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 We just had a whole week to showcase the role Tübingen plays as a town for peace locally and globally. We had former UNESCO head Federico Mayor ( left, formerly minister of education in Spain, translated by me), Gloria Cuartas from Columbia (second from left), the UN-awarded first mayor for peace and we had Ismail Khatib ( second from right), the Palestinian who wanted to help end the violence and donated the vital organs of his 12year old son Ahmed, killed by Israeli soldiers while just walking, to save the lives of israeli kids, as shown in the moving movie " The Heart of Jenin" (see Boston Globe on this). We had US war deserter André Shepherd (right) who stopped participating in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the first to seek asylum here in Germany as US-war deserter. We had Israeli human rights attorney Felicia Langer (middle), winner of the alternative Nobel Prize and soon to be awarded the highest order of merit of Germany, we had evenings about the school shootings and the prevention of violence, and tomorrow we will end with a church service for peace in the Tuebingen Stiftskirche, where the first protestant sermon in all of our state was held during the early reformation. ( See pictures including me and reports in German here) This evening we had a concert with bavarian singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker and I'll finish this posting with a song of his, which he sang at the end of his concert tonight. ( Read more... )Tags: music, politics
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 These days, after cutting off the LoudTwitter of my Tweets here, I wonder what of the stuff I could post here might interest you - maybe Leopold the new cat in the house? maybe the Wicked Witch of the West and why even in personal life it's not always easy to tell who's good and who's bad? maybe what I like about Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' and why I'm still slow at reading it? The following are some of my more recent German blog posts: For those interested in the facts, I haven't been elected to the local, town- or regional councils, but gathered about 14,000 votes all in all - not bad, considering that 2008 I was busy campaigning elsewhere, for a place on the green list for the EP, thus being more away from this town than usually. I'm very happy with the green gains all over Europe and in my town. In my small historic village, the Greens have doubled their percentage of votes for the EP and gained twice as much as in the rest of Tuebingen, so I count that as a personal victory, as a result of my campaigning. Greenifying Tübingen was great fun. And as for greenifying - "Wicked!" was wickedly good, saw that for the first time live in the Palladium Theatre in Stuttgart last week, loving it. I went with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ellifaey, gwenw, another LJ-friend who shall not be named before I've heard it's ok to do so and with a fanatical member of "Team Edward" (and "Team Robert" as well). Really nice. That's all for tonight, folks - if interested in more, just ask. Tags: friends, music, politics, twitter
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This is one of the nights when I took the time to read my friends' livejournal entries in their entirety (and yes, partly in a time when I should have been filling tax forms). I could not answer each of your posts in person, not during my waking time that is, but as I know from the comments that some of you read some of what I write, I'll answer here. I liked your poetry month with a sky the colour of pea soup / L. looks sweet in that cardigan our mutual friend made / it's cool that you are in a book - and hey, your name is not weird, it is also the name of a famous young actor over here, / I'll follow you on twitter directly as well, / I'll send some vibes for you and your dad, I know from my own knee, how inconvenient any problem there might be. / It was cool to read that you have a crush on Jamie Foxx, though otherwise the show is not among the tv events I follow. / I'm extremely glad the people in town were all nice to you. I'll try to be too. As for your jungle, I'm jelous but trying to catch up. / Don't chew your nails, just get some good vibes for a success here / Heartfelt thanks for the KC update / Time snowballs are a good idea, but probably Faye is more right than honest / I'm glad your family is fine and even R. is way better. And yes, you should write down, if M. says something funny. / I've met Tut in Hildesheim as a kid and was as impressed / The universe loves knitters, too. / She should have cleaned after church in the first place... / Best of luck with your application / I can understand why you don't do elf/dwarf and I loathe snarry too - and am thinking on commenting a wish / Of course Kitzmueller s great, as he's a wise green thinker / 13 of 101 is a good start and I like the start you made / Hope Daisy Mae will be better soon. / Yentl soup sounds good, but I don't do bacon, swine flu or no swine flu. Vegetarian and all that. / Hope the next person you hire will really show up for work. / I'd love to play the Theremin and envy you for that. The Wii does not fascinate me as much, it does not have SingStar :-) / Just look at the stare of Dumbledore... I want to take him home with me, even if the Slytherin ears might have worn off. ... and that about sums it up for tonight/today. Tags: cat, chocolate, friends
