Who Am I To Farm? Excerpt from The Permaculture Handbook

“The emergence of garden farms is at hand. Under the pressure of necessity as unemployment rippled through the economy, millions of North Americans turned to gardening or expanded their gardens in 2009 as evidenced by a 40% increase in vegetable seed sales.  Urban homesteading is spawning its own literature as energy descent forces more and more households to adapt in place.  With income constrained and energy and materials shortages looming, the only resources capable of filling the gap in livelihood are imagination, information, and knowledge, in particular a deeper understanding of the material cycles and energy flows of nature.  For that understanding, we look to permaculture, a language derived from the patterns of the world around us.”

Read more about Peter’s new book just uploaded at Permaculture Activist. 

 

Who Am I to Farm?
by Peter Bane
from issue #82, GROWING STAPLE CROPS • NOVEMBER 2011, excerpted from Peter’s new book: The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country.

Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse

via Rolling Stone – Matt Tiabbi / The Tiabblog

“Boy, do I feel like an idiot.  I’ve been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement, that decisions like putting a for-real law enforcement guy like New York AG Eric Schneiderman in charge of a mortgage fraud task force meant he was at least willing to pay lip service to public outrage against the banks.
Then the JOBS Act happened.
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (in addition to everything else, the Act has an annoying, redundant title) will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market.“

Read more: Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer

via Common Dreams

“By refusing to grant Shahzad Akbar a visa to speak at the Summit, the Obama administration is further silencing discussion about the impact of its targeted killing program on people in Pakistan and around the world.” – Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights

 

“The Obama administration has already launched six times as many drone strikes as the Bush administration in Pakistan alone, killing hundreds of innocent people and devastating families,” said Leili Kashani, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of Summit sponsors.
 

Time Warp: 70’s Protest Film, “The Way The Eagle Sh*ts”

[…I fucking love the internet. ~ Gabrielle]

As the OWS movement has helped move the national dialogue to income inequality, corporate power, and economic justice with its chant of “We are the 99%,” we received a request from an old acquaintance of Marc’s father, Al Levin, who remembered a short film he did back in the mid Seventies, “THE WAY THE EAGLE SHITS.”

He wondered if we could get him a copy of the film so he could show it to his local OCCUPY movement. He felt Al’s political rant was prescient and more timely now than ever. 
Here it is, Al Levin’s “THE WAY THE EAGLE SHITS – pass it on.

So…Who IS left On The Other Side of This Issue?

We’re guessing the 1%.
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