Like Howard Zinn said: “Our problem is not civil disobedience, it’s civil obedience.” Bill McKibben on the need for Direct Action on global warming. Anyone wanna join in?
Disobedience | The Christian Century
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Bill McKibben calls for civil disobedience around global warming.
British Columbia Has Something to Say About Coal Exports: Stop Coal!
Ladysmith Chronicle – Protest takes aim at coal exports
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Lockdown! This morning warriors from the Algonquin First Nations chained themselves to the trees of the Beaver Pond Forest.
CBC News – Ottawa – Algonquin members protest Kanata forest cutting
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Algonquin First Nations protestors say they have chained themselves to the trees of the Beaver Pond Forest Tuesday morning to halt the clearing of the area to make way for a residential development in western Ottawa.
A Bit of a No Brainer If You Ask Us. Cut off people’s food and you’ll see a lot of people rioting in the streets.
Egypt’s Unrest May Have Roots in Food Prices, US Fed Policy | CommonDreams.org
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WASHINGTON – Economists and experts in food security have warned repeatedly in recent years that an unbridled rise in food prices could trigger the very kind of explosion of citizen anger that’s now threatening to topple the Egyptian government. Such anger is likely to rise elsewhere, too.