tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51247612611239627892024-03-12T18:25:53.408-07:00VowToAwakenThe New MovementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124761261123962789.post-745667933387781792018-04-03T15:18:00.000-07:002018-04-03T15:18:04.768-07:00Fire Life Circle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Fire Life Circle<br />
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A program of powerful healing--bringing the rejuvenating processes of yoga, group sharing, and meditation to US veterans suffering from depression and PTSD.<br />
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Outline for First Program:<br />
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1. Introductions. We meet each other. Round robin, in a circle. (10 min).<br />
2. Physical warm up. We warm up our bodies, stretch, loosen muscles, do light yoga together, shake out any stiffness that may be present. Similar to athletic warm-up. (15 min)<br />
3. Gratitude Circle. We come into a circle and begin to develop more of a "group mind" or "teamwork consciousness" by going around the circle -- with everyone sharing one or two things they are grateful for today. One minute each, or less. Positive energy is ultimately created in the room, creating a space for something more. (15 min)<br />
4. Kaleidoscope Community Yoga-- The group then initiates three or four group mandala poses in the Kaleidoscope yoga tradition. This is a group exercise that leads to feelings of interconnectedness and shared energy in a shared space. These mandala poses can also be very healing and stimulating, a form of platonic group care and love. Positive energy and feelings are further built in the room. (20 min)<br />
5. Group meditation. Using bells and incense to further build positive energy in the room, we do a group meditation for 20 minutes. If the group elects to have a 10 minute "interval bell" the meditation can be broken up into two sessions. We let go of hurt, pain, resentment, suffering, guilt and shame, and focus on breathe, fire, and the present moment. (20 min)<br />
6. Sharing. A speaker is selected from the group, to share their experiences with trauma, war, and violence. After a 15 minute share, everyone else in the group shares and relates to the speaker, usually pointing out similarities of experience. A feeling of commonality and brotherhood or family is developed. (30 min)<br />
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Total run time:<br />
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100 minutes</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124761261123962789.post-79838774427542440572016-10-03T10:55:00.001-07:002016-10-03T10:55:26.393-07:0025,000 in Print: New Marketing Device from LoftBedsNYC.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5124761261123962789.post-15046594840316502832016-08-14T06:23:00.003-07:002016-08-14T06:23:49.133-07:00My Life Purpose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My Life Purpose<br />
Sander Hicks<br />
8/14/16<br />
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To set hearts aflame<br />
burning with a love of justice<br />
on the path to higher consciousness<br />
I am the music maker<br />
the singer who gets the crowd singing<br />
the leader<br />
the articulator of a vision of justice<br />
the non-conformist<br />
embracing secret knowledge<br />
publishing it in daylight.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I want to take a few
moments this morning and write down why this show, tonight, March 15
is so important. First of all, it's a political benefit for the
refugees in Syria. The show will benefit Doctors Without Borders
there. And I got the idea to make it a benefit from David Rovics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">David is an old
friend, who played the Vox Pop coffeehouse in Brooklyn several times.
He is in the middle of a world tour to raise awareness about
refugees. David has a special knack for taking complex political
issues and writing a succinct and moving and melodic song about them.
I can think of several instances when I was moved from cold apathy to
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<span style="font-size: small;">Take “Jenin” for
example, which tries to understand the world from the point of view
of a Palestinian suicide bomber, who loses his parents and school to
Israeli bombers and bullbozers, and then makes a choice to sacrifice
his life for the cause. A part of you says “yikes” is this
pro-terrorist? But a part of you feels empathy for the causes and
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<span style="font-size: small;">Similarly, “Promised
Land” was a song written after 9/11 when Rovics dared to consider
the 9/11 event from the point of view of Mohamed Atta, the “lead
hijacker.” And if you are of the persuasion that the real lead
hijacker is secret government imperialism, Rovics wrote that song
too: “Reichstag Fire” was his 9/11 truth-attracted line of
inquiry. Here, he asks if 9/11 was a new “Luisitania” or “the
latest Reichstag Fire” referring to the false flag events that
started World War I, and Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
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are a hell of a lot of fun, too. Like when he gets the crowd to chant
along in “three cheers and a grunt” for the Earth Liberation
Front. Or when he gets the crowd rollicking back in forth in a
swaying waltzy 6/8 time to “St. Patrick's Battalion” a memorial
to the 175 Irish and Catholic immigrants who deserted the US Army and
switched sides in the bloody US Mexican War of 1846-1848. It's a song
that romanticizes what some would call an act of betrayal, but Rovics
is right: The US Mexican War was all about grabbing huge chunks of
land away from Mexico. That's how the U.S. “acquired” (aka
“stole”) the entire SouthWest and California. The fact that 175
disadvantaged, immigrant, working-class people had the brains to see
that, and the hearts to give up their lives, and really do something
about it, is a little-known fact worth celebrating. They didn't
betray the USA. They betrayed US imperialism. And you can't beat
David's boom bap bap boom bap bap 6/8 time, his searing melody, his
sing-along, we-are-all-in-this-together spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">David is reporting
constantly about violence. Violence surrounds us. It penetrates our
lives, our political rhetoric, our presidential candidates are varied
extremes this year, from a fascist to a socialist, but no one dares
stand up to Violence. I personally wish David would embrace the
revolutionary path of the heart and embrace Gandhian “Truth Force”
akak “Satyagraha” - the spiritual path of non-harming,
nonviolence. But he's on a world tour and he's got his own path.
