BlueMTexpat
BlueMTexpat's JournalMontana: Big Sky country at an environmental crossroads
Glad to see this story and hope for more like it. The people united ....
Montana is "potentially a real cork in the carbon bottle," said author and activist Bill McKibben. "And it's a perfect illustration of the emerging, sprawling fossil-fuel resistance. It's necessarily centered in local concerns."
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/2/big-sky-country-atanenvironmentalcrossroads.html
As a Montanan from birth until my 20s and with lots of family and friends there still, I know that people there share more than divides them - much as inside-the Beltway pundits and politicians of both parties aided and abetted by M$M - would like to dismiss all so-called "red" states without ever even trying to understand what can unite good people everywhere.
Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders are two who do try to understand. Fortunately, their number seems to be growing.
Reclaim Democracy! - A Good Source for General Corporate Activism and Information
While researching various issues for a course that I am preparing to teach, I happened upon this aptly-named website and just wanted to share it with like-minded DUers.
There are some excellent and informative articles on a variety of topics that affect us all in ways that we have not even imagined. In many ways, it's a one-stop shop for learning about how we must reassert citizen authority over corporations if we ever want to become a true democracy.
Bookmark and check in from time to time: Reclaim Democracy! http://reclaimdemocracy.org/
A dose of "Margaret and Helen" is a dose of pure sanity,
with humor added. Take some!
http://margaretandhelen.com/2013/10/01/lets-hope-republicans-dont-need-health-insurance-to-recover-from-pulling-their-heads-out-of-their-asses/
An example:
If only these doses were more frequent! Each one is a treasure.
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