Houston Community fights #TarSands Criminals

Manchester, Houston: An Environmental Battleground

31 Dec

On Thursday, December 27th, in Houston, TX, residents of Manchester gathered with allies to issue new demands on Valero. “We demand to know what you are forcing us to breathe! ¡Exigimos saber lo que nos están obligando a respirar!”

The community came together in a celebration of unity and strength. Manchester is populated almost completely by Latin@s, and surrounded on all sides by industry.

A massive Valero refinery looms over the community’s only park and its smokestacks poison the people who live there 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Manchester is plagued by a long list of diseases and ailments including asthma, respiratory disease and inflammation, infertility, birth defects, and a myriad of deadly cancers. The National Disease Clusters Alliance reports (pg. 2) that children living within two miles of the Houston Ship Channel have a 56% higher likelihood of developing leukemia than those who live more than ten miles away. Continue reading “Houston Community fights #TarSands Criminals”

2012.. Worst ever Year for the Planet

Super-typhoons can only form over 30C water.. Climate Change is to blame. The billionaire Climate Criminals of the Oil Companies sit back in total luxury while their victims in Caleel Bay faced annihalation. ..6th Dec. When will lawsuits be taken against these companies on behalf of the victims?

Annus Horribilis

Dec 31, 2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

By George Monbiot,

It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial. I believe there has been no worse year for the natural world in the past half century.

Three weeks before the minimum occurred, the melting of the Arctic’s sea ice broke the previous record(1). Iconic remnants of the global megafauna – such as rhinos and bluefin tuna – were shoved violently towards extinction(2). Novel tree diseases raged across continents(3). Bird and insect numbers continued to plummet, coral reefs retreated, marine life dwindled. And those charged with protecting us and the world in which we live pretended that none of it was happening…. Continue reading “2012.. Worst ever Year for the Planet”

Make your Eco House for Free: Living without Bills

Join the Launch of new Living in the Future Film on 22nd January 2013, 8pm.

Continue reading “Make your Eco House for Free: Living without Bills”

Make them Leave it in The Ground: How We can Resist Climate Suicide

(extract from George Monbiot’s article with References and Comments)

”Preventing climate breakdown – the four, five or six degrees of warming now predicted for this century by green extremists like, er, the World Bank, the International Energy Agency and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1 , 2 , 3 , ) – means confronting the oil, gas and coal industry.”

The only realistic way to do this is by making further development unprofitable. This seems impossible, even if extraction were to be limited by a world agreement, scarcity would drive prices up and make evasion eminently profitable, to companies who are anyway more powerful than many nation states.

One step forward is the movement in the US for Disvestment by Companies, Universities and Local Administrations, as it becomes ever clearer that the future of the planet really is being destroyed. (See article HERE Campaign to de-Invest from Fossil Fuel Climate Criminals ) Continue reading “Make them Leave it in The Ground: How We can Resist Climate Suicide”

Maddy va a la Carcel por no Chivarse de l*s #Anarquistas

Otra anarquista a la cárcel por resistencia al Gran Jurado este 26 de diciembre 2012

http://cna-m.blogspot.ie/2012/12/otra-anarquista-la-carcel-por.html

Es probable que otra anarquista sea enviada a prisión por negarse a hablar de sus ideales y de sus amigos al “Gran Jurado federal” de Seattle.

Maddy Pfeiffer, de 23 años, despreció la “audiencia” de la semana pasada y el juez ha ordenado que se entregue este 26 de diciembre a las 9. Ya había estado frente al “Gran Jurado” y no colaboró. Continue reading “Maddy va a la Carcel por no Chivarse de l*s #Anarquistas”

Serial of The Free. Ch 23. Rocket Homes.. Away!

How to FIRE your boss.. Merri and Dolli outwit their rapist boss and cancel Gloria’s mortgage..

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Act Two Chapter twenty three

Rocket Homes..Away!

-‘Closing down? But how will I live?’–

Mr. Michael Princk MBA was fairly romping round his almost empty manager’s office.

-‘We’ve done it, we’ve done it Gloria. We’ve achieved our utmost goal! No no! Don’t answer the phone!’- Continue reading “Serial of The Free. Ch 23. Rocket Homes.. Away!”

Spain. Plans to destroy Wetlands for more Profit

Las Tablas is a vast wetland in Castilla-La Mancha that supports migrating birds and native wildlife. In 2009-10 a government plan to divert water from the Tajo-Segura aqueduct was approved to tackle subterranean peat fires threatening the park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The Plan condemns the wetlands, which were recovering after recent heavy rains, to a new crisis

The Plan of the Guadiana is the worst possible choice, condemning the famous Daimiel National Park marshes and increasing the silting up of the Tagus..

With the fierce cuts causing mass unemployment without compensation, 100’s of 1000’s of families evicted for unpayable mortgages, bailing bank robbers to the tune of multi billions, bringing back Religion in school, increasing the military and police budgets while schools and hospitals, clinics and nurseries are closing everywhere….

It seems the corrupt Spanish neo-fascist government could not do worse. Think again! Continue reading “Spain. Plans to destroy Wetlands for more Profit”