getting in gear to work together
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"...The military-industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock and barrel, but they control our culture..."
Senator Mike Gravel
youtube.com/watch?v=4PQfXv3-8dU
gravel2008.us
ruckpad.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/mike-gravels-rap-video
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...and an angel came to me and said, "Fear not, the Song is Love"...
bioeverything.blogspot.com/2006/08/song-is-love.html
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Invention turns toxic waste into electricity
news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071226/sc_livescience/inventionturnstoxicwasteintoelectricity
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farmland.org
oneearth.org
lifestraw.com
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tchouse.org
...helping disabled achieve the highest degree of independence possible, contribute time and skills to the community, and realize every potential available to them...
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bioremediation
http://starhawk.org/permaculture/NOLA_bio_basics.html
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/MountaintopRemoval/
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Melissa Etheridge - I Need To Wake Up
projectpowerplant.com/blog/?cat=12
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New biotech tools for a cleaner environment: industrial biotechnology for pollution prevention, resource conservation, and cost reduction
bio.org/ind/pubs/cleaner2004/CleanerReport.pdf
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Sustainable Community Development [beneficial naturally occurring microbes]
scdworld.net
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Implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity [Thailand]
onep.go.th/bdm/National-Report/Download/Chapter3.pdf
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pro nuclear power
heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2087.cfm
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nukefree.org/links
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http://www.no2torture.org/come/dc07/cpw_talk_carol.pdf
...The Military Commissions Act gives power and force to our terrified and paranoid conviction that this whole world that God loves is a ticking bomb. It made credible the delusion that life and death depend on our willingness to torture those who are currently at our mercy... in life and death we belong to God alone who is our only source of security...Torture cannot save us from the ticking bomb, because torture is the ticking time bomb...there are two victims, the tortured and the torturer...
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bioelectric.tribe.net
healingartsbyamethyst.com
people.tribe.net/m/dawnbringer
pghreiki.tribe.net/m
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Three Rivers Community Foundation
trcf.net
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buildingdemocracy.org
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bikeblog.blogspot.com
ghostbike.org
ghostbikes.org
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radioopensource.org/coltan-in-the-congo
radioopensource.org/coal-mountaintop-removal-in-appalachia
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Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
ohvec.org/galleries/mountaintop_removal
ohvec.org/galleries/in_the_garden
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They're Using Your Tax Dollars to Bulldoze Our Forests
Stop the Sale of America's Natural Heritage
thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/919431571?z00m=12041365
The Bush Administration has made several proposals to dismantle our National forests by selling off thousands of acres – a move that would only benefit the administration's friends in the timber industry, coal interests and Big Oil...
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Public Interest Research Group
pirg.org
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focusthenation.org
fightingforlove.com
ignitionthebook.com
stepitup2007.org
powershift07.org
itsgettinghotinhere.org
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Sustainable Environmental Justice for the South Bronx
greentheghetto.org
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Sustainable South Bronx
ssbx.org
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500+ Organizations Sign Statement Rejecting Nuclear Power as a Solution to Climate Crisis
The statement, signed (as of December 17, 2007) by 515 organizations, states simply:
"We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors as a means
of addressing the climate crisis. Available renewable energy and
energy efficiency technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner
strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
nirs.org/petition2/ussigners121707.pdf
Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change
http://www.nirs.org/climate/climate.htm
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Greenpeace
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
US PIRG
Public Citizen
Clean Water Action
Environmental Working Group
Sun Day Campaign
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Rainforest Action Network
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
Code Pink
Voters for Peace
Energy Justice Network
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Government Accountability Project
Beyond Nuclear
Peace Action
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
U.S. Climate Emergency Council
Healthy Building Network
Epsilon Eta—National Environmental Honors Fraternity
NukeFree.Org
Lawyer’s Committee on Nuclear Policy
Regional/Local Organizations/Businesses
The Ester Republic, Ester, AK
God Bless The World, Inc., Birmingham, AL
Omni Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, Fayetteville, AR
Flagstaff Nuclear Awareness Project, Flagstaff, AZ
Arizona Safe Energy Coalition, Tucson, AZ
Lovolution Studios, Tucson, AZ
Arizona Nuclear Energy Watch, Phoenix, AZ
Don’t Waste Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Tucson Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Tucson
Air Water Earth Org., Lake Havasu City, AZ
Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment, Scottsdale, AZ
Wisdom Eldercare, Inc., Tucson, AZ
KerrCole Sustainable Living Center, Taylor, AZ
Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA
Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland, CA
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, San Francisco, CA
Southern California Ecumenical Council, Pasadena, CA
ITA, Los Angeles, CA
Poise, Goleta, CA
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, San Luis Obispo, CA
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Pismo Beach, CA
California League of Conservation Voters, Los Angeles, CA
www.nonukes.org, Berkeley, CA
SoManyPostcards, Paicines, CA
Ecological Options Network, Bolinas, CA
Center for Safe Energy, Berkeley, CA
Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
Nuclear Guardianship Project, Berkeley, CA
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, Studio City, CA
Terra Foundation, San Luis Obispo, CA
GREEN L.A., Santa Monica, CA
The FINE ART Café, Cobb, CA
Wolfhouse Productions, Sonoma, CA
Center for Resource Solutions, San Francisco, CA
Environmental Priorities Network, Manhattan Beach, CA
Redwood Alliance, Arcata, CA
Stories of Hope, Oakland, CA
Los Cerritos Wetlands Landtrust, Westminster, CA
Physicians for Social Responsibility, L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental, CA
Acterra, Palo Alto, CA
ASDavis Media Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Muir Productions, Bolinas, CA
