On this Monday, the 25th, I will be leaving early to attend and sing in the Grenada benefit spirituals song fest at the House of Joy, starting at 7. Feel free to join me there after a quick dinner, or stay with the talkers around the table. love, Ellen
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At the table Monday July 18:
Steve Slack, Londo Slack, Dan Hershey, Shirley Maul, Sally lBrown, Paul Brown, David rosenberg, Bob and Debbie Miller, Mira Rodwan, nancy Dawley, Gary Wiess, Frank Carpenter, Jackie Rousseau, Steve Sunderland, Gregory Thorp. Marvin Kraus, Gerry Kraus, Ellen Bierhorst, Judy Cirillo
Topics nominated:
Margaret Garner
Death of a Puppeteer: Jerry Handorf
The Browns
What I have learned
Dan Radio report
Announcements at the table:
Steve Sun. Margaret Garner is medicine for the white people to take away the sugar coating of the slavery experience. i.e. ³Porgy and Bess².
Gary W: going to Nairobi. was medicine for me and my unconscious racism.
Judy Cirillo: Contact Center in OTR. Welfare Rights coalition. Advocacy . Empowerment commission. Festival Aug. 6 noon to 6, Washington Park. Tracy Walker. People¹s choice awards, OTR steel drum band. Arts and crafts. Adult talent show. Games. Food.
MIra: my sister in law and Judy are both going to Jerusalem with Women in Black for peace vigil August 11-17.
Gerry Kraus: Free bumper stickers for salonistas. T shirts for $8.
Nancy Pelosi is collecting for Fighting Donkeys.
David Rosenberg: I just went to Findlay Market. Local produce starting to come in. Beautiful. Other produce about half price of supermarket prices. Mark Dobbs, not certified organic but he uses org. practices. $3 lb hamburger. Very clean. HIs stall is next to the parking lot, north end in the Farmer¹s area. Best day is Sat. Sun hours now. ON Sunday Gerry¹s friend Kate Fisher is selling crepes.
Also Silverglades, best cheese and salmai in town. Flowers.
Dan on Right wing radio: re. the Carl Rove, a strange phenomenon. Right wing response. jRemember Wattergate was described by Nixon as a third rate break in. The right wing people have responded to the Rove thing in an angry way that I haven¹t seen in a long time. A strong angry attack at anyone who touches this thing. Attacking the media, Wilson, ... suggests that there is more coming out than they are aware of. Where will it end? with the revelations. Will it reach into the office of the president. Did bush say ³Go get her². The level of heat in the talk show people is greater than you have seen in a long long time. ... Jon Steward had a clip; qu4estioning of Scott McClelland. ³It¹s amazing, these people sitting in front of of McC. are asking actual questions. What happend to the old yes men media reporters?²
David: Apparently someone out of Cheny¹s office also was implicated.
Paul Brown: Morgantown. We have the honor of living in a state that says, ³thank God for Mississippi². We moved there in 1974. We heard about those imoral records being burned. A book burning in Charleston WVA. Death belt... people favoring the death penalty. We have felt like foreigners. This particularly severe last November. Morgantown voted for Bush. Traditionally Dem. state. They love their guns more than the constitution. They believed Kerry would take guns away. Evangelical Catholics and protestant fundamentalists all voted Bush, despite W.Va being a traditionally solid Democratic state. The mood among my cohort was very pessimistic. People didn¹t know what to do.
We thought maybe we could do some things ... what could we do ourselves that could improve our quality of life? improve the farmers¹ market. Persue sustainable living. Improve the lot of women in Morgantown. Women are the first to suffer as well as minorities in oppressed states like WVa.
Shortly before Xmas we held a meeting. Agreed on a first project: set up a Mutual insur. co. for landlords. Owned by the policy holders. No share holders. That project fell through. The property owners did not see it as in their interest as they would have had to invest in it. But other things: a Planned Parenthood facility. There were NO planned Parenthood facilities in WVa. Planned P. came to visit, gave a nice presentation. The right to lifers are foaming at the mouth, of course. Wanda Franz, national pres. of right to life lives in Morgantown. In eighties they used death threats to chase out abortionists from Morgantown. But now Planned Parenthood wants to raise money but not build a facility until later. We told them we¹d rather collect pledges to build an actual facility. .... Because we made it public what we are doing, talking with teh Planned Parenthood, their organizatoin feels committed to going ahead.
We already have enough abortionists in Morganitown. We want their clinics for education, health care for the poor.
Sustainability: ³The clock is ticking². Climate change, species extinction, overpopulation. Newsletter.
"Esamizdat" (name indicates an electronic version of the soviet underground press "Samizdat"). Subscription email service. esamizdat@clockticking.org to ask to subscribe. Daily news.
Our focus: doing for ourselves at the local level. Also, how did we get here in this pickle? How to use our actual natures to change. Even if we started having only one child per woman it would take a hundered and fifty years to get to a sustainable polulation world wide. All the sustainable actions will be worthless without population control.
(See Maroon section below for address to request Paul's email news bulletin.)
Steve Su: we are dramatically under the replacement rate of repopulation in America and all western countries.
Ellen: according to the research of people like Mike Fremont and Frances Moore Lappé there is plenty of arable land to feed everyone if we stopped the wasteful use of acres to produce grain to feed to cattle and pigs and chickens.
Paul: I am a Neurophysiologist at WVa U. Corruption in NIH. the worst is in pharmaceutical research. Control of grant funding is through peer review... the ³peers² are grabbing power. Power concentrated in fewer and fewer labs. They view other labs as competitors rather than collaborators... reporting false data; incorrect evals. of others¹ work; The corporate mentality has entered science.
There is a book, University Inc. about The sell out of the university mission.
Frank: you have ghone to the city govt.?
Paul: I have asked support for green energy, and architecture ... no gov. incentives for green like there for instance in CA. University Faculty; the Univ. Admin, and the city council of the city. Three keys.
The faculty passed the resolution without discussion. Then went to City. Asked for adoption of the UN Urban Environmental Accords, covering twenty one areas from energy use to solid waste management, to urban ecosystmes. j Specific reductions in c o two emissions. Total elimination of solid waste by (LyearJ). I took them to city council. They adopted them. But the newspaper did not report it.
But now we will hold their feet tothe fire. Will work first on the solid waste issue. Propose the total elimination of sold waste to land fills in ten years. MIlestones each year. Some recycling. Over ten years shift the burden of paying for recycling to those who do not recycle. Food waste could be composting for food; credits for produce for composting. Create financial incentives.
We have an alternative fuel research center. At one time all the city and univ. vehicles burned alternatively nat. gas. We believe this could be phased back in.
Mira: from Cradle to cradle waste equals food. McDonough (sp?) book.
Paul: Local Planet MOrgantown, enews weekly.
How I got into this: was looking for what to do after retirement.
Steve Slack: my father drove a ngas (natural gas) vehicle in S California. They could fill up at work.
Paul: athe permanent solution will be solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and wave sources of power. Also use electricity to make hydrogen cells. burn hydrogen in converted coal plants. Completely renewal. No CO two buildup from burining hudrogen.
There are three auto plants in W VA that have zero waste to the land fill.
Reforestation is another important need. Deforestation makes deserts... in many places.
MIra: NOW program.
Gerry: on Global Warming. Because of increase of carbon dioxide ... oceans more acidic. Effect on the plankton and shell fish.
Plankton disappearing off CA.
David: I met a farmer near morgantown. Free heat for greenhouses through ihs own ngas wells. HIs little reserves were not enough for a big co. but will provide energy for his farm for a long time. Decentralized solution. ... need to insure that the families own the means of production, the land... The extent to which we give up control over our own resources makes us slaves to these centralized mass debacles that we call ³energy policy².
Paul: it is like biological diversity. If we have economic diversity, local ization... more robust, will survie better.
Steve: Su: Jerry Handor serves as a symbol for releaseing creativity in people. A wonderful entrepreneur of the spirit. IL¹d like to go around the table talking about who are the crfeative people in our lives who help us think out of the box.
Margaret Garner
Toni morrison has taken the historical story and fictionalized it, changing. The historical issue had to do with trying someone for killing her children interpreted as destruction of property.
Same as Toni Morrison¹s Beloved.
Happened in 1856. Excaped from plantation in KY, to Cnti, later recaptured, then killed her child.
Steve Su: Opera. I thought it was an exploration of a sliver of life under slavery that revealed the upside down life that slaves had to live in order to survive. Loss of family, auction block, punnishments... Slaves had to suspend normal reactions. Emotional disconnect. Any normal emotional response ellicited reprisals from the owners. An emotionally dangerous world . I was never educated to udnerstand.
Dan: What was her crime? Murderer? No, property destruction because she wasn¹t a ³person². Only a person could be charged with murder. The children were not persons either. so she was not a murderer. Only by seeing it as property dammage.
