tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39185732011-12-18T22:46:05.324+02:00Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.comBlogger2731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-69019188779147294472011-11-07T16:33:00.001+02:002011-11-07T16:51:01.635+02:00

So my paternal ancestors arrived in South Africa on a ship aged 19 and 20 years of age. Yes they were colonisers and I apologise for that, but hell I do exist and it is interesting to know where I come from. Great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather Stephen (19 years of age at the time) was a labourer and great granny (x8) Mary was 20 years old and according to the ship's list she is

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This is Chinese environmental activist Wu Lihong sentenced to prison by a local court in retribution for a 10 year crusade against pollution in Lake Tai. Ironically, the lake has been suffering from a "pond scum" outbreak since May, verifying Wu's claims that the government and big business were polluting and endangering the ecology of a water system that provides water for over 2 million

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I received the following information on how to avoid the census. I'm not promoting this, I am just asking the question: Should one avoid the census? What would be the reasons for wanting to avoid the census? I know for a fact that governments are able to increase their loans from organisations like the World Bank, based on increased population stats. This allows us as a country to get deeper

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In the office, an isolated biological element in glass An experiment gone wrong Creating something chimeric Release the isolated genes At dawn. When we look again They are sprouting everywhere Wild and free Walking through the open doors of our cages At dusk. Moving from in vitro to in vivo Deliberate steps towards freedom What would the non-human animals do? I must follow And trust. Ex vivo

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Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--over and over announcing your placein the family of things. -Mary Oliver http://www.animas.org/whatIsSoulcraft.htm 

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver

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The route to work this winter's morn Resembled the road to a terrestial Hades at dawn Belching machines and bloodied skylines Sidewalks paved with layers of grime. More people arrive each day Looking for the promise of a new tomorrow They do not seem to notice the haze Straight ahead they keep their gaze. Outside my place of work The encampment grows and grows More people erect their cardboard

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Large roaming herds Criss crossing the continents Mammoths, mastodons, elephants Moving through spacetime Loving intensely and mourning their dead Revisiting the graves time and time again Crying sad tears for humanity. Lost. Showing us the way, we miss the point. Today they are boxed in. They resist. There are few places left that welcome ellies So they climb over zapping wires Just to follow

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Osaka - The president of Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening, local media reported Wednesday. Read the article here ... So what do we make of this? Here's my view for what it's worth. When the shit hits the fan in big corporations, the CEO is suddenly ill, unavailable or resigns. We have seen

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A revolution according to WikiPedia: "A revolution (from the Latin revolution, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. 1. Complete change from one constitution to another 2. Modification of an existing constitution." On the other hand we have a rebellion: "Rebellion, or uprising, is a refusal of

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squaring green circles: Free range? Not so much...: "If you live in the Western Cape (South Africa), you'll probably know of a brand of dairy products called Fair Cape Free RangeTM. You ma..."

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Anglo eyes sacred land: "A subsidiary of mining giant Anglo American is considering mining coal near the environmentally sensitive Mapungubwe world heritage site in Limpopo." Coal of Africa’s Vele colliery mining site, which lies 5.4km east of the Mapungubwe National Park & World Heritage Site. Picture: Nick Hiltermann  How on earth does one get the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve internationally

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-27195465545423240012011-02-02T23:54:00.000+02:002011-02-02T23:54:14.921+02:00

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a

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As with all controversial legislation, notice of the proposed "Norms and Standards for the Management of Damage Causing Animals" (puke) was quietly slipped open for comment during the 2010 festive season when everyone was away on holiday, out of touch or unable to object. Fortunately I was around and managed to submit my objection letter before the deadline of 26 December 2010. We had just 30

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Enslave yourselves if you want, you horses of instruction.  Graze in peace and safety inside your masters' fences.  Subjugate yourselves to his whip, avail yourselves to the labour of his fields, and propel him to battle if you will. As for me, I'll roam free with the tigers, carrying inside me the power of their wrath.  I'll move with patient wisdom through the shadows of the night,

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There are some images flying around Facebook depicting a cat being crucified by youths on the streets of Tshwane. I cannot find the source of these images, but the images exist, therefore this event did take place. The details remain sketchy. The date mentioned is 6 January 2011, but that too is unconfirmed. What I do know is that people have forgotten the truth. By that I mean the original

