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The 10th Mama CalendarNot to be confused with the 10th anniversary edition, which was last year's. This year, as I got ready to go debut the latest calendar at the New Orleans Bookfair, I dug through my bin of older editions and was confused for a few minutes by my inability to find the 2007 calendar. It's not like me to not save at least one copy, it made no sense. It wasn't until the next

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sleep is good foodMy 14 year old son slept for 12 hours last night. We've had a hectic and exhausting (although rewarding and delightful!) two weeks of working long hours each at Hogwarts Camp, so it's no surprise and, in fact, is probably something he needs to do more often. Some parenting habits I wonder more and more if I will ever outgrow, like peeking in at my sleeping kids, feeling

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saucyI love to make cranberry sauce. I have nothing against the straight out of a can kind, I'll eat it and enjoy it, and I think it looks cute sitting in a bowl in its can shape, but making it at home is so easy, and it makes the whole house smell great.I tend to glance at a few recipes for some basic parameters and then do what I want. This year I made a ginger-honey-apple juice version. I put

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time, time, time, see what's become of meMiddle of October already! It feels like I have to get a number of things accomplished in the next two-three weeks: Make the Mama Calendar! Get ready for the Bookfair! Choose a Halloween costume! Collaborate on a Voter Guide! And they all feel equally urgent...For your part, you could move things along by submitting something for the Mama Calendar. Now!

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ferry princessA few months ago, in Brooklyn, I watched this fellow have a hissy fit when the bus driver wouldn't let him bring his dog on board with him. I was telling John, later at dinner, that in New Orleans you aren't allowed to have or do various things on the bus or streetcar - no pets, no eating, no drinking, no smoking, no playing music - but on the ferry, you can pretty much do

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Ginger is the thingA few years ago, Rachael, the brilliant herbalist at the Common Ground Health Clinic, advised me to increase the ginger in my diet, as a corrective to being "a little too yin." So, I try to have some every day, in one form or another, to bring some internal heat and improve my circulation. Lots of days I just drink some ginger tea, and add ginger into any stir fry or peanut

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Love Letter to BrooklynI've never lived in Brooklyn. I probably never will. I identify so strongly with the south, I don't know if I ever would really feel at home long term somewhere else. But anyway, for the past eight years I've spent 2-5 days a year in Brooklyn, as part of my comings & goings to/from camp in Western Massachusetts (another second (third?) home), and it's become a favorite,

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Mama Calendar 2010The 2010 calendars are here! And here, and here.We enjoyed a lovely debut at the New Orleans Bookfair yesterday and are now poised and ready to mail the rest of these suckers out...

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Mama Calendar 2010: Call for Submissions!pass it around!the 2010 Mama Calendar is getting underway!people, mothers, fathers, partners, kids, friends & allies,the mama calendar is what it is because of your words, pictures, dreams, visions, rants, raves, recipes, recipes for revolution.send me your best stuff, by October 9, tothe mama calendarcoleen murphycoleen@bust.comPO box 741655new orleans,

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The Thing for Me About Unschooling Yesterday morning, while crossing Poydras downtown with my sons, I flashed on this memory from a couple of years ago, a time when a fellow street crosser at that very intersection barreled into me for no apparent reason, and with no apology or remark of any kind. It wasn't the first time that's happened, but it stuck in my mind on that day because I'd been home

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I'm not much on forgettingWe just got home from seeing Julie & Julia. So good! So fun. I literally laughed out loud for most of the Julia parts, and cried (quietly, don't worry!) during some of the Julie parts. Nash said, That was way better than I expected! All three of us laughed & laughed.Now I need to bake Liam's cake for tomorrow. I'm using a mix, you can mock me all you want, I know both

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speaking of photobooths...it's been a while. I went to California, where it was cold, and then came back home, where it was hot, and then went to Hogwarts, where it was air conditioned, and now I'm back at home, where it is hotter still, and this weekend I'll be checking out the photobooth at this event:

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remember, when you put down one mother, you're putting down mothers all over the worldHappy Mother's Day everyone!

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The very latest in words & pictures from the front lines of grassroots health care reform.Support the Common Ground Health ClinicView more presentations from Coleenm.

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February 09 257Originally uploaded by kholleanand then, just like that, it's Spring already.

