I am so fed-up!

Besides feeling depressed, pissed-off, frustrated and disgusted......I am afraid I also feel that I can no longer deny the fact that my beloved country is so hopelessly lost that only a revolution will restore it back to the people from the corporation that has seized control of it.

I am sorry guys/gals that I feel no Republican (obviously), no Independent, no Green Party, and dare I say no Democrat that can do anything against the corporation that owns us. IMOH ~ Revolution will be the only tool that will suffice..

In the mean time, I've made the decision to move to San Francisco, and you can still count on me to pull the rope.....but I am also going to be waiting for enough of us citizens to realize what our founding fathers realized.

Think very carefully about every single purchase that you make from your morning cup of coffee-is it organic, fair trade coffee?? to the cream that goes into it-is it rBGH free???, organic, local??

Where do you buy your gas?

Do you shop at the dollar store? Walmart? Any other box store?? If so quit buying that useless crap made in China. It's probably stuff that you can do without or can buy from a small business.

Need clothes, toys, almost anything else? Try buying from yard sales, thrift stores (local ones that help the local people). The waste in this country is astronomical. Every week I see driveways loaded with crap that people buy and then discard in a month or two or six. Most of it is near new!

Need a car, buy a used one or buy one of the hybrids?

Know the politics of the local companies that you do business with. Why give red companies money to donate to the repukes?

Want to eat out??? Spend your $$ at fund-raising dinners instead of chain restaurants that get their supplies from corporate owned factory farms. Make a sack lunch.

Learn about the corporate take-over of organic companies.
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/services/corporate-ownership.html

http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/takeovers091004.cfm
Tracking the Corporate Takeovers in the Organic Industry

There is a fascinating graph of corporate ownership of organic food companies at: Agribusiness Accountability (http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/pdfs/253_Organic%20Industry%20Structure.pdf)


Need health care? Start looking into alternative health treatments that treat the cause, and don't sell you tons of pharmaceuticals which mostly mask the symptoms and require the use of even more drugs to counteract the side effects. *Note-this may not be applicable in all cases, but the more you learn about health issues and their causes the more knowledgeable decisions you can make about your treatment.

Many of our illnesses are self-induced, meaning the crap that is passed off as food/medicine these days IS KILLING us! You are what you eat! I know many people that have changed their diets and reduced their meds (under medical supervision) and have significantly imporved their health status. From curing their cancer, to a Parkinson's patient who was able to stop using their walker, to an MS patient who slowly decreased their meds and went from barely being able to walk 25 feet to hiking 5 miles!

Don't do business as usual, become a savy consumer, know who you buy from and where their products come from. I've gone past buying blue to buying green.

Use eco-friendly cleaning products. Why support the chemical companies?

Have a lawn?? That you treat endlessly with chemicals? Rip it out and plant a veggie garden or flowers.

http://www.buygreen.com/

http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/greenpages/

http://www.greenthinkers.org/blog/

http://www.greenmatters.com/gm/shared/products/greenproducts.html

Signed,
fed-up

You should start a new thread with it! :)

"Need health care? Start looking into alternative health treatments that treat the cause, and don't sell you tons of pharmaceuticals which mostly mask the symptoms and require the use of even more drugs to counteract the side effects. *Note-this may not be applicable in all cases, but the more you learn about health issues and their causes the more knowledgeable decisions you can make about your treatment. '

For the past several years, I've been using over-the-counter and homeopathic remedies.

If I start to feel bad, I use the homeopathic remedy first. If it doesn't help within a day or two, I then go to the doctor.

Many, many times the homeopathic remedy works, and I am saved the trip to the doctor with all the attendant expenses.

I am out $6 or $7 dollars for the homeopathic remedy purchase, but that often is all I need to spend.

The Hyland Sinus Remedy and Guafenisen for Sinus headache, Oil of Oregano for coughs and colds, Airborne for colds and viruses and several others have really helped me.

The Bach Flower Remedy called Rock Rose, lets me fall asleep quickly when I am worried, and I wake up the next morning with no residual effects.

I still depend on medical doctors when I need them, but my first line of defense is these over-the-counter remedies.

It's my little way of saving money and staying out of the corporate medical system.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm

SNIP

My first hope is that you will not be too discouraged by the way the world looks at this moment. It is easy to be discouraged, because our nation is at war -- still another war, war after war -- and our government seems determined to expand its empire even if it costs the lives of tens of thousands of human beings. There is poverty in this country, and homelessness, and people without health care, and crowded classrooms, but our government, which has trillions of dollars to spend, is spending its wealth on war. There are a billion people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East who need clean water and medicine to deal with malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS, but our government, which has thousands of nuclear weapons, is experimenting with even more deadly nuclear weapons. Yes, it is easy to be discouraged by all that.

But let me tell you why, in spite of what I have just described, you must not be discouraged.

I want to remind you that, fifty years ago, racial segregation here in the South was entrenched as tightly as was apartheid in South Africa. The national government, even with liberal presidents like Kennedy and Johnson in office, was looking the other way while black people were beaten and killed and denied the opportunity to vote. So black people in the South decided they had to do something by themselves. They boycotted and sat in and picketed and demonstrated, and were beaten and jailed, and some were killed, but their cries for freedom were soon heard all over the nation and around the world, and the President and Congress finally did what they had previously failed to do -- enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Many people had said: The South will never change. But it did change. It changed because ordinary people organized and took risks and challenged the system and would not give up. That's when democracy came alive.

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Any important changes--that is, changes that are important to the average American--come from the grass roots. And they take work, sometimes years and years of work. It took decades of activism to get the constitutional amendment passed that gave women the right to vote.

We've got to start coming together on a grassroots level around social interests that affect us.

:-)
San Francisco is a nice place to
fight from.

The number of my posts has nothing to do with how I feel and have felt since 2000 when shrub stole the election. Shortly thereafter I disconnected my satellite dish so that my TV would remain in one piece for watching videos.

My son is the 3rd generation of our family to be born in SF, but each of us only lasted a few months... I did move back there in the late 1980's and spent 4 years in the "Upper Tenderloin"/"Lower Nob Hill", now I only return for protests.

Join us today to protest Arnold in California. Once you see the power of numbers, youknow what the corporations fear ; any threat to their bottom line. Wal Mart used to be seen as invincible; now they are getting shaky as more and more folks join the boycott. They actually issued a profit warning.

Strength in numbers. Spend wisely, never give up.