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by Jim Rigby
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At a gathering on World Refugee Day, we remembered the 1,900 people deported or detained last year from Austin. Friends and family gathered to weep for their missing loved ones. We spoke about the private prisons springing like toadstools to profit from the misery. What follows is reconstruction of the speech I gave.
A United States senator claimed recently that the wildfires in Arizona were possibly started by immigrants. When asked to produce his evidence, he backed off a bit, but the damage was done. |
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by Joe Shreve
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 Schoolchildren may soon have an exciting new book in their literature curriculum, if author Christine Mason and retired teacher Breta Holgers have anything to say about it.
In her recently published children’s novel, “The Mystery of Nan Madol,” Mason, a Scotts Valley, California resident and former constitutional lawyer, takes readers on an adventure to Nan Madol -- an abandoned ancient city on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia that has been described as the “Venice of the Pacific.”
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by Jan Lundberg
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Charles Komanoff!
Charles is an economist working in New York City on transportation and energy.
- We interrupt this announcement to advise you that Culture Change is still short on funds for operating in July. Please help now! -
Charles is known for research showing nuclear power to be financially unfeasible. I know first hand that he has put many years into promoting car-free living, bike advocacy, and trying to make cars pay their way in society.
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by Bill Moore
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by Jan Lundberg
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We just sent this out to a few thousand opt-in subscribers:
Dear Culture Change reader and supporter,
You can be the first to have a donation arrive at our new post-office box address in our new home town.
For our July fundraising goal we fell far short of the necessary level to keep bringing you Culture Change. |
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by Tony Pereira
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by Roger Herried
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The time is right for sinking the nuclear beast, peacefully -- mini-editorial
Just a few months following the Fukushima nuke disaster, followed by the reaction
of 4 out ot 5 Japanese to reject nuclear power henceforth, we now have two
Nebraska nuclear stations in danger of getting out of control.
At this watershed time in history the scam of unfathomably dangerous
nuclear power is unraveling. Now the Associated Press has done a
damning investigation on the total joke of possible evacuation around U.S. nuke
plants.
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by Jan Lundberg
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 Our recent article on Bob Berry, recently departed friend of Culture Change, highlighted his car-free, bicycling lifestyle. He died of natural causes at the relatively young age of 62, which goes to show that being a bicyclist and walker do not alone ensure longevity. He was a creature of habit which did not include being a health nut. But his life was full -- not cut short by some thoughtless driver.
Young people are killed by cars often when bicycling or walking. Zachary Parke, age 25, |
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by Depaver Jan Lundberg
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 When information-overload, money grubbing to survive, fears about Fukushima, the rigged "choice" of two-party politics -- the Demopublicans and the Republicrats -- combine to ruin what would be a perfectly good day, is there an answer? Some of us disagree with Paul McCartney's Beatle song, "There will be an answer; Let it be."
Perhaps the answer was close by at that time: John Lennon was leading millions of youth in a positive rebellion, and other poets and singers such as
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by Gar Smith
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 Robert Stephen Berry
March 18, 1949 - May 19, 2011
It’s not every day you find a Quaker church service crammed with CalTrans (California Dept. of Transportation) employees -- especially when more than half of them are decked out in tie-dyed shirts. But it’s not everyday that our community says goodbye to a unique Berkeley treasure like Bob Berry -- a songwriting, pro-biking activist who became so disenchanted with traditional political parties that, in the Bicentennial Year of 1976, he dedicated himself to reviving the Whig Party. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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Message from founder Jan Lundberg on Culture Change's progress, prospects and
needs. To take fast action here's our donation web page:
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Dear Culture Changer,
It's good that in all my years at Culture Change since 1988, I don't
remember an update's being more packed with projects, news and ideas.
First, I would like to put the developments and our sometimes frantic
efforts into context and let you know why we try and try -- for today's
world is not the same one as you and I knew even a few years ago. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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 I just read John Wertime's steamy new memoir, Improbable Love (Printemps Presse, 2011, 187 pages). I knew it would be well written after his editing on various Culture Change pieces including my book Songs of Petroleum. (See his review of a book by Worldwatch Institute's Robert Engelman, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want).
Improbable Love offers a fascinating look at a teenager's 1950s world "inside the Beltway." |
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Songs of Petroleum is available now.
