DECEMBER 1, 2023 THINK ABOUT IT 10 days that shook the world Looking at history as it spills into current events, one of the best observers and analysts was V. I. Lenin, whose writings and activities around WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution are legendary. He once commented, “There are decades when nothing happens and there are days when decades happen.” One of the best reporters of that time was John Reed, who went to Russia to report on the revolution as it was happening in 1917. He died in Russia in 1920 and is buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Phil Carroll, a lifelong peace activist from Ann Arbor, visited his grave in 1973 when he went to a World Peace Council meeting in Moscow. John Reed wrote “Ten Days That Shook The World,” a feet-on-theground, fully engaged report about the Bolshevik revolution, which began during World War One. When the war ended, the allies fought in the bloody civil war against the Bolsheviks who won in 1923 and socialism struggled to mature until the time of Gorbachev, when the experiment was changed by Yeltsin into the age of oligarchs and collusion with financial globalism. The commonwealth, including large gold reserves, disappeared in a privatization frenzy that caused great suffering for the people of the former Soviet Union. Putin is popular in part because he broke the chokehold the oligarchs violence that engulfs our world is the task before us. Breathe peace and move towards a peaceful convergence as we learn that “the struggle makes us human.” If we practice mind training we can begin preparing for a mass meditation sit-down strike. This could create the conditions for KEN PARKS Groundcover vendor No. 490 had on the people. Humans often tolerate — and even promote dysfunctional illusions — for generations before reality erupts and a sane world arises. A new social body is born and struggles to mature. Some die prematurely but a memory may persist as in the Paris Commune, an inspiration from the heart and mind of the working class, which shook the world for 3 months in 1871. Our power of creativity is deep and real. Luiza Duarte Caetano, one of our Groundcover volunteers, is doing a thesis on a novel by Louise Michel which was born from her experience in the Paris Commune. Your engaged participation can make a difference as the American experiment in freedom faces a war machine of our own making. Taking responsibility for our collective actions and making good choices amid the a peace conference on composting the war machine. Eventually, the culture of war will go from “swords into plowshares” as we grow the inner and outer peace that so many of us want. Awaken to the love within you and let it flow. Groundcover News will help. The world may simmer for a while before it boils over and starts shaking. "The Silent Coup, How Corporations Rule the World” is the book that shows the level of struggle we are in today. Honduras is heroic now. Mark Kennard, one of the authors is with Chris Hedges in a podcast that will give you great insight into this world and the struggle for freedom. I hope to see some of you at the vigil every Friday at 5:30 p.m. on the corner of Liberty and Fifth. GROUNDCOVER NEWS 11 There are food hubs in Ann Arbor HEALTH from last page kids to their activities and they don't have time," Ruesink said. "Then they run around trying to work their two jobs and their side hustle trying to make ends meet so they need that fast food or that convenience to just get through the day." Start small, such as walking or taking the bus to save on fuel and parking expenses. Use all the shopping options available to take advantage of sales and discounts at each location, stores, farmer's markets, food hubs and directly from farmers. Grow your food at a community garden. "Growing their own food would probably help even at a small scale,” Ruesink said, “ and I say that because of the joy and the peace and the mental health that it brings, from gardening and getting your hands in the dirt. There are so many good things in getting nutrient-dense local food into local people. I think there's a lot of people doing a lot of good things in a lot of little places." (Washtenaw Food Hub) and Ypsilanti (Growing Hope). There is also the Ann Arbor People's Food Co-op and the Ypsilanti Food Co-op. Many local farms sell directly to the public from their farms or at the Farmer's Markets, also in both cities. The Ypsilanti Winter Indoor Farmer's Market only runs until Dec. 16. Online is year-round with pickup on Tuesdays from 3-7 p.m. at the Farmer's Marketplace, 16 S. Washington. The Ann Arbor Farmers Market, 315 Detroit St., is open 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturdays and Wednesdays through December and 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Saturdays from January to April. Shops such as Argus Farm Stop only sell local food, allowing farmers to price their products and receive 70% of the selling price. Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, as well as the food co-ops and the Farmers Markets in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are examples of food communities working together, albeit with fierce competition. Various prepared foods sold at Argus come from entrepreneurs who use the Growing Hope incubator kitchen and local farmers. Growing Hope, a non-profit, runs the Ypsilanti Farmers Market, and Tantré Farms runs the Washtenaw Food Hub. The Ann Arbor PFC advertises "Meet the locals," promoting Garden Works, Revolution Farms, Tantré Farms, Community Farm, Needle-Lane Farms and We The People Opportunity Farm. The Ypsilanti Winter Indoor Farmer's Market on Nov. 18 included farmers from Good Medicine Farms (Norris Stephens), Karpo Farms (Steve Karpo), Hobby Gardening (Alvaro Perez), Fungi Revival (Mel Havelka and Tonya Harris), Taylor Honey Farms (Neil and Deborah Taylor), SS Family Produce and Health Harvest Farm (Fred and Tina Peebles). There are many community gardens.
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