Wednesday, February 20, 2013

#ForwardOnClimate videos


WASHINGTON DC



Forward On Climate Rally & March - Washington DC - YouTubeThe Largest Climate Rally in History: February 17, 2013 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. RSVP today or find more info at ForwardOnClimate.org. Presented by 135 different organizations and their members, including 350.org, the Sierra Club, the Hip Hop Caucus, Greenpeace, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Green For All and Forecast the Facts.




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National Day of Protest Against Environmental Destruction - YouTubeNational Day of Protest Against Environmental Destruction, Los Angeles 2.17.13The Eco Logic Channel - YouTube

Monday, February 18, 2013

Tens of Thousands Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline & Urge Obama to Move "Forward on Climate"




We play highlights from the "Forward on Climate" rally that drew tens of thousands to Washington D.C.’s National Mall Sunday. Protesters from across the United States and Canada urged President Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Organizers described Sunday’s protest as "the largest climate rally in history," and Reverend Lennox Yearwood compared it to Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington for civil rights. We hear from speakers including Van Jones, Obama’s former Green Jobs advisor, Canadian indigeous leader Chief Jacqueline Thomas of the Saik’uz First Nation, and Bill McKibben of 350.org. [Includes rush transcript]


GUESTS:
Van Jones, President Obama’s former Green Jobs Advisor.
Jacqueline Thomas, Chief of the Saik’uz First Nation from British Columbia, Canada.
Bill McKibben, longtime environmentalist and founder of 350.org.
Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actor.
Casey Camp, indigenous leader with the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma.

Tens of Thousands Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline & Urge Obama to Move "Forward on Climate" | Democracy Now!

more from DNow! Keystone XL Oil Pipeline | Democracy Now!

see also

what next: #ForwardOnClimate - photos | 350

whats up: photos: Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

#ForwardOnClimate - photos | 350


photos of #ForwardOnClimate in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2013 via 350.org's flickr stream














more: Largest Climate March in US History |  350.org


see also: whats up: photos: Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.

photos: Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.


photos courtesy Lisa Marie Prescott

Nuclear Energy Information Service

"Nuclear has a huge carbon footprint from the mining and milling to the enrichment process and all the way through the fuel cycle," said Priscilla Star, executive director and founder of Coalition Against Nukes. At todays rally in Washington D.C., C.A.N. joined with our partners Beyond Nuclear, the Nuclear Information Resource ServicesSierra Club Nukefree CampaignNuclear Energy Information ServiceFriends of the Earth and the Green Party to march in unity and solidarity to demand POLITICAL CHANGE not CLIMATE CHANGE! and a Green New Deal for America that will be both Carbon and Nuclear Free!


more: whats up: photos: Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.


see also

whats up: Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.
whats up: 2.17 #BustTheMyth :: Forward on Climate Rally
whats up: "Nukes are not carbon-free" | C.A.N. Coalition Against Nukes
whats up: NUCLEAR POWER’S OTHER FOOTPRINT
whats up: NO NUKES • #RE_TOOL NOW

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17! | Coalition Against Nukes

For Immediate Release:

Contacts: 
Michael Leonardi 567 202 5327
Gail Payne 631 335 7756
campaign organizers for the coalition against nukes

Coalition Against Nukes U.S.A. joins with Forward on Climate! to Bust the Nuclear Myth in Washington D.C.

The Coalition Against Nukes, as a partner in the Forward on Climate Rally, will be coming from across the United States to Bust the Nuclear Myth that nuclear energy is carbon free. "Nuclear has a huge carbon footprint from the mining and milling to the enrichment process and all the way through the fuel cycle," said Priscilla Star, executive director and founder of C.A.N.. At todays rally in Washington D.C.. we will be joining with our partners Beyond Nuclear, the Nuclear Information Resource Services, Friends of the Earth and the Green Party to march in unity and solidarity to demand POLITICAL CHANGE not CLIMATE CHANGE! and a Green New Deal for America that will be both Carbon and Nuclear Free! "This exploitive system controlled by giant energy companies does not have a place for the health of our planet our ourselves and this system must change," said Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism. The Green Party's Jill Stein was the selected speaker of both the Coalition Against Nukes and the Green Party for this event but was denied a chance to speak on stage. She will be available for interviews in the VIP tent.

