FREE MASON!!!!

PLEASE REPOST (Friends Only)
On June 16th at 9:45am Mason Lyte is scheduled to appear for his last & final bail hearing in front of magistrate Susan Lum at the Spring St federal courthouse located at 312 N. Spring St, downtown LA, 90012. The government will try to prevent Mason from regaining his freedom. This will be increasingly difficult if the courtroom is full w/people who love and care about what happens to him. Mason REALLY NEEDS to get back to his loved ones.

In the pre-dawn hours of Feb 19, 2009, the DEA in conjunction w/local authorities raided Mason's house. He hasn't been home since. Please show up & support Mason. Your presence will most assuredly help.

PS - the exact courtroom # is unknown. There should be some sort of building directory or employee assistance to point the way. Thank you & God bless.

My Incarceration

It is with great sadness that I must relate that I will be unable to check this page for what will most likely be a number of years. It is incredibly awkward for me to have to relate my current situation on my blog so I will just come out & say that I have been arrested by the F.B.I.
I apologize to those of you who were depending on me to assist you with the various projects I was lucky enough to be involved with. Also, I want to thank all of you who have touched my heart on the deepest of levels & who have contributed greatly to my spiritual & emotional growth. I will take with me a wealth of warm memories regardless of where my individual life path takes me.
My current address is listed below. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CHECK THIS SITE. If you wish to write me I would like nothing better & will respond to all correspondence. I will update any changes of address as they occur. Best of luck to you all; may the God of your understanding protect & keep you.

Warmest Regards,
Adam

Adam Steinberg 15143-112
MDC - LA
PO Box 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90053




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N'LIGHT'N Afterhours Gallery Show: thursday nite 9pm!!! FREE!!

Thursday night...celebrate the new, creative culture and community of downtown at the gorgeous N'LIGHT'N Gallery!!

We continue and share our tradition of a monthly ARTWALK afterhours party and gallery event...this one sure to be the MOST EPIC of all!!!

Admission is FREE!
**I.D. required to enter the building**
Parking across the street
21+ Full bar

9pm the show starts with two stages featuring a supa-fine cross-section of over 20 visionary artists and performers that will blow your mind and inspire your own revolution!!

We are one of 40 participating galleries in the Gallery Row district of downtown LA...that all will be having open house 7-9pm Come check out the new, creative culture of downtown!!


N'LIGHT'N Gallery & Studios
620 S. Main St., Suite 607
Los Angeles, CA 90014
www.nlightn.la

Kucinich introduces articles or impeachment against George W. Bush

I was watching CSPAN last night and was amazed to see this. There is nothing on any of the other Politics related tribes. I have to profess my ignorance on the impeachment issue. What is the next step in this process? Does this force a vote in the House? Here's an excerpt from a web article. I am interested in hearing the viewpoints and opinions of my friends on this. What do you think?


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The full text of the articles is available at:

chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amom...h.pdf

Extensive documentation to accompany each article will be posted later today. Watch these websites:

kucinich.us

democrats.com

afterdowningstreet.org

Congressman Kucinich has laid out an extensive indictment of the president. Here is the index of article titles:

Article I

Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq

Article II

Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of

Aggression

Article III

Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War

Article IV

Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States

Article V

Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression

Article VI

Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114

Article VII

Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII

Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter

Article IX

Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

Article X

Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes

Article XI

Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

Article XII

Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources

Article XIIII

Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries

Article XIV

Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

Article XV

Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq

Article XVI

Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors

Article XVII

Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives

Article XVIII

Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy

Article XIX

Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture

Article XX

Imprisoning Children

Article XXI

Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government

Article XXII

Creating Secret Laws

Article XXIII

Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

Article XXIV

Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

Article XXV

Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens

Article XXVI

Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements

Article XXVII

Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply

Article XXVIII

Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice

Article XXIX

Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Article XXX

Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare

Article XXXI

Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency

Article XXXII

Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change

Article XXXIII

Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV

Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Article XXXV

Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

The full text of the articles is available at:

chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amom...h.pdf

Here's a video of Kucinich beginning his presentation on the floor:

www.youtube.com/watch

What you can do:

