeking change, but not a simple change of personnel as
we have witnessed this week. As we reported yesterday "There's no
doubt about it, to see frothing Neo-Cons who have been strutting
around like John Wayne for the past five years finally eat humble
pie is a breath of fresh air, but let's not be so deluded as to
think that the Neo-Con agenda, which took decades to craft, was
simply brushed aside by the victory of a party that has supported
Bush every step of the way on major issues."

Seeing Bush on TV admitting he'd took a hell of a beating was great,
for about five minutes, then he started laughing and joking about it
and talking about pushing forward to work closely with a new crowd.

Is rolling over and going back to sleep going to get Bush impeached?
Should we shut down the websites now and go save the whales or
something else we'd all love to be doing if we didn't have to
relentlessly keep fighting to stop our leaders killing our freedoms?

Within hours the Democratic elite have shown us that they don't give
a damn about holding the Bush administration up to scrutiny. With no
effective opposition in the form of a political party it is up to
the people to continue to demand justice and to continue to attempt
to reign in those who have heinously abused their power.

Thomas Jefferson described Congress as "a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question
everything and yield nothing."

In light of this how can any representative say something like
impeachment is 'off the table?'

found at
http://www.infowars .net/articles/ november2006/ 101106Rotten. htm

Nancy Pelosi on YouTube and Howard Dean

Nancy Pelosi on the YouTube saying "NO TO IMPEACHMENT... ITS OFF THE TABLE"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-4vw2qw3Wc
or
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAGCgY4PDNA

Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, November 9, 2006

Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.

Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corrupts you absolutely?"

DEAN: "Well, you know...."

STEWART: "The last guys did it in three and a half days, what are you guys aiming for?"

DEAN: "Longer than that."

DEAN: "I know half the audience wants us to impeach the President and all that kind of stuff but we're not gonna do that - we're not gonna do that."

Dean is toeing the party line first crystallized by Nancy Pelosi when she told the 60 Minutes program, "Impeachment is off the table....it's a pledge....it is a waste of time."

When will jubilant mindless liberals realize that their darling Democrats have been installed as ringers to halt the momentum of the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements while committing to shielding the Bush administration for the very crimes and misdemeanors that supposedly cost them the House and Senate in the first place?

Democrats have already clearly stated how they intend to "get to work" over the next two years - by helping Bush push through a mass amnesty for illegal aliens - something his own republican House even prevented him doing - and also wasting time on the non-issue of the minimum wage.

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens help rollback the devastation the Bush administration has wrought on the U.S. Constitution?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens bring the troops home?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens re-instate the nine amendments to the Constitution that were abolished under the Military Commissions Act?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to can the unconstitutional domestic eavesdropping program?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to claw back the out of control deficit?

We were told the Republicans were abandoned because of corruption and Iraq and yet the Democrat shills have completely avoided specifics about how they intend to address these issues and on the question of impeachment have vowed to protect Bush. Empty rhetoric about a "policy change" in Iraq is nothing more than hot air betrayed by a legacy of Democrat support for keeping the troops in the quagmire - exemplified no better than Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, who both support imperial jaunts in the name of the "war on terror."

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has already stated that Blair's government will not co-operate with any move to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and she needn't worry because the Democrats are not going to even try it.

The Associated Press reports that Pelosi and Bush have already proclaimed reconciliation and are now "making nice" and devising how they can work in tandem. Tuesday's vote and its superficial euphoric aftermath was not about a populist reaction to six years of abuse and deceit - it was a sad indictment of the fact that a majority of Americans, particularly the establishment left, still buy the hoax that the Republicrats and the Democons are anything more than two different CEO's bidding for control of Slavery Incorporated.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Cascadia Now Chapters Seek Student Organizers

Alexander — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:55:37 GMT

Cascadia Now Chapters Seek Student Organizers
author: Collin S. Ferguson e-mail: savepac17@yahoo.com
The Cascadian Independence Project seeks students who want to take on a local and regional perspective volunteering for community groups and advocates as well as political organizing in their city, county, state, province, region and country.
Students at Northwestern in Bellingham, University of Washington, SCCC, UW Tacoma, Evergreen, and Portland State University, Portland OR, are starting student chapters for the new regional advocacy group, the Cascadian Independence Project, or Cascadia Now. The group is in its infancy, but intends to keep growing and start student organizations at all Cascadian universities.

"We wanted to create an inclusive group that was an umbrella organization for everything Cascadia," announced the group leader in an email. While the C.I.P. will not deny its inclination towards secession adding that it is the hope of the organization that students will support an investigative platform for Cascadian independence, C.I.P. has stated that it is fully accepting of variation in focus, "We're not here to form a political group where it's our way or the highway." They hope to maintain a loose coalition allowing groups to suit the needs of their communities, and hoping that conferences and conventions will work to keep the focus of the organization as a whole. The C.I.P. wants to emphasize that community engagement is increasingly critical stating "We want our project to fill the gap that our current government(s) has left."

The fundamental belief is that the Pacific Northwest can do it better and that a distant seat of power cannot properly govern everything that Cascadians witness on a daily basis. The C.I.P. wants to strengthen communities, investigate how to lessen dependence on federal government, and build a base of active citizens resolved to unify the Pacific Northwest.

The Cascadian Independence Project, formally the Cascadian Independence Party, hopes to create organizing committees that will connect the spread out groups and market the formation of new groups at local universities, community colleges, and the public at large.

The organization's long term goals highlight work towards progressive change: writing and supporting local referendums, legislative policies and initiatives, as well as spreading the base by encouraging volunteer work, calls to political action, and contests for flag designs, anthems, emblems, logos, battle chants, etc. The organization also hopes to support food drives, first-aid trainings, worker retraining programs, creation and operation of info shops, promoting and participating in recycling and environmental clean ups, sponsoring local events and working as an arm in educational outreach.

The organization is attempting to build support throughout the Pacific Northwest by contacting and gaining support from other like minded groups. Much of their website is currently under construction, which is http://cascadianow.org, however an article about bioregionalism is available and you can contact the organization for more information at cascadianow@gmail.com.

homepage: http://cascadianow.org

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/348793.shtml

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

“Roses, Cedars, and Orange Ribbons” [Audio]

Alexander — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:02:29 GMT

“Roses, Cedars, and Orange Ribbons” [Audio]
Radio Netherlands, 29 June 2005

http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/rnw/smac/2004/roses__cedars_and_orange_ribbons_050629doc_low.rm

This RealPlay investigate story looks at how the book and methods suggested in "From Dictatorship to Democracy" (www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf) was used and help in the various Colour Revolutions. As Cascadians I believe it is a MUST listen too and the book should be read and passed around to everyone.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

This Sat, 11/4 Men Finding Wisdom thru Story-telling

bartchurch — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:03:29 GMT

Could you forward this to men who have lived interesting stories or who
understand the power of story-telling to help them draw on the wisdom of men of all ages?

MEN’S INTERGENERATIONAL STORY-TELLING
Saturday, 11/4, 4:00-10:30 pm

* Imagine being able to learn from the wisdom of men of all ages.

* Imagine who you could be if men of all ages helped you tell & understand your story, and you helped them tell their’s.

* Imagine story-telling as a tool for transformation & initiation.

For most of human history story-telling has been a crucial part of men’s initiation and empowerment. Nowadays story-telling has been mostly reduced to mere entertainment -- a mass-produced product to be consumed. This has cut men off from the wisdom of the lived past, present, and future – from actually knowing other men’s stories.

In this playful, creative event you’ll tell key parts of your life story to a small group of men of different ages, and they will retell your story in spoken word poetry, short skits, psycho-drama sculptures, paintings/drawings, and other creative techniques.

Our goal is for you to tell the story of your life to men of different ages, and for you to help retell the stories of other men – in ways that reflect you and the wisdom of the inter-generational group you’re apart of. Ultimately this is about friendship, play, creativity, and initiation through story-telling.