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MamaPhiles #4 DeadlineWhoa, it's today! Well. We are zinesters, after all. Get it in sometime this week!Mamaphiles #4 – deadline: 1 March 2009 Mamaphiles is seeking submissions for issue #4, with the theme of "Raising Hell," from mamas and papas who are currently producing their own zines. Previous themes were “Birth”; “Cutting the Cord”; “Coming Home” and now its time to shake things up! Raising

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In 2009: Read More Zines In case you've been cursing your lack of New Year's resolutions, I made one for you. If you're not already reading zines regularly, start now. If you are, expand your horizons with some new works. The two most beloved, thoroughly enjoyed zines in my life right now are The East Village Inky and The Nose Knows. Both are smallish, hand-drawn beauties loaded with humor and

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as 2008 winds down...the time to order your 2009 mama calendar is NOW.order your copy by sending $12 tocoleen murphyPO box 741655new orleans, LA 70174or paypal to coleen @ bust.com

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thanksgiving day 2008I have a turkey in my oven, ingredients for stuffing all over my table, homemade pies & cranberry sauce in my fridge, and I'm reading this from Rev. Billy:Reverend Billy's Ten Commandments on Buy Nothing Day 2008 THOU SHALT1) Forgive people, yourself and everybody else. We all shop too much.2) Know your Devil. Shoppers are only dancing in the land of ten thousand

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founda to do list, from a summer at camp, several years back:*call ranger Tom - left msg.*call abt. photobooths*diapers - Martha - double tape - $5*diapers, wipes - Jeremy - Bread & Circus*milk, stamps - Jonathon*drop off film*candyI'm thinking that must have been 2001.

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ya heard?

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Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate ChangeOctober 13, 2008 By StarhawkSource: www.starhawk.orgWhile the financial markets have been melting down around us, anothersort of meltdown has been occurring, one even more frightening anddangerous. Climate change has been progressing, more quickly thananticipated, fueled even more rapidly by methane bubbles released froma warming Arctic

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I'm here, I'm queerHappy Coming Out Day, everyone!

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mama calendar 2009: call for submissionsthe 2009 Mama Calendar is getting underway!people, mothers, fathers, partners, kids, friends & allies,the mama calendar is what it is because of your words, pictures, dreams, visions, rants, raves, recipes, recipes for revolution.send me your best stuff, by October 30, tothe mama calendarcoleen murphyPO box 741655new orleans, LA70174coleen@bust.comcalendars

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good morning, americaThis is Your Nation on White PrivilegeBy Tim Wise9/13/08For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a

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collaborate with the source of all lifefrom free will astrology: In Terry Pratchett's book Wyrd Sisters, there's a passage in which he talks about how the sun conspires with the forest to pump millions of gallons of sap hundreds of feet from the ground up into the sky. And it all happens "in one great systolic thump too big and loud to be heard." That's the kind of activity I recommend for you in

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May Day Letter from New Orleans Women's Health ClinicDear Supporters of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic:Even before Hurricane Katrina, women of color and low income women in New Orleans lacked access to basic health care. Almost three years after the storm, the limited health care resources that existed before the storm for low income and uninsured individuals have yet to be replaced,

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come see usthis makes me so hungry for the Camellia Grill.

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V to the 10thI'll be spending all of next weekend immersed in V to the 10th events. In case you haven't been hearing about this already, here are all of the details:Katrina Warriors celebrate V-Day in New Orleanshttp://www.myspace.com/vdayuntiltheviolencestopsV-DAY'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY!Join Us and Change the Story of WomenTo celebrate the last ten years of ending violenceagainst women and girls and

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Almost-Spring Half-Off CalendarstravaganzaFriends, it's nearly the middle of March and it's time for the last remaining handful of the 2008 calendars to get a move on. If you neglected to pick one up, or perhaps are itching for more, get'em now for $6 a pop,via paypal to coleen@bust.comor using the good old US Mail tocoleen murphy PO box 741655 new orleans, LA 70174

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and the weather could not be lovelierthe kids made valentines and delivered them. now they're out back banging on things. Nash is making a trebuchet, the idea for which he got from an episode of Northern Exposure. and that's why we call it unschooling! yay. anyway.have you seen this yet?

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it's that timelast Saturday night looked like this, and many days and nights over these next two weeks will be about the same (although hopefully not quite as cold).Barkus is this Sunday, and rain or shine, I'm there.

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no freedom without fear and braverythank you, ariel, for reminding me/us, of Grace Paley and responsibility.ResponsibilityIt is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet.It is the responsibility of the poet to be a womanIt is the responsibility of the poet to stand on street cornersgiving out poems and beautifully written leafletsalso leaflets they can hardly bear to look atbecause

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and, yesyou can still get calendars for 2008just by clicking

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new year, old struggle

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walking onArrests During Saturday's Peaceful March at St. Bernard - Why?

