Yes We CAN! Survive The Climate Change Crisis... We CAN Simply Drive Cars Less... a LOT Less... Simply Move the Workplace Closer to Home... Move all those Offices OUT of the City and Into the Abandoned Retail Stores at The Shopping Mall in the Suburbs. A MUCH SHORTER DAILY COMMUTE...

We ought to Buy Electric School Buses Nationwide... and Electric City Buses... Ask Bernie Sanders What to DO! 
https://berniesanders.com/en/issues/green-new-deal/

Greta Thunberg Is Right - But There Is Hope On Climate Action... 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmichelson2/2019/09/23/greta-thunberg-is-rightbut-there-is-hope-on-climate-action/#f4dd13f5671f

Auto Workers are Striking Today... Climate Activists Global Strike on 9/20... Eco-Warriors Plan to Shut Down the City of Washington DC on 9/23...

What can One Person DO to Participate in the STRIKE!  Refuse to Go To Work. Refuse to Go To School. Refuse to Drive a Car. Refuse to Fly in a Jet Airplane. Refuse to Run the Air Conditioner. Refuse to _________. (Fill in the Blank) - What You CAN DO Is: Take a Nap, Take a Walk, Skateboard, Dance, Write a Song and Play it on Your Guitar... Hug Your Friend... Look at a Tree... Breathe Deep... Swim... Go Surfing... Write a Story... Write a Poem... Play the Flute... and a Million Other Things... HOWEVER... Question Your Actions... ASK IF What You Do Is Harming Our Future... Think for Yourself... In Your Heart You Know What's Right!

Free Coloring Book Art!
Global Climate Strike September 20th
More Art at: Google Image Search Keyword: gvan42

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GM strike: Nearly 50,000 workers walk out at America's biggest automaker. 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/gm-workers-strike-uaw-negotiations/index.html

How to Support the Global Climate Strike on 9/20. 
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-support-the-global-climate-strike-1838097431
How can I help?
If you want to strike, first, you should understand what it means for you and your job; depending on your occupation, like some state employees, a strike may be considered illegal. As Vice suggests, you might initially suggest to a supervisor to close their doors for the day (or even just a couple of hours) to honor the strike. “Probably this won’t be successful if you work for a large corporation like Chase Bank or Walmart,” Geoff Dembicki writes for Vice. “But small businesses like coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and clothing stores could be receptive. The same goes for medium-size office workplaces.”

Alternatively, use your lunch break to join a local demonstration; you should check out the Strike With Us’ website to find nearby events. Depending on your location, Climate Strike events might be taking place throughout the week, too. And if calling out sick is out of the question, you can donate to organizations like the US Youth Climate Strike (all proceeds will go toward future strikes and initiatives according to their GoFundMe page). And make a public statement of support on social media and help amplify the strike’s message.

Climate activists hope to bring U.S. capital to standstill on September 23.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-washingtondc/climate-activists-hope-to-bring-us-capital-to-standstill-on-september-23-idUSKCN1VW2B4
Environmental groups, including Extinction Rebellion, said on Wednesday they plan to shut down traffic in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23 and bring daily life to a standstill to demand action by U.S. politicians on tackling climate change. 
The roughly 15 groups planning the protest include traditional environmental groups like 350 DC and Friends of the Earth Action, as well as groups that focus on other issues, such as Black Lives Matter and Code Pink, a women-led group promoting peace and human rights.

Kaela Bamberger, an activist aligned with Extinction Rebellion DC, said the coalition plans to ratchet up pressure on policymakers by shutting down traffic at major intersections because rallies, marches and petitions have not worked.

“This is definitely a next-level action. The urgency of climate change warrants such an attempt to disrupt business as usual... to make it impossible for people with decision-making power to go about their daily lives as if we are not in the climate emergency,” Bamberger said in an interview.

Now Rafael (gang name Ted) Cruz is Selecting What Videos Play on Facebook. Censorship by Insane Anti-Choice Whackjobs... "Facebook removed a fact-check authored by three doctors rebutting an anti-abortion video’s false claims because Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and other Republicans complained in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg."

https://www.salon.com/2019/09/14/facebook-removed-doctors-fact-check-of-false-anti-abortion-video-because-ted-cruz-complained/ 

The videos in question featured Lila Rose, the founder of the anti-abortion group Live Action. Both videos falsely claimed that “abortion is never medically necessary.”