DIVERSITY: We welcome men of all ages, sizes, shapes, colors, orientations, story-telling abilities, and life backgrounds (including trans guys). Diversity on all levels helps us learn the many ways we can be men. Could you please help us invite diverse men by forwarding this invitation to any of your friends, colleagues, or acquaintances who might be interested, and by attending with them?

SPONSORED BY: MenSpirit, a joint project of two non-profit organizations, Q-LAND & LoveTribe, empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Jack at 503-223-8822 or storytelling@qland.org

RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Alexander — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:53:20 GMT

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

I really do not know what to say to any of this. When I lived in
Cascadia and would tell fellow teachers and fellow students that
this was coming they looked at me and treated me as if I was insane
was even told that maybe medication would help me. I tried and
tried and yes still try.. saying I was right does not give me any
happiness because it is my loved ones, forests and friends who
suffer as well as the planet as a whole. I will advise all of you
still under the yoke of Amerikan fascism "take your words and
actions off the internet" and "find a nice visible space, a wall, a
park bench, a banner dropped from a visible high place" and wake up
these sheep.

PLEASE use the following and take our resistence and freedom to
the "real world" our time is now and maybe soon too late:

Memetic Cascadia
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332336.shtml

So you can not afford or need a Cascadian Flag (Doug) now!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/338592.shtml

Tools for a Revolution
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/333109.shtml

The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle
lecture from Gene Sharp
http://aeinstein.org/organizationsVideoPPNVS.html

Amazing Article on Electronic/Wireless/Swarming Tactics for Activism
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/11/274307.shtml

the article:

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

By Frank Morales

October 29, 2006
uruknet.info

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.

An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," "for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The report points out that "KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3) So, in addition to authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places, the new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony, further collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign of a rapidly consolidating police state in America, all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial pretensions of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully gullible public as a "global war on terrorism."

Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. criminal statute that outlaws military operations directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.

Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse comitatus, along with American democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.

Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."

Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."

A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."

In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."

Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White House want it."

The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.

The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local first responders."

In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)

It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.

Source:

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html See also, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues," by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney, August 14, 2006

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122

(3) Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, "Recent Contract Awards", Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps," New American Media, January 31, 2006.

(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons Detection", National Institute of Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Research on Globalization.

To become a Member of Global Research

The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca grants permission to cross-post original Global Research articles in their entirety, or any portions thereof, on community internet sites, as long as the text & title are not modified. The source must be acknowledged and an active URL hyperlink address to the original CRG article must be indicated. The author's copyright note must be displayed. For publication of Global Research articles in print or other forms including commercial internet sites, contact: crgeditor@yahoo.com

www.globalresearch.ca contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of "fair use" in an effort to advance a better understanding of political, economic and social issues. The material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes other than "fair use" you must request permission from the copyright owner.

For media inquiries: crgeditor@yahoo.com

© Copyright Frank Morales, uruknet.info, 2006

The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=3618

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

© Copyright 2005 GlobalResearch.ca
Web site engine by Polygraphx Multimedia © Copyright 2005

found at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MOR20061029&articleId=3618

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Pickaxe - The Cascadia Free State Story (free in google videos)

Alexander — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:36:09 GMT

Pickaxe - The Cascadia Free State Story (free in google videos)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1915772001649860572&q=cascadia&hl=en

or just go to Google videos and type in "Cascadia"

documentary description:

Pickaxe documents efforts to halt logging at Warner Creek, a federally protected forest in Oregon. Following a suspicious fire in 1991 that ... all » cleared the land, Congress suspended environmental regulations to allow logging in the area. Since arson was determined to be the cause of the fire, however, environmental activists argued that allowing logging at Warner Creek would set a bad example and possibly lead to similarly motivated forest fires. What followed was an 11-month battle complete with a 79-day hunger strike and an amazing blockade of a remote mountain logging road. This inspiring documentary shows the power of direct action, determination and good leadership.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Fall: a time to find your new rhythm

bartchurch — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:16:32 GMT

In the Northwest fall brings rejuvenating rain, a quietness that encourages
focusing on inner priorities, and cold that reminds us to support one
another in keeping our body, mind, & spirit warm. Q-LAND & LoveTribe have a wonderful week of men's gatherings designed to help you shift into your new rhythm this
fall. Would you forward this invitation to any men who might be interested
and consider attending one or more of these events yourself?

Tues, 10/17, 7-10 pm
MEN’S HEALING TOUCH EXCHANGE:
Richard Ludt, LMT, helps you use movement, touch, & imagery to release
chronic holding

Thurs, 10/19, 7-9:30 pm
MEN’S DATING LAB:
Finding practical strategies & support to give & receive the kinds of
intimacy you want
Co-Facilitators: Alejandro Cantu & Wayne Bund

Fri, 10/20, 6-9 pm
YOHO’S (Young Homos) COOKING & MUSIC FEST:
Men under 30 learn to cook, eat, & exchange music together
Co-Facilitators: Dan Jones, Wayne Bund, Frederic Henriot

Sat, 10/21, 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
YOGA & MASSAGE FOR STRESS: From Surrender to Strength:
(powerful techniques to respond more creatively to stress; you can attend
the morning session, the afternoon session, or both)
Co-Facilitators: Paul Tucker, Felix Roth, Charles Airey, & Bart Church

Sun, 10/22, 6-8 pm
BEAT-THE-BLUES (DEPRESSION) SUPPORT GROUP
Men’s peer-support group to help you find practical strategies for feeling better
Co-Facilitators: Brian Taylor, RN, & Matthew

INFO: Bart at 503-223-8822 or info@qland.org or www.qland.org

RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Help a brother out.

Jake — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:45:49 GMT

I'm really interested in learning about the Radical Faeries and possibly become involved. But I can't find any info on them or specifically a Seattle based group. Now I am incredibly computer illiterate but I thought even *I* could find a group based in SEATTLE! Can someone help me? I am lost!

Jake

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 2 replies

PDX: Heart Circle on Pangender Breitenbush Gathering, 9/24, 3 p.m.

stella_maris — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:27:35 GMT

We will be gathering on Sunday afternoon for a heart circle to talk about Faun's and my vision of a pangender gathering at Breitenbush. (We're moving the time back a little in the hope of better fitting people's schedules.)

When: 3 p.m. Sunday, September 24
Where: Stella's house, 2725 SE 34th Ave.

All points of view are most welcome. It's OK to come late -- just come!

love and harvest blessings
Stella Maris

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

B.O.T.A.'s Pink Triangle of Prejudice

michaelg — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:57:39 GMT

While I do not normally cross-post, I think that it is appropriate to do so on this particular issue.This has been cross-posted from "Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth" (SBACE) at celestialearth.tribe.net/ , which I moderate. For more, see http://celestialearth.tribe.net/thread/fe37477e-797e-45a9-88a6-7f3caa650b45 .

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Free Fall Men’s Yoga & Meditation starts soon

bartchurch — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:41:28 GMT

Would you please forward this invitation to any men who may be interested in attending a FREE men’s yoga or meditation class, and please consider attending yourself?

FREE MEN’S YOGA & MEDITATION CLASSES

As we approach the Autumnal Equinox, the days shorten and it’s a great time to try new ways to integrate wellness & stress-relief into our busy lives. Q-LAND & LoveTribe are launching the fall quarter with the following FREE yoga & meditation classes (for men who’ve never tried one of our classes):

* Monday, 9/18, 6:30-7:45 pm
Core Strength Yoga

* Wednesday, 9/20, 6:30-8:30 pm
Therapeutic Yoga (for men with specific wellness challenges/goals)

* Saturday, 9/23, 10:00-11:15 am
Core Strength Yoga

* Tuesday, 9/12, 7:30-9:30 pm
Men’s Meditation Group

Below are short descriptions of each class.

