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The Green Monster: 8 Acts of Eco Extremism
Yesterday the crying-hippies video resurfaced on the ever-recycling Internet. (Well worth a watch!) Sobbing at the base of a North Carolinian forest, members of radical environmental group Earth First! cried for rocks and trees and pesky weeds that (they insist) are as alive as your typing fingertips.
Front Page: Tree-Sitters Climb Down, Quake Shakes Iran, More Calling Suicide Hotline, US Deficit at $438 Billion
- Tree-Sitters Climb Down: After a 21-month occupation, four remaining tree-sitters in an oak grove on the UC Berkeley campus, climbed down and into police custody. School officials had cut off food and water supplies Monday and were prepared to remove the activists using force. The tree-sitters were trying to stop the construction of a $125 million sports center which threatened 42 trees on campus.
- Quake Shakes Iran: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has hit southern Iran near the site of a large Iranian oil refinery, injuring 22 and killing three.
Part II: Interview With Tom Sheridan, Lobbyist to the Stars
Here's the continuation of our interview with Tom Sheridan, the lobbyist who works with Bono on his ONE campaign to end global poverty. Liberty took in a ONE campaign panel with Ben Affleck, Madeleine Albright, and Tom Daschle at the convention yesterday — more details on that event soon! Here's the continuation of our conversation with Tom:
Who else do you work with?
Meet a Celebrity Lobbyist Committed to Star-Powered Activism
Parked in the intersection of politics and pop culture is the celebrity activist. There all kinds of ways celebrities get involved in causes from serving on boards to inspiring laws on Capitol Hill, and Tom Sheridan knows how to harness that fame and make the issue the real star. A lobbyist based in DC, he represents Bono and his work on the ONE campaign against global poverty.
Caring About Social Security, Not Wasted on the Young
Think you don't have to worry about Social Security until you have one of those license plate thingies that says, "My Other Car Is a Golf Cart?" Not so according to Students For Saving Social Security. They're on a mission to make young people care about retirement, or at least their paychecks.
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"Men's Rights" Groups Say Feminist Society Oppresses Men
We've all heard of women's rights activists, but are you familiar with men's rights activists? MRAs are men who believe that the emancipation of women and the emergence of feminism has led to the oppression of men. (Because, you know, it can't be a win-win proposition!)
Double X provided an extensive exploration of a movement that is trying to appear more mainstream.
Where I'm Clicking Now: act.ivi.st
Need help reforming all your Republican friends? Check out act.ivi.st — a tool for grassroots — which computes the percentage break down of 2004 Kerry and Bush support, and then suggests ways you can further the progressive agenda in your area based on those results.
There is also a database of "plain-talk talking points for dinner table conversations and persuasive messaging."
Gay Activists Ready to Fight DADT and Wait For Prop 8 Repeal
From fighting for the right to serve in the military to pushing for the right to marry their partners, gay Americans face battles for equality on many fronts. It appears that progress is about to be made toward the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, while the fight for marriage equality in California is set to sit on the back burner for some time.
This Fall, the Senate will hold hearings on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Protesting the Weather: Climate Change Activists Storm Capitol
Activists braved the cold and snow yesterday to participate in Capitol Climate Action Day. The day of civil disobedience focused on getting the capitol's power plant to ditch coal for natural gas. Participants cut off access to the plant's entrances and refused to leave when asked.
Front Page: Thousands of Troops Quietly Sent to Afghanistan
- Peace activists are not happy to know that President Obama has quietly sent 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. That's 13,000 more than he said would go in March. — Washington Post
- Governor Schwarzenegger has signed tough antipaparazzi legislation into law in California.
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