Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep 21 “Gypsies” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 3, 2011 – Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. Taylor and Alex rip up a tune while the band enjoys the spectacular Utah landscape.
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep. 22 “High and Tight” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 5, 2010 — Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. While in Fruita, Jeremiah demonstrates his hair cutting skills on Dan.
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep. 23 “Grammy” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 5, 2010 — Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. Ryan stops into the metal shop where the Grammy Awards are made in Ridgeway, Colorado.
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep. 24 “Tower of Power” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 7, 2011 — Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. The M4 brass section joins in with Tower of Power while at the Telluride Jazz Festival.
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep 25 “New York City” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 11th, 2011 — A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. The band plays in New York City at the Lincoln Center and stuns the locals.
Cameraman: Gogo Bambino
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep 26 “Bulgarian Bar” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 11, 2011 — A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. While in Manhattan, the band squeezes into Mehanata Bulgarian Bar on John’s birthday and surprises him with a song as he conducts the count in to Space Hole.
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep 27 “Little Stars of Bethlehem” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 14, 2011 — A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. The annual Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA proved to be very fertile ground for the band. The big finale show at Levitt Pavillion Steel Stacks was EPIC!
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Trail Mix: A Life With Razzle Dazzle Ep 28 “Show Time” from Diggable Monkey on Vimeo.
August 18, 2011 – A Life With Razzle Dazzle video diary with MarchFourth from the road. On a visit to Ft. Collins, the band plays a lively show for a amazingly responsive audience at the Aggie.
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We wanted to share this from The Post Carbon Institute: a team of highly regarded experts, whose collective mission is to lead the immediate transition to a resilient, equitable and sustainable world. Their mission is to get society off fossil fuels, fast! Check em’ out at http://www.postcarbon.org.
If you want to get to the great stuff, then jump to the 2:30 mark.
A friend of mine introduced me to an interesting audio series called, “Build 2020 Manifesto“, by Molina. In this 10 track series, the narrator guides us through a cautious tale of history, present and future seen through the eyes of the people. What I have posted above is the track titled, “Tomorrow’s Sun”, and refers to the power of optimism, creativity and community.
I think that the community behind the People’s Republic of Portland breathes this message and therefore can understand it. We appreciate that in the modern context, community has no boarders and is therefore a dispersed collective. In our world of Internet connectivity, the energy it takes to build a zeitgeist or collective identity is much less then previously required.
As our lives become more and more connected online, is it possible to never leave home? This infographic depicts how we engage everyday life, from education to work, socializing to paying bills and even groceries!
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On Oct. 6th, 12:00 pm, thousands will gather at the Waterfront near SW Ankeny and Naito Parkway (http://tinyurl.com/44rl474) to march to Pioneer Courthouse Square. This is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, where thousands have been staying near the Wall Street stock exchange to protest the corruption of Washington politicians, misdeeds of big banks, and the cancerous rein of corporate lobbyists.
Here is a link to the OccupyPortland Group: http://www.facebook.com/gr
You can also see where other Occupations are being held at OccupyTogether.org
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There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.
To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask Tim DeChristopher.
Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic nets. They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat. Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged. Today they run the state and the financial markets. They disseminate the lies that pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you, how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from lack of proper care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent, where the citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters and serfs.
The only word these corporations know is more. They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the street. Let the unemployed rot. Let children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters. Let torture continue. Let teachers, police, firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close. Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase until the species dies.
Who the hell cares? If the stocks of ExxonMobil or the coal industry or Goldman Sachs are high, life is good. Profit. Profit. Profit. That is what they chant behind those metal barricades. They have their fangs deep into your necks. If you do not shake them off very, very soon they will kill you. And they will kill the ecosystem, dooming your children and your children’s children. They are too stupid and too blind to see that they will perish with the rest of us. So either you rise up and supplant them, either you dismantle the corporate state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no longer kneel before the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets should govern human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward self-annihilation.
Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally faith. They sleep on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled. They have eaten more bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought possible. They have tasted fear, been beaten, gone to jail, been blinded by pepper spray, cried, hugged each other, laughed, sung, talked too long in general assemblies, seen their chants drift upward to the office towers above them, wondered if it is worth it, if anyone cares, if they will win. But as long as they remain steadfast they point the way out of the corporate labyrinth. This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among us.
This article was originally posted on Truthdig. You can also find it on nationofchange.org.
Official Statement from Occupy Wall Street – this statement was voted on and approved by the general assembly of protesters at Liberty Square: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City…
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
The dominance of men among society has diminished. From education to business, women are steadily claiming more success and achievements over their male counterparts. This infographic depicts data that shows the rise of women within business, education and leadership.
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With the words “We hold these truth’s to be self-evident” our country’s founding fathers stated in unequivocal terms their belief that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” Powerful words that are at the heart of The Declaration of Independence, a document that listed the principles upon which America was founded. Yes, it is true that our founding fathers were wealthy white male slave owners and most likely had more in common with the 1% than the 99%. But that does not take away from the words they wrote, words upon which our Constitution was based. America’s independence came about because a group of people believed that they should not have to live under the “tyranny” of British rule. It took a ‘revolution’ to free themselves from that tyranny. We celebrate America’s independence every 4th of July. It is a time when speeches by politicians ring with the word ‘patriotism’, when an American flag flying on the front porch is a sign of pride in being an American. It is ironic that those who so righteously deem themselves patriotic denounce anyone who questions what they are doing as unpatriotic. But we are America, we are the people. Wall Street, aided by corrupt politicians, has become what the British were to the revolutionaries of the 1700s – tyrants. And we the people are once again in the midst of a revolution because we the governed insist on a government that represents not just an elite few but all its citizens.
We are following in some pretty formidable footsteps and we should be proud!
In October I attended “Day 1″ of the Occupy Portland protests for a chance to capture some media. What I ended up with wasn’t what I expected. I assumed that I would find crowd noises and random interviews.What I captured was a well organized command/respond system.
It is called “Mic Check”. When someone among thousands of people, has the floor, they yell out “Mic Check”. The crowd responds by repeating what is said. This continues until the message is finished. While I was recording I heard many messages, but there seemed to be a common theme.
Take a listen (with headphones) to what I heard.
The cost of college education is more expensive than ever, with 3 out of 4 Americans agreeing that college is too expensive to afford. This infographic details an alternative to college education using OpenCourseWare(OCW), putting higher education in reach of many.
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A major issue in recent news is global food shortage. How concerning is this issue? Alarming statistics on global food shortage and the amount of food wasted are detailed in this infographic.
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