G4 and Kevin Pereira: “BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife”.
G4, the games channel. Yes, the games channel!
This makes sense in a world where the most informative pieces of national news journalism are coming from a music magazine and nightly comedy show doesn’t it?
It is easy to be depressed about the oil leak in the Gulf Coast. It is easy to feel helpless. It is easy to feel ineffectual rage.
So don’t.
Share what is it that you, me, we, us can do to help the Gulf Coast in the here and now? (examples: aid packages, directed money, etc)
Share what is it that you, me, we, us can do to help the Gulf Coast from ever experiencing a man-made tragedy like this again in the future? (examples: carpooling, public transportation drives, home energy usage improvements, etc)
We are not helpless.
Don’t be fearful and not offer an idea because it is not a fleshed out solution. An idea you have might turn into a solution when others see it and can build off of it.
PS – I will be taking your suggestions to our CIM Volunteers meeting.
Consumerist: “Debtors Increasingly Thrown In Jail. Wait, What?”
I try and spend some time each week serving lunch at Project H.O.M.E.’s “Women of Change” with other fellow CIM Volunteers. I’m engaging some of the folks who work at Women of Change into possibly trying a project along these lines. I think Mark Horvath is onto something by sharing these stories as raw as he does.
NPR.org: “Former Homeless Man’s Videos Profile Life On Street”
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Imagine you are unemployed and are applying for a new job at a company you are qualified for, and want to work for, and being notified that your application will not be accepted, because you are already unemployed.
This is what some job hunters are facing in this increasingly look-the-other-way unemployment situation according to Laura Bassett in The Huffington Post: “Disturbing Job Ads: The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered”. There is a good thread at “Hacker News” as to why this makes no sense, getting beyond the ethical and moral concerns of it.
Howard Hall: “remember to learn”
Craig Newmark: “ReMind.org: another small effort to help Veterans in a big way”
Thank you to those who put themselves in harms way for the lives we can lead.
Kimberly Blessing shares “What You Can Learn From Jamie Oliver About Creating Change”.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Bob Edgar: Philly.com: AP: “Rising tide of frustration: Specter’s legendary resilience proved no match for a restless electorate.”
Philadelphia Daily News: Will Bunch: “Specter, the ultimate survivor, a ‘relic of an earlier time'”
Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Kerkstra: “Phila. voters abolish BRT”
That tends to permit the status quo to keep on being so. If you don’t want that, then you need to make sure you get out and vote.