In a perfect word, people would do the right thing just because it was the right thing. They would give money to the people of Bangladesh without George Harrison having to produce a concert, and they would have marched to demand clean drinking water for the citizens of Flint without Mark Ruffalo calling them into […]
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The creation of a global movement for preserving life on earth… right here, right now
Posted in energy, Environment, Mark's Life, Media, Observations, Pop Culture, Rants, Sustainability, Uncategorized Also tagged Al Gore, apartheid, Bangladesh, civil discobedience, civil disobedience, civil rights, Climate Change, Climate Strike, disco, doing the right thing, Ellen, Fatboy Slim, Flint water crisis, FOX News, gay marriage, gay rights, George Harrison, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, Kent State, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Mark's big ideas, Media, protest movements, protests, Right Here Right Now, solar energy, tv show ideas, Vietnam War, Will and Grace, yippies 5 Comments
Motivated by student pressure, Trump agrees to make good on his promise to ban “bump stocks”
Well, round one appears to have gone to the kids of Parkland… The White House announced this afternoon that, at long last, Donald Trump would be making good on his promise to ban so-called “bump stocks” and other devices used to convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic ones. This, as you’ll recall, was something that […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged arming teachers, automatic weapons, bump stock, conspiracy theories, crisis actors, deep state, Donald Trump, Florida, gun control, gun rights, guns, InfoWars, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, National School Walkout, Parkland, student activism, West Boca High School 27 Comments