Hey all I just came across this video, I think it's very well done and will speak to us all. Enjoy and pass it along!!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/all_of_us/?cl=141377996&v=2339



Peace!

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My parents buy dollar general products all the time. I was looking at a box of tissue in their room, and there is no brand name on it. I googled Kimberly-Clark and Dollar General, and saw that there is definite link between the two, as they are sponsoring a contest to redecorate your room. (Great!...) I can't find anything though that says Kimberly-Clark makes the Dollar General tissue. Does anyone know if they do?

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Al Gore has a message for you, environmentalists: it’s okay to engage in a little civil disobedience here and there when the goal is as important as stopping the construction of coal plants that don’t have the ability to store carbon. After all, civil disobedience is one of the few ways ordinary citizens still have to make sure our voices are heard. Gore, speaking to a philanthropic meeting in New York, said on Wednesday that “the world has lost ground to the climate crisis”. From Reuters: “If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,” Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause. “I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact,” he said. “I hope these state attorney generals around the country will take some action on that.” According to the government, about 28 coal plants are currently under construction in the United States right now and another 20 projects have permits or are near the start of construction. The carbon emitted from coal plants are a key factor in global warming. Part of the problem is the fact that we, as a nation, have been apathetic for too long. We’ve allowed money-hungry corporations to control our lives and dictate our futures, to the extent that every living creature on earth is now in danger. The truth is that we do hold a lot of power in our hands. We outnumber the executives and the government officials. If we all stand together and demand something, it will be done. We just haven’t taken that power into our hands on a mass scale.

So we say, hell yeah, Al.

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Bottled water, everywhere

Natural Hydration Council: drink more bottled water ... please?

Posted by Tom Philpott at 3:54 PM on 18 Sep 2008

Bottled water sales growth may be "drying up," but the bottled-water industry is veritably gushing on the PR front.

Here it is investing in a high-dollar sponsorship of the upcoming presidential campaigns, joining Anheuser-Busch, EDS (which specializes in "information technology outsourcing), BBH, a big U.K. advertising firm, and others.

And over here, you've got water giants Nestle Waters, Danone, and Highland Spring rolling out the Natural Hydration Council. Right, because the only way to stay "naturally hydrated" is to package water into tiny plastic bottles and haul it around the globe. The NHC will "research and promote the environmental, health and other sustainable benefits of natural bottled water." (Hat tip to Anna Lappé.)

You know, this reminds me a bit of the Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy -- a confederation of Archer Daniels Midland Co., DuPont Co., John Deere, Monsanto, and the Renewable Fuels Association. They want to make sure we know that if we don't a) grow lots of genetically modified crops, and b) convert a huge portion of them into fuel for our cars, then the human race will have to give up not only eating, but also, gulp, driving.

Maybe the Natural Hydration folks should consider joining forces with the Abundant Food and Energy set. You see, farmers go through lots of water. Why shouldn't they be using bottled? Hey, bottled water industry -- do the words market opportunity mean anything to you?

Maybe in the next farm bill, the two lobbying groups can push through a subsidy for bottled water as irrigation. Natural Irrigation Council, anyone?

<a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/18/102424/092">Grist.org</a>

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Peaceful marches, sit-ins, walk-outs, boycotts, get-out-the vote drives, public hearings, whistle-blowing and strikes are responsible for many of the rights and freedoms we hold near and dear here in the United States of America.

Our air and water are cleaner, our food safer and our society more just thanks to countless, nameless community organizers.

Chances are that one of your neighbors is directly responsible for some attribute of your community that makes it more livable, whether it’s the lack of oil wells in your backyard, a new stoplight at a dangerous intersection, a cleaner lake, safer streets, a church youth program, or hot meals for the hungriest people.

Yet disparaging community organizers seemed to be the thing to do last week at the Republican National Convention. Not because community organizers have done something wrong, but simply because Barack Obama was a community organizer for three years as a young man back in South Chicago, helping unemployed people find jobs.

Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin said, "A small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities".

Rudy Giuliani used “community organizer” as the punch line in his attack-dog speech to the RNC delegates.

I guess the point they were trying to make was that organizing a community and solving local problems just doesn’t compare to being a 9-11 mayor, a POW or a small town hockey mom.

I’ll grant them that.

They are very different activities.

The reasons Palin and Giuliani’s attacks slipped by people as being acceptable, even funny, are probably because the noble American tradition of community organizing is one the mass media largely ignores.

But that’s about to change.

Read more here:

http://tinyurl.com/678oe6

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