Articles tagged “Take Action”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Activist Edita Birnkrant Leads the Fight to End the Carriage-Horse Industry (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Aug 16 2010 There is no way to “improve” the carriage-horse industry, and enacting a ban is the only solution to ending the inherent exploitation of the horses. + READ MORE

Wild Horse Roundups in Nevada: Cruel or Necessary? By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 11 2010 Wild horses are being rounded up because, the organizers of the plan say, they are at risk of dehydration, but animal advocates say the roundups are what's killing them. + READ MORE

Radical Sportswriter Dave Zirin on Community, Social Justice, and Reclaiming Sports (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Aug 11 2010 Dave Zirin has been named one of UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World" and is the first ever sports editor in 150-year history of The Nation. + READ MORE

How a Community Responds: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Talks to Ocean Springs By Anna Brones IN Work & Connect Aug 10 2010 Driving east from New Orleans and towards Mississippi, we cross a number of bridges. In this region, water is everywhere, and its importance to the economy, people and landscape is hard to deny. Statistics on how many fisherman have been affected by this oil spill are everywhere, but statistics only tell half the story; they give us sound bites to remember but they don’t paint a full picture. + READ MORE

What Would Happen if Restaurants Were Abolished? (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Aug 9 2010 "Abolish Restaurants is not primarily a critique of restaurants. It is a critique of capitalism in one specific place: restaurants." + READ MORE

Marie-Monique Robin Deconstructs the World According to Monsanto (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Aug 5 2010 "If Monsanto were a private person, it would be convicted as a great criminal, but the current law is protecting the criminal companies, which are never held accountable for the damages they cause." + READ MORE

Cartoons vs. Ecocide: Stephanie McMillan's One-Eyed Bunnies Teach Us How to Defend Our Planet (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jul 28 2010 "Most of us care about the Earth’s health, understand that our own wellbeing and lives depend upon it, and would like to live in a non-destructive way." + READ MORE

Stephanie Redcross Brings Vegan to the Mainstream (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jul 26 2010 Stephanie Redcross sez: "We want to propel your vegan or vegetarian businesses into the mainstream." + READ MORE

NASA to Start Monkey Irradiation By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 22 2010 For the first time in years, NASA is about to begin experimenting on monkeys. Help stop it before it starts. + READ MORE

Let Your Heart Guide Your Career Choices: Nancy Anderson Helps Us "Work With Passion" (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jul 22 2010 "That many people are dissatisfied with their jobs has more to do with lack of confidence than it does with living in the United States." + READ MORE

Michelle Tea Talks About Community, Energy, and Her Insane 500-page Memoir-Fiction Hybrid Book (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jul 19 2010 "I have a lot of energy and I like to do things and to do things you need other people. It's just my nature to bring people together." + READ MORE

"The Coal War" Shows Alternatives to Mountaintop Removal - But Needs Help on Kickstarter By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 16 2010 One Appalachian woman's fight shows how viable alternatives exist to the environmental destruction caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. + READ MORE

Congress Acts to Stop Conflict Mineral Trade While it Cleans Up Wall Street By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Jul 16 2010 When Congress passed the financial reform bill yesterday, it managed to do so with an important provision on conflict minerals intact. + READ MORE

Lettuce Lady Takes on Meat in Kenya By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Jul 16 2010 This lettuce lady is questioning a culture where eating meat is common and where not eating it often signifies poverty. + READ MORE

To Support the Oceans, Support Oceana By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 15 2010 Oceans cover the majority of the earth's surface, but we rarely every visit them. They are the ultimate fly-over country. Oceans, however, contain an abundance of life, including phytoplankton which generate most of the oxygen that we breathe. So, you see, we kind of need oceans. + READ MORE

Show Your Spirit and Vote for Your Favorite Farmers' Market By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jul 14 2010 American Farmland Trust's is asking you to vote for your favorite farmers' markets. The contest is designed to raise our awareness about local food for the No Farms No Food® program. The voting will end by midnight on August 31 and voters can choose to support as many markets as they would like. But you only vote for each market once. + READ MORE

Be a Humane Hero: Join Sheryl Crow and HSUS in Helping Abused and Neglected Animals By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 12 2010 Sheryl Crow's latest green cause is to help the Humane Society help animals around the country. + READ MORE

United Farm Workers to America: Take Our Jobs (UPDATED, with VIDEO) By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 8 2010 UFW launches a campaign to wake people up to the realities of our nation's food supply. They invite anyone who needs a job to get into agriculture with them -- they'll even help make the right connections with farm employers. + READ MORE

Laying Out a Roadmap for Change: Singer-Songwriter David Rovics Talks About Music, Activism, and the Future (Interview) By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Jul 7 2010 "Good music has the capacity to be not only palatable but to have a deep visceral, emotional impact. It's not unique in its ability to have a direct line to the hearts of the listeners, but it's a particularly powerful vehicle, or it can be." + READ MORE

From Lego Art to Naked Activists: Six Green Campaigns That Really Caught Our Attention By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 6 2010 Some of the most creative, clever, and compelling campaigns around for enviro issues, from coal to endangered species to construction of the Gibe 3 Dam in Ethiopia. + READ MORE