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It is devotion to the risks,
the difficult dialogue,
that moves us toward a courageous discourse, shy of definition
of ideas frozen in embryo or in age.

Revelation has no political or social boundaries of etiquette,
but the augur of authenticity to travel,
to leave the comfort of the oasis for the more rugged
debate of the wilderness / and from there drink from surprising springs.

Let the feminine fugitive be celebrated for her originality.
The view of the avenue of trees depends on from what standpoint you exist.

In truth it is your leap of experience that rocks the boat.
Bring on the storms, the gales, the changes in direction, for the journey must be volatile.

Without your ideas, your flexible provocations,
your rejections of the bland,
how can we navigate the demanding and treacherous territory of enlightenment?

How else, for pity's sake, can we speak out our names and our children's names,
no matter in what synagogue, temple, forest, shrine, or meeting place it is that we kneel?

 -"Offering," Judith Adams
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"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The walls, the bars, the guns, and the guards can NEVER encircle or hold down the idea of the people. And the people must always carry forward the idea which is their dignity and their BEAUTY. ~ Huey P. Newton, Black Panther.

"I could recite the grass on the hill and memorize the moon.
I know the clouds' form of love / by heart and have brought tears to the eye of a storm

my memory banks vaults of autumn forests / and amazon riverbanks.
and I've screamed them into sunsets/ that echo in earthquakes

shadows have been my spotlight / as I monologue the night / and dialogue with days
soliloquies of wind and breeze / applauded by sun-rays...

My life is altered by the moon / foot prints written in soil...
and yes, the soil speaks highly of me. / when earth seeds root me, poet, tree..."
~Saul Williams
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There's enough wealth for everyone /  but some have most and most have some.
And there's enough food for us all to flourish
Tell me why are so many malnourished?
You say there's weakness in an empty pocket,
No- I'll tell you there's weakness in an empty heart.
And you say there's strength in the power to control,

And I say no, there's strength in only love and compassion / All that we have is hope and love,
So don't you worry 'bout a thing in the none
But those can lift us up, so we can RISE ABOVE THE MADNESS." 
~Brett Dennen

"What is the greatest thing?  He tangata, he tangata, he tangata" (the people, the people, the people) - Maori Proverb

you know I fight fire with words, words are hotter then flames, words are wetter then water... -Ani DiFranco
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The earth is for all the people. That is the demand.
The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand.  The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, of poverty and shame-- the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood.  That is the demand." 
~Eugene Debs
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never question who i am. 'cause god knows,
and I know god personally...
in fact, she lets me call her "me."
~Saul Williams
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I LOVE:

travel, purpose, water, poetry, activism and social change, my family, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand,  Vietnam, Books Not Bars, organics, rats, Horchata,  flowers, clean energy, sunrises, laughing too loud, Vietnamese and Thai food, music, foreign films, big dogs, positive people, learning, teaching, Nor-Cal, gelato, freedom for political prisoners, KPFA, theme parties, spicy food, hot hot water, surfing rats.

A revolutionary thinker/good friend Amanda Gelender's article (KPFA, 3/07): http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/3/2/opedOccupationDefiesSocialJustice