International Clearinghouse for Hydrogen Commerce, Independence, CA
PDSMM, Topanga, CA
Action Now, Altadena, CA
Atomic Mirror, Port Hueneme, CA
The Justice Xpress, Occidental, CA
Clean Air Now, Los Angeles, CA
Peninsula WILPF, Palo Alto, CA
Planning and Conservation League, Sacramento, CA
Del Amo Action Committee, San Pedro, CA
Progressive Dems of America, Studio City, CA
MI Design, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Democracy for America, Marin, Mill Valley, CA
Grandmothers for Peace International, Elk Grove, CA
Women's Energy Matters, Fairfax, CA
BFUU Social Justice Committee, Berkeley, CA
Blusion, Sebastopol, CA
Eco-Eating, San Jose, CA
Sierra Solar Systems, Grass Valley, CA
California Communities Against Toxics, Rosamond, CA
California Environmental Rights Alliance, El Segundo, CA
Berkeley Women in Black, Berkeley, CA
WILPF Nuclear Abolition Committee, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
ACES - Angelina Cook Environmental Service, Mount Shasta, CA
Patrick Henry Democratic Club of America, Santa Ana, CA
Ecological Life Systems Institute, San Diego, CA
Coalition for Responsible and Ethical Environmental Decisions, San Clemente, CA
The Peace Alliance, Windsor, CA
Rossi Home For Children, San Diego, CA
Greenwood Earth Alliance, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Voter Empowerment Project, San Francisco, CA
Aqua Care, Boulder, CO
A-LAN Computing Solutions, Inc., Boulder, CO
Foothills Family Care, LLC., Fort Collins, CO
Mummy Range Institute, Livermore, CO
Rock the Reactors, Weston, CT
People’s Action for Clean Energy, Canton, CT
Citizens Awareness Network, Haddam, CT
Fairfield Clean Energy Task Force, Fairfield, CT
International Center of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT
Don't Waste Connecticut, New Haven, CT
No Nukes/No War, Mansfield, CT
Canton Advocates for Responsible Expansion, Inc., Canton, CT
Swankin and Turner, Washington, DC
Proposition One Committee, Washington, DC
At Home in the World, Washington, DC
Committee Against Plutonium Economics, Newark, DE
Crazy Planet Band, Newark, DE
Help Save the Apalachicola River Group, Wewahitchka, FL
Safe Earth Alliance, Largo, FL
Central Florida Jobs Committee, Saint Petersburg, FL
Lovearth.net, Siesta Key, FL
Center for a Sustainable Coast, St. Simon’s Island, GA
Foundation for Global Community/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Nuclear Watch South, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta WAND, Atlanta, GA
From Trident to Life Campaign, Milledgeville, GA
Action for a Clean Environment, Alto, GA
Food Not Bombs/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
California Earth Corps, Kaneohe, HI
One Backyard, Iowa City, IA
Nuclear Energy Information Service, Chicago, IL
No New Nukes, Normal, IL
New Community Project, Elgin, IL
Sierra Club W & W Group, Vernon Hills, IL
Citizens Against Ruining the Environment, Lockport, IL
Gorilla, Chicago, IL
Dwyer Products, Wood Dale, IL
Eco-Justice Collaborative, Chicago, IL
Beyond Today, Chicago, IL
Sinnissippi Alliance for the Environment, Rockford, IL
North Suburban Peace Initiative, Highland Park, IL
Environmental Research Foundation, Lincolnwood, IL
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, Red Bud, IL
The Justice Committee, SHCJ American Province, Chicago, IL
Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting, Urbana, IL
8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago, IL
The American Working Group for National Policy, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL
Citizens Action Coalition of IN, Indianapolis, IN
Valley Watch, Inc., Evansville, IN
Church Women United in Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Our Woods, Inc. Bloomington, IN
Enviro-Health Concerns, Wichita, KS
Kansas City Progressive Network, Prairie Village, KS
Coalition for Health Concern, Benton, KY
Yggdrasil, a project of Earth Island Institute, Lexington, KY
BGGreen Partnership for a Sustainable Community + WKU, Bowling Green, KY
Appalachia Science in the Public Interest, Livingston, KY
East Kentucky Energy Independence Council, Bulan, KY
Alliance for Affordable Energy, New Orleans, LA
LEAN, New Iberia, LA
Citizens for a Clean Environment, Baton Rouge, LA
Cape Downwinders, Harwich, MA
Pilgrim Watch, Duxbury, MA
C-10 Foundation, Newburyport, MA
Sirius Community, Shutesbury, MA
Sciencecorps, Lexington, MA
Grassfield Designs, Holyoke, MA
HealthLink, Marblehead, MA
Thoreau Foods, Boxborough, MA
Citizens Awareness Network, Amherst, MA
Sprout - Berkshire Initiative for Children's Environmental Health, Lenox, MA
Center for Cultural Evolution, Inc., Colrain, MA
Environment Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Democracy Rising, Takoma Park, MD
Support and Education for Radiation Victims, Kensington, MD
Peace and Justice Coalition, Prince George’s County, MD
Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Takoma Park, MD
Maryland Safe Energy Coalition, Baltimore, MD
Voices Opposed To Environmental Racism, Takoma Park, MD
Environmental Crisis Center, Baltimore, MD
Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee, Takoma Park, MD
Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Baltimore, MD
Cheaper, Safer Power, Portland, ME
The Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, ME
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine chapter, Portland, ME
Citizens Monitoring Network, Bath, ME
International Science Oversight Board, Plymouth, MI
Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI
Don’t Waste Michigan, Summerville, MI
Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two, Monroe, MI
Veterans For Peace, Brownstown, MI
The Open Institute, Flushing, MI
Gray Panthers of Huron Valley, Ann Arbor, MI
Voices for Earth Justice, Southfield, MI
Friends of Coldwater, Minneapolis, MN
Prairie Island Coalition, Minneapolis, MN
North American Water Office, Lake Elmo, MN
Fairmont Peace Group, Fairmont, MN
Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Minneapolis, MN
Southeastern MN Alliance of Peacemakers, Rochester, MN
Climate Crisis Coalition of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Mankato Area Environmentalists, Mankato, MN
EAGLE, Duluth, MN
Grandmothers for Peace, Twin Cities Area, MN
Holy Trinity & St Anskar Episcopal Parish, Minneapolis, MN
Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, St. Louis, MO
Missourians for Safe Energy, Columbia, MO
Midwest Energy Alternatives, Seymour, MO
Community of Christ, Independence, MO
Columbia Climate Change Coalition, Columbia, MO
Mississippians Against Nuclear Power, Vicksburg, MS
Human Rights Watch, Starkville, MS
Conservation Congress, Lewiston, MT
Oasis Montana, Inc., Stevensville, MT
Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), Helena, MT
Conservation Council of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
NIRS Southeast, Asheville, NC
NC WARN, Durham, NC
Charlotte Area Green Party, Midland, NC
The Canary Coalition, Sylva, NC
Western NC Physicians for Social Responsibility, Asheville, NC
Protect All Children’s Environment, Marion, NC
NC Citizens Research Group, Durham, NC
Lotus Designs, Vass, NC
Healthy Planet Enterprises, Black Mountain, NC
MacMillan & Wife Inc., Brevard, NC
Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
Microwave Theatre, Greensboro, NC
Pisgah Group of Sierra Club, Brevard, NC
Feminist Collective, Asheville, NC
Mountain Voices Alliance, Asheville, NC
Western Nebraska Resources Council, Chadron, NE
Environment New Hampshire, Concord, NH
Clamshell-To The Village Square, Portsmouth, NH
Campaign for Ratepayers Rights, Concord, NH
NH Peace Action, Concord, NH
Environment New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
Environmental Research Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