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violence so much, and you really see the world – well, you want
something fresher and new. Truth Force is the path I have personally
chosen, for my politics and my life. And I think it's where you
eventually end up, when you dig as deep as David digs in his songs
and his work.</span></div>
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one month of which is in Europe. It's going great in terms of
the gigs. But I got the flu a few weeks ago and that made it
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this case focus heavily on refugees, currently and throughout
history. How far? If by that you mean geographically, I
guess the furthest away from Portland that the tour took me was maybe
Munich...? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've been writing almost nothing about how much I want to kill my
landlord lately. I think I've written ten songs on that subject
in the past few weeks, though I haven't really finished any of them.
As far as the most recent songs I've actually finished, the topics
were Hillary Clinton (is not a progressive), I want to kill my
landlord (I did finish one of those songs), and Donald Trump is a
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes. Despite the fact that New
York City has become a playground for the rich and a shell of its
former self, I still have many good memories associated with the city
in which I was born, and I always like to play there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">PIANOS
and Sander Hicks, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">A
Benefit Concert for Doctors Without Borders, Syria</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Now
is the time for New Yorkers to stand with the refugees.</span></span></span></div>
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massive unmet needs inside Syria, Doctors Without Borders should be
running some of the biggest operations in its history. But the scale
of the violence and the fast-moving nature of the conflict limits our
ability to work inside Syria . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
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these significant constraints, MSF continues to operate medical
facilities inside Syria, as well as directly supporting more than 150
medical structures throughout the country . . . the needs
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">David
Rovics, Jeffrey Lewis, and Friends</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">"Absolutely
brilliant. David Rovics says exactly what needs to be said."</span></span></span></div>
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McMillan, BBC</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">David
Rovics is the missing moral conscience of the USA. He is a pro-peace,
pro-reform, musical revolutionary. He is able to write about Bush's
deception in Iraq, or the tragedy of the hurricane in New Orleans
with a soaring emotional melody and a certain moral intuition.</span></span></span></div>
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Norman L. Hicks<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Robert
Hicks arrived at Plymouth Mass. on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>November 11, 1621, on the ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fortune</i>, the second ship to reach the
new colony after the Mayflower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Originally Robert was to sail with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflo</i>wer on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Speedwell</i>,
but this ship proved unseaworthy and he had to delay his departure until 1621<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result Robert missed the first
Thanksgiving by about two weeks. He was a leather dresser from Bermondsey, Southwark,
near London. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father, James Hicks,
was lineally descended from Ellis Hicks, who was knighted by Edward, the Black
Prince on the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356 for bravery in capturing a set of
colors from the French. From Ellis Hicks comes the family coat of arms, and the
family motto <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nondum metam</i>, “not yet
the goal”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. A
picture of Ellis Hicks, at age 90, was still hanging in Witcombe Hall in 1909,
the home of Sir William Hicks-Beach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Margaret Winslow, the wife of
Robert, and their children, arrived on the ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne</i>, which arrived at Plymouth during the latter part of June,
1622. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family settled in Plymouth and Duxbury<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
Mass. Robert was a friend of Miles Standish, among others<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of his death, he was living on
land originally owned by John Alden. Robert had five children by his first
wife, Elizabeth Morgan, and four by his second wife, Margaret Winslow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John, the son of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert and Elizabeth was educated at Oxford
and followed his father to Massachusetts in 1635. John Hicks married four
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His first wife was Horod or
Herodias Long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horod, became an ardent
Quaker and she and John separated and divorced in Rhode Island. She subsequently
remarried to George Gardiner in a Quaker ceremony. On May 11, Horod was
traveling as a nursing mother from Newport to Weymouth to give religious
testimony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was arrested and jailed on
the charge of adultery, as Quaker marriages were not recognized in
Massachusetts. She was then sentenced by Gov. John Endicott to receive ten
lashes and 14 more days in jail. The Puritans, having been victims of religious
persecution, were quick also to deal in it. At the end, after the punishment
had been carried out, the record showed that Horod kneeled down and prayed the
Lord to forgive Gov. Endicott. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1642, John Hicks migrated to
Hempstead, Long Island. His son Thomas(b. 1640) had twelve children, and the
majority of old Long Island Hickses are descended from this family. Thomas’ son
Jacob was a captain in the revolutionary war, and the grandfather of Elias
Hicks (1748-1830) the famous Quaker preacher. Several of Jacob’s children
joined the Society of Friends.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Thomas’ son Isaac moved to New York, and became a very successful merchant and
commission agent, engaging in trade with Europe and up and down the American
coast<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. After
amassing a considerable fortune, he moved to Westbury where he built a large
house and became more directly involved with the affairs of the Westbury
Meeting. Isaac is my direct ancestor. His son James would be my
great-great-great grandfather. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During the Revolutionary War, the
Hickses were on both sides, and in the middle as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Devout Quakers refused to fight for
independence, causing animosity with their neighbors. Many were Tories who
supported the Crown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there were
those who were either not Quakers or not so devout that did support the
cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these was John Hicks, descended
from a brother of Robert Hicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
participated in the Boston Tea Party. He lived in Cambridge and responded to
