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Name: deb
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Location: NE US

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Music and Other Things

Gathering of Nations
The Gathering of Nations Native American Powwow Web Site features FREE ALL Native American Indian (indigenous) Music 24x7

Muppet Show - For What's it's Worth

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Monterey 1967)

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (2000)

Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon
Imagine - John Lennon
Bill Medley -
Peace Brother Peace

Soldier Blue 2 [Nothing Changes]

A photo story featuring Buffy St Marie.

Joan Baez - Where have All The Flowers Gone

stevie wonder - blowin' in the wind

Peace Seed - Peace

White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day - Live - 1971 (stereo)

Melanie Candles In The Rain - Lay Down(Candles In The Rain)

In Memory Of My Cousin, Karen.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Little Wing

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air

America - Horse With No Name

Buffalo Pictures and Post Cards - Music from Roger Miller - You

hee hee hee
School of Rock - Immigrant Song

Immigrant Song - 1972

From the Led Zeppelin DVD well apparently this was in 1972, not 1970 ...

Enigma - Return to Innocence

The Guess Who - Share The Land

Andreas Vollenweider--Moon Dance

(Thank you, John, "Big Daddy")

Elton John-Tiny Dancer live 1971(solo)

Bob Seger,Shame On The Moon

Boston Foreplay Long Time

Cat Stevens - How Can I Tell You

Led Zeppelin & Neil Young - When the levee Breaks

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (official video)

Yum....
Stairway To Heaven Jimmy Page Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck

Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas - Smooth

Something In The Way - Homelessness
(Nirvana)

Hearts Of Fire - Not Like Him

My name is Bob Ballard. A few years ago when I was living in Boston, I had an opportunity to spend time with some homeless people. What surprised me most was my reaction to being around the homeless

Homeless Children in America

America's Youngest
Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness

US Homeless - This is not America

Cherokee Morning Song (A beautiful Native American song)

Full version - Legend of Crazy Horse

Lakota Prayer

The Native American Ten Commandments

J.J. Light - Heya

Rhythm of the Heart - Native American - Buffalo - Plains - Sioux

Native American - Amazing Grace (in cherokee)

Native American indian Yeha Noha ( Enigma )

Johnny Cash -Hurt

Rainbow Quest 5 -- June Carter Johnny Cash Pete Seeger

R.I.P. Johnny

Johnny Cash - Hurt - My Tribute

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Greenday Lyrics

A gift from, April.
~Thank you, sister~
Love Ya!

Sleep well sweet child
Don't worry your head
Your Dream Catcher is humming
Above your bed

Listen so softly
I know you can hear
The tone of beyond
Close to your ear

Love is alive
And living in you
Beyond all your troubles
Where good dreams are true

Dream Catchers

An ancient Chippewa tradition
The dream net has been made
For many generations
Where spirit dreams have played.

Hung above the cradle board,
Or in the lodge up high,
The dream net catches bad dreams,
While good dreams slip on by.

Bad dreams become entangled
Among the sinew thread.
Good dreams slip through the center hole,
While you dream upon your bed.

This is an ancient legend,
Since dreams will never cease,
Hang this dream net above your bed,
Dream on, and be at peace.

Traditional Lakota Dream Catcher

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
~ H.L. Mencken

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue.
~Yamamoto Jin'emon~

"It is the duty of every American to protect his country from it's government"
- Thomas Paine

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: ~Dr. Seuss

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticicsms made on the habits of the poor by the well housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
~Herman Melville (1819-1891)

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Teresa

~Thank you, Valerie~

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name - the
only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply
a matter of serving those around us: serving the community
and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots
are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through
action, to and for the whole.
--Vaclav Havel, Czech politician, philosopher

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems
one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical
development.
--Felix Adler, Psychologist

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

Declaration of Independence

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
- Benjamin Franklin

"A fool has only one best friend and one worst enemy... and they are both himself."
~ Jiri Trebissky

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought-

~John F. Kennedy

"If war no longer occupied men's thoughts and energies, we could, within a generation, put an end to all serious poverty throughout the world."
~ Bertrand Russell

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
~ Alexander Berkman ~

There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending~

~Albert Einstein

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
-- Thomas Fuller

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...

~Theodore Roosevelt ~

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix~

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Rest In Peace
- Paul Wellstone -

"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
[Hermann Goering]

"The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they'll fight to protect it. "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus, in the movie, "The Matrix"

03.04.09 - 10:03 AM

Power Is Ever Stealing From the Many to the Few

by Abby Zimet

Seen painted - not a bumper sticker, but PAINTED in large and graceful font - on a contractor's pick-up: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." An ever-incisive reminder of hard reality, and one of many reasons I love living in Maine.

Turns out, though, that the quote often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, and less often to Patrick Henry, is in fact the work of abolitionist and orator Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) in an 1852 speech before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. The part that follows is just as eloquent about vigilance toward power.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - power is ever stealing from the many to the few...The hand entrusted with power becomes...the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

Vigilance, oversight, agitation. Not bad words to live by.

I'm a Mom, Grandma, Friend, Old Hippy, Cowgirl, Biker. Activist most of my life and imagine when I leave this earth my boots will be on. Protested Nam at the age of 17 and also that year was adopted by the Lakota Sioux. If it wasn't for this computer, I'd probably never be inside and really appreciate so many of the good friends I've met online. I believe that we are all on the same road, just carrying different baggage. Somedays I'm strong and can help carry yours, somedays weak and never too proud to admit that I need help.