Sustainable West Milford, Hewitt, NJ
The Solar Center, Denville, NJ
Grandmothers, Mothers, and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES), Brick, NJ
Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth
County, Lincroft, NJ
Mothersalert, West Milford, NJ
NJ Labor Against the War, Brick, NJ
Union County Peace Council, Westfield, NJ
Unplug Salem Campaign, Linwood, NJ
Coalition for Peace and Justice, Linwood, NJ
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Committee, Westfield, NJ
Guilio Negrini Consulting, Carlstadt, NJ
The Conservatory of Music, Princeton Junction, NJ
Green Party, Monmouth Beach, NJ
Genesis Farm, Hardwick, NJ
Stop Uranium Mining / S.U.M., Montclair, NJ
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Santa Fe, NM
Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Environment New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
St. Joseph Catholic Church, Laguna, NM
St. Anne Catholic Church, Laguna, NM
Holistic Habitats, Cedar Crest, NM
Citizens For Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping, Albuquerque, NM
Sustainable Economic Solutions, Santa Fe, NM
Raging Grannies, Albuquerque, NM
Office of Peace, Justice, Creation Stewardship - Gallup Diocese, Gallup, NM
Community Action New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Citizen Action of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Rainshine Unlimited, Tijeras, NM
Nevada Conservation League, Las Vegas, NV
Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Las Vegas, NV
Citizen Alert, Las Vegas, NV
Nevada Desert Experience, Las Vegas, NV
GreenDream Enterprises, Henderson, NV
Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy, Scarsdale, NY
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Albany, NY
Community Energy Services, Canton, NY
FUSE (Friends United for Sustainable Energy), Spring Valley, NY
Avenging Angels Inc., New York, NY
Fluoride Action Network, Canton, NY
Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice & Peace, New York, NY
Alt. Technica, New York, NY
Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change, New York, NY
Crash and Burn Production, New York, NY
Vision42, New York, NY
Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes, Buffalo, NY
Jordan Schlanger Co. Inc., NYC, NY
Cancer Awareness Coalition, New Paltz, NY
Greystone Preserve, Fredonia, NY
Concerned Citizens for Peace, Hemlock, NY
Environment Ohio, Columbus, OH
Earth Day Coalition, Cleveland, OH
Greene Environmental Coalition, Yellow Springs, OH
Cuyahoga County West-side Greens, Cleveland, OH
Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security, Portsmouth, OH
OptimERA Inc., Columbus, OH
Wellness Rainbow Counseling, Berea, OH
Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice, Oxford, OH
Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network, Wooster, OH
Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Drumright, OK
Peace House-Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Peace Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Northwest Environmental Advocates, Portland, OR
Center for Energy Research, Portland, OR
Tove Solutions, LLC, Corvallis, OR
Hanford Watch, Portland, OR
Living Earth, Portland, OR
Oregon Conservancy Foundation, Boring, OR
Oregon Green Energy Coalition, Portland, OR
Regional Action Group for the Environment, Portland, OR
Oregon PeaceWorks, Salem, OR
Social Justice Alliance, Cave Junction, OR
Hanford Watch, Portland, OR
Cascade Pathways, Eugene, OR
Citizens Action for a Safe Environment, Leechburg, PA
Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety, Six Mile Run, PA
Citizen Power, Pittsburgh, PA
Benedictines for Peace, Erie, PA
PSR Harrisburg-Hershey, New Cumberland, PA
Northeast Pa. Audubon Society, Honesdale, PA
Cecilian Center for Earth, Arts and Spirit, Philadelphia, PA
International Physicians for Humanitarian Medicine, Yardley, PA
Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin Alliance, Stahlstown, PA
CARIE, Corry, PA
USA Nica Windpower, Inc., Jamestown, RI
South Carolina Progressive Network, Columbia, SC
South Carolina Sierra Club, Columbia, SC
York County Greens, Fort Mill, SC
Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia, SC
Hilton Head for Peace, Hilton Head, SC
Wofford College Planeteer's, Spartanburg, SC
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Defenders of the Black Hills, Rapid City, SD
Sierra Club Radiation Committee, Jonesborough, TN
We the People, Rockwood, TN
Southern Energy Network, Knoxville, TN
Professional Business Solutions Inc., Murfreesboro, TN
South Texas Opposes Pollution, Martindale, TX
Collective Vision, La Marque, TX
Oil Patch Democrats, Houston, TX
Environment Texas, Austin, TX
El Paso Regional Sierra Club Group, Sierra Blanca, TX
Texas Fund for Nuclear Responsibility, Austin, TX
Texas Center for Policy Studies, Austin, TX
Garcia Hill Residents Opossed to Uranium Mining, Kingsville, TX
HEAL Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Acting for a Greenworld, Taylorsville, UT
Uranium Watch. Moab, UT
Desert Greens, Green Party of Utah, Taylorsville, UT
People's Alliance for Clean Energy, Charlottesville, VA
Precursor Systems, Inc., Spotsylvania, VA
Bob Lawrence & Associates, Alexandria, VA
AfterDowningStreet.org, Charlottesville, VA
AnaiRhoads.org, Alexandria, VA
NursesNet, Lorton, VA
Ecological Working Group of Sowers of Justice, Norfolk, VA
SolarFest, Middletown Springs, VT
UU Society Social Action Committee of Burlington, VT, Underhill, VT
Animal Answers International, Burlington, VT
Clean Yield Asset Management, Greensboro, VT
Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, Montpelier, VT
Heart of America Northwest, Seattle, WA
Institute for Environmental Research and Education, Vashon, WA
Waste Action Project, Seattle, WA
World Good Products, Edmonds, WA
Media Island International, Olympia, WA
Philo Company, Seattle, WA
The Warm Company, Edmonds, WA
Klickitat Organics, LLC, Trout Lake, WA
Universal Ministries, Burien, WA
Coalition for Environmentally Safe Schools, Bainbridge Island, WA
Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Nukewatch, Luck, WI
Artha Sustainable Living Center, Amherst, WI
Peace & Justice Center at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison, WI
Door County Environmental Council, Fish Creek, WI
The Woodlands, Osseo, WI
DwelLogic, Inc., Cedarburg, WI
Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy, La Crosse, WI
Peace Action Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Some Notables
Ed Asner, actor
Barbara Bosson, actress
Dr. Rosalie Bertell, radiation scientist
Jackson Browne, musician
Dr. Helen Caldicott, doctor
Susan Clark, actress
Peter Coyote, actor
Ani DiFranco, musician
Mike Farrell, actor
Graham Nash, musician
Bonnie Raitt, musician
Amy Ray, musician
Emily Saliers, musician
Harvey Wasserman, author
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alternative-energy-news.info
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Video/
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pro-nuclear power
pewclimate.org
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consumerwebwatch.org
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go.coop
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US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
usworker.coop
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solidaritymail.com
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National Cooperative Business Association
ncba.coop
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Cooperative Grocers Information Network
cgin.coop
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everythingscool.org
e-vigilance.blogspot.com/2007/08/fascists-among-us.html
tiempocyberclimate.org/portal/archive/diy/garden.htm