MEN'S CORE STRENGTH YOGA
Monday, 9/18, 6:30-7:45 pm &
Saturday, 9/23 10:00-11:15 am
As men age, stress, gravity, and neglect of the body conspire to cause us to collapse inward. We close ourselves off to life. In this dynamic, powerful, gentle, and fun class you'll learn to open from the inside out - to strengthen, lengthen, and enjoy your core. This class is for men with diverse abilities, ages, shapes, colors, orientations, and backgrounds (must be able to walk up & down stairs because NW Portland studio is not wheelchair accessible). Instructor Charles Airey has studied yoga for about 25 years, became a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor 20 years ago, and has taught in various studios in South Florida & Southern California.
INFO: Charles 503-223-8822 or yoga@qland.org
RSVP: www.qland.org/menspirit

MEN'S THERAPEUTIC YOGA
Wednesday, 9/20, 6:30-8:30 pm
Small class tailored to address your specific wellness goals, limitations, abilities, & experience. Learn to use Yoga & Ayurveda to reach your wellness goals (getting stronger & more flexible, losing weight, stress relief, becoming calmer & more focused, etc.) and/or self-treat chronic ailments (like back/neck pain, insomnia/anxiety, allergies, depression, HIV, digestive problems, etc). Taught by instructor who has studied for more than l8 years (under certified Iyengar & Raja Yoga instructors) and taught therapeutic yoga for more than 12 years.
INFO: Bart 503-223-8822 or yoga@qland.org
RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

MEN'S MEDITATION GROUP
Tuesday, 9/12 & 9/26 (2nd & 4th Tuesdays), 7:30-9:30 pm
Meditation helps many people relieve stress, feel calmer and more focused, and be more creative and connected to your natural flow. In this group you'll receive basic meditation instruction and simple, silent sitting and walking practice twice a month, on-going support for establishing your own regular meditation practice, and the fellowship of other men from diverse backgrounds who are interested in meditation and mindfulness. Co-facilitated by Rob Downer, M.Div., a local spiritual director and Centering Prayer facilitator; and Jeff Kerr, who has studied Buddhist meditation and currently is a student at the Portland Shambhala Center.
INFO: Rob 503-223-8822 or meditation@qland.org
RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

NOTE: Please RSVP as we limit our class sizes to assure each class is tailored to each man's goals, limitations, & abilities. Men of all experience levels are welcome in all our classes. Classes are only free for men who’ve never attended one of our yoga or meditation classes. After your 1st class, you decide how much you want to donate per class and then pay that amount times the number of classes remaining in the quarter. Space is limited in the Therapeutic Yoga Class, so please RSVP for this class ASAP.

Bart Church
Q-LAND/LoveTribe MenSpirit Program Coordinator:
www.lovetribe.org/menspirit
www.qland.org
503-223-8822 X1
bart@qland.org

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Walden by Henry David Thoreau free online

Alexander — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:03:53 GMT

Walden by Henry David Thoreau free online

I have been reading (while listening to) Walden by Henry David Thoreau again. I have tried to read this many many years ago (back in my high school years (in the late 70s and earler 80s). I think Walden by Henry David Thoreau is more relavent today in the era of Corporatism, debt slavery and resourse wars; a period of bioregional thinking; an age of needed action (such as civil disobience); a time for a return to the simple, local and the organic (Mother Nature)

free online audio reading:
http://librivox.org/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau

free online text:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WALDEN/walden.html

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

9/9 Men’s Dating Lab: Practical Intimacy Strategies

Peter at Q-LAND — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:37:38 GMT

MEN’S DATING LAB:
Finding Practical Intimacy Strategies
* Workshop: Sat, 9/9, 6:30-l0:30 pm
* On-going Group: lst & 3rd Thurs (begins 9/2l), 7-9 pm

Many men long for more emotionally and physically
intimate relationships, but --

* They’re too busy;
* They’ve been burned;
* They don’t know what they want;
* They’ve tried everything;
* They think they’re too old, shy, ugly, blah, blah . . .

Well love is worth it. Intimacy makes you happier and live longer & better. And you’re capable and desirable enough. You just need a little help figuring out what you want and what you can do – in the real world – to get it.

In this fun, practical workshop you’ll explore with other men:

• What kinds of intimacies you want;
• Your intimacy challenges;
• Your intimacy strengths & skills;
• Practical experiments to try in the work-shop & in your life for dating & intimacy
• Asking for concrete support to help you implement what you’ve learned & sustain learning after the workshop

This workshop is not about experts telling us the answers. It is about us supporting one another to find the intimacy visions and strategies that work for each of us. And most of all it’s about figuring out what you can do differently in the real world to get more of the intimacy you want – and get the support to follow through.

If you can’t attend the workshop, you could check out our on-going Dating Lab Support Group that will meet on the lst & 3rd Thursdays each month, 7-9 pm, starting on 9/2l.

CO-FACILITATORS: Alejandro Cantu, 5l, has been a teacher of multi-cultural students for more than 20 years, was in a long-term relationship and is now returning to dating; Wayne Bund, 25, is a teacher of multi-cultural students, has been in several relationships, and has recently moved back to Portland as a single man; Bart Church, 46, has been in several primary relationships, but has viewed his close friendship network as his primary source of intimacy for most of his adult life & believes in valuing friendship networks.

CO-SPONSORS: MenSpirit is a joint project of two non-profit organizations, Q-LAND & LoveTribe, that empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Bill at 503-223-8822 or datinglab@qland.org or www.qland.org

RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

call for submissions!

lynx007 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:56:28 GMT

i'm compiling an anthology of cascadian literature, poetry and art, and i want your submission, please!

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Cascadia's World Heritage

Alexander — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:32:45 GMT

Cascadia's World Heritage

well I would suggest we all add comments to this:

Cascadia's World Heritage
Posted by Eric de Place on 08/25/2006 at 06:30 PM
Cascadia has a wealth of astonishing and pristine natural places. It's part of why residents here are so committed to this place.

One measure of the Northwest's bounty is the number of world heritage sites--natural and cultural places so unique that they are designated by the United Nations as the most important repositories of the planet's ecological richness and humankind's legacy. The boundaries of Cascadia include all or part of a number of these world heritage sites, including Yellowstone; the redwoods of California; the international peace parks of Waterton and Glacier; the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks; SGang Gwaay, an ancient Haida village; and the Glacier Bay-Yukon region, which boasts, among other features, perhaps the most complicated name imagineable. (You can use this cool interactive map to find others.) But no world heritage gem is closer to Cascadia's human inhabitants than Olympic National Park, an ecological treasure trove just a few miles from Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, and Victoria.

Why this paean to the Olympics? Because right now, Olympic National Park is charting its course for its next 20 years. And the public is allowed--nay, encouraged--to provide comment and guidance on the park's future management.

Go here for more info on the web http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectId=10233 Otherwise:

Comments may be mailed or faxed to Olympic National Park General Management Plan; National Park Service; Denver Service Center; P.O. Box 25287; Denver, CO 80225. The fax number is 303-969-2736.

