"Don't waste yer waste."
~Jim McCue
founder, first and only official member
International Garbage Pickers Union (IGPU)

Waste Picker Rights

Garbage Pickers of the world unite; stand up and make friends with your common enemies!

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
http://no-burn.org/article.php?list=type&type=95
...waste picker rights is an important part of... environmental justice and zero waste...

Let's make the G20 summit a love fest.

People who hate rich people are not going to be the only troublemakers in town for the G20:

http://sfbayview.com/2009/lynching-of-cynthia-mckinney-urged-by-‘journalist’-trained-and-paid-by-fbi

...worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an ‘agent provocateur’..taught by the agency ‘what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line.’”...
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http://freedomconference2009.com/G20-3.php
...Our fundamental disagreement with the G20 is that while it purports to further free market policies, the actual policies produced represent a massive and costly centralization of power...
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We hereby free..Now Gawd help us!

"I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants."
~Al Gore
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From Ken Ward
jpgreenhouse.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ken_ward
The time is now: Climate civil disobedience. Sign up.
BeyondTalk.net
I pledge to engage in non-violent civil disobedience and risk arrest in order to get our leaders to make the right climate-change choices.
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My comment:
I tremble deeply. As an activist in support of the concept of civil disobedience, I think it a possibility I will be arrested here in Pittsburgh as a pre-emptive preventive arrest as protests, civil disobedience, and direct action are planned for the G20 Summit next month. I do not expect to engage in civil disobedience, and think it may be too wide a general concept which may include many things I would not do. I hope to have an enjoyable, loving safe September - and the same for all those living and visiting Pittsburgh.
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methane feedback effect
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/05/methane-bubbling-up-through-tundra.html
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Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice
by Margot Roosevelt 2/20/9
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-global-warming22-2009feb22,0,646220.story
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video clip Frozen Heat: a global warming threat from the Arctic
narrated by Katey Walter, University of Alaska
alaska.edu/uaf/cem/ine/walter
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They shall turn their swords into ploughshares.

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Life takes hold of the world's government and business.

From:
"Anne Feeney"
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SEPTEMBER 2009 - Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - VOLUME 5, #6



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IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS

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LABOR DAY



Monday September 7th is Labor Day in the United States. The rest of the world honors labor on May 1st. But we do things differently from the rest of the world. Like our corporate-controlled health care system, we observe a corporate-controlled Labor Day weekend filled with shopportunities and blowout back-to-school sales. And both our health and the health of the labor movement suffer as a result. Very little goes on in the way of remembering the sacrifices and victories of the labor movement in the United States. Unfortunately, many of the Labor Day Parades held around the country are little more than excuses to have a picnic & get loaded.



I'm so excited to be welcoming the AFL-CIO to Pittsburgh for its national convention. My friend Rich Trumka will assume the responsibility of leading labor through the difficult times ahead. In a movement that celebrates great oratory - with fantastically inspiring speakers like Cecil Roberts, RoseAnn DeMoro and Leo Gerard - Rich Trumka stands alone. Millions of workers across the country have been encouraged, inspired and ennobled by his words. He will be a great spokesperson for labor. And God knows we need one. But we need a lot more than talk. We need bold leadership. This Labor Day I want to talk about the workers at Vincent Bach in Elkhart, Indiana.



Elkhart, Indiana is the brass instrument capital of North America. If you or anyone you know ever played a tuba, trumpet, trombone or horn it was almost certainly made at Vincent Bach in Elkhart. Generations of students and professionals alike have played these quality instruments. Big band leaders regularly stopped by to visit (and jam with) their colleagues at Vincent Bach. Eventually the predominantly musician board of directors was replaced by profiteers and bean counters and the company sold several times. In 2006 the company posted a $63 million profit.



So it was quite a shock to the workers when the company came to the table demanding dramatic pay cuts, concessions, and the end of many work rules that made working at Vincent Bach a career instead of a job. Many of these workers are second and third generation employees. Many had decades of service to the company when the ultimatum was presented. The 230 member of UAW 394 voted to strike on April 1, 2006.



