time to change
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"...They make too much money with their technological stagnation and the internal combustion engine..."
- Ralph Nader
http://whokilledtheelectriccar.com
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
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Three Rivers Community Foundation
http://trcf.net
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"We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again."
- Sister Joan Chittister
http://inchatatime.blogspot.com
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http://acloserwalk.org
http://onecarenow.org
http://npr.org
http://iraqforsale.org
http://palsolidarity.org
http://electronicintifada.net
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American Blackout
"A muckraking indictment of the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters"
-LA Times
http://americanblackout.gnn.tv
http://americanblackout.com
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In times of change the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
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http://stelle.net
http://jumpstartford.com/our_vision/alternatives_to_oil/
http://myspace.com/rainforestactionnetwork
http://globalexchange.org
http://amsam.org
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http://www.debatecomics.org/webpages/arguments/listofarguments.asp?topic=Debt%20Forgiveness
...Propping up a GNP (Gross National Product) by selling the social safety net" spells national emergency. Given that so many countries are experiencing this nightmare, it is an international emergency...
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http://newstandardnews.net
http://spitfirelist.com
http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/fertilize_bushes.html
http://lumpen.com
http://campaignwatch.org
http://ithefilm.com/home
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From:
Rainforest Action Network
Corporate Takeover: an interview with Jim Gollin 5/23/5
http://ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=1509
...used confrontational tactics to open a dialogue that ended with cooperative written agreements: In 1999 Home Depot decided that it will not sell old-growth products, and in 2004 Citigroup agreed that it will not finance the destruction of old growth anywhere in the world...
...metaphor of Indra's net-that everything is connected to and reflects everything else-has been particularly effective...When one shines, we all shine, and when one is occluded, we're all occluded. This interconnected type of thinking does not come automatically, certainly not in our culture, so we must continually remind ourselves of it...
...You have to get their attention. What we do is always nonviolent both to people and to property. So it's really an aggressive form of speech designed to make them very uncomfortable. It's a way of getting a conversation started...we found someone who worked at Home Depot who liked what we were doing, and he leaked the code for the intercom systems...We had volunteers go in, punch in the code, and broadcast over the entire store: "Attention, Home Depot shoppers! There's a sale on wood in Aisle 13. This wood has been ripped from the heart of the Amazon basin. There may be some blood spilled on the floor, so please be careful. This wood is leading to the dislocation of indigenous communities, soil degradation, and the destruction of Mother Earth." We did this in 162 stores on the same day. At the Home Depot headquarters in Atlanta the phones were ringing and ringing, and the people who worked there didn't know what to do. It doesn't stop anybody from shopping; it's amusing. And it broke the ice...civil disobedience in direct action...not worried about rattling the teacups...
...corporations are run by human beings walking the same earth, breathing the same air, with the same concerns as you or me. You have to get to that common place with them. They want to feel good when they go to sleep and when they're bouncing their grandchildren on their knees...
...Kinko's and Lowe's sat down at the negotiating table with RAN and Boise. Kinko's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth we won't buy any of your paper." Lowe's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth, we won't buy any of your wood." Because Kinko's was the largest customer for Boise's paper and Lowe's for their lumber, it worked...branching out, taking our former adversaries and converting them...
...sadness. We'll still have an opportunity to deal with the inequality between the rich and the poor in fifty years, whereas when we lose the forests and everything in them, they're gone... sadness...In me it leads to activism...to avoid the sorrow...
Thich Nhat Hahn...concept of interbeing was very helpful for me. I remember him holding up a piece of paper, and saying, "What do you see here?" And he said, "I see some clouds and the rain and there's the tree and wood that the paper is made from."
With the Boise campaign we used essentially the same analysis. We asked, "How are we going to get Boise to stop cutting old-growth forests?" It was like pulling out that piece of paper and saying, "Okay, I see Kinko's and Lowe's and I hear the sound of consumers in a marketing campaign." It took seeing how everything interconnects like Indra's net.
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Buddhism
http://tricycle.com/resources/links.html
http://earthsangha.org
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coal, oil and the banks
http://dirtymoney.org
http://ilovemountains.org
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http://dirtymoney.org/sakhalin_oil
Oil is over. Fund the future.
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http://declarationofpeace.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://eff.org
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http://www.universalflag.com
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From:
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
by Victor Thorn 2/10/4
http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-10-04/discussion.cgi.59.html
...Kerry Commission, described in the Senate Committee Report on Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy as "focusing on allegations of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua" in relation to the CIA, Department of Justice, the U.S. State Department, and the office of the President and Vice President. The testimony that took place during these trials (both in open and closed door sessions) was quite possibly the most damning ever against our federal government, yet mysteriously, nearly all of it was suppressed and not widely reported in the mainstream media...
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World Independent News Group
http://69.28.73.17
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http://sarayaku.com/oil
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Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
http://hdgc.epp.cmu.edu/outreach/outreach.html
"...They make too much money with their technological stagnation and the internal combustion engine..."
