When the Environmental Protection Agency declared this year on September 11 that all pending mountaintop removal mining permits in four Appalachian states stood in violation of the Clean Water Act and required further review, Lora Webb didn't have time to join in any celebrations. As she and her husband, Steve, a coal miner, packed up their possessions and left his family's ancestral property outside Lindytown, West Virginia, Lora was more concerned about finding a place to sleep that night.
MADRID — Environmentalists dressed as giant ears of corn Tuesday
asked for "agricultural asylum" in the French embassy in Madrid in a
protest over genetically modified crops.
The environmental
organisation Friends of the Earth organised the symbolic act to protest
Spain's "large-scale" production of genetically modified corn, which is
banned in France.
Around 20 protesters from several European
countries and dressed as corn cobs demonstrated outside the French
embassy in central Madrid.
"I am not
the first person to take up the cause of health care but I am
determined to be the last," President Obama declared to great applause
in his recent speech before Congress."
It was a stirring moment, but in the end perhaps just one more
ephemeral moment on the stage of what passes now for political drama in
the United States. Whatever results from the final health care
legislation passed by Congress, we can be sure it will not come close
to solving the health care crisis. The cause of health care,
post-Obama, will go on.
A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Friday detailing why environmental activist Timothy DeChristopher should be allowed or prohibited from presenting evidence he acted out of "necessity" when he deliberately bid on and won oil and gas leases he couldn't pay for as part of a protest.
The December disruption of the Bureau of Land Management auction in Salt Lake City led to an indictment on two criminal charges against DeChristopher - violation of the federal oil and gas leasing reform act and providing a false statement.
ISRAELI PEACE activist Ezra Nawi, who will be sentenced in the Jerusalem magistrate's court this morning, hopes the massive show of support he has received from left-wing and gay activists worldwide, will persuade the judges not to impose the maximum two-year prison term.
Mr Nawi (57), the former partner of Senator David Norris, was found guilty at the Jerusalem magistrate's court in March of disturbing the peace and attacking two border policemen during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank two years ago.
Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants
with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film "Norma
Rae," has died. She was 68.
Sutton died Friday in a hospice after a long battle with brain cancer, her son, Jay Jordan, said Monday.
"She fought it as long as she could and she crossed on over to her new life," he said.
Actress Sally Field portrayed a character based on Sutton in the movie and won a best-actress Academy Award.
Minneapolis - Police arrested seven people today outside the
foreclosed home of Rosemary Williams, a Minneapolis woman who has
publicly refused to leave the property for months.
President Barack Obama's address to Congress Wednesday night was not
just a litany of policy prescriptions. It was a call to action.
His approach took a page out of President Franklin Roosevelt's playbook.
FDR once met with a group of activists who sought his support for
bold legislation. He listened to their arguments for some time and then
said, "You've convinced me. Now go out and make me do it."
GREELEY, Colo. - It had been nearly 30 years since the Rev. Carl Kabat and a group of peace activists, including his fellow Catholic priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, barged into a General Electric weapons plant outside Philadelphia. Known as the Plowshares Eight, they battered missile nose cones with hammers in an effort to disable some of the world's most fearsome weapons, and sprinkled blood on classified documents to protest the cold war, before they were arrested.
After several weeks of protests at Senate hearings and health care events by single payer advocates (visit singlepayeraction.org),
six physicians from Oregon, with 191 years of combined real-world
medical experience, are crossing the country in a 27-foot Winnebago
making stops in nearly 30 cities, to debate, educate and advance full
medicare for all.