Email your Representatives to support Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment

Call your Representative at 202-224-3121

Call your favorite talk shows and tell everyone who supports impeachment to sign the petition at Democrats.com

www.democrats.com/35-articl...mpeachment

Statements on the Introduction of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against President George W. Bush:

"More than two centuries ago, the Founders of this country set forth a procedure for Congress to follow in the event of grave abuse of power by the Chief Executive. That process is impeachment. In the face of the monumental deceit and disregard for the Constitution that we have witnessed on the part of the President over the past seven years, Congressman Kucinich's initiation of this process is neither fanciful nor futile, neither vengeful nor vindictive; it is the sober fulfillment of his sworn duty as a Congressman to follow the law without regard to personal consequence and misguided political stratagem. It is, quite simply, an act of patriotism."

Elizabeth de la Vega, Former Federal Prosecutor and Author of United States v. George W. Bush et. al.

"This thick collection of impeachable offenses could be expanded dramatically and should be viewed as a sampling of the crimes and abuses of President George W. Bush and his subordinates. Bush has had many accomplices -- first and foremost Vice President Cheney. But our Founders created a single executive precisely so that we could hold that one person accountable for the actions of the executive branch. It is high time we did so, and millions of Americans will be urging their representatives to support the effort being led by Congressman Kucinich.

"These articles establish, and hearings would establish further, that President Bush was decidedly in the loop and effectively 'the decider' behind countless abuses of power. And, of course, his public comments have time and again advertised his indifference to the laws he is violating. Not only does overwhelming evidence show us that Bush knew his claims about WMDs to be false, but the president has shown us that he considers the question of truth or falsehood to be laughably irrelevant. When Diane Sawyer asked Bush during a televised interview after the war was underway why he had claimed with such certainty that there were so many weapons in Iraq, he replied: "What's the difference? The possibility that [Saddam] could acquire weapons, If he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger."

"What's the difference? Hundreds of thousands of corpses and a fatal blow to the rule of law among nations. That's the difference. Unless we remove impeachment from the Constitution by failing to exercise it, in which case truth will no longer matter any more than justice or peace."

My life at thirty four

A world of possibilities


Where to begin this blog..? I feel the need to express so much lately due to the fact that so much has happened over the past ten days. Now that I’ thinking about it, I don’t really write in this blog a lot about what goes on in my personal and professional life. Lately, I have been busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. My life is centered around four polarities or nodes of action. The first being my “day job”, where I rent and sell scenic elements and set designs to a vast base of corporate clientele. This work is engaging at times, I get to express myself creatively, find solutions for whacky problems for people who cannot think outside of their own boxes; as a matter of fact, I sometimes wonder if these people even know if there is a box, I get to “Wheel and Deal” with people in a very rapid-fire way. In short my job is engaging, demanding and fun at times; but it doesn’t inspire me.

The second corner of my life is centered around the love of my life. If any of you have ever had the pleasure of meeting Clarinda you know that she is an amazing woman. We have had our backs and forths, our doubts and pains and all through these evolvings of our relationship we have only grown stronger as a couple. I am constantly amazed at how these things work out at times. Clarinda sings beautiful songs and I do my best to provide her with a stage from which to sing. We are a couple and a team; we do our best to feed the good in one another. Clarinda is an inspiration to me in many ways.

The third corner of my life is another source of inspiration. My involvement with n-Light-n. For those of you who don’t know n-Light-n is an artist’s collective that has been in existence for a little over one year. We are as my good friend Josi puts it, “A ragtag group of space pirates determined to change the ways of a misguided society.” That just about sums us up. Within our collective we have a wide range of players, there are musicians, poets, acrobats, businessmen, eco-visionaries, dreamers, martial artists, yogis, scholars, artists of all types, vegan chefs, promoters and that’s just the core group of us. There are many more colorful people who show up here and there just to share who they are and what they are about with the collective. Finding inspiration in this group is like playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey without a blindfold underneath stadium lighting.

