Speaking at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School on Thursday February 5th, Charlie was snowing the crowd under with his intellectual firepower. An admiring Globe scribe remarked on Baker's … [Read more...]
Join Dr. James Hansen on Boston Common TODAY 350pm
Alright everybody, are you ready to take climate change action to the next level? Tonight and tomorrow is destined to be the biggest and most exciting sleep-out yet. Here's why: Dr. James Hansen, lead climate scientist at NASA will … [Read more...]
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand-basket?
Across the state, and every Sunday on the Boston Common, students and faith leaders are sleeping out – refusing to sleep in their homes and dorms powered by dirty electricity - until there is a policy in place to change it. For two … [Read more...]
Ringing the Bells About Global Warming, October 24th
If you can't join us in Medfield find out what "350" events are happening in your area, or elsewhere, at: www.350.org or here: massclimateaction.net/take-action/2009-350-org-events.html … [Read more...]
Quick hits
OK, two more:Jon Cohn's 10 Things Worth Fighting For in health care. Among them: Subsidize people farther up the income ladder (up to 400% of poverty level); Open up the exchanges (like our Connector) to anyone;Yes, public option... … [Read more...]
YEAAAAAAH SENATOR KERRY!
This is a leadoff home run for the Senate ... for what will doubtless be a grueling, discouraging game on climate change. The Senate bill, authored by Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and … [Read more...]
Quick hits/stupid questions/vague phumphering
Every once in a while, I Twitter -- particularly if my thought is not profound enough to expand upon. Recent tweet:"Aren't the deathers actually complaining that health care reform won't be *sufficiently bleeding-heart … [Read more...]
Chu, Markey @ Kennedy School today
Chu says matter of factly, "we need a new industrial revolution." He calls Waxman-Markey a "comprehensive bill", a decent start, so "let's get moving." The transition to clean fuels and a green economy … [Read more...]
Quick hits: Yup, still doomed.
Krugman today -- hair on fire, like any sane person's ought to be. Tired boiled frog metaphor, which if anything undersells where we are right now:Put it this way: if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the … [Read more...]
Shifting Gears, Building a Movement: Biking through Massachusetts to bring it to the grassroots
One phrase from one of my political science professors sticks with me, "politics is the art of the possible." And indeed, that's what we've seen through the Waxman-Markey process. Good organizing, on the other hand, is the art … [Read more...]
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