Got Green? Mobilizing Women and People of Color to Seize the Green Promise
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 4:25pm
Climate Justice (News)
Climate SOS: Senate Bill "Condemns us to Climate Chaos"
Submitted by News Desk on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 3:43pm
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Climate SOS, a coalition of scientists and activists who support science- and environmental justice-based climate legislation, today characterized the draft Senate bill, called the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” which was introduced on Wednesday by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as an “irresponsible non-solution.”
They maintain that any bill that embraces cap and trade, offsets, outrageously inadequate emission reduction targets, and counter-solutions such as biomass burning, nuclear power and more coal fired power plants (under the guise of partial carbon capture technology that is as yet unavailable) will fail to meet its stated goal of forestalling catastrophic climate change.
New National Youth Campaign Launches Nationwide, Targets Specific States
Submitted by News Desk on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:27am
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‘Consequence’ Youth Organizing Campaign to Push for Urgent Congressional Action on Climate, Clean Energy Plan
The Consequence campaign, a new national grassroots organizing effort, kicked off today with a nationwide online advertising campaign, print and radio advertisements in targeted states, and the launch of an innovative social networking site, www.consequence09.org, that will lie at the heart of the youth-focused campaign. Consequence will organize young people in states across America to demand urgent Congressional action on a comprehensive clean energy and climate plan that will unleash investment in clean energy sources like wind and solar, creates millions of clean energy jobs, reduces our dependence on oil and place firm limits on the carbon pollution that causes global warming.
The Consequence campaign, a new national grassroots organizing effort, kicked off today with a nationwide online advertising campaign, print and radio advertisements in targeted states, and the launch of an innovative social networking site, www.consequence09.org, that will lie at the heart of the youth-focused campaign. Consequence will organize young people in states across America to demand urgent Congressional action on a comprehensive clean energy and climate plan that will unleash investment in clean energy sources like wind and solar, creates millions of clean energy jobs, reduces our dependence on oil and place firm limits on the carbon pollution that causes global warming.
When Racism Comes A Knockin...
Submitted by News Desk on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:18am
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Can white liberals keep their eye on the prize?
I've been disappointed by white liberals and progressives' unwillingness and incompetence combating racism for 20 years. The inaction of large green groups on Van Jones resignation is yet another example.
The NAACP, Equal Justice Society and Color of Change explicitely supported Van Jones before his resignation. On the white side, Treehugger, Grist and a few other small white organizations did. But the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, and NRDC, who together must represent more than $100 million of mostly liberal and progressive foundations, big donors, and individual contributors money, were MIA. These groups either took a dive because the attacks on Van were racist, or they incompetently let the right set the terms of debate before entering. Either way America deserves better greens.
I've been disappointed by white liberals and progressives' unwillingness and incompetence combating racism for 20 years. The inaction of large green groups on Van Jones resignation is yet another example.
The NAACP, Equal Justice Society and Color of Change explicitely supported Van Jones before his resignation. On the white side, Treehugger, Grist and a few other small white organizations did. But the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, and NRDC, who together must represent more than $100 million of mostly liberal and progressive foundations, big donors, and individual contributors money, were MIA. These groups either took a dive because the attacks on Van were racist, or they incompetently let the right set the terms of debate before entering. Either way America deserves better greens.
Racism Blindness in Van Jones Political Lynching
Submitted by News Desk on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:02am
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White liberal leaders generally racismblind response to Van Jones’ political lynching bodes badly for next right wing wedge attack
My previous piece "Can white liberals keep their eye on the prize when
racism comes a knockin?" (Firedoglake, TheRoot, Alternet) pointed out
that while significant people of color groups including the NAACP and
the Equal Justice Society released statements supporting former WH
Green Jobs advisor Van Jones before his resignation, no major white
green groups--Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council,
Environmental Defense Fund, or Greenpeace--did (environmental online
magazines Grist and Treehugger, and Campaign for America's Future's
blogger notwithstanding). This, despite their heavy beltway-focused
staffing, alleged connections to the administration and congress, and
political expertise.
White House Environmental Adviser Van Jones Resigns Citing “Vicious Smear Campaign Against Me”
Submitted by News Desk on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 3:15pm
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The Obama administration’s special adviser for environmental jobs, Van Jones, has resigned citing what he described as a “vicious smear campaign” against him. For the past month, Fox News has run a series of reports on Jones’s alleged association with communists and his decision to sign a petition calling for a congressional probe of the 9/11 attacks. Jones is the founding president of Green for All and author of the book The Green Collar Economy. We speak with James Rucker, who co-founded the group Color of Change with Van Jones, and with Malkia Cyril, founder of the Center for Media Justice. We also talk to Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP.
300+ Groups Ask Senate for Stronger Climate Bill
Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 3:11pm
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A broad coalition of more than 300 faith, human rights, social justice, and environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, has composed and sent a letter to U.S. senators calling for energy and climate legislation that's much stronger than the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House of Representatives June 26. That bill contained massive giveaways to polluting special interests and would fail to ensure a rapid transition to clean energy. The full text of the letter follows.
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