Decided to hang her.j
Steve Su: Can we really understand what human existence was like for a slave? the answer of the Opera is No, we cannot understand. We have images of Fredrick Douglas, the Porgy and Bess, the escapes from slavery. In this opera there is no escape. No way that the slave can express grief, anger... including love without risking reprisals from the slave owner.
I found the opera to be purposely confrontative of my knowledge of the psychological reality of slavery. The opera made me ask Why doh¹t I have a better understanding of slavery. ... Jefferson as a rapist. Washington as a rapist.
Morrison suggests why have we minimized this story or even worse, made it into a ³we shall overcome² happy story.
I was not not lifted; I was lowered.
Frank: I was exhillirated. To see the veil lifted. No upper at the end. No reconcilled at the end. Only a prayer for deliverance. An exhilliration to feeling the truth revealed. To get where we want to go, we must have the truth.
Mira: in the preview at St JOhn¹s. When there were no whites around there was an exchange of emotions in the black family. But also the grandma was always cautious about the danger of expressing emotion. So there was just enough emotion to related to the black family as rfegular people. Also, how taken for granted, their servitude.
Frank: is it still dangerous for blacks to display emotion today.
Gerry: my experience is that African Americans are very outwardly emotional, probably more so thatn whites. Whites are uptight.
Gary: my experience of the culture... i have also felt pressure not to express feelings. It is dangerous. I am not claiming that it is similar than the danger of minority people.
Steve: but don¹t miss the gift Morrison is giving. Don¹t skip to the universal before getting what she was saying. I want to sustain the gaze at the experience of slavery. At what point does the black voice become free to sing or sAY WHAT THEY are feeling. ... my name is a camoflage for myh Jewishness. .... How affedct people to shift from slave mentality to freedom. .... I keepl coming back to the question, Do I really understand the connection between slavery and democracy. The psychological rammifications for people of color today. I have to realize I don¹t understand.
Dan: it is easy to image slavery as soon as you can de humanize the slaves. Then it becomes easy to treat them that way. Slavery made sense if you had that definition.
Marvin: I disagree with Dan. Every living thing I have a feeling for; a person, a flower. Something I planted, has been destroyed -- I really feel for that. I cannot understand how people can fail to have feeling for all life.
David: I think a human can separate ourselves from the rest of life. Reading Eric Fromm recently, the Anatomy of Human Destructiveness at suggestion of F M Lappe. Raises the question whether we are suffering from the illness of being forced to live in hierarchical sturctions, domminance and submission. Goes through the anthropoloc. data. We are hard wired to be egalitarian. He develops that thesis. Konrad Lorenz wrote abourt man¹s innate aggressiveness, as an appology for social Darwinism and war; it¹s part of our nature. Fromm makes the opposite point. Human destructiveness and cruelty is a function of civilization. As civilization has progressed those qualities have gotten worse. We are all suffering badly from this. Even those at the top.
Hugs,
ellen
(for Articles: see below. First, the "Announcements" section.)...
Don't miss the way cool article you want to read in blue section. It might be one of these:
- Steve Sunderland's eulogy for Jerry Handorf, puppeteer
- Margaret Garner rocks Cincinnati: opera review, by Steve Sunderland
- Vegan vs. Meat Diet for health and humanism: Nancy Dawley
- Local Guy uses fry grease in his diesel car
- A Culture for Teaching, by Will Raspberry of Wash. Post
sent in by Pete Altekreuse- Marriage Revolution
- Ted Birnberg writes us f rom Israel
- Blurb about the Sept. 23-25 Peak Oil Conference in Yellow Springs
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Announcements:
7/27/05
Steve Novotny's Indy Media hosts Mayoral Candidate Open Meeting
INDEPENDENT MEDIA NETWORK MAYORAL CANDIDATE SERIES #2- July 27
Please join us at an open meeting with Mayoral candidate Justin Jeffre on July
27th, 6:30 pm at InkTank World Headquarters, 1311 Main Street.
Cincinnati's Independent Media Network, in association with InkTank,
invites you to its Mayoral Series...
Mark Mallory was the first mayoral candidate to meet with local
bloggers on June 23rd, and we are pleased to continue this series
with independent candidate Justin Jeffre.
Bloggers, members of independent press, and even just interested
citizens, are invited to participate in an open meeting with
candidate Justin Jeffre on July 27th, 6:30 pm at InkTank World
Headquarters, 1311 Main Street.
This is an opportunity for area bloggers to sit down one-on-one with
candidates. Ask whatever you like. Talk about issues facing our City.
Feel free to report on the event at your web site.
More on Inktank at http://www.inktank.org
CINCIUNNATI CANDIDATES GRILL OUT TOUR
At the idea stage for now - we need volunteers
Any candidates are welcome. There has been council candidate interest in the
concept. In short, we will mount a "tour" of target neighborhoods, say places
like Avondale and Bond Hill, and we will find a public space with grills.
Each candidate will bring hot dogs and pop. The candidates will host a free
picnic to the neighborhood, giving everyone a chance to talk one-on-one with
the people.
The event could probably get positive press coverage, and it would surely
become rather popular after the first or second one. It's non-partisan spirit
will also encourage citizens.
We need to figure out how to get this arranged. I think we should look at
Saturdays in August.
To Do List:
*Find a place
*Verify candidates who can attend
*Make sure the food list is adequate
*Press Releases
If any of you want to be directly involved in planning, please let me know, or
if you have a staff/volunteer who would like to help.
NEW YEARS EVE PARTY AT THE MOCKBEE
We're sponsoring a new year's party at the Mockbee and need some help planning.
The tentative theme is Willie Wonka. Anyone want to volunteer?--
Steve Novotni
IMN Coordinator
1746 Mills Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45212
vox/fax: 513.841.9729
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Paulette Meier renting her house in Northside
7/23
Dear friends,
As some of you know, I was living this past year at a Quaker center near Philadelphia, on scholarship as artist in residence. It was a wonderful experience, as you can imagine!
I'm planning on going back up to the Philadelphia area in August to do music/peacemaking programs in schools, particularly Quaker schools. So... I'm going to rent my house out to help subsidize my income. I'm most interested in renters who would be ok if I kept some or all of my furniture here. Would appreciate your helping me spread the word!
Thanks a lot!
Paulette Meier
LOOKING FOR SIMPLE LIVING, EARTH LOVING PEOPLE TO RENT MY HOME. MAY CONSIDER LEASING WITH OPTION TO BUY:
House for Rent in Northside
Located on Glen Parker in quiet, beautiful wooded area of Northside.
3 BR, 2 full BA
Large Eat in Kitchen
Natural woodwork and hardwood floors
Furnished, if needed
Off street Parking
Laundry Facilities
Beautiful trees and view
Front yard garden space (has always been organic)
Efficient furnace, storm windows, added insulation
Monthly rent: $700 plus utilities
Call (513) 681-8851
7/23
Who is Charles Winburn? He is running for mayor of Cinti. He had a terrific 30 piece drum and dance group of Black youth in the Northside parade on july 4. He is a way right fundamentalist. "'Only born again Christians should hold public office." from his book. ellen
7/23/05
New National Peace Blog:
About A Passion for Peace
A Passion for Peace rose up from the ashes of the bombings in London's Underground. It grew out of challenging writers to Write for Peace‹to share their passion for peace by writing an article on any aspect of peacemaking, from inner peace to world peace, before December 31, 2005.
This blog will be a place where writers can make a commitment to writing an article on peace before the year is through, announce when and where their article will appear, share article excerpts or the basic principles addressed, or post the entire article.
There will also be Peace Quotes and Peace Practices, as well as listings of web sites devoted to peace, upcoming peace events being held, and other peace related news
http://www.apassionforpeace.com/
8/2
REMEMBER TO VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 2!
Voting is a treasure. Tuesday, August 2 is a special election for the
U.S. Representative from Ohio's 2nd Congressional District (East of Vine Street).
Please vote!
If you need to vote by absentee, it is easy, but you need to order your ballot now.
Go to www.hamilton-co.org/BOE/absenteeballots.asp.
Please read about an excellent progressive candidate
Paul Hackett at www.hackettforcongress.com.
Please forward this reminder.
REMEMBER TO VOTE!
7/23/
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Dear Ellen,
Thank you and your band of merry friends for the hospitality and stimulating conversation. Sally and I look forward to seeing you again, and hope that, if you¹re in the area you¹ll look us up.
As promised, here are some email addresses:
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Paul
7/16/05
Room Available at Lloyd House
Fabulous Clifton Gaslight Castle; warm, multicultural environment
2 miles from U.C. 1/2 mile from Mitchell Ave. exit I-75
Call Ellen: 513 221 1289
Third floor walk up. One room with sleeping loft, private bath, share kitchen
Room has ethernet for high speed internet connection: $10/mo. extra
Share: third floor meditation/dance/yoga room
first floor TV/VCR/DVD, iMac w/ high speed internet, dining room, veranda
Off street parking, spacious yard, gardens, sauna, workout room
2 hours per month building maintenance/yard care/housmates meeting
Laundry (indoor lines for drying) free
Minimum age: 25
Monthly house contribution: $285 (more if you use A/C, internet)
Available 1 August, 2005
Other housemates include: me, Neil Anderson (our fabulous massage therapist), Gordie Bennett (grad student in planning), Alan Bern (musician, doctoral student CCM). I am looking to slowly become more of a community in the house.