Three doctors authored a fact-check for Health Feedback, an organization that seeks to debunk misleading medical coverage. The fact-check deemed the video “inaccurate,” noting that “certain medical conditions such as placenta previa and HELLP syndrome can make abortion a necessary medical procedure in order to prevent the mother’s death.”

“Certain life-threatening conditions during pregnancy can make abortion medically necessary in order to save the mother’s life,” the fact-check said. “Preserving both the life of the mother and child by inducing early delivery, as the video suggests, is only possible if the fetus’ gestational age is advanced enough that it stands a chance of survival outside the womb. As this is not always the case, early delivery is not always a suitable alternative to abortion.”

Three Eyed Extraterrestrial Smiling at You 
T-Shirt FOR SALE!

 SOME SPACE IS AVAILABLE TO WRITE WORDS... An Alternative SLOGAN or a Manifesto... Currently it says: "Space is the Place" -  Obviously I Cannot write Slogans that Violate Copyright but I Believe YOU MAY... for Example: "May The Farce Be With You.". "Moon Unit Zappa" or "ET GO HOME!" - WhatEVER!

Friendly Alien T-Shirt
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Your Children will pay for Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law... and your Grand Children and your Great Grandchildren on to the Seventh Generation... He's an Economic Disaster of Old Testament Proportions!

Help Defeat Trump... Post Insightful Videos on Republican Facebook Groups. We CAN Win. Remember: Russians spent a Fortune Campaigning for Trump on Facebook. The Chinese Cult Falun Gong spent A Million dollars on Pro Trump Ads... 

WELL, I'm Not Spending a Dime BUT... I Can Share Samantha Bee Videos...  AWAKEN TRUMPNIKS! 

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Simply Copy and Paste These Words of Wisdom!

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This is FUNNY! Watch America's Sweetheart SAMANTHA BEE - Poking Fun at Mad King Donald and his Flying Monkeys - Pass this video on to your Friends... We Can DO CULT DEPROGRAMMING... Join the Nationwide Movement to #DumpTrump - He's an Economic Disaster! Like and Share!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntAHSqa9Koc&t=29s

Fact Check:He DOES Work for Sputnik... The Rachel Maddow Lawsuit Has No Merit... DUH! https://sputniknews.com/tags/person_Kristian_Rouz/

Vote Democrat... because we are in favor of good and opposed to evil... Pass It On!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9wbFbVMA3s

Pass this video on to your Friends... Help America WAKE UP! Remember: We Can Defeat Trump by Encouraging Brainwashed TrumpNiks to #RUNAWAY from the Evil GOP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YisofQoz4


Your Children will pay for Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law... and your Grand Children and your Great Grandchildren on to the Seventh Generation... He's an Economic Disaster of Old Testament Proportions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFkN7QGp2c

Free Advice for TrumpNiks! Get a Brain Morans Guy is Not Amused by Mad King Donald the Loser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8nQZPfYpY

Digital Rainbow Spiral Playing Cards FOR SALE!

Classic Math Art... a Spiral made out of a Rainbow Square... copied, pasted, reduced size and rotated slightly... again and again and again...

Digital Rainbow Spiral Playing Cards
by gregvan

Classic Math Art FOR SALE! 
a Spiral made out of a Rainbow Square... copied, pasted, reduced size and rotated slightly... again and again and again...

digital, rainbow, spiral, tie due, trippy, hippie, art, gvan42, magic, mushroom visions

Digital Rainbow Spiral Mug
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Sara Nelson, President of the Flight Attendants Union, called for a General Strike during Trump's Government Shutdown. She has some brilliant Ideas about how to FIX America.

MORE Labor Unions fighting for Increased Wages, Better Working Conditions, Healthcare, Childcare, Retirement, Full Time Jobs, Profit Sharing Safety... 

Corporations have reaped a massive windfall from Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law BUT... WORKERS have gotten Nothing... NOTHING... All that money has been used for "Stock Buybacks" (putting more money in Rich People's Pockets) instead of Raising Wages, bringing Factories back to the USA or Making Equipment Better, Safer... 

The Workers Have Increased Productivity over the Last Few Decades but ALL THAT increased Wealth has been Pocketed by The Rich. Jobs these days are mostly - Low Pay, No Benefits, TEMP,  UBER-Like (sub contractors with No Benefits, ALL the risk) or Part Time... Gone are the Jobs that enabled a Man to Raise a Family using His Paycheck from ONE JOB. 

Her Slogan is: "ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Nelson_(union_leader)

https://twitter.com/flyingwithsara?lang=en

I saw her on the Rick Smith Show on Free Speech TV. a show devoted to Pro Labor Union interviews...   

