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On Wednesday, January 18, thousands of sites went dark to protest SOPA & PIPA, two US bills racing through Congress that threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression.

Write Congress Now!

 ”Why have we all been sitting idly while the movie and music lobbyists have been systematically advancing legislation that strips freedoms, blocks innovation, and exclusively advances Hollywood’s financial agenda?”

“The video above discusses the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.

PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.

This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?”

 -  Above information is from Fight for the Future, a non-profit working to defend online freedom.

Additional resources found here:

Demand Progress – works to win progressive policy changes for ordinary people through organizing, lobbying, and elections in the United States.  In particular, we tend to focus on issues of civil liberties, civil rights, and government reform.

Creative Commons – Building a culture of sharing. By allowing your work to be available to millions of other creators on the web, you might be responsible for the next big thing.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)  – Defending your rights in  the digital world.

Free Software Foundation – A non-profit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.

Happy New Year!

Just a short post to let you all know that I am truly getting my cooking business in Portland up and running! It would be awesome if you could go to my Facebook page, Jane Casey’s Kitchen, click on that “LIKE” button and sign up as a friend.

Please share those great testimonials and ideas.  Comment on other’s breakthroughs and become a source of encouragement to each other!

So what’s happening in January?

First, I will be doing a radio interview with Julie Matthews on Thursday, January 12th. We will be discussing my book: Eat It And Beat It: Getting Over Autism, which is available for purchase now and the amazing healing properties of food!

Second on the agenda is my first cooking class in Portland! This will be on  Saturday, January 28, from 1-4 pm at Salt, Fire & Time. Check out the details for the class on the website calendar this week. Don’t miss this opportunity!

An inspiring quote I’d like to share with you, directly from the Salt, Fire & Time: Portland’s Traditional Healing Foods Grocery & Classroom website:

“To those who consider life something other than a monstrous belly with a golden navel for all to worship;
To those who have tasted and preferred renunciation, simplicity and freedom;
To those who make an art of living;
To those who cultivate poverty as a spiritual exercise whatever their religion;
To those who find in each moment a life to live for;
To the unwilling poor, victims of society, property, climate, injustice, ignorance, overpopulation, stupidity, evil or dumb pride;
Because it is clear that peoples kitchens all over the world have learned to adapt to what’s available and from the nearly nothing at their disposal make more than just enough to live on, make sturdy, simple pleasures and elemental feasts.”
-The People’s Cook Book, by James Kardon