The company outsourced much of its production to China. They brought scabs into the plant. The strikers couldn't imagine how the company could afford to train scabs to make these instruments... but the Republican governor of Indiana appropriated almost $50,000 of tax dollars from the so-called "Skills Enhancement Fund" specifically to subsidize the training of the scabs, as part of a $1.1 million dollar package of taxpayer subsidies to this profitable union-busting corporate bad neighbor. The company engaged in multiple unfair labor practices, which the union filed charges on, but these take years to be adjudicated by the understaffed National Labor Relations Board.



In the meantime, the workers walked the picket line, and took their story to the community and to other unions. As the strike dragged on, those who could find other jobs and/or relocate did so. The remaining 130 workers were consigned to subsisting on $200 a week strike benefits. They were mostly folks with 20 or more years of service at Vincent Bach. Employment prospects at their age were slim to none. They hung tough, confident that the Labor Board would side with them and they would get their jobs back. Their options were limited by a number of factors. Unemployment in Elkhart is among the highest in the nation. There were no other jobs, and with real estate values tanking, moving wasn't a good option either.



On November 7, 2007 the scabs (no doubt at the company's behest) called for an election to decertify the United Auto Workers union. On Thursday, July 30th, 2009 an understaffed NLRB panel decertified the union, ending the strike. Part of the reason the union lost the election is because desperate strikers who liquidated their 401 (k) plans to survive during the strike were ruled inelegible to vote in the election! After 40 months of faithfully staffing the picket line, the loyal 130 workers of Vincent Bach/Conn Selmer have no union, no jobs, no benefits, and no recourse. That is just wrong.



$63 million dollars should have been enough profit for Vincent Bach. I believe that if Vincent Bach were locally owned, it undoubtedly would have been enough profit. Vincent Bach's profits didn't stay in Elkhart, or Indiana, and probably not even in the United States. The people making money from the work done in Elkhart don't give a rat's ass about Elkhart, Indiana - they don't give a rat's ass about anyone but themselves. We need to regulate corporate acqusitions more closely to stop this "race to the bottom."



The Vincent Bach plant is still operating, but the jobs there are no longer living wage jobs. Over 100 good workers left Elkhart during the strike... stranding elders, depleting the tax base, driving down property values as they sold quickly to relocate. The overburdened taxpayers of Elkhart will face more cuts to social services, more deterioration of the infrastructure, increased demand for social services. And Vincent Bach pays absolutely nothing in reparations for the damage they have done to this community. This kind of tragedy has been played out countless thousands of times in the United States. I've been an eyewitness to a lot of it. It's got to stop.



This Labor Day, we must commit ourselves to standing up for good, living wage jobs in this country, and around the world. We must rein in these greedy multinational corporations that ruthlessly shift capital around the globe (often with taxpayer subsidies), pillaging the planet and exploiting the poorest, weakest and most desperate among us. We can, and must, do better. Our parents and grandparents missed meals, risked (and sometimes sacrificed) their lives to bring us an 8 hour day, vacations, paid sick days, pensions, seniority, safety regulations, grievance procedures and the right to organize. These past few decades we have been spendthrift children - squandering this sacred inheritance in the name of cooperation, flexibility and teamwork. We must do better. This legacy, and what we can add to it, belongs to future generations.



(This Labor Day message is gratefully offered in tribute to the sacrifices and devotion of the members of UAW 394 - especially Don Wagner, Deneen Siegler, Ron Czarnecki... and the workers of Boilermakers 484, AFSCME 3494, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, United American Nurses, the Charleston Five, UE Republic Workers, UAW 174 at Hercules Drawn Steel, Local 459 OPEIU Nurses, AK Strikers, Delphi workers, Staley workers, Frontier Casino Strikers, and millions more who have struggled against this monstrous corporate greed.)



