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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31651182012-01-03T06:10:45.936-08:00Oaktown BloggerWords and photos from Jackie in Oakland, CA. More I cannot tell you ... I won't know what it is until I do it.Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.comBlogger2631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1124168686507787052005-08-15T21:57:00.000-07:002005-08-15T22:04:46.513-07:00call in pink

Today Code Pink held a series of events in Sacramento. Those of us in the Bay area got up at 2:30 am so we would be at the first event before 5am. We started at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) where we greeted youth who were coming in to test to determine what MOS, or job category, they might qualify for. We then caravaned to the I-80 where we did a very successful banner drop.

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1124084690392288882005-08-14T22:41:00.000-07:002005-08-14T22:53:34.726-07:00Fast August 15

Oakland Woman Continues Fast by Greeting Recruits at Military Entrance Processing Station AUGUST 15, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContacts: Jackie Thomason 510-332-5998 Suzanne Joi 510-540-7007What: Oakland Woman Continues Fast by Greeting Recruits at Military Entrance Processing Station When: August 15, 2005, 4:45am – 2pmLong time Oakland resident, Jackie Thomason has

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Soldiers Tell It Like It is"...outside of the wire, you had to deal with blown-up bodies. Car bombs that killed innocent civilians. A little girl’s pink sandals smoldering on the side of the road. A guy’s face in a watermelon after a watermelon truck full of explosives blew up and killed Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint. U.S. soldiers dying in Bradley tanks." -- GI special, 3B32 (5/17/

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A Little ContradictionWith recruiting numbers down by 27% of goal, and expected to stay down, the Army is enticing recruits with the promise of reduced deployment time.But at the same time, they are continuing to use the Stop Loss to keep people in the military -- and redeployed -- past the date they are due to leave the Army. (The military's Stop Loss Policy temporarily prohibits soldiers from

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1115661372056906522005-05-09T10:55:00.000-07:002005-05-09T11:32:49.820-07:00

U.S. Death Toll In Iraq Tops 1600Many people believe that the Viet Nam war ended because soldiers refused to fight. That’s happening now with even the military admitting to 5500 people “deserting” the military and many more obtaining discharge through military channels, including discharge as conscientious objectors.The first person to apply for Conscientious Objector status, Camilo Mejia, had

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1111705192974893652005-03-24T14:55:00.000-08:002005-03-24T15:09:55.796-08:00

Speaking Out in the Belly of the BeastCheck out the video from the March 19, 2005 anti-war rally In Fayetteville, home of Fort Bragg. For some reason you have to cut and past the url into your browser. Here it is: http://websrvr20.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdswebsrvr2143/news_video/5.031805protest_300k.movThe interviews feature women and men from Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1110912463002471592005-03-15T10:35:00.000-08:002005-03-15T11:12:23.280-08:00Coming Clean

Coming CleanI've just finished five days of on the Lemonade Cleanse. ( I didn't use the product being sold on the site referenced -- just the lemonade).What that means is that for five days all I "ate" was a lemonade made of organic lemons, filetered water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. And I used a "salt water flush" several times. Added to this was lots of water and some herbal tea.Most

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1110560620996758652005-03-11T08:51:00.000-08:002005-03-11T09:22:26.906-08:00

Counter Recruiters beaten by NYPDMaybe the New York Times couldn't make the press conference, or maybe it's not really news (to them) when counter-recruiters from CCNY get beaten down. Or maybe they think this is Nazi Germany and that's what police do. In any case, my review of and search on the past few days of the New York Times delivered no notice of the beating and arrest of

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It's Not a Joke and It's Really Scary"Lynne was convicted of conspiring to prepare to assist Sattar’s conspiracy and with actually preparing to assist Sattar's conspiracy. " So says Lynne Stewart's lawyer in an interview on Democracy Now this morning.And for conspiriing to prepare to assist, Ms Stewart faces the possibility of being imprisoned for the rest of her life.By the way, the so-called

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Ah Freedom!Call me crazy, but I was thinking that in a "free and fair election" voters would know for whom they are voting.But this "election" in Iraq has given a whole new meaning to "Secret Ballot". It used to mean that a voter has the right of privacy and no one can know for whom she voted. In Iraq, it means that the slate of actual candidates is "Secret" for their protection. And

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Another Argument Against TortureIn case we weren't convinced already that the United States shouldn't be torturing folkls, some top military brass argue that torture threatens the safety of American soldiers. The brilliant Amy Goodman interviews Brigadier General James Cullen even while White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales does the political two-step during his confirmation hearing. It's pretty

