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Update on Big Box Battle on NE 82nd Avenue in Portland
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The student environmental club at Pacific University, Forest Grove, and the grassroots citizen group Washington County Peak Oil, will be hosting a free screening of the film "Crude Awakening: the Oil Crush" on the Pacific campus.
a Portland car dealership is selling cars that they claim will pass deq, but infact they are lying about taking the cars though. read more in the article
"Obesity Nears Smoking As Cause Of Cancer"
Measure 50 is a mean spirited, short-sighted effort, designed primarily to further demonize and scapegoat and to dispropotionately tax smokers, in order to fund an unworkable and unsustainable plan to fund children's health care. Please vote NO on Measure 50.
Need some good wholesome fun, some good wholesome folk punk, to make you feel like dancing...like shouting...like tearing down all those wall of diempowerment stiffling up your soul. Well let this put a smile on your face local favorites The Hail Seizures (Oly WA), Blackbird Raum (Santa c. CA) and Dandelion Junk Queens (B-ham WA) will be doing a number of shows for all the weary out there most of them for free so please come out, sing out, and spring out in dance like the true revolutionaries you are!!
Learn to make your own fermented sodas with non-dairy kefir culture, water, dried fruit, and sugar! Taste kefir made with different kinds of ingredients!
Dear Friends of the Sierra Club:
The "Stop 49" Campaign has just mailed a brochure to voters that is full of blatant lies. Please read below: And we still need your help... 4 Nights to Protect Oregon When: Mon, Tues, Wed or Thurs, October 22nd - 25th Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm Location: Sierra Club Offices (2950 SE Stark, Suite 100) RSVP to Emily: (503) 243-6656 ext. 301 or  emily.bartha@sierraclub.org
Learn More:  http://oregon.sierraclub.org/
this week's intercambio is tomorrow at 7pm in SE! for more information please contact
pdxintercambio@gmail.com
...the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.
The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Thanks to our universal keys, the Trader Joe's dumpster on 41st and Broadway is accessible, at least until they find out in the morning. There are eggs, oranges, bread, several pineapples, and a nice cache of other goodies waiting to be taken to a good home. Go get your groceries, children of the night.
Measure is a mean spirited, short-sighted effort, designed primarily to further demonize and scapegoat smokers, and to dispropotionately tax them in order to fund an unworkable and unsustainable plan to fund children's health care.
Please vote NO on Measure 50.
Food Not Bombs Co-Founder and author of the Food Not Bombs Handbook: Keith McHenry Speaking in Tacoma!
October 28, 2007 University of Puget Sound 1500 North Warner, Tacoma, WA Room: Rotunda 5:00pm-7:00pm
EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for 'agrofuels'. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world's poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming, argues Oscar Reyes
This is disgusting!
bore's exteme arrogance, combined with the absolute hypocrisy of his own excessive power usage serve to make ordinary people around the world hostile to actually taking steps to deal with climate change.
got in a little pissing match with a guy pushing "green power" the other day.. I can see why you would sign up to make a political statement, but it really is the same electricity coming to your house.
I think that there is no subsitute for conservation.
The Cool WA County campaign is pressuring the Board of Commissioners in Washington County, Oregon to pass the US Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration, and commit to fighting global warming. Please sign the on-line petition to the Board.
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a feature-length documentary, will be screened October 10, 2007 at 7:00 pm at the First Unitarian Church at SW 12th and Main to be followed by a dialogue with the filmmakers.
There is a $5 to $10 sliding scale; no one will be turned away for lack of funds
Author Edith Mirante and local nonprofit Green Empowerment invite all to a free and open to the public event reporting back about recent events on the Burma/Thailand border this Thursday, 11 October, 2007 at 7:00PM
Announcement: the next meeting for CSS will be Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 7pm at the Lucky Lab, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR 97214.
New class to be taught on alternative social interactions and money.
It's time. The recent drop of interest rates is the tip of an economic avalanche. Peak oil is either here or on the way. Ecological devastation is all around us. The Demopublicans are ignoring reality like never before. We must now replant, refertilize and and rebuild our lost communities.
Through this report, Grassroots International and Food and Water Watch seek to share the message that food sovereignty will not only benefit small producers all over the world, but will also give environmentalists and consumers what the "free trade" agenda has failed to deliver.
A first meeting of groups from the South was held in Ecuador-0 latitude
27th June-1st July 2007, to discuss agrofuels and the challenge of "development" in a post petroleum society. This position statement embodies the essence of our discussions, to open the debate from the Global South:
NEW YORK - Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming.
Learn to make wild-fermented honey wine with just honey and water!
Taste several varieties and flavors of honey wines!
