An unseasonably warm December left only light dusting of snow, which made the coyote, rabbit and dog tracks very easy to identify, It also meant chopping and hauling a lot less firewood. My Occupy Farm experience must have left me with waves of “up sparkle” energy. As I sat in Port Authority Bus Terminal on [...]
I’m on my way to a farm that has joined the Occupy movement. I know nothing about it except that as a long-term sustainable option, farms make sense to me. You can only sleep on concrete and marble in a city “park” for so long. I have no idea what will happen in the next [...]
The last time I showed up at the OWS People’s Library, I learned that the yellow-vested security guards refused to allow any library books to be displayed at Zuccotti Park during the day. Yes, it gets worser and worser. To add insult to injury, a published author who I consider a friend, accused me of [...]
Thanksgiving Day was special this year, because of the resilience of the Occupy movement around the world. Occupy Wall Street was the site of an amazing shared feast, music, voice relay messages and library presence at Zuccotti Park. It is also the source for the sense of hope shared by my fellow 99-percenters. OWS is [...]
I left for Toronto, Ontario just after OWS putt Goldman Sachs on trial. Little did I know that the book the librarians encouraged me to take along on my journey would become a survivor of a brutal library massacre. I’m still carrying WIIGWAASI-JIIMAAN: Birch Bark Canoe Building, Jeff Savage, with the OWS Library stamp wherever [...]
At OWS, when I hear “mic check” I know that people are preparing to send a message via voice relay. It’s not hard to figure out who is meeting and when. But the most impressive use of this voice relay technique was when we found a lost 7-year-old literally within minutes - even before the [...]
Wangari Maathai will always be one of my heroes. The news of her passing fills me with despair. She was the first, perhaps the only, environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She embodied the spirit of hope as she carried out her mission to replant deforested lands not only in her native Kenya, but [...]
For me, every day is Earth Day and every year on this date, since my first Earth Day, I find myself questioning the choices we have made as a nation that appear to be leading us farther away from Senator Nelson’s vision. That only makes me more determined to devote my time and energy to [...]
“Josh Fox [director of Gasland] is our Martin Luther King,” I overheard one attendee say, as the rally ended and people got ready to speak with their elected officials. I joined several hundred of my fellow New Yorkers who traveled to Albany on Monday April 11, 2011 to rally and then meet with our elected [...]
Thanks to fellow mycophile Tim Sage, I have just viewed Paul Stamets’s presentation of how mushrooms can save the world.