Free Speech TV is Viewer Financed so they have the freedom to publish Ideas that are NOT blessed by Corporate Masters. Link TV, PBS and RT ( Russian Television) are Pllaces that broadcast Shows Forbidden by Advertisers... It becomes obvious when I Compare their NEWS Shows with CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. They just show what will attract the MOST VIEWERS so they can sell Advertising Time... They Repeat the same subjects again and again and again because that's the best way to get high ratings... NO Concern with Informing The Public, it's all INFOTAINMENT... Consider that they typically show One Minute of News and then Five Minutes of Talking Heads telling You What to Think.  and Yowsa, Yousa some of those Talking Heads are Stunningly Beautiful Women! What they say seems so Significant! and the Some Talking Heads play a Character... (Symone Sanders as the Angry Black Lady) but she's gone! She went to work for her Father, Bernie Sanders and is rarely seen on TV... Deep Sigh... Talking Heads are a proven formula for attracting an audience... 

I enjoy Democracy NOW!... I enjoy Pirate Television... I enjoy ACT OUT!... I enjoy Economic Update... I enjoy The Keiser Report... I enjoy The World according to Jesse... I enjoy Bioneers... I enjoy Redacted Tonight... I enjoy BOOM BUST...                                                                                                                                                 

Darryl Cherney Says: As a father, teacher, and neighbor, I am deeply concerned and seek solutions for our school district, particularly South Fork High and Miranda Junior High.

 The shortage of books and teachers, misspending on construction, 2 hour rides on buses a lack of focus on education, paying off 6 figures to a fired administrator while bake sales pay for student activities forces me to consider--as hundreds have for 3 decades--sending my daughter out of the area for junior high and and high school. Despite a general consensus on what is wrong, it seems few have gotten a handle on how to tackle the problem. The time is now to unite to save our youth. They are not just our future--they are our present. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2309116075815644/

We can make and change our own laws. We can run for office. Let's reduce fees and fines, encourage water storage and fire safety, make it so all farmers are created equal, redirect tax money to our schools & social services, and make the county fix its broken roads before they tell us to fix our stuff that isn't hurting anyone. This county needs a good shaking up.
 https://www.facebook.com/events/322504835134163/?notif_t=plan_user_associated&notif_id=1554498691078878

https://www.facebook.com/darryl.cherney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Cherney
Darryl Cherney (born 1956) is a musician and environmental activist. He is a member of the Earth First! environmental movement. He lives in Humboldt County, California.

Interview with Climate Activist Greta Thunberg on Democracy Now! TV News Show. She Spoke at the UN Climate Conference. Video of her Speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYyBtb1PH4 

https://democracynow.org - As government ministers from around the globe gather in Katowice, Poland, for the final days of the 24th U.N. climate summit, we speak with 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who denounced politicians here last week for their inaction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. She has garnered global attention for carrying out a weekly school strike against climate change in her home country of Sweden. “We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late,” says Thunberg. We are also joined by her father, Svante Thunberg, a Swedish actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTM2lrVZwlk
Greta Talking at UN Climate Summit.

Great Documentary Movie: "CRUDE" about The Oil Business and Pollution of the Amazon River. Chevron vs The Indians of Ecuador.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFH1FUXks3U   

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326204/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_(2009_film) 

Oil and Water Do Not Mix - Coloring Book ART

Greenpeace activists climbed a 180-metre chimney at a power station in Belchatow, central Poland, on Tuesday to protest Warsaw's coal policies ahead of UN climate talks this month.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-protest-climate-change-poland-power-plant-pollution-carbon-belchatow-a8653891.html

The state-run plant is Poland's biggest power producer, Europe's largest polluter and one of the biggest coal power plants in the world. Nine activists climbed an internal ladder to the top of the conical chimney at the plant, which is fuelled by lignite and belongs to PGE.

"I am from a mining family, we have been connected to coal mining for generations. There is no future in coal. What we need is a just transition from coal and fossil fuels to renewables," Marek Jozefiak, an activist climbing the chimney said. 

