If you dont already know...

The first Be the Change in Healthcare conference will take place May 1 - 3 at Rice University, in Houston, Texas where the Dalai Lama will also be speaking on the meaning of compassion in everyday life in a separate event for the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance. The 3 day BE THE CHANGE conference - sponsored by Rice University, the Weill Medical College at Cornell University and the Institute for Religion and Health - brings together world renowned scholars and activists in dialogue around supporting the emergence of a more sustainable, effective and compassionate health care system.

Sir John Whitmore will be launching the event. Other speakers include Bernard Lietaer, Robert Thurman, John Perkins, Christopher Cooke, Marilyn Schlitz,  Swami Vidhyasidhananda Giri, Jim Fadiman and many others. There will be an event with the Bioneers and a concert with musicians from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

For further information, visit www.bethechangeusa.net

"Dennis is about as awake as a politician can be. He has his policies inline with the peace seekers and unlike the other candidates, his universal health care plan is specific and clearly designed to better the 'health' of many, not the 'wealth' of a few. Dennis walks his talk and is saying exactly what America needs to hear. My only question is:
Even if the elite media channels were to allow a microbe of America's attention to be enlightened by Dennis Kucinich, would they (the American people) be capable of listening?

Dennis is the man, but is he ahead of the citizen's times or maybe he's ahead of most politicians times? Do the majority of people in America have the capacity to tune in to what he is speaking - namely the truth?" ~Jamie Parks

The following is what Congressman Kucinich said today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:

"The American people want the war in Iraq to end and the troops to be brought home. Why then is this House preparing to capitulate to the Bush White House and let the war continue?

“We learned that the Democratic compromise with the President is to make withdrawal timetables nonbinding. We have the power to end the war now. We should not give the President another dime for the war.

“We should not permit this war to continue. This House passed a $97 billion supplemental, which gives the President money to keep this war going through September 2008 and then a week later approved the President’s budget for another $195 billion for Iraq to keep the war going into 2009.

“And now we are talking about a nonbinding timetable for withdrawal? What’s the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans on the war? Well, the Republicans don’t want any timetables for withdrawal at all. And the Democrats? The Democrats want nonbinding timetables for withdrawal. There is no difference. Either way the war keeps going on indefinitely.”

That is, until he is the elected President over some other over-rated idolized puppet. I'm keeping my eyes on this one:) You should too.