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Hell, No! Social Security Contributes Nothing To Deficit
Let's get real here. Social Security contributes nothing to the deficit. It should not be offered on the table in exchange for paltry tax revenues that the GOP will eventually agree to when they ask...
View ArticleBill Black: “Wall Street Uses the Third Way to Lead its Assault on Social...
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Hell No! to Chained CPI: Defending the People’s Pension
Last month the independent financial and political journalist and activist, Eric Laursen, spoke at the Tucson Book Festival about his work, The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security...
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Hell No! We are not finished.
5 days39 diaries2 guest cross posts30 talented writers3 organizers We came together as a coalition.Past differences? Didn't matter. Disagreement on other policies? Didn't matter. Who you backed in...
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Kos Katalogue: Doing it wrong?
I've been terribly busy over the past few days, which has forced me to try to put this together in somewhat of a hurry...but I agreed to do it, so here it is.I have viewed most of the previous entries...
View ArticleCoveting thy neighbors earrings(from the Kos Katalogue)
I guess it could be considered a sin but I think of it more as a manifestation. By longing for something that I want I’m putting out the energy to create space and finances for whatever I’m coveting -...
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Kos Katalogue: To Your Health!
I've worked in health care all my life, and I've always had a soft spot in my heart for non-toxic and natural cleaning products. I've also got a soft spot in my heart for sister teams, so the Sassy...
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Hummingbirds - Hopeful Voices in Our Midst
For the past many years, the struggle to find meaningful solutions to urgent environmental problems has been between rational forces of light on the one hand aligned against, on the other side, the...
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Butterfly Woman: A Blogathon for Food Justice—Anti-EBT Bigotry
California Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card EBT cards (the acronym for "Electronic Benefit Transfer") are the way people enrolled in one or more government assistance programs, like SNAP...
View ArticleButterfly Woman: Food Justice in Indian Country, Even Unto the Seventh...
This is the fourth year in a row that I've participated in the Daily Kos blogathon to fight hunger in America. It's also the fourth year in a row that I've focused my efforts specifically on the...
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Kos Katalogue: Living in Beautiful, Green Harmony with Nature
More goats!If you are keeping up with the Kos Katalogue blogathon then you know how special and unique the community is here at Daily Kos. Thanks to the kindness of strangers, yet virtual friends, the...
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Please Help. The Deadline is March 7, 11:59 PM to Submit Your Comments.
As many of you know, we are holding a blogathon this week on Daily Kos to solicit comments from you in opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline. Why is it necessary for you to participate in it? I'll quote...
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KeystoneXL: The answer is clear: NOT in U.S. National Interest
Despite $100s of millions spent to obfuscate the issue, the reality of the Keystone XL pipeline is that it is NOT in the U.S. national interest.Keystone XL will:Increase climate risksWorsen...
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SB 1132 Blogathon — Letters, Comments, Talking Points, Environmental Wisdom,...
A Climate Message From Stuart Chapman, of Bolinas, CaliforniaA Few Words Of IntroductionHello, I'm Warren Senders, known in these parts as WarrenS. Thank you for visiting my diary. I hope you'll find...
View ArticleLivestreaming The People's Climate March (With Updates)
@climatebrad is set up and livestreaming the events at 42nd St and 11th Ave in front of the Green Nature Coffee House to interview marchers as they go by. You can view the livestream video...
View ArticleATTN: Nuz Hounds ~ Friends of Animal Nuz & ericlewis0
Did you recently accept an invitation to the new group Nuz Hounds?If so, please check your DKosmail for a message from Angie in WA State regarding the upcoming Animal Nuz blogathon!If you are wondering...
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ATTN: Nuz Hounds - Upcoming Blogathon Information & Schedule!!!
Nuz Hounds and would like to be Nuz Hounds:We will be running our Blogathon for Animal Nuz fromJune 6 to June 13.Anyone who wants to use a template will have one available, in a variety of formats, no...
