Gandhian non-violent civil disobedience vigil at School of the Assassins Nov. 20, 2011

Click here for a schedule of the weekend. (ver el itinerario en español)

November 18-20, 2011: SOA Vigil at the Gates of Fort Benning, Georgia

 

UPDATES from COLUMBUS:
Saturday, November 19: 1 pm, Thousands begin to occupy gates of Fort Benning to demand closure of the School of the Americas SOA/WHINSEC. Click here to see high-resolution photos of the rally by Tom Bottolene of MN SOA Watch.

Friday, November 18: 2 arrested in front of Stewart Detention Center at the immigrant rights vigil in Lumpkin, Georgia. SOA Watch understands that many immigrants to the United States are victims of U.S.-sponsored military training and atrocities in Latin America. In our fight to close the School of the Americas and to end U.S. militarization in the Americas, we continue to work towards a world that is free of suffering and violence. The SOA and the unjust immigration policies are parts of the same racist system of violence and domination. Now more than ever, we must be joined together in our fight to create a better world.

Click here to read Father Roy Bourgeois’ op-ed about Haitian President Michel Martelly’s plan for the reconstitution of the Haitian army, which was published yesterday. Martelly punted his army reconstitution plan - saying a commission needs to be drawn up first. A new survey shows that a big majority of people “strongly disagree” that the Haitian army should be brought back, while less than 1 percent “strongly agree” that it should. Stand with the Haitian people in the anti-militarization struggle. Prominent Haitian human rights lawyer Mario Joseph, who is representing political prisoners and victims of political violence in Haiti, will speak from stage at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia this afternoon.

Canterbury Cocktails: Solo Chaucer featuring Julian Cervello, directed by David Burke, Concerned Citizens’ Conspiracy’s former civic candidate (alias: David Jure)

 

Imagine a game of charades at a cocktail party. There’s only one performer. He speaks, but only in Middle English. Your job is to figure out what’s going on.

 

I first performed Chaucer at the University of Toronto for a voice assignment. I generally felt uncomfortable and constrained during our voice presentations, and they were a pretty somber affair for all. We were being evaluated and the tension in the room was high. I performed Chaucer’s description and impersonation of a Nun, releasing that tension and sending the class into a fit of laughter. 

 

Encouraged, I began reading The Canterbury Tales and committing more and more of the general prologue to memory. I got feedback on the material was learning at a monthly workshop I was running through the drama program. This culminated in a final showcase of the first half hour of what is nowCanterbury Cocktails.

 

The audience wasn’t wound  as tight  as my voice class had been. I had the undivided attention of over sixty people, but they were eerily quiet. I remember thinking, “Wow, they must really hate it.” I was shocked by the disconnect between the looks on their faces while I was performing, and the enthusiastic feedback afterwards. Someone commented, “That’s the closest thing to a time machine you’ll ever get.” I realized then that he had just told me the essential intention of the piece.

 

The physical language of this show is more important than the text itself, because without it a lot of the text would be incomprehensible. With so many words lost to modern English, hundreds of intricate gestures are needed to get ideas across.  Therefore the most archaic words yield the richest creative opportunities.  

 

I decided to premiere Canterbury Cocktails in Victoria so I moved out here after graduating and hired veteran artist David Burke, whose linguistic aptitude and sense of comic timing recommended him as director.

 

I met an impressive woman named Erin Hoyt who was organizing an adjudicated showcase of works in development at the Langham Court Theatre. The Activate Festival  was where I first  performed the second half of Canterbury Cocktails. It was one of many firsts. It was my first ever three-show day, given between two performances of Pornography at Theatre Inconnu. It was my first time performingCanterbury Cocktails on a proper stage, with theatrical lighting and the houselights down. It was also the first time I’d performed it in costume. It went very well, and was every bit as helpful as those first workshops in Toronto.  

 

This show is many people’s first encounter with Chaucer’s poetry. Chaucer is much easier to listen to than read. This show was written over six hundred years ago and is being performed more or less as originally intended. The main difference is the six century gap between performer and audience. This mirrors the cultural gap between Chaucer’s aristocratic audience and common stock characters. The audience can’t help but see itself reflected in a remote and alien culture.

