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Psst–did someone say…CLIMATE CHANGE???
A Year Full of Weather Disasters and an Economic Toll to Match – NYTimes.com. Here is yet another example of the way the mainstream press reports on climate change without actually using that...
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Occupy Wall Street, Day 10: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,...
One of Wangari Maathai’s most powerful political actions was when she and a group of women occupied Uhuru (Freedom) Park in downtown Nairobi, to protest government plans to turn the tree-lined public...
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Don’t Pepper-Spray Our Dreams
New York Times reporter Ginia Bellafante has totally missed the mark in her coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Where I see a vibrant grassroots movement unfolding organically, she sees a...
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SlutWalk, Occupy Wall Street and other sparks of resistance: let’s fan the...
Finally this morning The NYTimes.com is paying some attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests. But the tone is still highbrow and dismissive–Charles Blow, who really should know better, labels the...
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Can’t you just play nice?
It’s one of the most popular NY Times articles on Facebook this morning. Yes, a bonafide Times columnist, Nick Kristof, finally went down to Liberty Plaza to interview the Occupy Wall Street...
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Cupid, go home!
It’s fascinating to me that the Transition Times blog post that has gotten the most attention, by far, is “There’s more to love than Cupid and his arrows,” my Valentine’s Day 2012 post, which has been...
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Let a million local media outlets and citizen journalists bloom
As we head into the 10-day countdown to May Day, once again the mainstream media is snoozing its way into irrelevance. Check out today’s New York Times and you will find nary a mention of the busy...
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We eat by the grace of Nature, not by the grace of Monsanto
“Organic, schmorganic,” fumes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen sarcastically in an article entitled “The Organic Fable.” He bases his sweeping dismissal of the organic foods movement on a new...
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Building a Tsunami of a Climate Change Movement: What Will it Take?
In the seething, saturated media environment we live in, victory is measured in whether or not you’re able to get people to slow down and pay attention. It’s getting harder and harder, especially for...
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Climate change is no joke
What a totally spurious pro-Keystone pipeline column from Joe Nocera in the New York Times today! He doesn’t even bother to mention the 35,000-plus people who turned out in Washington to protest,...
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It’s time to Occupy Congress!
What is happening in Washington, DC these days could lead not to anarchy but to monarchy, says political philosophy professor Michael Lynch in a New York Times op-ed piece today. “Should shutdowns,...
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