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Saturday, June 25, 2005 |
THE QUOTE:
"I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization... The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."
- - Chief Luther Standing Bear (Oglala Lakota / 1905-1939)
THE HISTORY:
JUNE 25th,
1876 -- Lakota, Cheyenne & Arapahoe tribes defeat U.S. Army at Little Big Horn, Montana. Resisting US government efforts to herd them onto "reservations" (internment camps), they liquidated General George Armstrong Custer & wiped out his troops. Euphemistically called "Custer's Last Stand".
1967 -- On the first global telecast The Beatles introduce "All You Need Is Love".
1968 -- Conclusion of the Poor People's Campaign March, 50,000 strong, from Georgia to Washington D.C..
JUNE 26th:
1894 -- South Africa: Gandhi founds movement for Indian rights. (dot Indians/not feather)
1951 -- The Rhino exits his mother's womb around noontime in San Francisco.
1952 -- South Africa: Nonviolent campaign against apartheid begins; African National Congress (ANC) begins its Defiance of Unjust Laws campaign.
THE CARTOON: Getting the Media To Cover Downing Street Memo
by Lalo Alcaraz, June 22 edition
http://www.ucomics.com/laloalcaraz
THE ANIMATION: Combatting Torture
Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/investigation.html
THE POLITICAL THEATRE
German police baffeled by Bush poo-flags
IndyBay.org, 3/21/05
Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking
miniature flag portraits of US President George W. Bush into piles of
dog poo in public parks. Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth,
said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be
2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that
time." MORE POO AT: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/03/1728717.php
THE PRODUCT RELEASE: Pot Flavored Candy
Anti-drug forces angry over treats made with hemp oil
AP, June 21, 2005
Marijuana-flavored lollipops with names such as Purple Haze, Acapulco Gold and Rasta are showing up on convenience stores shelves around the country.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8305249
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The Great Live 8 Debate
By Traci Hukill, AlterNet, June 23, 2005
The Live 8 concerts are part of a larger effort that will do some good for Africa, despite critics who have slammed Bob Geldof for staging another ego-serving aidfest.
Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof at a press conference to launch 'Live 8 - The Long Walk to Justice' in London
It's official, again. People suck. You give them free tickets to a concert for a good cause and they try to sell them on eBay for hundreds of dollars. You organize eight kick-ass shows around the world and they complain that the lineup is too white, too commercial, too whatever. You call attention to one of the modern world's deepest sources of shame --a continent pillaged for centuries, now left to fester -- and they criticize you for being negative. They accuse you of grandstanding, of heaving your aging rocker's carcass back into the spotlight for one last pitiful boogie with fame.
If I were Bob Geldof, I'd go live in a cave after all this Live 8 business is over with. July 7 would be a good day to leave. By then, the free concerts that Geldof organized in London, Cornwall, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Johannesburg, Tokyo and Toronto will be over. The Long Walk to Justice will have come to an end, culminating in hordes of people arriving on July 6 in Edinburgh, 20 miles from Gleneagles, where the leaders of the eight richest countries in the world are gathered for their annual summit July 6-8. The strains of Dido and Travis will have died out in Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium. The headaches will be over. Geldof can listen to results of the G-8 summit, the impetus for it all, on the transistor radio in his cave, absently finger-combing his unruly, sexy-old-rocker locks...
MORE AT: http://www.alternet.org/story/22285
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