Books To Change The World www.LeftBooks.com (that's the point!)

Books To Change The World!
www.LeftBooks.com
that's the point!

great, upcoming politically conscience band, check out their website www.Outernational.net

great, upcoming band, check out their website

http://www.Outernational.net

Free online Hawaiian Language lessons

Free online Hawaiian Language lessons

http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/

Esperanto, a second (or/& auxilliary) language for everyone on earth

www.Esperanto.net
Esperanto, is an international auxilliary language that is meant to be a means for peoples all around the globe to communicate directly with each other, while retaining/strengthening their own indigenous/national/regional language(s). It's simple to learn (total regular rules, no exceptions, yet flexible), neutral (not a language of any particularly country or group, and with a proven track-record (millions around the globe, over 100 years). For more information in multiple languages, go to
www.Esperanto.net

Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships

www.BeyondMarriage.org
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships

The time has come to reframe the narrow terms of the marriage debate in the United States. Conservatives are seeking to enshrine discrimination in the U.S. Constitution through the Federal Marriage Amendment. But their opposition to same-sex marriage is only one part of a broader pro-marriage, “family values” agenda that includes abstinence-only sex education, stringent divorce laws, coercive marriage promotion policies directed toward women on welfare, and attacks on reproductive freedom. Moreover, a thirty-year political assault on the social safety net has left households with more burdens and constraints and fewer resources.
Meanwhile, the LGBT movement has recently focused on marriage equality as a stand-alone issue. While this strategy may secure rights and benefits for some LGBT families, it has left us isolated and vulnerable to a virulent backlash. We must respond to the full scope of the conservative marriage agenda by building alliances across issues and constituencies. Our strategies must be visionary, creative, and practical to counter the right's powerful and effective use of marriage as a “wedge” issue that pits one group against another. The struggle for marriage rights should be part of a larger effort to strengthen the stability and security of diverse households and families. To that end, we advocate:
Ø Legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families – regardless of kinship or conjugal status.
Ø Access for all, regardless of marital or citizenship status, to vital government support programs including but not limited to health care, housing, Social Security and pension plans, disaster recovery assistance, unemployment insurance and welfare assistance.
Ø Separation of church and state in all matters, including regulation and recognition of relationships, households and families.
Ø Freedom from state regulation of our sexual lives and gender choices, identities and expression.
Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others. A majority of people – whatever their sexual and gender identities – do not live in traditional nuclear families. They stand to gain from alternative forms of household recognition beyond one-size-fits-all marriage. For example:
· Single parent households
· Senior citizens living together and serving as each other’s caregivers (think Golden Girls)
· Blended and extended families
· Children being raised in multiple households or by unmarried parents
· Adult children living with and caring for their parents
· Senior citizens who are the primary caregivers to their grandchildren or other relatives
· Close friends or siblings living in non-conjugal relationships and serving as each other’s primary support and caregivers
· Households in which there is more than one conjugal partner
· Care-giving relationships that provide support to those living with extended illness such as HIV/AIDS.
The current debate over marriage, same-sex and otherwise, ignores the needs and desires of so many in a nation where household diversity is the demographic norm. We seek to reframe this debate. Our call speaks to the widespread hunger for authentic and just community in ways that are both pragmatic and visionary. It follows in the best tradition of the progressive LGBT movement, which invented alternative legal statuses such as domestic partnership and reciprocal beneficiary. We seek to build on these historic accomplishments by continuing to diversify and democratize partnership and household recognition. We advocate the expansion of existing legal statuses, social services and benefits to support the needs of all our households.
We call on colleagues working in various social justice movements and campaigns to read the full-text of our statement “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision,” and to join us in our call for government support of all our households.
www.BeyondMarriage.org

Jesse Lokahi Heiwa

Jesse Lokahi Heiwa here/Jesse Lokahi Heiwa tie
Jesse Lokahi Heiwa aqui/Jesse Lokahi Heiwa ma 'ane'i

blogspot will be in english (north america/south asian/pilipino/african), esperanto: the international auxillary language www.esperanto.net,
spanish (latin american/caribbean/equitorial guinea(africa), hawaiian (and other pacific island and indigenous languages),
french(quebecois/louisiane/acadian/afrique/guyana frances/et.)
we encourage multi-lingualism
while we also ask that translations be available in other languages
and/or the international auxilliary language esperanto. For more information about Esperanto, go to www.Esperanto.net is in many languages.

And yes, I have a "MySpace" www.MySpace.com/JesseLokahiHeiwa , it's useful for networking, but a reminder that in a capitalist society, everything is sold and gets sold, it's now owned by the Fox network, yes, that Fox network, but yahoo was once "grassroots" too, and I use it for free e-mail and ignore the ads and because I've had it for so long(reminder though: yahoo can suddenly cut off your account, always have a backup)
monacong@yahoo.com

a grassroots, and explicitly non-commercial, movement resource (but support them with something in lieu of ads, everything has a cost and if we want them to continue, we have to be the ones to offer support) is
http://www.riseup.net/


Of the approximately 6.3 billion people in the world:
About half of humanity (three billion people) are malnourished.
Many more are “food insecure,” not knowing where their next meal is coming from. The UN estimates that “only” 840 million (including ten million in the wealthy core industrialized countries) are undernourished, but this is greatly below most other estimates.
One billion live in slums (about one-third of the approximately three billion people living in cities).
About half of humanity lives on less than what two dollars a day can purchase in the United States.
One billion have no access to clean water.
Two billion have no electricity.

Two and a half billion have no sanitary facilities.

One billion children, half of the world’s total, suffer extreme deprivation because of poverty, war, and disease (including AIDS).

Even in wealthy core capitalist countries, a significant portion of the population lives insecure lives. For example, in the United States twelve million families are considered food insecure and in four million families (with nine million people) someone regularly skips a meal so there will be enough food for other family members.

thus,

I'm a socialista (which means I support utilizing resources and labor in a way that creates prosperity for ALL to benefit, allowing for the full flow of creativity that makes this possible) while doing so in a way that is sustainable for the Earth.) To be done in a way where people; whether through their workplace, community, or global basis would be the decision-makers.) I'm also influenced by ecological, indigenous, and spiritual perspectives.) With global warming, impoverishment, military interventions, illiteracy, homelessness, hunger, addiction, abuse, bigotry and the myriad of challenges that face us; we will need to move from this stage of history to a new era where we can take action to heal from them.
"Socialism is humanity reconciling with itself."--Jesse Lokahi Heiwa