February 2012
“In the Sichuan province of China, there is an abundance of orchards but no bees....”
– Jed Fuhrman, holder of the McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology at USC College (via climateadaptation)
“My people did not farm and had no use for crops until the salmon runs began to...”
– Mourning Dove, Colville author, 1888-1936 (via solitaryforager)
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
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YES YES YES THIS THIS THIS
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I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
(via baxtavius)
U.S. Military Toxins: The Gift That Keeps on... →
progressivehumanity:
Hey, Iraq, don’t say we never gave you anything. In addition to hundreds of thousands dead and untold injured, the United States is leaving behind enough toxic waste sites to kill your rats.
“Open-air burn pits have operated widely at military sites in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the Department of Veterans Affairs notes on its website. On hundreds of camps and bases across the...
“Stronger hurricanes, bigger floods, more intense heat waves, and sea level rise...”
– “Expect the Unprecedented”: Weather Underground Meteorologist Jeff Masters On Our Shifting Climate
(via solitaryforager)
“My feeling is that student fees are instituted, basically as a technique of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“Energy simply flows through us, just as water and the other elements do. And an...”
– Bodhipaksa, Living as a River
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“When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated...”
– - Marlon Brando (via intoxicatedspirit)
Well, at least Marlon Brando knows what’s goin’ on.
(via littlespirits)
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are...”
– Alan Watts (via cwnl)
“I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria...
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- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“People can grow up with outward appearance of normality in an environment...”
– E.O. Wilson (via hominidae)
“…pirates emerge whenever what has been traditionally in ‘the commons’ becomes...”
– Kester Brewin (via azspot)
“So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference...”
– Derrick Jensen, What We Leave Behind (via slychedelic)
“The white people never cared for land or deer or bear. When we Indians kill...”
– a woman of the Wintu tribe, 1876
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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...”
– Aldous Huxley (via mohandasgandhi)
“Still, in the universities or in any other institution, you can often find some...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“Anarchism aims to strip labour of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom...”
– Emma Goldman (via mutualaddiction)
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“[Chicken and hog] factories do not produce meat more efficiently than...”
– Rick Dove, “The American Meat Factory”
“The central lesson of the last 30 years is that a widening income gap and a more...”
– Stewart Lansley, Why economic inequality leads to collapse
(via solitaryforager)
“We have lost touch with the natural order of things… which day of the workweek...”
– Thomas Berry in Endgame Vol. II: Resistance I have often thought this culture cannot be saved. It can’t be. In these moments, I wander, I yearn, that I may at least remember the beauty not yet lost. (via americawakiewakie)
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the...”
– Emma Goldman (via terramantra)
“In anarchy, the goal is not to figure out a punishment that works, but rather to...”
– Justin Hill (anarchistreview)
“For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically...”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski Former U.S. National Security Advisor Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission (via ifweweremartians)
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And those who are killing it have...”
– Utah Phillips (via cultureofresistance)
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding...”
– Carl Sagan (via warriorsrise)
“Now, of course, it’s extremely easy to say, “The heck with it - I’m just going...”
– Noam Chomsky (via humanformat)
“How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and...”
– Jim Morrison, 1969 (Creem Magazine)
The #Seed Emergency: The Threat to #Food and... →
anonymissexpress:
Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis - and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations.
by Vandana Shiva
New Delhi, India - The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have...
“And just because she refused to get up, she was arrested. You know, my friends,...”
– Martin Luther King, a week after Rosa Parks’s arrest. (via solitaryforager)
Watchchos:
GMO Film Project by filmmaker Jeremy Seifert (known for Dive!)
THE GMO FILM PROJECT tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMOs through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto’s gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. After a journey to Haiti to learn why hungry...
“The purpose of education cannot be to control the child’s growth to a specific...”
– Noam Chomsky (via solitaryforager)
Ottawa’s new anti-terrorism strategy lists... →
solitaryforager:
After vowing to take on radical environmentalists determined to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Harper government has released a new anti-terrorism strategy that targets eco-extremists as threats.
With his announcement this week, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has increased the concern among environmentalists that Ottawa regards them as implacable adversaries to be...