Why should we care about Olympic National Park? For more reasons than I can possibly do justice to in a blog post. But here's a shot anyway:

It's just plain special. It boasts the longest wilderness coastline in the lower 48, a mind-boggling temperate rainforest, glacier-carved peaks, and 17 species of plants and animals that are found nowhere else on earth, including this cute fellow.
The forests of the Olympic Peninsula outside the park have been battered by decades of clearcut logging, but when they are allowed to grow the Olympic forests are prime repositories for carbon, acting to slow climate change.
The park is big enough--and ecologicall intact enough--to allow for reintroduction of endangered species, such as fishers. It's even considered the next best place in the Northwest for gray wolves to make a comeback. But that will not happen without a concerted effort from citizens and conservationists.
The park's biodiversity is threatened. One of the odder threats is from the non-native mountain goats, which--loveable as they may be--are chomping their way through rare and endangered alpine plants.
Humans need big wild places like Olympic National Park. We're not the same without them. I've always liked this reminiscence of the Olympics from poet Gary Snyder: "We had come miles without trails, you had been long alone. We talked for half an hour up there above the foaming creeks and forest valleys, in our world of snow and flowers... In this burning, muddy, lying, blood-drenched world, that quiet meeting in the mountains, cool and gentle as the muzzles of three elk, helps keep me sane."
Send your comments to the US National Park Service. The deadline is September 30.

found at
http://www.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2006/08/25/your-world-heritage-site

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

9/1-9/4 MEN'S RETREAT - New habits, new possibilities for wellness

bartchurch — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:44:29 GMT

Fall is a great time to develop new habits that create new possibilities for enhancing wellness. In its Men’s Wellness Retreat this Labor Day Weekend (9/1-9/4), Q-LAND & LoveTribe will help you enjoy learning new habits of yoga, massage, eating well, and music-making/movement to deal with challenges like:

* stress
* excess weight
* back/neck pain
* depression
* lack of energy
* digestive problems

In this long weekend at a beautiful ranch in the coastal range (on 50 acres of wooded land with a stream & ponds), you can join three experienced yoga teachers, two experienced Licensed Massage Therapists, and experienced musicians in creating a magical Labor Day Weekend Retreat that will include:

* hiking/strolling in the forest
* relaxing & energizing yoga classes,
* healing massage exchanges,
* playing croquet (and a new game called Giant’s Croquet) on the lawn
* making & moving to great music,
* napping,
* great food

All activities will be optional, and every day we’ll offer a couple of yoga classes, a massage exchange class, three delicious & healthy meals, and the opportunity to make & move to energizing & relaxing music.

What you do every day can create wellness and ease in your life. Come have fun with other men learning new habits that create new possibilities.

INFO: Bill at 503-223-8822 or retreat@qland.org
RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

8/5 Can disliking your body make you sick?

bartchurch — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:22:05 GMT

Can disliking your body or its parts make you sick? What if the things you believe about your body help determine how healthy you are and will be?

What if billions of dollars were being spent to convince you your body is flawed? And what if this belief and many of the products you buy to “fix” your body are actually making you sick?

MEN'S BODY IMAGES: Can hating your body make you sick?
8/5, This Saturday, 6:30-10:30 pm

In this workshop you’ll look simply and compassionately at which parts of your body you like, and which you dislike. You’ll look at how you feel about your body and its parts, as well as what you tell yourself about your body and its parts.

You’ll use simple practices of small group brainstorming & repetition of new body images, touch, breathing, ritual, play, and awareness to enhance the flow of blood, energy & nutrients to parts of your body you like. You’ll also use these practices to soften and enliven parts of your body you dislike. You’ll physically experience the connection between your beliefs about your body and the amount of blood, immune fluid, energy, oxygen, and nutrients that reach parts of your body.

Your beliefs about your body can make you sick. And the reverse is true. Your beliefs about your body can heal you. It is quite powerful to experience this first hand in your body, rather than as just ideas. And it is exponentially more powerful to do this with the support and energy of a group.

Let us re-imagine our bodies as capable of being beautiful, sexy, powerful,
healthy, and creative. Let us accept our bodies as they are -- and learn quiet ways to use our body images to heal our bodies, rather than destroy them.

CO-FACILITATORS: Dan Jones, co-facilitator of Outside In's Gender Blenz Group at the Trans Identity Resource Center, as well as Q-LAND’s coordinator of programs for men under 30 (this event is for adult men of all ages); Celeste Weber, founder of a radical feminist striptease support group & a risk reduction specialist at Outside In's Needle Exchange; Bart Church, a yoga teacher, Zen-Shiatsu Practitioner, and facilitator of men's wellness workshops and retreats for 20 years.

CO-SPONSORS: MenSpirit is a joint project of two non-profit organizations: Q-LAND & LoveTribe. Menspirit empowers diverse men in the Portland, OR area to discover and manifest their individual & collective potential for wellness, community, friendship/intimacy, spirituality, & play.

INFO: Bill 503-223-8822 or bodyimages@qland.org
RSVP: www.lovetribe.org/menspirit

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

the greater partitioning of Cascadia: border divisions

Alexander — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:47:13 GMT

the greater partitioning of Cascadia: border divisions

I have posted before that Cascadia is becoming two very distict Cascadias as the US and Canadian governments administrate differently, as economies shift and as world's most longest and peaceful border becomes more militarized. The following articles illustrate the continuing division that the Amerikan expansionist president Polk started back in the 1840s:

CASCADIA Mayors plea for delay Cross-border impacts feared if U.S. forges ahead with security crackdown

By Jeff Nagel
Black Press
Jul 04 2006

Lower Mainland mayors joined counterparts from Washington, Oregon and Idaho Friday in urging U.S. officials to delay plans to force all visitors to carry passports.

The motion passed at the Cascadia Mayors Council meeting in Surrey after the 35 Pacific northwest mayors heard forecasts that tighter border security will hurt cross-border tourism and trade.

The U.S. government has set Jan. 1, 2007 as the date passports will be required to enter the U.S. by air or water, and Jan. 1, 2008 for land crossings.

In the meantime, a group of U.S. senators is trying to pass an amendment that would delay implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative until Jan. 1, 2009.

Most residents on both sides of the border don’t have passports and many of them don’t know about the planned changes, said Mary Mahon-Jones, with the B.C. Council of Tourism Associations.

She cited polls that show a third of Canadians and Americans who don’t hold passports say they don’t plan to cross the border again if they have to get one.

“The process of getting a passport is, frankly, a colossal hassle, at least in Canada,” Mahon-Jones said.

The more Americans and Canadians do get passports, she added, the more they may be tempted to travel to more distant countries, rather than just across the 49th parallel.

American visits to Canada are already down sharply this year even though the passport rule isn’t in force yet.

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said a delay would buy time to pursue alternatives, such as creating a different identification card or upgrading driver’s licences to include extra security data.

“We are very aware and cognizant of the security issue,” Watts said.

“But we also want to make sure the implementation of this is done right.”

It’s not just tourism that’s at stake.

All trucks carrying goods that cross the border would have to have accepted identification.

And the passport rule could impact many businesses located in Surrey, White Rock, Langley and Abbotsford which take advantage of the proximity of the border.

“With Surrey being the largest border crossing in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, those issues are front and centre in what we’re dealing with,” Watts said.

Anthony Welcher, the U.S. State Department’s director of intergovernmental affairs, told the mayors plans call for passports to be mandatory for all travellers – even children.

He admitted that may drive up costs for families and deter tourism, but said the U.S. plans reduced passport fees to ensure a family of four won’t pay more than $100.

He defended the requirement, saying it will help protect children from cross-border kidnappings.

“It is a burden. But it will help keep our children safe and secure.”

Welcher said Canadians shouldn’t hold out hope the passport plan will be shelved.

“Honestly, I’ve got to say it’s tough,” he said.

“Barring an amendment, we’re just going to have to deal with it.”

The Cascadia mayors’ motion backs a similar call by Premier Gordon Campbell and Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire to delay implementation until after the 2010 Winter Olympics while other options are pursued.

Senator Gerry St. Germaine said both countries must work to ensure anti-terror measures don’t unnecessarily impede the millions of people who cross the border and billions of dollars in cross-border trade and investment.

“These new requirements will have long term implications,” he said.

“We must act very, very carefully.”

found at http://www.peacearchnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=44&cat=23&id=683031&more=

____

Biking to Canada and back (if the Border Patrol lets us in)

By WILLIAM MARVEL
For the Monitor

July 05. 2006 8:00AM

Among the numerous and sometimes conflicting doctrines we try to observe in my household is that of treading lightly on the Earth. That is difficult to accomplish in a society that seems dedicated to waste and self-indulgence, where the only feasible means of long-distance travel is the automobile and the only way to feel good about oneself is to buy something new.

It is also a difficult concept to pass on to children whose friends race here and there in parent-purchased cars, communicating continually on parent-purchased cell phones. And it becomes especially hard to convey when there is work to do in the garden or at the woodpile. Nonetheless we attempt to set an example through consumer restraint, household economy and energy conservation.

