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2009 World Food Day

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Feminist Majority, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, NOW, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2009| 1 Comment »

Oct 16th was World Food Day. On this day “The World Summit on Food Security” convened in Rome and will conclude today, November 18th.  Part of a three pronged series of events, these meetings are being held to address the additional burden that the global economic crisis has placed on world hunger.

The Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that the number of hungry people worldwide, will pass the one billion mark this year. This means that one sixth of the world is suffering from persistent hunger.

The agenda of these meetings is to provide an action plan on how to boost agricultural productivity. The FAO states:

[The gravity of the current food crisis is the result of 20 years of under-investment in agriculture and neglect of the sector. Directly or indirectly, agriculture provides the livelihood for 70 percent of the world’s poor.]

As you can see, global warming is not mentioned. (more…)

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A Nice Calendar

Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Media, NOW, photography, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , on November 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »

My ethnobotany calendar arrived today from WaterTurtleWeaver and it’s great!! The photos are sharp and luscious. They are placed around a smallish black calendar page that is without holidays and such. I think that was a wise choice, because it reinforces the idea of the rhythm of seasonality of the plants and activities shown in each month.

I was always interested in plants, I think, from the time Mom first started carting my brother and me around to the various landscaping centers in Southern California. (There were some pretty amazing ones there in the late fifties.) Later in an Oregon college, I studied botany with an interest in native plants.

Little did I know that my brother would be the one to experience a botanical life, with my sister-in-law. Her exploration and development of her heritage as a weaver, and teacher are admirable.

In any event, based on the acknowledgements at the back of the calendar, it’s clear that it was the result of a huge collaboration of people and organizations, dedicated to the idea presenting native plants and indigenous peoples’ use of them.

If you want a calendar, or to see some of her projects go to the WaterTurtleWeaver website HERE. If you are interested learning more about ethnobotany, especially in Southern California,  try Deborah Small HERE.

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091116 – Monday Ketchup

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Feminist Majority, NOW, Politics, The New Agenda, tagged , , on November 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Sorry. No time to get this out today. I’m still reading the health bill. If you also want to read it, HERE is the link Nancy Pelosi’s website. The House Version of the Bill H.R. 3962 is available in a .pdf download link on the upper right hand corner, under Issue Spotlight. H.R. 3961 is now part of the bill and won’t download, so I think It’s attached somewhere.

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2009: This Year’s Selected Crop of Spam and Viruses

Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Media, NOW, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Last year around this time I was sending out a post on holiday email viruses. While I haven’t seen any outstanding holiday items yet, I did have one possible scam in relation to a just completed online bank transaction. Their email displayed the bank’s logo and looked pretty official. (more…)

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My, How Times Have Changed!

Posted in 51 Percent, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , on November 15, 2009| 2 Comments »

When they arrested the San Francisco Pipe Bomber living next door to me in the mid eighties, there wasn’t peep in local neighborhood newspaper the next day. I recall the Chronicle said a few things, but not the location of his arrest, the blocking of our street, or the hauling out of his garage next to mine all those bomb parts.

So I get a kind of rueful giggle when SacBee sends me an email like THIS.

 

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Ft Hood

Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , , , , , on November 15, 2009| 1 Comment »

Last week I found this older item in the BBC news. I had thought to do a little post around it. I would ask, what is religion, and how is it defined? Is it defined as Abrahamic, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Iranian, Kurdish, Western, Folk or Far Eastern? Or do we take the religious edifice we have constructed, break it into shards, pick up one to admire and kick at the rest?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8327636.stm

After asking those questions, (more…)

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CEDAW 2009

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »

ERA TODAY!!!

On December 3rd, the United Nations as part of the “30th Anniversary Celebration Event” will hold a global celebration recognizing the adoption of “Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women”(CEDAW) in 1979. I don’t know if you recall, but the United States, in it’s “great” role as a women’s rights advocate, still hasn’t ratified this UN measure.

Briefly, CEDAW treaty signers (more…)

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Tying up Loose Ends: Bill Richardson

Posted in 51 Percent, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , on November 14, 2009| 3 Comments »

I guess all the info below happened after the hiatus I took on August 26th .  However, I see that my last Richardson post is still up on Daily Puma. So maybe Alessandro will supplant it with this. (more…)

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Berg V Obama, et al Affirmed

Posted in 51 Percent, Election, election reform, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged , , on November 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »

The FEC reports that the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, on November 12th, affirmed Pennsylvannia’s Court decision regarding Berg V Barack Obama, et al. For all the documentation regarding this, go HERE.

Lest you have forgotten, this case attempted to present evidence regarding Obama’s ineligibility to run for and serve as  president, However, the lower court determined that Berg was not personally injured, and therefore had no standing to bring the suit.

Having taken a brief gander a the appeals court’s opinion, as a non expert, it looks like Berg’s suit was a mess. See what you think.

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Get your shot!!!

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, The New Agenda, women, tagged , on November 13, 2009| 1 Comment »

If you haven’t got your H1N1 shot yet and you aren’t allergic to eggs, go get your gal-durn shot. If you are allergic to eggs and don’t have medical insurance with which to get medical advice, contact these people:

www.solanocounty.com/H1N1

www.flu.gov

www.cdc.gov

www.cdph.ca.gov.

Solano County CA. has now confirmed the death of a six year old. A forty-year old man died recently, 80 people have been hospitalized and we have had one school dismissal. Maybe that doesn’t seem like much in a population of more than 400 thousand. Why do you want to be one of the lucky ones that got it?

Then, there is this, a now confirmed case of H1N1 in a cat. If yours aren’t feeling well, get it checked out.


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