Back around the turn of the century(!) I started making tapes of my entire wcbe experience. I knew that I wasn't always going to stay here in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio and most likely would end up being rural with no guarantee of quality public radio. So I started taping in every waking hour that I could.

For sure the daily gold (Ante Meridian and Global Village) of Maggie Brennan and Mike Taylor made it into the collection if I was at home. I made lots of copies of Roots and Offshoots, The World Cafe, Echoes,Back then I never imagined it to be a possibility that we could stream the radio via internet. But I still have my WCBE archives.

Later I moved back to Pescadero, California and was able to listen to wcbe on the edge of the ocean. (See blog roll 2007)

Some of Shawnee here in Ohio believed that Ohio was the center of the Universe. As far as cutting edge public radio goes for both news, provocative programming and a rich mosaic of music, WCBE is where it's at, the center of it all. www.wcbe.org Just Go Pledge, Y'all!

"Those damned drums are keeping me up all night."

George HW Bush in response to Drumming outside of the Whitehouse that was a response to/of the launching of the First War Over Oil a.k.a. The Gulf War

Back to the Garden...

Faces of the Occupation of Columbus Day 2

Matt stayed overnight. He has so many issues that he would like to talk about, he cannot fit them all on one sign. We share the love of handmade shelter and sustainable living skills.

Watermelon Guy day 2

Unknown knitter. I did ask her name, but since I have crossed over into middle age, :0, I cannot remember her name. Very peaceful , laughing spirit came down to help Occupy.

Well, these two show up at each and every political action at the Ohio Statehouse.

This guy is really all "Ohio". He is out of work and really just wants to find a good job and support himself.

Mr. Greedy Van ___ can't remember the rest...but he and I eventually had a 2 person parade from the statehouse to the site of the Move On demo at Wall and Broad.

This young woman is an engineering student at Ohio State who made this sign herself and she was very proud of it, rightly so. She too is worried about the state of things on our planet at this time . She also came down this morning to support this revolution.

Mr. Greedy Van --- and a father and son who were some of the first to show up on Columbus' own little Wall street this morning. The Dad wanted to teach Jr. what utilizing our rights to free speech and peaceful assembly look like...

This woman and her pork barrel showed up first to the Move-On action.

I was only able to go downtown for a few hours this morning but what I encountered there was/is truly inspiring. This movement has such a different face for me than any other social activism I have been involved with. I met the 4 or 5 of guys who had stayed the night to "hold down the fort" so to say. The 3 that I had conversations with are pictured above.

All peaceful, all conscientious,all sincerely altruistic ,concerned citizenry here on the bottom steps of the Ohio Statehouse.

I sat down and played my drum a little more.

Since the early 90's when gw's daddy launched the" First War FER Oil", I have brought one drum or another to whatever action I have attended. I had read a quote where George the Elder said "Those damn drums are keeping me up all night". That lauched my SF Bay area poster campaign that said in a nutshell "WAKE UP GEORGE". The drums went on to play to shut down the Nevada Test Site, Save the Last unprotected grove of the Ancient Redwood Forest via Redwood Summer, keep genetic modification of of my table, end the WAR(s) over Oil (still going), Impeach an Unelected Whitehouse Resident (unsuccessful) among a plethora of events where we attempted to bring light to the ever present threats to the well being of our home planet and ALL of it's inhabitants.

Music, art and poetry have always been essential elements of the successful shifting of consciousness.

I am playing my drum now for these and other reasons:

~An end to Corporate Welfare

~ Health Care that I Choose, i.e. Acupuncture, Plant medicine as part of MY Universal health care plan

~Forgiveness of my Own 'Guarenteed Student Loan" (Story of my own 27 year protest to come...)

~Sustainable living communities

~ Guaranteed right to my 5 basic needs: Clean air, clean water, chemical and pesticide free food, affordable/organic shelter, and the right to LOVE who I want to LOVE.

`~A complete and total end to war as a means to solving anything. We can tweet each other for God's sake. We don't need to launch a drone to prove a point.


~Equal rights. The right to marry, adopt children...yada, yada.






~Respect for each and every living thing. We are all a part of ONE another.