Tag Archives: environment
Tomgram> Noam Chomsky> Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Eve of Destruction Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:02am, June 4, 2013 TomDispatch.com It didn’t take long. In the immediate aftermath of the dropping of the “victory weapon,” the atomic bomb, on two Japanese cities in August 1945, American fears and fantasies ran wild. Almost immediately, Americans began to reconceive themselves as potential victims […]
Frac sand protest> Winona, Minnesota
“We declare Monday to be a moratorium of business as usual at the sites of production of silica sand to eliminate a necessary component of fracking.” April 29, 2013 11:25 am • By Daily News staff WinonaDailyNews.com Protester Dan Wilson of Winona is escorted away by a Winona County sheriff’s deputy during a frac sand protest at Winona’s […]
Videos> Red Lake Nation Tribal Members Blockade Enbridge Pipelines
Red Lake Nation Tribal Members Blockade Enbridge Pipelines Below are two videos from the Red Lake Reservation encampment that started March 1 to protest the Enbridge pipelines on reservation land in northern Minnesota. Here’s a short video of the encampment at Red Lake Reservation that seeks to stop the flow of Tarsands oil in Enbridge […]
Tar Sands Through MN> Minnesota native Marty Cobenais, of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
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With Keystone XL in Limelight, Enbridge Plans ‘Aggressive’ Pipeline Push
With Keystone XL in Limelight, Enbridge Plans ‘Aggressive’ Pipeline Push First Nations call to end all tar sands development Lauren McCauley, staff writer CommonDreams.org Published on Friday, February 1, 2013 Editor’s Note: Enbridge pipelines in MN would carry more tar sands oil across northern Minnesota than the proposed Keystone XL. Much of this oil is […]
Thousands Rally in DC for Major Keystone XL Protest
Thousands Rally in DC for Major Keystone XL Protest “The media likes to make Keystone XL out as simply a political test, a sign of whether or not the president will side with environmentalists or the fossil fuel industry and their allies. But the fight against Keystone has never just been a political fight: it’s […]
Susu Jeffrey> Coldwater: The new history
Coldwater: The new history “We begin history here in 1820,” John Anfinson said in a KFAI radio interview. By Susu Jeffrey Southside Pride September 2012 Chief of natural and cultural resources for the National Park Service (NPS), Anfinson is the architect of the Coldwater Park redux. In 1820, U.S. soldiers took possession of Coldwater Springs […]
Chris Hedges> The Perversion of Scholarship
The Perversion of Scholarship By Chris Hedges Jul 30, 2012 truthdig.com Illustration by Mr. Fish Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics, creativity and ideas—are shouted down […]
Truthout> How Big Business Has Triumphed in State Legislatures on Civil Liberties, Higher Education and Energy
How Big Business Has Triumphed in State Legislatures on Civil Liberties, Higher Education and Energy Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:00By Steve Horn and Sarah Blaskey, Truthout | Report (Photo: Judge and gavel via Shutterstock) This report is part 3 of a four-part exclusive series, The Other ALECs Exposed. Assaults on civil liberties, public higher education and the ecosystem have been […]
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