"I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it" she said.
"I think that's what he would have wanted".
- Bring our troops home
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(Thanx Chris!)
Friday, 14 October 2011
Fight War Not Wars
"I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it" she said.
"I think that's what he would have wanted".
- Bring our troops home
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(Thanx Chris!)
Beth Orton - Live PA, Södra Teatern, Stockholm, SE: P3 Live - SR 1999-09-19
Performers:
Howard Gott: Violin
Sarah Willson: Cello
Ted Barnes: Guitars
Sean Read: Keyboards
Sebastian Steinburg: Bass
Matt Johnson: Drums
Tracklist:
01 [00:00] "Love Like Laughter" (3:15)
02 [03:15] "Stars All Seem To Weep" (4:32)
03 [07:47] "Best Bit" (4:32)
04 [12:19] "Pass In Time" (7:40)
05 [19:49] "She Cries Your Name" (4:56)
06 [24:45] "Sugar Boy" (4:17)
07 [29:02] "Sweetest Decline" (4:46)
08 [33:48] "Stolen Car" (4:19)
09 [38:07] "Central Reservation" (5:30)
10 [43:37] "Touch Me With Your Love" (5:58)
11 [49:35] "I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine" (5:09)
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NaomiAKlein Naomi Klein
After cops raided #occupysf and tossed their stuff in the dump, garbage workers returned it to the protesters, saying "we r 99 % too"
Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work
Bear in mind that an iPad is a magazine that doesn't fold (and isn't there something a little sad that the kid doesn't seem to enjoy the cheaper things in life?) Spaceboy at that age loved playing with cardboard tubes and the like...
Occupy Wall Street's Liberty Plaza Technically A 'Bonus Plaza', Not Private Property
Photo: Mat McDermott
In case your wondering how a private company, Brookfield, can claim authority to kick out Occupy Wall Street from Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) so that it can be cleaned, it's important to understand the legal status of the space. Benjamin Shepard, an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, tells us that Liberty Plaza is technically a "bonus plaza"--a green space required under the zoning regulations governing the nearby 1 Liberty Plaza building. In a piece from September 28th on his blog, Shepard quotes Anne Schwartz:
There are 503 such privately-owned "public spaces" in 320 buildings in New York...They owe their existence to zoning laws, passed in 1962 and amended numerous times since, that allowed developers to build taller structures, in exchange for creating and maintaining plazas, atriums, passageways, and other spaces, all supposedly open to the public. Together, they amount to 82 acres, one-tenth the size of Central Park. In exchange, developers were permitted to add on an extra 16 million square feet of floor space.The piece goes on to say, because these spaces were essentially given to the public in exchange for zoning concessions, they should be treated as public space. Shepard sums up:
If the city chooses to push occupants out of the space on the grounds that it is privately owned, they will not be steady ground. Zuccotti Park was created in exchange for increased height for 1 Liberty Plaza the building just to the north of the Park. Of course, the tenants of 1 Liberty Plaza do not want us to know the public helped pay for their digs. They include Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Canada, as well as NASDQ Headquarters, among others. There is a reason Occupy Wall Street chose this location. Few of these corporations are interested in an extended discussion of democracy in New York City, such as those taking shape in the public space known as Zuccotti Park. But it is just what they will have if they work with the NYPD to evict the members of Occupy Wall Street from the bonus plaza known as Zuccotti Park.All which shifts the burden back onto the city itself, in claiming responsibility for the cleaning/eviction coming tomorrow morning.
And judging by the long list of rules about what's prohibited in NYC parks--which includes many of the same things as in Brookfield's list (including camping, obstruction of sitting areas, etc, etc)--there's many a regulation that could be used to kick protestors out of spaces whose public status is not in doubt.
Matthew McDermott @'treehugger'
Occupy Wall Street: Protesters anger at 'eviction' move
How to use a pill wheel filter
Solid material and impurities can cause vein damage. This risk can be reduced by using a wheel filter after dissolving the drug. Using the right wheel filter can also filter out bacteria and lessen the chances of infection.
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When these pill filters first hit the scene down in Frankston when I was living there a number of years ago, there was anecdotal evidence that they were making people sick. It turned out that people were re-using them allowing bacteria to grow between hits. They are of course a single use device and are of the utmost importance if people are going to shoot up pills such as Bupe.
They are available at a small cost at your local needle exchange here in Australia.
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When these pill filters first hit the scene down in Frankston when I was living there a number of years ago, there was anecdotal evidence that they were making people sick. It turned out that people were re-using them allowing bacteria to grow between hits. They are of course a single use device and are of the utmost importance if people are going to shoot up pills such as Bupe.
They are available at a small cost at your local needle exchange here in Australia.
Running the Risk: Syringe Exchange in the South
Sara (alias) is a 35-year-old woman attending school for a Master’s in Public Health, but she has an unusual side job: running an underground syringe exchange program (SEP) in North Carolina. SEPs provide sterile syringes to drug users, diabetics, transgender people and any individual who uses syringes for medical issues, in exchange for used syringes which may potentially be contaminated with HIV or hepatitis. Sara was recently jailed for possession of a syringe inside a biohazard container, which she'd collected from a drug user in order to dispose of it safely. North Carolina laws against syringe possession make even a good act such as cleaning dirty needles out of our communities illegal. But Sara continues to put herself at risk to protect others from diseases that can be transferred from used syringes, such as HIV and hepatitis C.