The fourth corner of my life is comprised of the seemingly random experiences that I enjoy on a daily basis. I try to direct my life in a manner which is consistent with me not being in my own way. If someone says to me. “Hey, Adam let’s go check out this cob wall building seminar in Topanga..?” If I don’t have anything to do at that moment I surrender to that and go with the flow. I can’t tell you how much joy this has brought me. I love the new and exciting, I am most at peace in a river of randomness. I truly believe that G-d speaks to us through others. At times it is hard to listen so loud are the drone of voices it’s most difficult to choose the right voice to follow.

So that’s pretty much what my life is about. I have a sense of direction and I am grateful for all of the great things that are in my life. I do not say this in a prideful sense, I just want to put this out there.

If the Bees Disappear so will we...

Backstory in a hurry: I've been working with Maryam who is a friend of mine in order to finance a documentary about the vanishing bees. Bee colonies across the country are down 70% from a few years ago. Basically, this should be a huge warning sign to the world. When Nature's most gentle creatures start to die... look out.

So, we have secured a $150,000 matching funds grant. What this means is that for every dollar we collect from other sources this organization will give us another dollar to finish this project and get it out there in the mainstream where it needs to be... like yesterday.

Below this post you can find all of the info on this project. Please... please help. If you know of someone or some organization who gives money to projects like this one please put them in contact with me so I can give the details. This is a professional production, there is a budget and some very amazing people behind this. The bees need us... it's time to step up to the plate.

Ideas for fundraising. If you feel like donating personally let me know. Your contribution is definitely a write-off. If you would like to host a Bee Party or a fundraiser let me know. I can help set up, find gear, DJ's, fire performers, we can DO this if the will is there and the will is most definitely there. I am heading off to the Non-Profit Resource Center to look for grant money for this. If any of you have spare time, skills or ideas please... please... share them. Back to the fundrasier thing, maybe we could pick a day next week and have simultaneous Bee Parties in different places across the globe. All monies raised for the project will be in effect doubled. Let's get cracking.

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Writer/Producer/All-around Raconteur
www.vanishingbees.com <www.vanishingbees.com>

www.youtube.com/watch
(maryam amid thousands and thousands of bees)

Sacramento Highlights
www.youtube.com/watch

Junk journey highlights 'plastic soup' of Pacific Ocean

The junk is made, literally, from junk: 15,000 plastic bottles, a Cessna cockpit, and a used sail.
(Credit: Peter Bennett/Ambient Images Inc.)

Sailing 4,000 miles on the Pacific Ocean made Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal sick. It wasn't waves that turned their stomachs, but the amount of plastic garbage they encountered on a voyage with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation earlier this year.

The activists wanted more people to share their disgust about plastic litter that swirls, relatively unexplored, in continent-size patches of ocean.

To that end, they have built a motor-less craft from 15,000 recycled beverage bottles, fishing nets, and the cockpit of a Cessna, and are sailing it more than 2,000 miles from southern California to Hawaii. They left Long Beach, Calif., on Sunday.
The sailors plan to collect samples from plastic-polluted ocean water, but this mission's main aim is to attract attention.

The sailors plan to collect samples from plastic-polluted ocean water, but this mission's main aim is to attract attention.


The 1.5-ton junk features a solar panel and wind turbine to power GPS and other devices. It's made of six pontoons each 30 feet long, filled with 2,000 soda and sports drink bottles, and triple-wrapped in used fishing nets. Twenty sailboat masts provide a frame, secured to a cabin cut from a Cessna 310 fuselage.

On the last Pacific voyage that ended in February, Eriksen and Paschal helped marine researcher Charles Moore assess the extent of pollution in the waters leading up to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of plastic debris some estimate to be as large as the United States.