NO NUKES / GREEN PARTY STAGING AREA
ON THE MALL / SMITHSONIAN METRO STATION (MALL EXIT) OVER BY "THE CASTLE"
ASSEMBLE AT 11 AM EST

Come up out of the Smithsonian Metro Station (Mall exit) OR walk towards the "THE CASTLE" (aka Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, the big red spiraled brick building) and look for the "No Nukes" messages on The Mall.

We will then walk over together to the Washington Monument to join the main march staging area by 11:30 AM as requested by the organizers for the march to the White House.

http://coalitionagainstnukes.org/ai1ec_event/forward-on-climate-rally/

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Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17! | Coalition Against Nukes

Friday, February 15, 2013

Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17!






At 12 Noon on Sunday, February 17, thousands of Americans will head to Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history. Join this historic event to make your voice heard and help the president start his second term with strong climate action.
Crippling drought. Devastating wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. Climate has come home – and the American people get it.
The first step to putting our country on the path to addressing the climate crisis is for President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. His legacy as president will rest squarely on his response, resolve, and leadership in solving the climate crisis.
350 | Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17!

see also:
whats up: 2.17 #BustTheMyth :: Forward on Climate Rally

It is time to bust nuclear power myths starting with the myth that nuclear power is climate-friendly! This rally provides an incredible opportunity to educate the 20,000+ rally attendees. Many are unaware that nuclear power contributes to climate change and devastates the environment!

A Big Day for Climate on Capitol Hill | 350.org




FEB. 14, 2013: There's a new sense of momentum around climate change here in Washington, DC. It started with President Obama’s inauguration, when the President broke the climate silence and called for action to address the crisis, saying a “failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”

Obama then ratcheted up the rhetoric in this Monday’s State of the Union. “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence,” said the President. “Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science -- and act before it's too late."

Now, members of Congress are beginning to act, as well.

This morning, 350.org founder Bill McKibben and a group of allies joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and California Senator Barbara Boxer to launch a new climate bill. The bill would end fossil fuel subsidies, invest in job-creating climate solutions like energy retrofits, and pass a stiff price on carbon, 60% of the profits of which would be rebated, per capita, to ever legal U.S. resident.

“The legislation that Senator Boxer and I are introducing today with the support of some of the leading environmental organizations in the country can actually address the crisis and does what has to be done to protect the planet,” said Senator Sanders at an event in the Senate office building. “It can reverse greenhouse gas emissions in a significant way. It can create millions of jobs as we transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and such sustainable energies as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass.”

“This bill establishes a really important principle,” said Bill McKibben at the event. “And that’s the fact that if the sky belongs to anybody it belongs to us and not the fossil fuel industry.”

Sanders and Boxer will spend the next few months marking up the bill, debating its provisions, and bringing on cosponsors. Senator Boxer said that she hopes to bring the bill up for a vote this summer (we’ll see if another summer of record breaking temperatures helps make the case). While it’s going to be a tough row to hoe in Congress, both Senators are confident that they’ve got the will of the American people on their side.

“No Big Oil company can sit down in someone's living room and say Superstorm Sandy didn't happen," said Senator Boxer.

"We're going to win this fight when millions of people stand up and say you must protect my children," Senator Sanders concluded.

Luckily, millions of people are already standing up to say no to the Keystone XL pipeline. And this afternoon, they found some new allies among progressive members of Congress. At a press event in front of the capitol, representatives from the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black, Hispanic, and Asian American caucuses released a letter calling on President Obama to say no the Keystone XL pipeline. The letter was signed by 23 members of Congress, including long-time progressive champions like Rep. John Lewis and new members of Congress like California Representative Mark Takano.

“You cannot be talking about doing something proactive about climate change while approving the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva at the event. “We're now in a position to lead, rather than follow the worn, tired path industry has laid for us.”

Other Representatives went directly at the fossil fuel industry for the misinformation they’ve been spreading about Keystone XL. “The idea KXL will deliver energy independence isn't just a lie, it's a sad lie,” said Florida Representative Alan Grayson.