eatinglocalinpittsburgh.blogspot.com
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From
"On Hearing That FBI Anti-Terrorism Agents Spied on the Thomas Merton Center"
by Angele Ellis
thomasmertoncenter.org/The_New_People/Dec07.pdf
thomasmertonsociety.org
merton.ca
merton.org
Pacifism is dangerous.
Thomas Merton...said...I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts...If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war...Merton's radical belief that if we truly saw we might fall down and worship each other...
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drugpolicy.org
artistsforpeace.org
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until the violence stops
kdva.org/links.html
utvsky.org
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“At its core global climate change is not about economic theory or political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures. It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family.”
US Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops Statement 2001.
http://gaiehouston.co.uk/climate.htm#where
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greenhousetrust.co.uk/links/_index.htm
avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/4.php
itsgettinghotinhere.org
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Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
erb.umich.edu
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From:
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech:
We are confronting a planetary emergency
Al Gore, 12/10/07
thinkprogress.org/gore-nobel-speech
http://alternet.org/blogs/environment/70174
...Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be...a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst — though not all — of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly...too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler’s threat:
“They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.”
So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.
As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is wrong.
We are what is wrong, and we must make it right...
...harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive droughts and melting glaciers. Desperate farmers are losing their livelihoods. Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home. Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought down the government in another. Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, increasing the potential for conflict. Stronger storms in the Pacific and Atlantic have threatened whole cities. Millions have been displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in Africa. As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have lost their lives. We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and driving more and more species into extinction. The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed...
... the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented — and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now necessary to solve the crisis. And when large truths are genuinely inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them. Yet as George Orwell reminds us: “Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
In the years since this prize was first awarded, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been radically transformed. And still, we have remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative actions...
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.
These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was not real or imminent; that it would affect others but not ourselves; that ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of extraordinary threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not do for ourselves.
No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future. They were calls upon the courage, generosity and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the threat once asked to do so...
Now comes the threat of climate crisis — a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?
Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called “Satyagraha” — or “truth force.”
In every land, the truth — once known — has the power to set us free.
Truth also has the power to unite us and bridge the distance between “me” and “we,” creating the basis for common effort and shared responsibility.
There is an African proverb that says, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We need to go far, quickly.
We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. They can and do help. But they will not take us far enough without collective action. At the same time, we must ensure that in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological conformity and a new lock-step “ism.”
That means adopting principles, values, laws, and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society in multifold responses originating concurrently and spontaneously.
This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in all humanity. The innovators who will devise a new way to harness the sun’s energy for pennies or invent an engine that’s carbon negative may live in Lagos or Mumbai or Montevideo. We must ensure that entrepreneurs and inventors everywhere on the globe have the chance to change the world.
When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashed can transform us...
These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must. No one should believe a solution will be found without effort, without cost, without change. Let us acknowledge that if we wish to redeem squandered time and speak again with moral authority, then...
That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries of what is possible... “You must make the path as you walk.”
We are standing at the most fateful fork in that path. So I want to end as I began, with a vision of two futures — each a palpable possibility — and with a prayer that we will see with vivid clarity the necessity of choosing between those two futures, and the urgency of making the right choice now.
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, “One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door.”
The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: “What were you thinking; why didn’t you act?”
Or they will ask instead: “How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”
We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
So let us renew it, and say together: “We have a purpose. We are many. For this purpose we will rise, and we will act.”
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pbs.org/tavissmiley
pumpitout.com/links.html
tomflocco.com/fs/Bush41RevivesLinks.htm
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oldamericancentury.org/links.htm
erichufschmid.net/TFC/DarylBradfordSmith_Bollyn-Hufschmid-11Sep2006.html
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JFK - Exposing the New World Order
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tq99snleP4E&feature=related
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Muslim American Society
masnet.org
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jimmarrs.com
freespeech.org
disclosureproject.org
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The real bad anarchists are the ones in the White House, who think they are above the law. The good anarchists are the ones that recognize that laws were made for people not people for the laws.
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Was the 9/11/1 attack a false flag operation?
youtube.com/watch?v=-mFOQE5QRmk
"...The military-industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock and barrel, but they control our culture..."
