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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
7:49 am	Heads Up Well my friends, After being in the Kid's Area for 22 years (and on staff for at least 14 or 15 of them) I've decided to sit this year out. Thank you to everyone who has so lovingly created this area year after year. Your work has meant a great deal to literally thousands of children and their families. Make sure you check out the Jazz Fest site for available volunteer opportunities and get your applications in early - Look for me dancing my heart out at Congo... (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
10:53 am	Please Cross Post as You See Fit The Running Start is accepting applications for their 2009 Young Woman's Political Leadership Retreat. Please share with teachers and encourage any high school girls you know to apply!!! This is an EXCELLENT program and the girls really enjoy it, build lasting contacts and friendships. It also builds self-esteem...they do not need to be interested in politics to be chosen to attend! COST: The program is entirely FREE of charge, and travel scholarships are available to sophomores, juniors and seniors! WHAT: Running Start encourages high school girls from across the country to channel their leadership into politics. Participants will meet extraordinary women leaders of diverse backgrounds and learn the importance of having more women in political leadership and running for office. EVEN if the girls are not interested in politics, this is a great program way for them to build self-esteem, practice public speaking and learn to collaborate with other young women. WHO: Open to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors in high school WHERE: American University, Washington D.C. WHEN: July 15-19, 2009 (no applications will be accepted after February 16, 2009) COST: The program is entirely FREE of charge, and travel scholarships are available. (It traditionally has not been free and scholarships were seldom available!) APPLY ONLINE: http://www.runningstartonline.org/leadership-program/index.php (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
10:02 am	Louise says: January 20, 2009 Today I let my voice be heard. I let my prayers be answered. I let the healing take place. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
10:17 am	VA/LSU Complex in Mid-City Please sign this petition: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=8600&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&autologin=true (Comment on this)
Friday, December 19th, 2008
9:15 am	bonfire on the front page of the Times-Picayune Please sign the petition if you'd like to voice support and also plan to attend the meeting on Monday night at 6:30 pm. http://www.petitiononline.com/bonfire/petition.html (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
6:26 pm	This just in from the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization (MCNO) MCNO has been informed that the City of New Orleans is taking steps to prevent the New Year's Eve Bonfire (typically in the 4200 Block of Orleans Avenue), due to the risk to public safety and violation of a number of City codes. An informational session will be jointly hosted by NOPD, NOFD, and Parks & Parkways on Monday December 22, 2008 at 6:30pm, at Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal Street. The purpose of the session is to proactively inform residents and business owners about the City's enforcement plans for the night of the event. MCNO has questioned whether an engineered bonfire could receive a permit, and was told that City Code prevents any permit for an open burn on this neutral ground because of the proximity to homes. MCNO also questioned whether any permits for a block party, without a fire, might be issued. This is a possibility, should the organizers of the NYE event wish to pursue it through the normal permitting channels. Fire Department representatives will be distributing flyers about the informational session for a 2-3 block radius around the event site starting tomorrow. Please pass this information on to your Mid-City friends and Neighbors. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
12:27 pm	how about that?? Its been a very good day. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
8:42 am	like a virgin... So, in an amazing stroke of luck, we got to see Madonna in Houston on Sunday and even more unbelievable were the tickets my friends scored - 4th row center!! Because I'm a damn fool and didn't bring a camera, the guy sitting next to me sent me his photos. http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=259098783/a=22644850_226 44850/t_=22644850 She looked great... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
9:56 am	and at last http://www.palinaspresident.us/ (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
6:35 am	I woke up with this going through my head - today's the day Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation And the mind's true liberation (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 31st, 2008
9:42 am	On the Day When the Veil is the Thinnest BURNING TIMES The songs are sung to rouse our anger Of martyred witches gone to the fire But what is served by righteous singing When all we do is stew in our ire? Nine million dead in four hundred years More in that time simply died of disease. Why do we dwell on long-passed dead When we are alive in times like these? cho1: Rise up, Witches, throw off your masks And cease crying guilt for ancient crimes; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. In the face of that hostile power, How did the old knowledge stay alive? How do we have a Craft to practise? Our ancestors knew how to fight and survive! How do we honour our blessed dead? Slavery threatens all but the few! We must teach their cunning ways; Everyone needs the skills they knew. cho: Rise up, Witches, gather your strength, And let your power spread and climb; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. I'll not cast off science's works Witches all forces to Will can bend. I'll not accuse, for war and waste, Some patriarchy of faceless Men. Men do not cast the only votes; Women alone do not demonstrate. Rather than shut out half the race, Who, if not we, will change that state? cho: Rise up, Witches, gather your strength, And let your power spread and climb; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. I will not blame a Father's Church -- Blame and guilt are Their tools, not mine. And even in the shuls and churches Allies there will I seek and find! I will not answer hate with fear; Nor with a smug, cheek-turning love; I will not answer hate with rage; By strength alone will I not be moved! 