Tomgram: Engelhardt, History, Memory, and Donald Trump
Still, don’t for a second imagine that Donald Trump won’t be remembered. He will -- into the distant future in a way that no other American president is likely to be.
The Resistance Now: Star Wars, 'aliens' and Leonardo DiCaprio join the fight
“Trump is the worst thing that could have happened to the planet” . . .
The Resistance Now: Star Wars, ‘aliens’ and Leonardo DiCaprio join the fight
“Trump is the worst thing that could have happened to the planet” . . .
Standing Rock by Paul Lojeski
Standing Rock Once more, the living dead have risen to steal the beaten, bloody land, to plunder history, to despoil the one true mother for coins and capital, for power’s poisoned love. So, yet again, tribes have gathered as ancestors had when the criminals first came to murder and plunder, to stand against the storm, More
I Stand with Standing Rock
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North Dakota Charges Journalist Amy Goodman for Exercising Her First Amendment Rights
Goodman, a reporter for the independent news program, can be seen on news footage from Sept. 3 documenting the clash between protesters and private security personnel with guard dogs at a Dakota Access construction site, including footage showing people with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth.
President Obama: Pull the DAPL Permit, Do the Climate Test
DAPL would be the largest pipeline ever to come out of North Dakota and, at 1,172-miles long, it would be only seven miles shorter than Keystone XL, which was rejected by the president because it didn't pass his climate test. So it raises the question: Why, of all projects, shouldn't DAPL have to pass a similar test?
Edward Snowden | What is the future of technology and democracy? (Video)
Edward Snowden discusses our choices for the future.
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
Sarah Van Gelder | Amid Election Chaos, Communities Show Where the Real Power Is
van Gelder: In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
When the Police Came, I Didn’t Risk Arrest. So What Was My Role at the Break Free Climate Action?
“We’re going to step into it, boldly and together.” --Tim DeChristopher
Bill Adamski | The U.S. Military and Climate Change
The DoD burned about 350,000 barrels of oil per day, which made it the single largest institutional oil consumer in the world, according to a 2012 estimate.(10). ... Oil accounted for nearly 80 percent of the DoD’s energy consumption.(12) Despite this unbelievably massive carbon footprint, the Pentagon has had a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements, including the Kyoto Climate protocol,(13) which the U.S. Senate never ratified anyway.