in support of Gore?

As in Al Gore?  Yes, that is to what I’m referring!  It is time to begin seriously considering the ways in which we understand ourselves in light of a global community.  Gore has published the text that might help us to incorporate a more important narrative thereby reducing our ecological footprint[s] and also our narcissistic tendencies.

How might be begin to tell the truth and get a sense concerning a comprehensive understanding of this present reality?  Let’s start thinking!  After all, do we just resign ourselves to Hillary or Barack at this moment?  The popularity is great, but there’s more to the practicing of politics than popularity!

Lets try to restore a sense of ethics to politics and government!

INCITE! AT THE US SOCIAL FORUM!!!: connecting w/ folks

INCITE! AT THE US SOCIAL FORUM!!!
HEADING TO THE US SOCIAL FORUM IN ATLANTA?
WONDERING HOW TO CONNECT WITH INCITE! FOLKS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHILE YOU’RE THERE?
PRE-CONFERENCE FORUM -
DEVELOPING LIBERATORY RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Please join us at the US Social Forum to advance our work on creating community-based alternatives to address violence and strategies to build safer, supportive, and more peaceful communities! The movement to create community-based, transformative justice is at an exciting moment! Across the U.S., a small but growing collection of organizations are developing and piloting models that address intimate and community violence that do not rely on State intervention. While in different organizational stages, most of us are already working together in some capacity, but we have not yet been able to formally gather and share our experiences, struggles, challenges and successes –a unique opportunity that the upcoming U.S. Social Forum can provide.
For this reason, Generation Five, Critical Resistance, Creative Interventions, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and Action + Community= Transformation would like to invite your organization to participate in a pre-forum convening for individuals and organizations that are currently doing national or local work to develop violence-prevention/intervention models that do not rely on state intervention.

faith, poverty, politics, “skinny” bibles and phat diets

I have just had a lovely “coffee” hour w/ a friend.  I love the place where we typically meet for coffee.  Its an organic, vegetarian sort of place where I truly love the Mexican hot chocolate–w/ soy!  Today we gathered and whilst it was quite loud with dishes banging about, I found myself invited into the conversations of life.

My friend, clergyperson, scholar, feminist, pastor and good friend and  I talked about writing.  I shared how I have a sense and call and perhaps an urge to write.  From where does that urge or call or sense come?  Is it internal?  Is it external?  I don’t know?  I tend to err on the fact that it is both internal and external.

And so, I come to this virtual space and begin to press the labeled buttons on my mac thereby producing words, sentences, thoughts.  My words are coalescing into a sense of meaning that is billowing from within, but this sense probably has been affected by external stimuli.

And there you have it…I have come to a place where the written narrative woven with embodied experience is bubbling within me.  I have also come to a place where [the] “church” [that group of folks who form an organic gathering] has become another place that has been inviting me into her presence and waves of justice.

I continue to look for the wavemaker–that One who partners with me to do the good work of justice and continues to help me make little moves against destructiveness.

draft gore dot com

DRAFTGORE.COM

87,000 people signed. Have YOU?

BN just promoting the draft gore dot com site…well…who better…At this point, the idea of a presidential election is all up for somebody’s grab! After our current yahoo [ie Bush from the "Great State"], I’m not real clear what it even means to function in this capacity of President of the United States. Do you?

Al Gore: The
Conscience of the
Democratic Party

He’s eloquent, passionate, relentless, undaunted. The first political figure to oppose the Iraq war, Al Gore is also the lead champion in the fight against global warming, a passionate defender of our Constitution, and an unyielding voice against the Bush Administration’s abuse of power. Given his unmatched experience and leadership on issues of moral imperative, Gore is increasingly seen as Democrats’ best bet to win back the White House.

Run Al Run! Listen to original song by Paul Kaplan

Illinois women not getting the care they need

Illinois women not getting the care they need New report reveals Illinois women in health care crisis May 31) Women in Illinois are more likely to need medical services than men and yet, they are less likely to get it and often go without, according to the final report, ” A Study of Uninsured Women in Illinois,” released today by Chicago Foundation for Women.   “As the legislature grapples with the budget, we hope these numbers remind them that spiraling health care costs have put women’s health and safety in jeopardy. These women are caught in a health care crisis,” said Hannah Rosenthal, executive director of Chicago Foundation for Women. “But there is a solution. Illinois Covered is an ambitious plan that will offer coverage to hundreds of thousands of women previously uninsured.”   The report, the first extensive look at uninsured women in Illinois, also found one in every four Chicago woman has no health insurance. And the numbers are even higher for Latinas in Illinois–which means women are teetering on a dangerous edge risking both physical and financial security.   CLICK HERE TO SEND A NOTE TO YOUR LEGISLATOR   Click here to read the report.   Click here to read the press release.