the call to arms issued at Lexington, April 19, 1775, even though he was fifty
years old at the time. He was engaged in delaying the advance of the British by
removing the planks from the main bridge over the Charles River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With others from the town, he set up an
ambush for the retreating British troops, but were surprised when the British
outflanked them<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. He was
shot dead on the corner of Massachusetts and Rindge Avenues, along with two
companions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A monument exists today
marking the spot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jacob was also the forefather of
Henry Hicks, the founder of Hicks Nurseries in Westbury, which has been in
business for about 148 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theodore
Roosevelt’s wife ordered plants from Hicks’ Nurseries, and the receipt can be
seen today at the house on Sagamore Hill, which is today a national park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thomas’ son John apparently had three sons
who left Long Island and settled in Granville County, North Carolina.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, Hickses from the same ancestors were
found on both sides of the civil war, although many Long Island Hickses, being
Quaker, did not fight. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The strong Quaker belief in
abolition, however, meant that many Quakers participated in the “underground
railway” which helped runaway slaves escape to Canada and Nova Scotia. One
important stop on this system was the “Old Place” in Westbury, on Post Ave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This house, which was built in 1695, was then
owned by Joseph and Lydia Hicks, and their children recount the secret comings
and goings at night which were later revealed to be their parents feeding and
sheltering runaway slaves. The house still stands, but is no longer in the
Hicks family.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Hero to the young Walt Whitman</td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Elias Hicks was a popular preacher,
and attracted many large audiences.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Walt
Whitman’s parents took him to hear Elias when he was a boy. Walt was 10 at the
time and Elias was 81, and a year from his death. Nevertheless, the power of
Elias preaching made an indelible mark on young Walt, who noted that in the end
“Many, very many, were in tears”.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
His teaching eventually led to a split in the Society of Friends, with Elias’
followers known as a the liberal wing or “Hicksite” Quakers. His emphasis was
on the “Inward Light”, and the idea that the “entire work and process of
salvation is within man”</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In Whitman’s words, “Elias [speaks] to the
religion inside of man’s own nature. This he incessantly labors to kindle,
nourish, educate, bring forward and strengthen.” </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Elias
fought hard against slavery and was instrumental in finally having it abolished
in New York State. He traveled widely up and down the East Coast, preaching
abolition and reform. Many of the traditional Quaker meetings branded him as a
heretic, and refused to hear him. Most Long Island Quakers were “Hicksite”. Elias’
house is now the Milleridge Inn in Jericho. Elias married a first cousin once
removed, Sarah Hicks. Elias’ father and Sarah’s grandfather were brothers.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Elias
and his family were known to provide unlimited hospitality to travelers, a
service for which they did not charge</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.</span><br />
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Another famous Hicks is Edward
Hicks (1780-1849), the painter, known particularly for his rendition of “The
Peaceable Kingdom”, a painting which he produced some 80 times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is now considered one of the best
primitive painters of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, although he was largely
forgotten and only rediscovered in the 20<sup>th</sup>. Edward was also a
descendent of Isaac Hicks and a cousin of Elias and Valentine Hicks. His grandfather,
Gilbert, was Isaac Hicks’ son.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Gilbert was a Tory, and fled with the British to Nova Scotia at the end of the
Revolutionary War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edward was raised in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he became a Quaker, and worked a decorator of
carriages and maker of signs. He also toured as a Quaker preacher.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elias’s daughter Abigail married
Valentine Hicks in 1804.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valentine and
Abigail were <span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">second cousins, as Abigail’s grandfather John Hicks, and Valentine’s grandfather Benjamin Hicks, were brothers, sons of Jacob Hicks.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><br />
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Valentine
and his family lived in a large house in the middle of Jericho, which is now
the Maine Maid Inn. In 1837 he was elected second president of the Long Island
Rail Road, and was influential in bringing the railroad out to Long Island. Valentine
purchased large amounts of land in mid-Long Island, and formed the Hicksville
Land Association which laid out streets and sold lots. Apparently, there was
some debate on the route to be taken, some favoring a more northerly route to
Oyster Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valentine preferred the
plains route, which would eventually link to Greenport and provide a connection
to Boston, avoiding the hills of Connecticut. He persisted in his version,
which took the railroad to the middle of Long Island, and coincidently to land
which he owned.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> In
March, 1837 the Long Island Rail Road station was opened with the name
“Hicksville”, probably in his honor, although there are some who claim the
reference was to Elias and the Hicksite Quakers. For a number of years the
railroad ended in Hicksville until it was eventually extended all the way to
Greenport, which was reached in 1844. The trip from New York to Boston could be
done in ten hours, including a two hour ferry ride across Long Island
Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, four years later a rival
railroad succeeded in building a more direct line along the Connecticut shore,
and the LIRR lost its New York – Boston business. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The town of Hicksville, despite the
railroad, remained fairly dormant in its first years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1849 Frederick Heyne and John Heitz
purchased over 1,000 acres in the Hicksville area, laid out streets and sold
home sites. In 1850, the first public school was erected, and a Lutheran church
was established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A post office was
established in 1855, and the cornerstone for a Catholic church laid in 1859.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My Family<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Our family is descended from
Thomas’ third son Isaac (1676-1745, see annex for complete family tree). The
famous Hickses such as Elias, Valentine, Edward and Henry are not my
“ancestors”, since I am not descended from them. However, we all have common
roots in Robert Hicks, and his son John, and his son Thomas. My grandfather was
James K. Hicks (1845-1919) who was a blacksmith and postmaster in Jericho, NY.
