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Rolla Peace News August 27, 2019 |
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Dear Friends: http://tomsager.org/Peaceletters/peaceletter082719.html In this newsletter is: 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019 2. SEPTEMBER 20 CLIMATE STRIKE COMES TO ROLLA 3. GREAT RIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER TO HONOR KATHLEEN HENRY 4. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) Iran Sells 2.1 Million Barrels of Oil Worth About $130 Million to Mystery Buyer b) While World Leaders Fail, People Step Up to Protect the Amazon Rainforest 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019 We vigil for peace in front of the Rolla Post Office, THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, FROM NOON TO 1:00 PM (and most subsequent Thursdays until peace is established). Please try to join us. The temperature is predicted to be in the 80s. If you do not feel comfortable standing with us in front of the Post Office, please consider driving by and showing your support for our message by honking your horn and flashing a peace sign. 2. SEPTEMBER 20 CLIMATE STRIKE COMES TO ROLLA The Thursday, September 19 noon vigil for Peace at the Roilla Post Office has been moved to Friday, September 20 to coincide with the world-wide strike for the climate. Our September 20 vigil will be for the Climate and the Environment as well as for Peace 3. GREAT RIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER TO HONOR KATHLEEN HENRY At their annual awards celebration, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center will honor Kathleen Henry, retiring President of Great Rivers, for her decades of environmental activism. The celebration will be held at the Whittemore House, 6440 Forsyth Blvd. in St. Louis from 5:00pm to 7:30pm on Sunday, September 22. Tickets can be purchased online at Great Rivers' website. Were it not for Kathleen Henry and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, Rolla would have surely lost Buehler Park years ago. Please join in the celebration if you can. 4. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) Iran Sells 2.1 Million Barrels of Oil Worth About $130 Million to Mystery Buyer b) While World Leaders Fail, People Step Up to Protect the Amazon Rainforest Iran Sells 2.1 Million Barrels of Oil Worth About $130 Million to Mystery Buyer As the Adrian Darya sails East from Gibraltar, Iran announces selling the cargo of Iranian crude to a mystery buyer who will choose the ultimate fate of the cargo. I'm hoping the buyer is a billionaire climate activist who will put the oil back underground where it belongs. Indeed, that is what the G7, a group of wealthy nations who believe they have the Right to set economic policy for the rest of the world, should have been discussing in their meeting on the climate: paying oil-rich nations to leave their oil in the ground where it belongs. Our own Donald Trump didn't even show up for the meeting. While World Leaders Fail, People Step Up to Protect the Amazon Rainforest Instead the G7 offered Brazil a paltry $20 million to fight fires in the Amazon. Brazilian President, Jair Boilsonaro, turned down the offer with a suggestion that the G7, particularly France, use the money to clean up the environmental mess they have made in their former colonies in Africa. So while the Earth burns, our great world leaders spend their time insulting each other. Here's an article from Wired detailing why even small attacks on the Amazon rainforest can have large effects on the forest's ability to maintain itself and sequester carbon. And as the rain forest burns, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, the world gets hotter and more forests burn. Meanwhile, some people are fired up to resist and standing up for the climate. Leonardo di Caprio, through a new charity he has formed, has offered $5 million to fight fires in the Amazon. 15,000 indigenous Mura people who live in the Amazon rainforest vow to resist the loggers and ranchers who are devastating the forest. People around the world are protesting Brazil's failure to protect the Amazon. And on Friday, September 20, people from all over the world, including little Rolla, Missouri, will be striking for the climate. Rolla Peace News is distributed by email once a week on Tuesday evenings (except on rare occasions) and is posted on the web at http://tomsager.org (click on Grassroots Rolla: at the top of rightmost column). If you don't wish to get notices of peace events in the Rolla area, let me know and I'll take you off this list. If you want to be added to this list, let me know. Wage peace, Helen helenm (at) fidnet.com |