Sunday BajaAZ Open Thread

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Sunday March 06, 2011 · 1:19 PM PST

2011/03/06 · 13:19

Today’s thread is brought to you by the letter “P”

All are welcome here for everything
•    political
•    personal
•    problematic
•    pleasurable,
•    poignant,
•    pithy, or
•    polemic,
But pleasantly polite, please, and family friendly. We are building a caring community here.

A busy week in BajaAz land… see how many unhappy "P" words are to be found
when you find us across the dry orange riverbed...

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Saturday March 05, 2011 · 1:02 PM PST

2011/03/05 · 13:02

about our brothers and sisters of the Tohono O'Odham tribe and their struggles with the US immigration saga/policy/ is posted to our group - many thanks.

Recommended to all. Link here http://www.dailykos.com/...

But, since it was first published in 2008, we don't seem to be able to comment, so here is a public thank you.

Please do not rec this (not my work, and don't need mojo).

But perhaps other thanks and comments would get to LoE

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Sunday February 27, 2011 · 9:59 AM PST

2011/02/27 · 09:59

Good morning, snowy Baja!

Woke up this morning to a winter wonderland, first thing I did was grab my camera. Maybe we'll get some cool pics in the comments (hint)

We enjoyed this so much last week, thought we might try it again this week. This is a great place to just chat, to share personal stories, links to non-kos articles you may be enjoying, discuss Baja activism, or whatever is on your mind ....OPEN thread.

It's been an eventful week, sí?

Cheering to most I think is a story from the Washington Post about Gabby's progress, which Kyrsten Sinema tweeted us this morning. Do please follow us @BajaAZKossacks, and we will follow you.

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Power Dynamics and Nonviolent Protest

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 · 6:21 AM PST

2011/02/23 · 06:21

To resist corporate power and form “a more perfect Union,” we should study nonviolent lessons and strategies of pro-democracy movements worldwide. Meet Dr. Gene Sharp.

My last Evening Focus I spoke of Gandhian philosophy and technique . Afterward, I “got it” – the same colonial powers who had ruled India and ruled us before the American Revolution are at it again, with new tricks … dressed in suits and ties, and yes, even powdered wigs. It takes my breath away to think of it.

Republican strategists, well-paid agents of corporate colonialism, have working for 30 years to gain control of all the mechanisms of governance – from the school board to state and local boards and commissions, to the means of communication, to the mechanisms of elections, to the judiciary. And for 80 years they have ached to go back to the good old days, days before FDR.

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 · 12:58 PM PST

2011/02/22 · 12:58

Last evening some 300 progressives (according to the Tucson Citizen) crowded into a room with just 100 chairs set up(according to Kossack Jeff Latas, who is on the steering committee) to hear Raul Grijalva and Jim Hightower and organize for the future.

Some of us had agreed to try and find each other, and I'll post some notes and photos across the great orange wash.

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Sunday February 20, 2011 · 7:02 PM PST

2011/02/20 · 19:02

An Open Thread -

From time to time, maybe you would all appreciate an aggregator of sorts for conversation and posting AZ or personal news you don't have time to actually write a full diary on, or to "pimp" your published work anywhere. I would, so I am putting one up.

If you like the idea, follow me over the great orange wash to the dusty desert road on the other side...

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Gandhi’s Nonviolent Philosophy

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Sunday February 20, 2011 · 11:01 AM PST

2011/02/20 · 11:01

President Obama said, about the successful Egyptian pro-democracy movement, “It was the moral force of non-violence that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.” This calls to mind the life and work of India’s and South Africa’s Mohandas Gandhi.

Many scholars have documented and analyzed the Gandhi’s life and work; I cannot do it justice nor examine its rich roots in a few paragraphs. Still, there may be something to learn that would help us to better understand the genesis of the current nonviolent youth movements in the Middle East.

Mohandas Gandhi, born into a pious, educated, Hindu, merchant class family in colonized India on October 2, 1869. Do please follow me across the orange wash...

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Evening Focus: Tucson, Together We Thrive.

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Thursday January 20, 2011 · 5:38 PM PST

2011/01/20 · 17:38

Immediately, friends and family started calling from everywhere, saying, “Please tell me you were not there.” We were not. We might have been.

Over the past few days here, I have introduced you to rich Tucson culture and history, and discussed with you the controversy over the law banning our model Ethnic Studies program that really highlights some values conflicts we have with the State capital.

Today I will take you to the Tucson that has been on your TV screens since shots rang out at my local Safeway, leaving 6 dead including a nine year old girl – and 13 wounded, including our Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords. “Gabby” was shot at point blank range through the head. For about 30 minutes, we believed she had died.

Folllow the jalepenos to Tucson....

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Wednesday January 19, 2011 · 7:46 AM PST

2011/01/19 · 07:46

An Arizona state-legislature-approved ban (HB 2281) of the Ethnic Studies program in Tucson’s largest school district took effect on 12/31/10. What’s the big fuss?

The new law prohibits any curricula that:

Promote the overthrow of the United States government.

Promote resentment toward a race or class of people.

Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.

Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

The law has teeth. As it stands now, the state can withhold up to 10% of a district’s funding for a violation, about $15 million per year that Tucson’s schools can not afford to lose. This has intimidated the School Board.

At the time of the bill’s passage, State Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Tucson, said the legislation is “little more than a thinly disguised effort to quash a program TUSD officials have said was proven academically successful.” And she was right; that specific program was deemed illegal. (more)

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Tuesday January 18, 2011 · 8:15 PM PST

2011/01/18 · 20:15

This is a first person piece, about the city I love, the first of three. This one deals with the history and culture of Tucson. To follow are a piece on the AZ Ban on Tucson’s Ethnic Studies program, and finally, a piece on the healing process here since the shootings a week ago Saturday.

The Old Pueblo (Tucson) called me to relocate in 1993 when I needed light, healing, and restoration after a dark time in my life, and it has fulfilled its call. Many of us believe she carries a very strong spiritual energy, maybe a vortex if you are into that sort of thing, but even if you don’t you can see by our response to tragic violence that Tucson is an “Oasis of Love” in the desert. More on that on Wednesday, when I share about our response to the recent tragic shootings.

We are a very spread out “small town,” in the Sonoran desert some 40 miles from the Mexican border, surrounded by mountain ranges

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 5:54 PM PDT

2010/11/05 · 17:54

She has been running ahead all week, but it should never have been this close.

Gabby works hard, is always available to constituents, and this is a moderate district. Southern Arizona has its share of crazies, but W are a different state of mind than Phoenix.

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Monday September 06, 2010 · 9:51 AM PDT

2010/09/06 · 09:51

who is in the process of joining the Army as his only hope of security.

He and his girlfriend were living in Portland OR, doing OK until they became unemployed. I don't understand it all, but for him he was hired into a job way over his head, and couldn't keep it. That makes him ineligible for unemployment.

But joining the Army (his choice, not mine) is a LONG process, and while he is waiting for MEPS and then boot camp, 3 months minimum, he is living in his car, in Junction City, KS.

This is not a political diary, but a request for ideas / assistance.

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