Bill McKibben, Don’t be Fooled by Obama’s Keystone Cop-out

Posted on November 12, 2011 by iwilder

Now is the time to Turn Up the Heat on getting Obama to permanently end the Keystone XL pipeline. We need to force Obama to reject the pipeline NOW! Let’s not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! We are winning, but we haven’t won on the issue. Obama doesn’t want to make this decision […]

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Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended

Posted on August 6, 2011 by iwilder

IW:  Another example of the Obama administration persecuting whistleblowers. Tim DeChristopher. Bradly Manning. Some question why Monnett, employed by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, has been suspended at this moment. The Obama administration has been accused of hounding the scientist so it can open up the fragile region to drilling […]

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Peter Yarrow as apologist on Tim DeChristopher trial

Posted on July 29, 2011 by iwilder

Peter Yarrow’s article about Tim DeChristopher gets a lot right, and a lot wrong.   Yarrow rightly pins the blame squarely on President Bush for wrongly scheduling auctions to sell off mineral rights for protected land Then Yarrow veers off track, both factually and morally.  His misdirection is based on his inability to  pin the […]

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Tim DeChristopher’s Court Speech: ‘This Is What Patriotism Looks Like’ (via Food Freedom)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by iwilder

April 2012 Update: Tim DeChristopher was put in isolation, and now seems to be let out of isolation. Story at The L Magazine: here. _____________________________ Tim DeChristopher, whose act of civil disobedience stopped the illegal auction of oil and gas leases on thousands of acres of public land, was sentenced yesterday to two years in […]

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