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1102737957885758332004-12-10T19:32:00.000-08:002004-12-10T21:31:27.216-08:00airport

And then it's something else The OS upgrade went fine, though it took just about forever. That completed, I plugged the airport express base station into power, plugged the dsl into the base station, and loaded up the airport assistant to set up my network. Things were looking good. Whoa there! Just a minute. The light on the base station is flashing yellow and Airport Express Setup

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1102538048391126402004-12-08T13:28:00.000-08:002004-12-08T12:38:27.716-08:00mac upgrade

It's Always Something! So, having experienced the delights of the in-home wireless network over the Thanksgiving holiday (You can see the pix in my photo albums), I came home and bought an Airport Express. Plugged it in; put in the CD. OOPS! Shoulda' read the box. I have to upgrade the OS. Undaunted -- well, daunted but unstopped -- I went to the Apple store and ordered it. Can't download -

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1095436988527576942004-09-17T08:51:00.000-07:002004-09-17T09:06:23.563-07:00RNC Court case

NYC Contemptible; Caught in Lies about Protest Arrests This New York Times article -- "City Arrest Tactics, Used on Protesters, Face Test in Court" -- got moved from the front page to the "New York Region" during tha last hour; but I think it has national and indeed international importance. Among other things, the City is facing contempt charges for its failure to follow s judge's order to

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1095367088427969772004-09-16T13:26:00.000-07:002004-09-16T13:41:16.156-07:00Hurrican Ivan

Talking about the Weather So New Orleans got lucky with the storm missing. Democracy Now reports that the city was ready withg 10,000 Body Bags in the event of a disaster but that there were no facilities for evacuating poor people from endangered parts of the city. Maybe that's a metaphor for the values and planning skills of our governments. Meanwhile, according to the David Helvarg in

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1095079833616437842004-09-13T05:40:00.000-07:002004-09-13T05:52:32.870-07:00Sleep Not

Insomnomania I just hate an early morning like this one when I'm tired and can't sleep. I have sleep apnea and use a machine to help me keep breathing while asleep. It's slightly uncomfortable most nights, but I do not wake up 45.3 times per hour as I was doing without it. The machine works by pushing air through the nose and into the throat thereby keeping the air ways open. Very charming

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1093795541171134222004-08-29T08:59:00.000-07:002004-08-29T09:47:55.050-07:00rnc

Fractured" New York Times Reports on Protests The current NY Times take on the protests at the Republican National Convention is that "the leadership of the protest effort is deeply fractured". How out of touch can one newspaper be? The NYT has complete missed the evolution of the peace movement. We never were monolithic. Now the capacity for instant communicaiton has enabled many voices to

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1086019104781320472004-05-31T08:28:00.000-07:002004-05-31T09:02:55.373-07:00Memorial Day

Remembance and Honor I was four years old in 1948, when the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors sprang up. I didn't have any sense of there being a war at all and certainly wasn't aware that there were people who would refuse to go to war, for reasons of conscience or otherwise. In 1962 I married James Douglas Thomason because he didn't want to be drafted. OOPS! Big Mistake! His

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1082324707450915062004-04-18T14:40:00.000-07:002004-04-18T14:55:19.903-07:00

War Tax Resistance in Oakland Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) and War Tax Resistance and their friends held a party at the Oakland Federal Building on April 15. I went and took some pictures, which you can see on my budding web site.. The previous week PUEBLO, DASW, and friends went back to the Port of Oakland to protest police brutality on the streets of Oakland and at last year's

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1079289534505882942004-03-14T10:17:00.000-08:002004-03-14T10:48:30.826-08:00

Aloha I returned home late Monday night from my three weeks on Maui and have been doing a slow re-entry into the mainland world. My main activity has been working on the many photos I took and Congolese Dance and Drum Camp as well as the ones I took for myself. My goal -- feared word! -- is to have my photo albums created this week. Meanwhile I do have a photo on my website of the view

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1077176143784548802004-02-18T23:22:00.000-08:002004-02-18T23:40:05.670-08:00

Aloha My flight for Kahului, Maui, leaves in 8 hours and 38 minutes. My packing is going reasonably well. I have piles of pants, tshirts,underwear, and miscellaneous toiletries in the dining room. I shudder to think how much stuff I would have if I used makeup! I seem to have a acquired a little alternative health care emergency kit, which is also packed and ready, along with medications

