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Got Tar Sands? Similar to the got milk ads about our health, communities across the country are questioning why oil refineries are asking for permits to expand their refinery. The answer: to milk dry the most toxic oil reserve in the world, the tar sands. Located in Canadian Boreal forest, the tar sands contain some [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, January 24 2008
While automakers plan to offer more buyouts, permanently close more plants and continue to drag their feet to mass produce cleaner more fuel efficient vehicles, our labor solidarity allies (Bob Mabbitt and Melodee Hagenson) from Public Development in Flint, Michigan took our concerns to the street by creating a Freedom From Oil video highlighting the [...]
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On the same day as my birthday—December 19th—America received some disheartening news that the Environmental Protection Agency denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. The emissions standards California proposed in 2004 — but never approved by the federal government — would have forced [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, October 29 2007
Under the haze of smoke from forest fires in southern California on the day of No War No Warming, Freedom From Oil Campaign, Global Exchange, Plug In America, Interfaith Power & Light and RAN supporters rallied at Toyota Santa Monica to tell Toyota to drop out the Pavely lawsuit and to be a leader in [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, September 26 2007
Not since the mid-1970s, roughly a decade before Toyota Motor Corp. opened its first U.S. assembly plant has the union ordered a national strike against one of Detroit’s automakers. Thirty seven years later, the United Auto Workers are still raising the same concern against the automakers: Job security. In one swift act on 11 a.m. [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, September 3 2007
The all-important 2007 auto talks heated up significantly over Labor Day Weekend. Thousands of rank-and-file workers and unions are struggling as much as trying to celebrate during Detroit’s Big Three automakers intense competition over the summer to be picked as the lead company to negotiate a pattern-setting agreement with the United Auto Workers. With the [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, May 17 2007
On Thursday, May 11th, Ford Motor Company held its annual shareholder meeting presided over by Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. and CEO Alan Mulally. Leading up to the meeting, Ford’s top executives revealed their compensation packages, while Ford Motor Co. deals with $12.7 billion in losses in 2006, the largest loss in its 103-year history, [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, October 4 2006
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, representatives from oil-impacted communities in Nigeria and Micronesia met with Ford officials to ask the company to sign a pledge to help end America’s oil addiction by building vastly more fuel-efficient vehicles. The community leaders were shocked that not only would they not sign the pledge but that Ford has no plans to [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, August 31 2006
One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast, New Orleans still lies in ruins with rebuilding efforts moving at a snail’s pace that serves a few while leaving out most. The question is who is getting left out and why? This is my second time in the city and I immediately hit the ground [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, June 22 2006
At the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, I decided to go to New Orleans, Louisiana to the Eco Justice for All conference to understand the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina and to learn more about faith based initiatives on climate change. I arrived to the “Good ole’ South” with all the images of last year’s [...]
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By Nile, April 21 2008
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