Energy conservation was one of the main motives behind our choice of a vacation this year: bicycling to Canada. That isn't as rigorous a feat as most Americans might suppose, for the nearest border crossing lies only about 110 highway miles from our door. Avoiding deadly highways requires more mileage, but the round trip still falls within a week's easy cycling, during which we can ignore traffic jams and oil-industry gouging.

The flatter terrain of southern Maine might have been a preferable choice for bicycling. The coast is lovely, but it is usually packed with people from places no one wants to live, and by their mass presence they often make Maine feel like another one of those unpleasant places. There is something immensely gratifying about gliding all the way to an international border on such ecologically sound transportation.

There is something appealing about entering Canada by any transportation, for that matter.

Canada is a different world, at least from Vermont and New Hampshire. The U.S. side stands in the tall conifers of the great northern forest while the Canadian side slips immediately into rolling farmland and occasional, distinct towns, with little of the endless suburban sprawl that ate up so much of the United States so quickly.
The abrupt change in language offers an instant taste of Renaissance Europe, at least for those who remember their professor rattling off Middle French, and what can be more therapeutically humbling than trying to recall the vocabulary of a seldom-used language?

The money adds to the European atmosphere. Canadian bills are pieces of art, emblazoned with exotic historical characters and scenes in a variety of colors. The larger denominations are decorated with ornate engravings that mimic embroidery, and in that currency we have a dollar that still makes the American version seem as though it were actually worth something.

One-way cordiality

The strongest attraction Canada exerts may be the calm, peaceful atmosphere, which, unfortunately, seems especially foreign anymore. Just note the difference in customs officials.

Since the first time I crossed the Canadian border, I've never had an unpleasant experience with a Canadian customs officer. All of them have been flawlessly courteous, most of them are quite congenial and many are even unarmed. Approaching the U.S. border, meanwhile, usually turns the stomach sour.

Certain U.S. border stations in Vermont long ago developed widespread and well-deserved reputations for rudeness and unwarranted, invasive searches. Since the commencement of King George's War, the U.S. crossings have served as an introduction to American paranoia, with suspicious officers engaging travelers in deceptively inquisitive banter.

On my last re-entry by automobile at Beecher Falls, a pleasant young agent asked me the usual questions and wished me a safe trip, but as I started away, his older colleague interceded, hand-near-holster, and awkwardly initiated a perfectly artificial conversation. When I inadvertently misquoted the New England price of a New York Times, he grew as stern and mistrustful as an East German border guard. Welcome home, Yank.

Canada may have the friendliest customs service, but my belongings have been closely searched at places like the German border, back in the heyday of the Bader-Meinhof gang, without giving me the impression that I was being singled out for scrutiny. The only customs officers who have ever made me feel like a criminal suspect have been our own.

Until recently (and they may be doing it yet), the Border Patrol was stopping traffic nearly 100 miles inside the United States, interrogating citizens and frequently detaining them - probably for such suspicious actions as mispronouncing local nomenclature.

This sort of internal surveillance would be easier to bear if the New Hampshire State Police would establish a similar roadblock along the Massachusetts border and ask everyone to say "Kancamagus."

(William Marvel is an author and historian who lives in South Conway.)

By WILLIAM MARVEL

found at http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060705/REPOSITORY/607050302/1028/OPINION02

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 1 reply

Harry Hay's Revolutionary Roots

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:11:27 GMT

A leftist appreciation of Harry Hay

www.workers.org/2005/us/lgbtseries-0428/

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

looking for place to crash in BC, Seattle and Portland

Alexis — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:40:13 GMT

Hey ! How are you? This New Orleans / San Diego Faerie is headed to Vancouver for a week for Pride and more.... Aug 2, 2006.
Then on Aug 9 or 10 to Seattle, continuing on to Portland on the 13th or 14th.....on the 16th or 17th I'm off to Breithenbush !
I am looking for host/s in any of these great cities for a couple of nights. If hosting is not possible, would like to meet up for coffee or a drink or walk in the park. Looking forward to meeting you or seeing you again. Thanks very much, Alexis 760.822.2021 AlexisDeBram@hotmail.com

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

ride

everdmann — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:54:53 GMT

hi
im flying to denver tomorrow and need a ride to the rainbow gathering, does anyone have any ideas? if i cant get a ride maybe a place to crash for the night and i can hitch it the next day.

thanks
evie
619.549.4780

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

From the Wilderness office burglarized

Alexander — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:35:18 GMT

From the Wilderness office burglarized

This was posted in my forum several days ago dedicated to Cascadian Bioregionalism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/

From the Wilderness office burglarized

http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com
URGENT NOTICE: FTW BURGLARIZED; COMPUTERS SMASHED
I have just received a phonecall from Mike Ruppert. The FTW offices
have been burglarized, the doors smashed with sledgehammers and every
computer broken. Mike's fine (thank God!!!) and I believe we know who
did it but FTW is non-operational at this moment. However, the blog
is up and running.
Thank you for you patience.

Jenna Orkin

Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications
and The Jackson County Sustainability Network
PRESENT:

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Friday, June 30th

at Southern Oregon University

the Power of Community

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Plus a special presentation by Producer/Writer/Outreach Director

MEGAN QUINN

One of tomorrow’s sustainability leaders and top
international speakers on sustainability and Peak Oil.

“Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film.
Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990s, and how it did do so
constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past
few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of
the collective mobilizations of an entire society to meet an enormous
challenge.” - Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Powerdown

Megan Quinn is the Outreach Director of The Community Solution,
(www.communitysolution.org) a non-profit organization in Yellow
Springs, Ohio. She has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil and its
community-based solutions for more than three years. She helped to
organize and served as Emcee for the First and Second U.S.
Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, which drew more than
600 participants. In April, Megan Emceed a Washington, D.C.
conference, “Peak Oil and the Environment.” Her articles on peak oil
have appeared in many publications. " She holds a degree in Diplomacy
and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she
studied Peak Oil and its U.S. Foreign Policy implications. She has
also studied in Europe at Miami’s campus in Luxembourg and at the
University of Havana in Cuba.

The Community Solution is a non-profit that educates about peak oil
and community-based solutions and designs processes for moving
society away from industrial centralization toward small local
communities as fossil fuels and other natural resources become
increasingly scarce.

Special presentation by Michael C. Ruppert, Author of Crossing the
Rubicon. The film is 58 minutes, with a exclusive presentation by
Megan Quinn with Q & A. Copies of the film will be a available for
purchase at the event.

WHEN: Friday, June 30, 2006 from 6:30 — 8:30pm
WHERE: SOU, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR; Stevenson Union; Rogue
River Room
ADMISSION: Suggested donation of $5 at door NO ONE TURNED AWAY

http://www.fromthewilderness.com

Jackson County Sustainability Network—
jcsn @ yahoogroups.com—(541) 973—3566

___

update on From the Wilderness vandalism

Who is Mike Ruppert?

Mike Ruppert was an LAPD Vice detective who was sick and tired of all
the crack cocaine flooding Los Angeles.

He made great strides in proving the CIA was importing this Cocaine.

His website during the 90s was http://copvcia.com

goto http://archive.org and search for his site to see what he was
doing.

Then 911 was forced upon the American People.

Mike Ruppert's http://fromthewilderness.com
provided much of the evidence we now posess of
US Government forknowledge and complicity.

ie insider trading pre 911
ie PNAC / caspian oil pipeline negotiations
ie 911 patsies (stooges working for US gov)

And now the update:

update on From the Wilderness vandalism

http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com

Urgent Message From Mike Ruppert

Between the hours of 7:30 P.M. Sunday, June 25 and 7:30 A.M., Monday,
June 26, the FTW offices were burglarized. Four interior doors were
smashed with a sledgehammer. All seven FTW computers were transported
to a central location in the building. Their covers were removed and
they were also smashed with a sledgehammer. No other significant
property was taken and there was no other damage to any other
fixtures or furnishings.

