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He told neat stories, recounted the history of the fight for wilderness, pointed out the current threats, and told us : to spend a lot of time out in wilderness, gave us reasons to protect wilderness, told us to write letters to the editor and to read books by Bob Marshall, Olaus Murie, Sigurd Olson, and John Muir. Here is link that talks about a man who organized the grassroots to protect wild places and also by the way help society. https://wildernesswatch.org/1964-wilderness-act/brandymoveson Often organisations focus on the grassroots for awhile, but them go back to lobbying in Washington DC. This is a constant fight between the ones who Dream Big and the ones who worry about not making waves. Dave Brower left the Sierra Club to found Friends of the Earth, then left it to found Earth Island. Greenpeace often has local canvasers and protesters.   https://wildernesswatch.org/

George Wuerthner, Wilderness Watch's Advocate-Organizer

https://marchfortheocean.org/ For a list of other marchs around the country go to https://tgi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=2df9a3a7052a4c3db8d167f834822677   https://inlandoceancoalition.org/getinvolved/events/colorado-march-for-the-ocean

In Colorado, Join us for the Colorado March for the Ocean (M4O) and wear BLUE! Across the nation, we'll March for the Ocean to stop oil drilling, spilling, plastic and other pollution, and to protect our coasts from sea to shining sea.

Here is a poem by Kristen Marshall. She is an active volunteer in the Boulder Rights of Nature group. Link Every Thursday she used to visit a sick friend, and make him pancakes. She often walks to get places. She would volunteer for the community bookstore. http://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/words/still-life/

A sea turtle island nesting site in Australia now has 99% of its young green turtles turning female. The sex is determined by the heat of the nesting beach, so hotter seas, air, and sand lead to dramatic changes in the ratio of females to males. We need to keep trees along beaches to shade them, and we need to fight against the oil and coal companies that are causing global warming. We make a turtle design on totebags, so you can replace plastic shopping bags that choke turtles and birds. Here is a link to the turtle totebag and t-shirts.   https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/australia-green-sea-turtles-turning-female-climate-change-raine-island-sex-temperature   https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/science/female-sea-turtles-global-warming.html

Grassroots activists are taking over city councils and are opposing the taxpayer funded boondoggles that benefit the 1 %. For example , the Seattle city council refused to buy a new basketball arena for the Supersonics, and they even demanded that their previous loans for the earlier basketball arena be repaid. Local activists are opposing growth subsidized by the 99% to benefit the 1 %. Some giant office buildings and expensive chain stores being stopped in favor of supporting the local community with its local relationships. H e also spoke about how some large banks and financial institutions have been pushing "payday loans" on developing countries. For example Puerto Rico was given a $ 100 million with no principal or interest due for 47 years. But the interest and principal accumulate for 47 years and then $1 billion is due. So the banks actually accumulate about 5 % per year in more money being owed to them. Some big banks were dong this kind of thing with Greece and other countries, where they get the current politicians to sign up for huge debt that is not due until after the politicians have left office. On 5-17-18 at 8:35 am KGNU's "A Public Affair" hosted Juan Gonzalez's talk.

A Public Affair, Thursday, 5/17/2018

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