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I was sitting in my cage, I mean office, trying to get back into mid January work mode, when I heard a wail from outside the window, followed by another wail and yet another. A woman was clearly in agony. I got up from my desk and glanced out the window. It was only once the visual reality struck me, that an icicle razored down my spine. On the ground below the 30-storey high Poynton Building -

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I was elated to learn that there are lionesses who develop manes.  As someone who does not fit in with the "norms and standards" of gender identity myself, the fact that one of my key totem animals also features a spectrum of gender expression is good news indeed. Copyright Grant Atkinson - http://www.africageographic.com/blogs/?p=289 These special lionesses are found near Mombo Camp, Moremi

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The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut. Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion Lie still as the sun. The boa-constrictor's coil Is a fossil. Cage after cage seems empty, or Stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw. It might be painted on a nursery wall. But who runs like the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-88819432644130121362010-12-13T16:04:00.000+02:002010-12-13T16:15:50.962+02:00

It is with horror that I heard that the ban on canned lion hunting has been lifted. I don't know how we are going to do it, but every single person who cares about animals (human and non-human) is going to have to do their bit to get this reversed. How can we allow the ultimate symbol of freedom and wilderness to be abused in this tragic manner? You can read the supreme court ruling for

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-72057534294464672802010-11-21T21:22:00.000+02:002010-11-21T21:22:50.418+02:00

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“We’re headed for a predator state where a powerful, corrupt and demagogic elite of political hyenas are increasingly using the state to get rich.” - Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Now I like it when Vavi speaks up. But damn I'm disappointed with his disparaging metaphor. Hyenas are mystical beings who pass between different dimensions, keeping open the lines of communication and

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The recent death of !Khoisan X has brought to the fore the rights of the original indigenous people in southern Africa. The voices of the original people of this region are seldom heard in the raging storm that is the social web, South African print media and the broadcast "media" (sic). There's a wonderful poem of sorts on the Kak Duidelik blog that highlights some of the issues about black

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One should never have to say anything about an artwork. This one says it all ... Artist: Diane Victor http://www.art.co.za/dianevictor/201007.jpg Source: http://www.art.co.za

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-71656291405969635642010-08-31T22:58:00.000+02:002010-08-31T22:58:11.428+02:00

Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has a thought-provoking piece in the international journal of social justice, about the future course for their movement. It's definitely worth reading and much of my personal processes are reflected, especially as a long-term environmentalist who has moved towards more radical alternatives to saving the planet, because the ballot box and lifestylism are not going

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This headline comes as no surprise. After all, wild animals and wilderness areas have no right to exist unless they serve humans. Right? WRONG! Sadly, this tragically flawed thinking is the opinion of most human animals. White rhino mother and calf However, praise must go to investigative eco-journalist Yolandi Groenewald who does a wonderful job ensuring stories about the needs of non-human

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-60963321267867993342010-08-26T09:26:00.000+02:002010-08-26T21:06:13.101+02:00

Interesting dynamics in the .za political landscape right now and these dynamics are reflected in the organisations coming out in support of the public service strike. In addition to the unions involved in the strike, such as PSA, NEHAWU, DENOSA, SAPTU, HOSPERSA, SAPU, POPCRU, SADNU, PAWUSA, SAOU, NATU etc, are many related unions and even some  ANC alliance partners. I've decided a list of

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I was traumatised to read that the mystical, shaded, gurgling, forested, deep-green, swirling, living (plants and rocks included), natural and very eerie Phiphidi Falls near Thohoyondau are under threat. Having visited this mysterious site myself some years ago and heard the whispering of the water sprites, it is with sadness that I discover (thanks to African Alchemy) that the threat is coming

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Foxconn gets the pompoms out to raise morale at 'suicide factory' Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus yesterday, waving pompoms and shouting slogans at a rally to raise morale following a string of suicides at the company's heavily regimented factories. The outreach to workers shows how the

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Long-time journo Peter Bruce has posted an item on his Business Day blog which features a speech made by Nelson Mandela in 1994 about, among other things, media freedom. Read it here: Nelson Mandela's view on press freedom. It is a good time to remind ourselves of the sacrifices that were made to fight for freedom during colonialism, during apartheid and other times of trouble. We should all

