Leucadia tree [not] saved by localpower Andrew / Jru + community

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From: local power san diego http://localpowersd.com/
Date: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Subject: we won!!!

please send this message of victory out to everyone you know. hello all of my beautiful friends! the mayor called me in the rain and told me to take care of myself and that the tree would not be cut down and that the treehouse would stay as well. i am so very grateful to the people of encinitas and luecadia for all of the support and everyone from san diego and around the world for sending all of your love. the children have taken over the art treehouse project and will continue with the help of many others in the neighborhood to complete the tree garden. if you would like to be involved, just go down to the treehouse and be involved. no one is in charge as i was never in charge. i was only there because of the mission in my life to speak for those who have no voice in our society. i feel the same for people as i do for trees and bodies of water and animals and all that exists. we are all rocks. everything comes from rocks. we are made of the soil which consists of nothing more than broken down rocks. mountains that have withered down the rivers to the ocean and are as numerous as the stars in the sky. life comes to the rocks through water and light and the spark of flint becomes living bone. peace to everybody and in the spirit of the tree sit please come and bring gifts for the community and art supplies and gardening supplies for the children. it is your tree and you are the tree and the tree is the symbol of life. peace, jru p.s. there is a town hall meeting in encinitas on wednesday at 6pm. come and show your support and gratitude to the people of encinitas for building the treehouse. there is a love in scheduled for valentines day next saturday all day at orpheus park. bring instruments, blankets, food and anything you want to celebrate love. the new myspace for the tree is myspace.com/jrutreesitter see you soon!

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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:29:49 -0800 (PST)
From: local power san diego

they lied to everybody. they told me they would keep the tree and the treehouse. i feel like a kid like when i went happy away to summer camp and they put my brother dog harry to sleep. i cried inside when they told me when i got home because i knew i could never trust any of them again. none of them. not even my parents. it's still like that when you grow up they never stop lying to you on the radio and t.v. and in the papers. they are always lying from the governments to the institutions it's all the same. if you have a chance today and all week long, call the news shows and radio stations and give them my phone number. send this email out to others who can understand the importance of my anonymity. it's just a phone number and i'll be changing it soon but if you can do this i'll be able to represent the people of encinitas and luecadia and all of north county and south county san diego and all the world on the radio. i knew it was my time to leave when spirit called me up to santa barbara. i've got twenty oak trees growing in pots up here. see i have to take care of more trees. my heart is broken because of what they did when they lied to themselves and said they won when they murdered father tree. they are always losing when they think they are winning. keep up the fight and know we haven't ever lost when we followed the call of spirit. i love you all and let this stand to teach us to keep believing our own truth and never believe the lying politicians.
peace,
jru
(805)696-3534

Fallen Fruit at MCASD (downtown SD) Thu Feb 5 6-10pm + DIY WWOOF SD County

[1] This event showed up at the sdtjdph calendar ( j9k.org/cal ) via foodcalendar.org but I haven't seen it mentioned yet on any of the lists. So here it is:

Links to event details:

http://tinyurl.com/bnx7n4 or: http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=cnUxamlkaTZndHZtb2VldjBpb2R0NXNnc28gbjIxZ283N3Jnc3JvYjJ1ZTAxdTM1czlrY2NAZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

The MCASD TNT info:
http://www.mcasd.org/events/lectures.asp#TNT

The following is pasted from the fallen fruit artist statement
http://www.fallenfruit.org/media/FF_statement.pdf on their downloads page. Also check out their maps http://www.fallenfruit.org/maps.html .

The Principles of Fallen Fruit:
1. Fruit on public property belongs to all of us.
2. Mapping it is a way to share with everyone, learning neighborhoods by foot, rather than by car.
3. Ask property owners to plant fruit trees for everyone.
4. Functional landscaping: ask cities to plant fruit trees in parks, parking lots, and on streets.
5. Open dialogue within neighborhoods about public spaces.
6. Think about who has fruit and other resources, and who does not.