The Congressional letter will help build political momentum for this weekend’s “Forward on Climate” rally, when we’re expecting tens of thousands of people to rally for climate action and protest Keystone XL.

“At the rally, Americans will ask you [President Obama] to take a stand for the climate and reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, limit carbon pollution from our nation's dirty power plants, and fire up our clean energy economy,” wrote the members of Congress. “As progressive Members of Congress, we support those who will be part of the largest climate rally in America’s history.”

From the growing fossil fuel divestment movement that’s now spread to over 250 campuses across the country to this weekend’s massive rally in Washington, DC, the climate movement is beginning to fire on all cylinders and our politicians are taking notice. For the first time in awhile, it really feels like we’re moving, well, #forwardonclimate.

A Big Day for Climate on Capitol Hill | 350.org

350 | Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17!


At 12 Noon on Sunday, February 17, thousands of Americans will head to Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history. Join this historic event to make your voice heard and help the president start his second term with strong climate action.
Crippling drought. Devastating wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. Climate has come home – and the American people get it.
The first step to putting our country on the path to addressing the climate crisis is for President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. His legacy as president will rest squarely on his response, resolve, and leadership in solving the climate crisis.


see also:
whats up: 2.17 #BustTheMyth :: Forward on Climate Rally



#BustTheMyth –
Join Coalition Against Nukes
at #ForwardOnClimate Rally

We want you to take part in the Forward on Climate Rally, in Washington, DC, on Sunday, Feb. 17, from 11:30 am – 4 pm.
It is time to bust nuclear power myths starting with the myth that nuclear power is climate-friendly! This rally provides an incredible opportunity to educate the 20,000+ rally attendees. Many are unaware that nuclear power contributes to climate change and devastates the environment!
Help spread the word about the rally and the bust nuclear power myths campaign to your anti-nuclear groups and contacts. Encourage all to take part in this historic event!
Please attend the Forward on Climate Rally! We need a huge turn-out to get our message across. —> There are buses from many parts of the country. <—
Let’s make a bold statement using creative signs and costumes. Bust nuclear power myths with fact sheets and conversation with other rally-goers.


Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17 @ Coalition Against Nukes 
Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally @350.org
Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17 @Sierra Club


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Billionaires' fortunes hinder fight against poverty, says Oxfam



The vast fortunes made by the world's richest 100 billionaires is driving up inequality and hindering the world's ability to tackle poverty, according to Oxfam.
The charity said the accumulation of wealth and income on an unprecedented scale, often at the expense of secure jobs and decent wages for the poorest, undermined the ability of people who survive on aid or low wages to improve their situation and escape poverty.
Oxfam said the world's poorest could be lifted out of poverty several times over should the richest 100 billionaires give away the money they made last year.
Without pointing a finger at individuals, the charity argued that the $240bn (£150bn) net income amassed in 2012 by the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to make extreme poverty history four times over.

more: Billionaires' fortunes hinder fight against poverty, says Oxfam | Society | guardian.co.uk

 i would add to this: in doing so they are not only ripping off the human population, but also the ecosphere and thus destroying the planet in the process through extraction, slavery, and psychopathy

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Keeping it Clean: 9 Things You May Not Know About Nuclear Power | We M.U.S.T.




Has Climate Change Hit Home for You?

In the past decade the United States has suffered record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, droughts, storms and floods. While no single event can be directly linked to climate change, every one of these is consistent with its models.

You Know About Greenwashing – Now We Have Nukewashing

We need to get off energy sources that emit greenhouse gasses. President Obama says he is prepared to act on climate change. Yet, in 2010 President Obama announced 18.5 billion dollars in loan guarantees for the first new nuclear reactors in the US in 30 years, and then proposed another $36 billion. It appears our President has been Nukewashed.

Nukewashing is what the industry does when it claims that nuclear energy is clean because it releases no greenhouse gasses. Ever since the partial meltdown and release of radiation at Three Mile Island in 1979, the nuclear industry has been like a long-dormant Cicada, waiting for right the time to reappear. Now some claim that nuclear power is part of the solution to Climate Change.


MORE: Keeping it Clean: 9 Things You May Not Know About Nuclear Power | We M.U.S.T.


