I gambled on the weather and lost. They predicted rain today, but it didn't happen, so I rolled out my bedroll in Detroit, way out Woodward Ave. near Wayne State University and in the bushes next to a Unitarian Church between a couple of buttresses (not the flying kind) that blocked most of the chilly wind.

Alas, this understanding is not in the mainstream media and usually not even in progressive websites and publications. Almost a year ago, we published (e.g., in Alternet.org) a warning on the implications of the Arab Spring: Arab World's Turmoil May Spell Sudden Petrocollapse.

Big Oil money has targeted me for many years. The campaign has taken the form usually of legalistic attacks that have robbed the me and my family of any foundation of material security. Still, Culture Change (and its predecessors Auto-Free Times magazine, Fossil Fuels Policy Action, and Alliance for a Paving Moratorium) always pushed on and contributed to public discourse, fighting the good fight.

But first: Jan Lundberg is still suing the Big Oil-funded parties who, he and his brother allege, knowingly caused the wrongful death of their mother Mesa Vernell Lundberg. The brothers lack funds for legal representation, but an even greater concern to Jan is his ability to remain fully functional on Culture Change matters when he must also work on the case mid-December intensively. But if you support Culture Change now, such as by buying his autobiographical book Songs of Petroleum, he may better juggle his duties all the way around.