Vinos at Rakinos

Thu 28th Feb		Foghorn		Rakinos, 1st Floor 35 High St.
Fri 3rd Mar		Foghorn		Mecca, Chancery Place, High St.
-		SJD gig coming soon no doubt!		TBA

I'm playing (tonight) this thursday at Rakinos - $5 cover. Then again nexy week at Mecca. I've been checking out video activism on the 'net and uncovering the CIAs involvment with crack, and other not so surprising conspiracy theories!

Site 'O The Day:
On the benefits of small farms:
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1999/w99v6n4.html
If we turn toward the Third World we find similar local benefits to be derived from a small farm economy. The Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a grassroots organization in Brazil that helps landless laborers to organize occupations of idle land belonging to wealthy landlords. When the movement began in the mid-1980s, the mostly conservative mayors of rural towns were violently opposed to MST land occupations in surrounding areas. In recent times, their attitude has changed. Most of their towns are very depressed economically, and occupations can give local economies a much needed boost. Typical occupations consist of 1,000 to 3,000 families, who turn idle land into productive farms. They sell their produce in the marketplaces of the local towns and buy their supplies from local merchants.