IT’S YOUR MOVIE
This site was built in 2012, with two links added in 2013.
President asserts and exercises prerogative to kill U.S. citizens without judicial process
Climate change “largely
irreversible”
Bush’s policies on war and civil liberties now mainstream and expanded
Bill of Rights in de facto
suspension in USA
United States at war in
six countries in 2011
US is at war in 4 African countries with grand military expansion throughout Africa
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The political philosopher, Hannah Arendt said, "The German bureaucracy could have brought Hitler down in a few weeks in 1933. All they had to do was stay home from work." Would you go on strike to bring action to slow climate change?
Will you help organize a 350 action in your town?
How can we restore the Bill of Rights and the rule of law?
Would you travel to Washington or Ottawa or elsewhere to take part in a nonviolent demonstration?
Or would you do so in your community?
This spellbinding film is a work of passionate militancy and rare beauty. A rush of breathtaking images wash you through the nightmare ---or is it the insanity?--- that has been inflicted on America and the world.
“Responding to climate change requires that we break every rule in the free-market playbook and that we do so with great urgency. We will need to rebuild the public sphere, reverse privatizations, relocalize large parts of economies, scale back overconsumption, bring back long-term planning, heavily regulate and tax corporations, maybe even nationalize some of them, cut military spending and recognize our debts to the global South.
“Of course, none of this has a hope in hell of happening unless it is accompanied by a massive, broad-based effort to radically reduce the influence that corporations have over the political process. That means, at a minimum, publicly funded elections and stripping corporations of their status as ’people’ under the law. In short, climate change supercharges the pre-existing case for virtually every progressive demand on the books, binding them into a coherent agenda based on a clear scientific imperative.”
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WHAT’S HAPPENING
“This is the Alberta Tar Sands complex. It’s the biggest, dirtiest, most ecologically destructive oil extraction operation on Earth. It has turned hundreds of square miles of northern Alberta into a raped and stinking tar pit. It siphons billions of gallons of pure Athabasca River water and turns it to toxic sludge. It feeds a 50-square-mile poisonous, carcinogenic lake, in which nothing can live. It’s a hideous, filthy moonscape of industrial junk and garbage, in a pristine wilderness. It is the single most gargantuan source of climate changing CO2 in North America.”
The caveats voiced about Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine, by the same filmmakers, apply here too.
There is gratuitous, off-putting attitude ——for example, “Our phony democracy is a sick joke”—— which weakens their case, but they have the big picture.
James Hansen
The Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, sums up the science of climate change, and tells why he commits civil disobedience to stop it.
The Alberta Tar Sands
The beauty of Alberta’s wilderness and the grim reality of what is happening to it. The photigrapher is Garth Lenz.
Meet the king of the climate-change deniers. For the in-depth story, and a summary of climate and climate justice by Naomi Klein, click here.
Student organizers in Quebec discuss how more than 150 thousand students were mobilized not only to oppose tuition increases but to oppose government cuts across the board and to strike to preserve public services. The strike succeeded, as the key demands were met and the government of Quebec was brought down.
A key factor was that many student unions are run by direct democracy, in which the highest governing body is a general assembly.
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The chart above is from Michael Tobis (and Stephen Ban) via Joe Romm. Romm says, “It is probably time to update that chart, since our inaction has shifted ‘most informed opinion’ to overlap almost exactly with ‘Considered Unreasonable: Not reported.’”
By “informed opinion,” Tobis means “something like ‘people with Ph.D.’s who have spent more than 6 months full time equivalent on the subject.’”
Joe Romm's article, headed by this chart, considers the shift in tone in the writings of climate scientists recently, as they have come to recognize the enormity of the changes in store for the Earth and its inhabitants, and it deals with the fear thus aroused. It reviews journalist Bill Blakemore's amazing piece on how climate scientists and others can deal with and actually utilize their fear:
‘Hug the Monster’ for Realistic Hope
in Global Warming
(or How to Transform Your Fearful Inner Climate)
“We have nothing to fear… but fear itself!” — FDR’s most famous words. Soon after he was elected president in the midst of the Great Depression, he delivered them before the newsreel cameras with an intentionally determined and jaunty self-confidence.
Refreshing words in these times when demagogues whip up fear as a means of controlling people. Click below right for more.
Hug the Monster
It’s Your Future
WHAT’S HAPPENING (2012)
QUOTE FROM 2012
“It’s one thing to have a good number of really off-the-wall people denying the science and running around debunking the climate issue, but to have the whole Republican convention go up in peals of laughter at the idea that somebody would want to do something about it, as a priority, was really chilling.”
Gus Speth, author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy
QUOTE FROM 1988
“In a sane society, the melting of Antarctica would be in the headlines every day.”
Peter Furst
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