CLICK THE HEADLINE BELOW to read the SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED post from Sept 25 2021, which now includes many new resources: Yes! Nature has legal rights! See this info about the growing movement asserting that rivers, forests, wildlife, etc. have legal rights!
When the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s governorship lost his re-election to a Trump extremists, mainstream media said — as they typically do in such cases — that the Democratic Party needs to become much more conservative. That is a WRONG conclusion to draw from this. The Democratic incumbent was a “CORPORATE” Democrat who was already conservative. His conservative track record as incumbent governor gave no inspiration for people to turn out. Democrats must EARN THE VOTES by promising AND DELIVERING BOLDLY on bold issues. Election results are SYMPTOMS of what is happening — or not happening — at the […]
Here is a list of many coming events and opportunities on a wide variety of in October 2021. I created the attached document today. It informs you about many events and opportunities on a wide variety of issues that are coming up in the next few weeks. Many are online, so people EVERYWHERE can participate. The attached document includes live links to connect you with more information about these events and opportunities. CALENDAR — October 8 2021 and beyond
Here is a list of many coming events and opportunities on a wide variety of issues — starting in early October 2021. I created the attached document today. It informs you about many events and opportunities on a wide variety of issues that are coming up in the next few weeks. Many are online, so people EVERYWHERE can participate. The attached document includes live links to connect you with more information about these events and opportunities. CALENDAR — Early October 2021 and beyond
Decades ago people were vigorously promoting nuclear power as if it were a nearly miraculous source of energy that was promised to be so cheap that utilities would simply give it away. Supporters actually said it would be “too cheap to meter.” Instead, it turned out to be THE MOST HORRIBLY EXPENSIVE source of energy with HORRIBLE INEFFICIENCIES and HORRIBLE DANGERS and much corruption. Recently some of Ohio’s top politicians were charged in criminal cases about their corruption. Capitalist-owned utilities bribed powerful state-level politicians to do things to help their nuclear power businesses. See 4 articles here: — Gigantic criminal […]
The October 2021 episode of “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” provides fresh information and insights into some controversies that have confused and misled many Americans about many matters, including our human rights and how our government functions. In a free society, people need to get along with each other – including people whose beliefs differ from each other – and we must protect fairness for all people. This includes the relationships between religious beliefs and governments. During this interview an expert clarifies what religious freedom IS and what it is NOT. We clear up confusion about the centuries-old American principle of “the […]
Most of our anti-nuclear organizing efforts rely upon hard facts (often scary, alarming facts). But other methods (art, music, etc.) can reach people in deeper, more personal ways that hard facts can’t. We do not use humor often enough. It has great potential to cut through what is entrenched and open people up to see things in totally fresh ways. We need such freshness in order to escape the deadening oppression that the nuclear arms race has imposed upon society. Let’s consider how we might use humor to reach out to the public, the media, and politicians, and the military-industrial […]
On September 25, 2021, I posted some information about this. Below this info from my original posting, I provide much more information. Very often, legal cases are dismissed because of lack of “standing.” The “standing” concept is a legal matter about whether someone has actually been harmed by the abuse they want to challenge in court. If the plaintiff has not been personally harmed, the case is thrown out. Now in recent years a growing legal movement has been affirming the rights of Nature, so that rivers, forests, wildlife, etc., should be recognized as having “standing” and can sue to […]
The Republican Party used to be positioned at the somewhat conservative end of the mainstream political spectrum. It tended to support business interests while the Democratic Party supported the working class. Both parties wanted government to function. But in recent years — especially with Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party and Trump — the Republican Party has been AGGRESSIVELY DESTROYING the parts of the government that actually helped people and the environment, while AGGRESSIVELY MAKING EVERYTHING WORSE through corruption, cronyism, racism, sexism, and various kinds of oppression and brutality. The Republican Party now actually OPPOSES DEMOCRACY and supported the […]
In the 1950s when I was growing up, I remember at home we had a SOLAR and WIND clothes dryer. It used no fossil fuels and no electricity. Dad built it in the 1940s. Mom operated it for decades. It was called a “clothesline.” Every home’s back yard had one. It was an upright metal pole with a smaller horizontal metal crossbar at the top. 30 to 40 feet away was another one with the same design. Stretched between them were four long metal wires that constituted the clothesline. People would wash clothes, sheets, towels, etc., in the house and […]
Richard Glossip is an innocent man on Oklahoma’s death row inmate. We need to prove his innocence before he is executed. Richard’s legal team has been hard at work uncovering new evidence that casts serious doubt on his conviction. Richard’s execution date could be scheduled any day now. To save Richard, we need your help again. Will you join the 8,000+ people who have signed our new petition urging Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and the state Pardon and Parole Board to call for an independent investigation into the new evidence in Richard Glossip’s case? Executing Richard Glossip in the face […]
The September 2021 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” provides fresh information and insights into some aspects of the climate crisis that most people do not adequately understand. Our expert guest, Jim Walsh, explained some problems and some scams that the fossil fuel companies want to fool us into accepting. Before we ended our interview, Jim proposed some real solutions. For decades the big businesses that sell oil, natural gas and coal have been denying that they were causing the climate crisis. The scientific proof is so overwhelming that they can’t be “climate deniers” any longer, so recently the fossil fuel […]
This FREE ONLINE course has four 2-hour class sessions with fascinating, fresh information about the history and current realities of nuclear weapons. Four well informed persons developed and present this course and include discussions among participants. People who have taken this course many times in the past have learned a lot and felt empowered to work to abolish nuclear weapons. The four presenters (from the Olympia WA Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) are offering it again in OCTOBER 2021. You may choose either TUESDAYS or SATURDAYS. THIS DOCUMENT provides information about the course – and how you can sign […]
These three resources can greatly increase our effectiveness when talking about the climate — including how to reach conservatives: We can move conservatives to support the climate if we use the right kinds of wording and messaging: We can move conservatives to support the climate if we use the right kinds of wording and messaging. Banging away on the facts won’t change the minds of people who refuse to support smart climate actions. For the climate – just as for other issues – we need to “frame” the issue and use the kinds of wording and messaging that […]
For many years I have appreciated — and used the methodology of — Marshall Rosenberg’s “Nonviolent Communication” as a way to resolve conflicts and move forward. You can learn more by reading his book titled Nonviolent Communication and by searching the web for that title and for his name. Also see some of his helpful YouTube videos. Years ago he came to Olympia twice, and I went to hear him each time. Here is a useful quotation from him: “Three factors in why some of us respond violently and some of us compassionately in similar situations: The language we have […]
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