Organizer Headquarters- The Iowa Climate Caucus: Who's a Leader on Global Warming?
Iowa's Premiere Step It Up 2007 Event
This is the organizer's headquarters for the Iowa City Step It Up 2007 rally on the Pentacrest following the policy disucssion. Iowa City organizer: Robert Anderson National organizer: Daniel Bell This event will be an opportunity for citizens to hear and ask questions of their elected leaders; it will be an opportunity for elected and campaigning representa ...learn more
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Created: Oct 11, 2007
Updated: Aug 28, 2008
Membership: Open
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MaryJo Wood
MaryJo
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I'm an art graduate and retail refugee trying to start a new career doing something that's actually meaningful.
This year I've been doing volunteer work propagating native Australian plants, and boning up on organic gardening and permaculture design.
Hopefully I'll be spending a year or two in Japan through the JET Program starting in June 2010. Until then, my aim is to meet more people doing good things, and plan for where I can best fit in and help out once I get back from Japan.
My interests and pet issues are varied, but they all pretty much boil down to freedom and independence, whether it's freedom from oppression, freedom from pollution, freedom from hunger, or just freedom from the status quo. And as a kid who grew up on video games, I get quite frustrated when the rules of life aren't as fair or simple or transparent.
No one is truly free who is still attached to material things, or to places, or to people. We
must be able to use things when we need them and then relinquish them without regret
when they have outlived their usefulness. We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the
places where we tarry, and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere.
We must be able to live in loving association with people without feeling that we posses
them and must run their lives. Anything that you strive to hold captive will hold you
captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.
With love...
surendra singh virhe (Spiritual Leader)
utkarsh sansthan India
surendravirah@gmail.com