#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/energy-environment/mountain-of-petroleum-coke-from-oil-sands-rises-in-detroit.html?pagewanted=all Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River. Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom. And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it. The company is controlled by Charles and David Koch, wealthy industrialists who back a number of conservative and libertarian causes including activist…http://www.twitpic.com/cs28rs
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands http://priceofoil.org/2013/01/17/petroleum-coke-the-coal-hiding-in-the-tar-sands/ Oil Change International January 2013 Download a PDF of the report See coverage of the report in the news The Canadian tar sands have been called the “most environmentally destructive project on earth”, with good reason. Extracting tar sands bitumen from under the boreal forests of Alberta, Canada requires huge amounts of energy and water. It has cleared vast tracts of forest, left scars on the land that are visible from space and threatened the health and livelihoods of indigenous First Nations communities across the region. It is a well established fact that full exploitation of the tar sands is a grave threat t…http://www.twitpic.com/cs29qd
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Attack on NLRB Worst Since the 1930s http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Attack-on-NLRB-Worst-Since-the-1930s Wilma Liebman who served 14 years on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—including chairwoman from 2009–2011—says, “Appointments to the NLRB have been a political battleground for decades.” But, in a column today in Politico, she says the current attack on the NLRB is the most vicious since the board was created in the 1930s. The turmoil of the past few years has been exceptional. The NLRB, a product of the New Deal, has become a lightning rod for accelerating political controversy not seen since its early days. It became entangled in the bitter partisan fights of the 2012 election season with the attacks on government and…http://www.twitpic.com/cs2alw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt http://www.propublica.org/article/on-victory-drive-soldiers-defeated-by-debt Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation's military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent. The Military Lending Act sought to protect service members and their families from predatory loans. But in practice, the law has defined the types of covered loans so narrowly that it's been all too easy for lenders to circumvent it. “We have to revisit this,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who chairs the defense appropriations subcommittee and is the Senate's se…http://www.twitpic.com/cqu85e
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Climate milestone is a moment of symbolic significance on road of idiocy http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-milestone-climate-change?CMP=twt_gu The only way forward is back: to retrace our steps and seek to return atmospheric concentrations to around 350ppm The data go back 800,000 years: that's the age of the oldest fossil air bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic. And throughout that time there has been nothing like this. At no point in the preindustrial record have concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air risen above 300 parts per million (ppm). 400ppm is a figure that belongs to a different era. The difference between 399ppm and 400ppm is small, in terms of its impacts on the world's living s…http://www.twitpic.com/cqf76e
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Police Beat Man to Death With Batons, Confiscate Witness Video http://www.alternet.org/police-beat-man-death-batons-confiscate-witness-video David Sal Silva was reportedly seen and recorded being beaten to death by California police. Following the death of father of four, David Sal Silva last week, his family’s attorneys are calling for police to release bystander video evidence that reportedly shows California Highway Patrol officers brutally beating the 33-year-old. A video from a surveillance camera (which does not show the scene close up) has been released and shows the man repeatedly struck with a baton. Local press have also reported on details from a 911 call made, in which witness Sulina Quair, 34, said “There is a man laying on the …http://www.twitpic.com/cqemai
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty OCCUPYING COOPER UNION TO KEEP IT FREE http://www.vice.com/read/occupying-cooper-union-to-keep-it-free The windows of Cooper Union's historic Foundation Building in Manhattan's East Village are awash with calls to “keep it free” in large lettering, espousing the virtues of gratis learning. Inside, about 50 students and university faculty are occupying the office of the school's president. They've been at it since yesterday morning, when a scrum of teachers and students dissatisfied with a decision by the school's Board of Trustees to begin charging tuition… RELATED: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/cooper-union-presidents-office-occupy-tuition_n_3239403.htmlhttp://www.twitpic.com/cq7sbx
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Secrets and Lies of the Bailout http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104 The federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed 0 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great D…http://www.twitpic.com/cpgscw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Central volunteer charged over July 1 protest http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1233160/occupy-central-volunteer-charged-over-july-1-protest Trainee solicitor helping organise the movement is arrested nearly two years on from the incident A volunteer at the office of the Occupy Central movement was arrested yesterday for her part in the July 1 demonstrations of 2011, prompting questions as to why it took police nearly two years to act. Melody Chan Yuk-fung, a trainee solicitor, wrote on her Facebook page yesterday that, “I have just been arrested for the 2011 [July 1] demonstration. Now heading to Central Police Station”. A police spokesman said Chan, 26, was charged with one count of assisting the holding of an unauthorised assembly and taking part inhttp://www.twitpic.com/cp93gm
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEOS] Occupy the Pipeline: Fracking Threat Comes to NYC http://www.thenation.com/blog/174193/occupy-pipeline-fracking-threat-comes-nyc# A massive new pipeline that will carry hydrofracked gas is being constructed in New York City. The pipeline, built by subsidiaries of Spectra Energy, will carry the gas from the Marcellus Shale, a bed that lies under Pennsylvania and New York State, into New York City’s gas infrastructure. Naturally, the construction of such a pipeline, carrying controversial highly pressurized gas, has been met with resistance. In the spring of 2012, Occupy the Pipeline emerged, raising health and safety concerns about the pipeline. For starters, the group states the Marcellus shale has seventy times the average radioacti…http://www.twitpic.com/cp9d41