tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932703617432505672011-06-07T23:21:48.210-07:00<pre><strong> "Rebels in the morning... Rebels in evening Rebels' Anniversary... Of rebels was, from a long time Until this time" --Burning Spear</strong></pre>yesIah garveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739573449615051671noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193270361743250567.post-28157165243939246752008-07-18T19:34:00.000-07:002008-07-18T19:44:43.076-07:00

you may be automatically redirected tohttp://maroonlectroid.wordpress.comif not then, find your way over and join us!

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this feels like great news we're moving our blogs over to wordpressit's nothing against google (we love google!) or blogger, which has been great for us to try this outbut we've been feeling like we need a new vibe to develop this activity, and wordpress has it!thanks blogger, thanks wordpressplease go to http://maroonlectroid.wordpress.com/and http://messagefromyard.wordpress.com/to see us in

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hi anyone :)i must thank my new friend ron paul - yes, that ron paul! the canadian fellow from york university....for one thing he drew our attention to one of the greatest things ever to happen on the web. blood ulmer's album "live at the caravan of dreams" has been made available by a friend of humanity, you can visit the site to get yourself riteFantod Under Glassthe post i'd direct you to was

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that's what my friend from Oslo kept saying once he heard Blood Ulmer years ago - that was "America, Do You Remember the Love?"we've been entranced with Blood since '82, and though his music has been "hard to find" in Amerika - well as with Nina Hagen (previous post) the 'net seems to facilitate a growing appreciation of his unique workyou can find numerous stellar videos on YTsome of the kewlest

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the truly great, Nina Hagen :(search YouTube or see our page there for more briliant videos by the CosmaDiva)here's a great video put together by IthacaSoundSystem -Lee "Scratch" Perry, coming from the jungle like a roaring lionGWaaaar!

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ॐ मणि पाद्मे हुंthis was on the MAPS list today:Sad News: Albert Hofmann died on Tuesday, April 29Dear MAPS Members, Supporters and Friends,Albert died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning, April 29, at the age of 102, fully lucid and deeply satisfied that LSD psychotherapy research had been permitted to resume. He spoke several months before he died about the renewal of LSD psychotherapy

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there is an infinite love-ability to malawilets start with the beautiful music and dancing videos of lawrence mbenjere:"sewere"sin'dziwakumaliketi

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In honor of Indigenous People's Day...The below article comes from the Daily Triplicate of Crescent City CA.Let us thank Goodness for the speaker, the newspaper writer, and organizers of the Tolowa Dee'ni Day...And let us pray that Amerikkka and we the people can someday acknowledge, repent and make some sort of amends for the incredible damage done by our respected forebears in their rush

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If you like us love music, specifically if you love having your ears mind aesthetics and heart opened and fed by true Music, then you like us will be jump-up-and-down-yelling happy to discover the wonderful web adventure Pathway to Unknown WorldsAppearing in blog format, each post (there were 30 in April, 59[!] in March) begins with some text about, and concludes with a link to download a great

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Harmolodics has always been hard to define but easy to feelcheck out our (growing!) list of harmolodic videos on YouTubewe have >other playlists growing there also(or just hit ">"!)OK so what is harmolodics?from Wikipedia:"Harmolodics is a music theory developed by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Associated primarily with the jazz avant-garde and the free jazz movement, harmolodics seeks to

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It's been a month since my last post and i'm still thinking of that same song...It's a coldNight for alligatorsIt's a cold night fo' dogsDogsChoke on their barkinWhen they see alligator personsIn the bog and fogon YouTube, see our "Favorites" etc at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=maroonlectroid

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"Roky" like the boxer(s)...I knew he was good from when i first heard of him and the name of his early band "Thirteenth Floor Elevators". Guessed i hadn't found the right recordings tho, and he wasn't playing or touring at that time (somewhere in the 80's?)Roky has had a lot of suffering in his life, but thankfully he is now enjoying himself and playing great musicsaw him on a short video from

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February 6th is Sami People's DaySametinget, the Sami Parliamentand take a look at Árran ,Sami culture and news blog !

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Anyone considering visiting Jamaica (would include any of you who've been over to jamaicans.com, to the "forums" section, and seen the travel photos submitted in the "touring jamaica" forum): remember that Yamfest '07 will be kicking off soon!Visit the site of the South Trelawney Environmental Association to learn more, to learn more about Cockpit Country, and to see many photos of the past

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On jamaicans.com, JitterBug has filed a very nice trip report from December and January entitled "Driving Alone thru Jamaica", which somewhat miraculously includes this lovely shot of our very dear friends, Happy New Year! to All...

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Regarding the local geographical-historical-cultural cognizance which should be preserved and promulgated everywhere...One book "everyone" "should" read is Where the Lightning Strikes, by Peter Nabokov(From Publishers Weekly (via amazon )According to UCLA professor Nabokov (Native American Testimony), the places that American Indians call sacred may be as wondrous as "cliffs spilling with

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We'll be thinking of Imogene Bowen from now through the Eagle festival in two weeks...i learned of Ms Bowen's passing from http://www.indianz.com/News/2007/017659.asp You can read her obituary in the Seattle TimesImogene Bowen, an elder of the Upper Skagit Tribe of Washington who fought for voting rights, racial harmony and environmental justice, died from cancer on January 5. She was 71.

