A Thanksgiving Day Fast For Peace By Gary Corseri (repost)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Gary Corseri featured writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 17, 2008 The preposition is apt.  We are not in the season, not even in the spirit of the season, but we feel it upon us, like a nightmare chimera. Many feel oppressed and depressed by it. We struggle for more light. Perhaps it’s better to [...]

Cosmic Irony and Mordechai Vanunu by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 21, 2010 Cosmic Irony [is] the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations. It also [encompasses] the belief that the universe is so large and man so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man. Mordechai [...]

The right to demonstrate is the sign of a healthy democracy – And yet it sends many kids to years in detention

By Roland Michel Tremblay Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Marginal 21 November, 2010 As a Court Clerk in a criminal court, most cases just leave me totally indifferent. You could easily think I have lost my heart about such things a few years ago, incapable to feel anything now either for the defendants or their [...]

Claiming the Commons – Food for All on Haultain Boulevard

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ peakmoment | November 20, 2010 Peak Moment 185: Rainey Hopewell’s crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to anyone, anytime ? with messages chalked on the sidewalk [...]

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2009)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ redpharmacist | February 15, 2009 Chapter 1 What’s Wrong With Architecture FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter — building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto [...]