http://www.climatejusticefast.com/index.php/blog/ en paulrobertconnor@gmail.com Copyright 2010 2010-07-07T17:03:55+00:00 http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/a-fisherwomans-story-diane-wilson-day-24/ http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/a-fisherwomans-story-diane-wilson-day-24/#When:10:53:53Z A video-update from Diane Wilson, describing her history of activism, her history of hunger-strikes, and why she believes in the Climate Justice Fast. 2009-11-30T10:53:53+00:00 http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/slurping-steak-through-a-straw/ http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/slurping-steak-through-a-straw/#When:16:16:03Z This is day 15 of a hunger strike and I don't know why coffee isn't allowed. Well, actually coffee is allowed on some hunger strikes. Dick Gregory, a very famous American hunger striker, once told me that on a liquid hunger fast (not a water only fast) you can drink anything you can poke in a blinder. I suppose if you could cram a steak down the blender and you could slurp a steak through a straw. He also told me to be sure and change my clothes everyday because a faster's body is sweating toxins and my clothes were full of toxins.  Sorry, Dick, but I'm wearing three day toxic jeans. My strike is water only. I like keeping it real real simple because my mind gets foggy and I'm liable to forget what I'm eating. I might forget and eat some cheese enchiladas! So water is water is water. As far as the fast is going, I'm doing fine and dandy, but my voice getting a little hoarse, mouth gets dry as heck, and energy is less and less each day. I was offered a little sight seeing tour around Berlin but I didn't want to have to walk so I turned it down.I'm in Berlin and tomorrow I travel to Copenhagen to wait on the climate talks. I'm enclosing a picture of me delivering Ethecon's Black Planet Award to Monsanto in 2006. But last night I delivered the Black Planet Award to Formosa Plastics. So see how much Monsanto and Formosa Plastic have in common! They're both destroying the planet. 2009-11-22T16:16:03+00:00 http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/why-i-am-fasting/ http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/why-i-am-fasting/#When:23:10:57Z When I talk about my reasons for going on a long hunger fast, people often look at me like I’m crazy and I’m reluctant to correct them because fasts are difficult to explain. But I will explain, again. Before the hungerstrikes, my life belonged to the bay. My dad and his Dad and his Dad were commercial fishermen so I was the daughter of a son of a son of a son of a fisherman. Then, too, growing up on a Texas bay and having a Cherokee grandfather who liked talking with the dolphins and spotting moon signs in the sky before night turned to day made me into something of a mystic..   I remember being out on the shrimp boat with my daddy and feeling my skin stretch and thin like fog, leaving gaping holes that the waves and wind would run into and the sea would fill until my blood was so thick with salt that I could taste it on my tongue. At night, we anchored in a far far bay where sea horses hid under the rocks and pink sea birds dined on oysters and I’d lay on top of the wheel house with a blanket up to my nose, and it was like going to bed with a hunk of seaweed and deck load of shrimp and fish and crabs.  I didn’t need a sleeping pill.  The smell knocked me out.    I learned a lesson or two on the bay.  How to spot shrimp from a mile away.  (Look for the sea gulls!) What does a watermelon smell on the bay mean? (trout just threw up)  How to tell if a squall was gonna knock your boat over or lay down as harmless as a kitten. (anybody’s guess) But the best lesson that came home to roost was that boundaries were lies. There was no separation or division. No brick wall that divided San Antonio Bay from Spirit Center Bay. Nothing to keep the sky from the water or the wind from the sea. Nothing to keep one person from a billion others.  There was just flow and continuity of water and moon and dolphins and ratty ole captains in ratty ole shrimp boats hauling boogie across the bay to find those most elusive shrimp.    2009-11-16T23:10:57+00:00