…Why would this action be a surprise as this is precisely what “whitey” did to the Native Americans … suppress their culture, forbid them to speak their native tongue, forbid the practice of their religion … Hey, this is the American way … got it …

Imposing White "Eurocentric" Education on Mexican-American Students in Tucson: The Suppression of History

Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Battles over school curriculums occasionally make national news, but quickly fade. However, the banning of the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson has assumed much greater significance. The action precipitated by the Arizona legislature – and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer – brazenly suppresses educating a multicultural society in a school district where the majority of students are of Mexican descent."

Read the Article and Watch the Video

… Look … until “we” get off our butts and make our voice and intention indelibly clear to the numskulls we elected to Congress sanity respecting marijuana will not happen … Congress is owned by “big-pharma” and they just ain’t going to allow you and me freedom of choice …

"I’ll Smoke a Joint on the Capitol Steps": Pro-Legalization Congressional Candidate Says He’d Risk Arrest for the Pot Movement

Andy Caffrey (D), running in California’s 2nd District, says he is "fighting for our right to consume marijuana at will without any criminal penalties." READ MORE …Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

Most Americans Want Marijuana Legalized and Regulated

The latest public opinion poll shows that a growing majority of American voters support the legalization and regulation of marijuana. READ MORE …Russ Belville / AlterNet

Sick Judge on Medical Marijuana: It’s a "Human Rights Issue"

In a New York Times opinion piece, a sitting state supreme court judge writes of his cancer and the palliative drug he depends on. READ MORE …Brian Braiker / The Guardian

Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker Calls Drug War a "Nightmare," Tweets About Racist Incarceration
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet

Prohibition, 2012: Senate Passes Ban on Fake Pot, ‘Bath Salts’, 2C-E in Amendment Added to FDA Safety and Innovation Act
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet

Simple Trick Removes Pesticides from Your Vegetables & Fruits

READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2099/12/31/vinegar-as-non-toxic-cleaner.aspx?e_cid=20120525_DNL_artTest_B5

Story at-a-glance

• There are a number of different types of vinegar; each with its own set of benefits and uses. White distilled vinegar is useful for cleaning and horticultural purposes, while fruit vinegars such as apple cider vinegar has many reported health benefits when taken internally
• The only vinegar that is best avoided altogether is 20% vinegar, which is a petroleum derivative that is dangerous to breathe and can be damaging to your eyes and skin
• A vinegar solution can also be used to remove certain pesticides and bacteria from your fresh produce. Other uses include hair care, and improving the pH of alkaline water, which can benefit plant growth
• Recipes for treating a sore throat; treating various types of pet ailments; and making a non-toxic weed killer are included

…DID THE ARTICLE CONNECT THE DOTS FOR YOU…??

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans

READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … By Brita Belli, E Magazine…Posted on May 23, 2012, Printed on May 26,2012 …http://www.alternet.org/story/155567/goodbye_fish_and_shellfish_meet_the_biggest_threat_to_our_oceans

On most days, Bill Dewey can be found wearing waist-high waders and inspecting Manila clams—the West Coast version of the littleneck—at his Washington clam farm, Chuckanut Shellfish. Under an arrangement that’s unique to the state, Dewey owns 32 acres of tidelands. Unlike land-based farms, he can only harvest when the tide recedes, leaving over a mile of mudflats, and shellfish, exposed.  He gathers the clams with the help of a former tulip-bulb harvesting machine that’s carried out aboard his boat, the Clamdango!

Working on the mudflats, often with his son and dog in tow, is the fulfillment of a dream for Dewey, a shellfish farmer for more than 30 years who is also the public policy and communications director for Taylor Shellfish Company. Taylor’s operations—which include growing oysters, clams, mussels and geoduck (giant clams whose necks can reach more than three feet long)—span some 1,900 acres of the same tidelands. All told, there are about 47,000 acres of oceanic land that have that special designation in the state, and, he says, “It’s fundamental as to why Washington leads the country in farmed shellfish production. In other parts of country, you typically have to lease the land from the state. Banks are less apt to loan money to businesses that have to lease.”

Commercial shellfishing makes up the lion’s share—two-thirds—of the nation’s aquaculture industry. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Fisheries Service which makes a case for boosting domestic seafood production, noting that Americans eat a lot of seafood, and import 86% of it, creating a U.S. seafood trade deficit that now exceeds $10.4 billion annually, second only to oil when it comes to natural resources. In the Pacific Northwest, the shellfish industry contributes $270 million per year to the regional economy and employs more than 3,200 people. And when oyster cultivation fails at the top Northwest hatcheries and farms, the effects on the industry are devastating.