James had three wives, five children by the first, none by the second, and
seven by the last (Annie Lawrence). Of the children of Annie Lawrence was my
father, Norman Lee Hicks, born on July 4, 1898. I remember him telling me that
Theodore Roosevelt would ride down to Jericho from Sagamore Hill to have his
horses shod at his father’s shop. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My father drove a team of horses to
deliver food for the local general store, although the story goes that he also
spent a lot of time visiting his girlfriends in the process. He seems to have
learned the carpentry trade from his brother Harry, after leaving school after
the eighth grade. In 1917, at the age of 18, he joined the US Army, and became
a member of the 7<sup>th</sup> Engineers, 5<sup>th</sup> Division.<br />
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He served in
France at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne theatres. While he worked as an engineer on bridges and roads, he also served as a
motorcycle dispatch rider. He mentioned to me that he would often get vague
instructions on what direction to take in “No-Mans Land”, and would go in the a
general direction until he heard the sentries speaking German. Then he would
turn around and go the other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He returned home in
1919. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He met my mother, a Catholic, and
they were eventually married in 1927.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
this time he was an accomplished carpenter, and before the marriage borrowed
money from his future mother-in-law to build a house, which still stands at 34 Park
Ave in Hicksville. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father was not a
practicing Quaker, and my mother was a strong Catholic who insisted that any
children be raised Catholic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This dispute
delayed the wedding until my father finally consented. He never attended at
church services, with the rare exception on an occasional Christmas service. My
mother would take us all to church on Sunday, and my father stayed home. After
a series of heart attacks, he died in 1953 at age 55.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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They had three children; Phyllis
(1930), Jeannine (1933) and me, Norman (1939).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the Depression there was little work for my father and he worked
only 1-2 days per week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a traditional
American, he refused to go on welfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a means of making ends meet, my mother rented out the house on Park
Ave., first moving the family in with her mother in the old farm house on Old
Country Road (now a Marriott Hotel), and eventually to other rented houses
including one in Port Chester, NY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
I was born in 1939, we had returned to the house in Hicksville, but my father
was working in Maryland, coming back home every two weeks. In fact, he did not
go visit my mother in the hospital when I was born until very late in the day,
on account he had to set out his zinnias before leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I plant zinnias in the spring, I think
of this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Growing up in Hicksville at that time was very pleasant. It was a small community of 5,000 surrounded by farms although after 1948 the farms disappeared and were replaced by housing developments. During the summer time, we had a choice of beaches, either the ocean or the Long Island Sound. When not in school we would occupy our time playing baseball, football and even croquet. Making and flying model airplanes was a hobby we all enjoyed. When I was a teenager I learned to sail, which was an opportunity for several adventures.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas in Hicksville, 1948:<br />
<span style="color: #3e3d2d; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">From left: Norman Hicks , Sr, Norman Jr, Eleanor Wesnofske Hicks (mother), Jeannine Hicks (sister) and Phyllis Hicks (sister).</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1957 I graduated from Hicksville High School, and went for a brief period to Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, NY. Eventually I transferred to Hofstra (then College, now University), and graduated in January 1962 with a B.S. in economics and business. Part of my education was financed by my aunt, Hannah Hicks Spiro, who was my father’s sister. After working for nine months at the Nassau County Planning Commission, I went on to graduate school at the University of Maryland and emrolled in the Ph.D. program in economics. I choose Maryland principally because they gave me a teaching assistantship which paid my tuition and gave me an annual stipend of $2000 per year. That, combined with savings and summer jobs, was enough to survive, just barely.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hicks Family Tree:</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Ellis Hicks (b. 1315)<o:p></o:p></div>
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John of Totworth<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
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John Hicks of
Totworth and Margaret Atwood had<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
of Totworth (b. 1475)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1477)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Richard
(1480)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thomas Hicks of
Totworth and Joan Darney had<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1500)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Baptist
(1526)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Baptist Hicks and Nancy Everard
had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Baptist
(1548)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
(1550)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
(1555)<o:p></o:p></div>
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James Hicks and Phebe Allyne had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1574)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ephraim
(1576)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
(1578)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Robert
(1580)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Samuel
(1582)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
(1585)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Phebe
(1587)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lydia
(1589)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
(1590)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert Hicks<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
married, first, Elizabeth Morgan had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
(b. 1600)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
(1603)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1607)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stephen
(1609)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sarah
(1607?)<o:p></o:p><br />
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Robert Hicks married, second,
Margaret Winslow<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Samuel
(1612)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ephraim
(1616)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lydia
(1617)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Phebe
(1618)<o:p></o:p></div>
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John Hicks<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
married Horod (Herodias) Long and had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
(1640)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah
(1641)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
(1642)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~corey/hicks/d3.htm#i814">Thomas Hicks</a> married, first, Mary
Cornell Butler, and had:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jacob
(1669)<o:p></o:p><br />
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Thomas Hicks married, second, Mary
Doughty and had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Isaac
(1678)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1679)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Benjamin
(1680)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charles
(1683)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>William
(1684)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
(1685)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stephen
(1686)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charity
(1688)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Phebe
(1689)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
(1694)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Isaac Hicks married Elizabeth Moore
and had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charles
(1703)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Benjamin
(1705)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gilbert
(1707)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Margaret (1708)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henry
(1711)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
(1716)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Isaac
(1717)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Edward
(1718)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thomas
(1719)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
(1722)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
(1723)<o:p></o:p></div>
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James Hicks and Deborah Hicks had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stephen
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>William
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William Hicks and Nancy McCord had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Deborah
(1787)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stephen
(1789)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sarah
(1771)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
(1793)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>William
(1795)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charles
(1797)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Catherine
(1801)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henry
(1805)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Martin
(1807)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Richard
(1809)<o:p></o:p></div>
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James and Hannah Tappen had:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
J. (1834)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Catherine
W. (1837)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
(1839)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Caroline
(1840)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charles
C. (1842)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>James
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Mass,
Sister Mary Martin, R.S.M. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hicks
Family as Quaker, Farmers and Entrepreneurs</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. John’s University Ph. D. dissertation,
1976. Available on Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor Michigan, 48106. p. 8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Mass,
p.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> “John J.
