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- I’m sure that many of you, like me, have been flustered lately. The worst
president in history has been reselected. The upside is we don’t have
to go through the tedium of voting anymore because Diebold and Triad will decide
for us. Mother Nature has never had a harder time of it. All those industries
I affectionately call “The Beast”, already fat with subsidy and
tax breaks, are having a field day with the repeals of environmental law and
passing of pro-industry legislation.
- We've finally recovered from a very festive holiday season and started the
new year grateful and hopeful. Grateful for the opportunity to be part of the
global community for change and hopeful that others are as excited as we are by
the prospect of working together. Within the first three weeks of 2004, we
celebrated new years in both the western and eastern worlds... the space
between us continues to grow smaller by the day.
- Woody carefully connects the elements, the people, the circumstances and
ultimately targets the architects of this war. We are a nation whose actions
continue to kill young soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
- Check out Woody's speech
when he accepted the Maverick award at the 2003 Woodstock Film Festival.
- The response of the pro-war camp to the anti-war
movement had increasingly boiled down to: "Well what would
you do then?" Woody responded.
- A.N.S.W.R., United for Peace and Justice,California Peace Action, Bay Area
United Against War, Not in Our Name, Global Exchange and other great
organizations joined together for the event in San Francisco on Sunday,March 20. I was
invited to speak and the night before, I had a dream, in which I was visiting
the White House (clearly a dream) and George W. was lusting for a friend of
mine, a beautiful girl I brought with me... he then succeeded in raping her...
her name was America... so I sat and wrote this poem. Laura and I then joined
the peace march, thousands of fired up, inspired peace lovers...
then I read the poem to that beautiful crowd gathered in Delores Park...
- Earth Times, a leading international publication
with a daily web edition, dedicated to people, politics and global
change, talked with Woody about his personal ecology. While sitting
on a park bench in New York City he shared his passions, values
and commitment to activism, which started with an ant hill and grew
and grew. Click here to read the
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