The worst of the 1%… could it be WalMart chairman Rob Walton?

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I  strongly urge everybody to vote for Rob Walton as worst of the 1% for his efforts to crush labor and human rights and drive local mom and pop operations out of business, as well for funding corporate environmental NGO efforts to privatize the oceans by promoting catch shares programs and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s privately funded [...]

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Action: Last chance to keep New York from getting fracked up

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By Kate Sinding Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Counsel Tomorrow night is the final of four hearings being held by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (details here and below) on its most recent proposal to allow new fracking across major parts of the state. This is NYC residents’ opportunity to tell Governor Cuomo to slow down because the state [...]

What can you do about climate? Join 350.org’s activism strategy online meetup today

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By Anna Goldstein 350.org Dear friends, What comes next? That’s the question facing people all across the country — people in the climate movement, people in the Occupy movement, and all of us here at 350.org. Fired up by the momentous victory over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, we know one thing for sure: this movement [...]

Liveblog: Occupy LA under assault now. Philly, too

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Sigh. I was preparing a post on how much better the Los Angeles Police Department had handled themselves than the NYPD. It really looked like things were going to be civilized. But now…. UPDATE: Looks like they handled themselves well. Minimum arrests, no violence. UPDATE: Apparently Occupy Philadelphia has also been evicted. Livestream | KTLA [...]

Dem. candidate arrested for voter registration at Occupy San Diego

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This has gotten seriously crazy. Former Democratic Congressional candidate Ray Lutz brought a table down to Freedom Plaza/Civic Center Plaza, home of Occupy San Diego, to do voter registration. He even printed out a Supreme Court ruling, just in case he had to show something to the police to prove he had the right to [...]

Drill Baby Drill is a lie (How Big Oil and the Big Banks are sucking us dry)

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When Occupy Wall Street rails against the Big Banks, they may be leaving out an important part of the equation. It’s not just Big Banks that are sucking money out of the US economy – Big Oil is doing its fair share. Big Oil and their buddies, like Newt Gingrich (See: Newt is incredibly wrong [...]

Newt is incredibly wrong about oil

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How wrong is Newt Gingrich about energy? In last week’s Republican debate #1,237, he called for a national energy program on the scale of World War II that would boost our energy output, driving down the price of gasoline and saving our economy. There’s just one problem: The actual experts on energy, from the The Oil [...]

Occupy the Constitution: An amendment to ban corporate election cash (and end corporate personhood)

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One of the unified themes that has emerged from the very disunified Occupy Wall Street movement: Preventing corporate cash from buying elections (and politicians). Now, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL)  has introduced a Constitutional Amendment to do just that. Un-officially called the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, it would [...]

David Brin points out the parallels between Atlas Shrugged and Occupy Wall Street

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In Ayn Rand’s philosophical masterwork, the bad guys are a conspiracy of  old-money plutocrats who gather in conniving secrecy, exert undue political influence on the political process  and misuse government power to line their own pockets. Gee, who does that sound like? By David Brin  (Originally posted at Contrary Brin) Now and then we had a [...]

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Bad weather’s a-coming. Climate change makes it worse.

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By Theo Spencer Senior Advocate, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council More extreme weather events—heat waves, floods, drought—are coming our way this century, and there is new evidence that links these extreme events to climate change, according to a report issued this month by the world’s most respected scientific body on climate change. The Special Report on Managing [...]