Chicago is Rising! Check out this blog by our comrade Elizabeth Genevieve Nerat on an action organized by folks from Chicago and Little Village.
The Understory » Chicago for Clean Power
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Guest blogger, Liz Nerat from RAN Chicago, writes about their campaign work to pass a Clean Power Ordinance and retire Fisk power plant in Chicago:
The Global South is Wide Awake About Global Warming, In the U.S. We Have to Tippy-Toe around the Issue. Anyone see a problem with that.
Climate: Putting People Over Money
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While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, like Jose Domingo Cruz in El Salvador, don’t have time to debate.
Ain’t No Power Like the Power of the People, Because the Power of the People Don’t Stop! 30,000 Rallied in Madison Yesterday! Workers are taking over the state capitol. It’s inspiring to see (little d) democratic uprisings all over the Middle East, but also inspiring to see workers, teachers and students rising up against the corporate Tea-Baggers in Wisconsin.
ON WISCONSIN: Live Reports From Ground Zero for Labor Rights | The Nation
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I am a seventh-generation Wisconsinite. Members of my family have known the governors of this state since its founding. Today, I wear a “Gaylord Nelson for Governor” badge that was given to me by Nelson when I was a kid. Nelson, as a U.S. senator, was the father of the Earth Day movement. But before
The Better to Oppress You With….
Army wants rapid-fire rubber bullets for crowd control – tech – 17 February 2011 – New Scientist
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Fired from an auto-fire grenade launcher, new plastic crowd control rounds have human rights activists up in arms