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Boston Kossacks! Upcoming Climate Concert, May 10...will be awesome!
Deepti Navaratna / Dean Stevens / Gabrielle Agachiko
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SB 1132 Blogathon — Letters, Comments, Talking Points, Environmental Wisdom,...
A Climate Message From Stuart Chapman, of Bolinas, CaliforniaA Few Words Of IntroductionHello, I'm Warren Senders, known in these parts as WarrenS. Thank you for visiting my diary. I hope you'll find...
View ArticleWrite Like George Will! — A Political Bulwer-Lytton Contest!
It is widely known that George F. Will is one of America's premiere douchecanoes. Every week brings a fresh atrocity from the fetid pen of the bowtied one; whether it's climate denialism, contemptuous...
View ArticleSo The NRSC Just Called...
...and the guy on the other end wants to know if I think we should replace Harry Reid. I say, "depends on who you're replacing him with." He says, "yes, McConnell's not my favorite either." I draw him...
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Bearing Witness To The Climate Crisis — Welcome To Our Festival Of Song And...
The Climate Message Video Festival is now underway!Step right up and hear some of the most beautiful music you've ever encountered — and a clarion call for the urgency of action against global warming!
View ArticleA Great Tree Has Fallen. Charlie Haden, 1937-2014, R.I.P.
I can't stop crying.Very sad news: It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Charlie Haden, born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away today at 10:11 Pacific time in Los Angeles after...
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Raga Against The Machine — Why I'll Be At People's Climate March 9/21
Marchons! 48 Hour People's Climate March Recruitment Storm:Thursday through Friday, August 21-22 As a stay-at-home homeschooling dad with a daughter, a puppy, and a full schedule of music students, I...
View ArticleMe Atheist Too!
Well, step away from the computer for a little while and next thing you know there's a whole slangin' match goin' on — all on the subject of atheism.So I thought it would be a good idea to pitch in my...
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September 21, 2014: A Silence For Now, For Then, For What Will Be
Once there was a moment poised in the middle of the middle of the middle, just like any other moment.Freeman Dyson: The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct...
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On Mortality: Oliver Sacks prepares to join the Great Hum
The polymathic neurologist, whose books, research, and clinical insights have helped countless people understand the deep and abiding mysteries of the human mind, announced the sad news in today's New...
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Ornette Coleman has died at 85.
The alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. link
View ArticleDo The Republican Powers That Be Actually Want A Trump 3rd-Party Run?
Let's forget The Donald for a minute.If I were Reince Priebus or someone else in a leadership position in the GOP, I'd be awake all night, despairing of finding a candidate who wasn't an obvious...
View ArticleMy Mother's Abortion(s)
This is a repost of a diary I first put up quite a few years back. It's still germane today. I have mentioned in many comments over the years that my mother's life was saved by a "partial-birth...
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Boston Kossacks — Playing For The Planet Environmental Benefit Concert, 11/7!
On Saturday, November 7, the twelfth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation,...
View ArticleWhy Would A Pacifist Support Clinton? Allow Me To Explain.
The world is full of evil. Individual humans encounter it often, but whole days and weeks may sometimes go by when we don't stare it right in the face, so to speak.Governments have to deal with evil...
View ArticleI Owe My Life To My Mother's Late-Term Abortion.
After last night’s debate, I’m going to share this story again, with a few minor updates. The idiocy surrounding late-term abortions is infuriating to me for many reasons, but uppermost is the fact...
View ArticleEight Reasons Out Of Many
1. My mother's life was saved by a "late-term abortion." I was born three years later. I owe my life to my mother's abortion.For that reason I am supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Presidency of...
View Article"We must love one another or die" - The prescience of W.H. Auden
I have not stopped re-reading this poem for the past few days. I know Auden himself disliked it...but perhaps that is because its genius is too harrowing for any one human. A “Guernica” in words, if...
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(VIDEO) Students @ Coretta Scott King's Alma Mater Organize Beautiful Public...
I am a faculty member at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, which boasts among its distinguished graduates Mrs. Coretta Scott King (‘53). Today Ms. Stephanie Muñoz, a graduate student (and a...
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SciCli Blogathon: Man With Sign — 85 Weeks On The Edge
You’ve probably seen the beautiful mobiles of Alexander Calder; you may very well have a plastic or cardboard mobile in your home. The principle is simple enough: a counterweight on one side of a...
View ArticleI'm A Performance Artist. I Know Performance Art. Stop Calling Trump A...
It’s an oft-repeated trope, familiar even before Cheeto Benito hijacked the electoral process. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter described as...
View ArticleWhat Happened When I Took A Walk Today
It’s a sunny day, and I’m walking to the post office. Just as I was turning to go up the steps, a woman calls out to me. She's tall, white, carefully groomed, with a little bit of Michelle Bachmann...
View ArticleMan With Sign, Week 113, Day 5: The Fossil Fuel Economy And Patriarchal Norms...
