vermont communes, the world bank, bambu station and the coming of MAY DAY

songs of the day

AMBIVALENT R U Ok (12") Minus Canada

"take one of these"

usicmay for akingtay ugsdray.

SHAHROKH SOUNDOFK (12") Compost Black Label Germany
Physiology is a pumping tech workout with lots going on and a persistent squarish bassline that makes me want to dance and create robots.

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I am ready to cement my plans for a weekend of techno debauchery in Montreal. the last weekend of May is shaping up to be a memorable one.

After getting my retroactive raise today and paying off some balances on debts the trip is looking much more possible than it was last week. I had no clue I would get the money retroactive so quickly. I only signed my performance review on Friday. Oh the quickly moving arms of the modern corporation... always there for me with its big soft arms.
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Sacrificial Wolfie

By Naomi Klein, The Nation. Posted April 28, 2007.

I am posting this in response by democritus to a Naomi Klein article calling into question the world Bank and its current leader Paul Wolfowitz.

Posted by: Democritus on alternet.org Apr 28, 2007 7:04 AM

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are the tools of unfettered capitalism. Wolfowitz's job, like McNamara's before him, was to make the World Bank an agent of global empire. Because of the "structural adjustments" and "conditionalities" of the World Bank and the IMF, developing countries are forced to submit to the forces of globalization--to the detriment of the people living in those countries and for the profit of the huge corporations that have the power to reward and to punish.

Anyone who is doubtful of the pernicious effects of these global money-lenders should read John Perkins' book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which lays out the international corporate skullduggery that organizations like the World Bank aid and abet. Naomi Klein is right. Wolfowitz and the World Bank are made for each other. Wolfowitz's indiscretions are but a microcosm of the organization that he leads.
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On Earth day I ended up at a commune called the MAPLE HILL COMMUNITY. I had a nice day getting back to my rural farming roots.

The community is very close to Cate Farm a 40-acre farm at Goddard College. I was at a Bambu Station concert at The Old Lantern in Char-Lot Vermont when Maggie Balanger showed up most unexpectedly and invited Maggie Schier and myself back for a place to stay. I awoke to a very orderly sleeping quarter in the midst of a working farm with chickens, calves, a gorgeous little girl named Ruby June, and lots of chores to do! Maggie B and I woke up early and went to get breakfast in the town center of plainfield... the town center had a comfortable feeling about it and the locals all looked very much like the back to the land set I grew up around in central maine. Im so glad I was able to help out in putting up the plastic shell around the greenhouse. Dave, Noah, and co. were fantastic to work with and taught me a thing or two about cutting giant swathes of anti-condensation treated plastic.
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Bambu Station

Bambu Station is a roots reggae band from the Virgin Islands that was founded in 1996 by Jalani Horton. The Station's sole mission is to create and broadcast informative, positive and joyful music. Bambu Station has produced the dynamic albums of Iba, "Many Lives" and "Jah Lion (Children of the Nile)", the award-winning "Talkin' Roots - Volume I and II" compilations, the debut of Black Culture "Lion's Den Adversity" and it's own albums of "Congo Moon" the hypnotic and award-winning "One Day" and "Break The Soil."