Information regarding the upcoming symposium, "Situating Environmental Crisis", to be held at Lewis & Clark College October 2-4.
LINK 2007 is a permaculture, peak oil, healthcare
design and multicultural community symposium, a conference, that offers experienced instructors and workshops from all over the world. http://www.blueskylink.org
Local currency just got a major boost in the Columbia Gorge as River HOURS are endorsed by Hood River Downtown Business Association.
The Living Awareness Institute is hosting it's second annual Fall Camp October 7-13th in Southern Oregon. The intention is to explore what inner sources and resources are needed to live authentically, ecologically, sustainably, and non-violently. Workshops offered include Theater Of the Oppressed, Living Awareness, Growing into Sustainability, ZEGG-style Forum, and much more.
I feel like I'm seeing more free piles in PDX than I used to. You know, the boxes or piles of stuff that people set in the green strip next to the street where people will hopefully take it. Often there's a sign that says "FREE", but not always. I seem to be seeing increasing recognition that this area of a residence is "the free zone" generally, and there's no need for a sign.
Author David Blume presents his workshop "Alcohol Can Be A Gas". Listen to the audio for information.
Volunteers needed for 'Growing Gardens' Home Garden Installation days.
A Story From Cascadia
The Cool Washington County campaign seeks to make Washington County, OR a part of the solution to global warming. The goal of the campaign is to get the WA County Board of Commissioners to pass the US Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration. Chairman Tom Brian, however, refuses to respond to emails from the campaign.
Events are being held around the Eastside:
Tonight from 5 to 9:30 there's a street fair in downtown Kirkland. Sept 13: Low Impact Development in Puget Sound. Attorney General Rob McKenna keynotes. Sept. 14-15: Green homebuilding and sustainable landscaping; organic wine and beer tasting; business reception. Sept. 18: Materials for sustainable design. Sept. 20: Cascadia Day, featuring showings of "An Inconvenient Truth." Calculate your carbon footprint. Sept. 27: Clean technology skills; jobs and housing and real estate decisions.
Join us September 16th as we raise awareness for the Coalition for a Livable Future's (CLF) work to enhance the quality of life for future generations of Portlanders. And what better way to do it than by bicycle?
What if Portland had it own money? Come to the community meeting on Sun 9/23 from 7-9pm at People's Food Coop and learn about local currency design and implementation.
An amazing story about alternative community rising up out of the ashes of the collapsing corporate state. And, it's located right here in Cascadia!
Please join us for this lively event that will provide fun for the entire family. Happenings will include live music by Alia Farah, The Josh Cole Band, Alexa Wiley and Ponderosa! Plus kids activities, a harvest exchange table, enticing auction items, a pie baking contest,and more!
Author David Blume is coming to Portland and Eugene to share the secrets of alcohol fuel... if you think you already know about ethanol, then you need to attend this workshop!
Join us for a gathering of women and men to build alliances, share skills, and eat raspberries on the farm...
Portland software industry leader
The four stages of arguments put forth by the enablers and/or perpetrators of ecological destruction.
Please come out & join us for Vegan Vacation 2007! Events will be happening daily through the weekend, including Monday night. For more info, please see the PDX Indymedia calendar or our website:
http://www.veganvacation.net
Is there a good local Shelter in need of womens clothes?
Our Footprint in a Changing Climate
Oceana's Ranger, Films Illegal Fishing, then finds them selves surrounded by angry fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea. A "MayDay" call for help is put out by the Oceana Ranger
Links to groups and technologies supporting economic Progress - economic Justice for all
Until publicly financed campaigns can protect citizens from unfair concentrated wealth, independent candidates for office must raise money to make their case. This Saturday, from 7:30 pm on, Lehrman for Senate will holds its first fundraiser at Elisabeth Sherif's house in Santa Fe. Directions are below. The title of our discussion will be Anatomy of the New World Order and What to Do About It. I will discuss my own political history and the motivations for my candidacy. Finally, on solutions, I will present a new national idea, ... Decentralized, bioregional, sovereign autonomous zones with the freedom to create their own currencies based on renewable energy, organic food, municipal water and public utilities will underwrite the birth of a society organized in the best interests of each community. As Senator I will work to break the Federal Reserve's monopoly on credit, oppose international globalization, devolve sovereign powers to local government and support renewable energy and organic food as the basis of new currencies designed for human life, rather than for slave-driving pyramid builders.
The West Coast Convergence for Climate Action is just three weeks away! - And we NEED YOUR HELP!!!
