The Hunger Strike: Day Five!

So I've been going almost daily to spend time with the hunger-striker in front of the Northwest Naturals building...and I have to say, by day five he has much more polished responses to the questions being directed to him. I played a "bad guy" the other day, throwing a whole bunch of questions I could foresee the media throwing at him to try and trip him up; he did very well answering most of them. He even had some really viable solutions in the green energy realm, or at least, they sounded viable to me. He talked about wave energy, wind energy, solar and biomass energy....

Below is a link where you can read a little more and hear a Earth Community Alliance member talk about what the hunger-striker Brokenfeather is doing: http://kboo.fm/node/7594

Another great link is: http://www.earthcommunityalliance.org/id32.html. This is the group that Brokenfeather belongs to.

In the last article I wrote, I was concerned that Brokenfeather's rambling message about UFOs, God and various Native beliefs might turn people away from the message of the pipelines...but the more I've sat with this guy and chatted with him, the more I've come to realize that, since nobody else is ballsy enough to stand up against the forces of evil in this world, that I'll support anyone who will, crazy or not. And, in fact, that if we look with clear eyes and pure hearts at the destruction happening in the world today, that we will perhaps lose it a little, because how could you not? Derrick Jensen talks about this in his books, the idea that the very nature of our civilization has an maddening effect.

And it does. Everywhere I look, I see the horrors of our culture/civilization and it is driving me a little mad too...I couldn't stop thinking about the dams/sea-lions/salmon/native fishermen and all the other weird twists that are part of that debacle...I mean, how to take down the dams that power the Willamette Valley, but that are simultaneously destroying the Northwest Ecosystem? My wild brain was yelling "eat the sea-lions, give the Natives back their fishing rights, and tear down as many dams as we can get away with...!" But I'm not sure what the best solutions are to any of the environmental problems we face.

So for now, I sit with the one man I know who is ballsy enough to stare evil in the face and fast and pray for the relenting of that evil...I give as much support as I can...

Love ya,
Carrot