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At this moment in time, everyone on this planet is in a perpetual state of suffering. Those who deny this are most likely watching a lot of television, and/or working 12-plus hours a day and/or taking lots of anti-depressants, alcohol, prozac or street drugs. As this penny dropped, I decided to stop looking for the key and instead to simply open the unlocked door of my cage. It was in this

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Arundhati Roy is one of my heroes. I have only a few heroes, because not many people in the world today are brave. There are 7 billion of us, but few are truly brave. She is. She says all the things no one else is willing to say for fear of being assassinated. More than that, she goes out into the world and takes action. In February this year she went walking with a group of tribal Naxalites

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"This is why being silent in the face of oppression, tyranny, or the abuse of power by the state should not be considered an option by those of us committed to both democracy as well as freedoms of various sorts. Fortunately, democracy and liberty are often positively correlated, so that an increase in the one tends to coincide with an increase in the other." Jacques Rousseau,

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Doctors and parents in China are blaming formula from a New Zealand dairy conglomerate for the development of breasts in baby girls aged between four and 15 months, who have tested at hormone levels exceeding those of grown women. When will people learn that factory farming of animals and treating animals like machines is going to bite them in the bum? You cannot get away with abusing animals

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I am young enough to see through bullshit and old enough to remember the censorship and bullying tactics of the apartheid state. Bluntly put, I REMEMBER WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE IN A FASCIST STATE. So recent political shenanigans in this country and particularly events of the last 24 hours in South Africa have me very worried. As of today, journalists can be arrested without being charged, plucked

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-45389381530162087442010-07-26T14:56:00.000+02:002010-07-26T14:56:14.145+02:00

I write like Douglas AdamsI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

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Like many eco-anarchists Katie Lee - 90 year old protest singer - believes we (humans) have overstayed our welcome on planet Earth. "I don’t like the human race," Katie Lee said. "The Glen Canyon dam broke my heart." (A much-reproduced photo of Lee in the buff in the since-drowned canyon failed to convince Congress to stop the dam.) Lee was rolling now: "Mother Nature is going through

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-77505079229797125822010-07-16T13:31:00.000+02:002010-07-16T13:31:56.847+02:00

"South Africa is ranked 129 out of 182 UN member states in the Human Development Index - 19 places below the besieged territories of Gaza and the West Bank." Quoted from a great article on the Workers' Solidarity Movement website.

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I know that people living on the Cape Peninsula feel they are being "harassed" by baboons, but I am asking them to take one moment to think what they would do if roles were reversed. If you were the baboon and had these human animals encroaching on your ancient landbase and you had nowhere to run, just raging ocean on all sides. With this in mind ... A sinister precedent has been set by the

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Hi Activists, As most of you know, we’re still finalizing the location of our anti-fur public education event on July 8th. I apologize for the delay in finalizing the details for the event, however we are waiting for clearance of our permit to come through. In the instance that our permit is not approved, we would like to have a back-up location option in place and we are looking for a rooftop

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NASA ASTER image of an approx.  1443 km² area of fields  in Kansas which are watered from the Ogallala aquifer with center pivot irrigation systems. ... and here in SA is the creeping crisis of acid mine drainage and just plain old pollution. SA dams: a rapidly worsening water crisis Stop ignoring the water crisis Union chides Aurora, Grootvlei gold mine water fears return Why world's taps

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 I am saddened at the passing of José Saramago, who I consider one of the people who has most influenced my thinking and is therefore one of the people responsible for opening my eyes. He once said: "Is a world in which fewer than 300 people own as much as the poorest 40% a great achievement?" I keep asking people that question in various ways, but I always get the same answer: "But I cannot

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What is this "reality" that everyone's talking about? Username, user experience, user user user culture. Forgot your username, forgot your culture. Make a new way. Follow a new path. It's so tiring staring at a screen all day. It's so trying to scream in silence all day. Why whould one be willing to sacrfice? Reality. Reality bites. Virtual reality. Socialising means chatting to friends on a

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“A dying culture destroys everything it touches and language is one of the first things to go. Words have lost their emotional impact and intimacy, their ability to shock.” Jerry Rubin Andy Rice has really impressed me with his writing on the Daily Maverick. it's amazing how many wonderful writers we have in South Africa when they are given free reign to write about what really matters and not

