Corporations are Zombies
For decades we have considered these businessmen regular citizens who simply have a different economic idea. No, in 2015, it is folly to think of people who believe in the magic power of profit-taking...
View ArticleTake The Zombies Alive
Nothing is more important than your love of trespassing on corporate property. Please, please - be unafraid of their fake laws. Bamboozle them with the application of your surreal arts, your sexy boy...
View ArticlePope's Climate Change Encyclical
"Since the market tends to promote extreme consumerism in an effort to sell its products, people can easily get caught up in a whirlwind of needless buying and spending. Compulsive consumerism is one...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter
In our church we believe that Human rights and Earth rights are the same thing. But black-on-white crime and white-on-black crime are not the same thing, not in this country. Boston was under martial...
View ArticleTerrorism
I woke up this morning and turned on the news. TERRORISMI am so sickened and hurt. I have family in the Charleston area but it doesn't matter whether they were of my blood or not. Lives were lost...
View ArticleGlyphosate Spraying Begins in Brooklyn
I was praying at the front gate of the Quaker cemetery, which is canopied with beautiful trees now, when two wealthy-looking kids ran up shouting, "Oh, is the cemetery closed? Why is it closed? Well,...
View ArticleWhere are the artists?
It should be easy (and very important) to mock the G-7 politicians who put off the conversion from fossil fuels to 2100, which would seem to be after the apocalypse. NGO’s like Oxfam would counter the...
View ArticleHow Far
HOW FAR FROM THIS EMPTY PLAYGROUND TO THE THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES IN THE BOATS? ...to the hundreds of thousands massing at borders, living as nomads, fleeing the chemical wars and food riots.How far from...
View ArticleThanking you (actual) friends
Thanking you (actual) friends - We think all of this means - that in this time of the Earth's changes, we will re-meet each other in new relationships. I'm happy for the choir, volunteers who follow me...
View ArticleHow To Resist Toxics For Dummies (Like Me)
First, take pictures, videotapes, write in journals, talk to people and point your finger at dead things and make snarky comments. My photo from biking around Prospect Park this morning:The spraying...
View ArticleWe're not in a church basement anymore, Toto
This is a picture of Jones Beach, where we perform July 21, opening for Neil Young. I think this audience is at a Phish concert. Since we got the invitation, I've been writing long letters to friends,...
View ArticleClimate Change: Where Are The Artists?
It should be easy (and very important) to mock the G-7 politicians who put off the conversion from fossil fuels to 2100, which would seem to be after the apocalypse. NGO's like Oxfam would counter the...
View ArticleThe Good and The Bad Circling Each Other
The rising wave of awareness that overwhelmed so many, from southern governors to the supremes to the pope - leaves us surprised and delighted. This weekend was a hell of party! At the same time -...
View ArticleWe respectfully request
WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT OUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS START A CLIMATE RIOT AFTER YOUR MORNING COFFEE:Our casual review of today's headlines that involve life on Earth: Heavy Rain Triggers Deadly Floods in...
View ArticleWho's gonna stand up and save the Earth?
Is it happening? "We're the people known as Earth." A simple anthem resurrects my tear ducts and gets them working again. Makes me want to take a walk outside in the trees. Put this alongside Marvin...
View ArticleNina Simone
Because I love me some Nina Simone I decided to watch "What Happened Miss Simone" on Netflix today. This is a beautiful and moving documentary that spoke to me from beginning to end; it felt like a...
View ArticleI Had A Rich Friend Once
I met her in Alcoholics Anonymous. Our relationship was talking about her kitchen remodelling. I swear she remodeled her kitchen for five years - know what I mean? We live in a rich country. There are...
View ArticleTheory of Poison, Theory of Crime
In New York there is an idea of crime prevention, and it is called "Broken Windows." The theory goes: little indicators of a ghetto life style must be cleansed before turning into hard crime. (Of...
View ArticleTurning Around Slowly
LOOKING BACK AT OUR NIGHT WITH NEIL YOUNG AND DARYL HANNAH. Yesterday we just took naps and long walks. It wasn't a chemical hangover. It was a performance hangover or no - call it an EXPERIENCE...
View ArticleCasting Mickey Into Hellfire in 1999
Taking on Consumerism was not a well-thought out career decision by me. I would have had the sensation that I was the tree falling alone in the forest if it wasn’t for the fact that I was screaming...
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