randino

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  • Age: 60
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Grass roots activism, writing about grass roots activism, canoeing.

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I have been an environmentalist since an SOB road builder levelled my favorite patch of forest. I have been incapable of saying the word developer since then without adding a curse word to it. Came up in the New Left, but my soul has always been centered on tree hugging. I am still trying to get my bearings after a generation of having the boot of the right on my kneck. Worked myself half to death for Obama, and never considered him the Messiah. So far he has paid off dividends on the environment. Not as enthusiastic about Summers and Afghanistan. Work for a tenants organization in Cleveland. Live on the West Side of Cleveland and half our lot is woods that I am rewilding. As contractors say, we do our best and caulk the rest when it comes to living green.My wife is a school counselor. No kids, but if we had them I would be on my knees begging forgiveness for the legacy we are leaving them. Wrote a history of community organizing in Cleveland, that if anyone is interested can be seen by going to www.arambalapress.com . Starting research on a book on small grass roots environmental groups I plan to call Little Green Groups. Got interested in the topic while serving a four year stint on the board of the Buckeye Forest Council. It was a great experience. If anyone likes my rants, they can get all they can stomach by going to the web site of progressohio and looking for Randy Cunningham's blogs. Nothing better than being in a canoe, out in the woods. That's it.

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    There was a term from the old 1960s Weather Underground that sums up your attitude, Des Emery. "The masses are asses." It is a complete non-starter as a tactic or strategy. It is a posture and pose of superiority and we really don't need it. We have enough problems. Randy CunninghamOn Why the climate movement needs more Ethiopian-style activists posted 2 days, 7 hours ago 9 Responses

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    Unfortunately for Graham, he is a member of a party that is hurtling towards the right. He better watch his back. I am sure that the Club for Growth and other right wing fundamentalists are not happy with his heresy on the issue. Randy CunninghamOn Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ posted 2 days, 19 hours ago 1 Response

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    This is not just an issue of the climate. The progressive community helped elect Obama, and then went home. On issue after issue - health care, Afghanistan, the banks, climate - the passivity has been thunderous. Internet activism is proving to be a double edged sword. It has removed a lot of the drudgery of past activism, but at the same time it is an activism of an isolated individual, at a lap top or PC, venting by text, twitter or e-mail to the powers that be. Coming together as a group, face to face, the intimacy and social nature of activism has been eroded. Some of us remember just the opposite experience of activism - the power of turning out a big demonstration, the inspiration of marches, and let us not forget how much fun we had. I am not a Luddite, but one thing we have to do is quit hiding behind our computers, and start building the community of activism that we once had, and can still have. That is only done with face to face relationships. Randy CunninghamOn Why the climate movement needs more Ethiopian-style activists posted 2 days, 19 hours ago 9 Responses

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    I have a new spin on the old Shakespearian quote of "first shoot all the lawyers." Mine is first shoot all the economists. The greatest problem is the hold that economists have over the popular mind, when it comes to answering the question "How are we doing?" They are like the feudal priesthood that held the peasantry in its thrall. If an issue is not an issue to them, it is not an issue to the press, the politicians, or ordinary citizens. Climate change is not an issue to our econometric clergy. In fact the environment as a whole does not figure into their charts and graphs, and their prognostications of the future. It is an externality ie irrelevant to "how we are doing." Randy CunninghamOn The real reason the climate bill is going to suck posted 4 days, 7 hours ago 29 Responses

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    The governing structure of the United States has NEVER been change friendly. It is dysfunctional by design. A design created by our god like fore fathers. A design created to ensure elite power, and orginally, the survival of the old slavocracy. Other societies in a similar state of development, seem able to manage change, and to show fexibility in meeting challenges that come up. Not us. Our geared for gridlock system, lets things build and build. Like a locked fault zone. Until things pop - like they did in the Civil War and the Great Depression and the 1960s. It is much, much more than the assorted machinations of the two parties. Forget the Sudan, Pakistan, Somalia, and such. The greatest failed state, and one that endangers all of humanity,is the good old USA. Randy CunninghamOn The real reason the climate bill is going to suck posted 4 days, 20 hours ago 29 Responses
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