11/21 News Roundup – A Dysfunctional ‘PIG’ Is Leading To Environmental Disasters, Single Payer As ‘A Line In The Sand’ Issue & More
Will You ‘Promise to Protect’? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL
Shortly following the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s “shortsighted and dangerous” vote to green-light TransCanada’s Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, a coalition comprised of Indigenous peoples, farmers, and ranchers living along the oil project’s proposed route published a letter on Monday urging the public to join them in protecting sacred land from corporate exploitation.
Endorsed by Native tribes, green groups, and high-profile environmentalists, the “Promise to Protect” call to action argues that making “a concerted stand” against TransCanada’s $8 billion dirty energy project “will make other fossil fuel companies think that much harder about their own expansion plans.”
“Together we’ve stopped them for many years, and we are going to keep stopping them,” the letter reads. “But we need everyone’s help. We need you to take a stand no matter what land you live or work on. The struggle to save Mother Earth begins with you.”
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The letter goes on to make several requests of those who wish to participate in the “creative resistance” against KXL that is expected to take shape in the coming months, including:
*Commitment to entirely peaceful acts of protest, even in the face of “the pain caused by TransCanada’s aggression”;
*Respect for “the leadership of Indigenous peoples, farmers, and ranchers in the action, and the plans and strategies of the front lines and their allies who have made promises to protect the land, water, and climate”;
*Preparation in advance of the demonstrations, including training sessions with organizers, so that “you’re able to find the place you’re most needed on any given day.”The fossil fuel industry “believes that with the inauguration of Mr. Trump, the obstacles in their path had disappeared,” the letter concludes. “They are unaware of the rising tide of indigenous unity and the strong alliances with ranchers, farmers and the climate justice movement which grew stronger at Standing Rock. When the president approved the federal permits for KXL last winter, he asked TransCanada executives when construction would start: Our job is to make sure the answer is, no time soon.”
Meanwhile, ‘The Rational National’ covers a potential cause of the uptick in pipeline spills (spoiler: it involves corporate greed & corruption):
More News/video/tweets/etc. in the comments, including:
*Bernie Sanders Is Now Backing Randy Bryce—Which Could Be Very Bad News for Paul Ryan
*Whitefish energy company halts work to restore Puerto Rico’s power over unpaid bill
*De Blasio heads to Iowa in hopes of defining a national role
*The Trump Administration Revokes Legal Status for More Than 50,000 Haitian Immigrants
*Pipeline News, Water Protector Updates & More
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The Question Dividing California’s Democrats
This idea of seniors ‘buying in’ to optional Medicare…with what funds? Many seniors are struggling to made ends meet as it is.
This article is from four years ago, and I have to think that the situation has probably gotten even worse since then:
Medicare for all is one area where I have no will to consider a compromise on, The time has come for it to happen. Insurance Corporations/Lobbyists be dammed to hell
Healthcare is a basic human right! It’s not a benefit, entitlement or whatever the asshole FRightwing rich want to call it. I have stood up and protested this shite for decades! GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr!!!
p.s. Who/what is this PCCC (‘Progressive Campaign Change Committee) and do we trust them?
I see that they bill themselves as the Elizabeth Warren wing of American politics.
Next to the link to their store to buy stuff:
I’m waiting and seeing on how they break on issues. It’s a PAC, and therefore corruptible by big money. I’m leery of any efforts to dilute the progressive movement, and promoting the more pliable Warren to try and counter “wild card” Bernie would not be past the establishment.
Forget it.
It’s too bad Warren is not going the Bernie way, calling us into action. Instead, calling a PAC into action is going to turn people off. Guess I’ll have to let them know. I’m just one voice, but it never hurts to let them know that this is not what you want from a progressive candidate.
These Turd Way yahoos are Repukelican Lite, not democrats.
Bernie Sanders Is Now Backing Randy Bryce—Which Could Be Very Bad News for Paul Ryan
Anti-Fracking Protest Shuts Down Traffic at Energy Companies’ Offices
Whitefish energy company halts work to restore Puerto Rico’s power over unpaid bill
We obviously have different definitions of ‘positive’.
egad. do i really remember the day when govt. and volunteers and some subcontractors, maybe, would be well into completing the job by now, and for way less money? And we’d pay for it, like we do Houston, New Orleans, etc.
I would love to see both “Sets” of Whitefishes books on this
Be nice to see a few white collar criminals (Whitefish) get busted and indicted. They would stop the whining super quick!
De Blasio heads to Iowa in hopes of defining a national role
Bill de Blasio Will Go to Iowa Again: ‘This Is Who I Am’
“I think the Democratic party is ill-defined right now, and I think it’s ill-defined because it’s lost touch with what should be its core ideology,” de Blasio said during a Gracie Mansion interview Sunday afternoon. “Because it’s ill-defined, they’re not winning elections, and the two go together.”
Yeah, well, he’s not getting my vote. I hope he doesn’t run.
Jeff Beals running for NY-19:
https://youtu.be/9H4raUnxElk
Would be great to have someone who has actually worked in Gaza, has seen what goes on with his own eyes, and he’s taking on the MIC? Wow.
I’ll take an former diplomat over a former prosecutor any day!
Go Jeff-for-peace dude!
Jeff Beals sounds very coherent and intelligent. He’s brave to take on “corporate power” the way he does.
The applause he got after that little speech seemed very enthusiastic. I hope he wins!
Institute Index: The Mounting Injustice of the Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Wintergreen group announces plan to sue Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Inequality Out of Control: The Average 1% Household Made Over $2.5 Million in the Past Year
Yea thru more tax cuts for the rich known as ‘Wealthfare’ at the expense of the rest of us.
In Defense of Millennial Politics
Washington’s War on Poor Grad Students
When Will Democrats Stop Being Losers?
Trump administration ends program for Haitians who came to US after quake
The Trump Administration Revokes Legal Status for More Than 50,000 Haitian Immigrants
That’s so sad. If those people have been working and paying taxes why not just make them legal? What harm could that possibly do?
I am not “we.” I have never supported the FRightwingnut/DINO agenda. That is wrong, an insult, and needs to be pointed out and clarified!
We Supported Their Dictators, Led the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ and Now Deny Them Refuge
Anatomy of an Abduction: The Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees
AT&T’s Time Warner takeover: justice department aims to block $85bn deal
Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior
“60 Minutes” Highlights Saudi Atrocity in Yemen, Ignores U.S. Role in it
2.5 Million in Yemen Have No Clean Water as World’s Worst Single-Year Cholera Epidemic Threatens to Spread
a once and sometimes great show–where the guy who blew the lid off the cigarette company’s foreknowledge and hiding of cancer first blew the cover off, iirc—haven’t watched in years, now, another one bites the dust.
Unlike Most Western Leaders, Corbyn Demands End to US-UK Complicity in Yemen’s Suffering