The site is beautiful, the workshop presenters are awesome, the food will be tasty and healthy, and now we need your help pulling together this monumental event for climate and energy justice. Here are four things you can do in preparation for the event. 1.Take a job from our Help Wanted list 2.Get ready for direct action by attending one of the action training events (info below) 3.REGISTER! - We need an estimate of how many people we will be feeding. To register please visit: http://www.climateconvergence.org/west/rsvp.php
4.Come to a set-up work party day August 4 - meet in Portland at 11 AM (call 541-521-1832)
A federal judge has recommended that the Bush administration's decision to remove endangered species protections for Oregon Coast coho salmon be declared illegal. The court recommended that coho's legal "threatened" status be reviewed and a new listing decision be finalized within 60 days. Restoration of ESA listing would prohibit actions that harm the species and require the government to prepare recovery plans.
This August 8-14 hundreds of social justice and environmental activists from around the west coast of North America will be convening near the mouth of the Columbia River for 6 days of low impact living and high impact action against the fossil fuel industry - the West Coast Convergence for Climate Action.
Come enjoy food and films, and find out how your participation can make this event one that will create lasting change locally to continue doing our part in the ongoing global struggle to promote sustainable lifestyles for a healthier planet
A short report on the free screening of 'A Crude Awakening' The Oil Crash by the Washington County Peak Oil Group.
This August, we are calling for a confluence of people from across the region, a regional "Convergence for Climate Action." Part networking and activist skills training, part community sustainability demonstration site, the convergence also aims to take collective action to stop the fossil fuel industry's regional expansion in its tracks.
If your interested in helping with the pre-convergence planning festivities there are 2 great opportunities to plug in. 1) On July 15th there will be a movie showing and discussion about the Climate Convergence at Liberty Hall @ 7pm. Liberty Hall-311 N Ivy 2) On July 22nd there is a Direct Action Tactics Training ALL DAY at Laurelhurst Park HOPE TO SEE YA THERE!!!
Environmental protests are becoming more frequent & strident in China, despite state media blackouts. The country has, according to World Bank research, 16 of the 20 worst polluted cities IN THE WORLD....Even the Chinese gov't admits to major Chinese urban/rural industrial water pollution accidents every 2-3 days. In a damning cover up the Chinese government has used its involvement in a World Bank report on the environment to conceal that around 750,000 people in China die prematurely each year due to pollution....A further 300,000 people thought to be killed by exposure to poor air indoors...another 60,000 deaths to poor water quality, largely in countryside leading to severe diarrhoea & stomach, liver & bladder cancers [thus, in all, with solvable air & water pollution, well over a million Chinese killed by their one-party state's international corporatist developmental model annually]...."The World Bank was told that it could not publish this information. It was too sensitive and could cause social unrest," one adviser to the study told the Financial Times....."We don't need GDP. We need life." Not a slogan from the anti-G8 protests in Germany this week, though it might have been. The words appear in the closing titles of an online video manifesto [below] from China--part Lao Tzu, part Naomi Klein--that may mark an unlikely shift in attitudes among the country's youth,....Remember that the Green Party came out of terrible industrial pollution of Germany; given that China is hundreds of times worse, expect China's Green values starting to be a hundred times stronger.... Chinese "networked protesters...spread news of upcoming protests by SMS, Twitter updates & online bulletin boards" in attempts to get around their one-party state's 'Great Firewall of China', a totalitarian firewall courtesy of equally totalitarian Bill Gates & Microsoft.
This August 8-14 hundreds of social justice and environmental activists from around the west coast of North America will be convening near the mouth of the Columbia River for 6 days of low impact living and high impact action against the fossil fuel industry - the West Coast Convergence for Climate Action. PLUG-IN celebration / meeting / film showing PRE-CONVERGENCE DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
What are the true environmental benefits of the "green" house movement?
I thought others might be curious to view (or to add to) the assemblage of options/resources for material sustainability to move away from current degradative frameworks--NOW.
WHEN: MONDAY JUNE 25th @ 8pm
WHERE: Red & Black Cafe, 2138 SE Division St. (503)231-3899 WHAT: Monday night movie showing presents: RECLAIM POWER voices from the Camp for Climate Action 2006 In the summer of 2006, the 5th hottest year ever recorded in recent history, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. & 28 SECONDS: The Killing of Fouad Kaady For 18 months, the police and the corporate media have claimed that the killing of Fouad Kaady was justified. They said he was on drugs. They said they feared for their lives. They said he threatened to kill them. They said officers "never violated policies or procedures." We beg to differ.
Last story.
El presidente venezolano se encuentra en La Habana en una visita de trabajo y se reunió con su homólogo cubano durante seis horas en un ambiente de hermandad y solidaridad, donde reafirmaron las amplias y crecientes relaciones entre ambos países y pueblos...