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The Upper Skagit Bald Eagle Festival will be happening again soon: February 3rd and 4th (Super Sunday), in and around Concrete, Washington (map).It's a very nice, local-feeling, grass-rootsy event. Come visit! There will be a variety of great activities inside at the schools in Concrete, and eagle viewing for a number of miles along the beautiful and mighty SkagitHere's the Schedule of Activities

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thought you'd like to see this image of Mount Ararat, "Holy Mountain" of Armenia(erroneously within Turkish borders atm)we've added links to some Armenian blogs and websitesArmenian-Turkish border, Khor Virap, Ararat Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004

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Cow Creek, Oregon we stopped here to rest on our recent drive back from californiaa blessed-feeling localeever since seeing the name Umpqua for the first time (on Magnolia Farms lamb) we've wanted to visit the area...turns out we were "there" already..on the lands of the Cow Creek Umpqua band

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outside the chinese restaurant we patronizedif you can't read the shoes, one says "BARDO", the other "LOGOS"we did not put the shoes up there

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T'ruth took these pictures of the canoe "Stahlo Princess" at last year's Penn Cove Water FestivalWe're not canoers (yet) but it seemed like a longish course: miles, anywayThis one is on the way out: & this is almost at the finish(From the Bellingham Herald report on the Lummi Stommish festival, 6/19/06:War canoes, created from a single piece of cedar, are up to 50 feet long....The canoe of

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well we've returned from our wonderful whirlwind visit to the Golden Statewe have pictures which we'll be able to upload soonHighlights of the trip:we were most fortunate on this trip to be able to attend 65th birthday celebrations for our Spiritual Friend, the most wondrous E.J. Gold, and to experience the perfect hospitality of his circle of friendsin Nevada City, CA., The Truffle Shop is a

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post on Message from Yard

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see this post by Amanda at Think Progress:http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/13/mccain-war-on-blogs/Internet freedom is going to require vigorous defense, hence-forthtalk about a "Long War"!

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Inter-Library Loanthis is fundamental to our study-activitieswhenever we hear of a book we need to "check out" that's not held by our local library, we I.L.L. it. that means that our reference librarian uses a special database to track down the nearest copy of the book, and requests it for us.sometimes there's a couple of dollars due for postagethey've gotten books for us from as far away as

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Maroon Lectroid dot blogspotwe're still getting the site unpacked...some things may not work for a few daysvery excited to be here and to have y'all with us!

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ancient maroon stronghold, cockpit country ("jamaica's last remaining wilderness"!) is under threat of destruction by wealth-crazed earth-rapersit's the old "bauxite" scam...uhh..re-use your aluminium foil!also get to know this area, so important historically and environmentally...thanks to jamaicans.com, Adam Rhoads and the South Trelawny Environmental Association for the following:Bauxite vs

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Queen of the Mountains!Oh Nanny Nanny Nanny, Nanny Nanny Nanny!Our Roots, Our I-tality, Our Sacred and Healing Herbs!many of the legends say that, contrary to more "standard" history, Nanny came to Jamaica of her own free will, having heard that the Natives there, and then the Africans kidnapped and brought there, were suffering under the wealth-crazed "colonizers." so she sailed in her own ship,

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Thanks Jah-hovah for music!first to report is that, from what we experienced in Seattle on 11/13, the Lee "Scratch" Perry west coast tour with Dub Is a Weapon this month did more for world peace than all the world's governments and their agents put together or even multiplied by each otheras we knew from listening to their shows on archive.org, diaw is spectacularas we found out at the show, so

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Waving to people --acknowledging that others exist around youthis is something that we have encountered as an aspect of country living that we hadn't noticed we were missing beforewhen our housemate Adelka was about 4 years old, she started playing "the stranger game", in which she would walk through the yard with a peculiar, abstracted expression on her face,"stranger face",affecting not to be

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A lot of folks seem to be enjoying the HBO series Big Love at the moment. It is a great series, on par with other HBO dramas like The Sopranos etc.It's set in a Mormon world (somewhere called Utah? wouldn't mind seeing more Utes around), focused on a family whose generally-Mormon yet heterodox religious doctrines and lifeways (which include polygamy) seem to be abhorred by the Mormon mainstream,

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A friend was telling me about taking a pre-employment pee test today...She said:Everytime I feel like a criminal too. I know the reasons why, but they don't let you flush the toilet (which is such an impolite thing to do), they hold your purse (heaven forbid you are a woman who needs to bring in some necessities with her) and they just overall practically are over your shoulder while you do

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(I'm testing the process of posting via email with this postalso: shift+click on all the links here intil i get this figured out...)The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff is a book which i was fortunate enough to be turned on to years ago ... it's "about" child-raising, and i still have no children of my own but no matter, it's one of the most change-producing books i've encounteredreally...read

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just received the following from Dub Is a Weapon.com regarding the tour with the Upsetter, the Admiral, Lee "Scratch" Perry! all the dates and details are on their website with links etc (text version below)they should be great shows; diaw is the best reggae band on the continent at the moment. check out live shows at archive.org(here begins the epistle from diaw:)I. . West Coast Dub Massive,

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here at the start of the winter feasting dancing and storytelling season...all of us norteamericanos "should" adopt and celebrate the Day of the Dead; there are some bigass holes in our world and that holiday could helpthis is a very deep festival and worthy of considerationat wehaitians.com there is a fascinating description of the way in which All Saints day is celebrated in Haiti...ruth and i

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Coronation Day Greetings to all our friends and family!!a blessed and joyful Coronation Day to all our friends!this day we celebrate the eternal triumph of the Most-I thru-in all creation, in time and in timelessness!!2nd November 1930 was the date of Emperor Selassie-I's coronation(image from http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/)Marcus Garvey wrote the following for the November 8, 1930

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