Burning the Future: Coal in America; AUG 16, 2012

Burning the Future: Coal in America Thursday, August 16, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Coal provides half of America’s electricity, but at what cost? Though rhetoric about “clean coal” abounds, 36% of US global warming emissions comes from our coal-burning plants. Every 11-1/2 days, the explosive equivalent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is unleashed on the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky—for coal. Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by a global reliance on coal-generated electricity, local activists watch the world praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction.

Operation Backpack

Posted on August 9, 2012

Operation Backpack

Scope Urban Apparel is proud to be working with United Sisters of Color, Voices of Liberation, Brothers for Boston, Occupy the Hood Boston, the Blackstonian, 617 Live and FITT Body Bootcamp on Operation Backpack, an effort to supply underserved students with school supplies for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year.

Communities say NO to bank evictions...

Anti-eviction rallies to support Metro-Boston residents fighting Fannie Mae

Communities say NO to bank evictions funded with tax dollars – Two simultaneous courthouse rallies for occupants of Fannie Mae-owned properties, responding to FHFA principal reduction refusal announcement

21 Days and Counting, 22 Days of Walking

Fuckin' Trumpet Kehd

I woke this morning to the sound of trumpets, or rather a trumpet. 

"My head hit the pillow at 5:30AM this morning, only to wake promptly at 10:00AM to the sound of intern Tyler practicing his trumpet."  

Three Weeks to Departure: 22 Days and Counting 22 Days of Walking

Wireless, Slightly-too-short couch, clean laundry. Rating: 4 out of 5 knapsacks

An update from your foot-loose couch-surfing activist in training. 8/6/2012

"I realized early on there would be a correlation between when I fell asleep and when the next performer would go into the studio to make magic." 

“GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK!”

Regional Economists and other fiscal experts gather to strategize on how to get corporations to:

“GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK!”
Thursday 7:00-9:00 pm, at the Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge

That’s what a group of economists think stockholders should be saying. And they don’t mean just large stockholders. Over 50% of stock is held by “regular people”, like nurses and teachers and vets and union workers.

Three Weeks and Change: 24 Days to Departure

With just over three weeks 'til I make my way South I'm still prepping, but overall, I'm ready to roll. 

24 days and counting, 22 days of walking.  

My mind has been set on taking this journey for nearly a year. October 1st 2011 at 12:30AM I walked among the tents at Dewey Square. I saw folks huddled under tarps on the soaking ground in the pouring rain.  Maybe it's the rain, on a night just like tonight just under a year ago, my world abruptly shifted, and expanded.