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Stay of Execution We packed the car with sorrowful bodies, cheese and hummus sandwiches, coffee, chai tea, chips, mixed nuts, fruit, folding chairs, and a few extra warm clothes to share if the night turned cold-- ready to spend the night at San Quentin if necessary. We had heard of the stay of execution and the challenge to vacate it made by AG Lockyer and knew that there was some

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1074877061623616122004-01-23T08:43:00.000-08:002004-01-23T09:59:34.733-08:00

Longshore Union to Shut down Port on March 20 to Protest War on Iraq "An Injury to One is an Injury to All" is the slogan of the INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION (ILWU) As the body count of Iraqi civilians approaches 10,000 (with a minimum if 8,037 and a maximum of 9,874 reported this morning), and over 500 America soldiers dead, the peace community prepares for a Global Day of

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1074752152113562562004-01-21T22:13:00.000-08:002004-01-21T22:17:19.763-08:00

My new domain --jackiet.us I'm pretty excited to have scored the domain jackiet.us. Now I gotta build me a web site to go with it. I'm hoping I'll be able to figure out how blog on it. For someone who's been working with computers since 1976 (no typo!), I have a hard time with some stuff.....

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I just bought my tickets for Maui! I'll spend 10 days at the Congolese Dance and Drum Workshop and another week .... somewhere doing something. 'Somewhere' will probably be on Maui, though I'm thinking of going to one of the other islands where I have friends. 'Something' will include snorkeling, swimming at Little Beach and Red Sand Beach, driving up Mount Haleakala to celebrate the

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If it's Global Warming, the why is it so cold here in Oakland, CA? Weather: Tonight Mostly clear...widespread frost after midnight with patchy fog. Lows mid 20s inland valleys to mid 30s at the Bay. Excuse me, but that is sooo freezing. What's going on anyway; it's supposed to be cold here in the summer, not the winter. I'm sure my lilac bush will be happy come spring. They need cold

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Celebrations of Lighting At the end of this season of celebrations of light, and as the sun has magically begun to stay with us longer each day, I had my own albeit commercial celebration. Having completed a meeting between PUEBLO members (me included) and Council Member Desley Brooks, I found myself with some free time. I admire Council Member Brooks a great deal, so was also feeling good

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1072982549987416542004-01-01T10:11:00.000-08:002004-01-01T11:00:27.500-08:00

All I wanted was to find someone to cut my hair. The logical thing to do was to re-join ba-sappho and ask the question. Somehow I ended up joining a bunch of email lists. I think that it is this "New Year" spirit gone somewhat awry motivating me to do this. And here I thought I wanted to waste less time and be more effective in the things I'm interested in doing! On Tuesday I went to Arts

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Charging Ahead....And Getting Along With Germs In this world of open software and International standards for just about everything but which side to butter your bread on, I am struck by the lack of standards for battery chargers. The charger for my rechargeable double A's (which I need for my little Nikon digital, my metronome, and my tape recorder) starts out with a green light that turns

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1071500118439214662003-12-15T06:50:00.000-08:002003-12-15T06:56:09.060-08:00

I'm gonna play the drum with my friends!Upcoming HeartRhythms Gigs HeartRythms DrumChoir is a multiracial, multicultural -- and multi-generational -- women's percussion band founded in 2001 and directed by Yolanda S. Vierra Allen. HeartRhythms performs complex traditional Congolese rhythms with contemporary arrangements. Luna Sea 10th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, 8pm

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1070905487299364292003-12-08T09:32:00.000-08:002003-12-15T07:01:21.000-08:00

December 15, 2003 What Was I Thinking???? Well, I'm sure you all know that the infamous dropping of bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done in August of 1945 not December. I knew that : ) I guess I just got carried away with the holidy spirit! But the points remain... December 6 to December 9: Remembrance, Reflection, Mourning, and Action Many United States Americans reflected this

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Giving Thanks Gratitude plays an important part in my spiritual life. One of things I'm grateful for is the opportunity to spend the morning of "Thanksgiving" day on Alcatraz Island participating in a sunrise service with the Native American community. This year I took advantage of that opportunity and rose early to take the ferry to the Island. The boats were running late so I wasn't on the

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1070055092678893522003-11-28T13:17:00.000-08:002003-11-28T13:36:22.483-08:00

