Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sun and Sanity | Common Dreams

Sun and Sanity | Common Dreams

CommonDreams.org and Kevin Zeese shared a link.
www.commondreams.org
This is the second week of protests, led by Bill McKibben, in front of the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject a proposed 1700 mile pipeline transporting the dirtiest oil from Alberta, Canada through fragile ecologies down to the Gulf Coast refineries. One thousand people will b...
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  • Ralph Nader talks about the sun, power and politics, though not necessarily in that order.

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      • Marie McMeckan
        The 'dirty, filthy' oil from Alberta will stop flowing into your country when you all stop gorging yourselves on the resources of other countries (including mine). Canadians are not holding a gun to your heads and forcing you greedy, spoil...ed brats to take it. If it isn't piped, it will be trucked in at your demand. Either way, you get the product you NEED and we get the environmental destruction, so STOP whining and start sharing some of the burden. As for the woman in Virginia who wanted her kids to get productive jobs in the uranium industry... Well Sandy B, that would be a WORKING CLASS woman's aspirations. Y'know, the 'working class'; those strange people who keep clean drinking water running, the roads repaired and the garbage from piling up outside your house... The citizens of the US need to start making some serious 'lifestyle' SACRIFICES - which of course, they won't while the Iraqis, Libyans and anyone else still has a drop of 'US oil' under their sand and snow...See More
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      • Melissa Clements They're arresting the wrong side!


  • It is the people vs. corporate power on issue after issue.