7/13/11

Democrats: seize the moment

A movement has emerged among disaffected, college-aged activists frustrated with the lack of leadership on environmental solutions. The flash mob at Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer's office demonstrated bold initiative as it confronted the state's executive. Note the diversity of the protestors (though no one over 40ish):



The global hacker, ANONYMOUS, announced it:
JULY 12, 2011

Operation Green Rights presents: Project Tarmeggedon
Free-thinking citizens of the world: 
Anonymous' Operation Green Rights calls your attention to an urgent situation in North America perpetuated by the boundless greed of the usual suspects: Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and many others. 
This week, activists are gathering along U.S. Highway 12 in Montana to protest the transformation of a serene wilderness into an industrial shipping route, bringing "megaloads" of refinery equipment to the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada. 
Anonymous now joins the struggle against "Big Oil" in the heartland of the US. We stand in solidarity with any citizen willing to protest corporate abuse. Anonymous will not stand by idly and let these environmental atrocities continue. This is not the clean energy of the future that we are being promised. 
We will, over the course of the next few days, use the powers we posses to spread news about this scenario and the corporations involved. We are actively seeking leaks to expose the corruption that we all KNOW is beneath this. Anonymous will support the activists on July 13-14 when they initiate civil disobedience and direct action to confront this dire issue. We urge you to get involved. Montana and Idaho citizens, we ask you to join local protests and attend the Highway 12 rally if you are close enough! If you're not, join us in the IRC listed below for our own good times. 
The continued development of the tar sands is a major step backward in the effort to curb global warming. Anonymous will not suffer this without a fight, and Operation Green Rights will always support the rights of the people to live in an unpolluted world, and aim to help safeguard it for the future. One way or another.
These actions are indicators of a new direction for political planners. Translating these participations into votes can be the bonanza that could propel Democrats into local seats. Let's reach out.



Rather than ripping up the Earth for glass, aluminum, and petroleum to make plastics: what about harvesting beetle-killed pine to manufacture aseptic paper beer containers and for compostable alternatives to the mountains of ubiquitous packaging this country uses?

9 comments:

freegan said...

If you have not noticed,the gov. is a democrat! This is a movement against the establishment. There will be no change unless we throw a wrench in the system. We must break down the old system to build a sustainable one. Stop with the dem/rep b.s.

larry kurtz said...

Movements need leaders; witness the governor's honed patience with an unruly, but passionate action. Expect his office to dispatch a representative to guide more direct interaction between the parties.

freegan said...

Hemp is a great renewable resource, 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin. Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the car was mad of hemp.food and medicines are made from hemp. Biodegradable plastic can be made of hemp.You can grow hemp anywhere and it chokes out weeds, imagine hemp growing along our highways(pun intentended).

larry kurtz said...

we already have 70 million acres of collapsed pine forest to clean up. A hemp infrastructure is as far into the future as the space elevator is.

freegan said...

I believe we should leave the dead trees, nature knows best what to do with them. Soil will be built. If we take all the organic matter away we are creating more desert. The trees are not waste, they are a nutrient that must be returned to the Earth. They will also hold water from washing to the oceans(in more than one way). So my opinion is quit stripping and start adding.

freegan said...

fair share would be alright, but most should be returned to soil.

larry kurtz said...

nature didn't allow lodgepole and ponderosa pine to infest the rockies, we did. it's our responsibility to clean up our messes.

freegan said...

Just a part of the succession???

Anonymous said...

http://theprogressiveplaybook.com/2011/07/us-uncut-they-say-cut-back-we-say-fight-back/