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In present time we may feel marinated in death as its ubiquitous presence threatens to overwhelm us. It is as if we are being asked to walk through a war zone, witnessing around us the fallen everywhere and not knowing if we ourselves will survive. And we my wonder, why can't we just get to the other side and as Thomas Paine said, "begin the world all over again"?  Carolyn Baker  I've been

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Liberate the flowers man. I do love a good news story, especially when a minnow takes on a giant corporation ... and wins! "Geraniums" - or more correctly Pelargoniums - have got to be my favourite flowers. And they are here in South Africa en masse to help wherever they can, be it healing human animals, non-human animals or even the entire ecosystem where they love (I mean live). We sure could

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“Poverty is the mother of all revolutions” – Motsoko Pheko“All books are damaged trees” – Willem Boshoff“Think ten times, then act once” – Willem Boshoff

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Fok sokker

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-67691166464729063272010-03-12T16:38:00.000+02:002010-03-12T16:42:31.926+02:00

By Jan Lundberg The dominance of work, like so many aspects of Western Civilization and its economy, is seldom discussed openly beyond disorganized griping. For we are asked as good citizens to not question the idea of work. Indeed, we are required not to question it. Jobs are sacrosanct. However, that belief may be part of the old paradigm that is being ushered out as the pace of change

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Here's an alternative view of the world cup and its impact on South Africans by an outsider: The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, "2010 Let's Go! WORLD CUP!" If you swivel your head, you see that every sponsor has

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-6457568322669603792010-03-01T12:18:00.000+02:002010-03-01T12:29:29.496+02:00

Look what they've done to what was once a beautiful jungle atoll. This is Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos Islands near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. First they removed the local fisherfolk. Then they destroyed the non-human animals, birds and most of the landbase. Now they want control of the surrounding ocean as well. View Larger Map I don't believe any land belongs to a government, but when a

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-68006502035622046142010-02-28T22:09:00.000+02:002010-02-28T22:09:34.009+02:00

I firmly believe that for children to become successful adults in a demanding world, they have to learn to break the rules.  http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article325272.ece Jansen called it wrong on the UFS fiasco, but I agree with most of what he says in the above column. I have no time for automatons.

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-64016247947482502242010-02-24T12:25:00.000+02:002010-02-24T12:55:45.245+02:00

An indigenous people, the Dongria Kondh of India, face the destruction of their lands and extinction at the hands of British mining giant Vedanta Resources as we speak. The tribe opened their annual festival of worship on their sacred mountain to the media and activists for the first time ever in order to try and raise awareness of their plight. I can imagine the strength it must take to do this.

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-91148945298289177242010-02-22T14:41:00.000+02:002010-02-22T14:47:11.451+02:00

We live in hectic times. Our culture is insane and people turn to remedies of all kinds to deal with the insanity.  Some watch lots of sport, some drink too much alcohol, some kill their life-essence with anti-depressants, others turn to stronger drugs (legal and illegal) and  some take "Rescue Remedy" when the going gets tough. I was saddened to learn today that a South African version, namely

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-42384407274133106882010-02-22T11:04:00.000+02:002010-02-22T12:45:15.116+02:00

What do you say when a usually perfectly rational friend asks: "But how do you know climate change is happening and that it's caused by humans? What if it's all just hype?" And I'm not talking about engaging in long intellectual debates here. I think the most dangerous thing we can do right now is intellectualise the debate about the future survival of our planet. So how do you respond simply and

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-6983521367823401212010-02-15T12:27:00.000+02:002010-02-16T09:56:12.324+02:00

This blog would appear to be way too serious and negative for anyone to actually read anything here. So it's time to link to something light and frivolous and even indulge in a little navel gazing. There's a wonderful take on camping on Christian Landers' website Stuff White People Like.  I particularly loved the line about how sleeping on the ground should be inexpensive "and yet as with

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-47941084079865767912010-02-08T14:57:00.000+02:002010-02-08T14:59:12.707+02:00

Her language dies with her: as her tribe goes extinct, hear the last Bo woman's song: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509 https://twitter.com/Survival What are we going to do about the 200 species per day that are going extinct? What are we going to do about the indigenous tribes whom civilized humans are destroying. Should we do like the Navi in Avatar? Should we join the indigenous