"Turn this Baby Around" The headline in today's Oakland Tribune declares President flies into Baghdad; Surprise Thanksgiving visit designed to cheer troops and underscore U.S. commitment Just how dumb do they think we are? Do Bush and cronies -- and the Oakland Tribune for that matter -- really think we won't view this as a campaign stunt? Excuse me while I barf! And after I clean up the

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1069800132827850482003-11-25T14:39:00.000-08:002003-11-25T14:43:44.403-08:00

solution to the house cleaning problem It would be an understatement to say that I'm not a "good housekeeper". I mean, I'm able to keep my house. I haven't lost one yet. But keeping it clean is another thing altogether. But I may have found a solution on Craig's list.

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1069559009286058712003-11-22T19:37:00.000-08:002003-11-22T19:43:57.030-08:00

Apple is taking overy my browser and I hate it! Last week I added an external disk drive to my computer stuff -- and just in time too as my little iBook was over loaded with stuff and refusing to add anything more! For reasons known only to Microsoft, when I did this some of my browser preferences were murdered. No big problem. So I thought! My browser preference for "Home Page" was 'none'.

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1068732060525911782003-11-13T05:44:00.000-08:002003-11-13T06:16:30.903-08:00

Sex Bracelets? Give Me a Break! Goaded by a Gawker headline--"ALERT! THIS IS A FULL-SCALE BAD TEEN TREND ALERT"-- I went on over to NBC News to check out the article on Sex Bracelets! I'd seen the teaser on TV but I don't have the attention span to watch the news so had missed it there. Focusing on "your daughter", the article advises that "it's a good opportunity to have that all important

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nanowrimo, house painting, and Veteran's Day It is November 11, eleven days into nanowrimo. I now have typed my first day's quota of words. I'm back on caffeine. I have an AirPort (wireless to you PC folk) card so I can waste my time on the internet while supposedly typing my novel at a coffee shop. My sister is arriving from Illinois on Thursday morning or Friday night, depending on which

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Calling All Saints Here it is All Saints Eve, aka Halloween and so on. I celebrated by going to bed at 7:30 pm with a killer migraine and waking at 10:30 with said migraine somewhat diminished. I had the most extraordinary and vivid horror story dreams, sort of an Edgar Allen Poe meets the Texas Chainsaw Murderer with an necrophiliac twist, all in living technicolor. These were so awful I

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SWB There's a new kind of crime in Oakland. According to witnesses, Terrance Mearis, a 20-year-old African American man, was asleep in a second floor apartment on October 5, 2003. Two police officers entered the apartment without a warrant, without consent, and without any of the other conditions that would make their entry legal. They came upon the sleeping man and began to beat him. He

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1065681494444549562003-10-08T23:36:00.000-07:002003-10-08T23:38:29.460-07:00

Celebration of Edward Said's Life and Work Edward Said 1935-2003 San Francisco-Bay Area Memorial A celebration of his life, his work and his resistance Tuesday, October 14th, 2003 7pm Wheeler Auditorium UC Berkeley Sponsored by the Bay Area Palestinian Community, and UC Berkeley For more information please contact hats@igc.org ghannam@itsa.ucsf.edu

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Justice I've been spending too much time in courtrooms lately. It makes me weep. Sometimes I keep score. What is the racial and gender breakdown of courtroom personnell, District Attorneys, Defense Attorneys, and defendants? The outcome of course is known in advance. Court personnell are heterogeneous group. Bailifs are almost all men, mostly Caucasian males. Court reporters and clerks

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1065246878147580662003-10-03T22:41:00.000-07:002003-10-08T08:32:04.936-07:00

A little evidence that I really have lost it over this recall stuff October 8, 2003 Writing in anger is maybe a bad idea. I'm not proud of the name-calling in this post. No person, however vile is "a piece of crap". I amend some of my statements today. I like to save a buck as much as the next girl. I mean, I really do go across town to Costco to save fifty cents on a tank of gas. Well,

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1065114484807337212003-10-02T10:01:00.000-07:002003-10-02T10:31:16.053-07:00

"The great mass of people … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." -Adolph Hitler If the truth will set you free (2 Corinthians 3:17), then what will lies do? David Corn recites a Litany of lies by the President Selected. In the same issue of the new online public interest journal tompaine.com, David Scheckman puts lies by actual bought, paid for, and elected

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1064992391477130192003-09-30T23:51:00.000-07:002003-10-01T00:37:44.946-07:00

