From Todd Tucker @ Eyes on Trade: Progressive life in the U.S. can be rough. The two main political parties and many environmental and non-profit groups in the U.S. are not really structured to facilitate mass participation, university “activism” has turned towards the depoliticized navel gazing of much of “cultural studies”, blogs are cool but limited and not immune from collective action problems plaguing other platforms for action, and the union movement has been generally on the decline for decades. How’s a young person to tune in, turn on, and drop (metaphorical) bombz on the system? Continue Reading >>
Archive for February 28th, 2008
February28
The youth are getting restless
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold Big Oil accountable Wednesday when it passed H.R. 5351, the “Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008,” which repeals nearly $18 billion in oil company subsidies over the next decade and dedicates the money to renewable energy and energy efficiency investments. Now the Senate must follow suit to help bring Americans relief at the pump and lay the groundwork for the type of clean energy investments we need to combat climate change.