And a Labor Day salute to Kay Tillow, Jerry Tucker, David Newby, Shelley Kessler, Paul Bigman, Jeff Crosby, Turner Wright, Dave Johnson, John David, Rosemary Trump, Amy Newell, Ron Kaminkow, Barb Ingalls, Brian McWilliams, Angaza Laughinghouse, Karen Newman, Barbara Byrd, Dexter Arnold, Laura Griffin, Stan Swart, Mike Matejka, Amy Niehouse, David Elsila, Charlie McCollester, Rose Feurer, Nathanette Mayo, Judy Ancel, Robin Alexander, Henry Nicholas, Nick Molnar, Betsy Pernotto, Larry Daves, Ed Sadlowski (the elder and the younger!) and Julius Margolin (safe journey, dear comrade) for your tireless work for working people.



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COME TO PITTSBURGH FOR THE G-20!!



Looks like the first amendment isn't repealed in Pittsburgh after all!



Pittsburgh will be a very happening place in the month of September. Beginning with the pre-AFL-CIO conferences on the 10th and running through the G-20 (September 24th & 25th) there will be lots of action - teach-ins, demonstrations, marches, concerts, direct action and more.



Thanks to a grant from the Hen Foundation, I'll be presenting some cultural activities ... Look for the Coop D'Etat logo.



http://www.g20media.org/sectors is a great list of the activities planned in my hometown. Come join us!
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Work!

Work isn't really productive unless you're doing what you really enjoy.

Enjoy!

"We need 50 million people growing food in backyards, side yards, on rooftops. That would finally transform high food prices, and change poor and unhealthy diets into healthy ones.“
~Will Allen
growingpower.org

bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/reinventing/articles/an_urban_farmer_dreams.html

whitehousefarmer.com

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We're addicted to chemicals in our food.
freshthemovie.com

Come plant love.

All life is one. We ARE the world. The All/One is one of the names of God.
http://pittsburghfoodforests.blogspot.com
http://permaearth.org
..The more functional connections a system has, the more sustainable it becomes..
http://edibleforestgardens.com
..mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun..sea change..learn to live within our energetic means..rebuild ecosystems..to support our children and grandchildren..
phillyorchards.org
http://phigblog.com/2008/09/21/the-philadelphia-orchard-project
http://inthewake.org

Don't make waste in the first place.

MAKE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE ILLEGAL.
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"...Corporations make a profit because you make more money by selling things that shortly thereafter become garbage...you have to stop the industries that manufacture the waste in the first place..."
~Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, What We Leave Behind
gogreenarticlesblog.com/4639/leaving-us-behind
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Come together

Next month's G20/Peoples Summit can flower a new labor movement. We are filled with hope for the union of all life.

Paraphrase of Edwin Markham's

Outwitted

They imagined lines to shut us out,
heretics, rebels, things to flout
But Love and us had the wit to win -
We made a circle that included them.

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_Markham

goodreads.com/author/quotes/179023.Edwin_Markham

Pittsburgh knocks a homer

to hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for hazelwoodhomepage.com
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Pitttsburgh Knocks a Homer

Pittsburgh has always been at the forefront of the world's great changes. We were one of the first cities to industrialize. Some of the first oil and nuclear power developments occurred in this area. I grew up hearing the statement (correct or not) that "Pittsburgh is the most polluted city in the world." Many of the labor struggles that got safer workplaces, more decent pay, and limits on corporate abuse of both citizens and environment happened here.

We were the first city to clean up our pollution - resulting in a renaissance, and a technical/expertise base which places us in a position to profit from helping the world transition to the new clean technology economy now.

We have a pivotal role in providing for the rest of the world the ability to recover from the environmental devastation and concomitant economic collapse which now threatens the survival of all life on this planet.. We in Pittsburgh were "ahead" of many in other places in having had to learn to adapt to severe economic decline. And we are now leading with green solutions which recognize environmental common sense innovations as money makers.

