Here it is -- the environment and our children-- the Prize. The depths of the pain and suffering of this year are only matched by the joys--yet, this is a year is one I have never been happier about seeing the back of.
Read MoreHere it is -- the environment and our children-- the Prize. The depths of the pain and suffering of this year are only matched by the joys--yet, this is a year is one I have never been happier about seeing the back of.
Read More“This is the San Francisco, America pretends does not exist.”
Green Action ( greenaction.org) enters its 3rd decade of coalition building and stalwart support for environmental justice, health and against environmental racism and classism in Bay View Hunters Point, Kettleman City, Richmond and in coalition with so many others struggling for Environmental Justice. If you could bear to make it to the end of my ebook or audiobook Chasing Mercury - You would notice that the last point in the final “Authors Acknowledgements” reads, “A portion of the proceeds from Chasing Mercury go to: http://freegrassy.net and also to http://greenaction.org/?page_id=181”
Thursday, December 14, 2017 5:30 PM 7:30 PM
I'll Be there!
Mechanics Institute Holiday Gather has always been fun with lots of literary chat, great food. It's in that San Francisco early evening commuter respite period of 5:30-7:30PM. Annual Members' Holiday Gathering This year on December 14, 2015.
Hors d'oeuvres, gourmet cheeses, delectable desserts, and tempting libations!
Members & Their Guests $15
Besides ending mercury poisoning and lead poisoning-- I have a simpler request.I have two samples of the audiobook. Each of them is different - One starts at the beginning of the story. The other sample starts in the middle of the story. I need to know which one is more interesting to you and likely to make you want to hear the rest.
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While I was walking to the TV Cove today, I thought about the good news for a change -- and we have some. On Wednesday, under intense pressure from Grassy Narrows First Nation in South West Ontario -- the region where much of Chasing Mercury is focused--and their supporters, the Canadian government committed to build a Mercury Home in Grassy Narrows. That is a clear recognition of Canadian Minamata disease on both the environment and the people affected by pollution from mercury. this is the result over 40 years of struggle-- Movements Matter.
Near Sunset today I walked the Tennessee Valley Trail. It has always been important to me. The first year I lived in the area ( 15 years ago) I photographed its ever changing beach almost daily. Each day that beach is completely remodeled...
Read MoreLike geese head to their preferred home for the winter - so do I. Chicago has been good to Chasing Mercury and its origins in the waters of the earth. I've also been able to spend time with colleagues and mentors who span over 30 years and taught me much of the science in CM. However, it has not escaped me ( nor my body) that I have boarded and debarked from 20 separate aircrafts since this past May here in the USA, Canada, France, Portugal and Switzerland.
Read MoreSo it is Saturday, November 11, Veterans Day. Chasing mercury is still holding in the top 100 in three categories (It is the most you can categorize on Amazon in kindle ebooks and in books.)
Happy Veteran's Day -- Here are a few lines the character Sicily was told about her Grand Franklin".
Read MoreAt the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics today I had the opportunity to hear Paul Farmer Anthropologist and Physician Speak at Mandell Hall at UC. He was a warded the annual prize of the MacLean Center. It was very touching as he reviewed with good humor tinged with sarcasm many of things done by wrote ethics pretending to be true ethics -- when ethics is defined as a course of action lead by mortal intention ( my definition.)
Read MoreGreat News!!! I just got notification from that Chasing Mercury is #1 in two categories on Amazon Memoir>environmentalist for Kindle and Books and #15 In Myster.International!Hi all! In Chicago Preparing For Readings tonight at Hyde Park Connect Gallery,Hyde Park, Chicago for the POST 11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] EXHIBITION. Hope to see people tonight at 8PM
Great News!!! I just got notification from that Chasing Mercury is #1 in two categories on Amazon Memoir>environmentalist for Kindle and Books and #15 In Myster.International!Hi all! In Chicago Preparing For Readings tonight at Hyde Park Connect Gallery,Hyde Park, Chicago for the POST 11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] EXHIBITION. Hope to see people tonight at 8PM
I'm excited to make this offer-- PLEASE ENJOY THE CHASING MERCURY AUDIOBOOK IN HONOR OF THIS AMAZING TRAVELING INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT OPENING IN CHICAGO POST/11/9/ THE NEW NOW [NOW]. The Art Exhibit opens this THURSDAY. PLEASE SHARE THIS GIFT ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND WITH FRIENDS. The cost of your free audiobook will be donated by Chasing Mercury to the POSt/11/9 THE NEW NOW [NOW] Collective as Chicago is only the first venue of many national and international sites fo for this marvelous exhibition. I'm not just saying that because I'll be there reading from Chasing Mercury.
Read MoreSeptember Williams will read at the Connect Gallery, Hyde Park, Chicago, during the opening weekend of the Post 11/9 the New Now [Now] exhibition. September reads at 8PM on 11/9 and 11/10/2017. That is--on both evenings. The Post 11/9 New Now [Now] Exhibition gives voice to artists, writers and thinkers, awakened last year, the morning of 11/9/2016, by the gravity of the US Federal Election results. (https://www.post11nine.com). A member of the National Writers Union (UAW 1981)/IFJ, September Williams is tied to Chicago by training in medicine and film (www.septemberwilliams.com).
Read MoreQ. How did you chose the characteristic in the main characters of Chasing Mercury?
A .Sicily and Forest? I wanted the people in Chasing Mercury to look like and act like the people at my dinner table -- a mixed bag while--raising consciousness about environmental injustice and justice. Then I remembered how I became committed to those issues not through science and medicine but through the works of concerned photographers like W.E. Eugene Smith and Donald McCullum. Most importantly I remembered the unlikely superheroes I knew when I was crossing over from adolescent to woman
Read MoreI wanted you to know that I will be in Chicago in November, 2017. This is a heads up. I will give you more information on times when they are all set. Please stick one of these on your calendar. This is the kick off of the Chasing Mercury Book Tour. Chicago is also the opening location of Book 2 in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy. (Now you are in on that secret.) So far my schedule looks like:
Read MoreReading at LitQuake/LitCrawl 2017.
Read MoreJust returning from the Minamata Convention on Mercury Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where delegates who developed the movement around Making Toxic Mercury poisoning history, raised questions of needing to focus on more than the small scale gold mining provisions in the mercury convention. Chasing Mercury was well received by many of the delegates who are looking forward to reading it. Arriving home I happilyfound Chasing Mercury is now available in audiobook edition as well as ebook. See all retailers http://www.septemberwilliams.com/novel-synopsis/
Read MoreJust when you think nothing more significant can happen to connect the pieces of your life -- something does.
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