Note: this is drawn from the daily journal of my roadside vigil, an hour every weekday morning at a heavily-trafficked intersection with an assortment of signs about climate change. This post can be...
View ArticleDaniel Quinn Has Died
Daniel Quinn, best known as the author of Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Providence, died of aspiration pneumonia on February 17, 2018 at Houston Hospice. He was 82.Houston ChronicleHe had...
View ArticleNecessity Defense Prevails Against Civil Infraction Charges in West Roxbury,...
I spent my morning in court today. In August 2016 I joined an ongoing campaign against a natural gas pipeline construction project in West Roxbury, MA, and committed civil disobedience by illegally...
View ArticleMy Mother's Abortions — Telling The Story Once Again.
I’ve posted this diary several times over the past decade, and with the Kennedy resignation (and the subsequent inevitable decimation of abortion rights in this country) filling the news, I think it’s...
View ArticleUpending The Paradigm: Vote For The Democratic Leadership Team!
This morning during my daily music practice/climate-change vigil, I was working on a song. It’s a pretty song, but it’s kind of “square.” I tried some of the standard ways of ornamenting it, and as I...
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Dementia and The Mother Of Us All
Good morning. Welcome to an extended analogy.Her number rings and rings and rings and rings. I call the switchboard, punch my way through the circuitry, get to the main desk in her ward, ask someone...
View ArticleWe Don't Need (Another) Revolution
I’m a Warren Democrat in several ways, as my name attests. My personal politics are well to the left of Joe Biden’s, and slightly to the left of Bernie Sanders’. Many in my circle of friends and...
View ArticleTake The Markey Desk Ad Twitter Challenge!
Ed Markey’s classic TV spot from his 1976 campaign is deservedly iconic. Short, direct, powerfully honest, unforgettable.xxYouTube VideoNow one of his staffers has started a delightful trend.xI...
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Rituals of Resistance: How To Keep On Keeping On (Monday Climate Brief)
As a long-time climate activist I’m waaaaaay too familiar with the resonances of melancholy. Reading bad news — especially bad news which has every likelihood of continuing to be bad for long after...
View ArticleClimate Brief: Lose Your Past and You'll Lose Your Future, Too.
I don’t need to tell you that the latest IPCC report is absolutely terrifying. You already know that. Read AKALib’s summary anyway. This diary was written in the full knowledge that there is hugely...
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Climate Brief: To The Memory of R. Murray Schafer, Who Taught Us To Hear The...
Start with a single sound in your immediate environment. Listen carefully. Now expand the range of your audition outwards, encompassing more. Perhaps you remember the movie, “Powers of Ten”?Do...
View ArticleTX-GOV — Abbott Tests Positive for COVID-19
From the Department of What Goes Around Comes Around, this news:AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday, the governor’s office announced in a release.“Governor...
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Climate Brief: Thinking Slow, Acting Fast
Human beings are strange and complicated and fiddly creatures who are astonishingly good at being in two places at once while not being anywhere at all.Case in point, the noted physicist Freeman Dyson,...
View ArticleClimate Brief: The Church Of Ancient Light (C.O.A.L.)
(Link to NASA Title Image)I’ve had it up to here with climate-change deniers who claim that“climate change is a new religion”or some analogous word salad. As I’ve had occasion to point out more than...
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Climate Brief: Save The Earth — It's The Only Planet With Music!
There’s a low upper limit to the climate news can I take in. A Horrifying New Stat? I’m already as horrified as I can be without breaking down completely bla bla bla.That Asshole Again? Do I really...
View ArticleMusic 4 Climate Justice — Day One Program: The Soundtrack To Our Hopes &...
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleClimate Brief: Music 4 Climate Justice — A Musical Menu for Today From Glasgow
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleClimate Brief: Music 4 Climate Justice — COP-26: The Soundtrack For November 7
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleClimate Brief: Music 4 Climate Justice - your streaming musical menu for...
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleMusic 4 Climate Justice — Your Daily Musical Menu from COP-26.
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleMusic 4 Climate Justice — Your Musical Menu from COP-26 for November 10.
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleMusic 4 Climate Justice — Your Streaming Musical Menu for November 11
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
View ArticleMusic 4 Climate Justice — Your Musical Menu For The Final Day of COP-26.
We watch as the world’s fate is decided at Glasgow. Will we find a pathway to a survivable future?I claim no special expertise in these matters. I know enough science to trust scientists in general,...
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Climate Brief: The Holy Work Of Saving A Nation's Trees
The world of climate activism is filled with grim and scary statistics. There’s no avoiding the bad news, especially if you’re paying even the least bit of attention. And if you’re not paying...
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Today I Am An Orphan.
A hijacked Supreme Court inches ever closer to destroying the bodily autonomy of women in this country...and my Mom died at 9:25 this morning.Dr. Virginia Loftus "Ginny" Senders died on Thursday,...
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