To Big Oil Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Soon you’ll burn in hottest hell, All the oil that you desire Coating you to fuel the fire. “We the People” fast asleep Through the Crime of the Century. Wrecked our planet, slimed our seas Stole our sweet Democracy Occidental, AMOCO Thought the People didn’t know – Wouldn’t believe that it was true… We do, we do, we do, we do!! Cheating, bribing, [...]
On Wednesday, May 30, in solidarity with people from around the world coming to Chevron’s annual shareholders meeting at their San Ramon headquarters, Occupy Environmental Justice activists made our presence known outside Chevron’s San Francisco office at 345 California St. We creatively called attention to their reckless fossil fuel extraction practices, which include hydraulic fracturing in California. Hydraulic fracturing, aka “fracking”, is a toxic method of drilling for oil and [...]
On Tuesday a group of Shalersville residents attended a meeting of its trustees to voice their objections to fracking. Video of all the statements can be seen at the Shalersville No Fracking web site. There was a three minute speaking limit so the clips are short. (If you cannot watch video where you are, this is a rough transcript of my own remarks.) Here is just one of them, and [...]
On the face of it there’s no good reason for anyone in Oakland to care about natural gas deposits in Ohio. Fracking hasn’t been an issue in the region, and even if your patch of northern California was on a potentially lucrative deposit it probably wouldn’t matter. Fracking has been primarily situated in rural areas, not in urban ones. This kind of drilling is dirty enough and water-intensive enough to [...]
Tomorrow (Saturday, December 17) from noon until 1 p.m., the Occupy Oakland Parents & Allies Caucus is leading a breastfeeding protest at 14th Street and Broadway with the intention of convincing city officials to stop overwatering the plaza, known by many as Frank Ogawa Plaza but to Occupiers and Occupants as Oscar Grant Plaza. The city of Oakland has been running the plaza sprinklers for most hours of the day [...]
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