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-29627834794027542102010-02-04T14:29:00.000+02:002010-03-01T13:32:25.465+02:00

M&G today reports on a study by Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) concluding that South Africa's water demand will exceed supply by 2025. Areas in the Witwatersrand are likely to experience "water shortages" within the next three years. THREE YEARS. Yes, THAT'S THREE YEARS FROM NOW. Many millions of people in SA already face serious water shortages and surprise, surprise, they are the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-1175690385356993292010-01-25T16:06:00.000+02:002010-01-25T16:09:44.667+02:00

Arundhati Roy:  "It makes you wonder — is the last stop of every revolution advanced capitalism? Think about it — the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Vietnam War, the anti-apartheid struggle, the supposedly Gandhian freedom struggle in India… what’s the last station they all pull in at? Is this the end of imagination?" The interview was conducted in 2007

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-72074866068742735302010-01-25T11:41:00.000+02:002010-01-25T11:54:03.198+02:00

Photographs of dead albatross chicks taken in the Midway Atoll - one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries - show stomach contents comprising mostly colourful plastic. The images are stark reminder of the fact the the planet is a closed system and every piece of plastic created will eventually be dumped ... somewhere ... even if it's 4000 km from the nearest continent! There's copyright

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-66148710461183323252010-01-22T09:49:00.000+02:002010-01-22T11:04:18.028+02:00

EARTHLIFE ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED AND ARRESTED AT NERSA HEARINGS FOR TRYING TO EXERCISE THEIR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS This morning, the NERSA public hearing into ESKOM’s application for tariff increases got underway at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. Both Earthlife and the APF were present, having made written submissions and requests for presentations in opposition to ESKOM’s application. Not long after

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-38972095735240647092010-01-20T15:15:00.000+02:002010-01-22T10:22:55.610+02:00

Crises are often abused as a pretext for pushing through policies that you cannot push through under times of stability. I cannot write anything more passionately or succinctly than some of the wonderful articles embedded below, outlining the tragedy that is Haiti today.The great journalist and environmental resistor John Maxwell has written a moving piece in the Jamaican Observer about how the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-45625159230135763662010-01-18T21:36:00.000+02:002010-01-22T11:09:56.739+02:00

I only heard today that one of SA's greatest rebel voices has gone quiet. Dennis Brutus (28 November, 1924 - 26 December, 2009) I never met him, but I read many of his poems and always listened intently when I heard him speak via footage.  Good bye fearless Dennis. If only all revolutionaries were half as brave as you, we could solve this climate quandary. Dennis in some of his last video

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-82298055447894150122009-12-11T19:59:00.000+02:002010-01-22T10:27:20.040+02:00

So the ANC won again and "our" president attended the cruel Ukweshwama ceremony in Nongoma last weekend.Experts have always said that a nation that abuses animals, also abuses women, children and the weak. Well here's proof of why SA has one of the highest rape and child abuse rates in the world.Jacob Zuma, wake up and change the course of history now, before it's too late. This kind of behaviour

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-90106946781177396542009-12-06T21:28:00.000+02:002010-01-22T10:28:20.377+02:00

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the teetering tower of babel that is Dubai in late 2009, came an interesting spin-off here in South Africa. It seems all sorts of repurcussions are being felt:http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-12-04-dubai-cash-dries-up-in-capeIf my memory serves me well [as Siouxsie Sioux was want to say], I think Dubai World owns not just the V&A Waterfront, but several

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-81345165478698832012009-12-04T15:26:00.000+02:002009-12-04T15:43:53.547+02:00

News has just come through that the ukweshwama ritual bull murdering ceremony will go ahead in Kwa-Zulu Natal tomorrow 5 December. Please think of this individual bull tomorrow. I'm not sure if lighting a candle is enough to help him through the experience? Perhaps we animal activists need to think about getting ourselves to the sites of such unnecessary, cruel killings and doing whatever it

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-79338709437218288662009-12-02T16:56:00.000+02:002009-12-02T17:02:05.792+02:00

Animal Rights Africa (ARA) is heartened by the decision yesterday of the Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge, Nic van der Reyden, to postpone until this coming Friday 4 December, his decision on whether or not to issue a court order against the bare-handed ritual killing of a bull at the Zulu First Fruits Festival at the Royal Kraal in KwaZulu-Natal this coming Saturday, December 5. “Whilst we were