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Greenpeace Energy Plans Takeover Bid For RWE’s Coal Business To Replace With Renewables... Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - Hambach Forest - German Police Arrest Activists - Burning Lignite is the OPPOSITE of Energiewende. (Updated 11/28/2018)

Read More: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/tree-sitters-protest-lignite-coal-mine.html

Read More: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

In Poland, local movements are challenging the nation’s addiction to coal. Just Like they are Doing in Germany... Poland is the Second Largest Coal Mining Country after Germany.

https://www.equaltimes.org/in-poland-local-movements-are#.XAAmsmhKiM8
A climate activist wears a mask with the word “Coal” struck-through in Polish as hundreds of environmentalists march to campaign against global warming, in Warsaw, Poland. 

Ending Poland’s dependency on this climate-disastrous industry will not be easy. The ruling nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) government, which has been in power since 2015, almost considers coal-mining a patriotic duty that promotes sovereignty from Russian energy sources, and it has resisted EU-wide anti-coal climate legislation. Similarly, Poland has faced disciplinary measures from the EU about its anti-democratic judicial reforms. This makes the citizens’ assembly in Gdansk all the more remarkable in the way that it deals with climate change through a democratic innovation.

Read More About European Anti-Coal Protest... Germany...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/tree-sitters-protest-lignite-coal-mine.html

Letter to the Editor by Darryl Cherney. Humboldt County Earth First! Activist and Singer Wrong/Righter.

http://kymkemp.com/2018/10/04/virtually-no-arm-of-government-is-addressing-the-deterioration-of-southern-humboldt-says-letter-to-the-editor-from-darryl-cherney/

The deterioration of Southern Humboldt County, California and the 3000 person Garberville/Redway area in particular, can be outlined as follows. Since I moved here 32 years ago, we have lost 100% of our bookstores, half of our auto mechanics, 90% of our local doctors, half of our veterinarians, most of our local nurses, half of our restaurants, 75% of our motels for tourists, 66% of our small engine repair shops, all of our evening/night access to the Redway post office boxes, our only movie theater, our Grange Hall, our entire Veterans Hall which also served as our local courthouse (next one is 62 miles north), half of our vegetable garden supply stores, half of our safety from being murdered or robbed along with about half of our sheriffs, half our thrift shops, the ability to leave one’s home and car unlocked, our ice cream parlor, much of the darkness of our night sky, the solvency of our community center which verges on bankruptcy, all of the security and peace of mind of our remote homesteads due code enforcement, and somewhere between 40 to 80% of our sales in whatever stores remain. I’m sure I’m left a whole lot out. While there is still much to recommend our area such as our beautiful mountain elementary schools, the majestic redwoods and the Pacific Ocean, I must point out that virtually no arm of government is addressing any of this except in that all arms of government are vigorously and deliberately making it worse (well maybe not the library). In other words, rather than having a government that works for the people, we have one that works against us. The tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars fees and fines leveled against people for drinking their own water, living in their own self-built homes, or driving their dirt roads amount to this: piracy, racketeering, and extortion. An elder or anyone for that matter can not pay fees and fines more than their homes are worth, let alone do the years work the county demands of them to be done in just a few short weeks. Governments engaging in piracy is an old tradition. Governments (and the bureaucrats who run them) preying on their own people is as old as history. But I say this: water and shelter are human rights. And I suspect this: whether it’s by ballot measure, voting them out, or good old fashion pitchforks and torches, the people of Humboldt County are on the verge of striking back.

Darryl Cherney

Even Now when Everyone Agrees that the War In Iraq was Astonishingly Stupid Idea... Candidates are criticized for Protesting Against The War.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/its-2018-and-candidates-are-still-running-attack-ads-against-iraq-war-protesters/

It’s 2018 and Candidates Are Still Running Attack Ads Against Iraq War Protesters...
Perhaps it’s time for a new strategy.

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, both current members of Congress, are locked in a tight contest in the race to succeed retiring Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. McSally, who touts the endorsement of President Donald Trump despite refusing to say whether she voted for him, has represented a Tucson-area seat since 2014, and long before that was the first woman ever to fly combat missions as an Air Force fighter pilot. Sinema has grown increasingly conservative since coming to Congress in 2012, but she got her start in Arizona politics as a Green Party spokesperson and vocal anti-war activist.

Great Biography Movie: Heather Booth. A 1960s Civil rights activist who organized protests about Vietnam, Women's Liberation.

http://heatherbooththefilm.com/ An inspirational film about a person that made a difference in the world thru activism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Booth

She founded a school and taught how to become a community organizer.
Campaigned for Mayor Harold Washington in Chicago.

Great Movie: The Internet's Own Boy. A Biography of Aaron Swartz - Freedom Fighter - Information Activist

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/ Founder of Reddit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.Written by Anonymous