… Doubtful the T/GOP/Publican and “neocons” will even see it let alone believe one word of it …

Screening of Final Cut of 9/11: Explosive Evidence Tuesday, May 29th-Valley Art Theatre-Tempe-7pm

05-23-2012  •  www.ae911truth.org 

The world premiere screening of the final cut of 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out has finally arrived and AE911Truth founder Richard Gage , AIA is presenting his new film in major cities across the nation!  …

…Female power … female intuition scares the bejesus out of men especially ancient religious monarchs like the POPE…

Dear Girls — Here’s Why Nasty Old Religious Men Are Terrified of You

By Soraya Chemaly, AlterNet …Posted on May 23, 2012, Printed on May 26, 2012
… http://www.alternet.org/story/155577/dear_girls_–_here%27s_why_nasty_old_religious_men_are_terrified_of_you

Dear Girls,

You are powerful beyond words, because you threaten to unravel the control of corrupt men who abuse their authority.

In the United States last week there were people who wouldn’t let boys play a baseball championship final because a girl was on the opposing team. She’d already had to sit out two games because of their demands. Why? Did she, a competitive athlete and a member of her team, chose to? Was she being good and respectful when she acceded to their demands? Why were they not asked to forfeit their games? What messages were sent to her and her teammates? This is not complicated. It sent the wrong messages. Confusing messages. Incoherent messages. You need to know that she should have been allowed to play and not have had to sit out two games. These people, and others like them, all over the world, led exclusively by religious men, are scared of you and will not let you be. You worry them constantly.

If you were not powerful, they would not take you so seriously and they take you very, very seriously. You should, too. You can set the world on fire.

It doesn’t feel this way, I know. If that were true, you think, I would not have to sit out baseball games out of respect for religious beliefs that require my subservience and call it a gift. I would not be turned away from serving God with my brothers. I would not be taught that I’m an evil temptress or the virtue keeper of boys. I would not have virginity wielded as a weapon against me and my worth determined by my womb. I would not be spat on and called a whore by men when I am eight because my arms are bare. I would not be poisoned for going to school. I would not be forced, at the age of 9, to carry twins borne of child torture. I would not have to kill myself to avoid marrying my rapist. If this were true, they would pursue my rapists instead of stoning me for their crimes. I, and thousands others, would not be killed for "honor."

Girls, these things happen because there are men with power who fear you and want to control you. I know that I have equated relatively benign baseball games with deadly, honor killings but, whereas one is a type of daily, seemingly harmless micro-aggression and the other is a lethal macro-aggression they share the same roots. The basis of both, and escalating actions in between, is the same: To teach you, and all girls subject to these men and their authority, a lesson: "Know your place." I also know that there are places where girls are marginalized and hurt that are not religious. But all over the world these hypocritical, pious men, in their shamefully obvious wrongness, represent the sharp-edged tip of an iceberg, the visible surface of a deep and vast harm. They employ the full range of their earthly and divine influence to make sure, as early as possible, that you and the boys around you understand what they want your relative roles to be. Where there are patriarchal religions girls, in dramatically varying and extreme degrees, disproportionately suffer. Understand these men for what they are: bullies. Do not internalize what they would have you believe.

Your very existence makes them anxious. And their anxiety is particularly high because you have something no generation of girls has had before — globally connected communities of men and women who support your equality and freedom. Like guns, germs and steel, this transformative technology, which enables me to write to you here, alters geography, changes societies and dismantles systems of control — it makes the world a smaller place and it creates, even if slowlyin some places, positive change for girls like you. You see, until now, these men could count on, indeed they could ensure, that you and the women around you were house-bound and isolated. Many of you still are. But now, there are millions and millions and millions people who are thinking about you and challenging these men every single day. You have the speed of light on your side and unless someone permanently turns the lights out, those days are gone. So, although you might feel like you are alone, you are not.

How do you threaten them? A girl, alone? By being able, strong, confident and yes, shameless. You may not "naturally" be interested in domesticity, piety, purity and submission, and they rely on your commitment to those things to order their worlds. Their actions, from one end of the spectrum to the other, are designed to fill you with self-doubt and, ultimately, fear — either bodily or spiritual — because otherwise you, and the young boys around you, will be fully aware of your strength and potential.