Justice Dealt a Blow in Oakland Today as Criminal Cops Take a Pass Like the craven cowards they are, the three ex-police officers on trial for 35 criminal charges sneaked into the courtroom through the basement and the back door. This was an unconscious metaphor for the diry work they did in the dead of night, under bridges and overpasses, out of sight of the public, to people they thought

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1064650344005059192003-09-27T00:59:00.000-07:002003-09-27T01:44:49.293-07:00

Gender, Schmender Doodling around on the web this evening I came upon the Gender Genie. Based on a writing sample, the Gender Genie will determine whether you are male or female. I submitted three blogs. First blog Little Things Mean a Lot Score: Female Score: 701 Male Score: 659 Female Second blog Bush statement - no link between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks -relegated to page 5 of Oakland

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Little Things Mean a Lot No, this is not a porn site. Shame on you!! I was just reflecting on how small accomplishments can be very validating. I've had a few this week. I changed the headlight in my car. Now that may not seem like much but the temptation was very great to take it in to my very excellent car repair place so they could do it for me. But instead I grabbed the headlight

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Edward Said It is very sad to learn that Edward Said has passed. He has been a brilliant voice for justice and peacein Palestine and the Middle East in General. Said apearred frequently on Democracy Now! and you can hear him from their web site, as well as read a brief bio.

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Bush statement - no link between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks -relegated to page 5 of Oakland Tribune You may have missed it. Well, maybe it isn't that important. Still, Bush did justify the illegal invasion of a country!! with his claim that Saddam Hussein was linked to the 9/11 attacks. I kind of think that his reversal is big news. Not to mention additional support for his impeachment.

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Pix from Elsie's 30th B'day Party Here are a few of the hundreds of pictures taken to immortalize Elsie's fab birthday party.

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Is the (California Governor) Recall a Right Wing Plot? Listening to classical music on kpfa while reading the Sunday Oakland Tribune. and sipping organic fair trade Sumatra coffee brewed from freshly ground beans is a nice treat, even if Sasha would rather I were throwing the tennis ball for her to fetch. It's a nice, lazy way to start the day and not too taxing on the mind. Check the above

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The Virgo Party Elsie rocks! For her 30th birthday, she produced The Virgo Party, featuring five of her favorite local bands and sake jello shots, known as "MonsterShots". Her friends, some of which she's known since she was five years old, came from all over. We all lover her and it was great fun to celebrate with her at The Canvas Gallery, a really fabulous Gallery/Bar/Restaurant. Join

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Aftermath This is a call for y'all to take good care of yourself. to be gentle with yourself, with other people, and with those furry creatures, too, even if they pee on the carpet or scratch you awake in the morning, to take some time, take some breaths, drink some water. To be careful crossing streets and talking with friends. To remember that you may forget, be late, be anxious "for no

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We love our 9/11 heroes .... but not that much... As we brace for the onslaught of articles, news pieces, psycho-- er -- docu-dramas, and political speeches about 911, reports come through at last that the government lied about NYC air quality following destruction of the twin towers. What that kinda means is that we've killed and are killing and maiming people ongoing by failing to take

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We rocked the house!!!

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Ready or Not, Here We Come! Footloose Presents @Venue 9 Women's Work Multi-disciplinary performance series Tuesday's in September at 8pm Produced by Mary Alive Fry Tonight's performance brings you Christi Denton (Music), Kavita Bali (Film) and HeartRhythms (Dance & Congolese Drums) --- that's my band, Dude! It always scares me when we have a good rehearsal as we did last night. But hey! I

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Memories of Election 2000 As the California recall election looms like a hungry lion protecting her young from the depradations of actual voters who actually elected a governer two years ago, this documentation of other election misdeeds came to my attention. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Something's Fishy: Yet another thing the doctor never told me So it seems that fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids, have been shown to improve depression. How come my doctor never mentioned that little gem when we discussed changing my anti-depressant medication? Duh! Of course I may have found that out myself if I had continued to take the capsules I bought for heart-healthiness. Even if you're

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Having Labored William did two additional piercings on my left ear and started the stretching process on my right ear on my birthday. My first ear piercing was done in a little jewelry shop in Northampton, Mass near my apartment. in 1967. A cotton swab with aclohol, a cork, a needle, and an ice cube were the tools. I still have the earrings that a friend brought me from Mexico. Well, one of

Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079044202043575632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165118.post-1062232521138566212003-08-30T01:32:00.000-07:002003-08-30T01:36:24.130-07:00 Wednesday was my Birthday and Yes I am Loved

With the dog sick and people are everywhere dying, even then the ocean's lapping and the dead tree with so many whorls and the wave-eaten rock give me joy on the morning of my 61st year here in the milky way in this softness of skin where I live.