An active police investigation is underway with a named suspect. I do
not believe that this incident was the work of the U.S. government. I
do believe that this is the work of an organized meth ring that I
prevented from infiltrating my business. As Dmitri Orlov has noted in
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century, when societies
collapse, organized crime becomes much more assertive. As beautiful
as Southern Oregon is and as happy as I am to be here, the challenges
that will be facing all of us as Peak Oil hits are making themselves
known.

We have ordered new computers and should be able to retrieve or
restore most of our data. However more than one hard-drive will
require expensive high- tech recovery processes. In all probability
FTW will not be able to upload to our website for one week from
today. When we come back online I will have a more complete story
with photographs. Please do not send emails. We cannot read them.

Michael C. Ruppert

Mike is asking that this message be distributed widely until he can
get back online.

_______________________________________________
Stumps mailing list
Stumps@forestcouncil.org
http://oldgrowth.forestcouncil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stumps

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

GreenScare Awareness in Belgium

Alexander — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:52:16 GMT

GreenScare Awareness in Belgium

Can anyone translate?

(pictures at original site)

De USA PATRIOT Act
De USA PATRIOT Act is een afkorting voor “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” (H.R. 3162, the "USA PATRIOT Act") Het voornaamste probleem met de Patriot Act is dat veel te veel opengelaten wordt voor interpretatie. De manier waarop ze geschreven is maakt het mogelijk om alle politieke activiteiten als illegaal te beschouwen, naargelang wie de act interpreteert.
De definitie van “Domestic Terrorism”:
Sectie 802 van de USA PATRIOT Act maakt terroristen van betogers wanneer de betogers zich gedragen op een manier die “mensenlevens in gevaar brengt” met als doel “het beïnvloeden van het beleid van de regering door intimidatie of dwang” of het “intimideren van burgers”. Dit kan breed genoeg geïnterpreteerd worden om tegen groepen zoals Greenpeace gebruikt te worden. Onder de USA Patriot Act wordt het ook strafbaar om logement of andere hulp aan te bieden aan activisten die zich zo gedragen.
Deze wetgeving geeft ook de macht aan de attorney general en de secretary of state om vreemdelingen aan te houden en te deporteren wanneer ze lid zijn van bepaalde organisaties die als ‘terroristisch’ beschouwen worden.
De USA PATRIOT Act veranderd de definitie van terrorisme zodat het nu ook “het gebruik van een wapen of gevaarlijke voorwerp met als doel het vernieling van eigendom” inhoud.
Onderzoekingen en bezitnemingen:
De Patriot Act breid uit de mogelijkheden tot geheime huiszoekingen, afluisteren van telefoongesprekken en het volgen van correspondentie (internet gebruik, emails, breiven). Het FBI krijgt ook onbeperkt toezicht op persoonlijke gegevens, zoals medische en financiële gegevens. Onder Sectie 215 moeten alle documenten met informatie over de activiteiten van een individu in bezit van een derde partij afgegeven worden op vraag van de FBI. Ook doktors, boekenwinkels, universiteiten en internet service providers zijn verplicht om alle gevraagde informatie door te geven aan het FBI. Het FBI moet alleen verklaren, maar niet bewijzen, dat dit deel uitmaakt van een onderzoek naar terroristische activiteiten. Deze onderzoeksdaden mogen niet gemeld worden aan de persoon die onderzocht wordt. Zo kunnen de mensen die onderzocht worden zichzelf daar niet tegen verdedigen.
Het in bezit nemen van eigendom wordt ook veel gemakkelijker onder de USA Patriot Act. Sectie 806 zou het mogelijk maken om de goederen van een individu of een organisatie in bezit te nemen zonder een verhoor en zonder dat de persoon schuldig gevonden wordt van een misdaad. Dit wordt door de American Civil Liberties Union beschreven als de meest belangrijk verandering in de wetgeving voor politieke organisaties omdat het als gevolg heeft dat de overheid alle bezit zou kunnen afnemen van een organisatie of een individu die betrokken is bij een actie of die steun toont voor een actie dat door het FBI als terrorisme beschouwt wordt. Deze in bezitneming vind plaats zonder dat de organisatie of persoon eerst verwittigt wordt.
Onbeperkt Hechtenis:
Onder de USA Patriot Act mogen migranten ook onbeperkt vastgehouden worden en gedeporteerd worden. Als de persoon geen land heeft waar hij of zij terug naartoe kan keren, dan kan hij of zij onbeperkt vastgehouden worden zonder ooit een proces te krijgen. Onder de nieuwe USA Patriot Act II die nu besproken wordt in de VSA zou dit ook voor Amerikaanse burgers mogelijk zijn. Ze zouden hun burgerschap afgenomen worden en onbeperkt vastgehouden kunnen worden zonder eerst of ooit een proces te krijgen.
Democratie in de VS Steeds Meer Onder Vuur
Op 20 januari heeft het FBI een officiële beschuldiging (indictment) van 65 punten uitgevaardigd waarin 12 mensen beschuldigd worden van betrokkenheid bij acties van het Earth Liberation Front (ELF) en het Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in de periode tussen 1996 en 2001. Sindsdien zijn nog vier personen beschuldigd en het FBI laat de mogelijkheid open dat nog meer mensen bij de zaak zullen betrokken worden. Als resultaat van het Grand Jury onderzoek in Eugene, Oregon, worden de verdachten aangeklaagd wegens 17 gevallen van brandstichting en sabotage tegen federale en private instellingen in vijf deelstaten. Veel van de aanklachten stonden op het punt van te verjaren. Niettegenstaande bijna al de beschuldigden hun onschuld in publiek uitroepen en niemand gewond raakte bij de acties riskeren ze levenslange gevangenisstraffen (of langer, dat kan in de VS). Om het nog erger te maken, wordt een eerlijk proces ook onmogelijk doordat de regering en de pers deze mensen beschrijven als “eco-terroristen”.
Zulke extreme straffen voor brandstichting waren tot vijf jaar geleden ongekend in de VS. Maar vandaag maken ze deel uit van een groeiend tendens onder nieuwe anti-terreur wetgeving. Activisten in de VS spreken over een zogenaamde “Green Scare”, genoemd naar de vroegere “Red Scare” wanneer senator McCarthy en het “House of Un-American Affairs” (HUAC) propaganda en bedreigingen gebruikte om politieke weerstand te breken. De landelijke arrestatieoperatie, die 'Operation Backfire' is gedoopt, is door het FBI uitgelegd als een grote slag tegen milieuactivisten die betrokken zijn bij vernieling van eigendom. Velen verklaren echter dat de arrestatiegolf vooral te plaatsen is in de jarenlange praktijk van het FBI van geheime operaties gericht op het verstoren en in diskrediet brengen van politieke bewegingen. De omstandigheden rond deze zaak vertonen sterke overeenkomsten met eerdere FBI operaties zoals het bekende COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) waarbij de FBI sinds de jaren '60 betrokken was bij binnenlandse infiltratieactiviteiten en op valse gronden aanvallen van politieke activisten.
Voor meer achtergrond stuur een mail naar: nograndjury@riseup.net of zie:
Green Scare:
http://www.greenscare.org
http://www.ecoprisoners.org
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/greenscare/
USA PATRIOT ACT:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/resources/17343res20031114.html

COINTELPRO:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/gjp3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

