Read this if you care about what you eat

I don’t usually get into campaigns trying to leverage the government but sometimes even anarchists have to work within the system, and then brush our teeth later to get the bad taste out of our mouths.
Got this from the Urban Sisterhood:
The FDA wants to allow food from cloned animals into the food supply without labeling.
Please [...]

a couple of good articles

School’s keeping me crazy busy and probably will continue doing so until finals are over next week, so until then here are a couple of good, but scary articles to keep you entertained (and, hopefully, at least somewhat outraged):
The Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State: http://www.alternet.org/rights/36553
Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html

Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dies at age 84
He was one of my favorite authors. His novels are pretty good, but oh how I love his short stories! Especially “Harrison Bergeron” and “Welcome to the Monkey House”.
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut. I hope “everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”

America’s image

“Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that [...]

He is risen!

Christos anesti!
“Death has been swallowed up in victory!”
“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down [...]

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Keeping Tabs on the Peaceniks

This really makes me rather angry. It doesn’t SURPRISE me, not in the least, not after I heard Brian Terrell say “vegetarianism” and “involvement with organic foods” was part of the rationale for investigating him under the FBI Joint Terror task force and that pacifist anabaptist groups were on the terrorist suspect list, but it [...]