Watch this short animation about procrastination!

motionographer.com/media/ne...4_low.mov

I love this video it is so true!

Calling all activists, artists, environmentalists, performers, greenies,

Action: APRIL 30, 2008

Coming all the way from the Amazon rainforest of Peru, five Achuar elders
are traveling to Los Angeles to defend their case, their rights and their
land against multinational oil supergiant OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM in order to
uphold environmental protection laws that were never enforced during 30
years of OXY’s drilling for oil in Achuar territory.

OXY left a drastic legacy of major environmental pollution that threatens
the Achuar and their very survival. OXY dumped 850,000 barrels of oil
waste per DAY into the Achuar’s Corrientes River and dug unlined waste
pits numbering in the thousands across their tribal lands over a span of
30 years.

The Achuar come to LA in late April to face off in a respectful but
emphatic way with Occidental Petroleum. WE can help pave the way for them
with a very important ACTION planned by Amazon Watch APRIL 30 at 12 NOON
at OXY Headquarters.

WE NEED YOUR HELP performing a theatrical action with Amazon Watch in
front of and surrounding OXY’s world headquarters building– right here in
L.A. at Wilshire & Westwood. We’ll be dressing in HazMat suits telling
OXY to “Clean Up” the Amazon – demonstrating visual cues by scrubbing
their building with mops, brushes and brooms. It will be fun and comedic
with a very clear and direct message.

Daryl Hannah will join us and we're aiming for lots of press to come cover
the action – that’s why we need YOUR help in sending OXY a strong message.

We’re looking to gather 300 people to surround the OXY building on APRIL 30.
Any outsourcing to other active groups would be greatly appreciated and
encouraged. We’ll supply the HazMat suits beforehand.

Please won’t you come and join with your friends to help protect the
Amazon Rainforest and its Native People? The Achuar need us now.

We expect the OXY “CLEAN UP THE AMAZON” Action April 30 to last from
approximately 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

Please forward this email to your LISTS far and wide. Contact Leslie
Morava with Amazon Watch or email to volunteer. You can also act as an
Action Captain by gathering a group of your friends together!

(310) 454-1550. leslie@amazonwatch.org

Thank you in advance for your participation and support!

For the Amazon,
Leslie Morava
AMAZON WATCH
www.amazonwatch.org

Check this out! Let's All turn out the lights for an hour!

www.youtube.com/watch

For all those concerned with using food crops for Biofuels!

Check this out!

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23638979

What are my beloveds doing for New Years Eve

And even if we haven't talked in a long time this means you. Call me, text me or send me a message.
Love,
Alayha

This is very exciting

MAYOR NEWSOM LAUNCHES SFGREASECYCLE – THE NATION’S FIRST CITYWIDE
PROGRAM THAT COLLECTS WASTE GREASE TO CREATE BIOFUEL FOR MUNICIPAL FLEET

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
combat climate change and curb the growing number of clogged sewers
plaguing City residents and businesses, Mayor Gavin Newsom today
launched an innovative solution to collect fats, oil and grease (FOG)
free of charge from City restaurants and turn them into biofuel for
City-owned vehicles. SFGreasecycle is the nation’s first citywide
program to turn FOG into fuel for municipal fleets and will save
residents and businesses money, unclog City sewers, and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. The first SFGreasecycle restaurant waste
grease pickup occurred today at Puccini and Pinetti in Union Square.

"San Francisco’s entrepreneurial and environmental spirit is once
again front and center with our innovative biodiesel creation
program," said Mayor Newsom. "Our program will serve as a model for
cities throughout the world who aim to transform their grease waste
into useable, sustainable energy."

SFGreasecycle is a program that was developed by the San Francisco
Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) as a sustainable alternative to
combat sewer blockages caused in part by excess cooking oils and fats
discharged down drains from restaurants and homes. Each year, the
SFPUC estimates that 50% of sewer emergency calls are related to
backups caused by grease blockages costing their ratepayers $3.5
million a year in repairs.

"We’re taking a serious City problem and using the best available
technology to save our ratepayers’ money and do something good for
the environment," said SFPUC General Manager Susan Leal. "For every 5
gallons of grease we collect and keep out of our sewers, we displace
5 gallons of petroleum diesel. That is a net 100 pound reduction in
carbon emission."

San Francisco, a national leader in initiatives to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, has a City fleet of more than 1600 diesel vehicles
being retrofitted to accept the new biofuel source. In 2006, Mayor
Newsom signed an executive directive mandating that the entire city
fleet be converted by December 31, 2007. The City is currently on
pace to meet that goal. Initially, biodiesel for the City fleet will
be purchased through an existing city contract, with the future plan
to procure all biodiesel generated from San Francisco’s restaurant
waste oil stream.