FALLENFRUIT is a collaboration of Dave Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young http://www.fallenfruit.org

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Fallen Fruit is a collaborative art project which began as a whimsical mapping of our neighborhood public fruit: all the fruit trees we could find that grew on or over public property.
When your neighbor's fruit tree hangs into your yard, that fruit is considered yours. But whose fruit is that on public property? We believe that fruit planted on private property which overhangs public space should be public property and created this project to encourage people both to harvest and plant public fruit. The project is a response to accelerating urbanization and the loss of people's capacity to produce their own foods, as well as issues around grassroots community activism, social welfare and social responsibility.

From the original printed edition, we expanded into a website which posts local maps from the handmade to the high-tech, submitted by our neighbors. We have pictures of fruit and harvesting, including fruit pin-ups. Our ambition is to map the city, the whole state, and then the world. We have also begun to propose public fruit projects. These include further mapping, a campaign to encourage property owners to plant fruit, petitions to the city to plant streets and parking lots, and a proposal for a public fruit park. We think of Fallen Fruit as much as community activism as an art project. Our neighborhood is full of homeless people and uneaten fruit: why can't the two be connected? We're not interested in random theft. Our intention is to promote sharing and community-based thinking.

We live in a world controlled by multinational corporations, in which we don't know our neighbors, with a media that manufactures social realities and ignores poverty and oppression. Our food arrives processed and pre-wrapped, and few of us know where it comes from. Our cities are full of wasted spaces and neglected resources. Fallen Fruit proposes that we be able to make more food with little effort and find ways to map it and networks for sharing it. The injunction to share food is as old as the Bible, which tells us that we should not harvest all our food for ourselves; the fallen fruit should always be left for those who have nothing.

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[2] DIY (do it yourself) WWOOF (willing workers on organic farms [and other good places]) SD County:

While I'm emailing everyone,
I'm looking for local wwoof opportunities.
If I can camp or sleep on the floor at or near where I can work (unpaid) ~4/hrs day, please let me know. I'm happy to do kitchen, garden, computer and many other kinds of work.

My main goals are:
   * to work with others and
   * to visit and learn from different people and places in the county.

For more information, please visit:
http://fo-rest.blogspot.com/2009/01/diy-wwoof-in-sd-county-will-work-for.html

Peace & a smile,
Colin

local food map + some new tricks

I started an sdfnl tweme: http://twemes.com/sdfnl

Here's the first tweets:

forestdweller:

#sdfnl #sdtjdph Jed Sundwall started a gmap of local food sources: http://is.gd/cWG . I added it to SDTJDPH map channels: http://is.gd/cWL

forestdweller:

#sdfnl There's a new hopedance out. One article addresses the plastic waterbottle issue: http://is.gd/cWw

Peace,
Colin

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Barcamp 3 this weekend, la jolla

https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/BarCampSanDiego

This was from:
http://www.startupsd.net/

There are already a few pc/food-related speakers there, e.g.:
http://jedsundwall.com/2008/05/01/barcamp-san-diego-3/

This is a way of conference organizing I'm very interested in--
this style of organizing, I believe, was behind the permaculture gatherings in the east I loved so much.

If you go to add you name, look for the code at the bottom of the page.

Peace,
Colin

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Re: [SDELN-Forum] Social bookmarking sites / Web 2.0

Larry + sdeln-forum,
I was playing with and demonstrating some of the Web 2.0 technologies at:
http://sdtjdph.blogspot.com/

and some local groups picked up on some of the things demonstrated there--such as using del.icio.us for bookmarking--see sdfoodnotlawns.com 's bookmarks.

A major issue though is handling and reducing information overload and increasing info quality and relevance (--hence the "weekly share" newsletter experiment.)

And enjoying more peace while still benefiting from the new tech.