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David Jure and Goyo de la Rosa present: Who is Guido Fawkes? Find out at our TEN YEARS AFTER 911 BAZAAR BOOKSALE

Goyo de la Rosa a California... foto: Dawn Keough

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'David Jure' with Marnie B.'s holy terror Woody, a Casa Arnel, 1357 Rockland

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Only five protestors show up to ‘Save KUSF’ at my old alma mater, University of San Francisco

Here they are…

showing just how unpopular the disconnected KUSF radio station actually was…

[Photo: savekusf.org]

 

  KUSF was the prototype for all manner of awful, unrepresentative, self-indulgent and cultish campus radio stations all across North America, including CFUV, the one here in my hometown at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

  The hasty and covert manner in which KUSF’s license was apparently recently sold by the University of San Francisco (USF) to KDFC, a publicly supported classical station, was not ethical and is highly questionable.

  However, KUSF had very little real support among USF students, as far as I could tell, when I studied at the oldest university in San Francisco in the 80s and the 90s.

  KUSF broadcast ‘alternative music’ to fans in San Francisco, disseminating a constant barrage of horrible, anti-Christian, and frankly demonic ‘music’ for years, at the expense of the once civilized reputation of the old Jesuit university.

  KUSF will not be missed by this USF grad.

 

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, BA History, USF

Former USF Student Society Mature Student Representative

The Resurrection, Albrecht Altdorfer, 1518

RESURRECTION, ALTDORFER, 1518

Good ol’ peacenik Tom Hayden’s Problem from Hell: Humanitarian Hawk Samantha Power goes to war in The Nation, March 30, 2011

 

HUMANITARIAN HAWK SAMANTHA POWER

[Image Rights photo]

 

Margaret Wente, Lysiane Gagnon, George Jonas and Tom Hayden:

 Libyan War skeptics and opponents 

 

Margaret Wente, in her expose of Samantha Power entitled ‘The Intellectuals go to War,’ seems to be in synch with an old peacenik husband of Jane Fonda’s, none other than that grand old man of Democratic pacifism, Tom Hayden of the radical Chicago Eight.

Lysiane Gagnon, who also writes for the usually Liberal-supporting Toronto Globe and Mail, has also joined Wente in questioning the growing Libyan War tragedy, in her well-argued ‘There’s no reason to be involved in this civil war.’

Over at Postmedia’s more bellicose National Post (usually supporting Harperism), the cranky old biker and anti-totalitarian sage of Hungary (and former husband of Barbara Amiel), George Jonas predicts pessimistically that the whole thing will get much worse (but he hopes to be proven wrong), citing evidence of Al Qaeda operatives among the Libyan ‘rebels’ that we are shockingly supporting, in his opinion piece entitled ‘Toppling dictators only works if the next dictator isn’t worse’.

It should be noted that Conrad Black, Barbara Amiel’s present husband, and former employer of Jonas, was an early bombastic booster of the OBushaman NATO invasion of Libya, complaining that Barry didn’t act quickly or forcefully enough, in his typically aggressive ‘How Canada can help save Libya’ published in early March in the National Post, which has been pro-war since the day he invented it.

A front page story in the Post today basically confirms what Alex Jones and many others in the Antiglobalist Resistance have been saying for some time at Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com: Canadian intelligence from 2009 reported on significant numbers of fundamentalist Al Qaeda fighters in eastern Libya, centered in Benghazi.

 Alex’s highly sensitive, healthy and well-justified prescient paranoia is vindicated… once again!

Thank God for good old Tom Hayden of the Chicago Eight!

He joins the growing motley crew of voices of all parties criticizing the unjust Libyan War, or at least questioning certain aspects of it, like ‘what is the endgame plan here, if any, Barry?’

Tom has his own ‘problem from Hell’, though, like many ardent former supporters of the strange trickster Barack Obama.

It’s hard to say by this profile on Samantha Power, the ‘humanitarian hawk’ (or Warrior Queen as Wente calls her) from the liberal The Nation whether Mr. Hayden still supports the Creepy Joker.

But it is aptly titled ‘Samantha Power goes to War,’ and is found in a link in the comments section.

 

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President

[Nom d'artiste: 'Goyo de la Rosa']

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

Pacifican Nuclear Free Zone: No nuke ships in B. C. waters, no uranium mining in B. C., no nuclear power plants + no nuclear transport in B. C.

