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Tomorrow, Monday, January 9, at 3:30 in the afternoon, I am going to be someplace I’ve never been before–inside the Federal Courtroom at the corner of Broadway and Eighth Avenue.  I’ve been outside it, involved in demonstrations, several times, but this is the first time I’m going in.  I’m not a witness or a defendant.  [...]

As I said, getting the state of Tennessee to recognize the Green Party’s right to appear on the ballot as a party is only half the battle.  The other half involves how the votes will be cast and counted. First, a little history.  The Cheney-Gore-Nader presidential contest in 2000 was widely perceived as having been [...]

Please note:  I’m going to drop a lot of f-bombs in this segment and the next.  In politics, however, the f-word that is not spoken in polite society has nothing to do with plowing or the union of male and female.  In politics, the f-word that should never be uttered is “fascism.”  I’m going to [...]

I’m going to conclude with this Marge Piercy poem, musical background is “Black Dust” by Bill Laswell from his AFTERMATHematics instruMENTAL album The Low Road What can they do to you? Whatever they want. They can set you up, they can bust you, they can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, [...]

My old  buddy Wally died a few days after Thanksgiving.  He had just passed his 56th birthday, but his body was worn out and his spirit was worn down.  “Wally” isn’t his real name, and I have altered some of the details of his life, just to preserve what dignity he had left.  As I [...]

I’ve been eagerly following, and occasionally participating in, the Occupy! movement here in Nashville, and it gladdens my heart to see so many young people taking up the cause, just when it seemed like the only folks interested in a just society were just us old holdouts from the 60′s.  Suddenly the land is full [...]

So, let’s revisit that American foundation document, “The Declaration of Independence.” IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 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 [...]

Because I am deeply committed to “occupying” our homestead, and there’s nobody to do some of the chores but me, I haven’t spent a lot of time with Occupy Nashville, but, at one of the General Assemblies I was able to attend, a young woman brought up an issue that, to me, is “the elephant [...]

Last Saturday,I was invited to speak, on behalf of the Cumberland-Green River Bioregional Council, on the topic of “How can we create a better world.”  Here’s the text of the invitation: Still being planned. Educate people against corporatism and militarism. This will be held at the Belmont United Methodist Church. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! If you [...]

I have a cousin who used to work for the World Bank, back in the day when most people thought highly of that institution.  His specialty was bringing potable water into urban neighborhoods in Africa, which is a noble pursuit, in my opinion.  My cousin has a good understanding of “the big picture,” and thus [...]

Sir Albert Howard published “An Agricultural Testament,” his best-known book, in 1940.  In its 300 pages, he laid out the scientific foundation for what has become the organic farming and gardening movement.  Of course, very little of what Howard expounded in his magnum opus was really new–much of  it was the logical, scientific justification for, [...]

When I first heard of David Kennedy’s recent book, “21st Century Greens–Leaf Vegetables in Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture,” my mind flashed back to the last time I had seen him, nearly twenty years ago, when he was a member of the Flat Rock Community near Murfreesboro and active in the Cumberland-Green Bioregional Council.  At one [...]