Atlanta’s Climate Youth React to Presidential Debates via It's Getting Hot In Here
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This is Mountain Top Removal. This is How to Stop It. via It's Getting Hot In Here
(Cross posted from Whit Jones on Power Vote.org)
I spent the past weekend with around 100 young people and community activists at the Weekend In Wise - an incredible weekend in Appalachia, VA where Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining has deeply impacted the community and citizens have been fighting Dominion’s proposed Wise County Coal Plant. Local community activists led tours of MTR sites and a local plant that burns that coal. A service project and Sustainable Living workshop were led on a local organic farm. Discussions and workshops were held to strategize and plan for overcoming King Coal’s reign.
And you can TAKE ACTION as well to protect this mountain! The Coal River Wind Project is holding a rally today demand that WV Gov. Joe Manchin support WIND and not MTR!... Offshore Drilling=Bad Idea. Let’s Do Something. via It's Getting Hot In Here
The wildly popular Dark Knight ends with a stirring monologue about The Truth, capitol T. I’ve extracted part of it here:
Batman: “Sometimes, truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”
This got me thinking about the push for Offshore Drilling (yup), and the fact that it is, in every way, predicated on LIES. When Congress comes back in session, we’re confronted with the potential of our elected officials authorizing one of the most myopic and harmful possibly “remedies” to high gas prices. The possibility becomes more likely each day. Even Nancy Pelosi, who had held surprisingly firm on the issue, is weakening her stance.
Batman is right: we do deserve more than just knowing the... Billionaire’s for Coal strike in Bank of America’s home state, 4 protests in 3 days via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Asheville, NC Today Asheville Rising Tide’s billionaire bloc descended on Bank of America’s regional headquarters to demand that BoA continue to invest their money in coal. The Billionaires for Coal carried signs reading “More Profit, Less Mountains” and sipped on dirty (coal) martinis to applaud BoA for its funding of mountaintop removal coal mining as well as the new generation of dirty coal plants. The Asheville Police Department did an excellent job of blocking access to the bank entrance and the ATM surely scaring off a number of bank customers.
Two days before, activists with Croatan Earth First! visited three Bank of America branches in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. The activist entered the banks raising a... SE Climate Convergence Occupies Nuclear Facility via It's Getting Hot In Here
August 7 Louisa, VA Activists from the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action occupied the welcome center for Dominion’s North Anna nuclear power plant today. The action was taken to protest Dominion’s plans to build two new nuclear reactors and to call out nuclear power for the false solution that it is to the climate crisis. “We are here to serve notice on the so-called ‘nuclear renaissance’ that the anti-nuclear movement is alive and well,” said Glenn Carroll, coordinator of Nuclear Watch South.
In all 25 people occupied the visitors center for 2 hours until police came in to remove them. The protesters wore shirts that read “Nukes not Welcome” and chanted and sang. “We chose to take non-violent direct action because Dominion and the federal government have... Oil Enforcement Agency busts oil worshiping cult at hearing on I-5 expansion via It's Getting Hot In Here
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A Rust Belt Revolution via It's Getting Hot In Here
For decades, Cleveland, Ohio, has been the perfect symbol of a greying US economy. Consistently ranking as one of the poorest cities in the country, Cleveland has been home to massive manufacturing shut downs, declining population, and a brain drain, not to mention one of the most infamous environmental disasters in US history, the burning of the Cuyahoga river.
Given its history, Cleveland would be the last place most people would look for the beginnings of a green revolution. In fact, even as a Cleveland native, I arrived home from the East Coast for a summer of environmental organizing expecting to find a disorganized and ineffectual movement, if one existed at all. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen firsthand the quiet building of a green... Making it Happen - the Summer of Solutions via It's Getting Hot In Here
“Summer of Solutions” – I first heard these words from my friend Ashley Trull, from across the table in the Clark University dining hall in late April, over plates piled high with mediocre vegan cafeteria food. Summer of Solutions sounded like an amazing program, designed by and for students, working on exciting, real projects for community-based solutions to climate change. She eagerly described to me the project descriptions she had seen on the website and promised to forward the email she had received with the application info attached. But she didn’t need to forward the email. By the end of the meal, it was decided.
“We’re going!” I said, so adamantly and with such force and intention that I surprised even myself, grabbing Ashley’s hand in excitement as we rose from...