tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22833417764026546842024-02-20T16:34:57.380-05:00EcoBeat1Do you love Nature?
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span><b>5<sup>th</sup> monthly protest at TD Banks </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>(major investor in Tar Sands oil pipelines) in </b></span><b> Springfield, Northampton, Amherst, and Greenfield</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Come if you can to the Springfield protest.</b></span><b> Our goal is for this one to be the biggest, so that we finally get coverage of our message by the region’s major newspaper (the Republican) and network TV stations. More details below.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Central theme and media hook</b></span><b> : “Funeral for Our Future”—10 participants carry mock black coffin covered with oil, singing “They are digging us a hole, They are digging us a hole, Six feet underground, Where the Tar Sands oil will flow.” . . . and other verses. The rest of the crowd will join in and sing too. {This theme was powerfully used at a February protest in Boston:</b><a href="http://dmanalytics1.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcNPcCjZVBUs%257D&i=9&d=0Z7Y2W5X-9Z15-4XX3-Y337-967144925V3Y&e=eadams333@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=cNPcCjZVBUs}</b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b></b><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>--</b></span><b>I’m stepping down in mid-November as coordinator of this campaign . . . who’ll step up?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><b>Since April, I’ve been leading this campaign to Boycott TD Bank</b> until it stops investing in Tar Sands oil pipelines. Also, some of us have been training and preparing to use Civil Resistance (a.k.a ‘Civil Disobedience’, or non-violent direct action) as part of the campaign to capture the media and public’s attention about the climate crisis, and stopping the Keystone pipeline as one urgent essential step. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><b>I now plan to step back, after the Nov. 9 protests, to pursue other priorities in my life</b>; I do plan to attend future protests, including joining others engaging in CR, such as when the Pledge of Resistance calls for action by its 75,000 signers. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">So I invite anyone to step forward and take the baton from me. On Monday Oct. 21, I’ll be meeting with the leaders of Climate Action Now of western Mass to see if they will endorse and carry on the TD Bank campaign. I’ll be glad to orient and train anyone who’d like to work on it, including passing over my files of contacts, both individuals and organizations in the valley, and my list-serve of over 700 names.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503350114817021118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283341776402654684.post-57832252278103348302013-10-17T15:00:00.001-04:002013-10-17T15:00:58.225-04:00Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19445-indigenous-nations-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-conflict-with-trans-national-corporate-power-that-affects-us-all?tmpl=component&print=1#.UmAzzSNPu-M.blogger">Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503350114817021118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283341776402654684.post-9904397308213954252013-10-17T01:32:00.000-04:002013-10-17T01:32:19.023-04:00SEE STEVE ALVES FILM TONIGHT!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15503350114817021118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283341776402654684.post-27386779522613488542013-10-15T10:54:00.002-04:002013-10-15T10:54:31.994-04:00Patricia Hynes - War and the Tragedy of the Commons -a seires of articles appearimg in Truthout.org about the often forgotten environemtal consequences of militarism.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wars happen because
lies are told about them. Lies are told about past wars; Obama’s attempt to
glorify Vietnam is a recent example. As Monsanto makes food policy with its
ties to the White House and Cabinet, our food supply is put in a precarious position
with lies about glyphosate and the consequences of genetic modification. Our
potable water is threatened by gas and oil drilling, mountain top removal,
radioactive waste, agricultural poisons, and climate change. Obama covers up
radiation levels from Fukushima while 2 ½ years of radioactive waste fill up
the Pacific and pollute our air, food and water. It is the end of the world as
we know it because lies are told about the destruction of our natural resources
and people - all so that a few can make billions off the spoilage. 98% of the
voters voted for the above violations in the 2012 election. In Orwellian
faux-patriotism, mass murder is honorable; “drones save lives;” “it isn’t
torture unless there is organ failure;” annulling civil liberties keeps us safe
and protects our freedoms; non-Wall Street candidates are “a threat to
democracy.” Barack Obama, a constitutional law professor, tells the Yemeni
government to keep a Yemeni journalist in jail, seemingly for reporting US
drone attacks. “Guardian” newspaper computers are ordered destroyed by the
government. Partners of journalists are detained at borders and harassed under
‘anti-terrorist’ laws. Journalists’ phone records, lap tops, and cell phones are
confiscated. Whistleblowers reporting lies, waste, corruption, and abuse are
arrested in record numbers, but Obama says they are not whistleblowers rather, traitors
and criminals. We have attained a state of perpetual war, streamlined
assassinations, and zero privacy of electronic communication. As Jeremy Scahill
says, “The world is a battle ground,” and the Obama administration has arrested
more people under the 1917 Espionage Act than all his predecessors combined. We
are all journalists now, and it is a crime to tell the truth.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"></span></div>
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about telling the truth ultimately. If there are people who don’t like the
truth, you have to decide whether you want to do your art or whether you just
want to do "small talk," because if you get away from the truth to
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<br />On Tuesday, 29th October, 7-9pm, Biofuelwatch we will be holding a free public meeting: “A Burning Issue – biomass and its impacts on forests and communities”, at the Lumen Centre in London (see <a href="http://www.lumenurc.org.uk/lumencontact.htm" style="color: #578911;" target="_blank">http://www.lumenurc.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>lumencontact.htm</a> for venue details). Spaces are limited, so please email us to reserve a place (<a href="mailto:biofuelwatch@ymail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">biofuelwatch@ymail.com</a>). Please help to let others know about this event by forwarding this email and sharing it on <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Facebook</span>, too:<a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/216368458524040/" style="color: #578911;" target="_blank">www.<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">facebook</span>.com/events/<wbr></wbr>216368458524040/</a><br /><br />Speakers from Brazil and the US will present first-hand experience of the impacts of the UK's biomass policies on forests and people in their countries. This includes a presentation about the first ever case study published anywhere in the world about a land-grab for tree plantations specifically to grow wood to burn in our power stations (in Maranhão, Brazil). Those presentations will be followed by evidence about the impacts of biomass power stations on UK communities, especially on air quality and public health.<div style="margin-bottom: 8px;">
Winnie Overbeek, Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement, will give a presentation about the impacts of eucalyptus plantations for wood pellet production in the Brazilian state of Maranhão on communities and Cerrado forests. Those plantations are being established by the Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano Papel e Celulose, which has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with UK biomass company MGT Power. MGT plans to build two large biomass power stations in the north-east of England and already has planning permission for one of them.<br /><br />Scot Quaranda from the US conservation NGO Dogwood Alliance will speak about the impacts of pellet production by Drax’s supplier Enviva on southern US forests – including on remnants of highly biodiverse wetland forests.<br /><br />Sophie Bastable from Biofuelwatch will summarise key impacts of biomass power stations on communities in the UK, especially on air quality and public health. We hope to also have a speaker from one of the affected UK communities.<br /><br />For more details, please see: <a href="http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2013/burning_issue_public_event/" style="color: #578911;" target="_blank">http://www.biofuelwatch.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/2013/burning_issue_public_<wbr></wbr>event/</a><br /><br />The event coincides with the launch of a new report by Biofuelwatch, called Biomass: The Chain of Destruction. This will include an investigative report of biomass plantations in Maranhão, Brazil by World Rainforest Movement and CEPEDES (Center for Study and Research for the Development of the Southern Bahia Region). It will also include testimonies from Dogwood Alliance and from several community groups affected by UK biomass power stations.<br /><br />Hope see you there,</div>
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Almuth Ernsting<br />Biofuelwatch<br /><a href="mailto:biofuelwatch@ymail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">biofuelwatch@ymail.com</a></div>
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