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Action by government on Transition issues with opportunities for advocates to engage the political system for positive change.

Is Greece planning to print energy?

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | April 7, 2015

Over the past couple of months the story keeping many people on the edge of their seats has been the ongoing dilemma of Greece's detested debt burden, its Great Depression-worthy 25% contraction of its economy, and its voluntary or even forced withdrawal from the eurozone – the fabled "Grexit." For about five years now, heavy austerity policies (cutbacks in government … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Politics Tagged With: austerity, Euro, Greece, Grexit

Again, against Big Brother

By Staff Reports | February 10, 2014

Tomorrow, February 11, Transition Voice will join a worldwide Internet protest against online surveillance by the NSA and other U.S. spy agencies. Below we re-post a call-to-action from the group Demand Progress. If you care about protecting freedom on the Internet, we hope you'll take part. -- Ed. Dear Users of the Internet, In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: activism, civil liberties, Internet freedom, NSA, spying, surveillance

Could fracking finally kill off rural America?

By Erik Curren | July 23, 2013

US fracking map

Gasland 2, the sequel to Josh Fox's documentary about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, introduces a frightening image. It's not another money shot of tap water on fire, though the water well hose lit up by the owner of a multimillion dollar home in Parker County, Texas is a wonder. Nor is the most frightening image an internal gas industry memo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Politics Tagged With: Anadarko, Chesapeake Energy, ExxonMobil, Global Shale Gas Initiative, hydrofracking, Josh Fox, natural gas, PSYOPS

Empire serves no one but itself

By Staff Reports | July 1, 2013

painting of Edward Snowden

Humanity has come to a defining moment in its two hundred thousand year evolution: we are at a place where we either have to give up or we have to stand up. Last night, amidst a backdrop of fear-creation by the security state, where you either shut up or face the consequences, my wife and I were talking about standing up to empire and what it might mean. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: civil liberties, Edward Snowden, NSA, Ron Tice, spying

Fear for free!

By Lindsay Curren | June 21, 2013

Protester with sign against NSA

The big brouhaha over former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's whistle-blowing revelation that the government is tuning in to every last thing We The People are doing has resulted in exactly the effect that an authoritarian government would most want to achieve: leaving us all quaking in fear and paranoia. For my part, I'm neither ready to declare Snowden … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: activism, climate change, Edward Snowden, Naomi Wolf, Occupy Wall Street, plutocracy, Snowden

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