Recycled FOG from San Francisco restaurants is estimated to generate
1.5 million gallons of biofuel each year. 59 restaurants have already
signed up for the SFGreasecycle program before its launch with more
expressing interest every day.

"The SFPUC’s SFGreasecycle program provides an immediate financial
benefit to one of San Francisco’s most important economic engines –
the restaurant and food service establishment industry," said Golden
Gate Restaurant Association President Kevin Westlye. "I encourage all
restaurants and food service establishments to sign up for the program."

Mayor Newsom and the SFPUC also announced that this Thanksgiving,
residents can drop-off their holiday waste cooking oil for conversion
to biodiesel for the City fleet at Costco, located at 450 10th
Street. The Costco drop-off location will be open from November 23-26
during their normal operating hours of Friday, 9-8:30pm; Saturday,
9:30-7:00pm; Sunday, 10-6pm; and Monday, 11-8:30pm.

For more information or to sign up for the SFPUC’s free restaurant
waste oil collection service, please call (415) 695-7366 or visit
sfgreasecycle.org.

They're shooting monks in Burma

Hi,

Have you seen the news?

After decades of brutal dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising. In the past few days, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters, led by Buddhist monks, have flooded the streets of Rangoon. But yesterday, the military started shooting monks and journalists.

This is a true emergency. Avaaz.org and MoveOn.org have launched a petition demanding Burmese generals negotiate rather than crush the demonstrators. They're focused on getting United Nations Security Council members--particularly China's Hu Jintao--to intervene. Thousands of people from all over the world are adding their names every hour -- will you sign? Click here:

pol.moveon.org/burma/

Pass it on! Thanks!!

I have two polaroids of myself at Burning Man!

And that is it! If anyone has a picture of me, which I know a lot of people do, please send it to mee. I want some visual reminders of my time on the playa!
Love,
Alayha

Burning Man Documentary Tonight!

Fine Arts Theatre" at 8556 Wilshire blvd and La Cienega Blvds.
Tix at door or call (310) 360-0455 or go to: www.journeytotheflames.com

If you've never been to burning man, here's your chance to see what it's all about. If you have been or are depressed you aren't going, here's your chance to experience those feelings :)

A full screening of the film, a panel including the director and cast (god help us). Post screening hang out at Tokyo Table (50 N. La Cienga) around the corner from theater. $5 Sake martinis with ticket stub.

The documentary chronicles a group of friends as they head off to one of the largest and mysterious social experiments in the world. Every year for one week 40,000 people meet in northern Nevada to create a city out of empty desert. After that week, Black Rock City (or "the playa") disappears without a trace including its zip code, newspaper, radio stations, and airport. The rules are simple: No commerce, bring what you need to survive, leave no trace, participants only, and no spectators. Take a journey into a world of art, music, sexuality and fire. Lots of fire...

Parking is available at the Flynt Communications Building, located at 8484 Wilshire Blvd. – one block east of the Fine Arts Theatre. Look for the tall, oval building on the southeast corner of Wilshire and La Cienega. Proceed south down La Cienega from Wilshire and turn left onto the concrete ramp leading underneath the building. Continue around and down. There will be a sign overhead that says Monthly Parking, directing you into the parking gates. You may also enter onto this ramp from Hamilton -- the small, white signed street just east of the Flynt building. Head south on Hamilton off Wilshire and turn in at the sign that says
8484 Wilshire Visitor Parking.

P.S, I stole Josh's Blog

Impeach Bush

Good Morning Truth Believers,

If anyone out there is still not convinced that George W. Bush and (limp) Dick Cheney should be charged for WAR CRIMES and basically pissing on the Geneva convention, then please read the following statement made this morning by former Ambassador Joe Wilson. What should clearly be seen as the worst presidential administration EVER is put in it's place by Mr. Wilson's scathing analysis. Please forward this around to friends and family and if anyone approaches you to sign an impeachment petition for Bush or Cheney, PLEASE SIGN IT IMMEDIATELY.

Thank you.

Below is the prepared opening statement of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV (ret.) for his testimony today during the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on presidential clemency powers.
Statement of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV (ret.)
To the House Committee on the Judiciary
July 11, 2007
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking member, members of the Committee,

Thank you for the invitation to appear before you at this hearing on the possible abuse of Presidential authority in the commutation of I. Lewis Libby, convicted on four counts of lying to federal investigators, perjury and obstruction of justice. I am not a lawyer, but I have understandably followed this case closely. This matter, after all, involves the betrayal of our national security, specifically the leaking of the identity of a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, my wife, Valerie Wilson, as a vicious means of political retribution.