That this city was chosen to host a summit of the wealthiest nations should have been no surprise. I need only look out my window at the green forested mountainside across the river to see what we've accomplished. It's visible now because the last steel mill in the city proper has shut down. There was too much smoke while the Hazelwood Coke Works was running to get but a hazy gray glimpse of that mountainside every now and then. The governor, the mayor, and the head of the city council were on board to build another mill after that one was torn down, but most Hazelwood residents were against it, so it didn't get built. Citizens also - along with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection - prevented the development of a mountaintop-removal lumbering/mining/race track/resort complex that would have pretty much destroyed that beautiful mountainside ecosystem called Hays Woods. It is the most forested section of the city proper.

We have now a city that is on average poor, but beautiful and technologically advanced. We are already providing an example to the world of how to survive great change. We can head towards stabilizing ourselves economically and environmentally by helping provide the world with the means to regenerate the Earth's ecosystem.

We must almost entirely transition from fossil fuels, move to primarily locally grown food, avoid false climate solutions such as nuclear power, regenerate the world's failing biological diversity, and apply the most advanced appropriate technologies to help with this huge change.

And it isn't going to be easy. Just as residents of Hazelwood had to fight to slow down the pollution that was shortening our lives and those of our children, an epic struggle is taking place in the world between those who see that the entire Earth ecosystem (including all humans) is in jeopardy and those who don't . This month Pittsburgh takes center stage with the International Coal Conference, the G20 Summit, and the Peoples Summit. We're near the end of the game and a good future is not promised. We have to act in service to life for a better future.
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For a critique of building new nuclear power plants, go to
http://blog.cleanenergy.org
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How do we appreciate and enjoy the present while working for a better future?

Stopping to smell the roses, and reminiscing about the past, aren't wasteful expenses of precious time. By recognizing what we have now - and where it came from - we can create a future which, by holding precious the best of the past, includes its essence and ensures that the future will be even better.

That time only moves forward, never back, should make us eager to create an even better future. We take the wonderful things we've had, expand on them in our imaginations, and confidently act on our hopes to bring forth something good that can't yet be seen or felt in its exact details.

When we first were starting this neighborhood newspaper, John Tokarski came up with the name "Hazelwood Homepage". Most of the original group working on the paper weren't immediately impressed, but I liked it right away. It's a double entendre - combining the welcoming word "home" with the hip reference to an internet webpage. Like the front door of a library, the homepage beckons to so much more inside. Now, years later, we are at the same crossroads - calling Hazelwood our home and yet recognizing the Earth calls us to a much bigger one.
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G20 rumors

Here's about that rumor that local protesters are saving up sht to throw at the police:
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/08/fear-of-good-change.html .
Relax...They're RECYCLING it. I'm betting the rumor started when someone accidentally or purposely misinterpreted the fact that Landslide Community Farm www.landslidecommmunityfarm.org composts (for two years to make pathogen-free) humanure.

Love is money in the long run.

Love, not money, makes the world go round. Will we choose love or fear?
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Circa 1980 Cuban/American bumper sticker:

Cuando oppression es ley, revolution es orden.

When oppression is law, revolution is in order.

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Now read this written about Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist during the 2000 election theft:
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Just Our Bill
by Dennis Roddy 12/2/0
post-gazette.com/columnists/20001202roddy.asp
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fear of good change

Oh, my God, I talked about saving money rather than spending it. Will the defenders of the status quo ever forgive me?
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As to the nasty rumor that local protesters are saving their human waste to throw at the police...They're RECYCLING it. One wonders how willful the ignorance being spread is, and by who.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8021506.stm
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The Revolution is Love

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"...in the revolution
we will execute
only the system
with a new way
of being alive..."

~Steve Ben Israel, Nonviolent Executions
blacklistedjournalist.com/column95k3.html
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Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government
by Joel S. Hirschorn
delusionaldemocracy.com
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"One who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt one doing it."
~Chinese proverb
danaherbert.blogspot.com/2008/05/village-interviews-steve-ben-israel.html
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Geez, who are the bad guys here?

