At work:


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Thanks to you, I have been bursting with Bay Area pride for the past week ( Read more... )

I'm about to make a voice post or two because I'm hitting the road to go to #OccupySanJose but before I do I wanted to post a quick round-up of the signs I've been holding up at both #OccupySF and #SJ:

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Naomi Klein, BAMF and author of The Shock Doctrine (AND good fronds with mai waifu Jeremy Scahill), spoke at #OccupySF this morning. Would have loved to have gone to hear her speak, but I can't take ANY time off of work right now (in fact I've hardly been able to participate in #OccupySF at all because of work and other concerns, which has been ( Read more... )

On Sunday, 11 September, my friends (I'll call them S and H) and I joined hundreds of other protesters, bystanders, activists, and regular folk for a pretty awesome peace march/rally at the Golden Gate Bridge:


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Because I've been too busy to post ~frondz only~ photos of the rally I attended as promised, this will have to do for now:


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So there was a HUGE network of labor rallies that took place all across the country today to stand in solidarity with Wisconsin (AND mark/mourn the brutal murder of MLK Jr. when he was standing up to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis over thirty years ago), and I attended one outside the beautifully restored old county courthouse after ( Read more... )

Global focus
In its 13th year, the United Nations Association Film Festival shows 60 documentaries from 60 countries

The phrases "reduce your carbon footprint" and "live green" can seem so vague that it's hard to find them personally meaningful. Sometimes it takes a filmmaker to illustrate an issue's human impact.

In this year's United Nations ( Read more... )