Climate Change Conference in Bali this last weekend

Hey.

"US balks at Bali Carbon Targets"
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/10/5733

"No deal inSite at Bali"
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/10/5746/

Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands (REDOIL)

From an interview with Faith Gemill at the US Social Forum:
http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/200232_faithgemill_full.mp

Happy Independence Day?

1. "Immigration reform" bill is dead. Well Bush was not very clear on it at all.
and the guest worker program sucked. but to round up illegal immigrants like they
are sh*t is inhumane.
2. Less diversity in schools? Hello- that will only lead to segregation. And I know how
deeply racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, pro war, pro corporate, the people are.

A message to all candidates and political parties: Dems and Repubs; if you want to be taken
seriously abolish free trade which is actually not free and completely unsustainable. Please
abolish NAFTA, all corporations, the World Trade Organization, the International
Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. You might find as you do this that almost all
problems in the world will be solved as almost all issues are linked to free trade.
( I am reluctant to put racism-sexism-homophobia under that category; those issues
perhaps belong in the "assinine- ideas- left- over- from- the- hunter-gatherer-
days- that- we- still- hav'nt- gotten- rid- of". )
Alternative parties: Hey I really love y'all especially the Green Party but unless you
are running a deadly serious candidate who knows all of the issues (including above
mentioned for major parties), and unless you clean up your act and become more organized
(hear hear my fellow Greenies whom I love so much) then what the hell are you doing
running a candidate for president? Stick to running for Congress so we can get the a-holes
out. In fact-
Skip that. the climate change scientists are saying we have ten years before the course of the planet is bad or worse. (It's bad enough already.) Now I know WE MUST NOT
EXPECT A SAVIOR PRESIDENT. I also figure the next president no matter which party
IS GONNA GET CREAMED for following Bush and too high expectations.
Problem: On account of Mother Earth we are gonna need HIGH expectations.
I feel sorry for that person who will "win" the presidency.
SO.
I really have no faith in any political party, any form of government, and am thinking of
seriously voting either NOTA or not voting at all. Probably the latter. I hate politics.

it's the end of the world as we know it

Hi.
Sorry the long absence. Nothing to say. Now I have plenty.
We are going to need a MASSIVE lifestyle change within next ten years if we are
to survive as a species. Things will get very hard even if we do manage to survive.
I remember in Le Guin's book The Disposessed there is a Terran the main character Shevek
meets who tells him Earth is a ruin. That they had to resort to total centralization
in order to survive. We may have to do that. Though I think this carbon trading stuff is
cr#p. We also need to do a lot of local organizing.
As I have no money now ( I spent it all on reunion trip to College of the Atlantic and two
musical instruments, a guitar and mountain dulcimer ) no trips in coming year except the usual
to the Vineyard and Springfield. I hope to get a full time job and maybe be a landlord for a while.
But I still hope to move to Madison not just to relax but to learn about co-op life. I am not sure I am accomplishing anything here. Although it was very good to attend Somerville Conversations as it showed the importance of passing on hope to next generations
and to listen that they needed more empowerment.