Senator Mike Gravel
youtube.com/watch?v=4PQfXv3-8dU
gravel2008.us
ruckpad.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/mike-gravels-rap-video
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...and an angel came to me and said, "Fear not, the Song is Love"...
bioeverything.blogspot.com/2006/08/song-is-love.html
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Invention turns toxic waste into electricity
news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071226/sc_livescience/inventionturnstoxicwasteintoelectricity
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farmland.org
oneearth.org
lifestraw.com
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tchouse.org
...helping disabled achieve the highest degree of independence possible, contribute time and skills to the community, and realize every potential available to them...
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bioremediation
http://starhawk.org/permaculture/NOLA_bio_basics.html
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/MountaintopRemoval/
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Melissa Etheridge - I Need To Wake Up
projectpowerplant.com/blog/?cat=12
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New biotech tools for a cleaner environment: industrial biotechnology for pollution prevention, resource conservation, and cost reduction
bio.org/ind/pubs/cleaner2004/CleanerReport.pdf
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Sustainable Community Development [beneficial naturally occurring microbes]
scdworld.net
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Implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity [Thailand]
onep.go.th/bdm/National-Report/Download/Chapter3.pdf
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pro nuclear power
heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2087.cfm
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nukefree.org/links
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http://www.no2torture.org/come/dc07/cpw_talk_carol.pdf
...The Military Commissions Act gives power and force to our terrified and paranoid conviction that this whole world that God loves is a ticking bomb. It made credible the delusion that life and death depend on our willingness to torture those who are currently at our mercy... in life and death we belong to God alone who is our only source of security...Torture cannot save us from the ticking bomb, because torture is the ticking time bomb...there are two victims, the tortured and the torturer...
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bioelectric.tribe.net
healingartsbyamethyst.com
people.tribe.net/m/dawnbringer
pghreiki.tribe.net/m
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Three Rivers Community Foundation
trcf.net
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buildingdemocracy.org
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bikeblog.blogspot.com
ghostbike.org
ghostbikes.org
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radioopensource.org/coltan-in-the-congo
radioopensource.org/coal-mountaintop-removal-in-appalachia
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Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
ohvec.org/galleries/mountaintop_removal
ohvec.org/galleries/in_the_garden
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They're Using Your Tax Dollars to Bulldoze Our Forests
Stop the Sale of America's Natural Heritage
thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/919431571?z00m=12041365
The Bush Administration has made several proposals to dismantle our National forests by selling off thousands of acres – a move that would only benefit the administration's friends in the timber industry, coal interests and Big Oil...
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Public Interest Research Group
pirg.org
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focusthenation.org
fightingforlove.com
ignitionthebook.com
stepitup2007.org
powershift07.org
itsgettinghotinhere.org
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Sustainable Environmental Justice for the South Bronx
greentheghetto.org
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Sustainable South Bronx
ssbx.org
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500+ Organizations Sign Statement Rejecting Nuclear Power as a Solution to Climate Crisis
The statement, signed (as of December 17, 2007) by 515 organizations, states simply:
"We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors as a means
of addressing the climate crisis. Available renewable energy and
energy efficiency technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner
strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
nirs.org/petition2/ussigners121707.pdf
Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change
http://www.nirs.org/climate/climate.htm
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Greenpeace
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
US PIRG
Public Citizen
Clean Water Action
Environmental Working Group
Sun Day Campaign
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Rainforest Action Network
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
Code Pink
Voters for Peace
Energy Justice Network
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Government Accountability Project
Beyond Nuclear
Peace Action
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
U.S. Climate Emergency Council
Healthy Building Network
Epsilon Eta—National Environmental Honors Fraternity
NukeFree.Org
Lawyer’s Committee on Nuclear Policy
Regional/Local Organizations/Businesses
The Ester Republic, Ester, AK
God Bless The World, Inc., Birmingham, AL
Omni Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, Fayetteville, AR
Flagstaff Nuclear Awareness Project, Flagstaff, AZ
Arizona Safe Energy Coalition, Tucson, AZ
Lovolution Studios, Tucson, AZ
Arizona Nuclear Energy Watch, Phoenix, AZ
Don’t Waste Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Tucson Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Tucson
Air Water Earth Org., Lake Havasu City, AZ
Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment, Scottsdale, AZ
Wisdom Eldercare, Inc., Tucson, AZ
KerrCole Sustainable Living Center, Taylor, AZ
Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA
Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland, CA
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, San Francisco, CA
Southern California Ecumenical Council, Pasadena, CA
ITA, Los Angeles, CA
Poise, Goleta, CA
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, San Luis Obispo, CA
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Pismo Beach, CA
California League of Conservation Voters, Los Angeles, CA
www.nonukes.org, Berkeley, CA
SoManyPostcards, Paicines, CA
Ecological Options Network, Bolinas, CA
Center for Safe Energy, Berkeley, CA
Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
Nuclear Guardianship Project, Berkeley, CA
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, Studio City, CA
Terra Foundation, San Luis Obispo, CA
GREEN L.A., Santa Monica, CA
The FINE ART Café, Cobb, CA
Wolfhouse Productions, Sonoma, CA
Center for Resource Solutions, San Francisco, CA
Environmental Priorities Network, Manhattan Beach, CA
Redwood Alliance, Arcata, CA
Stories of Hope, Oakland, CA
Los Cerritos Wetlands Landtrust, Westminster, CA
Physicians for Social Responsibility, L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental, CA
Acterra, Palo Alto, CA
ASDavis Media Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Muir Productions, Bolinas, CA
International Clearinghouse for Hydrogen Commerce, Independence, CA
PDSMM, Topanga, CA
Action Now, Altadena, CA
