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Daily Archives: September 5, 2014
Veterans Open Mike This Sunday in Tampa, Florida
I know this is a relatively small local event, but I want to share in case anyone is local and interested. Also because I am so inspired by this project and I think it would be wonderful if people in other places-even other countries-created something similar.
War is a horrible thing, it leaves scars both visible and invisible. I feel that these kind of supportive community based events can be a catalyst for both healing and building stronger community connections.
Governments tend to use soldiers as disposable commodities-forgetting about their needs as soon as they are no longer useful. But veterans are our loved ones, our classmates, friends and family. They are not disposable!
I think too that non-soldier survivors of war and conflict can also benefit from this sort of supportive and creative outlet for emotion and healing.
So if you live nowhere near Tampa, consider creating something like this in your hometown. All you need is a coffeehouse-or anywhere people can comfortably gather and a bit of determination:-)
If you don’t do Facebook, Meetup.com is also useful for creating public events.
Blessings,
ohnwentsya
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
The monthly VETERANS & Community Open Mic is this Sunday, September 7th @ Sacred Grounds Coffee House!
We’re very excited to offer a FREE Creative Writing Workshop just before the event, facilitated by local Slam poet, Dennis Amadeus! Open to all veterans, family members, caregivers, friends, local artists & community members who want to support veterans’ voices. Whether you’re interested in learning new skills for self-expression, or looking to break writer’s block, or working on lifting a piece from the page to the stage, this workshop is for you! No admission, just one drink minimum (coffee/tea/smoothie/etc). Come explore your creativity, and stay for the Open Mic!
5-6:15 PM FREE Creative Writing Workshop
6:30-9 PM Veterans & Community OpenMic
Also, this week’s Open Mic will feature aSPECIAL GUEST ARTIST, musician & singer Aida Shahghasemi! She’s incredible, you definitely don’t want to miss Aida … Hope you can join us!
Please help us spread the word … Flyer attached – please forward & post! Here’s the FB event page (join for updates & invite friends!):
https://www.facebook.com/events/618423634904097
Hope to see you at Sacred Grounds Coffee House this Sunday!
In Solidarity,
Andrea
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Andrea Assaf
Artistic Director
Art2Action Inc.
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Read more about “Creative Arts Reintegration” with The Carpetbag Theatre, the PRRC “Voices of Recovery” Veterans Drama Troupe, and Art2Action @ http://art2action.org/veterans-in-tampa
Truthout Daily Digest Thursday, 4 September 2014
Twelve Theses on Education’s Future in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Henry A. Giroux, Kenneth J. Saltman and Sophia A. McClennen, Paradigm Publishers: The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to the progressive goals of educating productive participants in democratic culture and creating active, critical, autonomous citizens who take joy in learning.
How US Intelligence Distorted Its Own Data on Child Migration
David L. Wilson, Truthout: “Misperceptions of US Policy Key Driver in Central American Migrant Surge,” a federal El Paso Intelligence Center report, refutes claims that violence and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are the main forces behind the rise in border crossings, but its assertions are contradicted by the center’s own data.
Standing in Solidarity Against Racial Exhaustion
J. Mijin Cha, Truthout: While Asians are widely seen as “model minorities,” and many Asian Americans may not see themselves as people of color, the world does. Americans need to figure out how to be allies against racism when the struggle on the surface doesn’t appear to be our own.
Laura Flanders | Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jennifer Taub on the Housing Crisis: What’s Changed?
Laura Flanders, Truthout: More than five years after the housing market collapsed, the crisis continues, its sources still disputed. Is Americans’ inability to acquire a home of their own in a neighborhood that feels safe a personal or a political problem? Apparently, it’s a matter of public policy.
Watch the Video and Read the Interview
Monica J. Casper, The Feminist Wire: Infant mortality is about race, poverty, and geography and the ways that the lives of some women and children in the United States are made to matter more than others. It is also about the multitude of ways we foster life for some people and not others.
Economic Terrorism by Paid Goons
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: It’s now harder than ever before to join a union, thanks to the decades-long War on Labor that conservatives have been waging ever since Ronald Reagan came to Washington. Conservatives have been waging that war with help from “right to work laws.”
Oil Is Back! A Global Warming President Presides Over a Drill-Baby-Drill United States
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: Considering all the talk about global warming, peak oil, carbon divestment and renewable energy, you’d think that oil consumption in the United States would be on a downward path. We should be witnessing progress toward a post-petroleum economy. As it happens, the opposite is occurring.
Will Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Stand With J Street Against Illegal Israeli Settlements?
Robert Naiman, Truthout: Here is a pointy question right now for members of Congress: Where do you stand on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank? Do you Stand With J Street, or do you stand with Netanyahu?
