Earth Day

[Craig234]

I recently posted that Earth Day represents the last time democracy was functioning, with grass-roots empowered to raise a cause, before the corporate takeover of our politics. Here's an article on the topic of how it was created.

Opinion | Remembering the Radical Roots of Earth Day

"Earth Day didn’t come out of nowhere. The seeds for action were incubated in the fertile ground of anti-war, civil rights, and women’s rights protests of the 1960s."

www.commondreams.org

 

[MamboDervish]

I recently posted that Earth Day represents the last time democracy was functioning, with grass-roots empowered to raise a cause, before the corporate takeover of our politics. Here's an article on the topic of how it was created.

Opinion | Remembering the Radical Roots of Earth Day

"Earth Day didn’t come out of nowhere. The seeds for action were incubated in the fertile ground of anti-war, civil rights, and women’s rights protests of the 1960s."

www.commondreams.org

Thank you for the reminder of the good old days, when the corporate right-wing-nuts, and fossil fuel fools, had yet to go completely off the rails. I still vividly remember back when we had bipartisan sanity and cooperation . . . . although it already seems like more than a lifetime ago.

I was in Central Park NYC on the first Earth Day, carrying my niece on my shoulders for hours. I bought the hastily created T-shirt of the event - yellow block letters on a green ground, with no graphics at all - and I had that shirt for decades.

 

[Craig234]

Thank you for the reminder of the good old days, when the corporate right-wing-nuts, and fossil fuel fools, had yet to go completely off the rails. I still vividly remember back when we had bipartisan sanity and cooperation . . . . although it already seems like more than a lifetime ago.

It's what democracy looks like, which most Americans have never seen.