Atomic Mirror, Port Hueneme, CA
The Justice Xpress, Occidental, CA
Clean Air Now, Los Angeles, CA
Peninsula WILPF, Palo Alto, CA
Planning and Conservation League, Sacramento, CA
Del Amo Action Committee, San Pedro, CA
Progressive Dems of America, Studio City, CA
MI Design, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Democracy for America, Marin, Mill Valley, CA
Grandmothers for Peace International, Elk Grove, CA
Women's Energy Matters, Fairfax, CA
BFUU Social Justice Committee, Berkeley, CA
Blusion, Sebastopol, CA
Eco-Eating, San Jose, CA
Sierra Solar Systems, Grass Valley, CA
California Communities Against Toxics, Rosamond, CA
California Environmental Rights Alliance, El Segundo, CA
Berkeley Women in Black, Berkeley, CA
WILPF Nuclear Abolition Committee, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
ACES - Angelina Cook Environmental Service, Mount Shasta, CA
Patrick Henry Democratic Club of America, Santa Ana, CA
Ecological Life Systems Institute, San Diego, CA
Coalition for Responsible and Ethical Environmental Decisions, San Clemente, CA
The Peace Alliance, Windsor, CA
Rossi Home For Children, San Diego, CA
Greenwood Earth Alliance, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Voter Empowerment Project, San Francisco, CA
Aqua Care, Boulder, CO
A-LAN Computing Solutions, Inc., Boulder, CO
Foothills Family Care, LLC., Fort Collins, CO
Mummy Range Institute, Livermore, CO
Rock the Reactors, Weston, CT
People’s Action for Clean Energy, Canton, CT
Citizens Awareness Network, Haddam, CT
Fairfield Clean Energy Task Force, Fairfield, CT
International Center of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT
Don't Waste Connecticut, New Haven, CT
No Nukes/No War, Mansfield, CT
Canton Advocates for Responsible Expansion, Inc., Canton, CT
Swankin and Turner, Washington, DC
Proposition One Committee, Washington, DC
At Home in the World, Washington, DC
Committee Against Plutonium Economics, Newark, DE
Crazy Planet Band, Newark, DE
Help Save the Apalachicola River Group, Wewahitchka, FL
Safe Earth Alliance, Largo, FL
Central Florida Jobs Committee, Saint Petersburg, FL
Lovearth.net, Siesta Key, FL
Center for a Sustainable Coast, St. Simon’s Island, GA
Foundation for Global Community/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Nuclear Watch South, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta WAND, Atlanta, GA
From Trident to Life Campaign, Milledgeville, GA
Action for a Clean Environment, Alto, GA
Food Not Bombs/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
California Earth Corps, Kaneohe, HI
One Backyard, Iowa City, IA
Nuclear Energy Information Service, Chicago, IL
No New Nukes, Normal, IL
New Community Project, Elgin, IL
Sierra Club W & W Group, Vernon Hills, IL
Citizens Against Ruining the Environment, Lockport, IL
Gorilla, Chicago, IL
Dwyer Products, Wood Dale, IL
Eco-Justice Collaborative, Chicago, IL
Beyond Today, Chicago, IL
Sinnissippi Alliance for the Environment, Rockford, IL
North Suburban Peace Initiative, Highland Park, IL
Environmental Research Foundation, Lincolnwood, IL
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, Red Bud, IL
The Justice Committee, SHCJ American Province, Chicago, IL
Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting, Urbana, IL
8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago, IL
The American Working Group for National Policy, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL
Citizens Action Coalition of IN, Indianapolis, IN
Valley Watch, Inc., Evansville, IN
Church Women United in Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Our Woods, Inc. Bloomington, IN
Enviro-Health Concerns, Wichita, KS
Kansas City Progressive Network, Prairie Village, KS
Coalition for Health Concern, Benton, KY
Yggdrasil, a project of Earth Island Institute, Lexington, KY
BGGreen Partnership for a Sustainable Community + WKU, Bowling Green, KY
Appalachia Science in the Public Interest, Livingston, KY
East Kentucky Energy Independence Council, Bulan, KY
Alliance for Affordable Energy, New Orleans, LA
LEAN, New Iberia, LA
Citizens for a Clean Environment, Baton Rouge, LA
Cape Downwinders, Harwich, MA
Pilgrim Watch, Duxbury, MA
C-10 Foundation, Newburyport, MA
Sirius Community, Shutesbury, MA
Sciencecorps, Lexington, MA
Grassfield Designs, Holyoke, MA
HealthLink, Marblehead, MA
Thoreau Foods, Boxborough, MA
Citizens Awareness Network, Amherst, MA
Sprout - Berkshire Initiative for Children's Environmental Health, Lenox, MA
Center for Cultural Evolution, Inc., Colrain, MA
Environment Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Democracy Rising, Takoma Park, MD
Support and Education for Radiation Victims, Kensington, MD
Peace and Justice Coalition, Prince George’s County, MD
Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Takoma Park, MD
Maryland Safe Energy Coalition, Baltimore, MD
Voices Opposed To Environmental Racism, Takoma Park, MD
Environmental Crisis Center, Baltimore, MD
Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee, Takoma Park, MD
Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Baltimore, MD
Cheaper, Safer Power, Portland, ME
The Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, ME
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine chapter, Portland, ME
Citizens Monitoring Network, Bath, ME
International Science Oversight Board, Plymouth, MI
Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI
Don’t Waste Michigan, Summerville, MI
Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two, Monroe, MI
Veterans For Peace, Brownstown, MI
The Open Institute, Flushing, MI
Gray Panthers of Huron Valley, Ann Arbor, MI
Voices for Earth Justice, Southfield, MI
Friends of Coldwater, Minneapolis, MN
Prairie Island Coalition, Minneapolis, MN
North American Water Office, Lake Elmo, MN
Fairmont Peace Group, Fairmont, MN
Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Minneapolis, MN
Southeastern MN Alliance of Peacemakers, Rochester, MN
Climate Crisis Coalition of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Mankato Area Environmentalists, Mankato, MN
EAGLE, Duluth, MN
Grandmothers for Peace, Twin Cities Area, MN
Holy Trinity & St Anskar Episcopal Parish, Minneapolis, MN
Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, St. Louis, MO
Missourians for Safe Energy, Columbia, MO
Midwest Energy Alternatives, Seymour, MO
Community of Christ, Independence, MO
Columbia Climate Change Coalition, Columbia, MO
Mississippians Against Nuclear Power, Vicksburg, MS
Human Rights Watch, Starkville, MS
Conservation Congress, Lewiston, MT
Oasis Montana, Inc., Stevensville, MT
Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), Helena, MT
Conservation Council of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
NIRS Southeast, Asheville, NC
NC WARN, Durham, NC
Charlotte Area Green Party, Midland, NC
The Canary Coalition, Sylva, NC
Western NC Physicians for Social Responsibility, Asheville, NC
Protect All Children’s Environment, Marion, NC
NC Citizens Research Group, Durham, NC
Lotus Designs, Vass, NC
Healthy Planet Enterprises, Black Mountain, NC
MacMillan & Wife Inc., Brevard, NC
Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
Microwave Theatre, Greensboro, NC
Pisgah Group of Sierra Club, Brevard, NC
Feminist Collective, Asheville, NC
Mountain Voices Alliance, Asheville, NC
Western Nebraska Resources Council, Chadron, NE
Environment New Hampshire, Concord, NH
Clamshell-To The Village Square, Portsmouth, NH
Campaign for Ratepayers Rights, Concord, NH
NH Peace Action, Concord, NH
Environment New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
Environmental Research Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
Sustainable West Milford, Hewitt, NJ
The Solar Center, Denville, NJ
