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ok, this is really, really scary

Peace Activists Put on "No-Fly" list.

Scary.

Thanks to Ms Mandelicious for sending me to This Modern World for this, and so many other extra valuable pieces of information about this shit hole we call a Democracy. (did I just say that? Will that get *me* on the no fly list?)

A 14 month old baby girl, killed by inhaling tear gas, when her mother took her shopping for groceries after curfew in Hebron....

More children killed by the insanity of war...

Here's something to think about...

upcoming peace events or other stuff we could do:

--there's always the Peace Friday

--October 6th

Women in Black (cheerleaders in black?)

I have been garnering support for a Radical Cheerleaders event. Do we want it to be an all-mom squad, or a more open one? Do we want special outfits? Who's in? We gotta get busy.

I am planning to go to the Supervisors meeting tomorrow if possible, at 9:00, they are voting on Mardi Wormhoudts proposal that the county eho Santa Cruz'es declaration against the war, and after that they are covering the Cal Trans issue about them spraying pesticides on county roads.

So much to say...

Things have been pretty crazy... Rose is teething like a mad thing, DH put his back out, I've been working and product making and trying to figure out what's happening with the house... insanity! But much of it is good. I mean, the love and the work are good, the teething and the back pain are bad...

So! Here's that picture of Rose I've been promising...

OK, I still cant post my pic. WAH!

I wanted to write a lot of other wonderful, politically relevant, love and laughter infused stuff, but the weather is bad, my mood is bad, my workload is bad.

BAD!

WAH I can't load my adorable pic of my girl! WHY"!!! WAH!!!

Fun with activism and infections and flats

So, three main things since I last wrote, Rose and I both have ear problems, I got a flat tire, and most important realy (except that it's all about me of course) is that we went to WAMM's Ceremonial Medical Marijuana Distribution.

So, first, ear problems... yeah. I have a (lol I accidentally posted this, forgot about it, and left it for several hours. made ya wonder, huh...) bad inner ear infection, and have spent the whole day dealing with a special combination of incompetent (or at least underpaid and understaffed and undertrained) people in a variety of places, and I still have not got my drugs. I NEED MY DRUGS!

Speaking of drugs.

Yesterday was the vigil/medicine distribution for WAMM at City Hall. It was really beautiful, so so many people and the patients spoke about their lives and why they need their medicine and other people, a doctor, Valerie from WAMM and others, spoke about how this is about compassion for ill and dying people. There were pictures all over the place of medical marijuana patients and I was suprised to see a picture of a friend of ours who gets medical marijuana from the Oakland Cannabis Club for his prostate cancer. I just didn't know about it. But then I thought, why should I need to, I mean, most of my friends dont run around telling me about their prescriptions. Sigh.

Well, the vigil was beautiful, but sooooooo crowded, and angry stoners are a little har d to control sometimes, so I helped with crowd control. We went with Q & A, and met up with some other nice mamas and made a camp on the lawn. My sister, the ever bad-assed Mandelicious
was asked to do a report for some college radio station in Minnesota for it. Go Mand! She has two shows on KZSC now, check them out, Taste The Piano on Saturday mornings and Global Warming every 3rd Wednesday. Full schedule at http://kzsc.ucsc.edu/.

Anyways, it was an awesome event. More info and fabulous pictures at:

http://www.wamm.org/

The last piece of news was I had a dumb flat tire. Big deal. Must be mercury in retrograde again...

On the blog again..... just can't wait to get on the blog again...

So, we stayed home instead of going to the east bay *again*, cuz we are all sick. Acutally, I was only sick yesterday and am all better today except for my ear, but still.

So, to recap...

Wednesday night was the Suzanne Arms thing, my whole family, including parents, attended. It was very very cool, fatphobic comment the only downer (see BlueR_oses blog for details on that). It really made me think about what I am doing working, I need to be spending even more time with my daughter. My only hope is that Bagel Guy will want to buy the house...

Thursday I worked, puttered, and went to the park with mamasleek, where we discussed the state of the mama nation online and other worthy topics while our ever more independent children scared us by climbing things. A mama friend from La Leche League was there and I got to meet her new baby, that was really nice. Stayed home from La Leche, cause Mort was getting sick. Felt bad about not passing off the library to anyone, though. Maybe, since I'm not an actively nursing mom, I should think about not being the librarian. Maybe.

Friday I had plannned to spend the whole day with the mamas, but it got away from me, working away... and then I got distracted by the UCSC Farm and Garden Plant Sale and bought a few things. Not enough, as it turned out. By the time I got down the hill it was way to late to go to the park, so I went straight to Peace Friday where I at least saw N and J, so it was not a completely mama-free day. It was a good peace friday, not too much harassment, lots of lovely friends. It always makes me feel better.

Saturday I woke up sick. Mort and Rosie and I had a very mellow day, only going out to get videos and food. We watched Guinivere which was very good, I puffy heart Sarah Polley (I think I would even if she had not been the star of my favorite show ever, Avonlea, but she was, so that is a moot point) and three episodes of Red Dwarf, the best of which had the whole crew hallucinating from Despair SQuid Ink contamination. Excellent.

Today I felt better and spent the whole day with my family, including A and B and "Speck" now getting bigger and known as "Pooch" (aka their baby, due in November, current fave names Kai for a boy, Violet for a girl *more Flower Girls!*).

We tried to get more plants at the plant sale, but it was all over.

We are fencing all the raised beds at my folks house and I am going to do a huge garden. I am getting really excited. I also might be taking a formal herbalism course through the American School of Herbalism. It seems insane, and yet I know I thrive on that stuff and it would likely make me happy.

Wow. long blog!

I wanted to write about my dear girl, how she is walking and talking and rocks my world. Next time...

It's that day...

I don;t watch TV, so my whole context for the memorialization has been radio and internet. I dunno, the Pentagon memorial pissed me off. The NYC one seemed so heartfelt, so mournful and appropriate and beautiful in its way, but the Pentagon one was all rah USA military rampup. In the name of people who died with no other intention in their day than going to work, getting through, going home to their families. Or whatever. They did not, I suspect, have war on their minds. They are gone, yes, but why does killing more innocent people help? How does that make their deaths less "in vain", Mr Bush?

Sigh.

Off to a forum on raising non violent children tonight. That will be good. We have the future in our hands.

We had a lovely weekend... spent lots of time with my Mom. We went hiking on the property and found a lot of usnea... so I need to figure out how to make an usnea tincture. We harvested a LOT of lavender, made labels, and figured out ways to use the black sage, white sage, and yerba santa already growing on the land. We are so lucky to have our land and more importantly my folks land as resources... I am still looking for some good wild mugwort, let me know if you think you have some somewhere...