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New Interview From Oaklands Projet En Vue

The Bee Healthy Honey Shop is located at 2950 Telegraph Ave. Can you describe the... more

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The Antiwar Comic: The Protesters Know

U.S. Representatives have an ironic view of Hitler.

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Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices of Oakland

Projet En Vue is an online installation featuring the true perspective of Oakland and its Inhabitants in an honest, aesthetically tasteful manner. http://projetenvue.org/

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WHO WE ARE:

We are a photographer and an oral historian living in Oakland, CA. Oakland is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse communities in America, and yet outsiders are mostly familiar with it due to its reputation for being poor, dangerous, and violent.

WHAT WE DO:

We are walking around Oakland with a camera and a voice recorder, interviewing the citizens of Oakland. Our conversations range from five to thirty minutes and don’t have any particular theme. Our goal is to paint a portrait of them as an individual. We want to know where they came from, what they are most proud of, where they see themselves in ten years, and what they are most passionate about, among other things.

WHY:

In this era of advanced technology, we are increasingly connected to a global network of people, yet we are losing our connection to those closest to us. Because of this, we are becoming increasingly isolated from our own humanity. The simple mission of Projet En Vue is to bring people together with different perspectives and life experiences in order to create a greater narrative of community as well as what it means to be human in the modern world. We want to do this through a variety of means, both in our own communities and around the world.

IN THE FUTURE:

Closest to home, we want to create a series of interactive exhibitions that will feature fifty portraits of Oakland residents who differ in a variety of ways but who all share a sense of pride in the community. We will bring these exhibitions to local schools, community centers, and galleries to engage people in our work. These events will feature large photographic portraits of the people that we interviewed, along with interactive audio installations that we will commission local artists to design and produce.

A series of zines (24 to 30 pages each) and a full-color photo book will allow Projet En Vue to have a national impact. The photo book will feature beautiful portraits from our interviews, along with the accompanying text. The zines and the book will be printed locally with soy-based inks, recycled paper, and animal-free binding and will be a tangible manifestation of our project.

Finally, our website will help us create a global impact with our work. The website is already being created and is where we feature the photographs, audio, and text. Our multi-media approach to these portraits creates a visceral and deeply emotional experience for the viewer.Projet En Vue is an online installation featuring the true perspective of Oakland and... more

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A Letter to the President

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1951. France 'St. Anthony’s Fire' mystery solved - CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left... more

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The Sheeple are WAKING UP!

Maybe there is HOPE, The Sheeple are WAKING UP! http://youtu.be/niJnoLGRgyw

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Drum Circles - Community Rhythm

Bang the drums and Stomp Your feet. Community Rhythm - Drum Circles

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259,202 Youtube Hits So Far... March 23, 2012 (7:32am)

A Youtube Plea For Peace From an Isreali Father

Please share this, it's a video that should go viral. Go to youtube and comment, I did:
"THANK YOU SO MUCH... We need our peaceful voices to be heard. We are not cattle who cannot stop their own slaughter. We are human beings and we all share something in common; love, respect, peace and empathy for one another." thinkingblue

Amid war fever, some Israelis and Iranians talk of peace
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2707569/amid-war-fever-some-israelis-and.html

By SHEERA FRENKEL
McClatchy Newspapers

JERUSALEM -- Hoping to counter the incessant saber rattling from their respective governments, some Israelis and Iranians have started an online campaign to exchange simple messages of friendship and love.

The initiative, which began with Israeli couple Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir, calls for residents of each country to exchange photographs with the words, "We love you."

"I'm not an official representative of my country. I'm a father and a teacher," Edry wrote on his blog, www.IsraelovesIran.com. He included a photograph of him and his son. "I know the streets of my town, I talk with my neighbors, my family, my students, my friends and in the name of all these people ... we love you. We mean you no harm. On the contrary, we want to meet, have some coffee and talk about sports."

Within days, the first responses from Iran began to appear. The images posted by Israelis and Iranians are strikingly similar - they show people in the midst of daily activities, posing with their children, dog or favorite book. Some include messages such as "We don't want war," and "I wish we both get rid of our idiot politicians." Often, it's impossible to tell where the message originated until the telltale tag line, Iran (or Israel) we love you. MORE HERE http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2707569/amid-war-fever-some-israelis-and.html

ISRAEL LOVES IRAN BLOG
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2707569/amid-war-fever-some-israelis-and.htmlA Youtube Plea For Peace From an Isreali Father Please share this, it's a... more

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Upsurge; Through the Storm

Anakbayan New Jersey and CUDA Culture (Community for Urban Dance and Art ) are joining... more

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Through the Storm

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Neighbor's Fave Authentic Latin Food

La Conguita is a family owned Cuban restaurant opened in 1980; located on Grove street... more

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Why People Are Mean

From A Martha Beck Article.

Someone insults you (and your little dog, too)...............

The first time I saw a T-shirt that said "mean people suck," I thought, Now, there is a heartfelt sentiment, succinctly expressed. I only wished I'd been the author. I mention this because recently I've encountered several mean people, and I've had to remind myself that the concept of authorship is key to surviving these experiences.

I don't know about you, but my favorite ways of reacting to mean people are (1) getting mean right back or (2) lying down quietly to display the word welcome! written where my spine used to be. Annoyingly, my job constantly reminds me that there's a more responsible and effective way to live. That's how it is for us authors. I say "us" because you're an author, too. Not all of us write for publication, but every living person has the power of authorship when it comes to composing our lives. Meanness emerges when we believe that we have no such power, that we're passive receptors of life's vagaries. Inner peace follows when we begin responding to cruelty—our own and other people's—with the authority we've possessed all along.

Why are people mean? Here's the short answer: They're hurt. Here's the long answer: They're really hurt. At some point, somebody—their parents, their lovers, Lady Luck—did them dirty. They were crushed. And they're still afraid the pain will never stop, or that it will happen again.

There. I've just described every single person living on planet Earth.

The fact is that we've all been hurt, and we're all wounded, but not all of us are mean. Why not? Because some people realize that their history of suffering can be a hero's saga rather than a victim's whine, depending on how they "write" it. The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves or others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

...........................We perceive events as story lines. We continually (though often unconsciously) tell ourselves tales about life, and since no story can include every tiny event, we edit and spin the facts into the stories we prefer. Many of our stories are pure fabrication, and all of them are biased, dominated by our flair for the dramatic, our theories about life, and our fears. A typical mean person's story line goes like this: "I am a victim; people want to hurt me; I must hurt them first to be safe." This is why mean people may turn ugly when you say something like "Please pass the salt" or "Hey, it's raining." They immediately rewrite whatever they hear to support their story line ("She's saying I'm a bad cook" or "He's bringing up the weather to avoid talking about us"). The story, not other people's behavior, both motivates and excuses their hostility.

If we react to this type of meanness with cruelty of our own, we climb onto the wheel of suffering that drives all conflict, from lovers' spats to wars: You're mean to me so I'm mean to you so you're meaner to me so I'm meaner to you....

We'll stay on this sickening merry-go-round until we decide to get off—and please note that I did not say "when others stop being mean to us." We can ride the wheel of suffering when no one else is even present (telling ourselves the same old sad story again and again), and we can leave it even in the midst of violent persecution. The way out is not found in changing our circumstances but in the power of authorship.

http://fardark.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/boxer_by_michaelkutsche.jpgFrom A Martha Beck Article. Someone insults you (and your little dog,... more