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-85373266048917573332009-11-30T15:15:00.000+02:002009-11-30T15:52:56.829+02:00

"Increased temperatures associated with climate change are likely to significantly increase the incidence of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa within the next two decades, according to a new study by US researchers." Source: University World News. Read more ...I refrain from commenting on this because I would have preferred the research to have been done by African researchers, but I know there

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-51618246848703732682009-11-27T11:58:00.000+02:002009-11-27T12:08:20.537+02:00

As a follow up to my post on 2 November: Bull to be torn to pieces in barbaric annual ritual - take action! it was with a certain amount of relief that I read the following piece on Hayibo this week. I really think the piece hits the nail on the head. Satire can be so powerful!Zulus to kill bull, whites to lobby for slavery and witch-burning ULUNDI. White South Africans

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-20121637050546083342009-11-27T10:44:00.000+02:002009-11-27T11:52:26.863+02:00

Like the biblical towers, the skyscrapers of Dubai were built with their tops in the heavens and the motivation was ego and greed."However, the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was instead dedicated to the glory of man, to "make a name" for the builders." Source WikipediaSo as I read the headlines this week, I begin to wonder when western civilisation will

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-48307880987430266462009-11-24T20:12:00.000+02:002009-11-24T20:16:14.039+02:00

Members of native tribe clean up civilisation's mess ... yet again:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/us/25fishnets.html?_r=1The irony of this story is not lost on me. Will they ever learn?

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-82521282319232168282009-11-17T21:12:00.000+02:002009-11-24T20:11:09.175+02:00

From my trusty independent left listserv comes the following good news:Joel Kovel (author of The Enemy of Nature) Speaks in SA (coinciding with week of climate justice protests)Since 2003 Joel Kovel has been Editor of the quarterly journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism. He is the author of many books including: The Enemy of NatureThe End of Capitalism or The End of the World (Zed, 2002)

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-33682889096492408532009-11-10T11:41:00.000+02:002009-11-10T13:36:22.866+02:00

The Wall Street Journal has written about environmentalists criticising a proposed African oil sands project. For those of you who haven't heard of oil sands or tar sands and their impact on the environment, have a look here:This photo by David Dodge of The Pembina Institute gives an idea of how arboreal forests in Alberta, Canada have been converted into oil sands tailings:

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-48769619717634964422009-11-02T11:26:00.000+02:002009-11-02T11:45:44.713+02:00

Take action, a plea from PETA:https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2649More info here:http://www.nspca.co.za/page.aspx?Id=231&CateId=14&Category=Farm&SubCateId=231&SubCategory=FIRST+FRUITS+FESTIVALMedia coverage:http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article174665.ece

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-62421241296072857462009-10-22T11:59:00.000+02:002009-10-22T12:32:18.305+02:00

The Maori world of workUnlike us modern westerners, within the broader family group, each member of a traditional Maori community did the job for which he or she was best suited ...but here's the clincher:... and rank depended not on the accumulation of goods but on the extent to which a person provided them for others. A tohunga was a 'specialist' (e.g., a woodcarver was a tohunga whakairo

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-71271276560115771492009-10-20T11:30:00.000+02:002009-10-20T11:58:45.393+02:00

SAPA reports that two women were brutally murdered in the Eastern Cape in the past four days for being witches.I had hoped people had moved beyond this in the 21st century, but hey I am no longer surprised by this complete lack of humanity among civilised people. The point being that this would never happen in an uncontacted, indigenous community ie pre-civilised humans did not abuse each other

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-84974527333203576392009-10-08T23:49:00.000+02:002009-10-08T23:52:00.094+02:00

When you are standing on the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress. -- Anonymous

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-67183056515904176722009-10-06T21:29:00.000+02:002009-10-06T21:29:02.761+02:00

When man interferes with the Tao,the sky becomes filthy,the earth becomes depleted,the equilibrium crumblescreatures become extinct(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ca. 550 BCE)

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-24898912005385011952009-09-18T14:37:00.000+02:002009-09-18T14:40:45.621+02:00