I like my movies in black and white, good guys and bad guys...
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"We may he privileged to witness the collapse of an entire civilization."
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Father Jack O'Malley warned the Labor and Religion Coalition of Western Pennsylvania regarding G20 agents provocateurs.
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greenisthenewred.com/blog/green-scare
..FBI..paid..“Anna,” to pose as an activist: she provided the group with bomb-making recipes; at times financed their transportation, food and housing; strung along McDavid, who had the hopes of a romantic relationship; and poked and prodded the group into action...
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The old order is destroying itself.

Smashing the state is so out of it; the state is already wrecked. The monster is moving on only inertia now.
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http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-steal-another-election-death-of.html

Produce more of what you consume.

We have become addicted to slavery so that we may eat cheap imported food.
Be a prosumer (producer/consumer) - produce what you consume.
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johnperkins.org
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globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14658
..Chiquita..and..CIA..toppled Guatemala’s democratically-elected president..Arbenz in 1954 and..ITT, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had brought down Chile’s..Allende in 1973.. Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide..ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase...
Now Honduras...
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dreamchange.org

Sing "The party's ovah!"

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"...The game is over...and the Fed is highly responsible for doing this by bailing out their buddies with cheap money over and over again..."
~Gerald Celente, December 2007
trendsresearch.com
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Entering the Greatest Depression in History
More Bubbles Waiting to Burst
By Andrew Gavin Marshall 8/7/9
globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14680
..Celente..“The biggest financial bubble in history is being inflated in plain sight..
However destructive the effects of these busts on employment, savings and productivity, the Free Market Capitalist framework was left intact..
But when the 'Bailout Bubble' explodes, the system goes with it..Phantom dollars, printed out of thin air, backed by nothing..and producing next to nothing..when the "Bailout Bubble" pops, neither the President nor the Federal Reserve will have the fiscal fixes or monetary policies available to inflate another..Given the pattern of governments to parlay egregious failures into mega-failures, the classic trend they follow, when all else fails, is to take their nation to war..a major war could follow.”
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Biological diversity suppresses but does not eliminate disease.

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/lateblight.html
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Sustainable Management of Soil-Borne Plant Diseases
attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/summaries/soilborne.html
Soil-borne diseases result from a reduction of biodiversity of soil organisms. Restoring beneficial organisms that attack, repel, or otherwise antagonize disease-causing pathogens will render a soil disease-suppressive. Plants growing in disease-suppressive soil resist diseases much better than in soils low in biological diversity. Beneficial organisms can be added directly, or the soil environment made more favorable for them through use of compost and other organic amendments. Compost quality determines its effectiveness at suppressing soil-borne plant diseases...
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Love versus the chaos machine

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We must get in gear to save Earth now.

"..we're in worse trouble than we understand..a little changes around the edges won't help.." ~Bill McKibben

Re:

What We Leave Behind
by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay

feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/06/30/leaving-us-behind

...antibiotics..kill plants and soil life...

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Welcome the Peoples' Summit and G20
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"A year from now, what are the desired changes...you know, a year from now, somebody gets out of jail, what differences..."