Hicks, Nonagenarian, Laid to Last Rest, Friday”, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oyster Bay Guardian</i>, March 2, 1928.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some sources give this as Sudbury, but since
Duxbury is close to Plymouth, and Sudbury is west of Boston, Duxbury seems more
logical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also supported by
records of probated wills of Robert and Margaret Hicks. <a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tmetrvlr/cbio3.html%20%5B">See Robert Hicks at RootsWeb</a>. Duxbury is supported by Oyster Bay Guardian article (above). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> “Elias
Hicks Saw Birth of Nation”, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Long Island
Press</i>, November 29, 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. George L. Williams, “The Hicks Family in
Three Villages” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Long Island Forum,</i>
winter 1992. 25-34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="ftn7" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Mass,
chapter II.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="ftn8" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Eugene
C. Hicks, , <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sir Ellis Hicks (1315),
Capitan John Ward(1598), John Wright (1500), Philip le Yonge (1295) and 7812
Descendants. </i>Wilmington Publishing Company, Wilmington NC, 1982, p. 244,
note 56, also “The American Revolution Comes to Cambridge”,
<a href="http://www.cambridgema.gov/~Historic/april11.html.">www.cambridgema.gov/~Historic/april11.html.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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C. Hicks, p. 241-43.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Mass,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pp. 167-171.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> George
DeWan, “Spreading the Word: Elias Hicks, Jericho’s Spell Binding Quaker
Preacher, Opposed Slavery, Going Far and Wide”,
Newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/. The quote is from Whitman’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">November Boughs</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Williams,
p. 26 quoting from Rufus M. Jones’ biography of Elias Hicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walt Whitman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Specimen Days<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Eugene
C. Hicks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">op.cit</i>. p. 255, note 200.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Mass,
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Eugene
C. Hicks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">op.cit</i>. p. 251, note 114.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Fred J.
Noeth, “The History of Hicksville” (undated,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5124761261123962789#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Arrived
11 Nov. 1621 at Plymouth, Mass on ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fortune</i>. See also: <a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tmetrvlr/cbio3.html">http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tmetrvlr/cbio3.html<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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Arrived<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June, 1662 on ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne</i>, with her children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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England, educated at Oxford, arrived Massachusetts in 1635, and Hempstead, Long
Island 1642.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Rough Notes toward a Strategy Document: </div>
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Co-Written by Les Jamieson, Director of HR14.org</div>
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We want to envision short, medium and long term phases, identify what's easily feasible and identify what may be larger scale but worth shooting for. This document will attempt to organize some of our goals, and thoughts.</div>
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Short Term Goals (with immediate donations from within our circle)</div>
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Make a short video appeal (work with John Kirby or my guy Alex?) </div>
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Launch a GoFundMe Campaign (based on our comparative research on different crowd-funding platforms.)</div>
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Hire publicist for this fund-raising campaign, assemble a team of publicity volunteers, too.</div>
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Create a good looking brochure, or printed material outlining the case, and the cause.</div>
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Update current website HR14.org with a slideshow and “In the News” section.</div>
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Hire interns.</div>
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Organize volunteer base. Find office space (or rent some cheap from Sander<i>, or</i> Sander can donate some at his offices/woodshop at 52-05 Flushing Ave, in Maspeth/Bushwick)</div>
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Contract with social networking guru as a consultant or head of a team</div>
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Create a few videos for cable access. (I've got one storyboard already)</div>
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Funding for Facebook, Twitter, and maybe even Google ads to attract people to site</div>
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Funding for web banners on well traveled sites like Coast2Coast. Identify more sites.</div>
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Advertise on Google AdWords, possibly.</div>
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Social Media: Use Youtube, FB, Twitter, web banners and such. </div>
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Reach out to sympathetic podcasts.</div>
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DC Presence: start to create a “grassroots” lobbying effort to get people to come to DC and visit their CongressMember. </div>
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Work on DC Strategy: Maybe another thing we need to identify early on is a strategy and a list of all the members of Congress, and try to figure out exactly how many we would need to to support us to get to get HR 14 to pass. </div>
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Sander and Les plan to travel to DC 9/11 truth, to set up a campaign there with the existing 9/11 Truth group. Meet with George Ripley and Jeff Long and the others and set up a official lobbying effort. </div>
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Look up the Members of Congress who supported Curt Weldon's effort to get public hearings on Able Danger. That said, I think it would be good to go to DC and visit with the staff from the offices of Jones, Lynch, Massie, and Rand Paul to learn about their experiences so far. Then we could meet with the local DC activists as you suggest to help plan a lobbying effort.</div>
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To implement what we've come up with, $500 a week in the initial phase would be helpful. Then once the foundation is built and there's an expansion of responsibilities, it should go up to what a professional social change organization would pay.</div>
