Trucking protests – July 9
Protesting truckers bring chaos to New Zealand city streets
German truckers plan to join world fuel-price protests
Truckies threaten two-week strike
Activism
Peak toil
Peak toil: A fable of the future?
It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…
What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon
Media & persuasion – July 2
Your brain lies to you
AP took it to the wire but needs to rethink its role (Associated Press vs bloggers)
Here Comes Everybody – falling in love with the Internet all over again
Chinese bloggers scale the ‘Great Firewall’ in riot’s aftermath
Don’t mourn – July 2
Will Obama inspire a new generation of organizers?
Real change happens off-line
Grassroots lobbying: use ideas, not one-click campaigns
Printable flyers for use in community organizing
Climate – June 30
No ice at North Pole: Dramatic evidence of climate change
North Pole may Be ice free for first time this summer
Bill McKibben: Climate change activists have chosen a magic number: 350 ppm
350 ppm, the video
Peak oil – June 30
Michael Klare: End of the petroleum age?
Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out (Simmons)
Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions
Peak scam
Free speech and the fate of humanity
We all know that even in the United States the guarantee of free speech has limits. The Supreme Court long ago said that no one has the right to endanger his or her fellow citizens by, for instance, falsely yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. Such acts of speech are said to pose “a clear and present danger.” James Hansen, perhaps the most respected climate scientist on the planet, thinks that the fossil fuel lobby and its disinformation campaign about global warming may pose a similar threat.
Deep thought – June 27
The problem with Big Green
Scenius, or communal genius
Methane burps & tele everything
Deep thought – June 26
The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple-and wrong
George Carlin’s gift to Apocalypse
Class struggle, fossil fuels and environmental catastrophe
Chellis Glendinning on techno-fascism
The Moses of a post-peak oil world
Who will be the leaders who will carry us kicking and screaming towards the sustainable way of life that we should have been leading all along?
Hard times – June 23
Social crisis in Detroit
One question: How are gas prices affecting you?
Vermont Lt. Gov. Dubie declared an emergency in advance of this winter’s heating season.
United Kingdom – June 20
The Tory leader – maybe he really is green
Prince’s aide attacks Labour over transport
Green activists occupy land set aside for opencast coal mine