“When I was 28 I got an MRSA staph infection from re-using my own syringes,” says Sara. “I was a heroin addict at the time, so I was afraid to see a doctor. By the time I checked into the hospital the infection was pretty bad. The doctors told me I had hepatitis C and a staph infection, but they didn’t explain what that meant. I was terrified and confused.”
As Sara later learned, hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver transmitted through blood contact, such as shared syringes, crack/meth pipes, cookers, drug filters, sex, tattoos, piercings or shared toiletries. Sara was lucky; she was treated with interferon drugs and the virus went into remission after a year of treatment. Many people however, cannot get treated for hepatitis C due to the cost of treatment, not being able to deal with the treatment’s side effects, or not responding to the treatment, which may lead to liver cancer, liver failure and death. This is a serious problem, since according to the world hepatitis alliance, 1 in 12 people has hepatitis B or C.
In 2008 Sara connected with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (www.nchrc.net) and learned to help protect herself and others from hepatitis C by using sterile drug equipment and condoms. Within NCHRC, Sara found people who cared about her as a person rather than a criminal, and didn’t force her to quit her addiction before she was ready. Sara decided to operate an underground SEP to help protect others against blood borne diseases.
“There’s also a lot of misinformation about hepatitis C,” says Sara. “People think that if they sleep with someone, they might as well shoot with that person too. They don’t realize that hepatitis C is spread through more easily through shared syringes and injection supplies than through sex.”
Through the SEP, Sara provides sterile syringes, cookers, cottons, tourniquets, sterile water and bleach kits to injection users, as well as spark plugs to crack smokers to put on top of their pipes to prevent blood exposures. As HIV and hepatitis can be spread through re-using any drug equipment, she teaches drug users use new equipment for each drug-using even or to sterilize the equipment they use, not just syringes. This is because hepatitis and HIV can live in drug cookers, drug filters (such as cotton), shared sterile water and tourniquets. Sara connects with new clients through word of mouth and a network of drug dealers and she gives sterile equipment and information to current drug users. She even saves lives by providing drug users with naloxone, a drug that blocks opiates to the brain and stops drug overdose. This is important in North Carolina since drug overdose is the number four killer of people aged 18-49.
It’s dangerous to run a syringe exchange program in North Carolina,” says Sara, “but I do it because I want to help others avoid the fear and confusion I experienced in the hospital and prevent them from getting exposed to life threatening diseases.”
Until North Carolina decriminalizes syringes, Sara and others will continue to put themselves at risk to help others. If you’d like to help, please contact your legislators and let them know you support syringe decriminalization legislation.
NC Harm Reduction Coalition @'Daily Kos'
“When I was 28 I got an MRSA staph infection from re-using my own syringes,” says Sara. “I was a heroin addict at the time, so I was afraid to see a doctor. By the time I checked into the hospital the infection was pretty bad. The doctors told me I had hepatitis C and a staph infection, but they didn’t explain what that meant. I was terrified and confused.”
As Sara later learned, hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver transmitted through blood contact, such as shared syringes, crack/meth pipes, cookers, drug filters, sex, tattoos, piercings or shared toiletries. Sara was lucky; she was treated with interferon drugs and the virus went into remission after a year of treatment. Many people however, cannot get treated for hepatitis C due to the cost of treatment, not being able to deal with the treatment’s side effects, or not responding to the treatment, which may lead to liver cancer, liver failure and death. This is a serious problem, since according to the world hepatitis alliance, 1 in 12 people has hepatitis B or C.
In 2008 Sara connected with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (www.nchrc.net) and learned to help protect herself and others from hepatitis C by using sterile drug equipment and condoms. Within NCHRC, Sara found people who cared about her as a person rather than a criminal, and didn’t force her to quit her addiction before she was ready. Sara decided to operate an underground SEP to help protect others against blood borne diseases.
“There’s also a lot of misinformation about hepatitis C,” says Sara. “People think that if they sleep with someone, they might as well shoot with that person too. They don’t realize that hepatitis C is spread through more easily through shared syringes and injection supplies than through sex.”
Through the SEP, Sara provides sterile syringes, cookers, cottons, tourniquets, sterile water and bleach kits to injection users, as well as spark plugs to crack smokers to put on top of their pipes to prevent blood exposures. As HIV and hepatitis can be spread through re-using any drug equipment, she teaches drug users use new equipment for each drug-using even or to sterilize the equipment they use, not just syringes. This is because hepatitis and HIV can live in drug cookers, drug filters (such as cotton), shared sterile water and tourniquets. Sara connects with new clients through word of mouth and a network of drug dealers and she gives sterile equipment and information to current drug users. She even saves lives by providing drug users with naloxone, a drug that blocks opiates to the brain and stops drug overdose. This is important in North Carolina since drug overdose is the number four killer of people aged 18-49.
It’s dangerous to run a syringe exchange program in North Carolina,” says Sara, “but I do it because I want to help others avoid the fear and confusion I experienced in the hospital and prevent them from getting exposed to life threatening diseases.”
Until North Carolina decriminalizes syringes, Sara and others will continue to put themselves at risk to help others. If you’d like to help, please contact your legislators and let them know you support syringe decriminalization legislation.
NC Harm Reduction Coalition @'Daily Kos'
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