Community Action
January 12, 2010 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The news that Byron Dorgan and Christopher Dodd will not run forreelection has Democrats fretting that they will lose their 60-votesupermajority in the Senate and will no longer be able to get anythingaccomplished. But what have we got to show, with regard to checking corporateabuses, for the past 12 months of Democratic control over thelegislative branch as well as the White House? Last year this time,
January 8, 2010 -
A celebration is planned for Saturday, Jan. 9 in Greensboro, N.C. to honor the life of Crystal Lee Sutton, the union activist who was the inspiration for the film "Norma Rae."
December 11, 2009 -
The nuclear power industry's efforts to promote new reactors as a solution to climate change is inspiring creative protests by environmentalists.
December 7, 2009 -
An Associated Press story from yesterday gives props to the grassroots movement against mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive form of mining that involves blowing up Appalachian peaks to get to the coal below.
November 30, 2009 -
An 81-year-old activist will begin a fast today at the West Virginia State Capitol in an effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
November 13, 2009 -
Charges were dismissed today against Ken Davies, an attorney from Charlotte, N.C. who was arrested earlier this year during a civil disobedience action against Duke Energy's new Cliffside coal-fired power plant now under construction in western North Carolina.