Bob Morris @ May 15th 2007 07:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Oligopoly Watch explains how Chrysler “is likely to end up in the chop shop” with the money money guys who bought it planning to “suck the company dry.” No matter that thousands will lose their jobs or that the resultant cars will be junk, so long as they make a quick profit.
Bob Morris @ May 15th 2007 00:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
You know it’s true. All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMA seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the goddamn grid and it’s about time the media, the politicians, the culture as a whole sent out a big, wet, hemp-covered apology.
The Green Party and its predecessor, the Green Movement, played a huge role here too. I may bash the GP in the US for organizational problems but both worldwide and in the US, Greens were talking about recycling, organic food, global warming, and alternative energy long before it entered the national consciousness.
Hippie was where it started (yes, I was a hippie) and the Green Party was the leading edge for those ideas into politics and the mainstream. Take a bow, Greenies, you’ve earned it.
(You don’t believe the battle is over? Read the next post…)
Bob Morris @ May 15th 2007 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ May 15th 2007 00:15 - Category: Anti-war ;
U. S Out of Iraq Now!
Wed. May 23, 2007, 9am
Main Gate of the US Coast Guard Academy
Williams St. and Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT
George W. Bush will be speaking at the commencement ceremony of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. Students, soldiers and veterans, impeachment and antiwar activists from throughout will gather outside the main gate of the Coast Guard Academy to protest Bush’s visit.
answerct.org for updates, logistics, map, flyers. 203 404-9965, email.
Initiated by the ANSWER Coalition and sponsored by a wide array of New England Peace and Justice and veteran organizations.
Bob Morris @ May 15th 2007 00:08 - Category: Renewable energy ;
A Depression-era loan program for rural areas is providing billions in loans for coal-burning plants to be built. Yuck.
Coal is a massive producer of greenhouse gases. This subsidy needs to be killed, and killed fast. Make it for renewable and clean sources of energy only.
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