Parkrose Permaculture

Are you experiencing fatigue when it comes to consuming the endless newscycle… and pundits breaking it down? I’m tired of watching it and tired of making it.

What kind of content would you like to watch? What would be most meaningful and helpful for you? Please let me know in the comments.

10 hours ago | [YT] | 2,708

Parkrose Permaculture

What content would you like to see from me on this channel over the next month? OR give me other suggestions in the comments. Thank you!

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Parkrose Permaculture

I'll be LIVE today at 3pm Pacific to chat about ANYTHING you walk to discuss re: American politics, resistance, life in these United States

youtube.com/live/Ay_gV7R_TbI?feature=share

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Parkrose Permaculture

Join me on LIVE today at 3pm for my weekly permaculture AMA. Bring all your gardening, beekeeping, permaculture etc questions!!

5 days ago | [YT] | 934

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Hey, I got my video fixed and it's up now. All it took was bleeping out one phrase 3 times, thank goodness.

I am not sure how many folks are aware that in the Before Times, I talked about parenting A LOT on this channel. We are non-authoritarian parents. That means we don't believe in punishment, obedience, we don't hit our kids, we don't ground them, we don't use punitive or coercive parenting techniques.

How we have raised our four kids (now ages 15-23) is a total 180 departure from how I was raised with...wait for it....very strict old school German-style parenting. It's also a total departure from how MOST kids are raised in the US.

I am happy to answer questions on how this kind of parenting works IRL, but I'm also perennially interested in the question: "How would our society be different if we raised our kids with dignity, autonomy, and respect? What would be different if we didn't rely on coercion, shame, and punishment when raising human beings?" Beacause the thing is...we know what American parenting gets us: fascism. Just like German parenting got them fascim in WW2. It also gets us cycles of trauma, shame, and abuse. It also creates humans with maladaptive behaviors and fractures our connection to ourselves, our own kids, and society.

Anyway, please check out my latest video on this subject, and thanks for watching:

https://youtu.be/86XRGEnT2kE

6 days ago | [YT] | 88

Parkrose Permaculture

Morning! Apologies for my vid disappearing. It was approved by YouTube and the minute it published, it was demonetized. I took it private to appeal. Hopefully it will be back up soon!

Pic of Martha for attention.

6 days ago | [YT] | 3,745

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Hi, folks. I hope you all are doing well this morning. I had a rough night with hospice dog (long story with lots of poop everywhere in the wee hours and not much sleep), and am working on my final video about the Platner campaign (I have two already on ‪@ParkroseResistance‬ but think it's good to put one up here with some final thoughts now that I've had time to re-read the progress of this story in the press, and rewatch my old videos and read hundreds of comments on my vids and posts.). It should be out soon. Please keep in mind that human beings who make content online have real lives and if you don't get the instantaneous reply you or another creator demands, that is an indication of one thing: that that human has other things going on in their actual real life.

I am concerned at how social media is handling this topic on all sides. I'm so sad to see so many men still supporting him in the comments. I'm frustrated at the bad faith arguments and false accusations flying on all sides. It feels like the bad actors at play are succeeding in causing the chaos and division they're hoping for.

My questions for all of us (myself included) are:
1. What are the lessons here?
2. How do we salvage this race for another candidate? Because it's not a foregone conclusion that Collins will win.
3. What are we hoping for? What are we working toward?

1 week ago | [YT] | 3,938

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I realized I posted 2 videos about this today on ‪@ParkroseResistance‬ but folks might not have seen them. So I want to make it clear here: Graham Platner should drop out.

While I never endorsed Platner and expressed concerns about him repeatedly, I did make multiple videos about his platform and obvious potential, as well as the clear effort from the right and establishment Dems to take him down - especially when the DSA got behind him. I want to be clear that under no circumstances could I lend any support to his candidacy after what I read in The Politico today.

I loathe Collins and was thrilled at the idea of Mainers voting her out. Mainers get to decide their representation, and they were excited about Platner. I cannot imagine how angry and upset they are tonight. I hope they can rally and get behind someone else asap.

Platner's story was a compelling one: a flawed person who was radicalized against the military industrial complex by his military service. A regular man trying to improve himself and make amends. Not only has he (allegedly) harmed a woman, and harmed progressive anti-billionaire politics, and further imperiled democracy, but he has also made it immeasurably more difficult for anyone with a past that isn't pristine and carefully crafted by the establishment to run for office. Every American is once bitten, twice shy now.

The hubris of men like Platner. And Swalwell. And so many more. To think the harm they do to women won't catch up to them. It doesn't for republicans. But sometimes it does for Dems.

Democracy can recover from this. But it's definitely not a good day. Folks have a right to be upset. It's time to help more women run for office. As I said in my second video today on this subject: maybe it's time for a matriarchy.

1 week ago | [YT] | 6,862

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I'll be LIVE at 3pm Pacific today for my weekly American Resistance AMA. Bring all your questions and whatever you want to chat about.

In the coming weeks I'll be moving my Monday resistance lives to my side channel ‪@ParkroseResistance‬ but for today I'll be LIVE here!

1 week ago | [YT] | 10,840