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SAM's ZERO WASTE CAMPAIGN

The Green Stage Alliance 2013 ZERO WASTE CAMPAIGN for City Council District 13th and 14^th, is an initiative of Sam Kbushyan, Business Representative of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and Director of the Immigrants Charitable Foundation. Sam is also a 13^th District candidate for Los Angeles City Council.

The Campaign will evaluate and elaborate a pilot plan to develop a Zero Waste program for Districts 13^th and 14^th during 2013. These Districts, from Hollywood to Downtown, represents the hardcore of Los Angeles restaurant business and public events, serving a large residential and transient population.

The 2013 ZERO WASTE research will endorse the adoption of pilot food waste recycling programs and the use of biodegradable products at publicly staged events and businesses to reduce organic waste going to local landfills, replacing Styrofoam and petroleum base plastic by implementing use of biodegradable greenware and organic plastics.

We are changing from a culture of waste disposal into a culture of recycling discarded materials. We are in need of educational components for the adoption of alternative recycling programs.

These biodegradable products and recycling of discarded material services provides an alternative disposal system instead of using an in-sink garbage disposal units, since there have been extensive clogging problems involving food waste in the overflow of public sewers.

The adoption of food waste recycling programs combined with the use of biodegradable products aloud for organic waste-hauling to be mixed with green waste at a composting facility and the nutrient-rich finished product is used by farmers and gardeners to help grow bigger and better crops.

3.10 Green Stage Resolution

http://latinocongreso.org/resolutionsapproved.php?id=179

7.13 Zero Waste Resolution

http://latinocongreso.org/resolutionsapproved.php?id=29

You may review our events and progress reports as they are posted at www.GreenStageAlliance.blogspot.com

The Green Stage Alliance is a national network of leaders and organizations promoting our Green Stage / Zero Waste campaigns, based in the 3.10 Green Stage Resolution and the 7.13 Zero Waste Resolution of the National Latino Congreso.

You may donate to this cause at https://www.fundraise.com/stage-of-the-arts/zero-waste-campaign

GreenStageAlliance@gmail     Sam@voting4sam.com      

NOVEMBER Dark Year of the Penguin

They say I have left

though I still rest in this furniture from childhood

next to the cyclical dust of everyday lies

in the shadows of forbidden museums

where the ministry of fear

raise their huge doors

against the shame of the world

hen pain is a preaching of silence

hen hatred is the bloody nectar of devotion

that only by faith in our dreams

we dared to see

that the wind and dust of history

demands the same value in the market-place of doubts,

that the difference between the pig and the peasant

lies in the stubborn colors of some papers

and we understand that the philosophy was

questioning if the pig lives to feed the peasant

or the peasant lives to feed the pigs,

and now that I am like a ghost

I rest under the same dust of the museums

where they exhibit governmental lies

From generation to generation

From hatred to hatred

From all the false eternity of these halls

shaken by a catechism of madness

so that the mouth of a successive priest

eats the pig

eats the peasant

and says I have left.

                              Jorge Luis Rodriguez 

OCTOBER Dark Year of the Penguin

Loneliness is eight hours in the office,

is being an old man wandering the streets without a hat,

is listening to a certain song in a premeditated bar,

loneliness is having breakfast with nobody,

writing long letters,

watching T.V. every Sunday

loneliness is a house without portraits,

a dirty carpet and an empty mailbox,

loneliness is a house without friends,

loneliness is a country, unknown

                                  Jorge Luis Rodriguez

SEPTEMBER Dark Year of the Penguin

I close the door of my room

in silence

To not wake up the madman who lives downstairs

I walk on the hardwood looking for my papers,

Then, I transform,

Now I’m a poet and I write about my entrance

In a room full of posters, and hats,

With a broken window

Through which one could see at night

The shining words,

                Thrifty, Ralphs, McDonalds,

A bunch of faces are opened in the stars

And solitude is a previous silence that drowns me

Letting a white serpent grab my ankle,

It’s my mother’s voice, calling,

Telling me, rice pudding, sweetheart, natillas,

Telling me that my father’s watch hurts her in the wounds,

Calm down mother, or you’ll wake up the madman,

I show her Clinton’s head

Trapped in the T.V.

Talking about how everything is almost fixed,

I make her a kiss,

Give her a song by Pink Floyd,

I give her Pilar’s Peruvian hat,

And the leather hat,

And my own hat,

But the ocean explodes with rage

And there is my mother turning off all the stars,

Then, I pronounce the magic words:

                Thrifty, Ralphs, McDonalds

And her hand lets go of my frozen ankle,

She leaves causing the hardwood to squeak,

And the other madman screams

                                             Jorge Luis Rodriguez

AUGUST "Dark Year of the Penguin"

Señora, you who lived in an abandoned calendar
with the windows shut to the march of history,
in your grand shell without a porch
were even the wind stops
to not disturb the silence of the 50's
you who stopped time beyond infamy,
who entered the mystery with a robe of flowers
and curlers on
calling with screams
so many sons
and grandchildren
and who knows,
Everyone lost between Belascoain and la calle ocho
letting the coffee get cold in the solitude of little cups
and now
forced to scare the devil you have given birth to brooms,
that your hands tremble
as you sweep the sad leaves falling from the soul
because after so much ideology
though we learn to program computers,
we don't forget you, Señora,
dream in peace,
we also need your broom


                                                   Jorge Luis Rodriguez