No smoking in house.
I am looking for: rock solid good vibes 24/7. Also rock solid financial reliability. Also, prefer a person who will enjoy the Monday night Salon and is interested in building community here. Eventually want to explore sharing ownership and all responsibilities.
Please pass the word to any of your contacts who might know of folks looking for a place to live/work.
ellen
8/30/05
Local Activist Cheryl Crowe (of Progressive Alliance etc.)
Recommends
Write the local TV Stations before end of August:
They are renewing their licenses (every 8 years) this year
Have you written the TV stations yet? Tell them you don't like so much violence, want more about positive things happening; less sensationalism and celebrity gossip, more on what the people need to know to be good voters, etc. etc. Ellen
WLWT:
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c/o BROOKS, PIERCE, MCLENDON, HUMPHREY &
LEONARD
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Tri-State Treasures
Tri-State Treasures is a compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue to forward your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner@nuvox.net.
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Tri-State Treasures:
Bistro 318 Special Events: an upscale, casual restaurant with 5-star food, service, and ambience without the 5-star price; a place to relax & be yourself in a warm contemporary environment. The menu is fun, light, & creative; a contemporary American blend of fusion cuisine. Friday Night Flights: Every Friday, choose from among 3 different tastings: scotch, wine or beer. Chef Casey will sweeten the deal by sending out a little appetizer with each tasting. Each tasting is $10. Sushi Saturdays: On Saturday nights, Chef Casey will be offering 3-4 different styles of sushi. The price ranges from $4-7. Wine Party Friday 29 July: Their 3rd wine party will showcase summer wines with an arrangement of appetizers. The cost is $20. 318 Greenup Street, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.491.3334, bistro318@bistro318.com, & http://warm98.cincyradio-deals.com/details.php?pid=2779.
Dances In The Park 2005 [Thursday 21 July @ 6-10:30 PM]: In the midst of one of the city park jewels, boasting floral gardens that are reminiscent of Europe, Ault Park presents Dances In The Park 2005; great dance music for all ages. Featured will be The Modulators on July 21. Free admission; beer & soft drinks for sale, though it is unlawful to bring alcohol onto city property; all profits go to Ault Park. Ault Park is on Observatory Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45208. More info @ 513.871.9015, Info@AultParkAC.org, & www.aultparkac.org.
Edensong [Fridays 22 & 29 July @ 8-10 PM]: The Queen City Balladeers continue their free concert series of 4-5 folk acts on Friday evenings. The music is good & the air is fresh. This Friday 22 July features Jake Speed, Brent Buswell, Bromwell Deihl Band, Diamond Blue, & the Dancing Pigs. Sit on the benches or bring your own blanket & spread out on the grass; make it a picnic & bring your own food & beverages. Nice, mellow, folkie crowd, & it's free. Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park, Mt Adams, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ www.qcballadeers.org/SpecEvents.htm.
Kathy Wade @ Six Sundays At Six Acres - Evening Concerts [Sunday 24 July @ 7 PM]: Kathy Wade is an award winning international jazz vocalist, truly "The First Voice of a New Era." Her sound is a "multi-octave contralto of effervescent energy." The Six Acres B&B embraces history & elegance. It is owned & run by Kristin Kitchen & Laura Long who have spent 3 years rescuing & renovating this 6,500 square foot 1850s Colonial mansion built by Elon Strong, noted abolitionist & active participant in the Underground Railroad. Concerts are from the spacious outdoor patio for an audience seated on the lawn in a uniquely scenic, wooded & serene setting. Bring your lawn chairs & blankets as seating is limited. Smooth grooves, tasty treats, & a cool new musical experience in Cincinnati. $15 admission includes appetizers & drinks. Shuttle parking provided from Twin Towers Retirement Community @ 5343 Hamilton Avenue. Six Acres B&B is @ 5350 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45224. More info @ 513.541.0873, info@sixacresbb.com, www.kathywade.com, & www.sixacresbb.com.
Underneath Cincinnati [Sunday 24 July]: Entries are now being accepted for the next screening of Underneath Cincinnati. All chosen submissions will be up for the 2005 Best of Underneath fest. Mail submissions to Underneath Cincinnati, P.O. Box 19928, Cincinnati, OH 45219. More info @ 513.251.6060.x 4, underneathcincinnati@hotmail.com, http://underneathcincinnati.com.
Let¹s Talk About It: Intimate Partner Violence in the Queer Community [Thursday 28 July @ 6-8 PM]: Intimate partner violence in our LGBT community is something often kept in the closet. The Domestic Violence Coordinating Council invites you to join them for a presentation & discussion of this issue, which directly affects 1 in 4 LGBT people & nearly 50% of LGBT youth. Presenters Kristin Shrimplin (DVCC) and Gary Heath (BRAVO Columbus) will explore myths & misconceptions about LGBT intimate partner violence, warning signs of abuse, how to help a friend who is being abused, & queer-friendly community resources and services. At the McKie Community Center, 1655 Chase Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ 513.361.2144 & alliance@ywcacin.org.
2nd Annual Lite Brite Indie Pop & Film Test [Friday-Sunday 29-31 July]: A weekend of music, film, & lite like you've never seen before. At the Southgate House, 24 East 3rd Street, Newport, KY 41071. More info on the bands, films @ info@litebritetest.com, & www.litebritetest.com.
Neighbor to Neighbor meeting - ³Good Things Happening² [Monday 1 August @ 7:30 PM]: For residents of Pleasant Ridge, Kennedy Heights, Silverton, & nearby communities: this meeting will feature descriptions of 2 important services vital to our communities. Carol Chamberlain, director of The Caring Place, will describe services being provided by this agency supported by area churches & other business & charitable organizations. Martha Epling, Volunteer Coordinator for Crossroads Hospice, will describe the care being provided to those in need of such care & their families. At the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, 5950 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.891.1373 & GRSnouffer@cinci.rr.com, & www.cincinnati.com/neighbors/.
Donnie Darko (Director¹s Cut 2004) - Spiritual Cinema [Friday 5 August @ 7-10 PM]: Released soon after September 11, 2001, this strange & darkly comic tale of a disturbed teenager¹s experiences during a week in 1988 featured an aircraft engine crashing through a suburban home & an ominous 6-foot bunny: a sure recipe for box office disappointment. After its DVD release, Donnie Darko built a cult following worldwide, culminating in a new ³director¹s cut² release last year. Some see this movie as a sci-fi exploration of time travel & parallel universes. Others see a portrayal of the delusional fantasies of a schizophrenic boy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, & Patrick Swayze. Directed by Richard Kelly. Rated R for language, sexual content, violence. Discussion leaders: Greg Loomis & Paul Darwish. At the Friendship Hall, New Thought Unity Center, 1401 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.961.2527, LouFreeman@ntunity.org, & http://ntunity.com/happenings/pages/content/funfridays.html.
Morning Glory Bike Ride [Sunday 7 August starting @ 6 AM]: The 24th annual Morning Glory incorporates a few changes to make the ride more attractive to more riders of all skill levels to raise more money for Sierra Club & to give you 2 more hours of sleep. This year's Morning Glory will start at 6 AM instead of 4 AM, will follow a different route, & will include a vegetarian breakfast for all riders, courtesy of Wild Oats. Roxanne Qualls is this year's co-chair. If you're a rider, you're welcome to volunteer to help with registration or setup, then enjoy the ride, breakfast, & t-shirt - for free. Or leave a bit ahead of the first group & ride to your corner. Volunteer with Steve @ volunteer@morninggloryride.org. Info about the course, registration, & more @ www.morninggloryride.com.
Volunteer for the College Hill Rhythm Race [race is Friday 16 September evening]: Volunteering for a 5K run/walk along the historic tree-lined streets of College Hill - it¹s great for all ages & abilities. A post-5K Celebration is planned with a Kids¹ Fun Run, activities for kids, food & entertainment. Event proceeds go toward the revitalization of College Hill. Students can earn community service hours. Volunteers who sign up by mid-August will receive a lovely purple volunteer T-shirt. Volunteer orientation meeting will be Thursday 8 September @ 6:30 PM. More info @ 513.361.2144 & shrimplink@yahoo.com.
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8/14
Free Introductory Talk at the Lloyd House - Center for Holistic Wellness [Sunday: 14 August @ 2-4 PM]:
Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, & Neil Anderson, L.M.T. Massage Therapist, will present the following topics:
1) Five Keys to Finding the Right Therapist for You,
2) How to Give the World's Best Backrub: tips from a professional; &
3) Secrets of Smoking Cessation: quitting cigarettes is harder than kicking heroin; learn how you can be one of the 5% who pull free & stay quit.
Free, open to everyone.
At the historic Lloyd House, 3901 Clifton Avenue @ Lafayette Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220.