Grandmothers, Mothers, and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES), Brick, NJ
Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth
County, Lincroft, NJ
Mothersalert, West Milford, NJ
NJ Labor Against the War, Brick, NJ
Union County Peace Council, Westfield, NJ
Unplug Salem Campaign, Linwood, NJ
Coalition for Peace and Justice, Linwood, NJ
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Committee, Westfield, NJ
Guilio Negrini Consulting, Carlstadt, NJ
The Conservatory of Music, Princeton Junction, NJ
Green Party, Monmouth Beach, NJ
Genesis Farm, Hardwick, NJ
Stop Uranium Mining / S.U.M., Montclair, NJ
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Santa Fe, NM
Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Environment New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
St. Joseph Catholic Church, Laguna, NM
St. Anne Catholic Church, Laguna, NM
Holistic Habitats, Cedar Crest, NM
Citizens For Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping, Albuquerque, NM
Sustainable Economic Solutions, Santa Fe, NM
Raging Grannies, Albuquerque, NM
Office of Peace, Justice, Creation Stewardship - Gallup Diocese, Gallup, NM
Community Action New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Citizen Action of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Rainshine Unlimited, Tijeras, NM
Nevada Conservation League, Las Vegas, NV
Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Las Vegas, NV
Citizen Alert, Las Vegas, NV
Nevada Desert Experience, Las Vegas, NV
GreenDream Enterprises, Henderson, NV
Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy, Scarsdale, NY
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Albany, NY
Community Energy Services, Canton, NY
FUSE (Friends United for Sustainable Energy), Spring Valley, NY
Avenging Angels Inc., New York, NY
Fluoride Action Network, Canton, NY
Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice & Peace, New York, NY
Alt. Technica, New York, NY
Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change, New York, NY
Crash and Burn Production, New York, NY
Vision42, New York, NY
Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes, Buffalo, NY
Jordan Schlanger Co. Inc., NYC, NY
Cancer Awareness Coalition, New Paltz, NY
Greystone Preserve, Fredonia, NY
Concerned Citizens for Peace, Hemlock, NY
Environment Ohio, Columbus, OH
Earth Day Coalition, Cleveland, OH
Greene Environmental Coalition, Yellow Springs, OH
Cuyahoga County West-side Greens, Cleveland, OH
Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security, Portsmouth, OH
OptimERA Inc., Columbus, OH
Wellness Rainbow Counseling, Berea, OH
Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice, Oxford, OH
Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network, Wooster, OH
Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Drumright, OK
Peace House-Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Peace Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
Northwest Environmental Advocates, Portland, OR
Center for Energy Research, Portland, OR
Tove Solutions, LLC, Corvallis, OR
Hanford Watch, Portland, OR
Living Earth, Portland, OR
Oregon Conservancy Foundation, Boring, OR
Oregon Green Energy Coalition, Portland, OR
Regional Action Group for the Environment, Portland, OR
Oregon PeaceWorks, Salem, OR
Social Justice Alliance, Cave Junction, OR
Hanford Watch, Portland, OR
Cascade Pathways, Eugene, OR
Citizens Action for a Safe Environment, Leechburg, PA
Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety, Six Mile Run, PA
Citizen Power, Pittsburgh, PA
Benedictines for Peace, Erie, PA
PSR Harrisburg-Hershey, New Cumberland, PA
Northeast Pa. Audubon Society, Honesdale, PA
Cecilian Center for Earth, Arts and Spirit, Philadelphia, PA
International Physicians for Humanitarian Medicine, Yardley, PA
Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin Alliance, Stahlstown, PA
CARIE, Corry, PA
USA Nica Windpower, Inc., Jamestown, RI
South Carolina Progressive Network, Columbia, SC
South Carolina Sierra Club, Columbia, SC
York County Greens, Fort Mill, SC
Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia, SC
Hilton Head for Peace, Hilton Head, SC
Wofford College Planeteer's, Spartanburg, SC
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Defenders of the Black Hills, Rapid City, SD
Sierra Club Radiation Committee, Jonesborough, TN
We the People, Rockwood, TN
Southern Energy Network, Knoxville, TN
Professional Business Solutions Inc., Murfreesboro, TN
South Texas Opposes Pollution, Martindale, TX
Collective Vision, La Marque, TX
Oil Patch Democrats, Houston, TX
Environment Texas, Austin, TX
El Paso Regional Sierra Club Group, Sierra Blanca, TX
Texas Fund for Nuclear Responsibility, Austin, TX
Texas Center for Policy Studies, Austin, TX
Garcia Hill Residents Opossed to Uranium Mining, Kingsville, TX
HEAL Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Acting for a Greenworld, Taylorsville, UT
Uranium Watch. Moab, UT
Desert Greens, Green Party of Utah, Taylorsville, UT
People's Alliance for Clean Energy, Charlottesville, VA
Precursor Systems, Inc., Spotsylvania, VA
Bob Lawrence & Associates, Alexandria, VA
AfterDowningStreet.org, Charlottesville, VA
AnaiRhoads.org, Alexandria, VA
NursesNet, Lorton, VA
Ecological Working Group of Sowers of Justice, Norfolk, VA
SolarFest, Middletown Springs, VT
UU Society Social Action Committee of Burlington, VT, Underhill, VT
Animal Answers International, Burlington, VT
Clean Yield Asset Management, Greensboro, VT
Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, Montpelier, VT
Heart of America Northwest, Seattle, WA
Institute for Environmental Research and Education, Vashon, WA
Waste Action Project, Seattle, WA
World Good Products, Edmonds, WA
Media Island International, Olympia, WA
Philo Company, Seattle, WA
The Warm Company, Edmonds, WA
Klickitat Organics, LLC, Trout Lake, WA
Universal Ministries, Burien, WA
Coalition for Environmentally Safe Schools, Bainbridge Island, WA
Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Nukewatch, Luck, WI
Artha Sustainable Living Center, Amherst, WI
Peace & Justice Center at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Madison, WI
Door County Environmental Council, Fish Creek, WI
The Woodlands, Osseo, WI
DwelLogic, Inc., Cedarburg, WI
Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy, La Crosse, WI
Peace Action Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Some Notables
Ed Asner, actor
Barbara Bosson, actress
Dr. Rosalie Bertell, radiation scientist
Jackson Browne, musician
Dr. Helen Caldicott, doctor
Susan Clark, actress
Peter Coyote, actor
Ani DiFranco, musician
Mike Farrell, actor
Graham Nash, musician
Bonnie Raitt, musician
Amy Ray, musician
Emily Saliers, musician
Harvey Wasserman, author
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alternative-energy-news.info
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Video/
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pro-nuclear power
pewclimate.org
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consumerwebwatch.org
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go.coop
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US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
usworker.coop
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solidaritymail.com
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National Cooperative Business Association
ncba.coop
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Cooperative Grocers Information Network
cgin.coop
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everythingscool.org
e-vigilance.blogspot.com/2007/08/fascists-among-us.html
tiempocyberclimate.org/portal/archive/diy/garden.htm
eatinglocalinpittsburgh.blogspot.com