1850 BURNING TIMES (cont.) cho: Rise up, Witches, gather your strength, And let your power spread and climb; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. I will not hide in my sacred grove -- The factories and cities yet ring me about. I will not climb my ivory tower -- The real world exists though I shut it out. I will not work for Church nor State Who serve themselves while they serve us lies. Nor only for my Witchen kin But for the family of all alive! cho: Rise up, Witches, gather your strength, And let your power spread and climb; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. So if rebellion means to fight A State lost sight of why it was built, If heresy's to reject a Church That rules with force or fear or guilt, Then let us all be rebels proud, And shameless heretics by creed! A tyrant's hand subjects the Earth More heretic rebels are what She needs! cho: Rise up, Witches, gather your strength, And let your power spread and climb; Earth and all her children need us, For all face now the Burning Times. copyright 1988, Leigh Ann Hussey ThelemaNet - Hail Eris! * (415) 548-0163 (Opus 1:161/93) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 24th, 2008
12:27 pm	Steinem on Palin From the Los Angeles Times Opinion Palin: wrong woman, wrong message Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. By Gloria Steinem September 4, 2008 Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes. But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs." This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience. Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin outof change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues;the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act. Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child. So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband. Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest. Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the> Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women. And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children. This could be huge. Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
11:41 am	make sure you click or move pointer over every object and check back frequently for updates http://www.palinaspresident.us/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
2:57 pm	Looking for 2007 and 2008 Kid's Area Jazz Fest Pictures If you have any, particularly of the Children's Cultural Village (the play area with the pirogue, cafe, market, etc) and would be willing to send them to me, please do so at nestinpiece@earthlink.net. I have been the Coordinator of that area for the last 12 years and need the photos for a meeting at the end of the week. Your help (and any comments about what works well or doesn't in the area) is greatly appreciated. Thanks. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
8:46 pm	From NOLA.com... Look for potential hazards. Look for coconuts, unripened fruit, and other objects in trees around your property that could blow or break off and fly around in high winds. Cut them off and store them indoors until the storm is over. And we thought the writhing refrigerator was a problem last time??? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
6:44 pm	Writer's Block: Last Twenty Bucks Ok - if its my last $20 because I'm dying, it's going to be $16 worth of sushi and a pack of Camel Lights - you decide what's practical/frivolous If its my last $20, because I'm out of money (and not time), then I'm thinking: 1 lb coffee -$5.00 some gas for my car - $10 the rest to the poor box at St. Anthony's - for favors to be granted... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
11:48 am	mid-city survey Please take this survey and pass it to everyone you know in mid-city. It was developed in response to the news that big box stores are attempting to develop in our neighborhood. If you need more information before responding, check out the mid-city neighborhood association's website at www.mcno.org. Together, we can be a voice for responsible economic development that does not put our neighborhood at risk. The survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=747723626790 (Comment on this)
Monday, November 6th, 2006
4:22 pm	You Are Mashed Potatoes Oridnary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You're the glue that holds everyone together. What Part of Thanksgiving Are You? (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
10:33 am	can you believe it... we have electricity...i can't remember the last time i felt this happy and hopeful. we're talking big progress here. we walked through the house and flipped every switch, one by one...i have a date with a plumber tomorrow, too. Current Mood: thrilled Current Music: sister gertrude morgan (always) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
7:15 pm	to avoid dealing with insurance companies, rubbing mold off the wall, facing my life... A - accent: fairly yatty, I've been told. B - breakfast item: 1/2 pot coffee & chichory; 4 cigarettes C - chore you hate: scooping the cat box D - dad's name: lobo E - essential everyday item: nicotine, F - flavor ice cream: cherry garcia G - gold or silver?: hmmmm H - hometown: mid-city I - insomnia: since august 29th, nightly J - job title: you know the answer to that K - kids: love them L - living arrangements: cramped or is that cozy?? M - mom's birthplace: mid-city N - number of lovers you've had: won't be answering that one... O - overnight hospital stays: a couple P - polyamorous: always turns into a heartbreak Q - queer: yes, please R - religious affiliation: new orleanian S - siblings: how could two people be so different?? T - time you wake up: 5 am U - unnatural hair colors you've had: the one I was born with - what was the universe thinking? V - vegetable you refuse to eat: there really isn't one W - worst habit: anxiety X - x-rays you've had: mostly dental Y - yummy: beaches; afternoon naps; big thick books and plenty of time; mwmf; raw fish; dancing all night; laughing til I cry; my nola girls. Z - zodiac sign: rooster (5 Comments |Comment on this)