January 16th is Martin Luther King’s Birthday – that means our annual benefit for the homeless! This the 23rd year of celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern. Musicians have donated their time and talent. Life would be different if Dr. King were still alive and an elder statesman […]
On Tuesday, Occupy Wall Streeters in 20 cities across the country marched in neighborhoods that have been hardest hit by foreclosures. In East New York,Brooklyn, about 400 protesters broke into a foreclosed vacant property and moved in a family that was homeless after losing their house to a bank. Read more… As it has been […]
Having banks that are ‘too big to fail’ which are then bailed out by normal people is wrong. The demonstrators called for a “future system that is democratic, just, open, accountable and transparent” and discussed the need for regulators to be “genuinely independent of the industries they regulate”. Campaigners have been camped in the courtyard […]
Stop the Keystone Pipeline. It seems Big Oil will stop at nothing to get its way. Just weeks after President Obama derailed the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the oil giants’ Congressional allies are now planning to hold spending legislation hostage unless this destructive project is approved. In the House, Republican leaders are trying to […]
George Washington National Forest, Chesapeake Bay, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Cape Fear Basin, Snowbird Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Oconee River, Santee River Basin, Georgia Cypress Forests… […]
In just 16 days, the congressional “Super Committee” could announce a proposal with billions of dollars in job-killing cuts—instead of raising taxes on the 1%. Washington doesn’t understand—or doesn’t care—that we’re in a state of economic emergency. The 99% can’t take more of the same from Congress. So we’re organizing a massive day of action […]
How many more coal ash spills need to happen before Americans are properly protected from this toxic waste? Just yesterday a retaining bluff collapsed at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin, sending toxic coal ash spewing into Lake Michigan. Coal ash, the waste product of coal-fired power plants, contains elevated levels of […]
January 16th is Martin Luther King’s Birthday – that means our annual benefit for the homeless! This the 23rd year of celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern. Musicians have donated their time and talent. Life would be different if Dr. King were still alive and an elder statesman among us. This is an attempt to honor his life, and belief in non-violent change in an era that only knows war and indifference. funds raised will go to a new house for the homeless in pittsburgh.
– vincent scotti eirene
During this evening we will have music and poetry, as well as speeches by Dr. King.
Lineup:
1. Bob Ziller
2. Renee Alberts
3. Mike and Laura, from Soft Money
4. Jonnyflower
5. Paul Labrise
6. Ben Hartlage
7. Chris Serra and friends
8. PhatManDee (and Miguel)
9. The Grifters
10. The Stillhouse Pickers
11. The BEATLESs
12. Dylan Rooke
$10 Admission (NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS)
On Tuesday, Occupy Wall Streeters in 20 cities across the country marched in neighborhoods that have been hardest hit by foreclosures. In East New York,Brooklyn, about 400 protesters broke into a foreclosed vacant property and moved in a family that was homeless after losing their house to a bank. Read more…
As it has been since the beginning of the movement, the leaderless structure appears to be working. Crowds come together on cue. Messages go out to the media. Lawsuits are filed. Funds are raised
OCCUPY YOUR HOME
Thousands of Occupy protesters across the US will occupy foreclosed homes today, in what organisers are describing as a “new frontier” for the movement.
Having banks that are ‘too big to fail’ which are then bailed out by normal people is wrong.
Demonstrators have camped outside St Paul's Cathedral since October
The demonstrators called for a “future system that is democratic, just, open, accountable and transparent” and discussed the need for regulators to be “genuinely independent of the industries they regulate”.
It seems Big Oil will stop at nothing to get its way.
Just weeks after President Obama derailed the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the oil giants’ Congressional allies are now planning to hold spending legislation hostage unless this destructive project is approved.
In the House, Republican leaders are trying to force approval of the Keystone XL by attaching it to a bill extending unemployment benefits and the payroll-tax cut — a bill they know President Obama urgently wants to sign.
And they’re not stopping there. They’re looking to load up this fast-moving economic bill with other pro-polluter provisions that would otherwise stand little chance of passing both houses on their own.
Tell your members of Congress to reject these cynical attempts to fast track the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and other anti-environmental measures by attaching them to last-minute spending legislation.
In response to the public outcry you and I helped galvanize, the Obama Administration has already started a new review of the Keystone XL’s true environmental costs.
Any thorough review will unmask the Keystone XL as a boon to Big Oil and a disaster-in-the-making for the rest of us. The pipeline would drive more destruction of the Boreal forest, turbo-charge global warming, threaten water supplies in the heartland, raise gas prices and lock America into the dirtiest oil on the planet for decades to come.
And that’s exactly why the oil giants want this project railroaded through Congress before that review is completed. Please help stop them!
Tell your members of Congress to reject any attempt to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and ram through other pro-polluter riders that would sacrifice our health and environment.
Thank for you taking action at this critical moment.
George Washington National Forest, Chesapeake Bay, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Cape Fear Basin, Snowbird Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Oconee River, Santee River Basin, Georgia Cypress Forests…
In just 16 days, the congressional “Super Committee” could announce a proposal with billions of dollars in job-killing cuts—instead of raising taxes on the 1%.
Washington doesn’t understand—or doesn’t care—that we’re in a state of economic emergency.
The 99% can’t take more of the same from Congress. So we’re organizing a massive day of action on November 17 to draw a line in the sand. We’ll rally at crumbling bridges, understaffed schools, and other sites that show the local symptoms of a failed economy—the very places that can also create millions of new jobs. In all 50 states and in every corner of the country, we’ll demand that Congress stand up for a plan that helps us, not the 1%. The past months have been filled with powerful, creative, and passionate displays of people fighting back against a system rigged against them. But many of our elected officials continue to sit on the sidelines—or worse, to look out only for millionaires and powerful industries. Until we start to see our economy transformed, we’ll keep taking to the streets to amplify our voices.
That’s why we’re working with SEIU, AFL-CIO, Occupy Wall Street, and other groups to organize hundreds of events for our “We Are The 99%” day on November 17. If we organize enough events, tens of thousands of Americans can maximize their voices a week before the Super Committee decision.
“I have great respect for each of you individually, but collectively I’m worried you’re going to fail — fail the country,” former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, a co-chairman of President Obama’s fiscal commission, sternly told the Congressional Super Committee last week. Elite pressure is building on the committee to reach for a “grand bargain” to cut trillions out of the budget deficits over the next 10 years. Last week 100 House members, including 40 Republicans dispatched a letter urging “a big, grand bargain with “all options”–code for tax hikes– “on the table.”
How many more coal ash spills need to happen before Americans are properly protected from this toxic waste?
Just yesterday a retaining bluff collapsed at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin, sending toxic coal ash spewing into Lake Michigan. Coal ash, the waste product of coal-fired power plants, contains elevated levels of arsenic, mercury and lead — and now it’s spilled into the Great Lakes ecosystem! LOOK CLOSELY AT THE TOXIC COAL GOING INTO LAKE MICHIGAN!
Horrific Pics of a Massive Lake Michigan Coal Ash Spill
This is especially infuriating because it’s happened before. When the coal ash disaster happened in 2008 in Tennesse, we saw that, without strong national protections, the job of protecting people from coal ash is left to state regulators who often lack the will and ability to do so — to devastating result.
Our communities need stronger protections from toxic coal ash. This disastrous lesson is being ignored by extreme members of Congress who look to put coal company profits above the health of our communities. Just two weeks ago, the coal industry successfully lobbied the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill stripping the EPA of the authority to protect Americans from coal ash. The Senate must take this opportunity to do better.
