Step It Up is organizing hundreds of rallies across the country for a National Day of Climate Action on April 14th, 2007.

Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.

Congress may be easier to persuade on climate change than on the wars. But the real change will come when new political and economic structures are created to deal with global warming, and Congress remains part of the problem not the solution.

That said, this seems a fine idea, plus it’s coming out of the grassroots. You can learn more and get involved on their web site. They have nearly 800 actions planned so far.

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Colorado is using prison labor to work the fields at large private farms. Inmates are paid a mere 60 cents a day. Recent repressive immigration laws there caused thousands of undocumented workers to leave the state. This caused a labor shortage (well, duh) which the state wants to rectify by using prison (AKA slave) labor.

Thus, a few wealthy farmers will get even wealthier because they get to use slave labor at ultra low cost to them, costs that are subsidized by taxpayers whose money built and maintains the prisons.

The prison-industrial complex focuses on mass incarceration of working-class people. This provides the capitalists with a way to create a new layer of workers: those who legally work for much less than minimum wage.

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They may be looking for novice investors to scam as well as selling overpriced programs.

As always, your chances of being fleeced are much less if you aren’t greedy.

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