Aloha Kokua,


So, City Repair - www.cityrepair.org - whom we performed for back in June(?) for the Village Building Convergence - is at it again with their huge SE PDX Howl-o-ween bash aptly named: "Howl"

MFTP is grateful and equally stoked to be participating in this throw down. 
We're making this event our junior live EP release - self titled. 

Tickets can be found at the door for around $30 - presale for around $25.
You can find the lineup at the city repair webpage, too.

Probably the wildest MFTP throw down yet - with the addition of Tim Ribner - Max's brotha - and Scotti on the sax/flute - we've got guest dancer Gia ROSE up from LA - collaborating with other local MFTP Crew for epic dance sequences and far out costumes.

Don't miss the dosage.

SHOOTS.

http://cityrepair.org/2009/10/howl/

here's what ME has to say about their environmental practices.

A chance to stop the dirtiest oil Minnesotans should work to halt a pipeline that would expand the market for tar sands extraction. By NELLIS KENNEDY and WINONA LADUKE, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/25/09 Say it was a moment in history, and you could do something to stop the ecologically most destructive project on the face of the earth. Would you raise your voice or just wave it on? Minnesota has that opportunity, and many Ojibwe tribal members are raising their voices to do the right thing. That project -- the Canadian Tar Sands -- is devastating land, water and people in the north who rely on the land for their food. Land and water are poisoned. Rare cancers are becoming commonplace in small Dene, Cree and Metis communities, and the earth is being scraped down hundreds of feet to create oil for an American market. It is the most inefficient energy equation imaginable, and the most destructive. An area the size of Lake Superior is slated for strip mining for tar sands. Canada and the province of Alberta and Canada have leased more than 65,000 square kilometers of land for tar sands development. Environmental regulations in Alberta are lax. Tar sands production is licensed to use more water than Alberta's two major cities -- Calgary and Edmonton -- combined. That water is turned into poison, laced with chemical sludge. Daily, tar sands producers burn 600 million cubic feet of natural gas to produce tar sands oil, enough natural gas to heat 3 million homes. The carbon emissions for the project surpass those of 97 nations in the world combined. This month, hundreds said "no." Leech Lake Tribal citizens bravely gathered in protest to speak to the tribal council about a decision that will affect their lands. Unfortunately, the tribal council signed an agreement to allow a pipeline to cross tribal lands and transport oil to Superior, Wis., but elders in the community continue to fight its construction. The pipeline, if completed, will carry the world's dirtiest oil from Alberta. Oil companies use up to five barrels of water to produce one barrel of oil, but the process also creates two barrels of toxic waste. Not to mention that the project is producing greenhouse gases while also destroying the boreal forest, part of the world's most important storehouse of climate regulating carbon and oxygen. The tar sands project is deforesting the countryside and releasing an average of 11 million liters of contaminated water into the environment every day. A pipeline across northern Minnesota will not only allow for the expansion of the tar sands project into American markets, it will threaten our own forests and groundwater by exposing them to potential spills and deforestation. Tar sands oil is so evil that all 43 First Nations Chiefs in Alberta have sought to place a moratorium on the project. Opponents aptly call the project "Mordor," a tribute to Tolkien's land of death. Now they want to move Mordor south. Transporting oil is not safe for Minnesota or the Leech Lake people. Last week's signing was not without protest, but the council felt the economic burdens of tribal debt were too great to decline such an offer. Hundreds of Leech Lake citizens continued to protest the contract by seeking a referendum but were unable to successfully bring the vote back to the people. Today, these same citizens are looking for alternative measures that might be taken to help stop the construction of a pipeline. Minnesotans have a unique opportunity to stop the transport to market of the most destructive oil project in the world. A project that would not pass a federal environmental impact statement in Minnesota should not be allowed to sell to our markets -- or we have simply exported our environmental destruction. Minnesota's leaders, tribal leaders, private landowners and the Obama administration must stop the project and its pipelines to market. We have a chance to raise our voices and say no. Nellis Kennedy, a member of the Navajo Nation, is a national campaign associate with Honor the Earth. Winona LaDuke is Honor the Earth's executive director, a White Earth enrollee, an author and twice a vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket. Honor the Earth News Opportunity knocks but it's not Desert Rock Jun 22 2009 - 3:18pm A chance to stop the dirtiest oil May 26 2009 - 9:56am Multi-billion dollar oil pipeline creates turmoil within tribe May 12 2009 - 11:01am Leech Lake Band members question oil pipeline May 12 2009 - 10:59am Leech Lake, prepare for invasion of Tar Sands oil May 1 2009 - 7:46pm South Dakota Public Radio Piece on KILI Apr 20 2009 - 11:24am Scraping Bottom Mar 4 2009 - 5:10pm For Indian tribes, economic needs collide with tradition Mar 4 2009 - 5:04pm Spring Wind Rising from Sand Creek Feb 3 2009 - 8:37pm Native America and Green Jobs Feb 3 2009 - 8:25pm

People Do.

Aspen is beautiful.  John Denver is not full of shit.

Medicine for the People is cruising out of Colorado this weekend and will be in Minnesota for Cornstalk Peace Fest.  www.cornwoman.com

Great Hawaii, NW, and SW family making the journey to gather and create on July 31st and August 1st.

Come join us!

Aho.

Well, this is real talk.

Aloha e komo mai,

MFTP is in the heat of it.
From Santa Cruz to LA to all night drives thru the hottest parts of CA to Phoenix. 
We hang out in AC households and live in pools in this part of the country.
Cruising to higher elevations today - Sedona - and good family to share stories and music with. 
The van is running great - now with advertisements on the back and sides for Cornstalk Music Festival in MN and a huge Medicine for the People sign and Medicine wheel.
People drive by and wave and give us thumbs up.
Wonderful.
Tribal Vision Festival is next weekend.  Looking forward to meeting Lynx and Janover - hopefully - and playing music with them.
AHO!
Then on to Paonia, CO for DreamTime. 
On the road writing my Manifesto. 
What is it we're trying to do here with this music?

TEACH PEOPLE TO LISTEN.
FOCUS INTENTION.
Take personal responsibility for the change.

TAKE ACTION.
live by example.

AHO.

blessings to all.

we will find what we are looking for.

AHO

AloHA!!!!!!!!

All life is Sacred.
INDEED.

The Movement is Moving within and without and sparking flames across the NW and beyond.

May is on its way out, but still full of happenings and performances.
This friday you can catch us on KBOO local radio: 12am and on.  stream it online at www.kboo.org

We'll be in Ashland on May 29th for a pre-party for Raw Union so you can check us out for that it's free and a potluck....here's the info for the union in june :

8 AM TO MIDNIGHT
Wedding Celebration Sunday at 6 PM
Campers and Vendors may arrive Friday, June 19 from noon on to set up.

Location:
Angel’s Organic Farm
9394 Blackwell Rd.
Central Point, OR 97502
30 minutes north of Ashland Oregon
Location URL: http://angelshealthfoodinstitute.com


June 7th is VBC in Portland - we perform with Alpaca and SarahTone and others Sunday, June 7th down on Clinton street, a party not to be missed.

Moving towards involvment with NAYA - with the spirit to guide - we can provide the medicine for all their fundraising needs. 

check out:
www.nayapdx.org
www.honorearth.org
www.ienearth.org


also new music:
check out seth martin - local pdx bro and outstanding musician.
support local music!
he's on the top friends right thurrr.

New Youtube video up, too.
www.youtube.com/medicineforthepeople

aho!