admin October 9th, 2007
(Frances) Arriving in Northampton, Massachusetts, for my first Getting a Grip talk and book signing, the town looked even perkier than I’d remembered it from a decade ago. I was a neighbor, a Vermonter, then. Energy, color, and activity seemed everywhere on this Sunday afternoon, and that was before I encountered the electricity in the air inside the large art center room for the wrap-up of the Pioneer Valley Relocalization Workshop.
I thought to myself: if any community can turn fear and threat of scarcity, which many feel in response to global heating and the end of cheap oil, into opportunity, it’s gotta be this one. For one, these folks know how to give! Continue Reading »
admin October 3rd, 2007
Hear more stories from Frances on tour or on the air.
Cleaning money out and getting citizens’ voices into our democracy is one theme of Getting a Grip. So this week we’re pleased to launch our first film, an 8-minute documentary Getting a Grip on Money and Politics, as we try to bust open one of the best kept secrets in America: There is a proven solution to the crisis of money’s grip on our political system. Watch the film and meet my new hero, Deb Simpson.
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jess October 2nd, 2007
(Jess) I was inspired by a 9.21 New York Times article on the continuing protests of Buddhist monks in Myanmar, who have been demonstrating for the past month against massive, governmentally-mandated increases in fuel prices. The ruling military junta has to date been unable to stop the protests.
According to David Steinberg, a Georgetown University Myanmar scholar, “The involvement of the monks is a significant escalation… It shows that the frustration has increased, a political frustration as well as an economic frustration.” Continue Reading »