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Some of you might already know that I am running for political offices, and while I'm not on the one list I wanted to be on more than anything else, I am on all the other voting lists for the June 7 election, which includes the local council of my little village (1/5), the town council (20/40) and the regional council of the wider area (10/31) including several smaller towns. (My position on the party or group list given). There are promotional flyers and posters for the town and regional council elections, both stating my age, with an age difference between the two of ten years. What's my age again? For the regional council, which was done later, I gave the woman in charge the choice to put in a number of her liking, suggesting a few. I always uphold the position that within certain limits, age is relative, and in some concerns, age is irrelevant. Your mental age is strongly related to how you think and feel, your biological age is strongly related to how healthy and well you live, how you treat your body and if you work out but not to much... and somesuch. Some get a younger friend to feel younger, for me my young daughters will do the trick, as I feel not a century and not even a year older than the other parents of 9 and 5 year olds. At times I feel perfectly fine building Harry Potter (tm) Lego (tm) with one or two of my daughters - or climbing a tree or letting them climb on me. What's my age again? One of my readers here took notice of the fact that there is also an age difference between that given on my MySpace page and other information floating on the interwebs. So: What's my age again? (And should I change it?) If you would be assuming that in what I write and what I do I'm acting my age, what would you say, is my age again? ( Read more... )Tags: funstuff, kids&parents, music, politics, video
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"You're being unreasonable." She wants to pound the meat of her fists against stone. Bloody them. Press them against the blank canvas of her face. Leave behind a bright butterfly of rage, And scream that life is not all reason. In fact - Much of what she's been taught is irrational and unreasonable. That "you're being unreasonable" truly means, "you're not cooperating with what I want". This is her experience. This is what she learned as a child. Not truth. Nothing so pure as reason. Good girl. She doesn't complain. Doesn't cause trouble. What does a good girl get? Nothing but crumbs of peace. Stolen solitude. What does a good girl become? An angry woman.  Unreasonable by Amy Francisconi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.facebook.com. Tags: kids&parents, poetry
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Greenvision song contest 2009The European Green Party (EGP) is launching a campaign song competition forthe 2009 European Parliamentary campaign. This campaign songcompetition is open to everyone and anyone (individualsinger-songwriters or bands) who feel they have enough talent and inspiration to compose a campaign song for the European greens for the coming election campaign. Thetheme of the song should be about the environmental, social andeconomic challenges of todays' world and the need for the real greensolutions to be urgently applied. The party‘s Manifesto summary should,as much as possible, be reflected in the lyrics. The song should alsobe imbued with the spirit and positivity of our solution-basedpolicies. The main language of the song has to be English so that itcan be used throughout the EU. The style and genre of music isup to you (from dance to hiphop, from roots/folk to rock and everythingelse in between): you can be as inventive and original as you like. Songs can be sent in an MP3 format to Szilvia Csanyi ( szilvia.csanyi@europeangreens.net) till 1st March 2009.There will be a pre-selection process by a panel composed of variousrepresentatives of the European Green Party and its member parties aswell as professionals. Those songs that are pre selected will be uploaded to www.ampster.netand will be open for public voting till the 15th March 2009 here on this website. Thesong that receives the most votes will be the winner of the songcompetition. The winner will be notified and the result will bepublished on our website. The prize of the winner is 3000 Euro.Thewinner of the competition will have the opportunity to sing his/hersong in the Congress of the European Green Party which will be held inBrussels 27-28 March 2009. During the election campaign this song willbe distributed all over Europe and will be used by the Green parties inEurope. For more information, please go to http://europeangreens.eu/Tags: europe, greens, music, politics
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 Environmental Defense Fund challenged filmmakers and concerned citizens to explain in 30 seconds how capping global warming pollution could help solve our oil addiction. We're selecting our favorite video, and it's time for you to choose yours, too! http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagI... Watch them, vote for your favorite, and share them with your friends. The video with the most votes will receive our Climate Activist’s Choice Award, with a prize of $1000. Vote today! Voting ends Monday, February 2, 2009. http://apps.facebook.com/causes/369?m=5c17a262Tags: ecology, facebook, greens, politics
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Everyone who knows me, knows how I love a nice cup of tea (and the BCer of the same name is very likeable too). Why, just now I'm having one, magician's tea from Safran. When one of my friends on Twitter linked to articles which report directly from Israeli-occupied Palestine, one article caught me by the title: Targetting a cup of tea in Gaza. While I'm sure some will tell us that it's devious Hamas tactics to hide behind teacups and that those naming their kids Jihad are doomed to die from selfrighteous selfproclaimed self-defense of their enemies, neighbours, prison-guards and occupying forces, I still found this short piece, and others around it, worth reading. Tags: politics, tea
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Oynyena Maria - The Only Concern of her Life
The legendary album, not to be categorized in musical style... How did it come to be? ( Read more... )