alternative culture jam

Venerable Alternative Culture Magazine, now twenty-something, has been rebirthed in the spring of 2019 as alternative culture jam. Eclectic like its Cougar WebWorks mothership, ACJam shapeshifts into an array of words and images, sparks of inspiration, ceremonies of discovery, understanding and celebration.

You probably already know what I do and what I stand for, but just in case… I write and publish fiction and creative nonfiction, essays and haikus; I play and share organic and traditional world music; and I take and share photographs highlighting the beauty of the natural world. I also monitor and research what is going on in the world, favoring independent media and commentary. I share my sources, insights and reflections via social media, newsletters, and online and print publications. With all of the above I aim to foster a sense of the sacred in nature and living beings, clarifying core truths of our home in living spirit.

Between the larger worded works (what might be coined ChangeLit), these stopgaps stand like rough stone jetties in an ocean of novelty—daily news like a flood of waves crashing through like Rove said, some generated by his evil machinery hidden somewhere out at sea or undersea or from a remote alien base; some by Gaia herself roiling in wild rebellion and play; some by human joyriders in jet skis and whalewatching boats, in cruise ships and warships, in kayaks and sternwheelers…

Wading into the surf, I cast my words into voiced calls like seagulls overhead, into the winds if for no other purpose but to add to the cacophony; yet also, to make that voice calling in the wilderness of sound come alive in sea spray and common cause… a day otherwise like every other on the beach of our awakening, or demise, yet to be determined.

If my own identity thus becomes fragmented into droplets; such is the fate of the free spirit. If I then collect an essence to deliver to your door in a shapely vial, may we sip to your health. May the elixir of shared truth awaken a common knowing, to throw off the manacles of manufactured illusion, and step forward onto new earth, in new time, open to what our true hearts beat to share with one another.

Thanks for your support!
–Nowick Gray

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In my previous post, “Culture Jamming,” I proposed a healthy response to a toxic culture. Tune out of the manipulative messaging of the mainstream matrix, and drop into your own moment of truth, celebrating the life force within and between us and all nature.

Jamming has a dual meaning in this context: dancing with the moving moment of connection; and blocking the signals of artificial control. As “rogue journalist” Caitlin Johnstone puts in, “throwing scrap metal into the gears of the oppression machine.”

Yesterday I received a notice about a last-chance hearing on the island where I live, to approve a new communications pole that could later be fitted with 5G without further consultation. This on the heels of a wave of information lately about dangers of 5G, none of which seems to have filtered yet into the consciousness of local authorities or the population affected. So without further ado, here are some links for further research and quick education to get us up to speed.

The bottom line is obvious, right up front: We must honor the precautionary principle: “a duty to prevent harm, when it is within our power to do so, even when all the evidence is not in.” Along with this principle of stewardship comes the fundamental democratic right to give informed consent, or to withhold consent when our well-being is at risk.

Ironically the local authorities are citing public safety to justify the communications “upgrade” for emergency services. It is evident that neither they nor the public has been properly informed of the biological safety concerns around 5G.

Become informed, and in the meantime, in the immortal words of Nancy Reagan, “Just Say No.”

Arthur Firstenberg, author and administrator of the International Appeal ‘Stop 5G on Earth and in Space’ states:

“Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming. The accumulated clinical evidence of sick and injured human beings, experimental damage to DNA, cells and organ systems in a wide variety of plants and animals in large part caused by electromagnetic pollution – forms a literature of well over 10,000 peer reviewed studies.

“If the telecommunications industry’s plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are tens of hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any possibility of escape anywhere on the planet.” (Julian Rose, The New Agora)