Let's get up from our computer, get out of our cars, come down from whatever fundamentalism keeps our America old and violent and profit-taking - and go down to the public square that sits there covered with pigeon shit and the shadow of a soldier on a horse - and sing the 1st Amendment! Start our culture over! REVOLUJAH!
Climb a mountain and stand way up there alone in the sky and ready your ultimate question about life. Naturally you want to unfurl your wings like an eagle and make the unknown horizon give up its answers.
Who is financing Mountaintop Removal now that Chase got out of the business? Our answer came from Rainforest Action Network. Two banks, mostly, PNC Bank of Philadelphia and UBS Bank of Switzerland.
It’s the worst of times and the best of times. We now face the power of the ultimate destroyer. Major institutions re-ignite their consumer democracy, showering detractors with greenwashing rhetoric as CO-2 emissions rise every month. There is commitment by leaders to a deadly gradualism. On the other hand, we don’t have a social movement. Have we ever needed one more? There’s no uprising.
It was so clear, the moment that 280 million year old mountains came to New York City. I think it happened during the Iceland volcano, that Dr. Wizard project that turned Europe into a slumber party comedy. The old deco apartments in midtown became cliffs. The sky started scraping back at the big banks, the sky-scrapers got sky-scraped.
We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