Park on Lafayette.
Contact: Ellen Bierhorst @ 513.221.1289.
7/23/05
Activism: for Ohio Election Reform
from Common Cause
Subject: Support Our Ohio Reform Activists for the Next 12 Days
We know how much you care about Ohio. Thousands of you signed petitions
last November asking Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to recuse
himself from any recount related procedures and recently thousands of you
joined our call for a fair and independent investigation into the "Coingate"
scandal, which has rocked the Ohio political establishment. As Ohio
continues to be under the national spotlight because of recent revelations
of corruption, big-money fundraisers, partisan gerrymandering, and most
importantly, a broken election system, now is the time to turn up the
pressure to advocate for pro-active reforms to clean up Ohio.
Just last week, we joined our partners at Reform Ohio Now in a
signature-gathering campaign with a goal to qualify and pass a set of
crucial ballot initiatives that will begin to clean up the culture of
corruption in Ohio. The initiatives are three common sense measures
addressing the issues of campaign contribution limits, fair political
districts, and necessary electoral reforms in Ohio.1 We are off to a great
start. More than 200 Common Cause volunteers and activists have already
signed up to help gather 450,000 signatures from Ohio voters by August 1,
2005, so that we can get these three measures on the ballot.
During the next 12 days, Ohio activists will be roaming the Buckeye state,
collecting signatures and pushing for these common-sense reforms. As our
activists and volunteers are on the ground in Ohio advocating for forward
thinking measures to clean up the corrupt political culture that has so
stained the democratic process, we need your help.
If you are not able to volunteer on the ground in Ohio, please support this
effort by making a contribution to support the signature-gathering campaign:
http://www.commoncause.org/SupportOhioReform
We are asking you to help us raise $20,000 in the next 12 days so that we
can effectively mobilize the 200 plus signature-gathering activists in Ohio.
This grassroots effort to gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot
by August 1 is a key to this critical campaign. If we fail to collect these
signatures by August 1, these measures will not qualify for the ballot,
dealing a blow to our campaign for reform. So, please do everything you can
to contribute and to make sure that this signature-gathering campaign meets
its goal:
http://www.commoncause.org/SupportOhioReform
We need your support for this campaign for reform so that we don't see a
repeat of the nightmare scenario we saw in the elections of 2004. If you
can't be with us on the ground in Ohio, your contribution of $100, $50, $30,
or whatever you can afford to give, will give us a boost, and will support
our activists in Ohio:
http://www.commoncause.org/SupportOhioReform
And, if you know anyone in Ohio, please use our action center to email your
friends and family, and let them know about our effort. Ask them to join
our campaign to end the culture of corruption in Ohio:
http://www.commoncause.org/OhioTellFriends
Please let our reform activists in Ohio know activists support their work
all across the country. Restoring the integrity of our democratic process
is hard work. With your help, we can succeed.
Thanks again for your support, and for all you do for Common Cause and our
country.
Sincerely,
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President & CEO, Common Cause
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7/25
Grenada Benefit: huge chorus to sing
July 25, Monday
HOuse of Joy, College Hill (That used to be Hollywood Cinema on Hamilton Ave)
7:00 pm
Donation offering to be collected
September 7, 2004, the island nation of Grenada suffered its worst setback in 50 years when it was struck by Hurricane Ivan. 39 people were killed and 90% of all homes, together with many churches and schools, were damaged.
80% of cash crops, such as cocoa and banana trees, were destroyed, and telecommunication and electrical lines were toppled in 120 mph winds.
SLOWLY, life is returning to normal. Electrical service has been restored to some homes and businesses, roofs have been covered with tarps, and many students have returned to school.
However, a great deal of work remains to be done.
On July 25 at 7 PM, Dr. Catherine Roma, Bishop Todd O'Neal, Tony Williams, Sr., the Martin Luther King Chorale, and The Underground Railroad Freedom Choir will present a Benefit Concert for Grenada Relief at The House of Joy.
A free will offering will be received, and a new CD recorded by Richard Simon of Grenada will be available for sale. Fifty percent of the CD sales will go directly to the Grenada Relief Fund.
In January, Bishop O'Neal and Pastor Neal Whitney took a work team from Lima, Ohio to Grenada. Information about joining a work team for a future visit will be given at the concert. Carpentry and electrical skills are especially needed.
Choir members are asked to bring a dessert, vegetable tray, snack, or drink for a choir fellowship immediately after the program.
Don't miss it!
If you are a singer with the NURFC group or the MLK Chorale and arre able to sing on July 25, please email: caroma@fuse.net to let Dr. Roma know you will be attending.
(If you are not a singer, come hear this. It will knock your socks off. ellen)
Looking forward to seeing you on July 25!
Dr. Catherine Roma & Bishop Todd O'Neal
Hugz, Joslin
8/27
A Day For Men Workshop
Shirley Reischman (our estimable homeopath) sends this along. I don't know about it, but Jack Armstrong is a wonderful healing professional, worked on my family many years to great benefit, is a D.C.
Gary Matthews is a massage therapist in town, good guy, partner of Beverly Wellbourn.
Shirley says,
FYI. Gary Mathews and Jack Armstrong are among those doing workshops at A Day for Men event on August 27th. Please pass this on to all the men you know. http://www.celebratewisdom.com/pages_blocks_v3_exp/index.cgi?Key=402&Field=key_field&catg=index&Exact=Yes&this_sect=The%20Wisdom%20Center%20Coaching%20&thisroot=/pages <http://www.celebratewisdom.com/pages_blocks_v3_exp/index.cgi?Key=402&Field=key_field&catg=index&Exact=Yes&this_sect=The%20Wisdom%20Center%20Coaching%20&thisroot=/pages>9/23/05
Check out the Peak Oil Conference, Yellow Springs, also is the weekend of Sept. 23. In the Blue section below, last article.
Huge March in Washington
against war in Iraq
Sept. 24
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Hold Bush & Congress Accountable for the Deaths, the Destruction,
the Lies, and the Toll on Our Communities
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005END THE WAR ON IRAQ - BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Leave no bases behind - End the corporate occupation of Iraq
Stop bankrupting our communities - No military recruitment in our schools
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
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More than two years after the illegal and immoral U.S. invasion of Iraq, the nightmare continues. More than 1600 U.S. soldiers have died, at least another 15,000 have been wounded; even the most conservative estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands. Iraq, a once sovereign nation, now lies in ruins under the military and corporate occupation of the United States; U.S. promises to rebuild have not been kept and Iraqis still lack food, water, electricity, and other basic needs. ....
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A r t i c l e s
7/23
Jerry Handorf: puppeteer, peace activist
by Steve Sunderland
Dear Friends:
The last 10 days has brought news of the death of
Jerry Handorf at the age of 45 from liver disease. Jerry was the
master puppeteer of our region, head of Madcap Puppeteers, the
third largest puppet company in America, and an old friend of the
Peace Village. It was Jerry who provided the 400 puppets for my
recent trip to Indonesia. He knew, even though he was never there,
just how important the little finger puppets would be to the
children who were affected by the tsunami's devastation. Jerry had
ordered the finger puppets from a company he worked with but they
had not arrived when I was just about to leave. I stopped off in
his office and he had a desperate look on his face. "They are late
getting here," he said looking very sorry."But," he said as the
light bulb went off in his head, "we'll just take all the puppets
from my puppet store." And, I packed hundreds of alligators and
knights for the trip. This was the last time I saw Jerry alive.
I arrived in Banda Aceh's refugee camp during a
vigorous rainstorm. The road in the camp was totally flooded but we
managed to arrive at the community center, unload the puppets, and
start to share them with a few and then a large number of children
of all ages. Children knew what to do with the puppets, knew the
language of joy, knew how to use them to jump over the desolation
and devastation that surrounded us in the camp. A mob of little
puppeteers instantly appeared, some with an alligator on one finger
and a knight on another. We had puppet wars, alligator battles, and
just plain fun for the rest of the afternoon.
Jerry knew about children, especially the language
that is threaded into finger puppets. No translator is needed. No
instructions in the proper technique, or the kind of sounds that
were possible. Jerry infused his puppets with "his" language of
joy: an open faced, big eyed, and gigantic smiled kind of joy.
Jerry's trademark shows were all aimed at children's sense of
silliness, of awe at full voiced puppets that can scream and make
you laugh, and a life of giants that were friendly, crazy, and
sometimes good story tellers. Jerry always thought in larger than
life stories and puppets that were filled with energy, delight and
downright friendship. Little children clutched their parents during
the first part of his performances and then adults clutched their
kids as they both rolled on the floor in laughter.
Early in the start of his puppet company and my work
as a grief educator, I knew that Jerry was the person to turn to to
tell the story of how teachers could help and hurt children who
were in sorrow in their classroom. I wrote the first script and
brought it to him. He frowned, one of first and only frowns I had
ever seen. He said: "Steve, I don't do adult puppetry. I like doing
the kid stuff." Before I could try and persuade him, he agreed and
began to sketch the death puppet, a 15 foot ghost like puppet
requiring three people to bring it to "life." As Jerry sketched the
outline of the large and black body, he said the following stage
direction: "Let's bring Death in and scare the pants off of the
teachers in the workshop." He grinned, that smile of the devil.
