John Steiner: Daniel Elsberg “Defeat Romney Without Illusions About Obama”

Defeat Romney, Without Illusions About Obama By Daniel Ellsberg, Reader Supported News Reader Supported News (rsn), 18 October 12 t is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013. The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line …

John Steiner: Bottom-Up Distributed Resilient / Sustainable Communities

Email Extract: The movement is stronger than ever – and hundreds of these sites are now over 20 years old, and are the primary shapers of local/regional policy. Hope you are well. Left you a VM re convergence last eve. • A distributed non-centralized movement of thousands of “healthy / livable / sustainable community” initiatives …

John Steiner: Fix Our America — Many Small Donations Against A Few Large Bribes

Join the Great Cooperation to Begin America Again, Finally Freed From Money-Bought Politics Want Massive Positive Change? Here’s the Easiest, Surest Way! Our Mission: Fix the Constitution! We seek to rally you and most Americans around a shared belief that our utmost, urgent task must be to amend the U.S. Constitution to eliminate the vicious, …

John Steiner: Margaret Hefferman’s Peace Cry – Dare to Disagree, CHANGE the Game

Worth watching… Here’s the link for Margaret Heffernan’s provocative and inspiring 13-minute TED talk, “Dare to Disagree.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_kd46RfVE The presenter, Margaret Heffernan, is an amazing woman. Media producer, entrepreneur, feminist, philosopher, business consultant. Check out her bio at www.mheffernan.com <http://www.mheffernan.com/ Follow her Huffpost blog at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-heffernan-/ Her motto: “Let’s not play the game, let’s change …

John Steiner: Whither Fukushima? Whither the World Brain?

Thanks to: carolwoman <cwolman@mcn.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPIOSZ9Vf9s&feature=youtu.be This 3 minute video was put together by Dan Villalva , a member of  the original Fukushima Response group, in Sonoma County, CA.  More groups are forming around the country, as Yastel Yamada and Tak Okamoto, of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima finish their tour of the US.. Also …