7. Environment

The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

Summary:

It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Assisting Burmese Cyclone Survivors: Defying the Government to Save Lives

A generous monk who shared relief supplies with his entire region stands in front of the village's damaged monastery photo: © Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008

Summary:

When we made it to villages farther down the road, we found that a monk had shared the rice for his village with all the surrounding villages, which had received no aid and were starving.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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The Dream Reborn: Bringing King's Vision Forward into a Green Economy

Authors: Van Jones

Summary:

It has always been assumed that attendance at environmental conferences would always be 90 percent white and overwhelmingly affluent. Not this time.

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How to Start a Critical Mass Bike Ride

Critical Mass at Car Spindle, Chicago. Photo: Payton Chung
Authors: Michael Bluejay

Summary:

Cars don't need permits to ride on the streets. Neither should cyclists.

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Tomato Pickers Organize to Improve Conditions: An Open Letter to Burger King and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange

Demonstrator in the rain

Summary:

Boycott Burger King until it supports a penny per pound increase in wages.

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Breathing Life into the Struggle: Victories for Indigenous Peoples & Transnational Allies

Indigenous Child
Authors: Paula Palmer

Summary:

Winning the right to decide if resource extraction should take place.

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Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement

Summary:

We have come here to mourn and rage and defy the Pentagon.

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Carbon-free and Nuclear-free A Detailed Energy Plan for the US (review)

Authors: Peter Montague

Summary:A detailed plan for powering the nation's economy with zero carbon dioxide emissions and no new nuclear power plants. Have your Representatives read it?

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