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- Opportunity for EVANSTON, IL? Local Foods + Participatory Budgeting + U.S. Money Supply
- EVANSTON, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER — Guaranteed Income, social collapse, city manager search
- The Last Three Years (2019-22): A new chapter in my autobiography
- Tales of a grassroots activist, 2005-2022
- Mission Drift in City Manager Search (Evanston, IL): 3 searches & counting
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: Ranked Choice Voting, 988 hotline, Participatory Budgeting, more
- Dear Annie Lowrey (and other practical journalists): FWIW, my Legacy List of Topics
- EVANSTON, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: City Manager SNAFU, Digital currency, Leafblower buyback, more
- GETTING THE DEMOCRATS’ ATTENTION: Contact the DNC’s “farm” team?
- ZERO WASTE STORE closes after 5 months: What happened?
- LEAFBLOWERS VS. SOIL: Best Climate Tactics for Evanston, IL & Elsewhere
- UPDATE CITY CODE to assure City Council accountability & shared knowledge base (Letter to Editor, Evanston, IL)
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: New City Manager, GPI (economic metrics), Renewed U.S. Women’s Movement
- GPI compared to GDP: A more honest, inclusive, & healthier economic metric
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: Participatory Budgeting, Lakefront Misconduct, UBI, Local Foods
- Lakefront Staff Misconduct in Evanston, IL: Final Reflections on Investigation & Report
- Participatory Budgeting in Evanston, IL: The 2022 Version
- FUNDED SOVEREIGNTY: Universal basic income for participatory democracies
- LOCAL FOOD INFRASTRUCTURE: A Menu of Climate Tactics
- Women’s Public Authority: The only equality worth fighting for (the only separatism that’s sustainable)
- The Reality of all Realities: Biology and Liberation
- THE MONEY QUESTION: Old and New
- EDIBLE ACRE at ETHS (Evanston, IL): A story of networking, political will, & community on behalf of a local high school
- EVANSTON, IL Pop-up Newsletter: City Manager search, new food project, library funding, Vogue Fabrics
- FOOD SECURITY in Evanston, IL: Ideas for 2022, for Illinois, and Beyond
- A CONUNDRUM: Transition to a Gift Economy — Who gifts to the mothers?
- BIRTH OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Do you hear what I hear? (I mean, Is anyone listening?)
- SPIRITS IN GIRL BODIES: Gender Dysphoria or Raging Feminism — a Baby Boomer’s story
- WOMEN’S PUBLIC AUTHORITY & the ERA: Wishing & working for what we want (instead of against what we don’t want)
- WORKING THINGS OUT: Gender identity, violence against females, and language confusion in a Chicago-area high school and suburb
- WOMEN’S WAYS of Knowledge
- THE “PERSONAL MISERY” OF ACADEMICS (and other U.S. folks): Some Remedies and Resources
- EVANSTON, IL Pop-up Newsletter: Money & banking — policy news + personal need
- EXPLODING LISTSERV — AKA I’ve been cancelled!: COMPARISON — Industrial agriculture vs. farmers, the gender identity industry vs. women
- LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (U.S.): Food Policy Staff Positions — New research
- U.S. MONEY SUPPLY: Why the numbers ($$ + time) don’t add up for most of us (American Monetary Institute conference, Nov. 5-7, 2021)
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: 5/5 TIF Vote — Vote Slow or Stop
- U.S. CONFUSION: Part 3 — Public Banking (why I’m opting out of the conversation)
- “Tell me how you really feel”: Media coverage of the Farm Bureau
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: Trauma & apology / Leave the leaves & water the trees
- To survivors & other women, “I’m sorry, 20th century feminist strategy was wrong”
- EVANSTON, IL: Stop or slow “5/5 TIF District” proposal
- Evanston, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER: Complete Streets, ADUs, OPAL, WasteShed
- Evanston, IL: COMPLETE STREETS — projects, surveys, feedback
- EVANSTON, IL: Votes “no” on ADU moratorium (accessory dwelling unit)
- EVANSTON, IL Pop-up Newsletter: Leaf blowers, sexual harassment, air travel
- IS CONFUSION THE DEFAULT SETTING of the 21st century American mind?
