Mark Fiore | America’s Worst Idea (Video)
Don’t be fooled, giving these places “to the states” is just a cover for opening them up to development of one kind or another.
Tomgram: Arlie Hochschild, Trumping Environmentalism
I had come to visit Mike Schaff because he seemed to embody an increasingly visible paradox that had brought me to this heartland of the American right. What would happen, I wondered, if a man who saw “big government” as the main enemy of local community, who felt a visceral dislike of government regulations and celebrated the free market, was suddenly faced with the ruin of his community at the hands of a private company? What if, beyond any doubt, that loss could have been prevented by government regulation?
Edward Snowden | What is the future of technology and democracy? (Video)
Edward Snowden discusses our choices for the future.
Susu Jeffrey | Coldwater Named A National Treasure
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 protects and preserves religious rights and cultural practices including access to sacred sites, freedom to worship through ceremonial and traditional rights, and use and possession of objects considered sacred. Spring water is considered sacred. By Susu Jeffrey Published in the newsletter of the Women’s International League for More
Gary G. Kohls | Inconvenient Truths About … the Duluth Air Show
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement By Gary G. Kohls, MD Duluth Reader July 7, 2016 Also direct to Rise Up Times The Big Oil cartels have, for decades, been poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, the Persian Gulf and many other oceans and ocean floors with uncounted millions of gallons of More
Minneapolis | Southwest LRT: Responses to Final Environmental Impact Statement
SWLRT to affect quality of life for Minneapolis residents, has serious environmental impacts and other drawbacks in what is suburban bid for development.
Nuclear America: Special Report (Video)
From the Hanford Site in Washington state to Indian Point in New York, the disastrous conditions at America's nuclear facilities has been raising concerns over the last year. RT America takes a close look at the state of US's nukes.
Susu Jeffrey | Coldwater Springs again threatened
The Metropolitan Council plans to authorize a new sewer replacement near the main limestone fracture that delivers some water to Coldwater. It is a violation of the 2001 Coldwater protection law, the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act and the 1805 U.S. Treaty With the Sioux. The last the Metropolitan Council construction project was the More
Water Activists, Your White Privilege Is Showing
Right now in the Central Valley of California, where I live, millions of individuals are subjected to toxic water and air. They are either exhausted from fighting the white supremacist structure in the environmental justice space or by explaining to individuals with white privilege that the drought is not necessarily the biggest water crisis for millions of people of color and low-income communities in California.
Peaceful Revolutions and the Power of Disobedience
While most people support initiatives to reduce nuclear and environmental threats, many also have a clear sense — call it skepticism or realism — that neither climate change nor arms proliferation can be reversed by the use of traditional political channels alone.
Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, et. al. | Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward
Around the world powerful and diverse possibilities are in struggle. We the signers of "Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward" think one high priority for progress is activists developing, discussing and settling on priorities around which to organize multi-issue activism in coming months and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within groups and movements that, over time, come to a synthesis.
BDOTE DAKOTA WATER SUMMIT
The summit will focus on bringing together spiritual and environmental understandings in order to protect the water commons.