Monday, November 21, 2016

NEEDED: New ACTIVISM! New GLOBAL WARMING DIRECTION!

Global warming is already having significant and costly effects on our communities, our health, and our climate.

"Unless we take immediate action to reduce global warming emissions, these impacts will continue to intensify, grow ever more costly and damaging, and increasingly affect the entire planet — including you, your community, and your family." From the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read more...
Since the election, it has become clear that the Trump Administration will be guided by the denial policies on global warming and the illiberal value policies that were espoused during the campaign.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Trump promised to “cancel” the Paris deal on the campaign trail, and Republican lawmakers have vowed to make sure it’s never implemented.

GLOBAL WARMING WILL CONTINUE 
TO INCREASE OVER MANY HUMAN LIFETIMES! 


Therefore, with regard to global warming, I will begin to pay attention to how communities can pursue rational adaptation planning for a future of continuous warming and climate change







TAXES SPENT ON INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT IGNORE WARMING ARE MONIES WASTED AND FAIL TO BETTER PROTECT COMMUNITIES FROM WARMING DRIVEN HARM.


At the same time - we MUST continue to be actively involved, resisting what is inherently WRONG, remembering that this new, incoming administration's ideologies and intentions are NOT GOOD, NOT NORMAL!

Only an ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM 
CAN EXERT ENOUGH PRESSURE TO BREAK: 
(1)THE MEDIA SILENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING &
(2)THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL 
TO PROTECT HUMANITY FROM GREATER HARM.

Furthermore, only an ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM, by members of the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO REJECTED THE VALUES AND POLICIES OF THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION, CAN BLUNT THE VIRULENT ASSAULT UPON FUNDAMENTAL, WELL-ESTABLISHED AMERICAN VALUES  AND PROGRESS THAT THE IN-COMING ADMINISTRATION IS DETERMINED TO PURSUE.  

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP OR GIVE IN! 
WE WILL NOT GO ALONG SILENTLY 
OR MEEKLY WITH WHAT IS WRONG. 
WRONG IS NOT NORMAL. 
THE "RIGHT" IS WRONG!

Friday, November 11, 2016

Entirely NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISIM NEEDED!

CRISIS ISSUE:
GLOBAL WARMING IS INCREASING!

           
WHAT CAN WE DO?
ONLY AN ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM 
CAN EXERT ENOUGH PRESSURE TO:
  1. BREAK THE MEDIA SILENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND 
  2. BREAK THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL TO PROTECT HUMANITY FROM HARM


With the stunningly unexpected victory of a Trump Administration that regards global warming as a hoax, WE CANNOT EXPECT NATIONAL POLICY TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING – (UNLESS CATASTROPHIC CLIMATIC EVENTS BREAK THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES’ CONTROL OF REPUBLICAN POLICY). 

We can, however, try to breach the denial of science BY A VERY BROAD BASED AND HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF ACTIVISM TO MAKE THE PASSAGE OF ESSENTIAL LEGISLATION POSSIBLE.


Knowing the positions and priorities of the in-coming Presidential Administration and Congressional majorities, PROACTIVE organizing to break the media silence on and Republican Party denial of global warming must begin NOW.

Further, we must build an activist movement that cuts across specific organizational priority issues. Since we are all vulnerable to the increasing harm of global warming, single issue politics (like gun control, LGBT rights, Black Lives Matter, etc.) must come together in coalitions that draw upon uniquely broad based activism.

More than half of the electorate voted for Hillary Clinton and sensible global warming policy. A very large majority of Americans acknowledges global warming as real. WE ARE ALL ACTIVISTS. If we can FLOOD the local media, our local House members and our Senators – in person, with email, with calls, with letters, we can make our views much more difficult to deny and, hopefully, promote the essential global warming legislation. 

CLIMATE CHANGE. Democratic Senator from Oregon Jeff Merkley (L) corrects a sign that reads 'Congress Wake Up to Climate Change', beside Democratic Senator from Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse (C) and Democratic Senator from California and Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Barbara Boxer (R), at a news conference held to announce members of a newly formed Senate Climate Action Task Force, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA, 14 January 2014. File Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA



Monday, November 7, 2016

VOTE BLUE - WE MUST WIN!

We are down to the wire in the MOST 
FATEFUL ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION!


FATEFUL because TOO RAPIDLY INCREASING GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS HUMANITY!


(Trump wants to dismantle the Paris Climate Agreement. GOP denies global warming is real.)

Pro-Trump billionaires pour money into last-minute bid for swing states

Not surprisingly, the consequence of the legally indefensible Supreme Court Citizens United decision, is the UNTHINKABLY VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY paying for the superabundance of the Republican attacks ads in the Presidential swing states and, even more so, in the Senatorial swing states which have made the races much closer than anyone anticipated six months ago.





Remember in November 
just how much the American people have been lied to by Trump! 
Do NOT FORGET THIS.






We have one day left to try to convince others - via Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, texting, door-to-door - 
2 VOTE 4 THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES!
  1. Vote. 
  2. Encourage OTHERS 2 VOTE!
  3. HELP OTHERS GET TO THE POLLS to cast their votes (in spite of the obstacles that the Republican state parties have created to disenfranchise significantly many Democratic voters). 
  4. Convince others to vote rather than sit out the election. 
  5. Convince others to not throw away a vote on a third party candidate. This is no time for a protest vote. 
  6. VOTE BLUE because the real interests that the Republican candidates represent are the very rich and the powerful multinational corporations.



VOTE BLUE FOR THE SAKE OUR CHILDREN...
 

...AND FOR THE WELL-BEING OF ALL AMERICANS!
#FlipItDem

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Be an ACTIVIST: HELP GET THE (BLUE) VOTE OUT!




We've been underestimating sea level rise this whole time, say scientists from Science Alert (Nov. 2, 2016)

Our chance at slowing global warming so that humanity
can adapt the warming world with the least death and destruction is NOW.


The primary importance of the 2016 election is for the U.S. to be able to pass appropriate, effective warming gas emissions reductions as rapidly as possible. The annual average CO2 level is now above 400ppm and increasing – a level not seen since approximately 3 million years ago when sea level was about 80 feet higher. 

In the remaining days before the election, we can still volunteer to help in the effort to get out the BLUE vote: 
  1. Go to campaign websites OR websites like Rock the Vote. Rock the Vote shows how you can help! 
  2. You can volunteer to help nonpartisan groups to protect voting rights – groups like the Election Protection Coalition
  3. Make your plan to vote and talk to friends and family to encourage them to do likewisepost your plans and ask others to respond
  4. Text or call relatives in swing states and districts and do the same
  5. Talk across the aisle, difficult as it is this election.




The Trump candidacy and those still endorsing Trump: 
  • deny the need to address global warming
  • stand for an America which values the kinds of discrimination and nativism etc. that existed before our civil war  
  • share an attraction to a proto-fascist leader/society  

BEFORE THE FLOOD Trailer (2016) Leonardo DiCaprio

A Democratic Presidential and Senatorial victory are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL –
JUST AS IS A HOUSE THAT WILL FINALLY 
PASS THE LAST HOPE GLOBAL WARMING LEGISLATION.


These people are going to vote.

Are YOU?

This is the ELECTION OF and FOR YOUR LIFE!

VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!