BC NO NOOX

Japanese lessons for Premier Christie Clark:

Please prioritize making B. C. truly ‘nuclear-free’!

Maintain uranium mining BAN in B. C..

Strengthen our provincial nuclear – free waters zone enforcement with Coast Guard.

Cancel all nuclear power applications and commit to future support of renewable energy.

Ban transport of Saskatchewan uranium to China on rail west to Vancouver or other B. C. ports.

 

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Pacific Nuclear Fallout Maps of demonic nuclear pollution from Alaska to Baja: Victoria may be in danger of Japanese radiation

 

PROTECT YOUR THYROID FROM RADIATION POISONING!

TAKE POTASSIUM IODIDE TABLETS…

OR EAT RAW KELP FOR NATURAL IODINE,

OR TAKE KELP TABS…

MISO SOUP (BROWN RICE)

 

BOB DYLAN PERFORMING AT AN ANTI-NUKE CONCERT, JUNE 6, 1982

Father Philip Jacobs: Five Victoria Court dates: Oct. 3, Nov. 7-10, 2011 inclusive, reports The Inquiry’s Sylvia MacEachern

 

 

AMERICAN ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST HEADS TO CANADIAN COURT

MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER CHARGES FIRST LAID ON AUGUST 4, 2010

 

Father Philip Jacobs, an American Roman Catholic priest reported to be residing in Sooke, British Columbia, has five days scheduled for Victoria Court appearances this year, according to Sylvia MacEachern, a Canadian blogger who tracks clerical sex abuse cases in Canada at The Inquiry, also called Sylvia’s Site.

Jacobs has a trial confirmation hearing set for 3 October, 2011, and four days for a preliminary hearing, 7 – 10 November, 2011, inclusive.

A link to Sylvia’s Site is provided in the comments section below.

A warning: this site contains material that is quite shocking, but is invaluable for those doing research on this disturbing subject, and can be favourably compared to Cathy Shaw’s work at Abuse Tracker.

 

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, Editor

LA ROSA

SACRED VICTORIA: Masonic symbolism, sacred geometry in Maclure + Rattenbury’s Victoria architecture: New website highlights new SACRED VICTORIA book by Chris Trenholm

RATTENBURY USED SACRED GEOMETRY IN HIS DESIGNS:

Illustration from Chris Trenholm’s new book ‘SACRED VICTORIA’

 

Chris Trenholm is a Victoria stonemason, and not an actual Freemason, but nevertheless he has deepened his working interest in sacred geometry, sacred landscapes, feng shui and freemasonry in producing his new website, which highlights excerpts from a new book, scheduled for publication later this year, entitled ‘SACRED VICTORIA’.

Mr. Trenholm has discovered that two of Victoria’s most famous architects, Samuel Maclure and Francis Rattenbury, were both Freemasons, and he believes that he has ample evidence that they used ancient principles of sacred geometry in the careful planned building and in the actual placement of their most famous buildings in the provincial capital.

To bolster his argument, Mr. Trenholm provides an interesting overview on the subject of Freemasonry, and its use of geometric symbolism, from the point of view of a well-known Roman Catholic writer named Steve Weatherbe, who wrote an article on the subject in the Canadian Christian News.

He also cites Victoria historian Ross Crockford and architect Paul Merrick who referenced the use of sacred geometry in the legislative precinct in Victoria when he was commissioned to do a study for the provincial government on the history and potential future of the historically significant area.

I am also Catholic, so I am certainly not a Freemason either, nor do I always agree with everything Mr. Weatherbe writes, however, I believe that the new work that Chris Trenholm is doing in this research is historically significant, albeit certainly also controversial in some circles, but nevertheless it is also certainly worth publicizing to a wider audience.

I provide a link to the SACRED VICTORIA website:

www.sacredvictoria.net

 in the comments section below.

Those wishing to find out how to order the book may write to the author, Chris Trenholm:

sacredvictoria@gmail.com

 

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell

(‘Goyo de la Rosa’), Editor

LA  ROSA

AURORA ROSA

ROCKLAND 

CCC – GPMH BLOG

 

RATTENBURY’S PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, B. C., CANADA