In early tests, a sample showed 48 parts of plastic to each part of plankton.

"They haven't finished processing the samples, but there was an exponential increase in the plastic," said Anna Cummins, who was also aboard and serves as Algalita's education adviser. "What looked on the surface like clean water, when you pulled it up, it looked like plastic soup. It was disgusting."

Algalita researchers said the floating, soupy landfill isn't well understood because satellites can't spot the translucent particles. And although efforts by scientists to explore plastic in five gyres around the world have been lacking, interest is expanding as the public learns more.

"No one really knows what's out in the other gyres," Cummins said. "In the north Pacific alone there's Capt. Moore with his research boat. We are a small organization with five or six paid staff members."

Eighty percent of the plastic comes not from ships but from land, where tossed consumer goods eventually travel from beaches and rivers into the ocean, according to Algalita.

Plastic concentrates poisons such as PCBs at levels a million times higher than found in the water, according to Japanese researchers.

The amount of plastic produced in the United States has nearly doubled in the past two decades, according to the American Chemistry Council.

"Recycling isn't the solution," Cummins said. "We think there absolutely needs to be a reduction in the overall use and consumption of plastic."

Cummins said she backs the attention-getting adventure but feels nervous about the safety of Paschal and Eriksen, her fiance.
For more than a decade Algalita researchers have been collecting samples from the North Pacific Gyre, which traps untold amounts of plastic particles in its eddies.

For more than a decade Algalita researchers have been collecting samples from the North Pacific Gyre, which traps untold amounts of plastic particles in its eddies.
(Credit: Algalita Marine Research Foundation)

"Yes, we are risking our lives, but the issue of petroleum-based plastic and our national dependence on petroleum, warrant urgent action," noted Eriksen on a blog that will chronicle the journey.

However, he added, the sailboat masts and aluminum airplane fuselage are easy for radar to detect. "We have a better chance of being seen by big ships than typical fiberglass sailboats do."

Two satellite telephones keep the sailors in touch with the rest of the world. They also have several GPS units, VHF radios, and a Coast Guard beacon. Three months' worth of food includes a bucket of Hershey's Kisses.

It's not the first junk journey for Eriksen, who holds a doctorate in science education. After serving as a Marine in the Gulf War, he traveled the Mississippi River in a handmade raft of plastic bottles, then wrote a book about the trip.

The current odyssey is costing between $40,000 to $50,000, with big support from donations, Cummins said. Most of the bottles were given by a Burbank, Calif., recycling center. Patagonia gave the crew 500 Nalgene bottles being phased out due to concerns about bisphenol-A leaching from them.

The crew, towed first to San Nicolas Island before setting sail, encountered gale force winds Tuesday night. They plan to arrive in Hawaii in about six weeks.

Exhibit your art in our Downtown Gallery for next week's art walk...

Hey there artist friends... if you are near downtown LA and would like to show off some of your art. Please email me a short note on space and lighting requirements, along with whatever else you might need. We usually get a pretty sizable crowd at the N-Light-N gallery. Also, we will be chilling out and swinging into a dope Minimal Tech set as the evening progresses towards the inevitable after-after-after party. Please tribe me or send an email to Greenidealoft@gmail.com

P.S. if you find me I will be more than happy to discuss some of the cool things that I am learning about finding grants for individual artists. It's all about collaboration when you are applying for money.

Telemarketers will start calling you tomorrow on your cell. Take action

REMINDER....all cell phone
> numbers are being
> > released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and
> you will start to
> > receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE
> CALLS to prevent this,
> > call the following number from your cell phone:
> 1-888-382-1222 It is the
> > National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a
> minute of your time. It
> > blocks your number for five (5) years. You must
> call from the cell phone
> > number you want to have blocked. You cannot call
> from a different phone
> > number. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR
> FRIENDS. It takes
> > about 20 seconds.