[youtube=http://youtu.be/8hHR90k-zlw] Published on Apr 16, 2014 http://www.democracynow.org - A new reports finds the killings of environmental and land rights activists worldwide has tripled over the past decade. The group Global Witness documented 147 activists who were killed in 2012, compared to 51 in 2002. The death rate is now an average of two per week. Almost More
By Julie Sabo, Community Voices TCDailyPlanet April 11, 2014 The Southwest LRT is frequently touted as making significant improvements to racial and economic equity. I would argue that it does nothing of the sort. In fact, if not done right, this rail line will actually contribute to inequity rather than address it. Racial and economic equity had little More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/FntPbLGH3IY] Published on Mar 29, 2013 Short poem film by Heid E. Erdrich, Art Direction by R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., Animation by Jonathan Thunder. Sound by Gabe Siert. Additional visual art by Carolyn Lee Anderson, Andrea Carlson, and Angie Erdrich. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times More
Updated April 25, 2014 Southwest LRT Meeting Rescheduled. Development has huge support among politicians especially in an election year. But who is representing the water? . . . Sacrificing water for transportation is short-term. Southwest LRT Meeting Rescheduled Metropolitan Council/Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority hearing on municipal consent for the much-delayed, constantly revised SWLRT, moved More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/GDBtrzka2X4] Editor's Note: This video of Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" TV show is amazing. The 350 and Fracking activists might want to adopt the Ky-Yo-Ti song as their theme song. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/GDBtrzka2X4] Editor's Note: This video of Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" TV show is amazing. The 350 and Fracking activists might want to adopt the Ky-Yo-Ti song as their theme song. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. More
We have a choice over the next 15 to 20 years as to what kind of world we want to create over the next 100,000 years. By Juan Cole InformedComment JuanCole.com April 5, 2014 A Gallup poll has found that only 35% of Americans are concerned about climate change, and that proportion is barely up from More
We have a choice over the next 15 to 20 years as to what kind of world we want to create over the next 100,000 years. By Juan Cole InformedComment JuanCole.com April 5, 2014 A Gallup poll has found that only 35% of Americans are concerned about climate change, and that proportion is barely up from More
By Greg Palast GregPalast.com March 27, 2013 for TruthDig It was Good Friday, 50 years ago on March 27, 1964, that according to seismologists, the snow peaks of Prince William Sound jumped 33 feet into the air and fell back down. Emergency warnings about an earthquake-spurred tsunami went out to towns from Valdez, Alaska, to Malibu, More
Photo: ridhamuslim.blogspot.com We Speak for the 70 Percent by Susu Jeffrey We speak for the 70-percent. Our bodies are 70 percent water. The surface of the earth is 70 percent water. We are the water people on the water planet. If you could wring out a rock you'd get water. Water is the More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/T_ActyAoqVQ] Daniel Ruthenberg-Marshall Published on Mar 2, 2014 On March 2, 2014, over one thousand young people marched on the White House demanding President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline and uphold his commitment to protecting out environment. Hundreds of these students then handcuffed themselves to the White House fence in the largest youth act of More
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, What Ever Happened to Plain Old Apocalypse? By Ira Chernus TomDispatch.com February 25, 2014 Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Wherever we Americans look, the threat of apocalypse stares back at us. Two clouds of genuine doom still darken our world: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction. If they got the urgent action they deserve, they would be More