If a woman is drunk, don’t rape her.If a woman is walking alone at night, don’t rape her.If a woman is drugged and unconscious, don’t rape her.If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don’t rape her.If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don’t rape her.If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you’re still hung up on, don’t rape her.If a woman is asleep in her bed, don’t rape her.If a woman is

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-10712097329519038352009-09-14T11:16:00.000+02:002009-09-14T11:23:30.724+02:00

Zuma's new God squad wants liberal laws to go The National Interfaith Leadership Council, formed by Rhema church leader Ray McCauley and closely associated with President Jacob Zuma, flew its conservative colours this week, saying that it wants to revisit laws legalising abortion and same-sex marriages.Last week the council (NILC) entered the debate about the ­Judicial Service

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-34956822280957332982009-09-11T10:35:00.000+02:002009-09-11T10:35:26.763+02:00

Some time ago, while playing with Blogger's new features, I threw on a gadget called Salvador Dali fine art of the day. Two weeks ago, while attending Sydne's first art exhibition, I pointed out a work based on a Dali painting and she mentioned to me that she was not a Dali fan as he had disrespectfully used animals in his various creative ventures.I did some research and have not able to find

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-20331007600650840002009-09-08T15:35:00.000+02:002009-09-08T15:48:19.906+02:00

"The South African Poultry Association (Sapa) has suspended the membership of Boskop Layer Chicks (BLC) over the killing of day-old chicks, it was confirmed on Monday."Dear friends [sarcastically] let's celebrate! All is well, now that an agreement has been reached that instead of dumping the chicks in a concrete dam, they are going to GRIND THE LITTLE BIRDIES IN A HIGH SPEED GRINDER.Well now

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-87079509153968421902009-09-08T11:21:00.000+02:002009-09-08T11:38:38.979+02:00

walmart workers beat shopper to deathThere are several news articles about this incident, but I thought I should link to the one on International Supermarket News ('priceless' name!), where they describe the incident as follows:"A woman at a Wal-Mart branch in Jingdezhen, China, was beaten to death by staff members who suspected her - merely suspected her - of stealing. Wal-Mart has made no

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-86766643337454201902009-09-08T09:53:00.000+02:002009-09-08T10:05:40.087+02:00

A note to those who would demonize natureby Derrick JensenThe other night I saw a commercial for a PBS program that breathlessly described how orcas “dominate” the oceans. And the nature program I had the misfortune to see before that talked of different species of bears “conquering” each other’s territories. The program repeatedly emphasized the powerful bite of one particular type of

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-34625736700279531952009-09-02T13:46:00.000+02:002009-09-02T14:08:56.874+02:00

Please take five minutes to sign Wynter Worsthome's petition to save Bart and other "dispersing" male baboons trapped in the little tail of land known as the Cape Peninsula.Sign the petition here: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-the-culling-of-cape-towns-baboons.htmlThe authorities have ended the contract with Baboon Matters who have for the past 11 years seen to the monitoring of the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-74085948762476538142009-09-01T12:29:00.000+02:002009-09-01T13:18:33.715+02:00

Even if, one day, the brave activists who fight for racial, sexual and gender equality declare their battles won - there will still be a need to continue the fight to level the playing field between rich and poor.I read an article in the London Review of Books that clearly supports this statement.Here's the link to the article by Walter Benn Michaels who teaches English at the University of

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-67767615046333553092009-08-31T12:39:00.000+02:002009-09-01T12:27:53.509+02:00

In short and simple article, Derrick Jensen makes the connection between hatred of women, hatred of nature and the death urge of modern civilisation. A masterpiece to be read and reread. Print it out if you must, do so on the back side of an already used sheet of paper. Read it whenever you are lost and need direction. I do."This is our culture's fundamental flaw. I don't see a tree, I see dollar

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-61274549211107621862009-08-25T15:23:00.000+02:002009-09-01T12:27:29.939+02:00

George Monbiot has been on the right track regarding peak oil and climate change for some time, but he has never gone far enough for my liking. He didn't quite come out strongly enough and connect the dots to conclude that civilisation, development, progress and endless expansion must end.Today I popped in to his blog to see the above headline and I rejoiced. A strong media voice is saying it out

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-56888227771520966312009-08-19T12:49:00.000+02:002009-08-19T13:26:50.058+02:00

