activism

In West Virginia this week, at least 28 senior citizens between the ages of 50 and 88 marched in opposition to the destructive process of mountaintop removal coal mining. In addition to environmental concerns, they stressed the union miners' battle to get their jobs back and the fact that normal mining creates more jobs than mountaintop strip mining. The peaceful walk was 25 miles long and was covered by many local media outlets. Thanks to Mobile Broadcast News for the video!

The New York State Senate is now back in the hands of Republicans due to two Democratic defections, but the fate of the LGBT and AIDS agendas are up in the air, including a late-breaking story that out gay Sen. Tom Duane is in negotiations with the new Republican-led caucus about bringing the marriage equality bill to the floor. "Gay USA," hosted by Ann Northrop and Andy Humm, offers comprehensive weekly news and analysis by and about the LGBTQ community.

The Coffee House is a monthly, hour-long, cable TV magazine of public affairs and the arts. The program is taped at Montgomery Community Television in Rockville, MD, and airs regularly on eleven cable channels in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, reaching over five million people. Now in its tenth season, The Coffee House has won numerous awards; "it's what public TV is supposed to be." The producer of The Coffee House is Mark Cohen.

Today SourceCode asks, is another economy, an environmentally sustainable economy, possible? Hear from Hunter Lovins on natural capitalism;.an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account; including human resources and living systems. Then, what would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? One group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX.