Compassion Rising

There is a common tie, a sacred soul at the source of all religions and faiths. A unifying connection between us all.  Perhaps music is one of the connecting links. Find out about the Compassion Rising CD, 260 page color photographic book and the film at www.compassionrising.com

Visit http://www.michaelfitzpatrick.com to find out more Producer, Cellist Michael Fitzpatrick, and his grassroots efforts to complete these projects and share them with the world.

Links:

Dalia Lama

Mammoth Caves

The Abbey of Gethsemani

Furnace Mountain Zen Retreat Center

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You Can Help

Independent News Resources

Below is a list of grass roots and other indepedent media resources.

http://therealnews.com/t/

http://www.change-links.org

http://www.democracynow.org

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/

http://www.laindependent.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.wiretapmag.org/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.naturalnews.com/

http://www.internews.org/

http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/world/index.html

http://www.alternet.org/

Stephen Stills’ Song: For What It’s Worth

Grace Gravity Does a Version of
For What It’s Worth

There used to be a place in West Hollywood called Pandora’s Box, a great hangout for all ages. A refuge for free-thinkers. The closing of the club and the riots that occurred inspired Stephen Stills to write the song for What It’s Worth. The song rings true now for all of us as we sort through the machinations that our culture has created. Fight back against the machine, stay in love, stay real.

I hope we can create a new place like this in Los Angeles. A place where people can communicate, share ideas, hear great music and feel free. It’s coming . . . I can feel it.

•—More about Pandor’a Box: http://seastwood.com/pandoras.asp and http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3035

•—Lyrics are here: http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/s/stephenstills17206/forwhatitsworth567059.html

•—Video from 1967 — Buffalo Springfield/For What It’s Worth
watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU

Update on Iran Protestors

Here are some links to recent news. Hard to find out much. I hope that the protests in the streets this week will bring more truth to light. When you vote, it should count.

November 1, 2009
Iran warns of crackdown on any opposition protest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091101/wl_afp/iranpoliticsusembassyanniversarywarning_20091101145604

Iran students plan return to street protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/01/iran-election-protests-students

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Time Line of Iranian Protests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2009_Iranian_election_protests#October_24

October, 2009
Three Iran protestors get death penalty:
http://world-countries.net/archives/2133

Where is My Vote?
http://where-is-my-vote.org/2009/10/

DON’T GET BLINDSIDED by The Faceless Face of Big Business

It’s abundantly clear that when enough people are saying, “they’re just doing their job” the neighborhood, this country and the world will eventually find itself in a bit of trouble. What does that mean, “I’m just doing my job?” Is that enough? Have we ripped off our faces and shut off our hearts for the company line, the big business “mind set.” Pardon the extra use of “quotes” but I think in this case it is called for. Let’s give the faceless face of big business a taste of their own medicine and use the economic control we have (as to what we buy) really make a stand. We have to do something. This thing is outta control. Look into what the companies you buy from really stand for. Please post any information you have as a comment here, as a resource for others. We’ll do the same. Businesses that are sustainable or working towards that, that care about their employees and where the goods come from should be supported. We have to start thinking about the planet and ourselves holistically — water is not infinite. The money hungry freaks of yesteryear that don’t care about anything but more $$$  — have to go!

Keep thinking positively and living in the frequency of happiness despite the crazydom surrounding. WE do have the power to make a difference. You make a difference every day to the people you connect with, your very presence changes the world.

—Los Angeles local paper Change Links provides independent news reporting.
Pick it up around time or subscribe on the website.

A song for along the way, Faceless Face of Big Business

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Good News: MASH Animal Sanctuary has been saved

LAKE ELSINORE:
Donors help rescue animal sanctuary

Property that was home to injured, abandoned animals saved from bank

—Excerpt from Article in The Californian
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE

Find out More/Donate at http://mashanimalrescue.wordpress.com

Renee Duncan is overjoyed to be allowed to move back onto her 12-acre Meadowbrook ranch, where she has kept 100 or so rescue animals, including horses, pigs, goats, sheep, emus, and dogs. Medical bills led her to fall behind on her home payments and the bank foreclosed on the property earlier this year. Two donors have stepped forward and saved her ranch from the bank.

Thanks to two good Samaritans, the owner of an animal rescue ranch near Lake Elsinore is going home —- with the horses, goats, pigs and other animals that were living on the 12-acre spread before it fell into foreclosure.

“I was overwhelmed, in awe,” said Renee Duncan, a retired registered nurse who had to leave the property after she fell behind on her house payments when she was undergoing cancer treatments.

A neighbor has been letting Duncan house the animals at his ranch while she and a growing squad of supporters worked to raise money to take the ranch out of foreclosure.

News of Duncan’s eviction in June mobilized friends, neighbors and people from afar who were moved by her predicament. Two of those who responded chipped in enough to buy the 12-acre property, which now will be owned in the name of the charity, the Meadowbrook Animal Sanctuary and Haven, or MASH as Duncan likes to call it.