Rally in Richmond this Saturday
Posted on August 11, 2009
Got a couple emails this morning about a big rally and action at the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond this saturday. I’m going to try to make it out and, if you can, you should too. here’s the call:
Tired of hearing about climate Change? Then do something.
August 15th Chevron oil refinery action
- CLEAN AIR FOR RICHMOND & THE BAY;
- STOP OIL REFINERY EXPANSIONS
- CORPORATIONS OUT OF COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS!
Saturday, August 15th, 11:30am
Richmond BART,
16th St. & Macdonald Ave., Richmond, CA
FESTIVAL RALLY – 11:30am
MARCH ON CHEVRON OIL REFINERY – 1:00pm
followed by NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
In order to bring our climate back to the safe zone and avoid catastrophic consequences, we need to make massive emissions cuts now. There’s only one way we can achieve that: we need to turn the political heat way up — and push back the corporate and business lobbyists who use false solutions (clean coal and carbon trading) to keep polluting and profiting.Climate change is rooted in an unjust economic system controlled by corporations at the expense of people and planet. Climate justice means we need to address these root causes and create postive alternatives; localized, low-carbon communities and economies.
On August 15th stand with the environmental justice movement that has stopped Chevron’s refinery expansion in Richmond. Chevron already produces two million pounds of air pollution, water pollution, and greenhouse gases each year. The expansion would create much more greenhouse gas and toxic air pollution.
Join the growing alliance of groups and people creating “street heat” for climate justice in the lead up to the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Talks
Organize a climate justice affinity group with your friends, neighbors, co-workers, fellow students, union, church or family and join us for Aug. 15 and beyond.
The call is being put out by the Mobilization for Climate Justice, West and the page for info on the action is http://west.actforclimatejustice.org/2009/08/august-15th-protest-chevrons-oil-refinery-expansion/ or just http://west.actforclimatejustice.org/ for their main website.
Hope to see ya’ll there!
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For the Love of God
Posted on May 20, 2009
Now obviously the Roman church has done this sort of thing all over the world, but there have been very few places in the modern world (other then perhaps Franco’s Spain) where the Catholic church has had more power then in Ireland. I’d go on and rant about the hypocrisy and horror of religion and of the catholic church in particular, but I’ve said it before and I’ve got to run out the door this morning so I don’t really have time. Instead, I’ll just let this new article from the AP do the talking.
Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuseDUBLIN – A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
Nine years in the making, Wednesday’s 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run, mostly residential institutions.
It concluded that church officials always shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest to protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.
The commission said overwhelming, consistent testimony from still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.
“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from,” the final report of Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.
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The Police State strikes again.
Posted on May 18, 2009
Just in case anyone who reads my blog still has illusions about the federal government respecting our fundamental human right to free speach, free assembly, and protest (rights recognized by, but not in any way originating with the first amendment of the bill of rights); here’s yet another wakeup call. This one from the DesMoines Register, a mainstream publication not known for their radical sympathies.
FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090517/NEWS/905170341
An FBI informant and an undercover Minnesota sheriff’s deputy spied on political activists in Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Confidential FBI documents obtained by The Des Moines Register show an FBI informant was planted among a group described as an “anarchist collective” that met regularly last year in Iowa City. One of the group’s goals was to organize street blockades to disrupt the Republican convention, held Sept. 1-4, 2008, where U.S. Sen. John McCain was nominated for president.
The undercover Minnesota deputy who traveled to Iowa City was from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department, which infiltrated a group known as the “RNC Welcoming Committee” that was coordinating convention protest activities in St. Paul.
The undercover officer accompanied two activists from the Twin Cities who attended the University of Iowa in April 2008 for a Midwest campus anti-war conference.
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