Exercise.

Lose weight.

Be nicer.

Work with not just this year but many future years and generations and centuries in mind.

Work with an international perspective as much as possible.  Collaborate internationally as much as possible.

Work to turn last year’s Arab Spring into this year’s Worldwide Spring-Summer-Fall-Winter.

Help to create a worldwide movement against plutocracy and violence.

Stop thinking of defeating horrendous proposals as the only kind read more

Actually, be there at 10:45 pm tonight.

It’s important.

Lee Park is right on Market Street in downtown.

It is the encampment of OccupyCville.

At 11 pm police may tell everyone to leave or be arrested.  If they do, you can certainly leave.  I’m not asking you to risk arrest unless you want to. 

Many are willing to risk arrest, and we should support them.

In cities across the country, police have backed off on threatened evictions because of the number of people present.  read more

LISTEN

LISTEN

Has the First Amendment expired in your public square?  Has your local park prioritized empty vistas over the right to petition your government for a redress of grievances, thereby adding one more grievance to the list?

Here’s a proposal.  Pack up all of your grievances in a bag and bring them to where the government responsible is located.  Move your protest and yourself and as much of your Occupy community as you can bring with you to Freedom read more

Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before — although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer reforms and less accountability than they used to — although that is also true and is getting closer; but fundamentally because the actions against which we need whistles blown are publicly acknowledged.

How would one expose war or indefinite imprisonment read more

Billionaire Bloomberg, Militarized Police Commanders, and the Editors of the Charlottesville Daily Progress Believe . . .

… permitting any exercise of First Amendment rights is an act of generosity, and all acts of generosity must end.

According to the Daily Progress, we’re even free in Charlottesville to insult presidents, although the “insults” may consist of attempted citizens arrests for openly confessed felonies, and although the “freedom” may consist read more

I’m thankful that a growing number of us reject the idea of a mysterious being to which we should be thankful, and for the concomitant growing assumption of responsibility for our own fate.

I’m thankful that there are so many people doing so many things for which I am thankful.

I’m thankful for the best family I can imagine. Scratch that. I’m thankful for a better family than I could merely imagine.

I’m thankful too for better employers than I could merely imagine.

I’m read more