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see for yourselfyoutube video: save public housingMark your calendar now: MONDAY December 10th International Human Rights DayCity HallPress Conference 9AM Housing Conservation District Review Committee will be meeting on Monday, December 10th, regarding issuing permits for the demolition of Public Housing.If you can't be here in person, send a message, host a solidarity event, do something, say

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it's about having a home, stupidChristmas Presents for New Orleans from HUD:Bulldozers for the Poor, Huge Tax Credits for Wealthy DevelopersNY Times video: Housing Anxiety in New Orleansso here is a call to action.

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I'm glad she was bornfrom the writer's almanac today:It's the birthday of the novelist Rita Mae Brown, born in Hanover, Pennsylvania (1944), who wrote Rubyfruit Jungle (1973), one of the first lesbian coming-of-age novels ever published in America. It was rejected by all the major publishers, so she went with a tiny press called Daughters, Inc., with no real advertising budget, but the book got

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the 2008 Mama Calendar is here and ready to go!Get them while they're hot, at the New Orleans Bookfair (specifically, at the MamaPhiles table in Ray's Boom Boom Room) this Saturday or through the mail...

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New Orleans Bookfair SaturdayCheck out the Bookfair, Saturday, November 10, from 10 til 6, for the debut of the 2008 Mama Calendar, as well as assorted books, zines, music, readings, kid's stuff, and this workshop:Building Community Support for Radical Parents and ChildrenThe majority of visible activists and radicals do not have caretaking duties within their collective enterprises and thus

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October 07 161 Originally uploaded by khollean from two of the marx brothers

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road tripI want to drive cross country with david byrne. well. if he'll do the driving.

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bloomingFall is really a kind of Spring in New Orleans. On my block, anyway, it seems like everything is blooming. We're seemingly through the flu, too, with just these lingering ear infections.What I really came here to say today, though, is that everyone should read Jonathon Kozol.

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and if I were in school...today I'd be walking out.as it is, I'm home with two sick kids, and walking out on them would do nothing for nobody. fresh air would be a nice change, though.

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I read banned booksthis week and every week.

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more stories from last ThursdayI'm really proud of my friend Meg and her daughter, Jie; read all about their day in Jena.

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mama calendar 2008 on the way - call for submissionspeople, mothers, fathers, partners, kids, friends & allies,the mama calendar is making a comeback.send me your best stuff, by October 20, tothe mama calendarcoleen murphyPO box 741655new orleans, LA70174coleen@bust.comcalendars will be available on November 10, 2007, in person at the New Orleans Bookfair and via email & the US mail for $12 a

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K-villetwo lookschris rosejordan flahertyme, I'm all mixed up, fascinated, entertained, repelled, watching.

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if you don't know, it's time you heardJena Ignites a MovementBy Jordan FlahertySeptember 21, 2007Six courageous families in the small Louisiana town of Jena sent out a call for justice that has now been amplified around the world. Yesterday's mass protests in Jena were unlike anything I have seen in my life, a beautiful and enormous outpouring of energy and outrage that may have the potential to

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You're A People's History of the United States!by Howard ZinnAfter years of listening to other peoples' lies, you decided you'vehad enough. Now you're out to tell it like it is, with all the gory details and nothingleft out. Instead of respecting leaders, you want to know what the common people have tooffer. But this revolution still has a long way to go, and you're not against making alittle

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preparing to launch Originally uploaded by khollean one of the high points of our long weekend at the live & learn unschooling conference was the egg drop. this egg, wrapped in cotton balls, straws and bubble wrap and outfitted with a parachute, is about to get launched. and survive.

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the doctor is insort of...

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happy women's equality dayfrom the writer's almanac:It was one this day in 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, was declared in effect. After the Congress passed the amendment, it had to be ratified by a majority of state legislatures. The state that tipped the balance was Tennessee, and the man who cast the deciding vote was the 24

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we're here, we're queer...we're going to the movies this weekend! not me, I'll be in flying to new york and then taking the train out to massachusetts, but if you're in new orleans, it's time to check out the annual queer film fest.WHAT: Reel Identities LGBT New Orleans Film FestivalWHERE: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary ArtsCenter at Tulane University's School of ArchitectureWHEN: July 20-22CONTACT

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prioritieswe've been back in town for over a week, dealing with the dreaded unpacking process in the (wonderful) new house, and now in the grips of the dreaded summer cold. in another week's time, we'll be up north, headed for summer camp. I'm looking forward to it, but it's complicated now, my feelings about leaving town, about being able to say "good luck!" to the rest of the city and take off

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did you know?chris rose can really write.meanwhile, I'm out in the seattle area, taking a break and finally, after a week of being away from home, feeling rested and well and ready for new things.

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right to returncheck it out on pbs this week.

