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Originally this blog was about my student exchange to Montreal and North America (and later, south and cental america). This was the 'chaos land' of the title. However, once overseas I soon realised that Australia (and especially Sydney) was the real chaos land, -I would monitor Australian news with increasing feelings of trepidation, in reaction to all the huge and worrying political changes Australia is going through, eg industrial relations laws. So this blog is dedicated to trying to understand the chaos of this world, to find its beauty, and to direct its energy to something good and life affirming.
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So now I am in Ann Arbor, Michigan- about 3 hours from Chicago- kind of near Flint!!!
I am currently at an activist training called "project democracy" run by the League of Conservation Voters- It's very US Voter oriented, but it's still useful to me in some ways.
people are playing drinking games with cards downstairs and I am up here, in this motel room, with my eyes slowly closing from tiredness and chlorination from the indoor pool. Drinking games sometimes have too much bravado for me... but my roommate Jenny is pressuring me to come down. (almost every night she has come in absolutely drunk- one night she came in and started throwing up on the carpet under where the clothes were hanging).
Today we went out door-knocking in a small town, asking people "We need stronger laws for water conservation in the great lakes area... would you be willing to support that?". There are several cases of corporate misconduct that are leading to depletion of groundwater. CocaCola and Nestle bottle water around here. I tried to explain this to one woman, saying "Lots of big companies have been using the water resources irresponsibly" and she cut me off, saying "We don't have lots of big companies around this area". Anyway- some people just want to find the smallest thing that's wrong with what you say.
Ther local area was filled with emerald green grass (at the end of summer!!- obviously they overuse water), cornfields and big barns. There were American flags in some form on every house- some as artistic renditions of it- with stars in different places. There were also reflective balls in many gardens, often on a greek columned pedestal- I was told that this is meant to reflect the garden in its spherical shape, so it can be viewed from the house. How eccentric!
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Outiv has just taken some BEWTiful photos in the bush near Newcastle at our NSW enviro network meeting... wow...
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