Occupy America ~ NO NO Keshagesh !
… circular rhythms .. circular feeling … circular dancing .. circular orbits … circular, spiraling writing … a long spiral … with xo …
while my wife and I are rereading the works of Martin Prechtel ..
“Garden of Eden right before his eyes, now it’s all credit cards, its all spy ware “ …. Buffy St. Marie ( the Empire Slayer?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmAb1gNN74
…The reservation now the poverty row, There’s something cooking, and the lights are low. Somebody’s trying to save our mother earth. I’m gonna help them, to save it, to sing, and bring it, Singing No, No, Keshagesh You can’t do that. No more, no more, no more…
“No, No, Keshagesh”, above, is a song by Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) dedicated to standing up in the face of Keshagesh, a Cree word Sainte-Marie defines as greed (greedy guts). Her voice has echoed for generations. Singing songs about and for her Native people. She’s often recognized for the songs she sang on the children’s TV program “Sesame Street.” Since the early 196o’s she has heralded the issues of Native people into her work. Sainte-Marie, like many other Native female artists, is a narrator of her culture. (Christine Devries http://cojmc.unl.edu/nativedaughters/artists/native-women-bring-traditional-art-into-the-21st-century)
In a dark dream … kali yuga …it appears that some of the perverse global colonial gamesmanship that’s been deployed to hoodwink, destabilize, pull-the-white-wigged-wool over and conquer the peoples and lands of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and to bankrupt scores of third world countries, independent workers and organizing labor, has been finally cast over the United States, by some of its own citizens. The colonial usurping mind, possessed of Kehsagesh, sickened and mentally deranged, is finally set on devouring itself, all of us, you and me, my neighbors, my friends, my son, my enemies. You might see that a bad spirit is eating our nation up from the inside out, while ponderous resources are being bilked away into unproductive resource siphoning diversions, while we otherwise entertain away our woes and tighten our belts, as it were. And our pot is finally boiling over, palpably, visibly, credibly for the first time in waaay too long. And the revolution is digitized and decentralized.
Learn well JakeSullee .. and we will see if your ins hann i tee can be cured. Mo’at.
While I was thoroughly immersed these several recent weeks of academic year start-up/classrooms, post-graduate course work, and cobbling/writing a small and intense educational manual .. lots of music and dreams came through, some ideas went round ..
- At least we are winning the WAR on Education! (Unknown source / sticker)
to wit, and sadly winning the wars on delight, peace, joy, our environment, affordable housing, nutritious food, heath care, and on and on in dis here re ve la shon …
BTW .. when I started teaching, some 15 years ago .. 25 students was considered a reasonable class size … I now have 40 students enrolled in my regular academic sections. And my actual compensation has been cut by 15% in that same time. I wonder how things are looking for my counterparts at over at Halliburton? KBR? I hear that F-16’s are too expensive to deploy lately .. Fleet Week excepted .. Maybe additional savings can be realized if my classes were similarly taught by .. drones?
Time to FLIP THE SCRIPT .. popularly and persuasively … NO ! NO ! Keshagesh !
We welcomed and produced Flipsyde on campus al El Cerrito HS .. who generously came back to their Alma Mater to share some love … we recommend your listening to some Hip Rock you can get behind with your teenagers, the material thoughtful/didactic. The crew is genuine. We are grateful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QEAI_O2IA&ob=av2e
We are presenting an inaugural keCg / ECHS music event fundraiser in November, with Gamelan Sekar Jaya, first in a series of musicultural events in our ECHS theatre … musical work shops with our students and an evening of pure enchantment, delight, tone poem tale telling and some tom-foolery.
www.gsj.org/ http://worldoneradio.org/
Occupy your heart, occupy the heartland.
NO! Monsanto you can’t do that no more.
Occupy your head, the headwaters, and headquarters.
No! Bechtel, you can’t do that no more.
Occupy your ears, your Ear Channels.
NO! ViaFox, you can’t do that no more.
Occupy your eyes.
Use them to create and recreate, project and protect.
NO ! no more Comcast Armies of zombies, ways to die, and vampire EMP T V.
Occupy your hands.
Draw, doodle, sculpt, caress, dig, plant, strum, tap, wave ‘em in the air!