After it became apparent in Spring of 2003 that one of the key justifications for war in the President's State of the Union address was not supported by the facts, I felt an obligation and a sense of responsibility to the American people and to our men and women in uniform to share my first-hand knowledge about the unsubstantiated allegations of uranium yellowcake sales from Niger to Iraq. Accordingly, In a New York Times article on July 6, 2003, I disclosed the deliberate deceptions surrounding the justification for the invasion, conquest, and occupation of Iraq. Eight days later Valerie's status as a CIA operative was made public in a newspaper column by Robert Novak. We now know from testimony and evidence presented in the United States vs. I. Lewis Libby that Novak's column was the end product of a process that was initiated by Vice President Cheney who directed his chief of staff, Scooter Libby to supervise it.

Never in my twenty-three years as a member of the diplomatic service of the United States did I ever imagine a betrayal of our national security at the highest levels.

Fifteen years ago this week, I was sworn in as George Herbert Walker Bush's Ambassador to two African countries - Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe. Seventeen years ago I served as his acting Ambassador to Iraq in the first Gulf War. I was the last American diplomat to confront Saddam Hussein about his invasion of Kuwait prior to Desert Storm. As acting Ambassador, my embassy was responsible for the safe evacuation of over 2,000 Americans from Kuwait and Iraq and the release of close to 150 Americans held hostage by Saddam and his thugs.

I was proud to serve my country mostly overseas, for twenty-three years, in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and to promote and defend the values enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I was honored to be then President Bush's envoy to Iraq and to have been part of the foreign policy team that managed the international crisis created by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Members of that foreign policy team remain among my closest colleagues and friends.

Given my service, it has been therefore disconcerting to see my family and my targeted in the crosshairs of a character assassination campaign launched by the Vice President and carried out by his chief of staff, and by the President's chief political aide, Karl Rove, among others.

Ultimately, this concerted effort to discredit me, ruining my wife's career along the way, has had a larger objective. This matter has always been about this administration's case for war and its willingness to mislead the American people to justify it. In order to protect its original falsehoods, the Vice President and his men decided to engage in a further betrayal of our national security. Scooter Libby sought to blame the Press, yet another deception. He was willing even to allow a journalist to spend eighty-five days in jail in a most cowardly act to avoid telling the truth.

President Bush promised that if any member of the White House staff were engaged in this matter, it would be a firing offense. However, the trial of Scooter Libby has proved conclusively that Karl Rove was involved, and although he escaped indictment, he still works at the White House. We also know as a result of evidence introduced in the trial that President Bush himself selectively declassified national security material to attempt to support the false rationale for war. The President's broken promise and his own involvement in this unseemly smear campaign reveal a chief executive willing to subvert the rule of law and system of justice that has undergirded this great republic of ours for over 200 years.

Make no mistake, the President's actions last week cast a pall of suspicion over his office and Vice President Cheney. Mr. Libby was convicted of, among other crimes, obstruction of justice - a legal term used to describe a cover-up. The Justice Department's Special Counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, has said repeatedly that Mr. Libby's blatant lying had been the equivalent of "throwing sand in the eyes of the umpire", thereby ensuring that the umpire, the system of justice, cannot ascertain the whole truth. As a result, Fitzgerald has said, "a cloud remains over the Vice President." In commuting Mr. Libby's sentence, the President has removed any incentive for Mr. Libby to cooperate with the prosecutor. The obstruction of justice is ongoing and now the President has emerged as its greatest protector. The President's explanation for his commutation that Mr. Libby's sentence was excessive turns out to be yet another falsehood because the sentence was quite normal, as Special Counsel Fitzgerald noted. The President, at the very least, owes the American people a full and honest explanation of his actions and those of other senior administration officials in this matter, including, but not limited to the Vice President.

In closing, let me address the question of the underlying crime. Mr. Libby's attorneys and his apologists have tried to downplay his conviction on the grounds that nobody was actually indicted for the leak of Valerie's status as a covert CIA officer. Libby's propaganda is an effort to distract from his crime - his obstruction of justice, his cover up. Who is he protecting?

I would like the committee members and all Americans to think about this matter in this way: If senior American officials take time from their busy schedules to meet with a foreign military attaché for the purpose of compromising the identity of a CIA covert officer, what would we call that? Although that scenario is hypothetical, the end result is no different from what happened in this case - the betrayal of our national security.