. . . So please bear with us as we transition to our improved chunk of cyberspace. Some of the content is still under construction and we'll be making additions and modifications over the next few months, as well as publishing frequent updates regarding our current activities and future plans.

These last two months have been motivating for the members of Seeds of Peace. We are continuing to pursue the collaborative projects we began earlier this year, and are working with a variety of individuals and organizations, many of whom we have worked with throughout the last decade. Grumble is still heading up the kitchen at the Buffalo Field Campaign for the season, with some interim help from Elizabeth, while others drop by and help when needed. We have begun gathering and creating public outreach material in preparation for the kick-off of a climate campaign in the Northern Rockies, and have been working closely with an upstart activist group out of Pocatello, Idaho--the members of which also happen to be our long-time friends. Our office has garnered a few new digital-age tricks, bringing us fully into the last decade.

As for our post-RNC work, members of Seeds have been participating in some exciting discussions with other activists around the country concerning the future of mass protests and what, specifically, we want that future to look like. Many find the recent "diversity of tactics" model employed at large-scale protests limiting--both in terms of participation and in terms of outcome--and feel that opportunities for real collaboration and real positive gains for the movement as a whole are being lost. With this analysis as a basic theme, our conversations have surrounded an open letter to the movement as well as a week-long camp this coming summer to pursue more fully ideas of collaboration within the movement and a return to strategic non-violent direct action. On this point, more information will be available soon.

As many of you have probably heard, Brandon Darby, former Common Ground volunteer and Austin-based activist has come forward as a proud informant for the FBI. As an informant he worked with Austin activist groups interested in protesting at the RNC in St. Paul, and because of his more than morally objectionable work, two members of the Austin activist community are being held in St. Paul on various charges. As reported by the news media, both face up to 30 years if convicted. Brandon's work for the FBI may have spanned the last few years and he has certainly cast a wide national net in terms of his activist relationships. Even though this is a shock to our community, it certainly isn't the first.

Seeds of Peace would like to extend support to those still being held in jail, to those facing future trials, and to the members of the Austin community who came out in support of Brandon before various rumors of his work were finally confirmed by Brandon himself.

However, even through these trials of betrayed friends, we are still positive about the future of our movement, the work we have to do, and the projects we will soon be engaged in. We hope to see you along the road.