Comments on: Al Gore should be arrested

By: diva

diva — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:09:18 +0000

I can’t believe it matters about an AWARD, for most you can nominate yourself, hard to believe, but true.

Now back to the issues before they are on Mars, which I am sure the rich are working on.

Sighs……….

There is little “profit” in solar and other fuel sources, Sonny Bono, bless his soul, did put Windmills in for his city in Palm Springs, CAL long before his death. I admire him for that.

The most famous people I know will not be known in this lifetime, so I want to do something.

ECO-Anthropologist…in waiting, doing, all I can.

By: NC Youth Stop Coal Plant Construction: 8 arrested! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:01:07 +0000

[...] that young people needed to get out and chain themselves to bulldozers at construction sites. So Al, when are you going to get arrested? We have to stop all new fossil fuel construction to even have a chance at meeting the needed [...]

By: Coal Blockade in India « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Coal Blockade in India « It’s Getting Hot In Here — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:35:28 +0000

[...] knows, maybe Al Gore should be getting arrested in [...]

By: The Understory » In front of banks instead of bulldozers, but the principle’s the same: coal must be stopped

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:00:41 +0000

[...] may know that Al Gore is reported to be considering RAN’s offer to participate in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal-fired power plants, stop mountain top removal mining, and help [...]

By: Will Al Gore be arrested? | The Everywhere Girl Blog

Will Al Gore be arrested? | The Everywhere Girl Blog — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:34:11 +0000

[...] really becoming a man of the people…he is considering the Rainforest Action Network’s offer to participate in civil disobedience against coal. What could make a bigger statement than Nobel [...]

By: The Understory » Al Gore is considering RAN’s offer to participate in civil disobedience

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:11:19 +0000

[...] The Nation reports that Al Gore may be considering our offer to engage in civil disobedience, specifically on our November 16-17 National Day of Action Against [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:30:25 +0000

yea…he should be arrested for worshiping Molech at Bohemian Grove

That is truly hilarious.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:24:58 +0000

yea…he should be arrested for worshiping Molech at Bohemian Grove

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/020104grovebackground.htm

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:36:00 +0000

I agree with Luke that collective action will take us farther than isolated acts.

I just met a representative of RAN and looked this website up right away. Now I’m asking myself, was I being asked to sign a petition to stop funding to coal, or to arrest Al Gore? I don’t think anybody should go to jail. If collective action is the key, then we should not alientate people or fight amoungst ourselves. If we adopt an “all-or-nothing” attitude it will discourage people from joining our cause as well as distract from it. Has anyone let Al Gore know what they think directly? How are friend and foe to be defined? Honestly, we need all the friends we can get if we’re going for real change.

By: Long time RAN supporter

Long time RAN supporter — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:28:28 +0000

Wow. Considering RAN’s offensive campaign against Al Gore during the 2000 elections, this brings up some bad memories. Thank you RAN for helping put Bush in office–and now reminding us about it again 7 years later. Are you serious? Have you no institutional memory at all? Is there anyone working at RAN who worked there back in 1999 and 2000? After what you guys did in 2000 you should be thankful that Al Gore doesn’t speak out about you guys. You owe him a huge THANK YOU for not bringing up that embarrassment to the entire environmental activist movement. Please, let sleeping dogs lie, and move on to better things.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:25:53 +0000

We’re not sending the guy tons of e-mail or anything; just one petition with a bunch of signatures. And it’s not frivolous, either — we would really like to make it happen for him, if he’s down. It’s definitely an invitation, not a taking-to-task.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:35:05 +0000

I don’t think it’s harassment, it’s a fair challenge and I see it more as an invitation. If Mr. Gore has been quoted in the past lamenting a lack of civil disobedience, then why is it not fair to invite, or challenge him to join it now?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:32:16 +0000

Harrassing one of the very few pollitical public well known fighters for the cause ?? Why ? I don’t understand ?

By: pam

pam — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:21:50 +0000

Ghandi was arrested several times and believed civil disobedience the key to attracting the world’s attention to the problems in India. Maybe RAN feels a celebrity like Gore is needed to get the attention. I just don’t see Britney going to jail for greenhouse gases.

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:52:54 +0000

I think lobbying Gore to get arrested serves the agend of RAN and not Al Gore or those fighting global warming. If RAN folks want to get arrested fine, but don’t expect your loyal suporters to lobby Gore to get arrested because it serves your purposes. He provideds enough publiscity without that kind of protest. The minute he gets arrested his usefulness as a spokesman is over.

This is aobut making RAN look good not about solving the global warming problem.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:09:09 +0000

I didn’t mean to fly off the handle, but this whole angle gets a bit tiresome. As I discussed in an earlier post about Live Earth, things like buying the right lightbulbs and getting carbon offsets are very positive, but they won’t be enough to avert the climate crisis. To make a real difference, we need to organize to demand change from both governments and influential economic actors like Citi and Bank of America. Only through collective action will we be able to make the change that’s required.

The real hypocrite is the one who would criticize every activist and advocate that doesn’t wear a hair shirt and live in a recycled log cabin (while failing to act themselves). It’s just a way of making excuses for your own inaction. Environmental activism isn’t about being greener-than-thou or morally “correct” in lifestyle. It’s about saving ourselves and our planet from destruction.

By: Ron Franscell

Ron Franscell — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:28:18 +0000

Execllent! Perhaps he’ll donate his Nobel Peace Prize cash toward off-setting your carbon footprint (and bail) too!

But don’t count on it.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:11:59 +0000

Thanks for regurgitating Fox News talking points all over our blog. We appreciate it. Did you know that Al pays more than $400 monthly for green power? And that his actions to organize governments and others to address global climate change collectively (rather than as isolated consumers) offset his personal carbon footprint many times over? And that he's advocating a carbon tax that would cost him, personally, a pretty big chunk of change? And since you're one of those people who is, you know, not a hypocrite, I'm glad to hear that you'll be joining me in jail on November 16. And be sure to bring your Nobel Prize.

By: Ron Franscell

Ron Franscell — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:56:04 +0000

I give Al Gore credit for bringing a looming environmental catastrophe to the public’s attention. For a nation populated by lazy, fat, celebrity-obsessed wasters of time, energy and air, it took a familiar face to raise the issue to cocktail conversation. Despite his political petulance and past imprecisions (“I invented the Internet”), I applaud Gore’s leadership on this globally crucial issue.

But the Nobel Peace Prize? Pffft.

While he deserves applause for bringing global warming somewhere nearer the forefront of our American conversation (global warming still doesn’t get as much discussion as Britney Spears), Gore’s a documented hypocrite. He talks the talk, but doesn’t quite walk the walk. A carnivorous, global-jetting, mansion-heating guy isn’t exactly practicing what he preaches.

I won’t waste any more of your bandwidth. I blogged about Gore’s Nobel more fully at Under The News