Thinking about Assata, Thinking about love, freedom and collective work and responsability

Love is contraband in Hell,
cause love is a acid
that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.
The hacksaw has two blades.
The shotgun has two barrels.
We are pregnant with freedom.
We are a conspiracy.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom
It is our duty to win
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Assata Shakur / To My People / July 4, 1973

"Another World is Possible", Celebrating 23 Years of Healing Circles

Pictures by Amy Ponce, Enjoy
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ENJOY!

Delicious Fall Cleansing Recipes by Delia Quigley

After a summer of expansive foods including sugar, dairy, flour, and alcohol, your body may begin to show signs of strain with lung and sinus congestion, aching limbs, fatigue, insomnia, constipation and/or diarrhea, chronic nasal drip, bloating, gas, and consistent acid reflux. Time to clean out and tune-up the body.

According to the Chinese Five Element system autumn is the season of Metal element, governed by Lung/Large Intestine. This sets up the conditions for flu or head cold, which comes from an internal deepening as your body throws off excess mucus, toxins, and inferior oils. Foods with a sour taste help with this elimination, apple cider vinegar, lemons, limes, grapes, sauerkraut, pickles, and sourdough breads. Dairy can be in the form of goat or sheep’s yogurt, but in moderation and eaten with other foods.

Pungent foods such as spices, ginger, and black pepper support the Metal element. These stimulate the appetite and help with the assimilation of food. Include pungent taste with seasonal fall foods such as apples, grapes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collards, grapes, kale, pears, persimmons, pumpkins, winter squash, and yams.

Here are a few recipes to help get you started.

Edamame Tempeh Salad
Serves 4
3 small heads broccoli cut into florets
1 8-ounce package tempeh, cut into small cubes
½ cup arame sea vegetable, soaked in water
½ cup frozen corn
2 cups frozen edamame soybeans

Dressing: 3 tablespoons tamari soy sauce * 3 tablespoons sesame seed oil * 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil * 2 tablespoons brown rice vinegar * 1 tablespoon Mirin rice wine * 1 teaspoon Ume Plum vinegar.

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add the broccoli.
2. Return the water to boil and add the tempeh.
3. Return to boil and add the arame.
4. Return to boil and add the corn,
5. Return to boil and add the Edamame.
6. Return to boil and simmer another 6 minutes.
7. Remove from heat and strain, then run cool water over the ingredients to stop the cooking.
8. Meanwhile, whisk together the dressing and pour over the salad tossing to combine. Set aside to absorb the dressing, tossing another time before serving.

Kale Shitake Sweet Potato Soup
Yield: 6 servings

3 dried shitake mushrooms, broken into pieces
1 small sweet potato, peeled, chopped
1/2 bunch fresh kale
4 cups water or vegetable stock
1 teaspoon Mellow white miso, per cup

1. In a saucepan combine the water/broth, shitake mushrooms and sweet potato and bring to a boil.
2. Reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, wash and chop the kale into bite size pieces and add to the soup.
4. Cook until tender, another 8 minutes.
5. Dissolve a teaspoon of light miso in a bowl with a small amount of broth.
6. Ladle in the soup and serve with toasted pumpkin seeds.

Spaghetti Squash with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Yield: 4 to 6 servings

1 medium spaghetti squash
1 jar roasted red peppers, rinsed
1 clove garlic
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt to taste
Handful pine nuts, toasted

1. Set up a large, saucepan or stockpot with a steamer basket and one inch of water.
2. Halve the squash, lengthwise, then in half again.
3. Place the four pieces on the steamer basket, cover, bring to a boil and steam until tender, about 30 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, rinse the roasted red peppers with water and place in a blender with the garlic, oil and sea salt.
5. Puree until smooth.

ENJOY!
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Sisters in Healing

First World Women of Color Self Healing Circles

Celebrating 23yrs of Healing Circles
Brecht Forum 9-10

In photo lift to Right: Tati, Eugenia, Myrna, Lourdes. Haydee, Esperanza, Rosita, Akousa, Sandy, Lillian, Mina,

The Beginning Spring 1987

Urban Atabex

Painting by
Ana Maria
Hoffman

Fasting Joy

The fast has been just wonderful, it's been a week already, coming off it slowly, sending lots of love, take good care of your selves, it's all good!

Karen and me sharing a little love
Watermelon Juice with Seeds

Day 2 - HEART OF WATER - World Gratitude

Welcome Beloved One-ness,

Today, let's begin within and bless all the waters in our body. You see, as our blessed Heart beats true with Love and Gratitude, waters Will begin to mirror divinity within,creating ripples of time expressing Life sublime while thoughts projecting inner reflecting's serve to create NOW.

So just imagine ...

By flooding our bodily waters with Love and Gratitude graceful waves will ripple into all of Creation, e-motionally projecting a super-charged vibration, allowing intended
manifestations to BE.

Give thanks, for it IS so!

As you feel complete within, imagine this blessed beat flowing lovingly through others, and on to all the waters of Earth.

Feel grateful knowing Yes! you are this powerful, connected, and Divine.

NOW, as a co-creator of World Gratitude, it's time t set an intention ~ one you wish to see come into being ... uniquely suited to serve your highest good, and that of others, too.

Create a vivid image of this with your imagination. Feel it's presence, hear it's gift, taste it's treasure and see it's depth and magnificence. Love this intention as it IS now.

Give thanks, in advance, for it's manifestation while allowing the Law of Attraction to deliver this intended creation with Grace, style and ease.

Perhaps you will wish to share this in the FORUM, or on Facebook, allowing others to magnify and accelerate the arrival this possibility.

You may also choose to record it in a journal, online or written. Or ... simply close your eyes and breathe in the intention, breathe out the manifestation.

Be true to what feels right for you and all Will manifest through Love and Gratitude!

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Go Gratitude!

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"What happens if you ... allow this charged water
(intention) to constantly evaporate (breathe) into the
atmosphere where it will interact and proliferate with all
the other water molecules? Now, people and other life
forms, would be breathing in air which, of course, contains
moisture or water molecules that have been energetically
charged with our positive concepts, which in turn would
affect all the water within their bodies and so on - thus
affecting the entire planet.

If we (are yet) to achieve the "no mind" state of being
attributed to the enlightened few, why not bypass the
whole thought process altogether and let the water do
much of this work for us, while we continue to work on
ourselves? This would allow us to work on ourselves from
both the inside out and the outside in while simultaneously
slowly influencing progress in the masses".

- The Puzzle Pieces, submitted by D. Freeman.

It is during our time, through managing our
choices, that we are invited to create an outer
world that mirrors our innermost prayers and
dreams. -- Gregg Braden, The Isaiah Effect

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