Pipelines: Which side are you on, planet or profit?
Since the Northern Gateway pipeline hit the news, the regina mom has read more posts about science than ever before. And it’s not because science claims a place in her…
Greed
Protests, Facts & Bedfellows: Northern Gateway Pipeline Actions, Science & Money
They expected 2,000 to attend and, according to police reports, 2,000 people demonstrated their opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and shut down the main street of the small…
Opposing the Enbridge Pipeline: Saying No to Corptocracy
According to the Earth Policy Institute direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry world-wide amount to half a trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000) annually. That’s a lot of zeroes for an industry…
I’m singing in hell
I’m singing in hell This is a place where my City Councillor invokes UN property rights instead of human rights for the 130 people evicted from a rundown apartment block…
When is Money Good Money?
Several years ago a story in the Readers Digest’s Life’s Like That, was a perfect anthem to the American Dream. The young man who had sent in the story, was…
A long story and an action item
First Nations leaders are justifiably angered by the HarperCon government’s blatant support for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. “The First Nations Leadership Council is greatly troubled by recent comments by…
Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD)
Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD) on Vimeo. “‘Inside Job’ provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20…
The Capitalist Pigs and the Cream Separator
Uh oh. I mean oink oink. I see the unrepentant capitalist pig just can’t help itself. Stuffing itself with human misery. While the rich get richer, and the poor get…
We Are The Many
Occupy yourself with this powerful video by Makana, a popular Hawaiian recording artist. At the APEC summit in Hawaii this past weekend Makana made a bold and courageous statement. He…
Have a koch and a $mile ? ? ? ?
The right-wing-billionaire-zealot brother$ koch are about to fully engage their database war on the rest of the civilized world.Feature article in today's GuardianUK reveals the details: The secretive oil billionaires…
99% Action from Home . . . .
Something we all can do from home to annoy the 1%:H/T BTORecommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Department of I could’ve told you that: Marijuana prohibition fuels gang violence
Why does it always take scientists, educators and experts to tell the government, media and the captains of industry that what they are doing is counter productive to a safe,…
It’s Not About Occupying Wall Street But How Best to "Occupy" Ourselves
In the 1960s, college and university campuses, known for their apathy, began to erupt into political activism. Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to move to the back of…
Nice Little ‘Manifesto’ You Got There, But, I’m Going To Burst Your Little Bubble–You ARE Part of the 99%
Boys ‘n’ girls, let’s give this college senior a big hand here! No, really! They’re making it on their own without any help from anyone on very little! Or so…
Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians…
dickhead Comes to Vancouver . . . .
dickhead cheney came to The Vancouver Club tonight to promote his book.Of course I participated to see Vancouverites welcome him in style.To the best of my knowledge, he signed no…