Nestlé Has Expanded Its Water Empire to Include Colorado
Judy Molland, Care2: Not content with bottling water in drought-stricken California, Nestlé has added Colorado to its water empire: The world’s largest food and beverage company has been draining millions of gallons of water from the Arkansas River out of a pipeline near Buena Vista.
Jill Richardson, OtherWords: Getting burned up in a fire is scary. But many flame retardants are toxic. In fact, many flame retardants used in textiles and electronics are chemically related to pesticides like DDT or chlorpyrifos. Some cause cancer, and many persist in the environment for decades.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Ukraine has retracted an earlier claim to have reached a cease-fire with Russia. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko initially said he agreed with Vladimir Putin on steps toward a cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin then denied a cease-fire agreement.
Watch the Video and Read the Transcript
Economic Update: Big Changes Coming
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: This episode covers food insecurity, oil disaster economics, politicos going to Wall Street, billionaires buying homes, education in the UK and how the US sustains elites. We also address an employers’ movement for a four-day work week and the history of socialism vs. capitalism. We respond to many listeners’ questions.
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Personal Update | HighHeartLife
For everyone who has been concerned about Denise and her Mom, this update is a wonderful relief:-) I’m SO glad to read these positive words from Denise. I pray you are all doing well and staying grounded despite the “bumpy” energetic ride lately!
Blessings,
ohnwentsya
Personal Update
My Mom was moved from the hospital (entered August 28th around 4:00 AM) to a care facility (intense physical rehab orbypass boot camp as I like to call it) September 3rd around 5:00 PM.
(Please click the link below to read this update on Denise’s page)
http://highheartlife.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/personal-update/
The Oracle Report | Friday, September 5, 2014
MANTIS FROM WISE OWL DAN
NEW AUDIO REPORT August 22, 2014 –
“Holding the Line: Virgo 2014 Cycle”
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Friday, September 5, 2014
Gibbous Moon Phase: trust
Moon in Capricorn/Aquarius
Ruling Mahavidya: Shodashi (The Goddess Who Creates Form) and Matangi (Goddess of the Wind)
Skill: ask for the fulfillment of your highest desire
Negative Imprint: false fronts, dissatisfaction, disappointment, unfair compromise, disconnection, vanity, denial
Positive Imprint: receptivity, peace, vivid experience, heritage, tradition, manifestation, purity, ensconced, strength, imagination
We have a day of high magical potential on tap today, so we want to take full advantage of the energy.
The magical time of the cycle begins today with the Gibbous Moon phase. We have double-Gibbous (double magical) energy because overall this month is like a month-long Gibbous phase. The Gibbous Moon phase of a Gibbous cycle is doubly potent for manifesting intention. Our powers of visualization are heightened during Gibbous phases. So today we will envision (picture with our mind’s eye) what we want to experience. Visualize this in a personal way and in a global way. If you made a “Wish Board” back at the New Moon in Aries (March/April 2014), revisit it today. Change it up, add to it, or keep it the same.
The point is to focus some energy on stating or impressing intention. What do you want to tell the universe?
Three themes repeat in the Sabian symbols for the degrees of the planets’ locations today: idealization, inner knowledge, and truth.
With the theme of idealization, we tend to become preoccupied with absolutes. Few things are truly absolute. One of the greatest traits of humanity is our imagination. It is easy for us to create in our minds what we think would be ideal. We just as easily delude ourselves into seeing things the way we want to see them. We get hung up on chasing an ideal and ignore all signs to the contrary. We lock in. The key is to understand that there are many variations of what is ideal, and these variations evolve through time.
So it is good to have definite intentions to state to the universe today, but unwise to assume that the result will appear in the exact way we want. Shodashi teaches us this. She works very hard to bring us into closer alignment with our true course – our destiny. It’s a complex undertaking because the trajectories of everyone are involved. Moving one person’s “line” affects everyone else’s line. Her job becomes easier as more and more people align with nature and natural world order. There is less to untangle.
The theme of inner knowing repeats throughout the energy of the symbols today. Calling upon inner knowledge is the way to handle anything that crops up today. Consult sources that always provide what you need (certain books, cards, oracles, divination tools, letters, poems, songs, nature, etc.). Inner knowledge is passed from generation to generation and humanity has a long history from which to draw. The knowledge of our ancestors is alive in our cells. Everything we need to know is inside and corroborated by sources on the outside.
The third theme, truth, underlies our motivations today. Truth crystallizes right before our eyes. It may come in the form of a wild confrontation with the true self or the true self of another. Everyone will see what they are capable of seeing/what they want to see. Minds that are deeply infected will rise toward lunacy as the Full Moon approaches.
What do you want to do with all of your magical powers today?
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