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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Hippies Were Right!
  • Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 09:16:27 -0500

I vote for connectedness. Here is the chorus to a song I wrote for a play our neighborhood Ecokids presented at a series of block parties in 1999. The short play can be found at the url below. If it would be of help use it. There are also lots of Ecokid activity reports on the site too.

It's all about connection
We're all in this together
It's all about connection
That's just the way it is

http://www.allspecies.org/ecokids/connectplay.htm

Marty
On May 5, 2007, at 7:43 PM, <activism98201@verizon.net> <activism98201@verizon.net> wrote:

What it's all about:

[It was, always and forever, about connectedness. It was about how we are all in this together. It was about resisting the status quo and fighting tyrannical corporate/political power and it was about opening your consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live with something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative cultures, for each other. You know, all that typical hippie crap no one believes in anymore. Right?]


-Mark Nagel
Everett, Wa


Full article at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/ archive/2007/05/02/notes050207.DTL&nl=fix


The Hippies Were Right!
Green homes? Organic food? Nature is good? Time to give the ol' tie- dyers some respect

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist


[Excerpt:]

Here's a suggestion, from one of my more astute ex-hippie readers: Instead of issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can clear their collective corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the savage damage they've done to the soul of the planet all these years, these commercial cretins should instead buy some karma credits from the former hippies themselves. You know, from those who've been working for the health of the planet, quite thanklessly, for the past 50 years and who have, as a result, built up quite a storehouse of good karma. You think?

[...]

You might also just as easily claim that much of the nation's reluctant turn toward environmental health has little to do with the hippies per se, that it's taking the threat of global meltdown combined with the notion of really, really expensive ski tickets to slap the nation's incredibly obese ass into gear and force consumers to begin to wake up to the savage gluttony and wastefulness of American culture as everyone starts wondering, oh my God, what's going to happen to swimming pools and NASCAR and free shipping from Amazon? Of course, without the '60s groundwork, without all the radical ideas and seeds of change planted nearly five decades ago, what we'd be turning to in our time of need would be a great deal more hopeless indeed.
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