Later, we performed the show for 100 Cincinnati teachers, and
brought the Death puppet in, in shadowed light, from the back of
the auditorium, and we smiled to each other from within the body as
we heard the teacher's gasps.
Jerry never wanted to scare a child and children knew
and expected that he would only tell stories and bring puppets that
created happiness. The language of happiness is a special secret of
the great puppeteers. Through sound, gesture, and silence, they tap
into an invisible chamber in our hearts, if we are children. The
blood rushes but to the puppet sounds, affirming that an old and
trusted friend has visited and is taking up residence within the
soul. Our hearts expand a bit, sending signals to our fingers to
mimic the gestures, and to our faces, to break into our kind of
smile of amazement, and to the blood that fills whatever part of
our mind is open to love. Children love puppets without
qualification and Jerry was loved this way and reciprocated with
creativity, with his language of energy that allowed children to
realize that love was an active, vital and strong force for action.
Jerry wanted active involvement in his shows. He never could accept
the audience rules of quietness and suppression of silliness. True
respect was in hearing the parallel noise caused by children
talking back to the puppets, getting up out of laps and bolting for
the stage, seeking a reunion with old and still strange friends.
Libraries were transformed into mob scenes of children talking back
and through shows as adults, not knowing the rules, created the
great shushing sound. I can never remember an adult being
successful quieting a child or ever removing a child for being too
noisy. Even the Cincinnati Art Museum succumbed to Jerry's rules
for involvement and left the strange idea that children could enjoy
a museum by participating actively in talking to the paintings and
sculpture, distant relatives of puppets.
I am left with the question: what is lost when a
great puppeteer dies? What has the community lost and what have
many teachers and parents lost as well? A great puppeteer leaves
his audience, friends and family with so much. Everyone has stories
of successes and failures of one show or author. Everyone has
memories of a line from a story accompanied by a gesture that
seemed so right as to make for a new definition of "artistic
reality." Fundamentally, we lose the teacher of love performing his
art. Now, we embrace the memories and seek to keep them alive in
our own work of promoting peace and happiness. For those of us who
doubted the enduring power of the language of joy, we now have body
of works that will continually "play" in our fingers, hearts and
souls. For those who never saw this great puppeteer, you will have
to find your own teachers that are courageous enough to not abandon
children, or what children, all over the world, so desperately
need: a world safe enough to laugh. Today, in Banda Aceh,
Indonesia,there are children who have nothing in terms of houses,
toys, parents, or even abundant food. Yet, I know that on their
fingers, little alligators and knights play at creating a new and
beautiful world of their imagination. Thank you, Jerry.
7/23/05
"An extraordinary event happened last week in Cincinnati. Margaret Garner came home, making it across the Ohio River to the Music Hall...."
by Steve Sunderland
1. Introduction: An old resident of Cincinnati returned this past week. "Margaret Garner," a new opera with words by Toni Morrison and music by Richard Danielpour opened. The opera was performed twice, with workshops and discussions happening during the day to celebrate and discuss what the creators had in mind. The events in the opera surround a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped from a Kentucky plantation in 1856 with her husband and children. Having been caught, Ms. Garner decides to kill her children rather than have them return to slavery to be sold, and/or bought, raped and worked to death. A trial of Ms. Garner followed her capture. The major question for her prosecutors: Should she be tried for killing the children or for destroying property?
The opera is based on an actual story that occurred in Cincinnati and formed some of the historical record for Ms. Morrison's novel, "Beloved."
Toni Morrison is Nobel Prize winner for literature and Mr. Danielpour is a renowned composer. This was the first opera for both of them.
The performances were held in Cincinnati Music Hall this past week. The historical events took place less than a few miles from the opera house.
2. What kind of opera about slavery do I expect? The subject matter of slavery, slave life on the plantation, slave auctions, and slave acts of violence in resistance to slavery have been the subject of some plays but rarely at this depth and length. Morrison and Danielpour are committed to showing slave life as a horror from day to day, if not from minute to minute. Both physical and psychological terror are constantly in play and reveal a context that makes choices for freedom so dangerous and seemingly impossible. Every word the slave says is an invitation to being placed in further degradation or being brutally killed. Every silent mis-look can lead to the same result. Caught in time and place without voice, the slave endures the "normalcy" of rape, children sold, elders killed, and/or brutal and unjust work. The words that might alleviate some of the psychological burden are watched for signs of resistance and rebellion by spies that may or not be a part of the slave population as well as by the society that watches slave behavior. The opera audience is repeated faced with a powerful question: What happens to the feelings of the slaves when they are traumatized repeatedly both for overt actions and suspected and silent assumptions about their loyalty?
Morrison and Danielpour are not going to let slavery's "truths" escape the audience through either pleasing musical tunes or memorable lyrics that might distract the observer. This opera is not "Porgy and Bess," the authors maintained in a public conversation on Friday. Morrison observed that blacks do not speak like the people of Catfish Row. And, she implied that the "happy" blacks of Gershwins and others have missed what is so critical in black experience and speech. Blacks had to speak in an inhuman condition where language might betray them, endanger themselves and their families, and reveal displeasure and dissent that could be a death sentence or perhaps, worse: being sold away from family and friends. The importance of this point is reflected in all of the music and much of the words spoken: it is guarded, sad, and depressing, except for some remarkable love songs. Song and word cannot be allowed to show too much joy, or too much sadness, or, any anger even though it is impossible to not feel that these people exercised super-human control over their emotions and bodies.
Morrison and Danielpour want to stand the American musical and opera theater experience on its head: Black resistance, rebellion, and escape may be mainly found in the death of suicide or in killing one's own children out of the altruistic belief that death is a better alternative than another generation raised in slavery. The possible "happy ending," if you will, is to be found in escaping slavery by death, denying the slave masters any labor, preventing another rape, or, making sure that not one more person will be sold in a slave auction. There are no spirituals that foster hope; no choruses that indicate solidarity with justice and commitment to religious strength, no individual acts where successful resistance can be seen as escaping on the Underground Railroad. The Garners get caught by slave catchers in Cincinnati, the babies are killed by the mother, the father is hung, and the abolitionists in the slaver's family are rendered impotent to change the slave system.
I applaud the authors for taking on this subject matter in such depth and attempting to use the power of music and dramatic action to reveal the horror of slavery and the consequences of this brutality on one woman, her family, and fellow slaves. The opera is deeply disturbing as a full and much needed look into the total oppressiveness of the slave system. I admire the courage to attempt to sustain the central character's spirit as a muted and critical example of how desperate the context was for the slaves.The opera added to my understanding a large and ignored historical and psychological reality of the slave condition, a layer of pain and grief that I had not previously allowed myself to face, appreciate or meditate upon. The details of the music and words are of a second importance to this large conclusion: accepting the pain of slavery as part of a deep grief in the American soul is one step toward potentially healing relationships with all who have been enslaved. The trauma of the slaves and their descendents cannot be lightly tossed off as something that is historical but irrelevant. The opera calls out realities of enduring pain for blacks, persistent prejudicial approaches to housing, health, education, and spirit, and asks the embarrassing questions: "Is slavery over? Is it no more?"
2. How did the slaves survive the deep oppression of slavery? The opera raises fundamental questions about how the human personality survives brutality without losing sanity? Morrison and Danielpour suggest that a deeply held negative belief in accepting the messages of slavery, even if the rejection could not be spoken or acted upon, worked to sustain hope. But, "hope," is not for a freedom of owning land, or, being paid for a fair day's work, or even being free of the clutches of slavery laws. Hope is translated, boiled down to a personal belief in the essentialness of the person. The identity of slave, always under brutal attack, survived to know that the basic goodness/love of the person could not be lost, no matter what. Such a belief stands out as a remarkable achievement of the slave's personality that is rarely spoken about as part of American history, or, as understood as part of the American character.
Morrison and Danielpour are asking how integrity can be sustained when it is so dangerous in the public world and, therefore, cannot be expressed in the ways in which a person lives their life. Perhaps Morrison and Danielpour are suggesting that to understand the American slave as a people, we must accept that their character could transcend the power of brutality in law and social norms. Almost invisible, the slave carried on silent and not so evident ways of living in hope as long as they knew they were stronger than the power of injustice. Margaret sings these remarkable words illuminating how hope is sustained:
"Are there many kinds of love?
Show me each and every one.
You can't, can you?
For there is just one kind.
Only unharnessed hearts
Can survive a locked-down life.
Like a river rushing from the grip of its banks.
As lights escapes the coldest star;
A quality love--the love of all loves--will break away.
When sorrow clouds the mind,
The spine grows strong;
No petty words can soothe or cure
What heavy hands can break.
When sorrow is deep,
The secret soul keeps
Its weapons of choice: the love of all loves.
