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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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    Well, there is no surprise for us in Ohio about Senator Sherrod Brown. His credibility on environmental issues has been in a tail spin ever since he got elected. We expect about as much from him as we do another captive of the coal industry and big utilities, Senator George Voinovich - namely nothing. I think we are going to have do some major attitude readjustments in the climate movement regarding our liberal saviours in Congress. I think we are going to have to start regarding them in the same way that we do Inhofe. At least you know where he is coming from. Any time you are in a room with these liberal saviours, the best thing to do is back out of the room. Otherwise you never know what you will end up with in your back. Idea: Maybe someone in the Grist blogosphere can reinvent that Phil Ochs song, Love me, I'm a Liberal. Call it, Love me, I'm a progressive. I can just imagine some of the wicked lyrics that could put together for that one. Reality check. These fellas will continue to screw us because they know we will never go for Republicans - that is unless the Republicans have a Saul on the Road to Damascus experience which I am not expecting. So a middle range tactic is needed. I think the big green organizations should with hold their money, their volunteers and their endorsements from these so called friends in the next electoral cycle. It is time for environmentalists to quit being a bunch of chumps and suckers. It is time for us to start playing the game as others are playing it. As an environmentalist I don't want to be loved. I want to be feared. Lets sit on our hands the next time these people run. Don't bad mouth them, just fold our arms and do for them, what they have done for us - nothing. Believe me, they will get the message. Prediction: If things continue as they are with Congress and with the Copenhagan conference, expect a night of the long knives in the US climate movement. The beltway crowd is going to have some explaining to do. Randy Cunningham Cleveland, OhioOn Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal posted 5 days, 22 hours ago 5 Responses

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    This is something you will never read about in the news, where the disagreement is cut to reflect deniers vs climate change alarmists. What is hardly ever reported outside of the web site of Grist is how contentious climate legislation is among environmentalists. The unanimity around Kerry Boxer or Waxman Markey is an illusion. Randy CunninghamOn EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade posted 1 week, 6 days ago 28 Responses

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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 weeks, 1 day ago 10 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 weeks, 1 day 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 weeks, 1 day ago 10 Responses
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