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  • I used to be a very busy lady. Now, I'm disabled and have to limit my activities. One Elder told me "It was the only way Creator could get you to slow down enough to listen."...... lol
    I read and review proposals for NSF, NASA, DoEd, NIDDK and EPA. I used to be on these traveling panels who reviewed the statewide NSF math & science initiatives. I've been on various panels with a whole host of agencies regarding how to recruit and retain more minorities into various fields of study. I've done that for corporations and Universities as well. Pretty much anything to do with math and science education in Indian country, I've been a part of over the years.
    I was an RNA jock in a past life. We were developing an animal model for AIDS research, FIV, Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. I also dabbled a bit in ribosome research, just basic research on function using radio-labeled tags. I left bench research when Buroughs-Wellcome wouldn't allow us to publish some pretty important information about AZT because of proprietary stuff. It was the final straw for me. Corporate interference in the scholarly free flow of information perverts science. Now, that's what I do, fight against bad science.
    Protein chemist eh? Good field to get into. All the DNA jocks have it wrong, protein DNA interactions is where it's at.... That's where they're going to find the most useful and intriguing answers and questions..... always more questions!
    It's nice to meet you as well. I've been gone, back home to the Belly Buttes for ceremony and really haven't "come back" fully yet. Still high :), a spiritual high.... so I haven't jumped in much on anything yet.
    I try to bring attention to Indigenous issues when it's appropriate. My expertise is in healthcare and I'm reading the various proposals out there and almost ready to jump in on those kinds of discussions. I have some thoughts on some of the education posts I'd like to get into as well.
    Hrm, I'm an enrolled member of the Kainah (Mountain Chief) Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Three of the Bands are in Canada, the Kainah (they call us the Blood from the Blood Reserve), the Siksika and Northern Pikuni. One Band is in the US, the Southern Pikuni or the Blackfeet Nation of Montana.
    I really appreciate your thoughtful, well-reasoned posts. YOur comments on the Palestinian family today were excellent. I'd never seen it like that, and it made sense.
    I have been somewhat under the weather so have not been posting much. I will be better in a few days I think. Hugs thanks for the check up.
    I am sure that the youth will put it over the top. The old ways are passing away and the new are taking over. This is good for all of us. It is time we move ahead.
    It will come to us in time. i think back to 1969 and realize how far gay lesbian rights have come. We have accomplished much in a very short time.
    She has been working on same sex marriage cases for years. The defeat in CA is tough on her. It will be okay we will get there.

    I have been a socialist since I was in HS. i did a report on Engels Book The Ideology for English I was maybe 14. I came out to my mom and dad as gay in 1964 when I was 12. It was a tough time to be gay as it was illegal and they could put you in a mental hospital. I lived for a while in Chicago and worked with the Black Panthers. I knew Fred Hampton and a lot of the other Leaders of the movement. I was there in Chicago when the Police murdered my friend Fred.

    I have have supported with Alice every movement that enhanced life for the people. We belong to a socialist community and the commune owns a farm now and a school that will take in the kids from a rural area.

    That is us in a nutshell..
    Alice is a Harvard attorney that works for the ACLU. We met 39 years ago. We were both maids at a small hotel. We put each other through university. I went to Brown. I was always an activist more than she. I was an anti war protester. I belonged to the GLF the first gay rights movement in the US. We both marched in the first Gay pride parade in NY City back in 1970. I have been to jail far more than she has. LOL
    She would bail me out. We have lived together 37 years this week.

    I have terrible health. I have a very bad heart. The last year has been tough on us. Her dad passed away. I had lost both of my legs from a beating I took in 1972 from an over zealous police officer in Cleveland. I am learning to walk on my prosthetic legs now. Her mom has come to live with us.
    There is a lot of good information out there. It is best to form your own style. There are a lot of paths to follow. The world has not seen true socialism. It is steeped in bastardizations of the truth. Jesus was in fact a socialist revolutionary. I agree with that. He talked about the fall of the powers that be. He was non violent so he was looking for a peaceful change to the social system. People found that religious variance and brought down his true through manipulation.

    I have never been very musical either. I have always been an English speaker. I have Alice to translate for me.
    I have a friend that works for the news agencies and she has been everywhere. She lives in Israel now. Her and her wife and son are now traveling Africa with National Geographic.
    Alice and I started our travels a long time ago. On our 10th anniversary we decided that we were going to take in a country a year. We did Italy then we did Spain. On our 12th we did France and never went anywhere else except on shorter side journeys. We have actually been all over Europe. But most of the time is at the house in Marseilles.
    In the area that we are in we know all the people so are not seen as foreigners. We are one with them as we have been there for 25 years. I think that tourists are doing better now that Bush is out of office.
    That is the difference between socialism and capitalism. In a socialistic climate I have what I need why do I need more. If I have food and a glass of wine and a roof over my head why do I need to more. My neighbor can have more so that she has a glass of wine and food and a roof.

    The constant need to keep up with the Jones family or to be the Jones family is bs. I don't need that no one does. This is the life that the capital society gives up. We trade life and joy for work and work.
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