Update. This just in: Due to the weather, GrooveFest has been rescheduled for June 13.
I’ve been in Oklahoma since 2003, and haven’t been to this event yet. It sounds like one of the most progressive things in the state, but then, that’s relative, and it’s Norman.
What is Groovefest?
Groovefest is Norman’s one and only Human
A big part of the reason I haven’t been blogging much is that I just feel like I don’t have the ability or opportunity these days to do enough reading and research to post anything of value to the discussion. For example: The conservative conspiracy theory du jour, led by Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, regarding emails stolen from the… Read the rest
Anti-MAPS video made by my friend David.
This sounds like an interesting project:
During the January ice storm, Twitter served as a powerful reporting tool – crowdsourced news. What if we had used it to find people who needed help, then organized to help them? So, I’m proposing that Central Oklahoma Twitter-ers think about how we can make our own “service club.” We can’t save the
“Every year, more than 28,000 acres of Oklahoma’s prime farmland is lost to development.”
STATE HIGHLIGHTS
Number of Farms 83,300
Number of Government Subsidy Recipients 40,249
Oklahoma’s Share of U.S. Agricultural Production 2%
Oklahoma’s Share of U.S. Subsidy Payments 2%
Conservation Funding Shortfall $125,965,212
Democracy Now! is finally airing in Oklahoma, though many residents will not be in a area where they can pick up the signal on a radio. For them, there is a live stream on KCCU’s site.
KCCU is a non-profit station run out of Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, and is broadcast in/at:
Lawton-Ft. Sill 89.3 & 102.9
I got a email today from my friend, writer and Oklahoma firebrand extraordinaire, Rachel Jackson:
I have some important news I’d like to share with you. The first issue of the Oklahoma Revelator: A People’s Almanac and Cultural Quarterly is now online at www.oklahomarevelator.com. The Oklahoma Revelator is published jointly by Red Flag Press (owned and operated by
I firmly believe that one person can change the world, and this story illustrates how it can happen.
James Brett took a business trip to Pakistan in 1999 and, as a recovering addict, made a connection between his first taste of pomegranate juice and the burgeoning heroin trade coming out of the poppy fields along the roads in parts of… Read the rest