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Ready For the Road (Almost) Here I am, obsessively checking email and updating websites. My two tents, sleeping bag, air mattress, 2 cameras, CD player, headphones, those of my clothes not still in the laundry process, snacks, sundry personal items, blank tapes, water bottle, sarongs, flashlight, brownie mix -- they're all here and no doubt eager to be organized and packed. The dog is, sad to

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Exciting Week Coming Up On Monday evening, Choire will be here!!!! Yeah! I am sooooo excited! Then on Friday I'm off to camp. I expect I'll be madly packing until the last minute. Besides the usual, I'll have my big tent, sleeping bag, Ashiko drum, and Conga drum; possibly some shakers and bell. My Kalimba.The Tarot deck is a must of course. Camera,naturally!!! Computer, battery charger

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Take me out to the ball game! It's Jenna's birthday on Monday and a bunch of us are going to see the Oakland A's to celebrate. It's supposed to be a surprise but I think she has had a few hints. The last time I went to a baseball game was in something like 1961. No, that's not a typo. I saw both the White Sox and the Cubs that year; possibly they played each other. I suppose this is just

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Habits, I'm told, can be broken in five days. Certainly my habit of writing here was broken quickly. I was away for a while because a man dear to me died in a stupid traffic accident. He was much loved by many. You can read about him and see some photos on the congorhythms web site. I've begun a new drum class, Afro-Cuban drumming with Carolyn Brandy. It's totally different in style and

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Cruelty from Canon My new camera arrived today. I was surprised at how quickly it got here, since I chose the "Fed-Ex" saver option for $12.35. My hands shaking with excitement, I savagely slit the tape on the small box. There among the non-biodegradeable plastic "peanuts" was a smaller box. I pawed throught the contents -- a pile of documents, some cables, and then at last my tiny prize,

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It's Not Just for Vampires Anymore Garlic, it seems, is a preventive for prostate cancer. A single clove a day reduces incidence of prostate cancer by 50%, according to Michio Kaku on his program Explorations in Science. A quick Google search turned up articles such as this one indicating that garlic, onions, chives, and shallots share whatever property protects against prostate cancer. It

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Mother's Day is Coming Mother's Day is almost here once again. And what better way to celebrate than by helping Code Pink spread the word about the true meaning of Mother's Day. You can even buy your Mom a present at the Code Pink online store!!

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Keeping Busy I've been busy this week working on a community forum on police violence in Oakland. The forum was triggered by the recent police riot at the Port of Oakland. This is actually a great way to avoid completing painting my kitchen, which I began BEFORE I went to Maui!! That was in February. I vowed I'd finish it up today but .... didn't. I do have a nice planting of poppies in the

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If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the City Council Annoyed with demands that the victims of Monday's police riot in Oakland be heard in Open Forum, Council President Ignacio De La Fuente walked out of the council meeting in a snit last night. He was followed by Councilmember Larry Reid, best known as the Council's main apologist for Police abuse and chair of the city's Public Safety

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Another National First in Oakland "Oakland police fired rubber bullets to disperse about 750 anti-war demonstrators on Monday in what was believed to be the first use of such force against U.S. protesters since the war on Iraq began," says Reuters. The television news shows police shooting at protesters who are running away from them. Photos of one injured protestor shows a welt on low let

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Valentine's Day BART Commute I wrote this poem in my head on Valentines Day, 1991, on the way to work on the Bay Area's version of the subway. I'm terribly sad that it is so timely. Maybe it was something About the crowd on the BART And being Underground, Our bodies pressed close together, That made me feel this way. Last week on the radio at work I heard Ramsey Clark cry As

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Responding to "The Ultimatum" So tomorrow night at 5 is the latest deadline announced by Mr. Bush. There is a planned demonstration in San Francisco. The gathering is at 5pm at Powell and Market Streets. I'll be there in spirit only, as I have a police accountability meeting at PUEBLO. This seems like the kind of "business as usual" that is important to do. The GI Rights hotline is having

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Continuous Offending Back in 1991, I was arrested for blockading the Federal building in SF. And damn! we were good blockaders, too, at the women's door. That's where I met some dear friends -- at Pier 39 where we were warehoused and people chose to be cited out or booked. About 8 of us chose to be booked in solildarity with some folks had been booked for what the SFPD called "continuous

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trouble in blogger Well, one of my blogs is messing up the others. I thought I'd deleted the culprit, but apparently not. So now my Maui posts are out of order and my NION Concert post is screwed up. Oh, well. It really is time to get my blog up on Choire's server.

