Paraphysique de l'extinction induite (tags)
Minorité agissante, majorité obéissante...
Oil Train Week of Action July 6-13, 2014 (tags)
Bakken crude oil trains have exploded at least 8 times since the first a year ago in Canada. Please plan an action during July 6-13, 2014 to protest the continued endangerment of our communities by the oil by rail industry.
GLP Mag-Lev Train and Floodwater to Drought Pipeline Alleviates Drought and Flooding (tags)
The Green Liberty Party (GLP) solution to seasonal flooding and drought concerns is to construct a pipeline that can regularly transport large amounts of water from flood prone regions to drought prone regions. This differs from current SNWA plans to drain northern Nevada's aquifers with a pipeline.
Amtrak Officials Back Schumer's Proposal For ?No Ride List? (tags)
The officials at Amtrak have supported the asinine proposal by NY Sen. Charles Schumer to create a "no ride" list for Amtrak, despite the obvious fact that anyone could take out a train bridge or tracks without EVER BOARDING A TRAIN!
Chuck Schumer (D) Calls for Train Station Gestapo Zones (tags)
New York (D) Senator Charles Schumer is calling for a no ride list for Amtrak passenger trains. Anti-war activists may be targeted (as they were on no fly lists) for this no ride list, thus preventing them from traveling via planes AND rail. Guess the anti-war activists will need to either hitchike or take Greyhound if they want to go somewhere without a car?
Brazil-Paraná-Curitiba: The creation of a new transport company in the big city. (tags)
A very specific historical-political phenomenon has happened here : the bus companies have become so important and powerful, in such a close symbiosis with politicians of the city, that simply was not possible to walk the steps that everyone has walked, in the direction of urban trains, the subways and other solutions universally enshrined.
Goodbye GM, by Michael Moore (tags)
"It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete.."
The Expo Line will kill the poor but not the rich.
Bill Clinton has signed his book "Give and change the world" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on October 3, 2007. The title of this book seems to refer to what world teacher Maitreya has said for so long: "Share and save the world." The original English title of the book is just "Giving". Changing the world is automatically included in the term "giving" more so in English than in Dutch, it seems, where the intention of giving is perhaps less naturally accepted without an ulterior motive or at least a clear objective in mind, and needs explanation, as does everything.
The Proposed L.A. to Palmdale High-Speed Train (tags)
“In Tokyo they had the bullet train back in 1964--this is 2007. We’re way behind, and we have to catch up.“ – L.A. City Councilmember Tom LaBonge
Homeland Security Goons now want to screw up the railroads (tags)
Great after screwing up the airlines, now the homeland security goons are going to screw up the railroads!!!!
Risking injury, brutality for a ride toward the U.S. (tags)
In the underground world of illegal immigration, Tultitlán a gritty suburb of Mexico City is Grand Central Station, a junction where Central American stowaways change from one freight train to another on a harrowing, often deadly, ride to the U.S. border.
Troquero actions spread (tags)
Oakland shuts down, rails still down, UPRR temporarily suspended all trains to California, Virginia troqueros to shut down, etc.
Spain used to be hit by a traditional car bombing terrorism dued to the separatist ETA group. The bombings that caused death to 198 poeple in Madrid would be more comparable to an Al Quaeda scale terror act. This is Spain's first state-sponsored terrorist action.
We Are Resisting! Conference (tags)
Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Capitalist Conference June 30-July 3, 2004 in Lawrence, KS, followed by a day of action on July 4, in Leavenworth, KS.
Italians map strategy protests aimed at stopping american military trains (tags)
Anti-war militants took advantage of a national train strike in Italy to pause to map out strategy Sunday. Demonstrators opposed to a possible war in Iraq tried Saturday to block trains moving U.S. military equipment across the country, protesting at several rail stations in northern Italy. A group of anti-war protesters stopped a train reportedly transporting U.S. military equipment in northern Italy on Friday night, a police official said.
Resistance Stiffens in Antwerp (tags)
‘Belgians should not be disturbed if they see Apache helicopters flying overhead this weekend,’ said [Defence] Minister [André] Flahaut. The Belgians are indeed disturbed, Mr Minister, and angry as well.
Do You Want To Stop Yucca Mountain? (tags)
take action!
After 9/11/01 Piano Solo
This is a description of a concert and fundraiser held after 9/11. The piece was performed by Different Trains. More info on them at www.differenttrains.org.