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ATTN: Nuz Hounds - Upcoming Blogathon Information & Schedule / Round Two
Nuz Hounds:This is ROUND TWO of Scheduling for the Blogathon. If you asked to Join the Nuz Hounds Group, and missed the last diary, please respond in the comments and pick your shift!We will be running...
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Nuz Hounds Blogathon Fundraiser: A Love Story
Nuz Hounds - Friends of Animal Nuz Presents the 1st Annual Animal Nuz Blogathon Fundraiser All Donations are Welcome!What is the Fundraiser for? Eric Lewis (ericlewis0) has been publishing Animal Nuz...
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KosAbility Next Sunday: Don't Miss Parkinson's and Pesticides!
Wilderness Voice is the Diarist for September's meeting, the topic being Parkinson's and Pesticides. Wilderness Voice offers some interesting points to ponder, including, "Early symptoms are often...
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A Lake For Lin - Photo Fundraiser for Patriot Daily
Wings warmed by the rising sun, yearning for the air roads. We are that warmth, that lift towards flight for our own Patriot Daily, our Lin.As many of you know, Lin is fighting for her life, and we are...
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SciCli Blogathon Schedule: What's your sign?
I don’t mean your marching sign (although links for protest signs are included below). I mean the signs you’ve noticed in everyday life telling you climate change is real, validating what scientists...
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We Rise! A Global Embrace of the Earth - March for Science and People's...
Tomorrow is Earth Day. Since peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco in 1960, Earth Day has evolved into a week...
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SciCli Blogathon: "I can't believe we're marching for facts" Edition...
Yup, this is, in fact (or is it a fact? who knows anymore), the year 2017 we find ourselves in, and thanks to the extraordinary verbal manure spreading machine posing as president that is America’s...
View ArticleAs of today we've got a number to march for: 100% Renewable Energy...
I don’t spend much time in DC. Like everyone else in the movement I’ve been at work around the country, fighting frack wells and pipelines, coal ports and LNG terminals. Because the fossil fuel...
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SciCli Blogathon: Why Is a Not-Environmentally-Knowledgeable Person Writing...
Environmental issues have never been my number one political issue, not because I think they’re unimportant, but because my interests simply don’t run in that direction. And yet I signed on to write a...
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Classic Poetry Group Eco Art: "Out, Out, Brief candle!"
'Wrecked is the ship of pearl'… -Holmes“I will do such things, / What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be / The terrors of the Earth.”-King...
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Climate Emergency News Roundup: (& Blogathon for climate strikes)
"96% of registered Democrats list climate change as very important"" CNN poll conducted by research firm SSRS shows that Google96% of registered Democrats list climate change as a very or somewhat...
View ArticleJULIANA v. UNITED STATES Youth Climate Lawsuit (And Blogathon ends, with hope):
"On March 24 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set a hearing date for June 4, 2019 to hear oral arguments in Portland, Oregon, on the interlocutory appeal and the preliminary injunction"On March 1,...
View Article"Heat-trapping gases broke records Climate Crisis report finds"&...
"Last year said to be fourth-warmest since 1800s and sea levels the highest on record"Climate changeHeat-trapping gases broke records in 2018, climate crisis report findsReport finds 2018 was the...
View ArticleGreenRevolution Direct Action: Action Items & Blogathon for climate strikes
ACTION ITEM FROM BESAME:WE’RE GOING AFTER THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE GOING AFTER OUR NATIONAL PARKS. WHY? BECAUSE THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MANDATE DOESN’T ALLOW PARK EMPLOYEES TO ENGAGE IN A POLITICAL...
View ArticleExtreme Silence of the Media
Our media has failed us, self-censoring themselves into incompetence by knuckling under to the propaganda pushed by Big Oil and political allies that there has ever been a “debate” about the science of...
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"Why have 500m bees died in Brazil in the past three months?" (+ Blogathon...
"The likely culprit of the sudden deaths? The loosening of pesticide restrictions"Why have 500m bees died in Brazil in the past three months?www.theguardian.com/…"honeybees in only three months. The...
View Article"Majority of Americans in Quinnipiac Poll say Climate Change is an Emergency"...