The Weekender reports that govt has given the go ahead for the building of a slime dam near the banks of the Vaal River and adjacent to a nature conservancy. This despite vehement resistance from local communities and environmental activists."First Uranium subsidiary Mine Waste Solutions , which will build the mega tailings storage facility, is already clearing the ground and erecting pipes, says

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-56463900959735326192009-08-17T12:13:00.000+02:002009-08-17T12:38:44.385+02:00

August 10, 2009 was the first Orange Day organised in Vietnam. It comes as no surprise to read that not only the chemical companies, but also the US authorities, were aware of the potential impact of spraying Agent Orange on vast tracts of Vietnamese jungle in the late 1960s.Yet they went ahead and did it anyway.Also of significance is the news that a small percentage of Vietnam vets in the US

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-59497781565930654082009-08-12T15:27:00.000+02:002009-08-12T15:39:38.194+02:00

This farmer in North West has been dumping up to 70 000 male chicks into an empty dam on his property each week. The practice has been going on for 70 years.I find the article and comments by the public interesting, as they are largely focused on what this is doing to the environment etc etc.No one is talking too boldly about that in any given week up to 70 000 young non-human babies are lying

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-36998646741682950862009-07-29T10:04:00.000+02:002009-07-29T10:13:02.579+02:00

TTouch doyen Linda Tellington-Jones has a wonderful story on her blog at the moment, about the cats of Pollsmoor Prison, some of who were originally rescued from Robben Island and thus literally followed in the footsteps of our beloved Madiba.Some of the prisoners actually throw sheets out their windows so that the cats can climb up and into their prison cells. Once there they befriend the cats

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-78169990301489725972009-07-21T14:52:00.000+02:002009-07-21T15:31:30.212+02:00

This title is not as far fetched as it may seem. In fact, just recently when Iceland went bankrupt and came tumbling down earlier this year, it was Johanna Sigurdardottir who was brought in as prime minister to pick up the pieces. She is the modern world's first openly gay leader.Boudicea statueThe pale men in suits (ie the government of Iceland) ran like wimps (resigned) when Iceland crashed and

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Anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan explores the link between civilis/zation and campus massacres.Remember: time and technology are NOT neutral scientific realities, but as Zerzan has asserted, they are carefully constructed means of enslaving people.

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-71130248395452447372009-07-07T15:11:00.000+02:002009-07-07T15:16:30.271+02:00

Listen to this one ... the University of Iowa will build an underground animal laboratory to fend off attacks from "animal rights extremists" (sic).I don't know whether to laugh or cry. One good thing is that the animal abusers will have to spend more money building these damn labs now.

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-59193503975419796322009-07-07T14:57:00.000+02:002009-07-07T15:09:00.196+02:00

This image from the recent stand-off at Toncontin Airport in Honduras really moved me.Ordinary people came to greet ousted President Zelaya (a friend of Hugo Chavez and Raoul Castro) as he tried to return to the country.His plane flew over the airport a couple of times before aborting its landing attempts and headed for Managua, Nicaragua. The plane was not given permission to land as military

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-63187616425891955962009-07-02T10:58:00.000+02:002009-07-02T13:20:41.348+02:00

I'm a white South African woman who takes daily responsibility for all that apartheid was and is. I have apologised and still do apologise for it. I take responsibility for all that western civilisation - spearheaded by the global, corporate white elite - is doing to the planet, to indigenous people, to animals and to the fast diminishing wilderness.But I am also a woman and my sexual preference

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-53195058050886450342009-07-01T13:00:00.000+02:002009-07-01T13:11:32.754+02:00

45 white rhinos and two endangered black rhinos — have been poached in the Kruger National Park in the past 15 months, Water and Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in a report tabled yesterday.I'm simultaneously horrified, but not surprised by these facts and figures.Southern Africa - like anywhere on the planet where there still exists wilderness - is being plundered.Less glamorous but no

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019648031348394644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918573.post-60317757121053960862009-06-18T12:46:00.000+02:002009-06-18T12:57:09.826+02:00

The crackdown on eco-activists in the US in intensifying. Green activists can be sentenced to up to 8 years in prison for nonviolent civil disobedience. That may be for example doing tree sits to stop loggers from cutting down old growth forest.This latest news takes the cake though. Apparently the "justice system" is using laws originally intended for the mafia to charge these brave people.Read

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