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Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989

Learning how to count to 350 0
Posted 4 days, 9 hours ago Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Activists -- farmers, environmentalists, island-dwellers -- around the world will try to write a different future, a bolder one, and if anniversaries are an omen, then they have history on their side.
from the sacred to the profane

Wal-Mart’s history of destroying sacred sites 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A re-consecration ceremony was held this past weekend at a damaged Indian mound in Oxford, Ala.
It's sprawl over?

Alabama city backing away from destruction of ancient Indian mound? 2
Posted 3 months ago
Following local protests and international outcry, the city of Oxford, Ala. appears to be backing away from plans to destroy an ancient and archaeologically significant Indian mound.
West Virginia, Kentucky miners boycott Tennessee over proposed mountaintop removal restrictions 3
Posted 4 months ago
There will be no more excursions to Dollywood for Roger Horton, a coal miner who lives in West Virginia -- at least not until U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) drops legislation he's sponsoring that would limit mountaintop removal mining.
Jailed for protesting coal 0
Posted 5 months ago
My friend Michael Brune of the Rainforest Action Network gets jailed for protesting coal--his first-person account is worth a read.