We know the power of poetry to demand change and to heal our world. On July 31, at Eatonville restaurant, we will be using that power to throw a benefit for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots 501(c)3 environmental health and justice organization that has been helping residents living near Louisiana refineries fight air pollution for years, and is now helping them track and respond to the BP Oil Disaster that is ravaging the Gulf.
In our rush to clean up and rethink the unchecked power of corporations, we must not lose sight of what the spill ultimately means for our energy future.
The power of street heat, a turning point for Israel and Palestine, and a new Gulf economy.
The wrong class war, Earth’s ocean problem, and action against the BP oil spill.
With worldwide desecration of the environment by oil spills, the words “black planet” take on new meaning.
BP’s claim that taxpayers will pay nothing is likely to be little more than doublespeak.
Obama has a golden opportunity to show that his administration is about changing politics as usual – if he and his advisors have the political courage to seize the moment.
Let’s stand up to the oil industry and move America beyond its dependence on oil.
BP is out there drilling in deep water to feed our oil addiction.
Spills, leaks and deliberate discharges are happening in oilfields all over the world and very few people seem to care.
As Hightower says, it’s oozing on us.
The president was cool and competent, as always. But his press conference speech once again lacked substantive answers to the Gulf oil spill disaster.
Many of America’s prominent commentators ran on fumes when they opined about oil.
What IPS says about the world today.
Noted author and Hampshire College professor Michael Klare, whose latest book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet describes the geopolitics of the energy crisis, will talk about the causes behind the Gulf oil spill.