Come Out Ye Black And Tans
by The Wolfe Tones
In an email from a professor:
“The Chicago Clean Power Coalition, announces a major victory for the people of Chicago! After 2 1/2 years of continuous organizing by grassroots organizations and environmental groups, Midwest Generation, owner and operator of Fisk and Crawford coal plants on the city’s southwest side has agreed to permanently retire these corporate polluters - the largest in the city of Chicago and two of the oldest and dirtiest coal plants in the country.
Under the terms of an agreement signed between Midwest Generation, the City of Chicago and the Chicago Clean Power Coalition, the Fisk power plant in Pilsen will shut down in 2012, while the Crawford plant in Little Village will be closed in in 2014. These plants are responsible for more than 42 premature deaths each year, and have been targeted by community groups and environmental and heath organizations for more than ten years! It’s time for clean power Chicago.”
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This 11 year old kid knows whats going on in the food industry, and he’s spreading the word one kid at a time.
Occupy Oakland January 28, 2012
“Bail Out the Students.” Chelsea Peil, Roger Peet, Katherine Ball, Portland, OR. (Source.) Download PDF.
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More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March 30. Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic—and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds that drift on to their pristine crop fields. via Occupy Monsanto
Take Monsanto dowwwwwwwwwwn!!!
Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, there are three large raised flower beds.
If you’d visited a few months ago, you’d have found them overflowing with curly kale, carrot plants, lettuces, spring onions — all manner of vegetables and salad leaves…
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Social media and blogs can be extremely helpful in organizing people for demonstrations and other actions, but a “like” never helped anything. Get out there.
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Who’s Who of the Occupy Movement: Mark Ruffalo, activist & actor
Mark Ruffalo isn’t merely expressing support for OWS; he’s showing it. Between tweeting straight from Zuccotti Park to protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline, his involvement has been greatly environmentally-focused. His anti-fracking, pro-solar energy sentiments have unveiled how corruption & corporate interest in our government have destroyed our environment.
Now, more climate change, oil drilling & energy issues have come to the forefront of Occupy discussions. Not only have corporate politics nearly diminished the American middle class, but it has destroyed land, air & water.
Watch Ruffalo talk climate change at Zuccotti & explain the goals of OWS.
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Lawyers representing protesters have filed lawsuits — or are planning them — in state and federal courts from coast to coast, challenging eviction orders and what they call heavy-handed police tactics and the banning of demonstrators from public properties.
