Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge and Why We Must is not a new book -- it first came out in 1999. But given how important it will be to the world's climate and energy future to dislodge Big Oil, Big Coal and other polluting corporations from control of government -- and given how hard this will be to do -- the guerrilla approach of culture jamming … [Read more...]
In peak oil, we can afford unions more than billionaires
On Saturday, my wife and I drove up to Thomas Jefferson's capitol building in Richmond to join Virginia's state rally in support of the public workers in Wisconsin. We know that peak oil is here and that it's probably the biggest single cause for the Great Recession. We just don't think that a tough economy, peak oil-driven or not, should be used as an excuse for the … [Read more...]
“Mad as hell” in Madison
The large demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin are driven by a middle class awakening to the specter of its destruction by the corporate reactionaries and their toady Governor Scott Walker. For years the middle class has watched the plutocrats stomp on the poor while listening to the two parties regale the great middle class, but never mentioning the … [Read more...]