This is not to be a philosophical essay on intergenerational justice. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-intergenerational/ ) It shall be, instead, spare and sparse and even terse. This is not a question in search of an answer, though answers are welcome, as is dialogue. I am standing beside a stream, a small river. I have a 55 gallon drum of toxic crap to get rid of. I dump it...

Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade from Garrett Graham on Vimeo . Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade is an hour-long documentary film written and directed by Garrett Graham in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade and features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance. In...

http://www.democracynow.org - Could the United States face another economic collapse? Writer and broadcaster Thom Hartmann looks back at past financial crises and comes to a startling conclusion. "As long as you don't look too closely at our nation, things seem under control -- the United States looks whole ... but when you go around to the 'dark back side' of the nation, you see the...

I'm very impressed by this man and this short video. I delight in Mr. Schneider's graceful way of weaving scientific, social, political and ethical questions and issues together into such a lovely, concise statement about our human situation with regard to climate change. - J.M. _________________________________________________________ Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 -- July...

[original text in here said I was leaving the forum to get away from the trolls. I changed my mind about that, though it is still unclear that was a wise decision.]

Counter Histories: Rock Hill from Southern Foodways on Vimeo .

"Rebranding," says the article on that topic in Wikipedia, "is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors, and competitors." The Confederate States of America was not a company, per se. It was not like a brand...

- a documentary film about the use of the Confederate battle flag