Because of this, they single-mindedly focus their attention on you, your body, your clothes, your hair, your abilities, your physical freedom. When their "manners" and "morals" are not universally applicable, but different for boys and girls, you can be sure that this is why. They seek to teach you, subtly, through small slights and gendered expectations, that you are "different," weak, unworthy, incapable. The sadness is that, in their perception, if you are none of these things, then they are not strong, worthy and capable. This is not an excuse, but an explanation. It’s why they find infinite "benevolent" ways to undermine and disparage you, all in the name of "God’s word." When that fails, they resort to violence. All over the world, their anxiety is manifest in a spectrum of actions ranging from mild paternalism, respectful of "proper boundaries," to deadly enforcement of their rules.

Fear is why these men "officially" investigate Girl Scouts while perversely shielding child rapists. It’s why they obsess over your "purity." It’s why they segregate you in public and private spaces. It’s why they instruct girls and boys that girls’ bodies are either shameful and dirty or sacred and belonging to men. Fear motivates them to teach that you pollute others by your very nature. It makes them intent on making sure you stay home and not be fully engaged in the world. It leads them to sanction marriages of 8-year-olds to old men. It convinces them that rape and its consequences are a "gift from God." It’s why they empower others to stone you to death anddisfigure you with acid.

Even "beating the gay" out of children, especially boys who are "more like" you, is aimed at you. Because if boys are "more like girls," something these men believe is fundamentally inferior, then you can be "more like boys." That causes ambiguity and destroys their carefully defined hierarchies and that is intolerable to them.

Fear is why they insist there is something fundamentally wrong with you. Don’t believe them. Fear is why they want you to cover your body. There is nothing wrong with your body, and your body is not to blame. Whether you chose to expose your body or to cover it up, consider the degree to which either choice is defined by a reduction of your character to narrow sexuality by a culture that refuses to hold men accountable for their actions and requires you to either radically display ourself for men’s pleasure or withdraw from the world and be held in reserve. Either way, ask who is defining your worth and by what measure. Fear is why they tell you you are so different from boys. You, and the boys you know, understand that your bodies are different, but that you are far more alike than dissimilar. Threatened, insecure, adult men say otherwise. Don’t give in. Even if you’re quiet. The differences these religious authorities exaggerate are simply pillars of oppression used to teach boys and girls that women’s subjugation is "natural" and "divine." Reject them and their ideas.

This is hard to do. It requires that you, individually, be brave, strong, determined, fearless and confident. It requires that you demand that the adults around you pay attention and change their behavior. This is even harder.

First, and perhaps the most difficult to understand as a girl, is that women who love you and care for you often enable these men. This is what people say, "It’s not JUST men!" And they are right, women support them, individually and in groups, in ways that have private, public, political and societal consequences. But, make no mistake — although women are the enforcers of rules, they have no real, systemic authority in conservative religious hierarchies, and they know this. Yes, without their supportthese men could not continue, but until these women are truly free — bodily, economically, physically, politically — and their practical and spiritual salvation is no longer mediated by these very men, they will continue to support them. Enforcing the rules is a rational choice that enables them to survive, the world over, in unjust environments. You scare them too, because you call in to question their own complicity and cause conflict within.

Second, it is confusing that these men say they do what they do for your own good. They talk about respecting you and your dignity. You want to believe them; they have power and authority over you, your parents, your community and your access to God. They are often kind and benevolent and they love you. So, they must be right. But they are not. They demonstrate their own hypocrisy over and over and over again. They say they know what is best. They do not. You do. Don’t believe them when they teach you in hundreds of ways, through sacred text, careful words, cherished traditions, hidden threats and frightening examples, that you are inherently more sinful, base and corrupt, less worthy and in need of constant male guidance. Reject them.

The adults around you may not appear to support you when you take your humanity to its logical religious conclusions. Do not let them off the hook. Do not let them use "tradition" as an excuse or say it "really doesn’t matter." Do not allow them to get away with asking you to "sit out games," "be a good girl," "don’t make a fuss," and "put something on." These are micro-aggressions that result in macro-aggressions. Adults often don’t think these things through. Sometimes it’s scary to them, too.

You can say: "There is nothing wrong with me. There is something wrong with you and your world."

Otherwise, when you get older, these same men, the ones who fear and hate you, will continue to undermine you. They will seek to control your body, keep you out of the public sphere, subjugate you in the name of a narrowly defined "family," create impediments to your equality, shame you at every turn and justify your continued oppression in convoluted ways that defy reason and morality. They will investigate you for being strong, violate you, stone you to death, charge you with witchcraft,punish you in every conceivable way to set an example for … your children.

