Martin Boksenbaum Audiences made up of community activists and college students were treated to one-night-only showings of two important new documentaries: Invisible Hand on October 21st at Lehigh University and Unfractured on October 23rd at Northampton Community College. Both films focused on significant examples of efforts to protect communities and ecosystems from … [Read more...] about Community and Ecosystem Protection: Two Films
community rights
Climate-System Crisis: Taking Action
Isn't it time us folks in the sustainability movement here in the Lehigh Valley were getting our heads -- and our act -- together on bringing about the needed actions to address the Climate-System Crisis head on? You are hereby invited to help get the ball rolling by helping to plan, sponsor, shape, put on a Community Dialogue (Series?) on the climate crisis, focusing on what … [Read more...] about Climate-System Crisis: Taking Action
Peter: “Evo Morales – Entering the Pacha, a new beginning”
The looming end of the Mayan long-count calendar has prompted fervid doomsday predictions on the internet, mass arrests in China, and a small tourism boom in southern Mexico. But Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, says the date is the beginning of a new era of peace and love. "…the Mayan calendar's 21 December 2012 is the end of the non-time and the beginning of time. It is … [Read more...] about Peter: “Evo Morales – Entering the Pacha, a new beginning”
Strategies for Change
Three recent newsletters discuss their organization's perspectives on how to bring about change. One talks about nonviolent direct action, another about securing rights via home rule charters and constitutions, and the third about achieving change goals via the development of organizational strength and resilience. But you don't have to worry about which strategy is right -- … [Read more...] about Strategies for Change
Barnaby Ruhe: ‘Ban Fracking Locally’
From Barnaby Ruhe, 5/9/2012: only local action is going to happen, folks. and probably only mothers' actions with pots and pans. someone has to stop the imminent destruction for the children. that it is a clear violation of fundamental rights, the frack takeover of local government!! as well as the dangers they are ameliorating and mitigating with 'best management … [Read more...] about Barnaby Ruhe: ‘Ban Fracking Locally’
Protecting the Interests of the People
by Karen Feridun When the residents of Lynn Township, Lehigh County discovered E.coli in their water wells, they approached their township supervisors, asking them to tell a local farmer to stop using fertilizer made from treated sewage sludge that goes by the greenwashed name biosolids. The fertilizer produced from the residue of the wastewater treatment process is a toxic … [Read more...] about Protecting the Interests of the People
Chambersburg Declaration & Community Rights Networking
Alliance Resolution in Support of the Chambersburg Declaration and the Community Rights Work of CELDF The Steering Committee of the Alliance for Sustainable Communities-Lehigh Valley endorses the Chambersburg Declaration of February 20, 2010 and the community rights work of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Specifically, we hereby endorse efforts … [Read more...] about Chambersburg Declaration & Community Rights Networking
Finding Our Way
Finding Our Way (to the sublime and other good places) Hello! Hope you’re all well, and ready to plunge into a conversation that matters because our society, civilization and global ecology are in such deep trouble, I ask your help and cooperation to communicate between our higher selves about our shared predicament. I refer here to the climate crisis, peak oil, the … [Read more...] about Finding Our Way