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A Little Mystery Solved Ha’iku Road was a mystery to us. Coming from Pa’ia, there are two Ha’iku Road turnoffs. The first gives mileage of 2 miles to Ha’iku and 7 miles to Makawao. The second gives mileage of 3miles and 8 miles, respectively. To get to Tropo House we took the second turnoff and turned left at the 4-way stop. Very simple. We had gone to Makawao while at camp but took

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Bulletin from Paradise This is a re-post of my first post from Maui on March 6. The original one got scrambled from a subsequent post and I just can't unscramble it so hoping this goes better. The Congolese Dance and Drum workshop was over on Sunday. It was wonderful, but whizzed by way too fast. There were many things I wanted to do but didn’t. They’ll have to wait until August when the

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Time Means Nothing to Me When I arrived “home” in Room 8 at Tropo House there was a note under my door. I was surprised because I don’t think I remembered to give this number to anyone so I wasn’t expecting a message. It wasn’t a message. It was my bill. I was about to call Jon to tell him of his mistake, since I "knew" I was leaving on Tuesday night. I thought first to look at my airline

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CCCO and NION Benefit I had the great fortune of attending the terrific concert to benefit the CCCO and Not In Our Name. This was put on by Sage Productions. I was there as a volunteer for the CCCO table so didn't see--or rather experience--the whole concert. What I did see was amazing. The scene out there in the hall was pretty incredible, too. All that good energy and joy! One of my

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Bent But Not Broken I was on the pavement before I knew what happened, yelling in pain. My first actual words-- as opposed to loud noises-- were "Is my drum okay?" Annette took my keys and went into the house for ice -- or frozen organic peas as it turned out . I lay on the road unable to get up. A stranger from across the street came over to help. My neighbor offered to get a chair. But I

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Out with the Old I counted seventeen shirts as I put them in paper bags to be taken to the GoodWill or Salvation Army. How crazy is it to own seventeen shirts that I don't need and don't wear! I haven't needed or worn them for years now. Two of them are from The Village Spirit, the bar my sister used to own, and she moved from there two years ago. A couple of them were rather nice

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The New Year Has Begun It feels like the holiday is officially over. Even Mr. Bush (he's not the president) is getting back to work cutting taxes for the rich and sending the poor off to war. The GI Rights hotline remains busy as people realize that the army (or navy or marines) is not exactly what the recruiters told them it would be. Many discover that they are Conscientious Objectors once

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Test This is only a test. In the event of an actual blog I'll write something.

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Hear Me Roar Last night I installed Jaguar on my laptop. It is indeed innovative, though I haven't yet seen it's wildness. I now have an opportunity to selectively copy over my documents, websites, and photos. I do like the iphoto and email interfaces so far. I bought Office OX when I used OSX previously (before the Apple techs screwed it up) and now I have to decide whether to upgrade my

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Order from Chaos -- I Hope As the Winter Solstice has passed and the days at last grow longer, I have begun to clear things out. The cold that pierces the windows in my living room has made me move my laptop to the dining room table. This works but is pretty unsatisfactory as I have to navigate the modem in the middle of the floor and the power and modem cords. So I am again moving my desk,

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What Will We Say When They Ask Us What We Did? Very late Wednesday night I watched the video Burning Questions.. The video included footage of the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Looking at these horrific images one cannot help but ask: How could this happen? Why didn't people stop this evil? Today, the United States Government is rounding up Muslims and detaining or

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Sasha's Sad Tail And what, you might ask, was Sasha doing in the fireplace to begin with? When I came back into the dining room I didn't see Sasha. She's usually lounging on the ivory leather recliner, which has come to be known as "Sasha's chair". But she was nowhere in sight. She has special places she likes in the kitchen and in the living room too; but she wasn't in any of them. I don't

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Holiday Gift Idea #2 Go to your kitchen and clean out your cupboards. Take all those wonderful little foody things you've purchased at Trader Joe's or Balducci's or Dean & Deluca but have not eaten and never will. Put them in a bag--or bags for some of us. Be sure to check the expiration dates!!!!! Just to be clear here: Items whose expiration dates have passed go either in the trash or

