Traveling Without Moving (?)

Air travel is the single most environmentally damaging activity most of us engage in. Finding a suitable alternative is vital to sustainability, but is also quite antithetical to the way business is done in our world.*

*INFO:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/traveling_witho.php
http://www.sightline.org/research/energy/res_pubs/rel_air_travel_aug04
http://www.ehow.com/how_4910190_reduce-environmental-impact-air-travel.html

Hit The Road Jack


Ray Charles & The Raylettes

Pay To Stay


Change is inevitable — it is how the city lives and breathes. And I don’t begrudge a safer neighborhood — no one wants to dodge bullets or have to fight off a mugger with a two-by-four or a kitchen knife or a gun (as I did). But I feel sad and angry that the only newcomers to Manhattan from now on will be those rich enough to buy their way in. No new immigrants will bring their ways and flavors and styles to our neighborhoods. No poor artists or writers or musicians will come here and fight to prove their worth. No struggle, no adventure — just pay to stay."

-Maggie Wrigley

INFO:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/the-suburbanization-of-new-york-editors-take-questions/

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/

http://gothamist.com/2010/05/03/patti_smith_suggests_finding_anothe.php

Stop Doggin' Me Around


Jackie Wilson

Just For The Hell Of It?

"Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so."

-Edward Abbey

Canooks Show They've Got Spunk




Police officers protect the corporate interest and use force against demonstrators protesting the G8/G20 summits in Toronto.

INFO:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
http://www.torontog20summit.com/

Brother Can You Spare a Dime


Charlie Palloy

Invisible Empire

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

-Woodrow Wilson

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."*

*-Dorothy Parker

Too Little Too Late

QUESTION: Why is there never enough money to oversee and inspect before a disaster, but somehow, the funds miraculously become available after the shit hits the fan? Now, inspectors and experts are everywhere. Too late, the harm's done. "We will keep our boot on their neck until the job gets done." says Secretary Salazar. Well, not exactly... Let's face the facts. It's the U.S. middle class that has the boot on their necks. We all know that BP isn't going to be paying for their cleanup. The U.S. taxpayer will eventually be responsible to pay in a million big and little ways over decades to come. Our government's energy strategy and human greed are bankrupting our country. And, as usual, the environment is destroyed and lives are lost; all for profit. If the onus of fiscal responsibility is going to be placed on the necks of the taxpayers, let's make sure we're going to get something in return.

- e.l.f.

INFO:
http://earth-liberation-front.org/
UPDATE... Guess what?... BP lied... (big surprise right?):
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/061110/nat_651992936.shtml

"Pay little attention to what men say - but watch what they do."*

*-Andrew Carnegie

Passacaglia


Yusef Lateef

Here Ya Go

"When Fascism comes to the United States, it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism."

-Sinclair Lewis, 1948