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sick days are made of thissince we were all feeling somewhat crappy yesterday, liam helped me with this goofy exercise in self-absorption. it's pretty fun to make your little cartoon self bounce on a pogo stick or pull the sword from the stone...this one is actually close to realistic - although all meez people are extra skinny.

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april2007 006 Originally uploaded by khollean. and the kid's area was so shiny and new. bright, bright, bright.

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may dayfrom the writer's almanac:Today is May Day, a day on which you should wash your face with morning dew to keep yourself looking young and beautiful. You should also gather wildflowers and green branches, make some floral garlands, and set up a Maypole to dance around.sure! sometime a few weeks ago, I was thinking about how maybe for may day the kids and I would make may baskets for our

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well, are you?have you seen this - the "are you the movement" video from the league of young voters/league of pissed off voters?

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dog day afternoon"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."~Thich Nhat Hanhthat would feel pretty miraculous, eh? I catch it sometimes, sometimes, but it's fleeting. I'm working on it.my old dog Althea died yesterday afternoon. I knew her for thirteen years and two weeks, starting when she was an

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whispering in my ear this morning"[I]f I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued."John Holt

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mardigras07 051 Originally uploaded by khollean.mardi gras 2007 in review, part two: les enfants du nod rolling through the bywater

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mardigras07 031 Originally uploaded by khollean.mardi gras 2007 in review, part one: NOMTOC in Algiers

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you still have the power Originally uploaded by khollean.

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the most abject treachery"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery."Virginia

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rebel yellLiam, just now:coleen, don't trust PBS kids! don't read to your child fifteen minutes a day. read to your child whenever you want, for however long you want, whatever you want to do! don't trust that thing!

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december06 050 Originally uploaded by khollean.remember that lou reed song? from a wim wenders soundtrack, early 90s...anyway. this, my new mug, a winter solstice gift from Nash, is one thing that's good.

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sad stunned sickHelen Hill was shot and killed in her home yesterday morning. details from a news storyI only barely knew her, was excited and happy to be getting to know her and her family. Helen touched a lot of lives; I am just one of the shocked and crushed here.

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In the year 2007 I resolve to:Become an online stalker.Get your resolution here.

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hiatushi·a·tus [hahy-ey-tuhs] –noun, plural -tus·es, -tus.1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.2. a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.3. any gap or opening.due to some stuff going on with me, the mama calendar is taking a year off. I want to thank all of my contributors for their beautiful

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worth celebratingthis afternoon, for the first time since tuesday, december 12, it can be said that I do not have a headache.

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sunday Originally uploaded by khollean.sunday, after church, we went over to our gutted building and used the main entrance for the first time in a long time - since June 2005, at least.

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I'm glad you were bornfrom the writer's almanac:It's the birthday of novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, born in Ottawa, Ontario (1939). Her father was an entomologist who spent every year from April to November studying insects at a forestry research station in northern Quebec. Atwood said, "At the age of six months, I was carried into the woods in a packsack, and this landscape became my

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Support the Latino Health Outreach Project in New OrleansHealthcare providers working with LHOP yesterday morning were seeing patients dressed only in t-shirts and jeans, with inadequate socks. They are asking for donations of jackets, sweatshirts, mittens, gloves, hats and wool socks, with the request that all socks be bought new. Donations for LHOP can be sent to the Common Ground Health Clinic

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timeas I turned my calendar pages over this morning, I realized that it's time! time to make the calendar. so, people, mothers, fathers, partners, kids, friends & allies, send me your best stuff, by December 1, to the mama calendar coleen murphy PO box 741655 new orleans, LA 70174 coleen@bust.com calendars will be available on or around December 20, 2006, for $12 a piece, payable by check, cash

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The Future Generationa zine for subculture parents, kids, friends, & othersChina's latest issue is out, brilliant & beautiful as ever:Issue #15 "Raising Teenagers & other Adventures"Inside: Love and Freedom or What Happens when Revolutionary Teens Grow Up Have Teens of Their OwnSize Ten - by Lisa PeetThe Autistic Teenager - by Regina WalkerBright Eyes - Kim UptonYou Want to Know the Truth? -

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for the recordoh, it's national coming out day! it always creeps up on me.anyhow, let me just say, for the record, and in honor of the early 1990s, I'm here, I'm queer, get used to it.

