I have updated my music pages and finally migrated them here. Go visit if you want to learn about my musical history, watch some videos and listen to a few tracks and sound samples from my musical career.
One of the people in this video, Kathryn, is a friend of mine. Have a gander at what she is saying, which is that due to a preexisting medical condition in her young son, there is no way she ever return to live in the US, because his condition would bankrupt her. I travel and work a lot in the US and two things always stand out to me about the lack of public health care in the US. First, many people I know have been kept from doing truly interesting work because they have had to remain slaves to …
Goodness that came my way this past week: Norma Flores, a participant on our Food and Society Conference core team this year, has a blog about her work for farmworker justice. Brad Ovenell-Carter and the void of voids. Dave Pollard shares a travelouge from Joanna Macy in the Tar Sands Also from Dave, The Transition Initiative. Dojo Rat on his practice over the next 50 years.
This story about Britain’s last WW1 soldier has a key them: reconciliation is possible: To the strains of the “Last Post,” and in the presence of soldiers from armies that had fought as both friend and foe, the funeral was held here Thursday for Harry Patch, the last British survivor of World War I living in this country. Pallbearers carried the coffin of Harry Patch from Wells Cathedral on Thursday in Wells, England. Born in June 1898, Mr. Patch died last month at the age of 111 at a nursing home in this southwestern cathedral city, where thousands of …