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It has been a painstaking process, but Americans are waking up from a mind-numbing consumerist stupor.
In February the nation witnessed labor struggling against capitalist influence in Wisconsin politics when protesters occupied Madison’s capitol building. Tens of thousands marched in the streets in a fight to protect their rights, save their jobs, and end corporate influence on their state government.
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After being sentenced to two years in prison for making a false statement and violating laws on oil and gas leasing in an act of civil disobedience in 2008, Tim DeChristopher addressed the court to explain his motivations. Hailed as a hero by the green movement and a radical climate activist by conservatives, he spoke for over thirty minutes in an effort to help the court and public “get to know him.” Over the last three years, the right painted him as a liar, an extremist, and an anarchist. But in his address, he describes his respect for the law and his distaste for injustice: “Disrespect for the rule of law begins when the government believes itself and its corporate sponsors to be above the law.” That wholesale disrespect for the law drove him to sabotage an illegal auction of public lands.
From SourceWatch: All About Koch Industries
From Greenpeace: Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial (2011 Update)
From Daily Kos: Koch Brothers Limerick & Song Challenge
From Me: Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and article=”cartoonicle”)
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June 17 marked the anniversary of Representative Joe Barton’s public apology to BP. Barton felt that the public outrage at the corporation responsible for the Gulf oil spill was an overreaction. And he was not alone. Along with Speaker of the House John Boehner, Barton disregarded the devastation experienced by Gulf residents and the damage done to the environment. Instead, the legislators expressed their loyalty to Big Oil, arguing that the Americans’ tax dollars should be used to clean up BP’s mess.
From EatDrinkBetter: Organic Farm Group Sues Monsanto, Seeking Protection From GMO Contamination
From Monsanto’s home newspaper: Farmers, seed companies sue Monsanto
From The Cornacopia Institute: Farmers and Seed Producers Launch Preemptive Strike against Monsanto
From Sourcewatch: Monsanto and the Roundup Ready Controversy
Pollute our air and water, leave SuperFund sites uncleaned, leave brownfields scattered around the country, and greatly contribute to climate change and you’re a billionaire. Try to prevent any of this and it’s 10 years in prison…
Member of the Cofán Dureno Indigenous community in northern Ecuador. Photo by Rainforest Action Network via flickr.
Today at the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York, the UNEP plans to celebrate their launch of the International Year for Forests (IYF) with the slogan of “Celebrating Forests for People.” In the wake of the International Year of Biodiversity, the shift in focus from species to forests and people is a much needed and natural transition, considering the rate of deforestation and soil degradation that is spreading exponentially worldwide.
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Kenya is a country with almost 35 million people, and yet it only produces less than 50% of the food its country needs to survive. Due to years of chemically induced industrial farming, much of the agricultural land has been destroyed.
The biggest chocolate buying holiday is just weeks away, but before you go out and purchase bags of conventional chocolate, there are few things you should know about what you are endorsing when you buy this candy. While children in the U.S. are increasingly looking forward to the mounds of sweets they will collect this Halloween on their trick-or-treating excursions, children in other parts of the country are being sold as slaves by their own families and forced to work in abusive conditions for the cocoa crops that supply most of the conventional chocolate sold in stores.
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Interview with Non-GMO Expert, Jeffrey Smith
This Saturday and Sunday the Green Festival is coming to Los Angeles for the first time ever. As the largest sustainability event in the world, there will be no shortage of informative booths, how-to-workshops, cutting-edge film screenings, green shopping opportunities, and exciting speakers. Speakers in the past have included major change makers in the eco-world and this event will be no different, with guests such as Amy Goodman from Democracy Now!, John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman), Mark Hertsgaard (author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth), and a full lineup of other inspirational speakers making an appearance.
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