Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Tom Atlee's emails Just built a blog to post email from Tom Atlee's list. Maybe John can coax Tom to post directly. Tom: A book without a blog is... well, it just ain't right. 4:32:18 PM  permalink

Dennis Kucinich - pls take this time - specially for this one Email from a friend: People wonder why a person as cynical and occasionally ration as I profess to be can back with such passion the candidacy of Congressman Kucinich. If you have 20 minutes the answers are to be found here. 1. An amazing article in the Village Voice about a reporter's transformation and falling "in love," as I have, with Kucinich  <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/essay.php> The Essay is by Stephen Elliott "The Dennis Kucinich Polka - What's so funny about peace, love, and the Dems' Great Ignored Candidate?" January 14 - 20, 2004  (2 minutes) 2. Dennis's legendary Prayer for America speech, in his own voice, yes that's him singing at the beginning of the speech, can be heard without a download at http://www.wewantkucinich.com/prayer.htm (18 minutes) Listen to this guy.  Do some multitasking so that you're not "wasting" 18 minutes of your life listening to his speech.  Think about the way hope and fear are playing out in our country, in our consciousness, and subconsciousness.  In our lives.  Give voice to hope.  Forward the article and the speech as you see fit.  Vote for Kucinich.  Tell your friends to. 12:26:07 PM  permalink

A Timely Read: The Tao of Democracy The Tao Of Democracy: http://taoofdemocracy.com/ BookSense:193213347X TomAtlee book on CoIntelligence? and creative large group / whole systems innovations & interventions. Chapter 13 is on CitizenDeliberativeCouncils, a broadly-defined and so far effective means of engaging "the people" in a substantive and deliberative way. [AbbeNormal - Recent Changes] 8:47:52 AM  permalink

The Republicans Dirty Little Secret Who's running the country?. Chris Rangel has an amazing,thought provoking post up at his blog. Chris is an MD and a veteran, and my reading of his blog is that he's generally center-right on the issues. In his post he talks about his growing unease as it becomes clear to him that [Learning the Lessons of Nixon] 8:44:50 AM  permalink

Moving Forward: OPML Reading Lists Guidelines for more powerful OPML: People are starting to produce OPML reading lists, and that's incredibly cool, so I thought now would be an excellent time to publish some guidelines for things people can do now that will make more things possible later. [Feeds.Scripting.Com] 8:28:05 AM  permalink