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The Trumperium: Building Resistance Movements In The Time Of Donald Trump

December 16, 2016 By David Seaton 5 Comments

We are now entering the “Trumperium,” a sinister, unethical and amoral wasteland, where a kleptocrat and his cronies from around the world, will be allowed to cavort among the ruins of every value that progressive politics have always held dear.

The “upside” of all of this, if you could call it that, the “lemonade from lemons,” is that progressive Americans now have a chance facing the Trumperium to create a vibrant, “take it to the streets” left like the one that accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and resisted the war in Vietnam, or like the one that energized Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The question being, who are going to be the “Freedom Riders,” or the Panthers? Who is going to write and sing the fighting songs, now that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize? What will the be the “We Shall Overcome” of the anti-Trumperium underground?

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Elections Tagged With: activism, Chile, Donald Trump, Human Rights, South America

VIDEO: Bloody-handed CODEPINK Activists Confront Henry Kissinger

January 31, 2015 By Eleanor Goldfield 2 Comments

“I have been a member of this committee for years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable …”

You know that feeling you get when someone says something that is just so laughably absurd that you feel yourself stuck in this mental and emotional limbo between anger and hysterical laughter, typically settling somewhere in between; a murderous chuckle, perhaps.

Well, that’s the place my mind settled Thursday at about 9:30am EST when John McCain said those words about a group of activists, myself included. In a government run on logic, justice, freedom and honesty, McCain would have of course been directing those comments to the lizard-faced Kissinger. But alas, those four tenets are about as absent from these hearings as youth and common sense.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: activisma, anti-war, Cambodia, Chile, citizen's arrest, Code Pink, CodePink, Congress, East Timor, free speech, freedom of speech, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Human Rights, Indonesia, John McCain, Laos, Madeleine Albright, military, peace, protest, Senate Armed Services Committee, South America, United States Senate, Vietnam, War, war crimes

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Environmental Fugitives

January 6, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Kate Lanier collects news of oil and gas, fracking and mining, the environment and sustainable energy from around the world including:

Worldwide: Interpol is now taking on “environmental fugitives,” including suspected crime bosses and elephant ivory smugglers. Nine wanted altogether, with two already captured. Just imagine the possibilities.

Colorado: It’s getting very ugly out there. Longmont residents voted against fracking in their community inn 2012.  Now, “state officials, energy companies and industry groups are taking Longmont and other municipalities to court, forcing local governments into what critics say are expensive, long-shot efforts to defend the measures.” Citizens are even being accused of ripping off industry.

Chile: Barrick Gold (Toronto) ran afoul of the Superintendence for the Environment concerning the Pascua Lama gold-silver mine. Fines were imposed. A lower court seemed to revoke the $16 million fine, due to regulatory misfiguring, and ordered Barrick to halt its activity at the mine. Barrick sued but the Supreme Court refused he case, putting everything back in the lap of the Superintendence for the Environment which has some re-figuring to do.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alexei Kudrin, Alliance Resource Partners, Arlington, Barack Obama, California, Canada, capitalism, Chile, China, Chuck Schumer, Climate change, coal, Colorado, Comstock Resources, Congress, Democratic Party, Ecuador, Enbridge, Energiewende, energy, environment, Feisal Ali, Flanagan South, frack sand, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, gas, Germany, Human Rights, hydraulic fracturing, Interpol, ivory, Japan, Juan Cole, Kentucky, Kenya, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Pipeline, Lake Michigan, Libya, Longmont, Louisiana, methane, Mexico, mining, Native Americans, New Mexico, New York, Nigeria, North Carolina, nuclear, Ohio, oil, oil sands, oil trains, Oklahoma, Patriot Coal, Pennsylvania, Peru, pipelines, propane, Rafael Correa, Republican Party, Russia, Sally Jewell, San Angelo, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Seaway Twin Pipeline, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, solar power, Solomon Islands, South Dakota, sustainable energy, Tar sands, tarsands, Texas, United States Department of the Interior, Venezuela, Washington D.C, West Virginia, White House, wind power, Yankton Sioux

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