Take a look at this Community Library. If you have it in your heart to help, this is a good place to give it. This is a community library at a local nonprofit, Alternatives for Girls.
Rise -N- Shine program for elementary and middle school girls begins the end of June so this is the best time to run our book drive. Please consider purchasing a title for us from our wishlist at Powell Books.
Hundreds march for gay marriage in central Calif.
Sunday May 31, 2009
By the way, did anyone ever notice that marriage is spelled wrong? Obviously by the way it sounds it should be spelled: ‘marraige’. Am I right?
Anyway, Looks like the Prop 8 protest movement isn’t taking NO for an answer. Their strategy is to move the demonstration into the conservative center of CA to enlighten the opposing camp right in their backyards.
Just for history’s sake: compare this strategy to the Freedom Riders in the early 60′s or the Van Dykes awareness campaign a little later.
Civil Rights activists called Freedom Riders rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, (1960).[1] The first Freedom Ride left Washington D.C. on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.
Boynton v. Virginia had outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. Five years prior to the Boynton ruling, the Interstate Commerce Commission had issued a ruling in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company which had explicitly denounced the Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine of separate but equal in interstate bus travel, but the ICC had failed to enforce its own ruling, and thus Jim Crow travel laws remained in force throughout the South.
I know that there are intricate psycholgical reasonings behind homophobia and hate crimes. I read the lingo and I understand it, but I just feel it’s a simple matter. There is something wrong with a person who physically attacks another person just becaue they don’t like their persona. I mean, we are all playing a part – we are spirit living, inhabiting these bodies – so the body is just a shell folks – why can’t we just make it to first base in the game of spiritual understanding, and let each other be? Still, these things happen. Attacks like this are ugly and to me – these things are horrific – they erode my own ability to feel safe. When one of us is hurt or attacked – it is against us all.
Defendant in hate-crime trial guilty on five charges
The county district attorney’s office added a hate-crime modifier to the charges, stating Warren “intentionally selected the person against whom the crime was committed in whole or in part because of the defendant’s belief or perception regarding the sexual orientation of that person.”
The most serious charge, attempted second-degree sexual assault, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The hate-crime modifier can add another five years to his sentence.
full story >> twincities.com
Google Love
I really wonder what Love is about for people, how they perceive it – what defines it for them. I see that Love is for sale everywhere, and I see that Love is defined in media through movies, song etc… but do we learn Love from our hearts and bodies? Do we use the thinking muscle that pumps life through us moment by moment every day? Do we FEEL Love in our bodies – or do we feel love in our minds, as an idea? How much time is there for Love? A few moments to get choked up in a movie? Is modern Love a pathology, a meme? We quantify Love – Do you love me a lot? How much do you love me? We take lessons in every subject, and study to play a significant role in the world of corporate humanity. Do we study Love? Do we practice Love in our hearts, so that we can go deeper and deeper into it and become experts? How much of modern Love is really emotional reminiscence, response to programmed symbology, learned behavior from media? If we do not involve ourselves in the act of learning Love every day, how can we pretend to Love? Isn’t Love what makes the world go round? Do we want the world to stop turning?
Love yourself today. Feel your heartbeat.
Occasionally I come across something on the web that is really artistic and interactive – with good use of technology, programming etc… here’s one of those things, and if you know of any other interactive stuff like this, please send me a link.
How a laptop and a highway play together, or what geometry has to do with music.
an audiovisual experiment by multimedia artist/singer Fredo Viola