So, know that you are strong and powerful. Use your reason. Trust your instincts. Seek out those that would support you and, yes, know your place: on the field, in the street, on the bus (in the front), in school, at work and in public office.

You are not alone and you are brighter than the sun.

Take a look at 10 inspiring religious women here.

Taking it to the Streets – Ban GMOs NOW!

Barbara H. Peterso…Farm Wars… http://farmwars.info/?p=8480

Time after time we hear about another genetically modified organism (GMO) being approved for our food supply, yet still see the same labels at the supermarket and think that nothing has changed. The reality is, things have changed, and changed drastically.

Approximately 85% of our processed food contains GMOs, and no labeling is required. Congress, the Supreme Court, and the USDA are going to do absolutely nothing about turning this around and have no intentions of forcing companies to truthfully label products containing GMOs. In fact, the opposite is true. These entities have done their very best to make sure that GMOs are being grown and consumed by as many people as possible. To expect them to act differently and somehow do a complete turn-around and support the public’s right to know what they are eating is merely a pipe dream, and colossal waste of precious time and energy.

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The following is a letter from Concerned Citizen. He has reached the same conclusion that I have – one on one is the way to go. While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover is to get informed, get mad, and stop buying them.

Remember! Food activism starts at home – eliminate the GMOs from your kitchen, and spread the word to others at the supermarket, soccer game, bake sale, and/or any other place that people congregate to shop and eat. Don’t be afraid to speak up and educate. Most people that you run into will not even want to hear about the pesticides and genetically modified poisons in our food, but some will, so don’t give up.

From Concerned Citizen:

I imagine anyone reading this will know by now that Monsanto’s former vice president, Michael Taylor, is our nation’s food safety authority as Deputy Commissioner for Food at the FDA.  And to think he is only one of many other former private sector biotech and pharmaceutical employees who have risen to the bureaucrat arena is a very serious matter.

It should be apparent enough to see that petition efforts are likely to be worthless unless they could somehow get air time – which will likely never happen. Nearly equal in futility are the small demonstrations we have organized and attended.  Politicians are largely out to lunch and have no interest in taking a stand despite the unnumbered phone calls, emails and faxes voicing our concerns.

We need to take a serious lesson from the California ballot initiative campaign for GMO labeling which recently achieved its signatures goal for a referendum in the upcoming elections.  The fantastic organization and untiring work of those great individuals is deeply inspiring and we all need to imitate their determination, but in my opinion, in a different way.  While this work is highly commendable it can be shot down by the judicial system, regardless of the will of the people.

My suggestion and urging is to no longer solely depend upon social networking and all the other activities of the past, but to roll up our sleeves and do the hard work of door to door literature drop campaigns to educate our neighbors about what we know and they don’t.

I am fully in agreement with Jeffery Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology (www.responsibletechnology.org) that getting enough Americans to say no to GMOs in the supermarket is the surest way to usher out the GMO era.  Everything else will or can fall short, even successful referendums for labeling.

Please consider challenging your members to sacrifice their time and dollar to obtain success over the stealth in the marketplace.

…STOP THE PRESSES…

Are you actually asking me to believe the author of this article a currently employed executive with SRP would articulate a position which did not paint SRP as hero to Native Americans and savior for what he determines is low cost electric power…??

… I am not surprised as the Arizona Republic is staunch ally of corporate America after all its owned by Gannett one of the corporate giants in the mass propaganda news media… 

…While there could be an element of truth in the statement to follow … what don’t you understand …Today the Office of the President of the USA is owned and controlled by corporate like “big-pharma” … next question…??

New Book Says Teenage

Obama Was a Huge Pot

Head — So Why Won’t

He Legalize It for the Rest of

Us…?!

By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet

…I wonder why Mr. Montini finds it surprising that our Arizona Governor Jan Brewer left “us” (that’s you & me) out of her assessment of what constituted for her Arizona’s moral majority…

… I find it perfectly understandable as she leaves you & me out of most all of her equations respecting who she serves and who will benefit from the largess of her minions in our Arizona State Legislature…

… Perhaps you are also aware that the needs of the people rank far below the needs of Jan Brewer’s campaign contributors like CCA (private prison operator) … Jerry Colangelo’s Arizona Commerce Authority … Craig Barrett’s charter school needs…

… Never ceases to amaze me all politicians city, county, state, national, federal can ALWAY$ find fund$ to $end them on their junket$ (of course in our behalf) but they can never find sufficient funds for education … health care  … job creation …

… Make$ one wonder, doesn’t it…??