This past Sunday, power went out for PEPCO power customers across the east coast after unexpected flash storms and tornadoes hit the area. Some neighborhoods are still without power and are being told that power may not be restored until Saturday. If you find yourself without power have no fear all you need is an igloo cooler and a few tools you can get at Home depot and you can create your own IkePak Emergency Power Kit. Check out the link to the article for more information and instructions on how you can make your own life saver during the next power outage.
Yesterday Democratic Senators decided it was time to wait on supporting the American Power Act, a senate bill introduced by Senators John Kerry (Democrat) and Joe Lieberman (Democrat turned Independent). The American Power Act was touted as legislative action that would lower air pollution and create millions of new jobs in various forms of alternative energy.
The Energy Action Coalition aka “the hub of the youth climate movement” responded this morning with a Call to Action. Read the rest of this entry to find out the gameplan and how you can play a starring role in this real life thriller to save the world.
Yesterday, July, 20, 2010 Fox News aired an excerpt of a speech by Shirley Sherrod, the US Department of Agriculture’s Georgia director of Rural Development. In the speech given at an NAACP event this past March, Sherrod discusses dealing with racism and discrimination within the agricultural community and then coming to terms that those most impacted were poor people regardless of race.
After Fox Faux News aired the story, the USDA and even the NAACP who invited her to speak issued statements of astonishment. In fact Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack called Sherrod immediately stating that she needed to write a letter of resignation. When Sherrod mentioned she was driving and not near a computer he told her type it from her blackberry phone.
That was the case until the full speech was aired which showed that Sherrod did not say the comments out of the malice that Faux news tried to represent in the excerpt they aired. Check the full speech below:
What’s even grimier is that Vilsack stated in his tirade against Sherrod, ”There is zero tolerance for discrimination at the USDA.” HOWEVER, African-American farmers are still waiting for payment from a 1.25 billion settlement deal made from a class action lawsuit against the USDA for decades worth of discrimination. Right now the funds are tied up in bureacratic mess while African-American farmers continue to loose valuable assets and farmland waiting for the big payback. Check out this video from CNN to find out exactly what’s going on.
For more information on what’s going on with Black Farmers visit the National Black Farmer’s Association Website at www.blackfarmers.org. Call your Senator today and tell them to appropriate the delayed funds to the Black Farmers!
The NAACP just got back from visiting the gulf coast and the news is no bueno for Black and Asian workers in the Gulf Coast. Find out what’s going on by reading this article from the root.com written by Environmental Reporter, Brentin Mock
Early Sunday morning, several interns and staff of the Southwest Workers Union were greeted by a hail of bullets. James Domingue an intern from Southern Louisiana was hit in the hip and suffers from a shattered pelvic bone. Domingue was in San Antonio to support SWU’s Roots of Change Community Garden. Donations and cards can be sent to:
Solidarity Fund
Southwest Workers Union
PO Box 830706
San Antonio, TX 78283
This is definitely the eco-jam of the summer. Representing all that’s foul with Dirty Oil, Talib Kweli goes IN on this one. Also we gotta show our love to Hi-Tek for a beat this sick. Check out the official video courtesy of Worldstarhiphop.com below. Let us know what ya think!
If you are tired of seeing poor little animals covered in oil, then have no fear Video Vixen Esther Baxter has decided to donate her time and her cakes for a psa on the oil spill. Click read more to see the pics and the link to her exclusive interview with Vibe.com Read the rest of this entry »
Checktheweather.net’s Kari Fulton will be repping on this panel with Majora Carter, Rha Goddess and Kymone “Papi” Freeman. July 7, 12-2pm in the Carmichael Room of the National Museum of American History. visit DCarts.dc.gov for more Information!
