‘Citizen Interventions’ – The Impact of Resistance to Canada’s Tar Sands
Chris Rose – “Citizen Interventions” have cost Canada’s Tar Sands energy development $17 billion and have changed the debate over this devastating industry…
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When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking
Sharon Kelly – With tens of thousands of frack wells being abandoned in the US once they dry up, what does the future look like for our natural spaces and communities?
Across the US, Cities Struggle to Figure Out How to Accommodate Urban Farming
Sena Christian – “Widespread interest in urban agriculture is forcing local authorities to re-examine rules that prohibit farming in cities…”
The GMO Labeling Conundrum
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook Waking Times It would seem that large agricultural corporations touting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they claim possess enhanced benefits for farmers and consumers would be proud to differentiate their products on the shelves from organic and traditionally produced food. However that is not the case. Not only is big-ag attempting …
How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs?
Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance Waking Times The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the “war on drugs” with the goal of creating a “drug-free society” – yet there has never been a “drug-free society” in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us …
Peace Through Synchronized Global Meditation
Lance Schuttler, Personable Media Waking Times We live in a world today where the idea of group power is being rekindled and where it’s momentum is gathering. Humanity as a whole is remembering that it is thoughts and actions of kindness, honesty and equality for all that create positive change. One initiative that is expanding …
How Underground Therapists and Scientists Keep Psychedelic Medicine Alive Despite the Gov’t Ban
Tom Shroder, AlterNet Waking Times In the past decade, after thirty years in the deep freeze, research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. FDA-approved pilot studies and clinical trials using the drugs under controlled conditions and in combination with talk …
7 Ways Cannabis Legalization Has Already Benefited Colorado
Jeff Roberts, Collective-Evolution Waking Times January 1st 2014 saw the opening of the very first cannabis shop in Colorado as the cultivation, manufacture and sale of the controversial plant became fully legalized. Since then, the state has seen a lot of promising results. Laura Pegram of Drugpolicy.org wrote in her article, Six Months of Marijuana Sales: Positive Trends …
How Monsanto and Big-Ag are Fighting Back Against Anti-GMO Activism
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Between 2012 and mid-2014, Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) successfully blocked GMO labeling legislation in over 30 states, at a price tag of more than $100 million. These funds were received from the 300+ members of the GMA, which include chemical/pesticide, GE seed, and processed food industries. Together, these industries …
A Letter To My Siblings
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times A note from Zen: An answer to a question from awakening siblings about how have I kept up with world and American events being outside the US so many years. This is part of a discussion on world topics that we’ve been debating including the engineering of our society and …
5 Reasons to Expect Police Brutality to Get Worse Before it Gets Better
Isaac Davis, Contributor Waking Times Few things are more disturbing than looking at the news each day to find yet another shocking case of American police officers using excessive brutality and belligerence against the public. There is no justification for this, and as the list of egregious rights violations by the police grows, more Americans may …
9/11 After 13 Years
Paul Craig Roberts, Guest Waking Times The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the …
Ferguson Everywhere Now
Luke Nephew, Waging Nonviolence Guest Waking Times Blood is dripping down our faces onto the stainless steel of the armored police van. The hot yellow light flickers against the angry eyes of six young black men. We are trembling in pain and rage. Our chests are heaving. We are still breathing. One man’s eyes stare into mine. “They …
A Coalition for Major Outreach This 9/11 Anniversary
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times We are rapidly approaching 13 years since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, where the facts surrounding the deaths of thousands of Americans continue in suppressed fashion, garnering yearly rehashes of the original narrative. As calendar pages turn, so fades public interest and perhaps attempts at outreach and education …
Sweden Recycling 99 Percent Of Garbage, Edging Closer To Zero-Waste
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times There’s a revolution happening in Sweden right now. Dubbed the “recycling revolution,” the Scandinavian country now recycles 99 percent of their garbage, edging closer to a zero-waste lifestyle, nationwide. Wouldn’t it be great if no household waste was wasted? If each and every item of refuse was turned into …
Truth Psyops and the Awakening
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times Once we understand that everything is an illusion we’re home free. Knowing we’re eternal consciousness having this in-body experience is the greatest gift anyone can possibly have. It’s wonderful, it’s free and it’s forever…and it’s for everyone! People just need to wake up to it. That would seem to be …
Intention and the Rite of Disengagement
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times What we participate in is pretty much the name of the game. What do we spend our time, energy and intention on? What are we consciously and/or subconsciously empowering that’s leading to our own dis-empowerment? Where attention and thus intention goes, energy flows. Where is ours going, collectively and individually? Something …
Fracking – The Next Frontier for Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times In little-noticed news arising out of a recent Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas lease held by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the floodgates have opened for Gulf offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). With 21.6 million acres auctioned off by the Obama Administration and 433,822 acres receiving bids, some press accounts have declared BP America …
Back-to-School Vaccines: Know the Risks and Failures
Barbara Loe Fisher, Mercola Waking Times As summer comes to an end, the drumbeat promoting back-to-school vaccinations grows louder and louder in America. Unlike children in Canada and the European Union,1, 2 our children must get dozens of doses of vaccines or they can’t get a public school education.3 No Shots, No School, No Exceptions Over the …
New Anti Police State App Helps You “See Something, Say Something” in Real-Time
Waking Times Recent studies have shown that police are held almost completely unaccountable by the current systems of governmental oversight. Perhaps this is the reason why you are 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than a terrorist. Rather than wait for bloated bureaucracy or corrupt government to save the day, we as activists have …