"Majority of Americans in Quinnipiac Poll say climate change is an emergency""Majority of Americans in Quinnipiac Poll say climate change is an emergency: But there is a vast partisan difference. While...
View ArticleBlogathon on DK, for the Climate: September 20-27 (CLIMATE STRIKES: Sept. 20...
Coming:Blogathon on DK, for the ClimateSeptember 20-27(CLIMATE STRIKES: Sept. 20 and 27)Joinwww.dailykos.com/...Global Climate Strike → Sep. 20–27Join the climate strikes this September. Join young...
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"How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously?" (+...
"How many more people have to die before political leaders treat climate change like the global catastrophe it is?"European heatwave Google ImagesHow much destruction is needed for us to take climate...
View ArticleSeptember 20-27: The World Climate Strikes
Coming:Blogathon on DK, for the ClimateSeptember 20-27(CLIMATE STRIKES: Sept. 20 and 27)Joinwww.dailykos.com/…xxYouTube Video
View Article"Climate change: World 'gravely' unprepared for effects of climate crisis-...
"This lack of preparedness will result in poverty, water shortages and levels of migration soaring, with an “irrefutable toll on human life” the report warns"Climate changeWorld 'gravely' unprepared...
View ArticleSchool climate strikes: Amnesty International supports student climate...
Unions give backing to 20 September day of action while NGO asks head teachers to back global protestswww.theguardian.com/...Amnesty International joined the call, asking head teachers around the world...
View Article"Sanders to attend latest climate forum while Biden and Warren pass" -Guardian
"Organizers said most candidates who declined cited scheduling conflicts"Sanders to attend latest climate forum while Biden and Warren passKamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar to also miss...
View Article"If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oil" -Bill McKibben
If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oilBill McKibbenThe climate crisis isn’t the only reason to kick fossil fuels – the prospect of a war to protect Saudi crude reminds us of...
View ArticleGreenRevolution: A Direct Action Environmental Protest Group on DK
The future is NOW:xxYouTube Video"The planet is now rapidly moving towards an uninhabitable future... that future is NOW.""Our leaders are not taking this crisis seriously, or taking action,and are...
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The greatest orgy in the world, with its blizzard of the particles of life,...
Disruption is not a good thing for the web of life. It often leads to extinction.One of the Earths most spectacular events occurs just once a year, though the timing varies depending on the reef...
View Article"Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever"-Guardian
The day of protest precedes the United Nations summit on how to rein in the worst effects of climate change.Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest everYoung and old alike took to the...
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Climate Strike Blogathon: We Must Accelerate EV Adoption NOW.
This diary is an outreach from EV Revolution and my #RbPi series, joining the Climate Strike Blogathon led by the indomitable Angmar and OccupyStephanie.It is often said — and I’ve heard it again from...
View ArticleSave the Planet. Save Ourselves. Let's Bullhorn Progress and The Green New Deal.
I am struck daily by the lack of vision and imagination by the status quo when it comes to solving the immediate problem of global heating. The country holds the technology to seriously ramp down...
View Article"World’s Ice And Oceans Under Dire Threat, Shocking UN Report Warns"
World’s Ice And Oceans Under Dire Threat, Shocking UN Report WarnsHundreds of millions of people in coastal areas would be threatened if climate change continues unabated, the UN’s climate body...
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Dementia and The Mother Of Us All
Good morning. Welcome to an extended analogy.Her number rings and rings and rings and rings. I call the switchboard, punch my way through the circuitry, get to the main desk in her ward, ask someone...
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D’var Torah: Happy New Year, and a Happy Birthday to the Earth
בָּרוּךְאַתָּהאֲדֹנָיאֱלֹהֵינוּמֶלֶךְהָעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּוְקִיְּמָנוּוְהִגִּיעָנוּלַזְּמָןהַזֶּהBlessed are You, Great Jah, Ruler of the Universe who has granted us life and sustained us and enabled...
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CPG/Freewriters EcoArt show 1: 'The blood-dimmed tide is loosed'...
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.FROMThe Second Coming BY WILLIAM...
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