Will the elite be welcome at the Peoples' Summit? Will the poor be welcomed at the G20 Summit?
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"The superconscious law of success is put into operation through man's prayers and by his understanding of the Lord's omnipotence. Do not stop your conscious efforts or rely wholly on your own natural abilities, but ask divine aid in all you do."
~Paramahansa Yogananda, "Scientific Healing Affirmations"
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"...I started to notice the cattle, the mining, the clear cutting...and then I noticed the footprints of the campers and backpackers. Then I started to notice that some of the places I had taken students to in previous years were depleted of the very plants I showed them. Then I started to notice the current footprints of the two dozen people I was showing herbs to. Now I find I am starting to notice MY footprints."
~Michael Moore, from The EcoHerbalist's Fieldbook, by Gregory Tilford
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"La Revolution commence avec moi meme." The Revolution begins with myself.
'68 Paris graffiti, as recounted by Steve Ben Israel
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palaborhistory.org
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My notes from 3 Rivers Climate Convergence mtng/conference call 8/5/9 at East End Food Co-op.
Jim McCue, composter and biotech researcher appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com
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Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture PASAfarming.org
mass civil disobedience Tuesday?
"g-infinity project"
Arundhati Roy
The Age of Stupid film
"climate justice photo exhibit"
"tents for workshops"
"natural gas development devastating communities"
"Women's Tent City Initiative"
Center for Coalfield Justice
Green Party
Sierra Club
Earth First
Landslide Community Farm
avaaz.org
Student Environmental Action Coalition
"full coal cycle"
Bioneers.org
"Four Directions Network"
"Coal Country" film
g20media.org
Melwood Screening Room
"Ferlo Point State Park steelworkers collaboration"
"Malik Rahim coming" Common Ground Relief commongroundrelief.org
z-mag
"3 Rivers Climate Coalition"
West Coast Climate Convergence "...Shell...oil development in the U.S...."
Global Campaign for Climate Action
"...flashmob action on the 21st..."
resistg20.org
PeoplesSummit.com "...speakers, panels, and workshops...
organic gardening/urban farming workshop/forum "huge transition we have to make...need for - and health hazards of improper - composting"
"intalling composting toilets"
actforclimatejustice.org/g20
Bail Out the People bailoutpeople.org
indypgh.org
g6billion.org
Women's Coalition francineporter@aol.com 9/20-25 Tent City Feeder march for 9/25 permitted march
"environmental refugees"
trying to get overnight permit for 2 camps at Point Park
concert
rally
thomasmertoncenter.org
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"Points of Unity" -
...people exist within ecosystems...traditional ecological knowledge...often exists in a holistic culture that integrates the physical and spiritual...We reject the false solutions to imminent ecological collapse, such as carbon (cap and trade) markets, clean coal, industrial biofuels, and nuclear power...cessation of production of all toxins, hazardous wastes and radioactive materials...detoxification and the containment at the point of production...life-sustaining economic practices...equal partners at every level of decision-making...right of all workers to a safe and healthy work environment, without being forced to choose between an unsafe livelihood and unemployment...re-imagine/restore...clean up and rebuild our cities and rural areas in balance with nature...fair access for all to the full range of resources...Bali Principles...EJ principles..."
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"...direct action..."
"Action Factory"
organizepittsburgh.org
facebook page
3riversconvergence.org
Labor and Religion Coalition of Western Pennsylvania
Mon Valley Unemployed Committee
Joseph Stiglitz, Institute for Policy Studies
Anti-Flag
USW unconfirmed march in planning
Pittsburgh United
International Pace,Justice, & Empowerment Summit
"contingents and feeder marches"
International Coal Conference David Lawrence same week
"...historic tour of Pittsburgh radically historic sites..."
"people based coverage of"
Seeds of Peace
"Greenpeace tents...solar-powered bus"
g20 working dinner at Phipps "...why they moved to a glass building..."
Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project 20 hour medic training
"...contingents and feeder marches..."
studentpowerinthefaceofempire.wordpress.com
longwall mining...
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From Ceci Wheeler:
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, __ceciw. wrote:
From: __ceciw.
Subject: from pittsburgh
To: openairwaves@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 10:29 PM


Hi, all,
i'm organizing an event in the south side on september. If you're a
resident of it and can help, send me a note and i'll give you more
details. Those whom I already reached out, meetings are still on mondays
at the same location.
Thank you.
ceci
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Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher

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Communities for a Better Environment (California)
cbecal.org
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Global Hunger
A Faith Leaders’ Summit at the Pittsburgh G20 Meetings
http://bread.org/learn/global-hunger-issues/faith-leaders-summit.html
...recovery must include the 1 billion people who now live in extreme poverty...commitment made by the G8 in July to develop a global food security initiative...G-8 pledged $20 Billion, primarily invested in agriculture, to combat hunger in developing countries...Bread for the World, in cooperation with the Alliance to End Hunger and partner organizations, is planning to host a Faith Leaders Summit for prayer and public witness in Pittsburgh on the morning of September 23, the eve of the G20 meetings.

