AL’S BACK! — Kicks off new climate campaign with 24-hr live-streamed event Sat Sept 14
No 233 Posted by fw, July 28, 2011 If you don’t know who Al is then you haven’t been paying attention to the climate change debate, either as a concerned … Continue reading
“There’s a North American strategy to take away the right to mass protest.” Michael Ratner
No 232 Posted by fw, July 27, 2011 “We use the word – in the US we call it “it chills your rights” — because it’s basically sending a message … Continue reading
New research strengthens evidence that Windsor’s climate action plan is “too simplistic”
No 231 Posted by fw, July 27, 2011 About a year ago I posted a piece titled, Windsor’s climate action plan: too little, too late? In that post, my partner, Helga WIntal, wrote … Continue reading
“All power is inherent in the people.” Community enacts this provision and more in Ordinance.
No 228 Posted by fw, July 25, 2011 How would you like to live in a community that enacts an enforceable Bill of Rights that includes the following protections? — … Continue reading
Fox News ridicules climate science
No 227 Posted by fw, July 24, 2011 For the life of me I can’t quite figure out why Media Matters bothers. Let’s face it, short of a mass boycott … Continue reading
Stunning video launches Catalytic Clothing venture, which claims to “clean the air we breathe”
No 226 Posted by fw, July 21, 2011 As part of a dynamic launch campaign for Catalytic Clothing, which its inventors claim to “clean the air we breathe”, an exclusive … Continue reading
Bearing witness to Israel’s latest lawless atrocities against Palestinians
No 225 Posted by fw, July 19, 2011 “In Israel and Occupied Palestine, only Jews have rights. Arabs are denied them for being Muslims in a Jewish state, even on … Continue reading
Exposed — US Corporations prepare “model bills” for adoption by state legislatures
No 224 Posted by fw, July 19, 2011 “In April 2011, some of the biggest corporations in the U.S. met behind closed doors in Cincinnati about their wish lists for … Continue reading
Another Ugly US company target of citizen anger – this time in Wales
No 223 Posted by fw, July 17, 2011 The preceding post, Ontario citizens fight US-backed billion dollar quarry project in Dufferin County, featured a story about Ontario citizens mobilizing to stop a duplicitous US-based … Continue reading
Montana citizens do the “Tar Sands Tabledance” in Gov. Schweitzer’s Office (video)
No 221 Posted by fw, July 15, 2011 Sixty or so environmental activists from Northern Rockies Rising Tide, Earth First and other groups descended upon Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s office … Continue reading
Post-Copenhagen, UK climate activists split on what to do next
No 220 Posted by fw, July 15, 2011 “Exhaustion set in after Copenhagen. After three years of campaigning ever more intensely, only to be engulfed in the dark sand storm that … Continue reading
How angry moms helped bring down Murdoch using online grassroots campaign
No 219 Posted by fw, July 14, 2011 “Twenty years ago, it was newspapers calling the tune—closing down companies and drumming politicians out of office. Now papers are unable to … Continue reading
George Carlin’s prescient political shtick, “The American Dream”, playing out before our very eyes
No 217 Posted by fw, July 11, 2011 Viewer discretion advisory: The following video and accompanying transcript contain profane language that may offend some. “You know what they [the wealthy] … Continue reading
Economist Michael Hudson: How the Greek people could stiff the bankers
No 216 Posted by fw, July 11, 2011 “Look this debt that you say we owe and have to pay off by privatizing our assets, you knew that we rioted. … Continue reading
Julian Assange on why we’re on the verge of a democratic power shift — and other musings
No 215 Posted by fw, July 7, 2011 Quotations from Chairman Assange — July 2, 2011 “Power that is completely unaccountable is silent.” “We should always see censorship as a … Continue reading
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