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Microcosm Zine Tour Hits New Orleans When: Monday, October 09 2006 @ 07:00 PM CDT - 09:00PM Where: Iron Rail Bookstore 511 Marigny at Decatur Description: Thinkin, Stinkin, Rarely Drinkin Tour 2006Pre New Orleans Bookfair Event$3-$5 with mealDave Roche - reading about having Crohn's dsease and some new stuffJoe Biel - Playing Four Short VideosJoshua Ploeg - Vegan Chef, cooking up a gourmet vegan

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on the vergeof october, and deep in my own anniversary, reflecting on one year as a new orleans returnee.I read over some of my writings from last september and october and the first thing I notice is the sleep issues. I very rarely have trouble sleeping at night anymore, or with waking up freaked out at the crack of dawn. I'm also ready to get ready for the bookfair.and decide on a halloween

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"I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people." - Eduardo Galeano

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september06 029 Originally uploaded by khollean.

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september06 043 Originally uploaded by khollean.and last night in algiers...it was one year ago yesterday that the common ground health clinic was founded, in the form of a first aid station that quickly evolved and continues to do so.

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september06 011 Originally uploaded by khollean.last week I went to the aquarium for the first time since I don't know when; at least a year. it was weirdly empty of people but I guess that shouldn't be suprising in the here and now. anyway, the kids got into it. heh heh.

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new orleans checks in: then & nowThe following paragraph from the past is remarkably right now for a lot of us. The piece after it, by Bill Quigley, is long, but that length comes from a thorough examination of the way things are in the city right now, and it's well worth reading.Lafcadio Hearn, New Orleanian and author, writing to a friend in Cincinnati in 1870: Times are not good here. The city

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july06 207 Originally uploaded by khollean.this book of mad libs is one of the things that eased our 30 hour train ride to new york in late july. the cell phone is another essential, and this year we had the pure luxury of a laptop computer as well. which does not mean that is was anything like a picnic. although we did have granola bars. and polaroid cameras.

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july06 104 Originally uploaded by khollean.good morning

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go ahead and wreck your healthI kind of wish I was going to Jackson. I can't, I'll be heading north in just a few days, and have all of these other commitments, but check it out:From: "Radical Women" Dear Friends,It is time for all feminists to come to the defense of the Jackson Womens Health Organization! Women and men need to hit the streets and shoutout the words of Mississippi civil rights

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this thing they call educationI was listening to radio free school this morning and thinking about how I ought to do that more often. it rarely occurs to me to listen to the radio on my computer. I am still not adjusted to having a machine that works well, and kind of can't believe my luck! meanwhile, these quotes are helping me focus on the larger issues."If education should mean anything at all

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another saturday nightGirl Gang Productions PresentsThe Shondes @ The Circle Bar (1032 St Charles @ Lee Circle)Saturday, July 8, 2006Doors@ 9pmA Benefit for The Latino Health Outreach Project (LHOP)Donation at the Door: $1.00-$1,000,000no one turned away for lack of fundsAbout The Shondes:Shonde: shahn-duh Yiddish; a disgrace, a pity, an outrageThe Shondes are, in a word, shondes. In Yiddish, "

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freedom from what? safe for whom?St. Tammany Parish, LA, Sheriff Vows to Harass PeopleWho Wear Dreadlocks and 'Chee Wee' Hairstyles. SaysHis Parish Won't Tolerate 'New Orleans Trash' and 'Thugs' like people from New Orleans Federal HousingProjects.watch the video clip yourself

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and it's thurgood marshall's birthdayThurgood Marshall said, "None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody—a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns—bent down and helped us pick up our boots."

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twenty days laterI've been away; I went to St. Louis, and loved it. meanwhile, I want everyone to know about this event on Saturday:Public Housing Protesters Disrupt Business-as-Usual in the French Quarter, Saturday, July 1st, 2006, 6:00PM, starting at Iberville Development, Basin and Bienville Public housing residents and their supporters are marching on the French Quarter, disrupting the '

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going down the only road I've ever knownI am glad to read about what the UUA is up to in terms of disaster recovery down here. I have had a cold/sinus troubles for more than two straight weeks and it effects my perception of the world. negatively. I am feeling way better today, though, in terms of my sinuses as well as my outlook. this week is harry potter day camp for my kids and several of

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last saturday in new orleans

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heads up, new orleansfrom the good folks at new orleans networkA Spattering of Voter Guides:Some places to go for information about candidates and/or some folks' notions of who should get your vote. - League of (really!) Pissed Off Voters: http://indyvoter.org/voterguide.php?id=88- Jeremiah Group Candidate Scorecard: click on May 20 at http://neworleansnetwork.org/?q=event/2006/05/18/month-

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this is what you shall dosunday evening, May 21, attend the katrina warriors event at tulane; then, head over to the maple leaf on oak street for the music & medicine benefit for the common ground health clinic. got that?

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sorry about the hurricanelast week in images

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