happy birthday to me !!!!!!!
it was kinda sad to leave seattle .... valentina and roberto were so much fun! and today we got to meet the kids. gabriela and tina had lots of fun with the carnival mirror options in photo booth while we caravanistas got packed up and ready to hit the road.
we're now in bremerton, at a coffee shop near the dockyards where aircraft carriers are built and/or sent to kill people overseas so oil prices can ..... well, whatever it is that the oil corporations want them to do. there's an event here tonight, apparently there's a thriving little peace activist community, and i have no idea where we're staying. tomorrow we're off to olympia where there's something called media island which rick has created. friday we're in portland, then we head east.
here's a short, poorly edited interview with nita - our co-ordinator for this part of the caravan. (sorry -- i'm still trying to figure out how to edit with the new iphoto and camera ...)
about me
i've lost faith in the corporate and state media. they claim to be 'balanced' and 'un-biased,' but they're not.
sometimes they lie outright. most of the time they leave a lot of information and context out. they're often earth un-friendly, printing mostly advertising on dead trees. they're funded and motivated by big money, big power, and subsequently we hear what they want us to hear.
i created this blog so i could share my journey with pastors for peace. i've been a social justice and environmental activist for a couple of decades. i'll be up front about it - that's the perspective you'll find here. you don't have to believe any of it if you don't want. go on your own journey, write your own blog. maybe i'll read it.
the first time i participated in the humanitarian aid caravan to cuba was in 2008. i went again in 2009. it's so much fun i'm doing it again in 2012, with the 23rd caravan. it's also a lot of hard work, and expensive, but the cubans are such an inspiration with their free education and health care ... and activists like me feel very welcomed there. if you'd like to share some financial support for the journey, i won't stop you, and i promise i'll spend it responsibly and ethically.
thanks for caring!