Saturday, October 18, 2003

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG - October 18th & 19th RHINO'S BEST BUY OF THE WEEK:  The new Breast Cancer Stamp The US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. To take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our Mothers, Sisters and Friends, Rhine recommends we all buy an $8 book, 60 cents of which will go toward the cure. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND "If you write novels merely to entertain - then burn them! This might be the message delivered with evangelical fervor since if you do not burn them they will anyway be erased from the memory of the people where a poet or novelist should aspire to remain. Just consider how many writers there have been who - down the ages - have written novels to entertain! And who remembers them now?" - - Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)  From his Nobel Lecture, 1967 THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY October 18th, 1901 -- US:  Furor erupts when Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ted Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington for White House dinner. October 19th, 1899 -- Guatemala: Miguel Angel Asturias lives, Guatemala City. Poet, novelist, diplomat, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature. He participated in the 1920 uprising against Dictator Cabrera. When the US overthrew the government in 1954 & installed their puppet Castillo Armas, Asturias lived in exile in Chile with the poet Pablo Neruda. His writings combine the mysticism of Maya with an epic impulse toward social protest. His masterpiece, "Hombres de Maíz" (1949; Men of Maize), depicts the seemingly irreversible poverty of the Indian peasant. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1967/asturias-bio.html WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: Dennis Kucinich For President Announcement Tour http://www.kucinich.us/announce-updates.htm Featuring Mimi Kennedy's Audio Postcard reports DAY 1 - October 13, 2003 - Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Manchester, New Hampshire; Madison, Wisconsin http://members.audiogenerator.com/postcards/?1355003 DAY 2 ... October 14, 2003 - Albuquerque, New Mexico; Austin, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Louis, Missouri http://members.audiogenerator.com/postcards/?1368292 RHINO HERE: I'll be at The Bioneers Conference this weekend in San Rafael, California. If any of you are attending, I'd love to see you at the Sunday 230 PM screening of my new documentary, "A Seat At The Table; Struggling For American Indian Religious Freedom." If you're not familiar with Bioneers, it was founded by Kenny Ausubel in 1990, assembling an array of concerned activists hoping to use biology to heal the Earth. The Weekend BOTTOM LINE, "The Empire Strikes Out" comes from Ausubel's opening address at this years Bioneers conference. Before that, a bit more background on Bioneers: Founded by Kenny Ausubel in 1990, Bioneers was conceived to conduct educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration.   BIONEERS MISSION * To disseminate environmental solutions and strategies to national and global audiences to educate, inspire and equip individuals, groups, companies and institutions toward effective action to restore the Earth and her peoples * To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and that strengthen traditional, indigenous and restorative farming practices * To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world Bioneers conducts public education designed to engage people through conferences, workshops, the media and by creating model projects. http://www.bioneers.org 7:12:02 AM    comment

The Empire Strikes Out The Empire Strikes Out By Kenny Ausubel, AlterNet , October 17, 2003 EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece is adapted from Kenny Ausubel's opening remarks to the 2003 Bioneers Conference, which takes place Oct. 17-19 in San Rafael, Calif. Kenny founded Bioneers in 1990. Speaking once at the Bioneers conference, Paul Hawken re-framed the famous defining image from the movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' As you may recall, while the horizon fills with a flotilla of space ships, the earthbound scientists are feverishly fumbling to make contact with the E.T.'s. Awestruck, they try sending out a sequence of musical tones to establish communication. Meanwhile, unseen behind them rises the Mother Ship, dwarfing everything else, blotting out the entire horizon. The Mother Ship is the biology of the planet. The Mother Ship is the Mother Earth. And it is bigger than anything we can imagine. That's about the size of it. For all the chatter about the Age of Information, what we are really entering is the Age of Biology.  We didn't invent nature. Nature invented us. Nature bats last, the saying goes, but even more importantly it's her playing field. We would be wise to learn the ground rules and how to play by them. When I founded Bioneers in 1990, the impulse originated from my exposure to the work of biological pioneers searching to rediscover nature's own operating instructions. Their quest has been to glean what we might learn from four billion years of evolutionary intelligence and apply it in practical ways. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what the bioneers are doing is mimicking nature in order to help nature heal and serve human ends harmlessly. In many cases their knowledge is prefigured by ancient indigenous science from First Peoples, the world's original bioneers. These are the true biotechnologies. READ MORE AT:    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16967 "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:12:14 AM    comment

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