More than 150 years after brutal slaughter, a small tribe returns home

http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2013/12/25/more-than-150-yearsafterbrutalslaughterasmalltribereturnshome.html

Covert action in Colombia: U.S. intelligence, GPS bomb kits help Latin American nation cripple rebel forces

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?hpid=z1

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"la accion es la madre de la esperanza."

-Pablo Neruda

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

-Anatole France

"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."

 -Seneca

Coolbot: Make your own walk-in cooler with a window air-conditioner.

http://www.storeitcold.com

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"la accion es la madre de la esperanza."

-Pablo Neruda

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

-Anatole France

"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."

 -Seneca

Tethering Goats

http://www.goatworld.com/articles/goatslife/tethering.shtml

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"la accion es la madre de la esperanza."

-Pablo Neruda

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

-Anatole France

"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."

 -Seneca

Square Foot Gardening

In one of the documents, Futuresend, Fred Ho shared with me about his current organization included high praise for Fukuoaka, whose One Straw Revolution was one of the first books I read about farming, during my second or third season in the midwest if my memory serves me correctly.  Though I enjoyed the book, I was somewhat skeptical since it dealt with citrus farming and advocated using a homemade petroleum based pesticide.  I haven't read anymore of his work since then.  

Further into the document, another form of agriculture is described and seems to be more relevant:  "Mel Bartholomew's 'square foot gardening' principles and proposals (www.squarefootgardening.com) have guided the socialist gardening project of the Scientific Soul Sessions (www.scientificsoulsessions.com) project of a group of 'people of color' revolutionaries based in Harlem, New York City. According to Bartholomew, for urban settings, four square feet is all that is needed

to grow vegetable gardens to feed two adults year-round.  Roof tops, sidewalks, parks, front and backyards, common areas of buildings, could all become food growing sources with minimal alteration and cost." 

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Card weaving: http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/weaving.htm

http://theloomybin.com/cw/index.html

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out." --Ho Chi Minh

Scientific Soul Sessions

In the process of beginning a new writing project, this one being about Shin'ya Ono, a Japanese radical who had been a member of the Weather faction of Students for a Democratic Society, I started corresponding with another Asian-American radical, Eco-Socialist and musician, Fred Ho, who edited two books that have influenced the direction my work has taken the last few years, particularly the time I've spent in California.  Legacy to Liberation and Afro Asia.  Please take a look at his organization's website:   

http://www.scientificsoulsessions.com

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Card weaving: http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/weaving.htm

http://theloomybin.com/cw/index.html

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out." --Ho Chi Minh

Permaculture with Geoff Lawton

Amongst other things: 

How to ramp up an abundant Urban Food System in your small backyard.  http://www.geofflawton.com

BriteTap Chicken Waterer: Clean water for your birds

Energy, Equity and Land Struggles.

When I Eddie and I first started farming together one of the books he lent me was Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich.  http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/energyEquity/

I was recently able to spend more time on Black Mesa where this is a particularly relevant.  While there I met a couple film makers working on a new documentary about the land struggle.

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/11/film-trailer-black-mesa-film.html