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In our continuing teleconferences, Les and Sander and others decided to open up diplomatic channels from our group, to Pope Francis, who is a robust progressive, and peace-Pope. Sander’s open letter to the Pope is here: </div>
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White Collar Crime to Headline Tomorrow, Friday, at Union Hall, in Park Slope, BK<br />
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<span class="start dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hey Y'all - our new record "Wars Undeclared" is finished and is going to press soon. Lots of new songs, and new ideas. Please come out to this show - for the kids and parents of PS 154.</span></div>
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Everyone of the bands has at least one parent of a kid at PS 154. Our old friends Palomar will be doing their indie rock hits from the 90's.<br />
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Check out a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Jmha58mxVPaXNhREwzemVCYms/view?usp=sharing">Free Download</a> of our new song "Living In a Van" - yes, that's right people, in under one minute tten seconds you get the whole cross-country tour, Sander's bouts with GEICO, the ISO, LA, Soft Skull Press, Buddhism, drugs, couch-surfing, homelessness, and finally....finding a home. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Jmha58mxVPaXNhREwzemVCYms/view?usp=sharing">In a van.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are some pix from the photo shoot we did with <a href="http://erikaluckert.com/">Erika Luckert</a> for our new record, Wars Undeclared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And also, below, the lyrics to our song "Living in a Van."</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Living in a Van</span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
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Kicked off of GEICO</div>
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kicked out of the ISO</div>
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Evicted from Bushwick</div>
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I moved to WeHo</div>
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But there was no work in LA</div>
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so I could not stay</div>
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I got high </div>
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and chanted at SGI</div>
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Got a book deal </div>
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from Soft Skull</div>
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but it didn’t pay well</div>
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got back on Craigslist</div>
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typing out my last wish</div>
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600 bucks for a used Dodge Ram</div>
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now I got a new plan</div>
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how hard could it be man?</div>
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let’s try</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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don’t tell me I got no plan</div>
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I got a plan</div>
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back off man</div>
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I got a plan it’s called</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Don’t need AA man</div>
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I got my own program</div>
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it’s called</div>
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Living in a Van</div>
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Did you know? <i>Another</i> Bush is running for President!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a video on YouTube you have to watch, and forward to
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">All the material the U.S. corporate
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Author and publisher Sander Hicks
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Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance Meeting,<br />
<b><span class="" data-term="goog_1668504827" tabindex="0"><span class="">Thursday, February 5, 2015, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm </span></span></b>Fireside Room, BFUU, 1606 Bonita, Berkeley, CA<br />
Our first Thursday meeting. The agenda is usually set between <span class="" data-term="goog_1668504829" tabindex="0">7 and 7:30 pm</span> and the meeting usually starts at<span class="" data-term="goog_1668504830" tabindex="0">7:30 pm</span>. The room is not wheelchair accessible, but the public is welcome. The room is part of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist complex that has held many outstanding social justice forums. Entrance is on Bonita, go through the gate and up the stairs. It is not wheelchair accessible.<br />
There are many buses (the 25 runs on MLKJr.) and on Shattuck. Get off near Cedar (Bonita runs parallel to Shattuck and MLKJr.) It is between the North Berkeley and Downtown Berkeley BART Stations- about a 12 to 15 minute flat easy walk from those stations. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">An Obituary for Michael C.
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By Sander Hicks<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mike Ruppert was a friend of mine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was an American prophet, a social critic, and a truther. He
had his enemies and he had his demons. He confronted the enemies. Not sure he
confronted the demons. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But we can’t judge that now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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His death this past weekend is a huge loss for the people. When
I say “the people” I mean anyone who cares about a political system out of
control, blind to its own corruption, deluded by its sugar-free media. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ruppert was a trained investigator who sought to expose the
shadow elements of the US government involved in drug trafficking and fake terrorism.
He had the financial perception to alert the American people to the imminent
economic crash, two years before the meltdown of 2008. Mike Ruppert was one of
the first to point out the gross anomalies and obtuse leaps of logic in the
Bush/Cheney explanations for the 9/11 attacks. In an authoritative book,
Ruppert even accused Vice President Dick Cheney as the chief executor of the
9/11 attacks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We met in 1999 in New York City. Ruppert came into my life
like a sentinel from a different reality. I had just gone through a kind of
gateway, and he was like Morpheus in the Matrix, welcoming me in. My red pill had been the disruptive re-print of
a certain controversial biography of then Governor George W. Bush. As an
immediate result, an entire class of underground whistle-blowers popped up to
welcome me into their world. Welcome to Zion. You are in. They introduced me to
sets of facts and data that were verboten in the blue pill media. Ruppert was
at the center of that gang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He explained that he had been an LAPD cop and narcotics
detective. His Mom had been a Defense Intelligence Agency heavyweight in Moscow,
so CIA recruited him while he was at LAPD. He declined the offer. Why? He saw shit.
He began feeding the LA Times info on
CIA heroin trafficking as far back as 1979.
