Beat Back Bush Summer Tour

Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:40:22 -0700
From: "nina hausman"
Subject: [sfba_members] WANTED: Your input on BEAT BACK BUSH summer tour!

Taking our vision to the streets...!!!

I am the official tour organizer of a very exciting project :

THE BEAT BACK BUSH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TOUR
August 15th-30th

Please get in touch if you know any venues that might screen our film, have us perform and/or facilitate trainings on HIPHOP, ART & ACTIVISM in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, San Diego (we end at Burning Man).

The BBB Collective is the proud creator of the Award-Winning Beat Back Bush Workout, an educational, informational, and motivational video that seeks to ignite the Hip-Hop Generation in our fight for social justice. Using the language and rhythms of our generation, we hope to inspire today's visionaries to share and take action, particularly by getting youth to vote in November 2006, while helping to lay the foundation for significant grassroots mobilization around the 2008 presidential elections.The video addresses a plethora of issues and policies including: abortion, the war, and globalization. Inspired by music videos and other contemporary media, BBB features dance, kickboxing, yoga, jazzercise, break-dancing, hip hop, animation, original spoken word and music.

More info at www.bbbwork.net
If you would like to book/support/order a BBB DVD please contact Nina.Hausman@gmail.com, 510 759 5868 or email beatbackbush@hotmail.com. We are currently seeking corporate/community sponsors, hosting venues, lodging hosts, and community partners.

Love Sonnet XXXII by Pablo Neruda

Love Sonnet XXXII by Pablo Neruda

The house this morning--with its truths
scrambled, blankets and feathers, the start of the day
already in flux-- drifts like a poor little boat
between it's horizons of order and of sleep.

Objects want only to drag themselves along:
vestiges, entropic followers, cold legacies.
Papers hide their shriveled vowels;
the wine in the bottle prefers to continue yesterday.

But you--The One Who Puts Things In Order--you shimmer
through like a bee, probing spaces lost to the darkness:
conquering light, you with your white energy.

So you construct a new clarity here,
and objects obey, following the wind of life:
an Order establishes its bread, its dove.

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Quotes, Good thoughts to think

Today, too many voices of judgement. Can't keep the information in my head. I am filled to bursting with ideas, and I feel failure because I cannot realize them all, organize them all, manage them all.

I love the artwork on greeting cards. It is art and insight combined, not too much and not too little. It seems like a manageable chunk of information to digest, neatly packaged.

Some quotes I liked today:

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Cadet Maxim

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Dreams your dreams with open eyes and make them come true – T. E. Lawrence

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly - Anonymous

“Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.” – Carol Shields

I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer… - Rainer Maria Rilke

Need to read more Jack Kerouac, Confucious, Mary Anne Radmacher

READ: Inviting the World to Transform (91 page PDF)

http://www.contemplativenet.org/findings/inviting.pdf

From Nonprofit Online News
http://news.gilbert.org/

Back in 2002, the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society published Inviting the World to
Transform (91 page PDF), a report on the powerful role that contemplative practice can play in
nourishing social justice work. They also explore the challenges involved in creating organizations
and movements that are open to contemplation.

How to Interview Potential Employers

By Lisa Haneberg on Management

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Today's Links

Today's Links 7.26.05

philosophe.com Table of Contents
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
About section page template
Paul Loeb - The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Amazon.com: Books: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
a million monkeys typing » D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition
Innovation Weblog - Number of hand-held brainstorming tools continues to grow
MindMappingforMarketersandWriters.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Enterprise Systems | Why You Need a Personal Knowledge-Management Strategy
Virtualosophy
Speak Out - Home
HowardZinn.org
Amazon.com: Books: Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach

Personal timeline

I need to create one of these to track moments of inner awakening and moments of significance that have led to personal transformation. They usually occur in some subtle way, but I'd like to commemorate them somehow, and also track my progress to see what I've been accomplishing.

There is some software I need to download. In the meantime, what should I put on this timeline? I'll have to start brainstorming some ideas, possibly using my freemind software. Or maybe I can use my freemind software for the personal timeline?

I like that idea actually . . .

Today - July 7, 2005

I am up too late again, unable to sleep. I have got to teach myself how to power sleep, and then be an insomniac the rest of the night. I could really get more done and perhaps feel more rested? Probably just dreaming.

I have so many stinkin ideas that I can't figure out how to manage them. I need one of those cauldrons like Dumbledore had at Hogwarts to keep his memories and thoughts in. I'm on overload with information I tell you. I'm afraid I will let something slip away, and in the meantime make really ridiculous mistakes over simple things.

I'm not sure which stresses me out more:

1) Trying to keep all the ideas in my head, and worrying about forgetting something that seems important at the moment.
or
2) Recording all my ideas and becoming overwhelmed by the sheer visual magnitude of the lists that I generate.

For Heaven's Sake!