Bioneers 2010: Dispatch from an Earth Community Movement

Once again, the 3-day Bioneers mother-ship has landed and departed, and a thousand pods of social and environmental change have dispersed across the globe, refreshed and re-energized.  Or to use the less technological metaphor by Janine Benyus, founder of the Biomimicry Institute, “This is kind of a seasonal migration ceremony, Bioneers.  If we were migrating [...]

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“When I say Chevron, you say, ‘Clean up!’, When I say BP, you say, ‘Pay up!’”

On August 30, a couple hundred people snaked through downtown San Francisco to confront Big Oil and demand accountability for the damage they have done to impacted communities worldwide. It marked the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It was also the largest non-violent direct action since the BP oil disaster. After a die-in on a [...]

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Oakland’s Road to Detroit: US Social Forum briefing

Oakland’s “Road to Detroit” was launched Tuesday night at a meeting about the US Social Forum, hosted at the Workforce Collaborative. From June 22-36, thousands of individuals and organizations from all over the country will converge in Detroit to share solutions to the economic and ecological crises. The meeting was meant as a briefing for [...]

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Oakland’s Road to Detroit: A Briefing on the United States Social Forum

There’s less than 80 days until the United States Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan–are you ready? Come to a briefing about the United States Social Forum, where you can find out about what’s happening there, what you can do to help, resources for getting there, and what other groups are doing to pave the road [...]

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Resurrecting King’s Dream: Anti-poverty campaign kicks off March to Fulfill the Dream

Sunday marked the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, cutting short his dream. But it also marked the launch of a historic march from New Orleans to Detroit by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) to resurrect Dr. King’s dream of ending poverty in the [...]

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I hereby submit my objection: Reflection on 7th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion

So we have arrived at yet another anniversary of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. Again we observe milestones of inhumanity. We’ve reached over 1000 U.S. soldiers dead from our occupation of Afghanistan. We read weekly reports of the murder of innocent civilians by U.S. soldiers, war planes, and unmanned drones. Again we [...]

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