LA Times sat on the story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The drug war was phony. Which meant that both the local
criminal justice system and the national intelligence/military apparatus had
zero credibility. Wall Street, the White House, and everyone on down needed the
drug war like a junkie wants heroin. The system was using. The system was an
addict.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The entire
economy, and the entire political system itself, is currently hooked and
dependent upon drug money” wrote Mike in 1999, on his main site, FromTheWilderness.com<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the mid 90’s,
when Ruppert’s friend Gary Webb broke a huge story in the San José Mercury
News, it documented how the CIA and the Nicauraguan Contra network facilitated
the crack cocaine epidemic in the 80’s. The CIA sent DCIA John Deutch to spin
the story in a public auditorium. Ruppert confronted Deutch and named three specific
operations that showed the US agencies were up to their elbows in black market
cocaine and heroin. Deutch sputtered, told people to phone the LAPD, and was
laughed out of the room. He was swiftly replaced at CIA. <o:p></o:p></div>
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According to
Ruppert, in October, 1999, investigators from the House Intelligence Committee
came to Los Angeles, and made copies 6,000 pages of his records.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That same year,
Ruppert asked me for a $10,000 advance to do a book on the US and drugs. I
didn’t have the money, and it’s just as well. Two years later 9/11 happened,
and Ruppert had a lot more to say. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It turns out the
same parties who pulled off the cocaine sales funding the Contras were at it
again. (Those parties being namely, the Bush Family, the GOP, the Democrats,
the CIA and other shadowy quasi-government black factions too numerous to list
here.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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The book Ruppert
eventually brought out in 2004, <i>Crossing
the Rubicon: </i><i><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Decline of the American
Empire at the End of the Age of Oil</span></i><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (New Society Publishers).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A
reviewer on Amazon called it “The single most important book written in the
last fifty years…. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security and the lies about WMDs
in Iraq have created a growing sense of unease in the collective unconscious.
As a result, a growing number of intellectuals and every day citizens are
beginning to see the Truth and more and more people are beginning to wake up
every day. Crossing the Rubicon is at the forefront of this new awareness.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At the end of 2004, however, tragedy struck. Ruppert’s
friend Gary Webb, who had followed in Ruppert’s footsteps by taking on CIA drug
trafficking, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Reading Ruppert’s heartfelt obituary for Webb today, I am
struck:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I would
never have confronted John Deutch at Locke High had it not been for Gary Webb.
I myself might have committed suicide in 1996 - broke, divorced and having
given up all hope of making people listen -- had it not been for Gary Webb. For
some years now it has been the farthest thing from my mind.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ten years later,
suicide wasn’t far away any more. Ruppert’s struggles with depression, alcohol,
and isolation became insurmountable. He moved to Colorado. He did one final
radio show last Saturday and then that was it. We are all so fragile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Wherever men and
women of honor gather together from now on, your name will be spoken with
reverence, respect and gratitude.” Ruppert wrote that for Webb ten years ago.
The same goes for him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I prayed hard
today to understand why this happened now. What does God want us to know about
why this happened? What can we learn. How can this man’s death and life give
our lives a brighter, sharper focus? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember how Ruppert came back into my life a couple
times. The time he was travelling through New York and needed a place to crash.
I gave him the damp basement offices of Soft Skull Press, down in the bowels of
100 Suffolk Street, and he was happy to sleep there, on the floor. He was a
soldier on a mission. Later, he kidded me about having the worst apartment in
New York City.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few years later, around 2003, Ruppert was drinking beer in
a corporate pizza joint in downtown Brooklyn. It was all wrong. Our choice of
restaurant, the food, the beer. Ruppert had enjoyed speaking events of 1000
paid attendees, he had bragged from the stage that he had been sober for X
number of years. So why drink beer now? He had some murky excuse the exact
wording of which is irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I look at Ruppert’s life, his hard struggle, his victories
and his short-comings. I wish we were closer in his final couple of years. I
loved him. I say the following with love. I say the following because I don’t
want to know any more great truth loving writers to die this way. If you have a
drinking problem, hit a meeting. Reach out. It worked for me, to stop flailing
about, running from city to country to city, always moving, thinking a big move
is going to change things. Get centered. Pray and meditate. Be still.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Something snapped in Ruppert sometime later in that decade,
after the book. He moved to Venezuela, in rushed effort to seek political
asylum from the Chavez government. Ruppert probably wasn’t anti-imperialist
enough for their tastes, at least not in a leftist way. Oh, and the CIA/DIA
family background probably didn’t help. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wept. I felt rage today. I was mad at you, Mike, going out
this way. It was too similar to Gary Webb, to Jim Hatfield the Bush biographer.