*) Daniel McGowan, een actievoerder voor milieu en sociale rechtvaardigheid uit New York. Daniel is een actief lid van de gemeenschap en was onder andere betrokken bij demonstraties tegen de Republikeinse Conventie, de campagne Really Really Free Markets en steuncampagnes voor politieke gevangenen als Jeff 'Free' Luers. Daniel was student met een opleiding in acupunctuur en werkte bij Women's Law, een stichting die vrouwen helpt die te maken hebben met huiselijk geweld om zich juridisch te verdedigen. Daniel pleit onschuldig maar zou mogelijk levenslang plus 335 jaar celstraf krijgen als alle klachten doorgezet worden. Zie: http://www.supportdaniel.org
*) Nathan Frazer Block. Schrijf brieven naar:
Nathan Fraser Block # 1663667, Lane County Adult Corrections, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
*) Joyanna Zacher: Schrijf brieven naar:
Joyanna Zacher #1662550, Lane County Adult Corrections, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
Nathan and Joyanna zouden minstens levenslang plus 235 jaar celstraf krijgen indien alle klachten doorgezet worden.
supportersofnathanandjoyanna@gmail.com
*) Briana Waters, een lieve moeder die houd van muziek maken en vioolles geeft. Haar arrestatie kwam als een grote schok voor de mensen die haar kenden en niemand gelooft dat ze iets te maken heeft met de haar ten laste gelegde feiten. Ze pleit onschuldig maar indien veroordeeld riskeert ze tot 35 jaar celstraf. Zie: http://www.supportbriana.org
*) Jeffrey Hogg, in hechtenis omdat hij weigerde te getuigen voor de Grand Jury.
Jeffrey Hogg #1065518, Lane County Jail, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
*) Darren Todd Thurston, een bekende Canadese activist die zich grote zorgen maakt over zijn kans op een eerlijk proces als een Canadees die in de VS vastgehouden wordt. Zie: http://www.freedarren.org. Stuur brieven naar:
Darren Thurston #701415, Multnomah County Inverness Jail, 11540 NE Inverness Dr., Portland, OR 97220, USA
*) Bill Rodgers wordt nog steeds als 'niet aangeklaagde medesamenspanner' beschouwd nadat hij in gevangenschap om het leven kwam door een vermoedelijke zelfmoord tijdens de Winter Solstice. Bill was een bekende gemeenschapsactivist in Arizona die vanuit zijn eigen huis de Catalyst info-shop organiseerde. http://www.catalystinfoshop.org/bill/

Ambassade van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika
Flyer-actie tegen de Green Scare in de VS: enkele foto's

door Guido Sunday, Jun. 11, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Guido@stopimperialism.be

Gisteren was er een flyeractie tegen de Greenscare in de VS aan de ingang van het Gentse St-Pieterstation, enkele mensen hielden een spandoek vast, anderen deelden flyers uit aan de voorbijgangers, de actie begon rond 14u en een uur later waren er 400 flyers uitgedeeld, hieronder wat meer info:

Z. E. de heer Tom C. Korologos
Ambassadeur van de VSA
Regentlaan 27
1000 Brussel

(Plaats, datum)

Excellentie,

Ik schrijf u naar aanleiding van de aanklacht tegen …. Samen met een aantal andere personen wordt hij/zij er van beschuldigd vernielingen te hebben toegebracht aan privé eigendommen. Nochtans pleit … , even als de andere beklaagden die voor vergelijkbare feiten aangeklaagd worden, onschuldig, en is de reële bewijslast miniem. Bovendien wordt er tegen hem/haar levenslang geëist, wat een straf buiten iedere redelijke proportie is.
De zaak van … is een gevolg van een FBI onderzoek, “Operation Backfire” genoemd. Bij deze operatie werden vooral milieuactivisten geviseerd. Bovendien wordt er in de aanklacht tegen … gebruik gemaakt van de nieuwe antiterreurwetgeving, alhoewel de hem/haar ten laste gelegde feiten van voor het tot stand komen van deze wetten dateren. Net zoals bij de andere beklaagden hangt … een excessief zware straf boven het hoofd en kijkt hij/zij aan tegen enorm hoge proceskosten. Verder maakt het feit dat hij/zij als terrorist gebrandmerkt wordt een eerlijk proces onmogelijk.
Daarom wil ik u beleefd vragen om er bij de bevoegde instanties op aan te dringen dat … een eerlijk proces zou krijgen op basis van reële feiten. Bovendien wil ik wijzen op het juridisch gevaar van het retroactief gebruik van wetten. Tot slot zou ik u met aandrang willen vragen om aan de overheden van uw land de boodschap over te brengen zeer voorzichtig om te springen met antiterreurwetten die de vrijheden van burgers aantasten en dergelijke wetten zeker niet te gebruiken tegen burgerbewegingen die juist zo belangrijk zijn in een democratie.

Met meeste hoogachting,

(Naam, adres, handtekening)

http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/11143.php

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Drinking water fight

Alexander — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:25:33 GMT

Drinking water fight

Health officer defends our tap water from Brita attack ads

Drinking water providers throughout North America, including the Greater Vancouver Regional District, are seething over a Canadian advertising campaign for Brita water filters that implies tap water is not fit for drinking and associates it with sewage.

The GVRD, the Canadian and American water utility associations and John Blatherwick, chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health, have all complained about the campaign and asked Brita to withdraw the TV commercial that provoked their anger. Brita has refused.

The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association has filed a complaint with the Advertising Standards Council.

The offending commercial shows a woman in a kitchen with a glass of water on the table. She leaves the room and you hear the sound of a toilet flushing. In time with the sound, the water in the glass drains away, then fills again like a toilet tank would.

An announcer says the toilet water is the same as the tap water, and asks, "Don't you deserve a better quality to drink?"

The regional district takes the Brita campaign seriously because it undermines public confidence in the safety of tap water, GVRD spokesman Bill Morrell said Friday.

"The inference is that our municipally supplied tap water is inferior and in fact is the same as drinking out of your toilet," Morrell said.

"And frankly, that's not only untrue but alarmist and entirely inappropriate.

"We take a great deal of effort to ensure that people understand that we have some of the best water in the world, we are continually seeking ways to improve it, and people can have great confidence in the water supplied by the Greater Vancouver Regional District."

Blatherwick wrote to Brita Canada Corp., saying, "I find offensive the Brita television commercial that uses the sound of a flushing toilet to imply tap water is not fit to drink. This is blatantly not true.

"You owe an apology to the water distributors and to the medical health officers and environmental health officers who work hard to ensure safe drinking water."

The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association asked Brita, on behalf of Canada's municipal water utilities, to withdraw the commercial.

The American Water Works Association said in a letter to Brita business team leader Robert Rizzo that the commercial "elicits irrational apprehension -- if not revulsion -- at the tap water delivered to our homes every day."

But Rizzo, in a letter to Blatherwick, responded that Brita Canada and its parent company, the Clorox Company of Canada, do not think the commercial implies tap water is undrinkable, and that all the ad does is promote Brita products.

Rizzo said consumers would get the message from the commercial that tap water and toilet water come from the same source, "and not that tap water is unfit to drink."

"We plan to continue airing this advertising," he added.

Rizzo could not be reached for comment on Friday.

Blatherwick said he is often asked about Brita and other filtering systems, and has always responded that they're fine as a way to make perfectly drinkable tap water "even better."

"I might not be quite as gracious in future," he said.

Blatherwick said Brita should work with water utilities and health authorities, not against them, since Brita filters depend on tap water.

"I'm saying, come on guys, that's a cheap shot and it's not appropriate when you should really be in partnership with us."

Blatherwick added that Greater Vancouver's pristine water does not need Brita filtering.

"I drink tap water exclusively," he said. "We're drinking the purest water possible."

The water providers have not gone public with their complaint. Morrell said they did not want to give Brita free publicity. But the correspondence appeared this week on a meeting agenda of the regional district's water committee.

It's not the first time Brita has offended water utilities. Three years ago the American Water Works Association pounced on commercials claiming that Brita "turns tap water into drinking water." That time, Brita withdrew the ads.

Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=11ae4da1-25ee-4866-9709-67bfa0b22a89

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

15 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD PLANT TREES (found at Forest Defenders tribe.net)

Alexander — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:43:28 GMT

15 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD PLANT TREES (found at Forest Defenders tribe.net)

http://www.ridgefieldpark.org/content/50/83/default.aspx

1. Trees store carbon and clean the atmo sphere. In 50 years, one
tree generates $30,000 in oxygen, recycles $35,000 of water, and
removes
$60,000 of air pollution.

2. Tree shade reduces air conditioning costs in residential and
commercial buildings by 15-50 percent. Do you need a tree planted to
the South or West of your house?

