Going Back to My Pueblo | The Democracy Center - 0 views
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So now the U.S. has become a nation of people driving around in gas-guzzling vehicles listening to the radio and cursing the evildoers at BP. The addicts are cursing their dealer on their way to their next fill-up.
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I sat for a coffee (another of my addictions) with one of my heroes, Antonia Juhasz, a longtime activist on oil issues. Antonia quickly jumped into the fray on the Gulf disaster, to help people understand the bigger picture. When she showed up in Houston a week ago for the Chevron shareholders’ meeting (legally entitled as a shareholder) Chevron had the Houston police throw her in jail for 24 hours. Have a look at the coverage of the arrests on Democracy Now.
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While in San Francisco I was invited to speak at a progressive conference that made me uneasy. It was an expression I heard there actually that got to me. Over and over people would describe the gathering as, “a safe space to talk about…” whatever the thing was they wanted to talk about. I finally realized what people meant by the term “safe space” – a venue in which one could express a point of view and not have its basic assumptions challenged.
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