Glass Bead Collective/Mobile Broadcast News/Klamath-Salmon Media Collaborative are releasing a short film in the form of an embedded youtube playlist that links a FEW of the videos we produced during COP16 in Cancun, Mexico. Click the PLAY button in the embedded player below and go on a 24 minute journey
~ download ~ The March for Life & Climate Justice started at La Via Campesina in
Cancún and worked it's way to the 0km mark by the Hotel Zone to honor
Lee Hun Kae the Korean farmer who committed suicide at the police
barricades during the Cancun WTO protests in 2003. Along the way people
from all over the world spoke of the lie of green capitalism and in
support of indigenous rights and solutions to climate change.
The Youth Noise Green Schools Media Challenge is on!
Currently my video about Our School at Blair Grocery is in 2nd place behind this cute little blonde girl. The current vote leader is a very well produced video about a very smart & capable girl and the projects she has implemented in her schools. Really Good Stuff and I'm throughly impressed with the video and what she has achieved ... If you wanna help me kick her ass ;~) go to the link below and vote for my video.
TWO winning videos will get played on Link TV and shown at the Redford Institute. There is also a smattering of swag involved (clothes duffles, cds, etc).
a Global Work Party, with emphasis on both 'work' and 'party'. In
Auckland, New Zealand, they' had a giant bike fix-up day, to get every
bicycle in the city back on the road. In the Maldives, they put up
solar panels on the President's office. In Kampala, Uganda, they
planted thousands of trees, and in Bolivia they installed solar stoves
for a massive carbon neutral picnic.
Download ~ In Austin Greenpeace wrangled petition signature collectors to pressure
the government to stop building more fossil fuel infrastructure.
"[Mountaintop removal coal mining would] wipe out a large part of the southern end of the battlefield that was occupied by the union miners."
Blair Mountain, West Virginia is the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the historic push of unionized coal miners from the north to organize the workers of the southern coalfields. Involving 13,000 union miners and 2,000 anti-union defenders, the battle was the largest armed conflict in America since the Civil War!
It remains literally a battleground: a prime location for finding historic artifacts left from both sides of the conflict. It's also, however, a battleground between opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining and the coal companies themselves.
Kenny King, a resident of Blair Mountain since 1962, explains how this historical site, which he has been working to preserve for 17 years, is threatened by a 333 acre mining permit. "[Mountaintop removal coal mining would] wipe out a large part of the southern end of the battlefield that was occupied by the union miners."
A valuable piece of labor organizing history is not the only thing that would be destroyed by mining Blair Mountain. According to King, if they strip Blair Mountain, they'll lose innumerable natural resources: "Valuable hardwood forest, herbs like the ginseng, yellowroot, cohosh, and blood root... you'll never see it again. All will be lost; it'll just cease to exist. It will be erased off the face of the earth."
If you would like to help protect Blair Mountain's many valuable assets, please take King's advice: "Let [your representatives] know that there has to be a better way than sacrificing all the mountains and forest land and historical sites just for a convenient way of producing energy."
The
Friends of Blair Mountain is a group of historians, archeologists and others dedicated to preserving the cultural and historical resources of the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia.
Katie Huszcza, Colin Flood, Jimmy Tobias, and Sophie Kern, activists with Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero were arrested last night and are held on a collective $12,000 bail. They were participating in an act of non-violent civil disobedience against the destructive and irresponsible practice of mountain top removal by locking themselves to a high wall miner on Coal River Mountain.
download Former Black Panther and co-founder of Common Ground Collective in post Katrina New Orleans Malik Rahim announces his campaign to ride a bike from Houma LA to Washington DC in support of complete environmental justice for our nations wetlands.
The wetlands protect our shores from hurricanes and filter the waters of both the Gulf of Mexico and that of the Mississippi River.
The ride has been postponed indefinitly. For more info check their website. http://BikeForTheGulf.org
The Petrol-Free is a bicycle-powered music and art tour to promote peace, social justice, and a healthy planet. On the tour, musicians carry only the essential instruments from city to city on their bicycles. At each venue, amplifiers and other large or heavy equipment are provided by a local band.
Calling all musicians, street performers, soap-boxers of peace, and anyone with a hankering for a nice bike ride. Check the dates page for details. There is free accommodation in each city along the way, but you have to RSVP to ensure you get a place to lay your head!