2.17 C.A.N. Anti-nukes Join #ForwardOnClimate Rally




Coalition Against Nukes Busting the Nuclear Myth at #ForwardOnClimate Rally
~ facebook event page


Coalition Against Nukes is now a sponsor in the Forward on Climate Rally being held on Feb. 17th in Washington, DC. 
We must be responsible citizens and deliver the message that nuclear energy production is NOT GREEN. 
We are asking all who can to come! We need your presence and support there! The more signage and leafletting we bring to educate tens of thousands of people, all the better! The following is the message that the Forward on Climate Rally asks partners to spread:


Forward on Climate
President Obama must move America Forward on Climate in 2013 with decisive action to reduce dangerous carbon pollution. Obama’s legacy as 44th President of the United States of America rests squarely on his leadership in the face of an unstable climate future. Only the President of the United States has the power to lead an effort on the scale and with the urgency needed to phase out carbon-intensive fossil fuels and fire up energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy sources. The first milestone for President Obama is to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.




Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17! | Coalition Against Nukes

Coalition Against Nukes Busting the Nuclear Myth at #ForwardOnClimate Rally (facebook event page)


Tuesday, February 5, 2013

*** TSUNAMI WARNING / SOUTH PACIFIC ***


*** TSUNAMI WARNING / SOUTH PACIFIC ***

8M EARTHQUAKE SANTA CRUZ ( or SOLOMON) ISLANDS

An 8.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the Solomon Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A tsunami warning has been issued for the South Pacific Islands by the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center, Reuters reports.

The quake was followed by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock in the South Pacific, according to a USGS report.

TSUNAMI WARNING
06 Feb 2013 01:49 UTC
Message Num: 2
Message Text: click to read
Message Type: Expanding Regional Tsunami Warning Supplement
Warning: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Kosrae, Fiji, Kiribati, Wallis and Futuna, Marshall Islands, Howland and Baker, Pohnpei, Tokelau A Tsunami Watch is in Effect For Samoa, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, American Samoa, Tonga, Australia, Niue, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Wake Island, Chuuk, Jarvis Island, Guam, Northern Marianas, Palmyra Island, Yap, Johnston Island, Minamitorishima, Belau, Midway Island






8.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS 2013-02-06 01:12:23 10.752°S 165.089°E 5.8

Event Time
2013-02-06 01:12:23 UTC
2013-02-05 17:12:23 UTC-08:00 system time
Location
10.752°S 165.089°E depth=5.8km (3.6mi)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/




Saturday, February 2, 2013

Shift of the Ages Available Free On-line Viewing until February 5





The Idle No More Movement and other related Global Movements, whether understood by all, as yet, are deeply rooted in the long held prayers and prophecies of Indigenous Elders and Visionaries. These Prophecies, including the 8th Council Fire, the Hopi’s, the Mayan’s Black Elk, Sweet Medicine, Handsome Lake, Deganiwida, Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, Chilam Balam, the Reunion of the Condor and the Eagle, The Slaying and the Return of the White Buffalo and others foretold that after a long, bitter spiritual wintertime that a new spiritual springtime would arise and that Indigenous Peoples and other allies of the Human Family would arise, at first slowly and then with great spiritual strength and create a new global civilization. This new global civilization will be founded in social, environmental, economic justice and cultural and spiritual harmony and respect.

These prophecies are highlighted in the new film, Shift of the Ages, a dramatic documentary film that reveals the story of the Mayan culture and its sophisticated prophecies of time, as told for the first time by the Grand Elder of the Mayan people, Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj. Commissioned on behalf of the Maya nation, the Shift of the Ages is the first official discourse to the world from the Mayan Council of Elders, intended to dispel misconceptions and replace them with the positive story long foretold in many Indigenous Prophecies about the emergence of the “5th Sun and the unfolding of a new global civilization based justice, harmony for all members of the Human Family! Known as “Wandering Wolf,” Tata Alejandro is the elected Grand Elder of the living Maya and mystical Aj Q’ji, or timekeeper of tradition.


Free On-line Viewing of Shift of the Ages Available Until February 5, 2013 - The Four Worlds International Institute
see also: what next: deep ecology