Accentuating a healing positive

Facebook scrolls on, but today's status update / thought on a more positive year deserves more play:

Looking forward to the unfolding of the year. Breathing in life-giving air and exhaling the negative. Emphasizing the positive, what I wish to see expand. Recommitting my self to doing what I can to create a better self and a better world: it is all connected. Blessings one and all. And healing hugs...

10 things Republicans do to hurt Americans

10 things Republicans do to hurt Americans:

1. Bring Back “Pre-Existing Conditions”

2. Kick Grandma Off Medicare & Give Her a Coupon

3. Hand Over Cash to the Wealthy

4. Rip Away Workers’ Rights

5. Prevent You From Voting

6. Declare War on Women

7. Shove Gay Soldiers Back Into the Closet

8. Launch Assaults on Sesame Street and Lake Wobegon

9. Let Consumers Fend For Themselves

10. Increase Taxes for Middle Class Families.

-- Astutely listed by Dan Jacoby

Words That Don’t Work | Common Dreams

In Words That Don’t Work George Lakoff talks about the importance of the Progressives [a/k/a Liberals!] using our OWN frames and NOT those put out by Frank Luntz for the GOP / Koch Brothers / Rightists. When we use the other guys' frames, we lose. [For example, they use Luntz's "death tax" instead of inheritance tax -- don't YOU ever use it!]

Progressives have a basic morality, which is largely unspoken. It has to be spoken, over and over, in every corner of our country. Progressives need to be both thinking and talking about their view of a moral Democracy, about how a robust Public is necessary for private success, about all that the Public gives us, about the benefits of health, about a Market for All not a Greed Market, about regulation as protection, about revenue and investment...

The Occupy Wall Street folk are emphasizing how we need an economy that works not just for the 1%, but also for the 99%, in essence then the 100% that Deepak Chopra talks about. We need a better world for ALL of us. Words can help heal. Read this article and use them wisely.

DeFazio on Postmaster General decision to close post offices

MUST LISTEN -- Love Oregon's Senator Peter DeFazio! He explains the Post Office mess AND reminds us to ACT. Especially those who have GOP legislators: tell them to get rid of the poison pill: no funding of PO pension funds 75 years into the future (no one else has to do that!) and return the current overpayment. Tell them to support of H.R. 1351. When will we act like the #1 we say we are?

Deepak: Be the 100

Interesting take from Deepak Chopra -- don't exclude anybody -- all of us need to be a part of the solution. Hmmmm. -- His message is an extension of the meme, "They drew a circle to keep us out". We of the 99% should draw a circle to draw them in. We are One.

Listen. Re-listen. Meditate. Deepak makes sense.

Together, let us seek the solution(s).

Deepak Chopra speak at OccupyLA 11 25 11 5 55pm

Deepak: "Love without action is meaningless. And action without love is irrelevant. What we are starting with the occupy movement is a movement of love in action.... Keep moving and occupying. Occupy yourself." Great to hear Deepak Chropra through the simplicty of the People's Mic -- November 25, 2011. (Or, per the video credits, Nov. 23, 2011 but posted on Nov. 25, 2011.)

Class Warfare

Jim Moran of the Miami Herald did an excellent animated editorial cartoon re the 99% vs the 1% -- under a minute and spot on.

Howard Dean at DFNYC fundraiser TUESDAY

Yes, Howard Dean is the special guest Tuesday 11/15/11 -- 

6:30 pm - 9 pm

Chelsea Manor

138 West 25th Street (between 6th and 7th Aves)

New York, NY

Democracy for NYC Celebrates 

The Rebirth Of The People's Voice

With Howard Dean and Jim Dean 

With Special Guest Norman Siegel. 

DFNYC Will Be Presenting A Special Award To 

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. 

More info at DFNYC.org and/or RSVP on Facebook.

Yes you can pay in advance and toss some $$$ in the kitty

even if you cannot make it.

This is a fundraiser for a good group. 

Hope to see you there!

Naomi Wolf Explains Our Constitutional RIGHT To Peacefully Assemble

Author Naomi Wolf speaks up for OUR rights - her arrest was unlawful and could happen to any of us. This clip was from Keith Olbermann's Countdown show.

Library Lion Patience says READ!

Love me the NY Public Library Lions and I don't want to leave Patience out of the picture -- or off the blog. The message is the same. Read books and support your local library. Fortitude was featured recently and it is Patience's turn: