Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
By Barry Bickmore Professor of Geologic Sciences, Brigham Young University I gave a talk called How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change for the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University. For those of you who aren’t familiar with me, I am a Republican and a geochemist who, until a few years ago, was [...]
Occupy Denver is being evicted at this hour. 10:00 PM MST: Rumor clarification: Apparently gas wasn’t used – it was fire extinguishers used to put out a bonfire. But there were either rubber bullets or pepper bullet rounds fired at protesters later. Also, there were no SWAT teams present, just regular police in riot gear. [...]
Two weeks ago, we reported on an expose – outing Oakland Police who were attempting to infiltrate the Occupy Movement. Now, one of the cops who was exposed as an undercover agent has spoken out. He says the police brutality perpetrated by his own force may well be remembered as a turning point in changing [...]
How did America, a society founded on equality, become so unequal? How did power shift from voters to corporations? Bill Moyers concludes his keynote address to Public Citizen by showing how it began: with the corporate backlash against the environmental movement in the 1970s. (Part 1 is here.) Comments Prepared for Delivery (video here) Public Citizen [...]
(From the Oakland Tribune’s occupy liveblog) A man named Michael Haley is handing out free socks at the Occupy encampment, saying he is running Sockupy Oakland. Dry feet, he says, are the key to getting people to defy Quan’s request to leave. He has a website, www.sockupyoakland.org, where he is accepting donations to buy more socks. [...]
Here we go again. The city has circulated what amounts to an eviction notice on Occupy Oakland, and is calling for the Occupiers to leave peacefully. The latest excuse is a shooting that happened near Frank Ogawa Plaza on Thursday. They say the occupation is no longer safe. Oddly enough, there was a stabbing outside [...]
By Bill McKibben 350.org Yesterday was one of the more amazing days of my life. When I started working on this Keystone XL campaign in early summer (years after indigenous leaders and Nebraska ranchers) I thought the odds were almost impossibly against us. Almost being the key word–I wouldn’t have engaged if I didn’t think [...]
by Bill Moyers [The super-rich]were not content with their wealth just to buy more homes, more cars, more planes, more vacations and more gizmos than anyone else. They were determined to buy more democracy than anyone else. Comments Prepared for Delivery (video here) Public Citizen 40th Gala Washington, DC October 20, 2011 I am honored [...]
For years, the gas industry has denied there could be any possible link between hydrolic fracturing – aka fracking – and contamination of underground aquifers used by millions of Americans for drinking water and agricultural irrigation. But a study released today has found just that – a pretty definitive link between fracking and the extensive [...]
By Bill McKibben 350.org We won. You won. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that we’ve been fighting for months has been effectively killed. The President didn’t outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline permit, but a few minutes ago he sent the pipeline back for a thorough re-review that will delay it til 2013. Most [...]
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