The Yes Men want to consolidate all media into one conglomerate, and they pulled Bill Moyers into their act. [video] (more)

On our little urban farm in the heart of Los Angeles we produce food, hack our house to generate power and recycle water, plot revolution and build community. You can too. Trust us, once you eat a sweet tomato still warm from the sun, or an orange-yolked egg from your own hen, you will never be satisfied with the pre-packaged and the factory-farmed again. (more)

Live without currency! Find new or recycled clothes at a Swap-O-Rama-Rama.[video] (more)

Be one of the 20,000 people collaborating on the largest galactic census ever, the Galaxy Zoo. (more)

On May 9, 2007 the White House announced a new security directive that empowers the President with autocratic authority over widespread aspects of American life, public and private, upon the declaration of a national emergency – as observed and proclaimed by the President. How did a common instrument of executive decree grant such sweeping powers to a single person? This directive has received little attention, with only a handful of newspapers and firebrand blogs speculating on what it means. (more)

Clifton is a small, remote former mining town in southeast Arizona. Settled by prospectors and miners in 1872, and named for its cliffs, the town's first and last purpose was mining the region's abundant pure copper ore. Exit the interstate 80 for ten miles in any direction across the US and you will find thousands of derelict towns, each with their different and similar histories, all leading to this. I arrived in Clifton on June 22, 2006, one day into what was becoming the Summer of Hate in the southwestern US. (more)

 

 

 

 

The agit-pop video "Operation First Casualty" has veterans checking for I.E.D.s and ducking from sniper fire in Manhattan. (more)

According to his best-selling book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, twenty years ago Perkins was a tool of modern empire building. Today he is committed to environmental, economic and social change – following a shamanic path. "For shamanism to work in the larger culture," he says in this interview, "we need consumers and the people who work for the corporations to truly have a vision that shakes them up, a visionary recognition that this world is not a good one for our children, even if it seems good to us. And then we have to take action to change it." (more)

In 1975, Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. (more)

Is our modern political landscape being irrevocably altered as communication technologies and interactive media continue to evolve? Websites like Change.org, Protest.net, and Ripple.org point to the future of activism and engagement. (more)

[The Electric Jesus] • Reading George Lakoff's Don’t Think of an Elephant sent me on a spiritual detective mission to discover what exactly went wrong with the Garden of Eden. This unexpected journey led me to drink ayahuasca, where I had an out of body experience, traveled through mystical dimensions, met my spirit guides, and saw a vision of transformation in human consciousness. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Garden of Eden, ideas on what kind of transformations could be in store for humanity, or also what your first experiences were like on ayahuasca in the comments. PLAY PODCAST

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Overwhelmed by visual pollution, the city moves towards an advertising-free environment. (more)

That the mainstream Left has forgotten how to dream is to state the obvious. Fortunately, there are political pioneers who dare to dream the impossible dreams of imagining a better tomorrow. The dreams of Reverend Billy and Subcomandante Marcos move past the real: they are absurd, irrational, and seemingly impossible. Like poems, they are a means to imagine new ends. (more)

 

 

 

From 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran – this clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it. So where to start? Try this brilliant agit-pop video from Avaaz.org. (more)

P2P lending services Zopa and Prosper are creating pathways for open, connected, community-orientated economies. (more)

Jagannath ("master of the world" in Sanskrit) is an absurd but kind little god. Once every year he mounts an improbable wheeled contraption about five stories high. Row upon row of devotees perch on the different levels of Jagannath's throne as, clearly unsafe at any speed, he lurches through the streets of Puri. Today, we have our own much odder and much less kind Jagannath – "Juggernaut," as the priest wrote it – preparing some much bigger death for us in the form of impending climate calamity. (more)

When people in our culture want to be enthralled and inspired by a story, we run to the movies, where dramas of life, death, and redemption are played out at pulse-pounding high speed. Most of us do not fully realize that we are currently participating in a real-life thriller that could go as down-to-the-wire as any episode of Mission Impossible or Star Wars. (more)

An email from Rev. Billy announces that Starbucks has stopped blocking Ethiopians from trademarking their ancient coffees Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar.

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Amazing talk given by Wade Davis in which he describes the ethnosphere: "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." (more)

BerkShares, an alternative local currency, is now in use in the southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. (more)

When we think of architecture we don't usually think of the bizarre or surreal. These buildings, however, are the exception.

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