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Environmental NGO’s have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they’re generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the Iraqi oilfields.

There’s a coup underway in the environmental movement. But the golpistas (coup-makers) aren’t exactly the usual suspects. They’re not the consumer product manufacturers who co-opt our messaging and re-package the same old junk with green labels. The culprits are members of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). War profiteers are charging, guns-drawn, into the green tech sector and eyebrows should be raised. This is a hold-up!

The new gospel of “greening” the armed forces is drawing public money that makes domestic infrastructure handouts look like pennies in a fountain. “Green Jobs” means something else entirely to these folks.

Continue reading ‘Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry on the Offensive’

Friday, DC Students for a Democratic Society and DC Rising Tide led a direct action parade against the Fossil Hawks. The War on Terror and the Corporate War on the Earth are one in the same. The same corporations that lead the world in CO2 pollution are the main lobbying force behind the Resource Terror Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Palestine. The Fossil Hawks are growing ever wealthier off the war while military recruiters feast on 50% youth unemployment like vultures.

“Young people are turning up the pressure because we are not convinced by Obama’s promises to draw back from war and support a clean energy-driven economic recovery,” says Brian Menifee, Howard University student activist.

video from dc.indymedia.org

Stay tuned for more footage from the parade, including our Green Jobs Not War action at the Armed Forces Recruiting Center.

From the press release…

Continue reading ‘Funk the Warming Takes DC Fossil Hawks by Storm’

Wednesday, January 6

Nothing says “Happy new year” like kilotons of TNT blasting down your horizon and burying your streams, and a deposit of millions of cubic yards of hazardous waste into already devastated valleys. That’s Pres. Obama and the EPA’s new years greeting card to the folks in Lincoln, West Virginia.

Nothing says “you betrayed us” like a rowdy gang of anti-mountaintop removal activists at EPA HQ in DC during the morning rush, holding giant red letters spelling out “SHAME” and chanting down the EPA staff’s resolve to keep appeasing the coal barons. (Actually, there are much better ways to say it, but we had a night to plan and the underfunded, volunteer-driven anti-MTR movement does what we can with what we’ve got.)

The bad news didn’t reach most of us at DC Rising Tide (DCRT) until last night’s meeting. On Tuesday, Patriot Coal got the EPA go-ahead to start blasting through 3 miles of mountain streams in Lincoln, WV. The Hobet 45 mine, named for the Patriot subsidiary in charge, is the first major Appalachian MTR coal mining permit to be loosed from the 79 suspended for EPA review last year. DCRT wasn’t about to let it go unnoticed.

Continue reading ‘EPA’s New MTR Permit, New Year’s Shame’

The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “Angry Mermaid Awards“.

We at the DC Climate Action Factory teamed up with a delegation of irate Danish anthrofishies and hit the frozen streets of K and I: global corporate lobby ground zero. It’s from here that climate criminals and climate profiteers waged their war to infiltrate and cripple the climate legislation that so many saw as the lynchpin for progress towards a real deal at the COP. Naturally, this place is home to the Angry Mermaid Award winners.

Continue reading ‘Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award in DC’