No pretty words can ease or cure
What heavy hands can do.
When sorrow is deep,
The secret soul keep its quality love.
When sorrow is deep,
The secret soul keeps
Its weapon of choice: the love of all loves!"
(T. Morrison(2004). Margaret Garner: Libretto. G. Schirmer, Inc., p. 25.)
What Margaret may mean by "quality love" is a quality that is not easy to describe or see. Having honed a different code for survival, learned from other slaves as a part of working the plantation under brutal conditions, Morrison wants to suggest that what we "see" as the current definitions of love and hope are too dangerous for the slave, except as these behaviors are being expressed to the slave masters. Passion, determination, thoughtfulness, gentleness, are all part of a behavioral language that runs the risk of being exposed "as a human." Such a revelation would be an act of being "crazy" within the slaves' context. Hope buried in depressive words and actions, or laced into servile behaviors and expressions, or, kept in the shadows of any action, is the more realistic and saner approach. Watching your child or mother sold and showing expressions of misery would be very dangerous to both the child and the mother. Being cursed or beaten and protesting in any way other than acceptable slave forms of grief, would likely add punishment. Revealing attitudes that might be related to something read in a newspaper or the Bible, might trigger death behaviors in the slave system at worst, being sold, at best. What was the slave to do to work for protection of children and elders, compassion for those who were beaten, and sorrow for those for those sold without warning or a chance of reconciliation? What was a slave to do with the rising hatred of choices that could only reveal acceptance of slavery? How does the personality survive this torture?
3. The Mystery and Miracle of Survival in Slavery. Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the music group, "Sweet Honey in the Rock," archivist of the Smithsonian collection on the Civil Rights Movement, member of the Freedom Singers, and retired professor of history, American University, led off a panel looking into Toni Morrison's uses of music with the song, "I Don't Know How My Parents Made It Through." As she sang and beckoned the listeners to reflect on how the slaves made it through slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, to greater degrees of freedom, she illuminated the secret and evident powers of song and singing to transform brutality and suffering, literally changing contexts from old, largely hidden meanings, to fully expressed feelings of strength, passion and hope. When did this transition take place is unclear from her comments. Yet, her parents used song about "anything" to express many meanings of feeling. First, it was the right to have a voice, to be a person with a full and public voice to describe both the conditions of brutality and the conditions of freedom. Dr. Reagon said: "I learned the songs without being taught." I took her to mean that she learned how to have her voice, to join her voice with her family's voice, to feel that her sound was also God's sound, that led to her formation of a philosophy of life in and with song. The voice, in song, could make clear the list of brutalities, and seek a chorus to sing and change these conditions as a new and vital part of legitimate speech. No more disguising of bitterness and pain; let it out and give it a sound. No more losses buried in shadowed expressions: let out the wail and sound of something so precious being taken, lost, and killed. The song became the connecting with the people and the land so that the song could carry the inner spirit to the public ears: "We would be picking up a song from anywhere--whatever comes up, comes out."
Reagon opens up a critical area of understanding survival under great duress by suggesting that songs of freedom, spirituals, and/or any kind of song was a self confirmation that the person could not be destroyed. She noted that the personality of the singers melded into a form of "invisibility" that protected the singers, creating a common choral form of action. Quite beautifully she said: "We created a sound blanket, helping us stay when you want to run...a singing to sustain life and sustain life in the face of death... a way of holding horror off, and close and transforming it." I believe she is describing a process of freedom in song that must have emerged in the singing of the spirituals and camp songs, giant steps in courage and a major change in the personality that required the public voice to stand on top of the private. The slave is no longer a slave no matter what the economic/political condition suggests. The voice of the free citizen of God requires joining and singing in a new and dramatic way that neither forgets the past or is limited by prior survival uses of the voice and voicelessness. "No more auction block for me," as a spiritual is the longer form of what Margaret sings when she intones, "No more, No more." The slave is gone, although deeply loved, and replaced or grown to a new vocal and humane state requiring the new forms, the religious song as well as the holy use of any fragment of thought or speech.
How did the free blacks find their voice within the brutal life of slavery is a question remaining to be explored. The miracle of the slaves, recognizing the power of singing to heal, protect, embolden, sooth, and change the conditions of identity, is astounding. That the songs continue to work and have been a central ingredient in educating subsequent generations is another miracle. No simple dismissal of the power of this transition can be ignored in the recognition of one of the main forces for creating and sustaining an Underground Railroad from Mississippi to Niagra on the Lake. Moving through song and silence, the fugitives became citizens of the deeper country of freedom. Without the comforts of a benign or positive society, the new citizens could "...follow the drinking gourd," an escape so little understood or admired to this day. What Reagon has reminded us is that music of the soul plays at a different level in the human that is self liberated, a powerful level capable of taking action with confidence when terror seems more suitable. Margaret Garner's story reminds us that there was an overlap of death with much that the blacks attempted. The righteousness of the cause of freedom guaranteed nothing to those caught, tried by slave owners, brutally killed or sent back. No simple decision. Yet, she reminds us that Morrison and Danielpour are outlining, there "is a balm in Gilead" that is greater that the rope and whip. The slap of brutality numbs us to the deeper story: deep grief and deep courage of the blacks founded a new nation through their actions and voices.
4. Conclusion:
An extraordinary event happened last week in Cincinnati. Margaret Garner came home, making it across the Ohio River to the Music Hall. Staniding in the lobby before the start, I noticed that radical change in the audience for this opera. Garner's descendents were there in great numbers, taking their seats in the places where her voice would be heard, now several generations later. The sounds of the audience filled my ears with joy, the expectancy of hearing the story of one of Cincinnati's daughters of freedom. We found our seats in the balcony, the lights darkened to black, the music began, and, in the shadows, less than 100 feet away, she returned to sing the pure and beautifully mournful song of freedom, "No more, no more."
7/23/05
Vegan vs. Meat Diet for Healthy Bodies, Healthy World
Nancy Dawley
Ellen,Nancy Dawley
The brochure from The Weston A. Price Foundation is too long to summarize completely. It's quite interesting, but very different from your belief in vegetarianism. It took me awhile wipe away previous notions of good diet when I read it. I'll see that you get a brochure copy in the near future. Dr. Price founded the Foundation to continue studying nutrition and to disseminate the information to whoever will listen. His research and findings are incorporated into a book/cookbook called Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. I learned about it from some of the Waldorf School folks.
www.WestonAPrice.org <http://www.westonaprice.org/> is the website.
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Dr. Price, an (American--e.b.) dentist, began a study in the 1930's to investigate the health of populations untouched by western civilization. His goal was to discover the factors responsible for good dental health. His studies revealed that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth are the result of nutritional deficiencies and not inherited genetic defects. He has photographs that illustrate the difference in facial structure between those of native diets and those whose parents had adopted "civilized" diets of devitalized processed foods.
The is the paragraph I mentioned to you after the meeting:
Dr Price consistently found that healthy isolated peoples, whose diets contained adequate nutrients from animal protein and fat, not only enjoyed excellent health but also had a cheerful, positive attitude to life. He noted that most prison and asylum inmates have facial deformities indicative of prenatal nutritional deficiencies.
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Dr. Price would agree with you in at least one way. He advocates that animals be grass-fed. Feeding them corn and other grains changes the structure of the meat/fat/amino acids/minerals, and our bodies do not get the nutrients they need when we eat them.
Thanks Nancy!
First, to clarify, I am not a vegetarian, and in fact, have read Dr. Price's book and attended the Nourishing Traditions study group here (third Sunday at 3, Waldorf school anex building behind, on Derby) and own a copy of Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, in addition to buying raw milk every week from Gary Oaks (pick up at Waldorf on Fridays). However, I am powerfully persuaded by Frances Moore Lappé's argument and that of Mike Fremont about the world hunger and meat eating, especially grain fed meat.
Thanks for writing this up; I will publish it in the next weekly.
Glad to see you at the table on Mondays!
Ellen
7/23/05
Local Guy uses fry grease in his diesel car
I am glad to see at least one positive story in todays news.... :>) local too!
Peace
Caeli Good
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Frying Potatoes, Fueling Cars
The latest in alternatives? Grease is the word
By John Eckberg
Enquirer staff writer
Pleasant Ridge residents David and Joleen Gardner consider themselves on the "bleeding edge" of environmental activism, but perhaps "frying edge" is more accurate.
The family got sizzling mad over the price of fuel about this time last year and took drastic steps, converting a diesel Jetta car to run on cooking oil.
They are among only 15 families in Ohio and six in Kentucky who have made the switch to the readily available alternative fuel source.
For the Gardners, it was as easy as buying a new fuel injector system and a tank to hold the cooking oil fuel and finding a regular supply of cooking oil.
"We do what we can afford and what makes sense for us," said Gardner.
Joleen Gardner drives a 2005 Prius, a gasoline/electric hybrid that gets about 52 miles per gallon of gasoline because it runs at times on a battery and electric motor.