I don’t want this pattern. Tell me it’s not the fate for writers of deep truth,
to die, alone, shooting their brains out, because they went deep and hard after
the invisible forces, the slithering stag. The hunter became hunted by the
dragon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No. Mike will be remembered for his discipline, his writing,
his development of a critical paradigm. Our society is stronger for the deep
analysis. In the same way that Ruppert investigated Gary Webb’s death, it’s up
to us now to do the scientific and careful analysis of the crime scene. To pick
up where he left off, and wake up to a new view of the matrix.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About a week ago, I went down to 40 Broad Street, to the new Bitcoin info center. It was an afternoon well spent. Bitcoin, this rambunctious disruptive libertarian currency, seemed to be coming of age right before my eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we were, my Bitcoin activist friend and I, on a rainy day in old New York, just south of Wall Street. Steven was visiting from out West, so I pointed out that what's called Wall Street was actually once a real wall. The original New Amsterdam Dutch built a security perimeter to keep out the Lenape natives, and the British. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across the street, at Wall and Broad,</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is JP Morgan's old bank. Morgan of course was that ultra-powerful financier who was one of the heavies who helped ram through the Federal Reserve system in 1913. </span><br />
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I was reminded then of a scene in the trailer for an upcoming documentary on Bitcoin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“End the Fed?” says a jolly Bitcoiner in, “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin”. “Nah, you’re never going to end the Fed. But you can </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bypass </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Fed!”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin has the audacity to suggest the people can take the power to mint currency out of the hands of the government. No one regulates it, and its value is based on market discipline, supply and demand. Over $50 million in transactions is already being done per month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you see the connection between over-printing paper money, to fund an out-of-control empire and war machine, you are on your way to a radical conclusion. Digital currency is a radical path of peace and nonviolence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So we kept going. Not far </span>down the roa</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d, just two doors south of the New York Stock Exchange, was a bright white storefront, announcing something completely different than the banking status quo: the new Bitcoin center. I had to step back and start taking photos. I couldn't believe the location. Two blocks away had been Occupy. Now, something different, but not completely dissimilar, had taken space in the hood. And they were paying rent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sign outside invited the locals and the tourists in to learn about the problems of the economy, and one possible future for money. Inside, the s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">martly dressed Deputy Director Cole Ippoliti welcomed us. We sat down in the back, in a large white on white presentation hall, where a lively former real estate broker Matt Manhattan gave a good presentation on Bitcoin, to a modest crowd of 20.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; line-height: 27px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cryptocurrency’s promise as an emerging technology </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; line-height: 27px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">[is] </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; line-height: 27px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">capable of profoundly benefiting people around the world. Yes, Bitcoin has many hurdles yet to cross, but like the early days of the internet, its true potential and power has yet to be understood or appreciated. Our goal is to advance the dialogue by introducing Bitcoin to Main Street and provide a tool for the Bitcoin community to help facilitate their conversations with family, friends and favorite merchants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most notable things about this debut issue of "y Bitcoin" is that it's coming out of Huntsville, Alabama, that small city of under 200,000 in the Deep South. For a slick, professional magazine to come out of Alabama of all places shows the power of desktop publishing. Bitcoin is universal, and its world-changing potential is masive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's focus a little bit on what Bailey means when she points to Bitcoin's ability to "benefit people around the world." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me share a few notes I made at</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the Bitcoin conference in Silicon Valley, CA, last Spring.</span><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4292a67e-ba9d-cdae-46ff-8d2889279559"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“With Bitcoin, I can send money to relief efforts in countries we are bombing, while people in those countries can donate to our antiwar efforts here.” At AntiWar.com, Bitcoin’s low processing fees make it possible for donors to give any amount. Even 35 cents won’t be chipped away at by the overhead of Big Credit Card Processing. AntiWar.com brought in $800 in new in donations in the first 48 hours it started accepting Bitcoin.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roger Ver, a charismatic Bitcoin investor known informally as “Bitcoin Jesus” recently told the LeWeb 2013 conference, “One of the things governments around the world do currently is they finance their wars and the things that they do through inflation. They just print money for whatever it is that they want to spend it on. If the world were using Bitcoin that would no longer be a possibility. If you’re opposed to governments inflating money to pay for wars around the world, Bitcoin should be something you’re interested in.”</span></b></blockquote>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4292a67e-baa1-4ca8-505d-26f5fb03c3cd"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to an early</span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bhhjg/any_bitcoin_millionaires_here_on_reddit_if_so/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin investor</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who is now independently wealthy, “B</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">itcoin will be the liberator for the world’s poor giving them access to the global marketplace on a scale never seen before. If Bitcoin can give market access to that many people the entire planet will experience an upswing comparable to the industrial revolution, only stronger.”</span></b> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Kaleidoscope Community Yoga Inc. is looking
to recruit a seasoned finance professional to come on board as our treasurer/CFO.
We are looking for some wisdom to help mentor our young and growing company. We
have a unique form of healthy group yoga practices, and a unique business model.
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Kaleidoscope is fun, and it's catching on-
from coast to coast. A new group just started in Lima, Peru. We sell classes
and teacher trainings. We have a new business plan that describes how we are on
track to win a share of the $10 billion yoga market. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Our founder and President, Lo Nathamundi, is
based in Portland, while our VP, Sander Hicks, is in NYC. We are looking for a
Treasurer/CFO to work with us in Portland. We need someone experienced in
business development. Someone who is interested in something different. We are
seeking someone in the fields of health, wellness, yoga, or related fields.
Compensation is a mix of cash and equity. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Kaleidoscope Community Yoga Inc. is a company that accepts payment in Bitcoin. We are interested in exploring how this new digital currency can help transform the world's economy, in the same way that our yoga practice can help to open hearts across the planet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">We'd like some help developing this
radical and wonderful new investment opportunity. Candidate must love yoga, and
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">Please check out this video about Kaleidoscope
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">Our home page is: </span><a href="http://www.kldyoga.org/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">http://www.kldyoga.org</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">Sander Hicks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';">Kaleidoscope Community Yoga, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light';"><a href="mailto:sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com">sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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