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They demonstrate, sing, sue, and train youth to protect the earth.  They have protested against fracking, global warming, and dangerous pesticides.  They sued on behalf of young people and future generations.  They train youth to become activists.  We printed their design onto  the  t-shirts you see them wearing below.  Click for their website.

Posted on April 20, 2015

Proposed nickel-copper-sulfide mines threaten the rivers, Lake Superior, wildlife, and the Chippewa native communities.   Over 1,000 acres of wetlands would be destroyed, and the fish and  wild rice  would be threatened.  Also, oppose a land swap of federal national forest to become state land that would primarily logged and mined for profit without concern for wildlife, fish, forest, or recreation.  Check out Friends of the Boundary Waters to learn more!

Posted on April 16, 2015

Protesters arrested at BP today.  Last night, I saw a great documentary, The Great Invisible, about the oil, shrimp, and oyster workers harmed by BP oil. People are out of work, hungry, and not receiving support from BP.  Yet some neighbors are gathering and distributing food to hungry families.   Such a contrast between the needy Gulf residents and the  powerful oil companies.  I recall Tony Hayward, the BP president, complaining about the spill making him miss a yacht race- what a contrast versus the people out of work, and the fish, turtles, whales and dolphins dead.  The FB movie site has scary updates on the spill.

Posted on April 15, 2015

In camping out, the students remind me of the  cardboard shantytown that students built and lived in 26 years ago to pressure the CU  administrators to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa.  Here is an article on the protest.  We printed the divest  t-shirts for the CU students.  And 26 years ago, Jimmy Walker perched atop the extension ladder that he had roped to the cardboard shantytown, so that if  the cardboard structure were removed, then he would plummet.

Posted on April 15, 2015

Democracy Now shows an article on and interviews with Galeano.  He fled military dictatorships because he didn’t want to be in a jail, "to lay in a cemetery… as death is very boring" .  He wrote of "our possible greatness, our possible beauty" and to remind us of the exploitation that has been done to us. "Torture is not to get information, it is to spread fear. Freedom and Slavery are intimately connected. Wars and invasions and coups are done in the name of democracy  against democracy."  He loved the playfulness of soccer, of language, of people, of stories.

Posted on April 14, 2015