John Steiner: Ivory Trade Again Endangering Elephants

Dear All, Below is EarthAction’s monthly current Action Alert on global environment, peace, and justice issues. This one is most important, and timely action is needed. Protect Africa’s Elephants Despite the international ban on the trade of Elephant Ivory in 1989, it is estimated that every year 38,000 elephants are killed for ivory sales on …

John Steiner: Super Rich Plan to Own Global Media

Check out the video the mining industry never expected you to see: http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan You simply have to see this video to believe it. This week mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in Fairfax, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten. But this new video reveals this move is bigger than one woman’s …

John Steiner: Community Rights Movement / Democracy School Online

Learn how the rights protecting commerce and property, combined with the constitutional bestowal of the rights of personhood, have > given corporations a controlling interest over our nation, our democracy, our people and the very land we walk on. We are occupied! A new civil rights movement is on the rise and like movements in …

John Steiner: How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence January 29, 2012 While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of …

John Steiner: Iceland Defies Banks, Recovering Rapidly

Iceland Recovery – Rothko Play – Is Europe Over? cbcradio, Sunday, December 11, 2011 Hour One In the 2008 economic meltdown, Iceland nearly collapsed. Its three banks failed, it’s currency lost 50 per cent of its value and in an unprecedented display of anger, usually peaceful Icelanders took to the streets to protest. But Iceland …