- Ralph Nader
http://whokilledtheelectriccar.com
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
======
Three Rivers Community Foundation
http://trcf.net
======
"We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again."
- Sister Joan Chittister
http://inchatatime.blogspot.com
======
http://acloserwalk.org
http://onecarenow.org
http://npr.org
http://iraqforsale.org
http://palsolidarity.org
http://electronicintifada.net
======
American Blackout
"A muckraking indictment of the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters"
-LA Times
http://americanblackout.gnn.tv
http://americanblackout.com
======
In times of change the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
======
http://stelle.net
http://jumpstartford.com/our_vision/alternatives_to_oil/
http://myspace.com/rainforestactionnetwork
http://globalexchange.org
http://amsam.org
======
http://www.debatecomics.org/webpages/arguments/listofarguments.asp?topic=Debt%20Forgiveness
...Propping up a GNP (Gross National Product) by selling the social safety net" spells national emergency. Given that so many countries are experiencing this nightmare, it is an international emergency...
======
http://newstandardnews.net
http://spitfirelist.com
http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/fertilize_bushes.html
http://lumpen.com
http://campaignwatch.org
http://ithefilm.com/home
======
From:
Rainforest Action Network
Corporate Takeover: an interview with Jim Gollin 5/23/5
http://ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=1509
...used confrontational tactics to open a dialogue that ended with cooperative written agreements: In 1999 Home Depot decided that it will not sell old-growth products, and in 2004 Citigroup agreed that it will not finance the destruction of old growth anywhere in the world...
...metaphor of Indra's net-that everything is connected to and reflects everything else-has been particularly effective...When one shines, we all shine, and when one is occluded, we're all occluded. This interconnected type of thinking does not come automatically, certainly not in our culture, so we must continually remind ourselves of it...
...You have to get their attention. What we do is always nonviolent both to people and to property. So it's really an aggressive form of speech designed to make them very uncomfortable. It's a way of getting a conversation started...we found someone who worked at Home Depot who liked what we were doing, and he leaked the code for the intercom systems...We had volunteers go in, punch in the code, and broadcast over the entire store: "Attention, Home Depot shoppers! There's a sale on wood in Aisle 13. This wood has been ripped from the heart of the Amazon basin. There may be some blood spilled on the floor, so please be careful. This wood is leading to the dislocation of indigenous communities, soil degradation, and the destruction of Mother Earth." We did this in 162 stores on the same day. At the Home Depot headquarters in Atlanta the phones were ringing and ringing, and the people who worked there didn't know what to do. It doesn't stop anybody from shopping; it's amusing. And it broke the ice...civil disobedience in direct action...not worried about rattling the teacups...
...corporations are run by human beings walking the same earth, breathing the same air, with the same concerns as you or me. You have to get to that common place with them. They want to feel good when they go to sleep and when they're bouncing their grandchildren on their knees...
...Kinko's and Lowe's sat down at the negotiating table with RAN and Boise. Kinko's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth we won't buy any of your paper." Lowe's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth, we won't buy any of your wood." Because Kinko's was the largest customer for Boise's paper and Lowe's for their lumber, it worked...branching out, taking our former adversaries and converting them...
...sadness. We'll still have an opportunity to deal with the inequality between the rich and the poor in fifty years, whereas when we lose the forests and everything in them, they're gone... sadness...In me it leads to activism...to avoid the sorrow...
Thich Nhat Hahn...concept of interbeing was very helpful for me. I remember him holding up a piece of paper, and saying, "What do you see here?" And he said, "I see some clouds and the rain and there's the tree and wood that the paper is made from."
With the Boise campaign we used essentially the same analysis. We asked, "How are we going to get Boise to stop cutting old-growth forests?" It was like pulling out that piece of paper and saying, "Okay, I see Kinko's and Lowe's and I hear the sound of consumers in a marketing campaign." It took seeing how everything interconnects like Indra's net.
======
Buddhism
http://tricycle.com/resources/links.html
http://earthsangha.org
======
coal, oil and the banks
http://dirtymoney.org
http://ilovemountains.org
======
http://dirtymoney.org/sakhalin_oil
Oil is over. Fund the future.
======
http://declarationofpeace.org
======
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://eff.org
======
http://www.universalflag.com
======
From:
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
by Victor Thorn 2/10/4
http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-10-04/discussion.cgi.59.html
...Kerry Commission, described in the Senate Committee Report on Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy as "focusing on allegations of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua" in relation to the CIA, Department of Justice, the U.S. State Department, and the office of the President and Vice President. The testimony that took place during these trials (both in open and closed door sessions) was quite possibly the most damning ever against our federal government, yet mysteriously, nearly all of it was suppressed and not widely reported in the mainstream media...
======
World Independent News Group
http://69.28.73.17
======
http://sarayaku.com/oil
======
Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
http://hdgc.epp.cmu.edu/outreach/outreach.html
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