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Holiday Gift Idea #1 How about giving a day of counseling for rape victims by SF Women Against Rape From their web site: MAKING A CONTRIBUTION SFWAR is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization in the State of California. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law. To make a donation of stock, please contact your financial advisor. SFWAR has a brokerage account with Piper

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'Tis the Season...No, Not THAT One Is it the Winter Blahs,or perhaps alienation from Christianity, or even Seasonal Affective Disorder? Any one or combination of these can really ruin the month of December, not to mention large chunks of November and January and beyond. And for someone already suffering from a depressive disorder, these can really knock you down if you're not prepared with

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Character Flaw Discovered at COSTCO Photo Counter I was very pleased when I learned I could put my digital photos on a CD and bring them to COSTCO to be printed out, and for only nineteen cents a print. I wasn't so pleased when I got them back. They were much darker than they should have been, with all the highlights destroyed and the colors muddy. Several friends said that was often a

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I ARE A WINNER I just finished my nanowrimo novel. Fifty thousand and ninety-six words in 29 days!!!! I have to say I was muddling along stuck at around ten thousand words when my wise son said to me on November 18, "You can't write when you're tired?" And I found that I could.

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Sasha is still smelly but quite happy after a long walk. There were many interesing doggie messages along our route, which she did not share with me. It was a beautiful sunny day in Oakland. The neighborhood streets were pretty empty. Once we reached College Avenue, however,it was quite lively. Royal Grounds was open and its outdoor tables and chairs fully occupied with people chatting

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Just About Now The ferries have arrived at Alcatraz and people are walking up the hill to the sacred site at which the sunrise celebration will take place. Alas, it will take place without me as I am home at my keyboard, bored with my novel but pounding out those words to meet Saturday's deadline. Looks like I'll make it, too, which is kind of a surprise. For now, though, I'm going to go to

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Unthanksgiving and Earthquake Predictor Information about this year's sunrise gathering at Alcatraz Island is on the International Indian Treaty Council site. In brief, go to Pier #41 Blue and gold Fleet at Fisherman's Wharf is San Francisco. Tickets are available at 4am. boats depart at 5am and return at 9am. Beginning at 11 am there will be a pot luck feaast at the Inter-Tribal Friendship

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Obsessing Okay, so I tend to be a little obsessive anyway. Someday I'll post a short story I wrote a few years ago that is so obsessive I get claustrophobic reading it. But this nanowrimo thing has me obsessively counting words -- and, yes, obsessively blogging about my obsession with counting words. I'm getting kind of excited now about the possibility of completing the 50,000 words. But

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We Rock!!! Last night was amazing! The Drum Choir did a great job. Oh, yeah, most of us had our horror stories of mistakes we made. Perfection is not (yet) upon us. But damn! We were good. Yolanda had the girls going wild as she does when she gets down on that drum. Oh, my! The entire show was great. We had a party afterwards at . When they were getting ready to close, Annette and I hit

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On Drumming, Dreaming, Writing, and Personal Hygiene We--EveryWomon's HeartRhythms Drum Choir--had our last rehearsal last night. I knew that but haven't yet incorporated the idea that tonight is the performance. I've been so worried about my nanowrimo word count that I plumb forgot to worry about the performance. I have a spreadsheet for my nanowrimo word count this year. I can tell you

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Birthday Party A few weeks ago some young friends came over for a birthday party. One of them is a member of our drumming group. We hadn't seen her for a while since she also does African dance and there's a timing conflict. Since she's only 13 years old she can't make it to the night time classes in San Francisco. Her sister is a year younger and also drums, though she isn't as interested

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Direct Action, Drumming, Writing, and Other Loosely Associated Topics You may have missed it on CNN or your local news--I know I haven't seen it: There was a huge demonstration at the School of the Americasthis week-end. Besides speakers, singing ( Yeah, Indigo Girls!), protest signs, and chants, there was nonviolent direct action in which 96 people went over a 10-foot barbed-wire fence into

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Unsolicited Email Trauma According to the unsolicited email I've been receiving, I'm a deadbeat loser with a tiny penis who is trying to refinance my home and buy a new car while keeping the creditors at bay. Don't believe the hype! Hey, I should be writing this in my nanowrimo novel, not here.

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