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Diggers: If you can act it out, it’s real.

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Steve Lambert

We thought: culture is much more important than politics. Let’s just start getting people living the way they wanna live.

You wanna live in a world where you don’t have to work? Let’s make it.

You wanna live in a world where you can get food for free? Let’s make it.

You wanna live in a house with lots of women and men and live the way you want? Let’s do it.

Let’s make the world that you imagine real by acting it out.

And if you can act it out, it’s real.

– Peter Coyote on The Diggers

From a PBS documentary on The Diggers.

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San Francisco to vote on naming sewer after George Bush

Posted on June 29, 2008 by James

Is this art? Is it activistm? Certainly, the power elite are not shaking in their boots over such stunts, but this just viscerally seems right.

via: the Independet

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Friday, 27 June 2008

Sewer Plant up for renaming

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The plant that could be renamed the George W Bush Sewage Plant

Some presidents get carved into Mt Rushmore; others have airports, motorways, and even entire cities named in their honour. But when George Bush leaves office, his most visible memorial may be a mouldering patch of human effluent.

In November, alongside casting their ballot for the next president, the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city’s largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a “fitting monument” to the outgoing commander-in-chief’s achievements.
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CarrotMob gives stores incentive to go green

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Steve Lambert

Blackmailing (not really) store owners by offering to bring tons of motivated customers if they will do the most to make their store energy efficient. Documented very well – including dollar amounts.


Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

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