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Welcome to Thirdeye, hover over the chakras to navigate site. Thirdeyemag.com is currently under construction. We will be relaunching the website with a new look and new content before the end of the year. Please check back often. Features:
Letters to the Editor (Issue 22) Kudos on the PETA essay, Jason [issue 20]. I became a vegetarian because of watching a PETA video on animal factories. The basic concept of PETA is wonderful. Spreading the word about where our food comes from is great. But when they take it to the extreme they do, it makes many people raise their eyebrows and form the opinion that the people who run PETA are just a bunch of nut jobs. This is actually detrimental to their goals. I always look forward to the next edition of Thirdeye, and it makes me sad that it won't be printed any longer. Thirdeye is a magazine for intelligent, forward-thinking people. Maybe there just aren't enough of us in TC? CHRISTA I’m writing to share with you how much I have appreciated Thirdeye Magazine these last few years. While I’m sad that the response to the magazine wasn’t what you hoped for, I did want you to know a few concrete positive ways you have influenced my life, and the lives of others around me. I was so inspired by your Black Friday activism that I challenged my entire congregation (The Potter’s House) to be in solidarity with you and not shop the day after Thanksgiving. In addition, I challenged them to spend less and give ecologically friendly or peace & justice oriented gifts (if they had to give gifts at all). And the two multi-week workshops (Curing Affluenza and Unplugging The Christmas Machine) I led were all inspired by your willingness to stand up for one small thing you believe in. As an ethics instructor at NMC, I’m continually encouraging my students to get out and vote (reminding them only 60% of eligible voters voted in the 2000 election), to move beyond the mass media veneer, to think critically about the war and issues of social justice, and to fight the insular complacency that has convinced people they ‘can’t make a difference’ or that ‘someone else will do it.’ Thirdeye has continually reminded me that I am part of the change that needs to happen. So even though this is the end of the physical magazine, please know the vision, ideals and hopes will continue to spread and grow in creative and even surprising new ways. REV. COREY J SANDERSON I’m Green and a member of the Green Party of Michigan because
I agree with the Green Values and the two-party system has failed
me. Being Green is a choice I made in 1996. Twice I visited a
joint meeting of the Huron Valley Greens and U of M Student Greens
in Ann Arbor. The Huron Valley Greens are both an environmental
and electoral group. I was living in Traverse City and considering
joining a Green group in TC. My first impression of the Greens
was that I liked the people, their values, and their passion;
they reminded me of the ecology class I had in high school. In
1996 there was no Green group in Traverse City. There had previously
been a local Green Party, but it did not last. Perhaps that was
because no one could vote for Green Party candidates until 2000.
Before that, Green Party members in Michigan who ran for elected
office were likely running as non-partisan, other third parties,
or as Democrats. On Earth Day 1997, I began educating people about
the Green Party here in Traverse City at a table on Cass Street
after the “All Species Parade.” By 1998 we had a group
and began holding monthly meetings. TOM MAIR Ask not what the Democrats in Congress have done to stop the
war – ask what you can do to help them. The President is
colluding with foreign kings (the Saudis), his allies in Congress
are stealing public money (Cunningham), taking bribes (DeLay),
and whoring (Vitter). His top aides have either lied under oath
(Libby) or refused to testify (Cheney). His political allies (energy
and defense corporations) have formed a shadow government (Cheneys'
Energy Task Force). This Government is complete with a paramilitary
expeditionary force (Halliburton) and budget (historic oil and
defense profits). Your Constitutional rights have been suspended
(warrantless wiretapping) and your nation’s honor is being
pushed through a hole in the Geneva Conventions (torture). Save your outrage for the architects of this Middle East energy policy. Fill up your tank with gas and drive to the nearest Republican event. Offer them your questions and your disapproval, because I think that they need to hear it more than those who are working daily to end this war and heal this nation. ERIC PYNE Send letters to: info(at)thirdeyemag.com or PO Box 2423 TC, MI 49685 |
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