Janice, I am very grateful to you today for this heads-up and wake up to personal/social responsibility that your email to all of us represents. This is a messenger manifestation of the spirit of the Order Ecumenical, and it reflects to me my responsibility to get my life direction in line with the character of your steadfast devotion to recognizing the good around such an issue as Tim's imprisonment and his future next steps. You have sent to me a spiritual imperative which I will integrate into my own next steps, beginning today! May you be well, Al Lingo Al Lingo clingojr@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Janice Ulangca <aulangca@stny.rr.com> To: Colleague Dialogue <Dialogue@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, May 28, 2013 8:06 pm Subject: [Dialogue] Bill Moyers on May 24 Colleagues, EI/ICA/O:E have always combined deep, open-minded spirituality with strategic action to make transforming change. That's what impresses me also about Tim DeChristopher's last comment. He's quite a young man. I wonder if Transitions folks would be interested in connecting with his Peaceful Uprising group. If you didn't watch Moyers & Company this past weekend, I'd recommend it. You can watch just the Tim DeChristopher half if you want - the web site allows it. At the end Bill Moyers asks Tim what he's going to do next. "I'm going to Harvard Divinity School and become a Unitarian minister. I think the keys to facing the climate disasters that will come are spiritual." Here's the link: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-going-to-jail-for-justice/ Janice Ulangca Full Show: Going to Jail for Justice May 24, 2013 Tim DeChristopher tells why he spent nearly two years in prison in the name of environmental justice, and Gretchen Morgenson discusses how banks are still too big to fail and too big to trust. In December 2008, during the closing weeks of the Bush White House, 27-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher went to protest the auction of gas and oil drilling rights to more than 150,000 acres of publicly-owned Utah wilderness. But instead of yelling slogans or waving a sign, DeChristopher disrupted the proceedings by starting to bid. Given an auction paddle designating him Bidder 70, DeChristopher won a dozen land leases worth nearly two million dollars. He was arrested for criminal fraud, found guilty, and sentenced to two years in federal prison even though the new Obama Administration had since declared the oil and gas auction null and void. DeChristopher who was released less than a month ago joins Bill to talk about the necessity of civil disobedience in the fight for justice, how his jury was ordered to place the strict letter of the law over moral conscience, and the future of the environmental movement. Bidder 70, a new documentary chronicling DeChristophers legal battle and activism, opened May 17. DeChristopher is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Peaceful Uprising. Also on the show, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgenson tells Bill that, five years after the countrys economic near-collapse, banks are still too big to fail, too big to manage, and too big to trust. Stockholders reaffirmation of Jamie Dimon as JP Morgan Chases chairman and CEO this week despite a year of accusations and investigations at the bank is further evidence, she says, of an unchecked system that continues to covet profits and eschew accountability, putting our economy and democracy at risk. Morgenson also discusses how behemoth companies like Apple manipulate the system and avail themselves of the biggest tax loopholes money and influence can buy. _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net