David Gardner's 2001 Volkswagen Jetta gets 48 miles a gallon on diesel - or when it runs on the used fryer oil that Gardner collects for free from the cafeteria at Midland Co. in Amelia, where he works as a computer programmer.
Gardner says he was motivated to make the change when the price of unleaded gasoline hit $2 a gallon last year and he decided it was time his family reduce its dependence on foreign oil.
"We believe in pocketbook activism," said Gardner.
He paid $840 for a kit from www.greasecar.com that will reconfigure a diesel-powered car's fuel system so it can burn vegetable oil. Soon Gardner was his own mechanic and, later, his own petroleum transfer technician.
"I spent four very meticulous weekends converting the car," he says. "I was doing it very, very carefully."
"I thought David was rather ambitious to do himself," adds his wife. "I'm just so impressed that he was able to take apart this car and put it back together again."
And it worked.
Since late last summer, about three times a month, Gardner picks up a 5-gallon bucket full of oil from the Midland cafeteria and takes it home, where he pours it into a cooler in the garage attic (although these days he is using a neighbor's garage because strong winds blew a tree into the Gardner garage and wrecked the rafters). From the cooler the oil drips through a filter that removes food bits and other debris.
Flipping a switch
After drip-filtering the oil, Gardner pours it into a tank in his car's trunk that was built into the space that formerly held a spare tire.
When Gardner flips a switch on his dash - after the engine has warmed up the cooking oil through yet another device - the car can run. It works in winter, too, because a warmer prevents the cooking oil from congealing.
Gardner figures the system will pay for itself in about three years. He usually drives about 250 miles a week on the cooking oil and could go farther but hasn't had the time or inclination to locate another source of oil.
He figures he saves about $15 to $20 a week when compared to a car that runs on unleaded gas.
"As far as I'm concerned, when I'm burning vegetable oil, it's all good," he said. Nitrous oxide emissions from cooking oil is equal to diesel, but cooking oil exhaust has 26 percent less carbon monoxide and 40 percent fewer particulate materials than diesel.
Cincinnati safety officials say there are no laws prohibiting the filtering of cooking oil, although they stopped short of endorsing Gardner's method.
"It seems like it's a safe situation, but we've not seen it so I can't make a judgment call on it," said Fredrick Prather, Cincinnati district fire chief.
Fuel from a fryer
A 1985 Roger Bacon High School graduate and 1989 Miami University graduate with a degree in systems analysis, Gardner has long had an interest in environmental living.
After graduating from Miami, he rode his bicycle through Europe and then along the West Coast of the United States.
"Being overseas, you can really compare how much of a consumer society we have become," he said. "We use energy at a rate that the rest of the world just can't fathom. But if you look around here, it seems normal because everybody is doing it."
Usually restaurants with fryers contract with a service to pick up their used cooking oil, said Lee Briante, customer support specialist at Grease Car, an Easthampton, Mass., firm that sold Gardner the technology to convert the diesel car into a cooking oil burner.
Two years ago, the company sold about 10 units a month. Today the firm sells 100 a month - and Briante fields about 30 telephone calls an hour. Finding cooking oil is usually not a challenge.
"Most restaurants pay more to have it picked up than they do to have it delivered fresh," Briante said, although that's not how it works at Camp Washington Chili, for instance. Owner John Johnson says a service comes at least once a week to remove the used oil for free.
Johnson said staff at his restaurant replace the fryer oil twice a week. That's 52 pounds of oil, or about 7 gallons a week. So far no one has approached him about using the old cooking oil for a car or truck, but Johnson wouldn't be surprised if it happens soon.
"Right now, with the way fuel price keep going up, any energy use for the old cooking oil would be good," Johnson said.
Griffin Industries, based in Cold Spring, collects fats and oils, purifies it and converts into biodiesel, similar to but not the same as straight vegetable oil, so it can be sold to fuel distributors. Those companies then blend it with regular diesel fuel to sell to industrial users, including truck fleets and school bus systems.
"The industry is growing very rapidly in this country, but it's still in its infancy," said Jim Conway, vice president of sales and marketing at Griffin Industries. "But it's a very viable option in the U.S. to replace foreign oil."
Burning used cooking oil in a car does have at least one other benefit, Gardner said.
"When I'm on the vegetable oil, you have nice-smelling exhaust," he said. "It smells like french fries."
E-mail jeckberg@enquirer.com
Ellen
I send this to you for Steve Sunderland in the thought t hat it says things which he understands and believes to let you know that this is what I think, and see if my understanding is accurate [not necessarily Œcorrect¹]. You see, the salon has stimulated my formerly moribund intellectual mind. Growth abounds! The bolds are my own for my own marks of recognition or significance.
7/23/05 Pete Altekreuse sends in this article, thinking of Steve Sunderland.
A Culture for Teaching
By William Raspberry
Monday, July 18, 2005; A15
© 2005 The Washington Post Company
One way I know I've heard a keen insight into a difficult problem is when I find myself thinking: I knew that all along.
The phrase almost always pops into my head whenever I talk to James P. Comer, the Yale professor of psychiatry and the mind behind the Comer School Development Program, a highly successful model for transforming urban schools.
Comer's insight this time: Curriculum reform, new governance models, stiffer tests for students and teachers may be fine, but there's no magic in them. The magic is in a culture that supports child and adolescent development, and that can happen only through relationships.
If that sounds too complicated, try this: "Think of your own experience and the people you interacted with and their advice to you about what it takes to make it in the world," Comer suggests. "Think of the people who cared about you and who taught you how to elicit positive responses from people who can make your life better or worse. These are the people who point you toward success."
You knew that all along, of course. But lots of people don't. There are parents who are adept at teaching children how to minimize the hurts of life (by being prepared to respond forcefully and physically to any slight, or by avoiding situations -- including academic competition -- that might make them look bad). But many of these same parents don't have much to teach their children about "how to elicit positive responses" from teachers, coaches, police officers or employers. Indeed, they may regard it as a sign of personal wimpishness even to try.
Unlike the people Comer urges you to recall from your own upbringing, some adults teach behaviors that render children nearly immune to success. Such adults are not cruel. They teach what they teach for the same reasons your role models taught what they taught: not to make their own lives easier but because they care about the children in their charge and want them to make it. But making it may mean different things for people whose focus is on survival than for those who have experienced academic or career success. It is the latter who harp on the importance of being on time, of following through on commitments, of being reliable and trustworthy -- all things successful adults consider self-evident.
But they aren't always self-evident. Comer says they are the result of physical, social and psycho-emotional development. Instead of creating institutions that encourage such development, he says, we try to approach educational reform as if the important thing is to get the mechanics right.
Getting the mechanics right is necessary. Comer's new book, "Leave No Child Behind," goes into detail about how the Comer schools require new structures, new procedures, new curriculums and new responsibilities. But these new arrangements are installed primarily to facilitate new relationships between children and the adults responsible for them.
"Many improved practices that have been developed over the past two decades have been less successful than they might have been because they have focused primarily on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and modes of service delivery," Comer says in the June issue of the Phi Delta Kappan.
"Insufficient attention has been paid to child and adolescent development. When these matters are addressed at all, the focus is often on the student -- on a problem behavior -- and not on how to create a school culture that promotes good growth along the critical developmental pathways."
Not that creating such a culture is easy. Many youngsters grow up in environments that place no particular premium on academic success -- and in the care of loved ones who themselves lack the attributes that produce academic success. Moreover, Comer says, most teachers and school administrators haven't acquired (because they haven't been taught in teachers' colleges) the skills to create learning communities.
That, he says, has to change. And his Comer School Development Program aims to change it by retraining teachers, administrators -- and parents.
"Teachers and parents need to understand from the beginning that you don't yell at Johnny for doing something wrong, but teach him how to do it right," he said. "We have to focus on how to help children function, not on how they sometimes embarrass us or threaten our power. A lot of the bad behavior of children is calculated to reduce the disparity of power between them and us.
"But when you develop relationships so that they see you as their ally, they have less reason to battle with you."
Of course. I knew that all along.
willrasp@washpost.com
Marriage Revolution
7/6
The Heterosexual Revolution
By STEPHANIE COONTZ
Published: July 5, 2005
Olympia, Wash.
THE last week has been tough for opponents of same-sex marriage. First Canadian and then Spanish legislators voted to legalize the practice, prompting American social conservatives to renew their call for a constitutional amendment banning such marriages here. James Dobson of the evangelical group Focus on the Family has warned that without that ban, marriage as we have known it for 5,000 years will be overturned.
My research on marriage and family life seldom leads me to agree with Dr. Dobson, much less to accuse him of understatement. But in this case, Dr. Dobson's warnings come 30 years too late. Traditional marriage, with its 5,000-year history, has already been upended. Gays and lesbians, however, didn't spearhead that revolution: heterosexuals did.
(for the rest of this piece, see this link:)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/opinion/05coontz.html?ex=1121313600&en=1f7037fae6d425f1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
7/1/05
Ted Birnberg, our Israeli Salonista
Writes from the Negev Desert
Ellen, Shalom!