Uhh the interview with the former NSA agent and economist who wrote the book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" on Democracy Now was very good today. It was in depth, well documented, and the questions weren't the chucklehead shit you get everywhere else.
I read yet another letter from a distraught taxpayer to the editor in the Oregonian about how mass transit in general and rail in particular a waste and we need more lanes on the sunset hwy. I always find myself defending public transit, particularly rail, to these folks. Tri-Met makes this harder every day.
Desertphile offers some commentary on living out in the hot expanses of the Mojave Desert.
Nothing to wait for: can be started immediately, anywhere, any watershed--for human health, ecological security, and economic sustainability all rolled into one. You are only waiting on yourself.
happy poetry day!
OIL SLAVES OF THE WORLD, REVOLT. Forget Peak Oil and Forget Veg Oil. Forget "Hybrids", that last overpriced clientelistic gasp of the dying oil industry. Go Water Engine. Go Air Car Engine. A dozen videos for you to break through the corporate media Berlin Wall technological denial about it. The rest of the world moves on, in technological innovation, as the U.S. oil majors keep you trapped in their technology. --- Tremendous power, clean and without emissions except water vapor (for water engine, hundreds of time more kick than petrol) and zero emissions at all without even water vapor for the air car (easily rechargeable, with compressed air--instead of with oil's wasteful low efficiency explosions moving pistons; explosions and thermodynamics are unrequired to move pistons) --- New clean energy sources are here. Many say that all the peoples of the world, particularly in the industrialized nations, need to scale back their energy consumption, ending their hopes for a brighter future. However, the limitations are entirely a false social control trap, a sign of being brainwashed by media lies. What if there were an ultimate solution of infinitely clean source that almost no one had previously expected, water? Or just using compressed air? Information on patents and reality of such technologies--and how one non-oil car is about to explode out of repression: the AIR CAR GOES INTO MASS PRODUCTION (via a Guy Negre's French corporation MDI (Motor Development International) allied with the Indian car manufacturer, Tata Motors. Air Car mass production started up February 2007.)
This morning, I went out to work in my garden. It's a beautiful, sunny morning, with the sun glinting on leaves and bees quietly moving between the flowers. Ahhh. I expected a tranquil, peaceful communion with the singing birds, the gentle breeze, and the buzzing of insects. That is, after all, one of the reasons why I live in a place where I can have a garden.
PGE & Corrupt Green Mountain Energy
I miss the naturalist rangers who would scream at Tourists at Tioga Pass, get off of the meadows, do not walk on the meadows! Stay on the right path!
On Saturday May 19, five member and volunteers affiliated with Kansas Mutual Aid, a Lawrence based class struggle anarchist collective, made the trek back to Greensburg to again help in relief efforts in the tornado ravaged city.
Great film. Bring somebody who needs to see it. All $$$ goes to Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary. Thanks.
Oak savanna is one of the most severely threatened ecosystems in the United States, and Corvallis, Oregon, is planning a development project that would obliterate 40 acres of it. The project would, at the same time, contribute to urban sprawl that results in long-distance commuting adds to global warming.
Biofuel, under a capitalist calculation, can be very dangerous. Let's not jump on the biofuel bandwagon until we understand what's at stake--food.
!Raccoon Radio! is a Weekly Northwest Audio Zine featuring culture, politics, music and more. This weeks issue contains a talk by Malik Rahim, co-founder of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans. This issue also contains music by Olympia Artist Carolyn.
Public Hearing on Pacific Ethanol Facility
May 9, 2007 at 7:30 pm Port of Morrow 2 Marine Drive Boardman, Oregon
A new song.
I wanted to thank everyone who came along for the journey of creating this year's Earth Day: Planting Seeds of Community at Woodlawn Park. Despite the rain and cold, many people came out to experience a lovely celebration and will be talking about it for years.
Please join us for a wrap up meeting about how the Earth Day event was organized this year at Woodlawn Park (send us your feedback if you cannot attend). We will also talk about ideas about planning for the 2008 Earth Day Celebration. Mon, May 7 6:00 pm Woodlawn Community Resource Center (west end of the Woodlawn Church located at Dekum and 15 Ave) We will have food to share, so please bring a plate, utensils and anything you might want to share with everyone. Please RSVP if you plan to come!
Ordinary people can make political change that affects global warming. Action does not always have to come from the federal, or even state, level; local actions, too, can curb carbon emissions. Here's how you can tell Salem, one of the largest cities in Oregon without a clearly defined global warming action plan, that we need solutions from mayors and city councilors:
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