Posts for category ‘World’

So I know. I have been seriously MIA. And I do miss blogging. Evidently I haven’t missed it enough in the last year or so to actually do it, but still…

So here I am. I managed to get my Peace Globe up, and I’m pleased about that. Otherwise my life is insane (as usual? Maybe…), but good nonetheless. I’m marginally actively involved with Occupy Victorville and in full support of the movement as a whole. I really hope it will continue to grow and gain momentum. It’s time somebody shook things up in this country. So I’m doing my part. Showing up to hold my sign and be present, passing along links on Facebook and good info when I get it.

Yesterday I visited Occupy Riverside on my way home from the Dia De Los Muertos celebration that I attended there in Riverside as a vendor. It was pretty cool. I took a few pics and talked to some great folks. Catherine Williams Took me on the grand tour, walking me between both sites and introducing me around.
There is a bit of division there, as they have 2 occupy sites. They call them “A” and “B”. It seems that some folks resent the involvement of a Union local, but as far as I could see the Union is being supportive and in no way trying to usurp the movement.

They hold a General Assembly every night at 7 PM at site A, the pedestrian mall, so anyone with anything to say can say it. Matters large and small are decided by consensus. They are getting cold at night, and although they’re managing to eat, they could use donations of food and blankets.

I arrived just as about 20 police were leaving. It seemed that it required a sizable force to take 2 tents down. So now the folks occupying there know that they may indeed put up their tents every night, they just need to take them down in the morning. Seems to me that 19 of those cops could have been earning their pay elsewhere while 1 of them let the Occupy Riverside folks know that they needed to take the tents down during the day, but what do I know…

On the home front Thorne is again unemployed (after nearly a whole fucking year! Wow!!) I’m not terribly concerned. I’m writing again, doing, of course, NaNoWriMo and determined to finish up my 2008 Novel and follow through with rewrite and edit. I should be prepared to submit it for publication by February at the very latest. I’ll keep you posted.

I’ll also be doing more art and offering it for sale on Etsy. If you are a reader here at Thornesworld, leave me a comment before you shop my Etsy Store and I’ll hook you up with a special discount.

here’s to hoping there are still a few of my constant readers out there.

Peace, out!

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and climate change nay-sayers haunt me. Global warming and melting ice and stupid people haunt me.

So really, I’m no idiot. I understand that that time as we shortlived humans count it hardly matters when it’s held up to geoligical timelines. I also understand that our Mama is and our surrounding Universe is aging and changing in its own mysterious ways. Understanding that climate changes are part of that process however, does not give validity to the argument against our part in having an effect on the earth and our part in global warming. That’s what we call a fallacy in logical thinking.

Let’s get real. Of all the mammals on this earth since the very dawn of life, has ever a species changed as much of the planet as we do? Levelling mountains for ores and coal (is coal an ore? *hmmmm). Razing rainforests to graze cattle? Paving millions of miles for cities and roads? Poisoning our air and water…

Who can be so stupid as to believe that these things (and countless others, I’m sure) have not had and are not having an effect on our world? Or does anyone really think that? Are the folks that say it just the people who want to keep making money on raping the earth? I dunno.

Check out 350.org and see what you can do to help.
*photo credit to Gilbert R

Peace, out!