Hey Everyone,

Thought you might be interested to read that the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution of Brattleboro is fighting against the relicensing of Seabrook Station in Seabrook, NH. I'm sure there are many from the Brattleboro area that participated in the Clamshell Alliance protests over 20 years ago that delayed Seabrook going online for years.

Oh dear, oh dear. I got the most unfortunate email yesterday from Shut it Down. It seems that those sweet old ladies will NEVER learn how to write snappy press releases about their protests. See my new prayer, "How to Write a Press Release," and you'll see what I mean.

Fake-Rob Williams
Are You There, God? It's Me, Fake-Rob Williams

Peter "Fish" case dedicated his Reformer column this week to the Drop In Center - their needs and why we should help.

I have a way we can all help (those of us who use the web, anyway) painlessly. It's not my idea - I got it from Steve West on his radio show, Live & Local on WKVT 1490 AM.

It's a search engine called GoodSearch (http://www.goodsearch.com/). Instead of using a better known site, use GoodSearch and every time you do a small amount of money goes to the charity of your choice. The Drop In Center is in their data base because a bunch of us already donate.

Post Oil Solutions will continue to host its 2nd Wednesday of the month Community Conversations on Wedndesday, August 11, 7:00 PM, at the Elliot Street Cafe, on the corner of Elm and Elliot Streets in Brattleboro.

The facilitated, open agenda is framed around the question, How do we work together to make our communities healthier and more sustainable? It is our hope that, through these conversations, new initiatives will be launched that will help to make our communities stronger. Light refreshments will be provided.

Marijuana Resolve is sponsoring a meeting at UVM's Ira-Allen Lecture Hall this Tuesday at 7-9pm. If anyone with a car who is interested in going up to Burlington (5 hour roundtrip!) to attend the Marijuana Resolve community event please post contact info here if you can offer a carpool. You can go to the University of Vermont's website and bring up their event calendar. The address is 42 University Place in Burlington.


Featured speakers are Senator Shumlin and Daryl Pillsbury. Opening statement by Vidda Crochetta. Crochetta will also be the moderator.

In light of the sighting of another swastika, this time in the Dummerston quarry, days after the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on the Dummerston bridge abutment we are asking community leaders to deliver the following message throughout Windham County this week and next:

“We strive to be a community free of prejudice and unlawful discrimination. Everyone regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, skin tone, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, martial status, physical or mental abilities, or economic standing deserves to live or visit here without the fear of bullying, harassment, bigotry or violence.”

Imagine waking up one morning and your world is completely changed by the sudden onset of a debilitating disease that has taken hold of you or someone close to you. In the United States, 200 people are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis every week. MS is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Vermont actually has a much higher than average rate of diagnosis compared to the nation as a whole. The symptoms can be as mild as numbness in the limbs or severe enough to cause paralysis and blindness. With the help of organizations like the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, exciting new treatments are making life livable for those with MS and new, cautiously hopeful surgeries that have the potential to stop MS in its tracks are being experimented with today.

Oooo-eeee! I'm the town crier! There's a public meeting tonight of the PSB, and they want your opinion about Vermont Yankee. This is your chance to sing it out. I have, as you'll see if you read I Really Need You Tonight. If nothing else, reading it will set you off on a musically wonderful day.

Fake-Rob Williams
Are You There, God? It's Me, Fake-Rob Williams

Its just another big holiday weekend. That's the main thing. Independence from England? No meaning. England, and it's remnant claim to planetary power, is joined to, and operating in, tight cooperation with our American empire.

A good part of the population thinks it's some sort of flag day, though display of lots of flags is no longer the bright colorful special event it used to be before 9/11.

Large red, white and blue American flags now fly all year long from businesses large and small, from apartment houses, fire trucks, from the cars of super patriots, and painted on sides of buses and subway cars.

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Disappointingly, the US Social Forum workshop on who decides war studiously avoided discussion of the root cause of wars, which has long been known to be capitalist economy's desperate need for war during its now century long imperialist phase. Something socialists and other non-capitalists have come to expect in forums organized by dedicated peace and justice groups dominated my progressive capitalists.

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In 2005, in keeping with its maturation as a constitutional democracy, the South Korean National Assembly established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to seek to "reveal the truth behind civilian massacres during the Korean War and human rights abuses during the [South Korean] authoritarian period and recent evidence of U.S. and South Korean responsibility for the massacre of civilians before and during the Korean War."

Market Intellisearch issued alerts on June 28 for unusual call volume and low put/call ratio on Entergy stock, and suggests that the "stock is expected to make a move." What's up with that???? See Newton Says.

Fake-Rob Williams
Are You There, God? It's Me, Fake-Rob Williams

This talk will put today's economic changes in a broad spiritual context, offer a glimpse of the likely future, and with a hands-on activity explore how to catalyze a reawakening of non-monetary modes of economic circulation.

The financial crisis of 2008 was not a one-time event, but the beginning of an ongoing unraveling of our money system, that is inevitable as we reach the limits of growth. This unraveling offers us a huge opportunity to recover what we have lost to money: our freedom, our communities, our self-determination. This talk will put today's economic changes in a broad spiritual context, offer a glimpse of the likely future, and with a hands-on activity explore how to catalyze a reawakening of non-monetary modes of economic circulation.

Q: What is the difference between (a) intentionally giving information that is false and (b) intentionally misleading? A: Hope--and I'm not talking about "hope" in the religious sense of Faith, Hope, and Charity. I'm talking about hope mathematically. Confused? See The Devil Is in the Details.

Fake-Rob Williams
Are You There, God? It's Me, Fake-Rob Williams

BP has agreed to set up a $20 billion fund for oil spill claims. And there goes the neighborhood.

Fake-Rob Williams
Are You There, God? It's Me, Fake-Rob Willilams