Democracy Talks - Listen Up!
Michael Winship, Truthout: "If you don't buy 'Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues,' borrow it from the nearest local library (although please keep in mind, we are the sole support of a community of endangered pundits hiding in the swamplands of lower Manhattan. The choice is yours). Published by The New Press, the book is a collection of interviews augmented with new introductions and updates, a compilation of some of the best and most interesting conversations conducted during Moyers' PBS series from 2007-2010, as put together by Moyers and the production team. But more than that, 'Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues' functions as an informative and essential primer in contemporary American politics, society and literature, presented with a progressive point of view, yet covering the waterfront of ideas and opinions."
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E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Friday, May 27, 2011
Rumi’s Heavenly Music
rumi could not
separate himself
from the clouds, or the
words from the Qur’an
or the music Allah put
in his soul to sing,
it was in those long
afternoons
as he heard this music
that he was enchanted
wrote long, sang even longer
into the evening, wherein
others marveled
because he’d left his body,
let his soul soar
into the heavenly notes he
heard
put them as much as he might
on to parchment, into memory
so that others might share,
and as time has gone on,
there the music has expanded
further into the universe
so that now
all may hear it
not just those
who were close by
under the tree
listening to his singing
c: sam hamod, 5.26.11
Sam Hamod sent me the above poem yesterday. Rumi Lives!
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| RUMI |
Tricycle Daily Dharma
-Ezra Bayda, "Bursting the Bubble of Fear"
Awaken Aspiration
When the clarity of practice becomes obscured by the dark and swirling energy of emotional distress, it is useful to have some clear and concise reminders to bring us back to reality. The first reminder is to awaken aspiration. On an elementary level, to awaken aspiration means simply that we remember to practice. Once we remember to practice, to awaken aspiration means that we see our particular distress as our path. Instead of seeing our distress as the enemy, as something to get rid of; instead of giving it juice by solidifying the thoughts around it into the heaviness and drama of "me," we learn to view distress as our opportunity to see and to open.-Ezra Bayda, "Bursting the Bubble of Fear"
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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| MALCOLM X |
http://blip.tv/your-black-world-tv/malcolm-x-debates-the-history-of-america-5179729
TUNISIAN REVOLUTION DID NOT COME OUT OF NOWHERE Sadri Khiari Béatrice Hibou speaks to France-based Tunisian dissident and intellectual Sadri Khiari about the roots of the Tunisian revolution and why no-one saw it coming. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73574
WAITING FOR HIROSHIMA?
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage
http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/spent_nuclear_fuel_pools_in_the_us_reducing_the_deadly_risks_of_storage/
http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/spent_nuclear_fuel_pools_in_the_us_reducing_the_deadly_risks_of_storage/
Fact Sheet: Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.
http://www.ips-dc.org/files/3202/IPS-RA-Report-FactSheet-web.pdf
http://www.ips-dc.org/files/3202/IPS-RA-Report-FactSheet-web.pdf
Evacuation Zones for Nuclear Reactors (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
http://www.psr.org/resources/evacuation-zone-nuclear-reactors.html
http://www.psr.org/resources/evacuation-zone-nuclear-reactors.html
Washington Arts | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Also with us in studio is E. Ethelbert Miller. He's a literary activist and board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think-thank. ...
thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-05-23/...arts/transcript
Also with us in studio is E. Ethelbert Miller. He's a literary activist and board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think-thank. ...
thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-05-23/...arts/transcript
The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan
Hirose Takashi, The Asia-Pacific Journal: "The nuclear power plants in Japan are aging rapidly; like cyborgs, they are barely kept in operation by a continuous replacement of parts. And now that Japan has entered a period of earthquake activity and a major accident could happen at any time, the people live in constant state of anxiety. Seismologists and geologists agree that, after some fifty years of seismic inactivity, with the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake), the country has entered a period of seismic activity."
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Hirose Takashi, The Asia-Pacific Journal: "The nuclear power plants in Japan are aging rapidly; like cyborgs, they are barely kept in operation by a continuous replacement of parts. And now that Japan has entered a period of earthquake activity and a major accident could happen at any time, the people live in constant state of anxiety. Seismologists and geologists agree that, after some fifty years of seismic inactivity, with the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake), the country has entered a period of seismic activity."
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FOR HARRIET TUBMAN:
FYI
Friday June 3 rd. Dr. Cheryl LaRoche will kick off the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference at noon as keynote speaker at Chesapeake College in Cambridge, MD. The website is www.tubmanugrr.net.
E-TIME:
Much to do today. It looks like an email day in the morning. Over a hundred to respond to. A couple of manuscripts to read. Books to blurb. A stack of magazines to read and digest before the night comes. Too many things on the home desk. The E-Channel is going well. Will forward a series of questions to Charles Johnson later today. We are almost at the halfway mark of year long interview project. I've yet to really tackle his novel MIDDLE PASSAGE. I'll do that over the summer. I have about four movies I want to watch. They are sitting next to this computer. Where is the popcorn and the love in the dark?
Much to do today. It looks like an email day in the morning. Over a hundred to respond to. A couple of manuscripts to read. Books to blurb. A stack of magazines to read and digest before the night comes. Too many things on the home desk. The E-Channel is going well. Will forward a series of questions to Charles Johnson later today. We are almost at the halfway mark of year long interview project. I've yet to really tackle his novel MIDDLE PASSAGE. I'll do that over the summer. I have about four movies I want to watch. They are sitting next to this computer. Where is the popcorn and the love in the dark?
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- 6:07 PM EDT
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Senate Rejects House G.O.P. Medicare Plan by 57-40 Vote
The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican plan to overhaul
Medicare, defeating it by a 57-40 vote, with five Republicans breaking with
their party to vote against the proposal
The New York Times
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- 6:07 PM EDT
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Senate Rejects House G.O.P. Medicare Plan by 57-40 Vote
The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican plan to overhaul
Medicare, defeating it by a 57-40 vote, with five Republicans breaking with
their party to vote against the proposal
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