Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels
This month alone has seen riots kick-off in Venezuela, Bosnia, Ukraine, Iceland, and Thailand. This is not a coincidence.
protests
Video reports from anti-hydraulic fracturing battle-field in rural Romania
An intense anti-hydraulic fracturing protest is underway in a remote tiny Romanian village, Pungesti, where the Jandarmeria (military style police from the central government) were deployed to brutally put down protesters
Revolt and Change Our Lives
The part that keeps itching at me, days after I read [Naomi] Klein’s article, is the presumption that "mass uprisings" are the only way out of this mess.
Fracking headlines
•New York Shale Play Gets Major Downgrade •America’s natural gas revolution isn’t all it’s ‘fracked’ up to be •Scientists Wary of Shale Oil and Gas as U.S. Energy Salvation •Shale gas firms to be brought under ‘robust’ new EU law •Lock the Gate Webisodes •Hundreds of North Dakota spills went unreported •Underground Truths: Shale Won’t Save Us •Romanian farmers choose subsistence over shale gas
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking – headlines
•A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water •Fracking company wants to build new pipeline — for water •A New California Oil Boom? Drilling the Monterey Shale •Greenwashing Concerns Mount as Evidence of Fracking’s Climate Impact Grows •Fracking firm scaling back operation at Balcombe •Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado as Fracking Invades Cities
Most people would rather watch an evening of “Survivor” reruns than go to a council meeting in their city. But no more. Not in Colorado since the invasion or threat of invasion by the oil industry into cities and towns up and down the Front Range.
Deep thought – dystopia and revolt – June 5
•The War on Scarcity •The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future •Without Water, Revolution •Turkish hopes for a new beginning •The Stockholm Uprising and the Myth of Swedish Social Democracy •The Natural Limits Of Confronting Our Limits •Days of Destruction
Climate, politics & money – Mar 5
•Will EDF become the Barbra Streisand of climate protest? •US Generals warn of climate change dangers •Is climate change next for GOP? •Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine •China Carbon Tax May Spur U.S. Climate Debate, CMIA Says •EU lawmakers back suspension of airline carbon payments
Political Analysis – America In Revolt
As the nation awaits President Obama’s State of the Union address, Sandy LeonVest hosts an inspiring program on the essential nature of activism in our (failing) democracy and what is rapidly becoming the second “American Revolution.” She’s joined in this endeavor by Move to Amend founder David Cobb, and human rights activist and single-payer advocate Dr. Margaret Flowers (Physicians for a National Health Program or PNHP).