We would like to hold a Faith Leaders Forum (by conference call) in the weeks leading up to the G20 Summit, including a briefing on the issues and consultation on our messaging.

We are also planning to seek opportunities for a conversation with participants in U.S. delegation to the Summit.
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G20 meeting/conference call today

From David Meieran, 412-216-9821
http://actforclimatejustice.org/regions/g20

East End Food Coop
free
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
East End Co-Op Administrative Office (enter thru parking lot)
7516 Meade St. near S. Braddock Ave. (Point Breeze)
Pittsburgh
412 216 9821
g20climatepittsburgh@gmail.com
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A conference call phone line is available for those who cannot attend the meeting in person. Contact g20climatepittsburgh@gmail.com for details. NOTE: we’ll have a decent microphone this time! Sorry for our previous difficulties...

This is a general planning meeting for groups and individuals interested in advancing climate justice, environmental justice, sustainable-living and related issues during the week that Pittsburgh hosts the International Coal Conference (Sept. 21-23) and the G20 summit (Sept. 24-25).

"Three Rivers Climate Convergence: United for Environmental Justice" is a collaboration of local, regional and national groups - and individuals - that is organizing the following activities:

* A five-day climate justice camp and sustainable-living fair where people from all walks of life can share ideas, make friends, plan actions, discover what communities are doing to safeguard our air, water and land, as well as learn practical stuff such as constructing a wind turbine, composting your waste and fixing your bicycle.Our first choice for location is Point State Park.

* Protests and creative actions around the Coal Conference that directly precedes the G20 summit.

* A series of environmental justice film/video screenings or else work with others who may be planning something similar around social justice themes.

We have a number of working groups that people can plug in to including coal actions, buzz & outreach, media coordination, film screenings, camp logistics, camp agenda and more...visit our temporary site at
http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/g20

Kim Teplitzky, 267-307-4704
David Meieran, 412-216-9821
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Downtown Pittsburgh will be the site for the International Coal Conference, on September 21-23 as well as the G-20 Summit onSeptember 24-25.

September thus presents a great opportunity to amplify the voices and visions of communities directly impacted by the global environmental and economic crises. And here in the Three Rivers, the birthplace of Rachel Carson, we have plenty of our own stories to tell.

In our region, we’re struggling to stop longwall mining, mountain top removal, the industrialization of the Allegheny National Forest, the construction of the Beech Hollow PowerPlant in Robinson Township, and the harms from North Shore development, among others.

At the same time, our region has some creative solutions to showcase. Landslide Community Farm, the One Hill Coalition and Free Ride are just three examples...
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Let's come back to Earth

ReSource
Institute for Low Entropy Systems

riles.org/sludge.htm

"...prevent...systems collapse...connect...to nature..."

spontaneousvegetation.net/greenhouses-of-hope

spontaneousvegetation.net/humble-pile

The status quo, what we're doing now:

alternet.org/environment/141718/your_crap_our_compost:_turning_human_feces_into_fertile_soil

"...Deemed a fertilizer by the EPA, sludge is everything that goes down the drain - heavy-metals...industrial, pharmaceutical and human waste. (In an attempt at linguistic detoxification, the EPA renamed sewage sludge 'biosolids.')..."

You can feel the life in good soil.

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Nature's Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies
http://bioneers.org/about/founders/kenny-ausubel
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http://dirtthemovie.org
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Beware the false forward.

http://organictobe.org/index.php/2009/07/30/good-farming-was-more-advanced-a-hundred-years-ago

http://energybulletin.net/49752

http://postcarbon.org

http://transitionculture.org