Occupy your voice .
Raise it to inform and critique, define your schools, city councils, your Congressional Reps. Chant/sing beautiful healing poems, lyrics,speak to dispel confusion and bring the rumors, and radio stations, and conditions of p e a c e.
Occupy your computer.
Or it will occupy you, like hyper-commercial radio, movies, and television before it.
Occupy your mouth.
NO ! relentless gulps and rounds of processed of empty junk carbs, sugars, and fats.
Occupy your family.
Nourish them with togetherness, good activities, good conversations.
Occupy America.
Is it time to call upon all our champions … troops, cops, National Guard and firemen/women to defend and protect regular, ordinary US Citizens from greedy ghosts, Jokerman. who have subverted our commonwealth to aggregate corporate wealth, pilfer and pillage through pay-to-play politricks. NYC cops might be zip tie-ing derivative executives! Maybe we’ll call on those airport white-zone guards too, always ready with an argument, a whistle, and a ticket book.
Up to old tricks in a deeper camouflaged twist. The oldest trick perhaps ? set the people against themselves .. the lighter skinned from the darker skinned .. lately and locally … the red against the blue, norteño-halo-dems against sureño-halo-republican.. and the redder vs the redish, and the bluer vs blueish .. what a bunch of shrill, shrieking, charade, fraud, puffery, and otherwise unholy sh–. The politics of division … in place of a grand collaborative unity .. get every body onto a combative team .. amped so parents erupt in fights at the pee-wee league play offs !
What happened to the best employee benefit .. a happy productive employee/worker and their provided-for-by-the-fruit-of their-reasonable-labors-family ?
Enough! Mr. Oh?Really!? Et al … Spare us your imbalance … bashing of organized labor/unions, nurses, nurses, and public school educators, who according to a credible vanilla-stout-sipping-produce-clerk-at-our-local-pub, are among last line of conscience, preserving what’s left of some classic can-do-will-do American Social/Civic Fabric… maaaybe that why FOXisms are particualrly shrill towards these groups?
I have found some daily comic relief in America the Book .. A Citizen’s guide to Democracy Inaction .. excerpted from TV: Shiny Pretty TV (p148) ..
Mass production of cheap radios has helped to unite and inform the populace of a growing nation. But at what price? The radio’s over-reliance on words had forced America to connect mental images to a narrative. The country’s imagination was dangerously well developed at the very moment we needed not to think about what dropping an atomic bomb on someone might look like. Couldn’t anyone invent a device that would numb not just one but all our senses? So information concerning our government could be absorbed by osmosis in the course of gathering the family to watch a funny man in a dress?
Oh, along with a million spit march anthem by Felonious Munk ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmZ9zH-mYM
Its time we call back the estimated 33% of our National GNP dedicated to the military industrial complex. Another recent quote from a 15 year old .. if we are fighting and or winning the war for oil, why is gas fi dollas a gallon?
Recent worldOneradio mixology quilts, adds, loops, revisits:
Buffy ! Meshelle Ndgeocello, Janelle Monae, Thievery Corp, David Byrne , Flying Lotus, Jill Scott, Gurunam Singh, Damian + Nas, Ziggy Marley, Reality Sandwich , Blue Tech, Mariachi El Bronx, Seu Jorge, Thao and Mira, Rebecca Spektor, Doves, John Lennon. Francois Couture, Benjamin Zephaniah, Mary Fahl, Ozzy Ozbourne, dj Kicks, Natural Vibrations, Marcelo D2, Fela, Flipsyde, Dr, Bronner, Ray Stevens, Felonius Munk, Peking Opera, Suphala, and Gamelan Sekar Jaya.
Susan Gregory Thomas sorts thing sorts out, and deals adroitly with her economic downturn in a few columns: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/i-went-back-to-the-land-to-feed-my-family.html
Its all connected .. and Dr. Bronner has it goin on … read on …
http://www.drbronner.com/pdf/drbronner_32oz_Pep.pdf
ALL ONE ALL ONE ALL ONE ! … on the brink … no peace without U- N – I – T- Y that’s unity .. U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from infinity to infinity – QL. = : ) ~
addenda:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/arts/m…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/0…