From my experimentation, I would recommend that _everyone_ learn to use a feed reader and that every non-profit make available at least two feeds: one an ical / google calendar feed of events and another of news/updates. Larger orgs make available a wider range of feeds: links, videos, photos, blogs by different authors and topics.

The most wonderful thing about my shunting of most mass communications to my reader page is that I hardly get any email, and if I get email it was sent directly to me.

If I want to get my mass updates--I go to my reader.

If I want to see events of orgs I'm interested in, I go to my calendar.

Email is far less of a distraction this way.

Incidentally-- Y! groups does offer a feed of sdeln-forum.

My next new-tech experiment is to go live in Los Padres National Forest with a Solio charger and blackberry or something like that and blog from the forest mountaintops (and be contactable so people can come visit).


Another cool demo of the Web 2.0 tech is a use of myvidster.com and pixrat.com to compile video and photos from multiple sharing sites into one feed and then displaying the items in a sildeshow-- carfrees.blogspot.com has examples of both of these (I use google reader to aggregate and format the feeds for display in the slideshow ).


Here is a bit of the dialectic that plays out in experimenting with the new tech: providing useful info that people can act on vs. distracting us/others from a focus on fundamental issues and fundamental changes.

With the Internet + web 2.0 (custom updates from multiple sources), there is an expansion of awareness, self, identity (or something) occurring that I don't want to be without. The tech is now ubiquitous & portable enough that I can (I think) live in a wilderness area and still benefit from this connection.

Maybe I'll be able to write more thoughtfully about this from the forest.


Peace,
Colin
ps: You all might be interested in 'google for non-profits' and 'the official google.org blog'

2008/4/14, Larry Hogue <lhogue1@san.rr.com>:

Hello all,

Does anyone on this list use any of the social bookmarking or other networking services out there to promote your issues or organization? If so, which ones, and with how much success?

I've been dabbling in this area simultaneously with starting a blog for the Desert Protective Council, but find that not a lot of enviros I interact with use these services.

Specifically, I've started posting links to anti-Sunrise Powerlink sites and videos on Hugg.com (it's Digg for greens, but that assumes you know what Digg is!). Not many votes (or Huggs) so far. I find that Hugg uers cover mostly cleantech, renewable energy, and anti-global warming issues, which perhaps reflects the younger demographic of global warming activists, compared to public lands and other mainline environmental issues activists.

I also have started using twitter.com. It's mainly used by techies and bloggers, but in theory it could be used by a group of activists to keep in touch with each other, and keep each other apprised of what the others are doing. It can also be used to alert "followers" (readers) when a blog or website has been updated.

Basically, it's a "micro-blogging" site, where messages are limited to 140 characters. It works very well to direct readers to a web page or blog post that has more information. You can both post and receive messages from your cell phone.

For instance, I have a Twitter username of DesertBlog that I use to announce blog posts: http://twitter.com/DesertBlog. These short posts go to the followers of the twitter username "DesertBlog" (all 2 of them right now!). Other users have 100s or 1000s of people following them, so it's an easy way for them to spread information widely.

Twitter could also be used to organize large groups of people on the fly. For instance, during last week's Olympic torch relay demonstrations in San Francisco, if all the demonstrators had been following a twitter username of "FreeTibet," then "FreeTibet" could have sent a text message to all of them with a message like "the torch is now at X Street and Y Ave. Head to X ST. and Z Ave."

While it may seem that something like Twitter could end up bringing you too much communication with lots of individual messages, the advantage is that the messages are all short (unlike this e-mail and most environmental issues alerts). Readers can surf through the messages quickly and choose which ones they want to explore further.

I'd love to hear feedback from this list about whether these or other new media tools could be useful both for leaders communicating with each other, and for organizations to communicate with their members or other interested folks.

Larry Hogue

Environmental Communications Consulting

Author, All the Wild and Lonely Places:

Journeys in a Desert Landscape

858-452-6654

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