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This morning, we were lucky enough to go on a flyover of mountaintop removal (MTR) sites. The good folks at Southwings Aviation offer these trips as a way to help publicize to the outside world what’s really happening in Appalachia, and our pilot/tour guide Tom was a fountain of knowledge about the issue. Branden got [...]
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So I made it to Appalachia, but as you probably saw, the tree-sit was already over. We spent the evening hanging out with a bunch of activists and community members, hearing stories about their exploits over the past few days. It was a truly impressive operation! While two tree-sitters sat in jail waiting for bail [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, August 31 2009
As organizing director at RAN, I’ve worked to support our campaign to break our addiction to fossil fuels, stop financing for the coal industry and put an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Now I’m going to see it first-hand. I’ve read a lot about how devastating mountaintop removal mining is for communities in Appalachia. [...]
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Yesterday, a colleague asked me if I had one of those t-shirts with the little fish ganging up on the big fish. That inspired me to dig it out of my drawer and wear it today. Putting on the t-shirt reminded me of when I bought it – 20 years ago this summer, during my [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, July 22 2009
I just got home from the Animal Rights 2009 conference in Los Angeles, where I had the pleasure of meeting with activists from across the country involved in a broad a variety of important issues. At RAN’s table, we had a display that many activists found disturbing – linking the palm oil in vegan butter-substitute [...]
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I just wrapped up a great weekend of activism and training in Boulder! Students for Peace & Justice invited me out to participate in their Procession for the Future weekend of workshops and speakers and, of course, the procession itself with amazing giant puppets that the Backbone Campaign is taking on tour around the country. [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, January 27 2009
As a part of its awareness campaign against the pollution of the Ganges River, RAN WEST BENGAL organized a meeting on January 17. The Ganges River, which the Indian government recently declared the National River of India, has become a soup of pollution. It is a beautiful river. It is just really mucked up. The [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, January 21 2009
True lasting change is going to take more than new ideas in Washington. The challenges we face will not be solved by a single action. Rather, it’s going to take each and every one of us coming together again and again to sustain the hope and courage that we feel today. The world is celebrating [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, October 16 2008
There they go again, smearing community organizers. The way McCain was talking about Obama’s connection to ACORN – and the way Obama was running away from that connection – would have you convinced that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was some kind of criminal syndicate working to subvert democracy. Oh my! In [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, October 7 2008
Climate crisis, housing crisis, financial crisis… more and more people are connecting the dots. I just returned from a rally in Harvard Square that put all of the pieces together in a powerful way. More than 150 people came together on a sunny fall day to protest the banks that are financing coal power, foreclosing [...]
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By Debra, September 1 2009
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