Alec, Catherine and I are going to Seattle first for dinner with Noel and then to Town Hall Seattle. The evening there will be opened by The Righteous Mothers. Then Cindy Sheehan and Anthony Arnove will speak. The Righteous Mothers are four female progressive feminist folk musicians based in the Olympia area. They have fantastic …
Thirty years ago Alec and I met and we help run a soup line at the Everything for Everybody organization in New York City. Then we moved to Mississippi where we founded Persons and fed free meals in our home. The problem of hunger in America is still here. Right now 38 million Americans don’t …
On 4/30 I wrote that Alec and I were going to the May 5th “2006 Gala Celebration Breakfast.” And so today we did. The breakfast was good ~ I broke my diet for diabetes. Oh well. Newly diagnosed and mostly I am being really cazeful. One of the speakers (who was younger than me I …
Saturday night comic and journalist Stephen Colbert the lampooned President Bush when he performed at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Click here to read Stephen Colbert’s Take at the White House Correspondents Dinner ~ by Daily Kos, on the Common Dreams website. Editor & Publisher published: Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner …
Ever since I read “A People’s History of the United States” Howard Zinn has been admired by me for telling the truth, sometimes when very few others were doing so. An article today: War on Iraq: Removing America’s Blindersby Howard Zinn~ The Progressive ~ April 24, 2006 If Americans were more aware of how often …
Tomorrow is May Day and a national boycott is planned. Here are articles I recommend: Why I Will Boycott on May 1by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández ~ AlterNet. ~ April 28, 2006. I will stand with my immigrant sisters and brothers because I value their contribution to America, and because their work makes my privilege …
Alec and I don’t have health insurance. We work on contract and also are self-employed. He had open heart surgery in 2002. I have epilepsy (adult onset starting in 1998 and I was just recently diagnosed with diabetes and high cholesterol. So we are private pay on everything – doctors, medicine, hospital stays etc. During …
With me mentioning the new songs of war and politics by Neil Young and by Pink with The Indigo Girls I want to share this one too. My friend Steve Scalchlin wrote in his online diary, Living in the Bonusround: “Musical Insurgency” (dated December 18-20, 2004). In an entry called The World of The Song …