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From
"On Hearing That FBI Anti-Terrorism Agents Spied on the Thomas Merton Center"
by Angele Ellis
thomasmertoncenter.org/The_New_People/Dec07.pdf
thomasmertonsociety.org
merton.ca
merton.org
Pacifism is dangerous.
Thomas Merton...said...I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts...If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war...Merton's radical belief that if we truly saw we might fall down and worship each other...
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drugpolicy.org
artistsforpeace.org
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until the violence stops
kdva.org/links.html
utvsky.org
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“At its core global climate change is not about economic theory or political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures. It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family.”
US Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops Statement 2001.
http://gaiehouston.co.uk/climate.htm#where
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greenhousetrust.co.uk/links/_index.htm
avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/4.php
itsgettinghotinhere.org
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Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
erb.umich.edu
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From:
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech:
We are confronting a planetary emergency
Al Gore, 12/10/07
thinkprogress.org/gore-nobel-speech
http://alternet.org/blogs/environment/70174
...Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be...a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst — though not all — of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly...too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler’s threat:
“They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.”
So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.
As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is wrong.
We are what is wrong, and we must make it right...
...harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive droughts and melting glaciers. Desperate farmers are losing their livelihoods. Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home. Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought down the government in another. Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, increasing the potential for conflict. Stronger storms in the Pacific and Atlantic have threatened whole cities. Millions have been displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in Africa. As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have lost their lives. We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and driving more and more species into extinction. The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed...
... the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented — and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now necessary to solve the crisis. And when large truths are genuinely inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them. Yet as George Orwell reminds us: “Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
In the years since this prize was first awarded, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been radically transformed. And still, we have remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative actions...
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.
These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was not real or imminent; that it would affect others but not ourselves; that ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of extraordinary threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not do for ourselves.
No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future. They were calls upon the courage, generosity and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the threat once asked to do so...
Now comes the threat of climate crisis — a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?
Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called “Satyagraha” — or “truth force.”
In every land, the truth — once known — has the power to set us free.
Truth also has the power to unite us and bridge the distance between “me” and “we,” creating the basis for common effort and shared responsibility.
There is an African proverb that says, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We need to go far, quickly.
We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. They can and do help. But they will not take us far enough without collective action. At the same time, we must ensure that in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological conformity and a new lock-step “ism.”
That means adopting principles, values, laws, and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society in multifold responses originating concurrently and spontaneously.
This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in all humanity. The innovators who will devise a new way to harness the sun’s energy for pennies or invent an engine that’s carbon negative may live in Lagos or Mumbai or Montevideo. We must ensure that entrepreneurs and inventors everywhere on the globe have the chance to change the world.
When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashed can transform us...
These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must. No one should believe a solution will be found without effort, without cost, without change. Let us acknowledge that if we wish to redeem squandered time and speak again with moral authority, then...
That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries of what is possible... “You must make the path as you walk.”
We are standing at the most fateful fork in that path. So I want to end as I began, with a vision of two futures — each a palpable possibility — and with a prayer that we will see with vivid clarity the necessity of choosing between those two futures, and the urgency of making the right choice now.
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, “One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door.”
The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: “What were you thinking; why didn’t you act?”
Or they will ask instead: “How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”
We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
So let us renew it, and say together: “We have a purpose. We are many. For this purpose we will rise, and we will act.”
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pbs.org/tavissmiley
pumpitout.com/links.html
tomflocco.com/fs/Bush41RevivesLinks.htm
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oldamericancentury.org/links.htm
erichufschmid.net/TFC/DarylBradfordSmith_Bollyn-Hufschmid-11Sep2006.html
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JFK - Exposing the New World Order
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tq99snleP4E&feature=related
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Muslim American Society
masnet.org
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jimmarrs.com
freespeech.org
disclosureproject.org
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The real bad anarchists are the ones in the White House, who think they are above the law. The good anarchists are the ones that recognize that laws were made for people not people for the laws.
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Was the 9/11/1 attack a false flag operation?
youtube.com/watch?v=-mFOQE5QRmk
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 4:39 AM
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