- EVANSTON, IL POP-UP NEWSLETTER (Aug. 8, 2021): Personnel issues + ARP Funds for Local Foods
- PUBLIC TRUST in Evanston, IL: Sexual Harassment Complaints Buried for Years, Weeks, Days
- EVANSTON, IL Pop-up Newsletter: Money, Banking, Food, Farms, Democracy
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: “Establishing a 21st Century Economy for All”
- Martin Prechtel on Fossil Fuel: Petroleum is “the living ocean’s memory”
- EVANSTON, IL Newsletter (June 2021): Climate, Local Foods, New Sustainability Coordinator
- FOOD POLITICS CORNER: Monthly newsletter items for flexing our “local foods” power
- CONFIRMED: U.S. “food democracy” folks are super-ignorant about democracy
- EARTH EMERGENCY (Part 2): 2021-?? — ‘Path to a Livable Future’
- EARTH EMERGENCY (Part 1): 1985-2021 — Food security and a ‘recycle Wrigley Field’ design contest
- Questions re PUBLIC BANKING ACT: Is the Fed a public bank?
- EVANSTON, IL Pop-up Newsletter: May is a busy month — deadlines, local foods, peace
- BLOOMBERG EDITOR: ’The Money Question’ is “nonsense” — my musings & Tweets after listening to a podcast on Bitcoin
- EVANSTON, IL: “Local Foods” in Climate Plans
- THE MONEY QUESTION: When “friends, family, colleagues” pile on — AKA dignity is another word for justice
- ILLINOIS ACTION ALERT: Pembroke Township — gas pipeline or regenerative agriculture? or ???
- LOCAL FOOD, FARMS & JOBS: The 2009 climate plan for Illinois farmers
- EVANSTON, IL: Election Night Dream — Charting a better climate path?
- EVANSTON, IL (March 27, 2021): Elections Pop-up Newsletter
- PUBLIC BANKING: Testimony to Illinois General Assembly Committee
- UPDATE: Regeneration Midwest coalition — not yet a political powerhouse, but growing
- REGENERATING U.S. FARMLAND: K-12 Land Walk Curriculum — How to be an organic certifier
- URBAN & SUBURBAN VOTERS: Right to Food, Right to Garden — Current Illinois Bill (2021)
- EVANSTON, IL (March 4, 2021): Elections Pop-up Newsletter
- Camp Auschwitz and an Ancient Women’s Peace Center (Chicago)
- EVANSTON, IL: Elections Pop-up Newsletter (Feb. 19, 2021)
- EVANSTON, IL: Elections Pop-up Newsletter (Jan. 31, 2021) — Issues: City Code + Local Food Systems
- EVANSTON, IL: Elections Pop-up Newsletter (Jan. 8, 2021)
- BANKING POLITICS & THE MONEY QUESTION: Recent resources for democracy activists
- Why did RBG regret her 2005 opinion in Sherrill, NY v. Oneida? PS I’m glad she did.
- Are TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING, & TRANSFORMATION in this country’s future?
- THINKING ALOUD re TRUMP: 23 days to go
- THINKING ALOUD re Trump: 31 days to go
- A Cook County Public Bank for Chicago + 130 Suburbs — best practical option for 2021?
- #MeToo in the U.S. Food & Farm Movement
- LAND WALKS for K-12: Homeschooling & Remote Learning in the 2020-21 pandemic
- SHAMANIC WISDOM: Spiritual gifts from Prechtel, Cusack, Angaangaq, & anonymous Siberian shaman
- MY AMERICAN DREAM, 1951 – ?
- RBG: Even in death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg outs misogyny — in a candidate for U.S. president
- 2020 U.S. ELECTIONS: FOOD, FARMS, DEMOCRACY PLATFORM — Making the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture an Election Issue — for all candidates and all voters
- “THE GIRL GOD” — Seeking a female metaphor for greatness: Suggestions from indigenous peoples
- FOOD & FARM SYSTEM JOB POSTING: Illinois
- BELARUS to U.S.: 1920-2020, a Family Story
- NEXT U.S. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE: Can food & farm folks get ahead of the curve this time?
- UPDATE: Food First and the U.S. Food & Farm Movement (Part 2: August 14, 2020)
- UPDATE: Food First and the U.S. Food & Farm Movement (Part 1: August 3, 2020)
- CARTS for EVERYDAY BICYCLE USE
- 2020 U.S. ELECTIONS: Update for Food & Farm Activists
- EVANSTON, IL: Search for new City Manager — Community input survey
- JULY 4, 2020: USA Beginning Again? It’s in the Air
- Climate Deadlock and Censorship: Planet of the Humans, Liberals (certain kinds), & Friends of Liberals (Naomi Klein)
- SHOCK DOCTRINE — Evanston, IL 2020: Is the city government being hijacked from the voters?
- “Calling the cops on the cops”: 1980s Evanston, IL — 2020 USA