Highjinks in the Bolinas Fourth of July parade.
Megan Matson's adaptation of the Johnny Cash song 'Sixteen Tons.' chorus: You got to beat 16 or what do you get? Another day warmer and deeper in debt, Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I ain't free – I owe my soul to PG 'n E I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain Woke up wantin a change but it was all the same You think you got freedom, but 16's come to town – Time to stand up and STOP it or they be shuttin you down [chorus] I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine They got ...
Megan Matson of Mainstreet Moms makes the case for Marin Clean Energy and wonders why PG&E is spending so much money to stop it. Could it be the 'threat of a good example?' If locally-mandated, Community Choice Clean Energy legislation catches on across the country, monopolistic private energy utilities, pushing dirty power - like PG&E - will be feeling the pinch on their bottom lines. This is not just about historically trend-setting Marin County. This is about the potential for a nation-wide...
EON ally and ace videographer Tom McAfee provides these clips of the N30 Climate Action in San Francisco.
Election integrity strategist Eva Waskell gives an overview of transparency in a few critical elements of the U.S. election system and lets the audience determine the T-Grade (transparency grade) for each one.
Excerpts (with permission) from the award-winning feature documentary TRADE OFF directed by Shaya Mercer - www.EatWellMedia.com
Peace activist DAVID HARTSOUGH reorts back on the recent citizen delegation he led to Iran. For more information: PEACEWORKERS - San Francisco, California - USAphone & fax: (415) 751-0302 -davidhartsough@igc.org -www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Professor of Medical Ethics and author THOMAS KERNS shows how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its two related internationally adopted documents - the Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - can form an effective context for environmental activists' campaigns. He outlines three strategies for organizers to follow and points to the effectiveness or California's Stop the Spray movement as a model. Prof. Kerns is the autho...
Ernest Callenbach (ECOTOPIA, 1975) and Harvey Wasserman (SOLARTOPIA, 2007) discuss the role of the visionary novelist in opening public discourse to 'outside the box' possibiltiies. They look at the many elements of Callenbach's Ecotopian vision have actually come into being (and some that haven't yet) and explore the catalytic power of realistic hope to shape the present and the future. They agree the time has come to democratically enlarge our vision of sustainable society from local, nation...
CLIFF ARNEBECK, lead attorney in the controvercial King-Lincoln v. Ohio Sec. of State lawsuit, talks about the aim of the suit and the impact on the planned fix of the recent election of deposing under oath Mike Connell, head IT operative for the Republican Party and the McCain campaign, on the day before the vote.