Talk and News Highlights
Boehner using false jobs numbers to push for Keystone XL, says activist
Danny Berchenko of 350.org Ohio said Speaker of the House, John Boehner is touting false numbers as part of his conflict-of-interest, due to his investments in big oil companies, and due to the $1 million the Republican Congressman has taken from the fossil fuel industry during his time in office.
“He’s claiming 20,000 jobs will be created. Those numbers are from a biased study by the company that will build the pipeline if the permit is approved.”
Berchenko said independent analyses show that building Keystone XL would create, at most, 5,000 temporary jobs and only 50 permanent jobs
Cheryl Johncox said calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing is not being a perfectionist about the environment at the expense of society’s need for sources of energy. She said she and fellow activists with Buckeye Forest Council simply want better regulations.
“I can’t believe they can put a pit with radioactive fluid a hundred feet from my house and not even have to fence it in.”
Johncox said that as of 2010, Ohio no longer requires companies engaged in fracking to keep radioactivity logs. She said fracking fluids from Marcellus shale and Utica shale contain radioactive particles at a thousand times the recommended limit. part 1 and part 2
Co-founder Keith McHenry talks about Food Not Bombs as a tool for building a mass movement
Former analyst for the CIA and US Army, Ray McGovern said the occupation movement will defeat militarism and corporate rule. He spoke w/ WCRS during Stop The Machine, an event at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. which coincided with the Occupy protests in our nation's capital.
"It’s going to take time and persistence. We might not be able to do it this month or this year, but we will do it. You can count on that."
"You've convinced me... Now go out and make me do it." The story of Franklin D. Roosevelt saying that to activists in the 1930s is apocryphal, but Ellen Baumgartner is holding on to the "make-me-do-it" method for getting Obama to deliver at least some of the change he promised during his campaign in '08. A couple of weeks after being jailed for civil disobedience in front of the White House during protests against the Keystone XL tars sands pipeline, Baumgartner said she supports Obama's
reelection
Kimberly Jackson Morris & Jamira Jamison were near the Fort Hayes High School during President Obama's visit to Columbus on Sept 13. Morris suggested ways for the mostly White middle-class environmental movement to engage with Black and low-income communities.
Hear a similar conversation about movement building with Rev. Kujenga Eliyah Ashe
During his visit to Columbus to help defeat SB-5 and HB-194 Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan said fracking (if done right) is a way to combat Global Warming
Demonstrators gathered along Cleveland Avenue on Sept 13 in view of Obama's motorcade as it passed on its way to Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School where the president highlighted his jobs plan. We hear from Andrew Sidesinger and Danny Berchenko
When she left Florida several months ago, Sue Carter promised the immigrant farm workers she had been tutoring there that she would help the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) with their campaign to get Kroger to pay 1 cent more per lb of produce.
Carter and other activists with the recently formed group Ohio Fair Food say if Kroger agrees to pay that extra 1 cent, it would improve the lives of the workers at the bottom of the food supply chain many of us take for granted
The Hot Times Festival is in its 35th year. Bob Fitrakis and Connie Gadell-Newton talk with coordinator Candy Watkins.
Fight Back!
People from greater Columbus and from communities
around Ohio and other states such as Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois participated in the Stand Up For Ohio festival Saturday, Aug 20.
Days before the event, Bob Fitrakis and Connie Gadell Newton talked w/ Kris Harsh, one of the organizers, about its significance on Fight Back!, and Tom Over talks with participants during the festival
(Photo by Gabe Condo)
( Photo by Gabe Condo)
Danny Berchenko of 350.org Ohio said Speaker of the House, John Boehner is touting false numbers as part of his conflict-of-interest, due to his investments in big oil companies, and due to the $1 million the Republican Congressman has taken from the fossil fuel industry during his time in office.
“He’s claiming 20,000 jobs will be created. Those numbers are from a biased study by the company that will build the pipeline if the permit is approved.”
Berchenko said independent analyses show that building Keystone XL would create, at most, 5,000 temporary jobs and only 50 permanent jobs
Concerned Ohioans call for moratorium on fracking
Cheryl Johncox said calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing is not being a perfectionist about the environment at the expense of society’s need for sources of energy. She said she and fellow activists with Buckeye Forest Council simply want better regulations.
“I can’t believe they can put a pit with radioactive fluid a hundred feet from my house and not even have to fence it in.”
Johncox said that as of 2010, Ohio no longer requires companies engaged in fracking to keep radioactivity logs. She said fracking fluids from Marcellus shale and Utica shale contain radioactive particles at a thousand times the recommended limit. part 1 and part 2
Co-founder Keith McHenry talks about Food Not Bombs as a tool for building a mass movement
Former analyst for the CIA and US Army, Ray McGovern said the occupation movement will defeat militarism and corporate rule. He spoke w/ WCRS during Stop The Machine, an event at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. which coincided with the Occupy protests in our nation's capital.
"It’s going to take time and persistence. We might not be able to do it this month or this year, but we will do it. You can count on that."
"You've convinced me... Now go out and make me do it." The story of Franklin D. Roosevelt saying that to activists in the 1930s is apocryphal, but Ellen Baumgartner is holding on to the "make-me-do-it" method for getting Obama to deliver at least some of the change he promised during his campaign in '08. A couple of weeks after being jailed for civil disobedience in front of the White House during protests against the Keystone XL tars sands pipeline, Baumgartner said she supports Obama's
reelection
Kimberly Jackson Morris & Jamira Jamison were near the Fort Hayes High School during President Obama's visit to Columbus on Sept 13. Morris suggested ways for the mostly White middle-class environmental movement to engage with Black and low-income communities.
Hear a similar conversation about movement building with Rev. Kujenga Eliyah Ashe
During his visit to Columbus to help defeat SB-5 and HB-194 Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan said fracking (if done right) is a way to combat Global Warming
Demonstrators gathered along Cleveland Avenue on Sept 13 in view of Obama's motorcade as it passed on its way to Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School where the president highlighted his jobs plan. We hear from Andrew Sidesinger and Danny Berchenko
When she left Florida several months ago, Sue Carter promised the immigrant farm workers she had been tutoring there that she would help the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) with their campaign to get Kroger to pay 1 cent more per lb of produce.
Carter and other activists with the recently formed group Ohio Fair Food say if Kroger agrees to pay that extra 1 cent, it would improve the lives of the workers at the bottom of the food supply chain many of us take for granted
The Hot Times Festival is in its 35th year. Bob Fitrakis and Connie Gadell-Newton talk with coordinator Candy Watkins.
Fight Back!
People from greater Columbus and from communities
around Ohio and other states such as Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois participated in the Stand Up For Ohio festival Saturday, Aug 20.
Days before the event, Bob Fitrakis and Connie Gadell Newton talked w/ Kris Harsh, one of the organizers, about its significance on Fight Back!, and Tom Over talks with participants during the festival
(Photo by Gabe Condo)
( Photo by Gabe Condo)