3. Properly placed and cared for trees and shrubs significantly
increase residential and commercial property values. Would you like a
new tree for your property?

4. Trees provide habitat for a large vari ety of wildlife. Do you
like bird songs?

5. Trees connect us with nature and rein force spiritual and
cultural values.

6. Trees prevent or reduce water pollu tion in NJ’s streams, rivers,
darns, and estuaries.

7. Trees prevent or reduce soil erosion.

8. Trees help recharge ground water and sustain stream flow.

9. Properly placed screens of trees and shrubs decrease traffic
noise along NJ’s busy streets and highways. Do you have a site that
needs a tree along Rt. 46?

10. Trees screen unsightly views and provide privacy for NJ homeowners.

11. Trees make life more pleasant by softening harsh outlines of
buildings.

12. Trees add beauty and grace to any community setting. They make
life more enjoyable, peaceful, and relaxing. Do you enjoy walking
through
Ridgefield Park?

13. Research shows that trees help reduce stress in the workplace and
speed hospital patients’ recovery. Do you hear the sighs of relief on
NYC buses as they reach RP?

14. Trees provide a multitude of recreation opportunities.

15. Trees, planted as memorials, leave a valuable gift for future
generations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Homeowners often ask for assistance with trees that are on their own
private property. We manage only the public trees, but we can
provide a list of New Jersey Certified Tree Experts with whom we have
contact.

The attached document suggests guidelines for selecting an Arborist.

The Shade Tree Commission's sidewalk program is still available for
homeowners who wish to repair or replace their sidewalks. Through
this program, a homeowner can be reimbursed for some expense incurred
due to damage by street trees. Applications are available at the
municipal building or by calling 201-641-4950, extension 640.

Mulch can protect a tree by conserving moisture and preventing grass
and weeds from growing too close to the trunk. But too much mulch
smothers the tree just the same as it smothers the weeds. Mulch
belongs around the tree but not against it.

Re: 15 Reasons why we should plant trees
Today, 10:22 AM
For those that have read Gene Sharp's "From Dictatorship to Democracy" and are trying to awaken bioregional identity and revolution within their bioregion (such as Cascadia and what some of us would call an Evergreen Revolution) this is a great way to get the word out... plant a tree (ideally a native tree that is not genetically modified). In Gene Sharp's list of 198 Methods of Nonviolence against dictatorship I would put this under the "Symbolic public acts" number 29 "Symbolic reclamations"

Gene Sharp's "From Dictatorship to Democracy"
http://www.hermanos.org/nonviolence/dictodem.html

Maybe we need a "Tree Army" ("Stik Sojurs" in Chinook Jargon) to cover all of Cascadia in trees... ahh imagines of McBeth and the marching forest comes to mind.

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Green Scare Resources

Alexander — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:18:58 GMT

Green Scare Resources
author: havetheirbacks
this is a list of online resources for greenscare info . . .
GREEN SCARE RESOURCES

Civil Liberties Defense Center: excellent archive of legal papers, updates on indictments.
http://www.cldc.org

Portland Independent Media Center [IMC] Green Scare page
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/greenscare/

Green Scare informational website
http://www.greenscare.org

Wikipedias pages on:
Green Scare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

Operation Backfire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Backfire_%28FBI%29

Green is the new Red
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/

Providence Green Scare
http://www.myspace.com/greenscarepvd

Media:

BOOM! Who are the real terrorists? BY ALAN PITTMAN
Eugene Weekly, March 9, 2006
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/03/09/coverstory.html

Sourcecodes ..1 Terrorist Threat?
Download Quicktime movie below
http://sourcecode.freespeech.org/sc302EcotageDL

Operational Backfire: Criminalizing Dissent By MICHAEL DONNELLY
Counterpunch.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly05242006.html

War on the First Amendment
The Great Green Scare By BEN ROSENFELD
Counterpunch.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenfeld03102006.html

The Green Scare by Karen Pickett
http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/13536/The_Green_Scare

found at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/340003.shtml

posted in Cascadian Radical Faeries - 0 replies

Cascadian Radical Faeries's topics - tribe.net

Traveling faerie looking for place to crash in Seattle on Sat.

The Call to the Winter 2010 Gathering of Radical Faeries at Breitenbush

Samhain 2009 at Wolf Creek

ride needed to wolf creek samhain

Mabon~

Faeposium Proposals Deadline Sept 12th

FAEposium 2 (the call)

Kwai offers Photo Sessions by donation Fri and Sat (4-5 Sept) in Seattle, next week in Portland

HOT INK - TATTOO PARTY in Portland, OR on August 15

ride needed from pdx to sgrf

Happy Solstice Ya'll

Ride Offer East!!!

Support Domestic Partnership in Washington

Lets communicate/coordinate/collaborate/carpool!!!!! Join Wolf Creek Rideshare Yahoo Group!

Seattle Area Carpooling to Wolf Creek for Beltane

PORTLAND EXHIBIT

Wolf Creek BELTANE! Call & Registration Online!

Banyan & Toddmary need a pt home

"Sunset Hill Day Spa" A Seattle Faerie Event 2/14/09

wolf creek winter camp?? -- call for interest!

Seeking ride to Breitenbush winter gathering

Winter Gathering 2009 at Breitenbush Hot Springs

Check out my new fae calendar!

Radical Faerie Symposium and Cabaret Nov. 8th Check it out!

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

returning to Oakland Oct 19, looking for ride to WC or PDX

8/29-9/2 Men’s Labor Day Camping

Anyone need a ride to Breitenbush (leaving from So. Oregon)

A “Taste of Square Dancing"

Looking for a place to stay - the night of August 12, 2008 in Portland

Mead Moon

Planning Meeting THIS WEDNESDAY in Portland about the 2008/08/08 Doug Honours Ceremony

getting to the crux of fae youth/elder visionary seeing, re: women on our lands

Job Opening In SE PDX

ride to WC for witchcamp/permaculter share

HELP>port to wolf creek for "the dance"?...

Oregon Country fair pass sought; faerie camp out nearby?

Re:Wolf Creek ride?

greetings from a neighbour.

Moving to Portland

3 movies on Post Cheap Petroleum Cuba

day of the dead dance

Free Cascadia

The Call for Samhain at Wolf Creek 2007

Triple Global Crises

REquired REading

The Call for Queer Magic: The Cauldron (September 21-23, Portland OR)

Wolf Creek Samhain 07 call

More on the possible Nuking of Portland

New Member: Intro 2U: C my page/Send Add?

Doug Honours Ceremony July 7th at Champoeg (BE THERE!)

QUEER DRUM CIRCLE

Oregon and Washington Secession Poll at the Thom Hartmann Show

*Community Supported (f)Agriculture at Feral Fruits Farm*

need a ride SF - Wolf Creek Naraya

Ecotopia the utopian novel that inspired Cascadia

Fascism in Aberdeen-Help us stand up to the government tomorrow

5/12 What does your soul long for?

May 2nd 1843 Oregon Country

Cascadian Bike Tour May 14 - 31st

Launch may with Activism ... Cascadia Spring

Newbie

Within Cascadia: Chee Savish and Dancing Hawk Native Lifeways

Namaste Fae

Ostara Is Upon Us

Queeruption Vancouver Now Starting August 1st

Greeting and Salutations

A Introduction and Request

... if you aren't going to Breitenbush Winter Gathering... consider this in Seattle

New Orleans Radical Faeries present the 18th annual Brigid Ball

Queeruption Vancouver: August 2-7 2007

Evie and I hope you´ll join us at Starland near Joshua Tree 12-28-06 thru 01-02-2007

12/19 Love Your Low-Back

12/2 Create a job you’ll love . . .

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Cascadia Now Chapters Seek Student Organizers

“Roses, Cedars, and Orange Ribbons” [Audio]

This Sat, 11/4 Men Finding Wisdom thru Story-telling

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Community Supported (f)Agriculture at Feral Fruits Farm