(What a hollow ring that word has now! But there is still hope that somehow...)
This is just to let you know that I continue to read
the news from the table and for a reason you
may not have guessed:
I seem to draw strength from reading items --
now and then -- which demonstrate the strengths
of those who meet with you regularly.
There are times here when passions are
running even higher than I remember in all
my 23 years of life in Israel. These are times
when I and others feel almost engulfed in
crosscurrents: right vs. left, settler vs. law
enforcers, and sadly, Jew against Arab, Arab against Jew.
Our white knight has very bloodied hands, which grasp a shred of a peace plan that, in his words,
"hangs by a thread." This is what sustains our hopes now.
So even a centimeter (OK, inch) of gain for
any of you in your efforts to restore "a rule of reason" strengthens my belief that somehow
we can find ways around the emotional
roadblocks.
Thanks to you all.
.
And don't ever miss a very new film which brought the first prize in the recent Cannes Festival to an Israeli actress: "Free Zone", it's called.
In it, you'll see three women (Jordanian, Israeli, and American) coping with the realities here in
ways you'll certainly remember.
Best wishes,
Ted Birnberg
7/16/05
At the Earth Spirit Rising Conference I saw Megan Quinn, salon attendee (at least one time!) and manager of Community Solutions, the group in Yellow Springs that sponsored that terrific Peak Oil conference David R, Mike M and I went to last November. The conference this year will be in September. Invisible salonista Judy Leever who heard about it here says she has already registered! The power of the Weekly! ellen.
Second U.S. Conference
on ³Peak Oil² and
Community Solutions
Peak Oil the point in time when world oil
Keynotes: Richard Heinberg, author
production will begin to decline forever.
Hear the latest on this vital issue and its
connection to economics. Also learn about
designing viable low-energy living solutions
and new forms of community.
of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a
Post-Carbon World and The Party¹s Over: Oil,
War and The Fate of Industrial Societies and
Michael Shuman, author of Going Local:
Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a
Global Age.
Friday evening, September 23
Register with the attached form or online:
through Sunday, September 25,
2005, Yellow Springs, Ohio
http://www.communitysolution.org
The Importance of Peak Oil and
Peak oil the point when world oil production
Community Solutions
reaches its maximum and begins to decline
is an event which is likely to occur this decade.
As global demand exceeds supply, oil will
become increasingly scarce and expensive.
The end of cheap abundant oil represents an
unprecedented challenge for humanity. It heralds
the end of many things to which we have become
accustomed; the ever growing economy, transportation
as we know it, and cheap food and
goods from around the globe.
³Our response to Peak Oil has major
consequences for future generations.²
The implications of Peak Oil are far reaching.
Oil provides close to 40 percent of our society¹s
primary energy (over half of which is imported)
and 95 percent of our transportation fuel. Fossil
fuels are a necessity in our way of growing food
and in making and transporting everything we buy.
Many react to the coming changes with fear
and dread. But we envision a more cooperative,
just and equitable world of small local communities.
³Solutions to Peak Oil will require a major
shift in our thinking and in our way of life.²
This conference will explore
The implications of Peak Oil.
Alternatives to oil and our high energy way
of life.
Peak Oil¹s effect on our financial system.
The characteristics of a decentralized
economy.
An in-depth look at local food systems.
New communities for the future.
Ways to transition and answers to ³What
should I do now?²
How Cuba handled ³Peak Oil.²
What Are the Experts Saying?
³We have known for a long time that the
status quo, a society that is machine-oriented,
competitive, inequitable, fast-paced, globalized,
monocultural, [and] corporate-dominated, is
deadening to the human spirit and ecologically
unsustainable.²
Richard Heinberg, First U.S. Conference on Peak
Oil and Community Solutions, November 2004
³The problems associated with world oil
production peaking will not be temporary,
and past Œenergy crisis¹ experience will provide
relatively little guidance. The challenge of oil
peaking deserves immediate, serious attention,
if risks are to be fully understood and mitigation
begun on a timely basis.²
Dr. Robert Hirsch, Report prepared for the
U.S. Department of Energy, March 2005
According to the Association for the Study
of Peak Oil (ASPO), global conventional oil
production is expected to peak around 2008.
³[People] may find silver linings [in the post
peak oil world,] as they rediscover rural living,
regionalism, diversity and local markets, [plus]
coming to live in better harmony with themselves,
each other, and the environment in
which nature has ordained them to live.²
Colin Campbell, ASPO founder, April 2005
Peak Oil Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
P.O. Box 243
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Nonprofit Organization
U.S. PostageP A I DPermit No. 51
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Conference Speakers
Friday Night Keynote Richard Heinberg, author of The Party¹s Over and
Powerdown: Options and Action for a Post- Carbon World, will explain the
immense challenge of global peak oil production, and its implications for
our society, our communities, and our lives. He will assess mitigation
strategies and explore peak oil¹s effect on our debt-based financial system.
Saturday Night Keynote Michael Shuman, author of Going Local: Creating
Self- Reliant Communities in a Global Age, says Americans today purchase 58%
of goods and services from local place-based businesses and that rising oil
prices could easily make 80% localization cost-competitive. He will
enumerate the key tasks consumers and households can undertake to make a
community- enriching transition from peak oil possible. Steve Andrews, an
energy consultant, free lance writer on peak oil, and co-founder of the
Association for the Study of Peak Oil U.S., will give a comprehensive
assessment of available alternative energy sources and will explain how to
measure their viability by using net energy analysis, dollar costs, and
environmental impact. Diana Leafe Christian, editor of Communities magazine,
author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow EcoVillages and
Intentional Communities, and member of Earthaven Ecovillage, will share
examples of successful eco-villages and intentional communities around the
world and explain their role in the coming transition to a more agrarian,
just and sustainable lifestyle. John Ikerd, an agricultural economist and
author of Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense, will critique
the fossil fuel-based industrial paradigm that he sees as inherently
exploitative. He will describe the need for a sustainable economic system
based on biological principles and explain how social and ethical values can
be reintegrated into capitalist economics. Jan Lundberg, founder of the
Auto-Free Times magazine and ³Culture Change,² a non-profit that publishes a
newsletter on the collapse of petroleum civilization and the resurgence of
sustainable living, will explore cultural solutions to our coming oil
crisis, the values of a low-energy world, and options for changing our lives
and the direction of society. Robert Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food
Cooperative, moderator of the peak oil discussion group, ³Running on Empty²
and author of Better Times Almanac of Useful Information, will talk about
developing local food systems, explain the role of urban agriculture, share
lessons from the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, and discuss the necessary
personal changes we each need to make. Liz Walker, co-founder of EcoVillage
at Ithaca, NY and author of EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable
Culture, will share the inspiring story of creating the EcoVillage and its
relationship with the local community and the global ecovillage movement.
She will explore the importance of Community Supported Agriculture and the
ecovillages¹ role in a post-peak oil world. Pat Murphy, Executive Director
of Community Service, Inc., designer of the organization's latest program,
The Community Solution, and author of its New Solutions reports will explain
the role of oil and energy as they relate to global inequity and resource
wars, and will describe the energy lifestyle of conservers versus consumers.
Megan Quinn, Outreach Director of Community Service, Inc. and Project
Manager for ³Agraria,² a design for a low-energy, small, sustainable
neighborhood-community in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will explain how the
development of Agraria neighborhood-communities is a vital strategy for peak
oil-forced decentralization and the renewal of small towns and farms in the
post-peak oil world. Faith Morgan, a Trustee of Community Service Inc.,
traveled to Cuba in 2003 and 2004 to learn about its rapid loss of oil when
the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. She will show CSI¹s new documentary,
³Peak Oil, Cuba and Community,² which tells the story of this major social
disaster and Cuba¹s creative response to living without cheap and abundant
oil.
(For detailed speaker descriptions see our web
site:
http://www.communitysolution.org
, or more information call 937-767-2161)
Registration Form
Early Registration
Members (by Sept. 1) .............$115
Non-members (by Sept. 1) .....$130
Late Registration
Members (after Sept. 1) .........$125
Non-members (after Sept. 1).. $140
Students (with student ID) ......$90
Membership ........ (minimum $25)
Meals: Saturday lunch and dinner,
and Sunday lunch (with vegetarian
options) are included. If providing
your own meals, ........... deduct $18
Single Day Registration
Friday Night ..... (students $5) $10
Sat. Night .......... (students $5) $10
Saturday ...................................$80
Sunday .....................................$70
Total Amount Enclosed
Refunds: After 9/9, only 50 percent.
Lodging: A list of motels, hotels and
camping will be mailed to registrants, or visit
www.communitysolution.org.
Limited partial scholarships are available.
Directions will be sent upon receipt of registrant
fee or can be found on our website.
Online registration and secure credit card
payment at www.communitysolution.org.
Make checks payable to Community Service,
Inc. (in U.S. dollars), and mail to Post Office
Box 243, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.
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Organization
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