Hoosiers push back against DeVos

I looove this!! This is when I am really proud of the folks in Indiana. I wish they were this vocal about the toxins in the waterways and air. I can hope. I can hope. But yeah, this news made my day. 🙂

stevehinnefeld's avatarSchool Matters

Education advocates in Indiana have a unique perspective on the radical school-choice policies that Betsy DeVos is promoting as U.S. secretary of education, said Teresa Meredith, president of the Indiana State Teachers Association.

Hoosiers have seen how a school voucher program that was sold as a way to help poor children escape “failing” schools can evolve into something quite different: an entitlement for middle-class parents to send their children to religious schools at public expense.

Teresa Meredith Teresa Meredith

“In Indiana, the voucher program has really changed,” Meredith said in a phone interview. “There is now no cap on the number of vouchers. Families with a really decent income can qualify. And the data are telling us that most kids getting vouchers are already in private schools, or that was the family’s plan all along.”

DeVos came to Indianapolis Monday to speak at a policy summit of the American Federation of Children…

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Isaiah 24

I have mentioned in a prior post that I thought that God was going to use fire to destroy the Earth.

Today I found the passage that leads me to believe this:

Isaiah 24:4, 5, 6
The earth dries up and withers,
the world languishes and withers,
the exalted of the earth languish.

The earth is defiled by its people;
they have disobeyed the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore a curse consumes the earth,
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.


This is why I think God will use fire to cleanse the Earth this time. And why I am hoping that those of us whom have tried to take care of the earth will be spared.

 

The Unpredictable IS predictable…

Boy, do I wish we had the same judge for DAPL…because it IS predictable that oil pipelines leak.  It is also predictable that nuclear reactors can be destroyed by nature, as this judge found.  The overconfidence by those who stand to profit from such operations should not be allowed to ignore public concern for their water, their soil, and for the Native folk, their ancestors who are buried over America.

America, the Beautiful…if you can keep it…

 

By Daniel Newton Global Research, May 08, 2017 Neonettle.com 7 May 2017 The Japanese Government has been ordered to pay tens of millions in compensation after it was found guilty of negligence causing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Reports also claim that the ruling could also include other pacific nations like the US who could also be […]

via Fukushima: Japanese Government Guilty of Destroying Pacific Ocean — The Most Revolutionary Act

DAPL has first oil leak

First of all, I’m surprised we heard about this at all, given that the oil companies are trying very hard to keep this stuff secret…but then again, this happened on April 4th, and we’re just now hearing about it…

…and I hate to say “I told you so…” but, yeah, I did.  So did a whole heckuva lot of other people who gave up everything to go to Standing Rock.

 

A dream…

I had a dream just before awakening this morning.  As always, I assess whether it is a message or a prophetic dream.  I am still trying to figure out the Gift that I have been given, so I lack enough confidence to know whether this disturbing dream is something to take at its face value, or there is a deeper meaning behind it.

For instance, a dream of death doesn’t mean actual physical death, but means a part of oneself is dying that is no longer serving one.  Your mileage may vary, of course.

So the dream…I dreamed that the United States was no more.  Not in the way that we have come to know it, anyway.  The government was dissolved and the former states were turned into little fiefdoms where certain handpicked individuals ruled over all…like the British Kingdom.

Yeah, it was really disturbing.

I really hope that it is not a prophecy, but a dream with another meaning that hasn’t been made clear to me yet.  I just cannot wrap my brain that we are going back to that…

Meanwhile, stay connected to God always.  I do that throughout the day by thanking God for a bird singing a song, the leaves coming out on the trees, the beautiful Spearfish Canyon (what is left of the beauty with all the trees dying), the food I have to eat, the water to drink, and so on.  I just close my eyes briefly, think of God, and say “thanks for…”

My personal thought is that if you stay connected with God that way, it makes it much harder for the Dark side to wedge its way in.  I think this is what the Natives call “walking in prayer”.  Again, your mileage may vary….

 

Sometimes I Just Don’t Understand

Carol A. Hand's avatarVoices from the Margins

Carol A. Hand

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand

why people in power seem to care so little

about the suffering and destruction

they leave in their (una)wake(ning)

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Microsoft WORD Clip Art – Sometimes I just can’t take a photo

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Robin wings and bloodied backbone lying in the grass

A gift from my neighbors’ roaming cat?

It breaks my heart although they don’t seem to care

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand

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Neighborhood – May 10, 2017

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Garbage strewn across from

the neighborhood school

cluttering the little wooded stream

an elder’s shopping cart now inaccessible

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand

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Neighborhood – May 10, 2017

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Still, I will tend gardens, teach, and write about possibilities

even as I mourn while picking up the wings and sending love

I will clean up the little wooded area although others may laugh

because…

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Ranchers and Tribes Unite Once Again to Fight Keystone XL

Zig Zag's avatarWarrior Publications

Ponca-tribe-Keystone-XL-photog-Mary-Anne-Andrei-Bold-Nebraska Amos Hinton and Mekasi Horinek of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma talk with farmer Art Tanderup during the 2014 planting of sacred Ponca corn on the Tanderup farm. Courtesy Mary Anne Andrei/Bold Nebraska

A unique alliance among tribes, ranchers, and other landowners in Nebraska regroups to resist fossil fuel development like the Keystone XL

A week after tens of thousands turned out in support of science and just before thousands more took to the streets for the People’s Climate March, a quieter walk was held at what might be considered ground zero of the country’s energy debate. On April 29, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska headed south on a 273-mile remembrance walk beginning in Niobrara, Nebraska, and scheduled to culminate 12 days later in the small village of Barneston. The event will commemorate the Ponca’s forced removal from their traditional lands in the…

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May 4, 1970: Four Dead in Ohio… **edited

May 4, 1970…

eagle's avatarEagle

On a sunny, gorgeous Spring day in May, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were gunned down by the National Guard, which the Governor of Ohio sent to quell student protestors.  The Vietnam war protests had become intense after President Nixon invaded Cambodia.  He had lied and said we were getting out, but instead ramped things up.  About a week after this, students at Jackson State were also shot.

My prior posts on Kent State:

Birch Bayh, my Senator at the time, started asking questions.

A student’s documentary on Kent State.  Note how dramatic the Governor is in describing these 18-22-year-old kids as if they were hardened terrorists part of some bigger organization.  They were not. They were unarmed.  They were angry at being lied to while their buddies die in Vietnam, as Alan Canfora experienced.

As the documentary acknowledges, only two of those killed were actually part…

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