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http://bikeforthegulf.org

http://www.commongroundrelief.org

Looking back at 5 years of Hurricane Katrina Relief, Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective, looks at the positive and negative causes and effects.  Including his opinion about Brandon Darby, a co-founder who turned out to be an FBI informant.

Here's a play list of some of my Katrina videos
that had been lost in CyberSpace for several years.

Here's My Full 21 video Hurricane Katrina Playlist

Dharma has apparently been murdered.

this 14 yr old friend has a lot strange stories to tell the other dead cats he meets in the afterworld.
He lived with me on the road most of the 7 years of travel we shared. He endured Manhattan, post Katrina New Orleans, RNC, DNC, Pine Ridge, Rainbow Gathering, Malibu... he met a lot of cool people on the journey who loved him .. and seems to have been murdered by a neighbor. The last picture is what I assume to be his corpse found laying next to a box by the creek bed that had been ripped open by vultures. I had seen the corpse a couple days earlier when it still had hair. I suppose it's possible that it was not him but he's been gone a week...

Dharma's featured in the Old School version of our existence on the road.

U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre
documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 video disclosure of Apache
helicopter footage of a New Baghdad attack that took place in 2007,
allegedly released by PFC Brad Manning. McCord's story was delivered to
attendees of the United National Peace Conference, which took place in
Albany NY the weekend of July 23-25, 2010. Produced by the United
National Peace Conference Media Project, powered by The Sanctuary for
Independent Media and the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center.

http://www.mediasanctuary.tv

http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org

Jacob Gorge a 3 tour Afghanistan Special Ops soldier describes the
mistakes we made in Afghanistan & points out some ridiculousness
regarding the BP Oil Spill Cleanup.

http://www.operationawareness.org

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more about the Ride till the End

download ~ This sweet old cultural icon went from dynamic community leader to mumbliy disoriented basket case after Karina.  At least the few times that I saw Al after this eviction problem he always seemed a llitle worse for wear.  He had a stroke, many medical issues ... and has now finally kicked the bucket.  I wish I was there for his 2nd line.  I'm sure it will be very large.

I still and will always Boycott Igor Margan's businesses.
Check Point Charlie's and adjoining tattoo Shop,
Igor's, Garlic Clove, Buddha Belly & Lucky's

If you missed the previous RIP NOmadjik Bus post, here's the back story on this. Part#1, Part#2

In classic Monty Python style, the bus just raised it's fist and cried "but I''m not dead yet!"

Shortly after being told the estimate was 5,768 dollars; which was a death blow to the bus, no brainer... I got another message from the shop but since I was downing beers I turned my phone off for awhile. 

The NEW Message:  They were real sorry, someone else's estimate had accidentally been stapled to my ticket.

The bus only needs a new oil cooler assembly, related items and services.

The Actual Estimate is $1,575.00
Now, while this estimate is at least feasable; it's not like I got an extra dime laying around.
I'll be focusing on paying jobs for awhile. 
If you have a paying job for a webmaster or video producer, I'm all ears.

If you feel compelled to donate for the cause
I'd love you forever and will send you a DVD of anything I've produced, just name it.
However, I need to say that the bus will No Longer be traveling back an forth across the country All The F'n Time as it has been for the last 3 years.  The remainder of it's life will consist mostly of regional use for off grid film screenings, music and guerilla 1st ammendment covered activist video projections (like this on a smaller scale).

UPDATE: Not Dead Yet

how do you write a eulogy for a bus?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1021847509#!/album.php?aid=16433&id=1021847509

the guy on the phone rattled off a list of things that needed fixed and then wrapped it up with an estimate of 57 68... it took a few seconds to realize he meant 5 thousand seven hundred and who the fuck cares dollars.

is this worth $5,800 more? ... no... it's not..

I could use some help stripping the gear and modifications out of it. This will need to be done soon so to not incur storage fees.  Bus is in Houston.  ... and I'm imMobile in Austin.

"[Mountaintop removal coal mining would] wipe out a large part of the southern end of the battlefield that was occupied by the union miners."

Blair Mountain, West Virginia is the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the historic push of unionized coal miners from the north to organize the workers of the southern coalfields. Involving 13,000 union miners and 2,000 anti-union defenders, the battle was the largest armed conflict in America since the Civil War!

It remains literally a battleground: a prime location for finding historic artifacts left from both sides of the conflict. It's also, however, a battleground between opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining and the coal companies themselves.

Kenny King, a resident of Blair Mountain since 1962, explains how this historical site, which he has been working to preserve for 17 years, is threatened by a 333 acre mining permit. "[Mountaintop removal coal mining would] wipe out a large part of the southern end of the battlefield that was occupied by the union miners."

A valuable piece of labor organizing history is not the only thing that would be destroyed by mining Blair Mountain. According to King, if they strip Blair Mountain, they'll lose innumerable natural resources: "Valuable hardwood forest, herbs like the ginseng, yellowroot, cohosh, and blood root... you'll never see it again. All will be lost; it'll just cease to exist. It will be erased off the face of the earth."

If you would like to help protect Blair Mountain's many valuable assets, please take King's advice: "Let [your representatives] know that there has to be a better way than sacrificing all the mountains and forest land and historical sites just for a convenient way of producing energy."

To support Kenny and his community contact:
Kenny King • (304) 752-2260 • hillboy23@suddenlink.net
www.FriendsofBlairMountain.org

The
Friends of Blair Mountain is a group of historians, archeologists and others dedicated to preserving the cultural and historical resources of the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia.

MORE MOUNTAINS at
http://ilovemountains.org/endangered/