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DESCRIPTION:JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPY SF and others for our weekly 
 (most Wednesdays) \nPEACE VIGIL.  STAND OR SIT WITH US, HAND OUT FLYERS OR 
 JUST BE THERE IN SOLIDARITY.\nEVERYONE WELCOME. \nSigns and flyers 
 provided.\n\nClimate Change: the Ultimate "Crime Against 
 Humanity”\n\n“For a society so worried about things that can kill us, 
 we've focused very little of our attention on the thing that surely 
 will,” notes Tom Engelhardt, author of The United States of Fear. 
 “Warming of the planet — thanks to the fossil fuel system we live by 
 and the greenhouse gases it deposits in the atmosphere — is already doing 
 real damage to our world. . .\n\n“When we speak of weapons of mass 
 destruction (WMD), we usually think of weapons — nuclear, biological, or 
 chemical — that are delivered in a measurable moment in time. Consider 
 climate change, then, a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and 
 there for any of us to see.”\n\nBut fear should never be the primary 
 motivation of our actions, says Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of the 
 Department of African American Studies at Princeton University: \n\n“The 
 real danger is that the way we live our lives as Americans, no matter our 
 optimism about the future, is no longer sustainable. . . We can’t 
 continue to live with the current level of income inequality. Hard working 
 people are working longer hours for less pay. And politicians and their 
 benefactors continue to argue for trade policies that have decimated the 
 working class in this country. We can’t continue to lock up black and 
 brown people or watch them killed in cold blood by people sworn to protect 
 us or fail to publicly educate all of our children. We can’t continue to 
 bomb people around the world into oblivion.”\n\n“War and militarism 
 also fuel climate change,” writes Gar Smith, co-founder of 
 Environmentalists Against War. The U.S. military is the largest 
 institutional consumer of oil in the world. “Oil barrels and gun barrels 
 both pose a threat to our survival,” Smith adds. “If we hope to 
 stabilize our climate, we will need to start spending less money on war.” 
 \n\nWe should not cower in fear, counsels Professor of Theology and Culture 
 Mark Lewis Taylor. “Privileged citizens and residents need to bare their 
 rage at the structures of abuse. . . \n\n“Those most vulnerable to a 
 Trump regime are not powerless. They are not primarily — surely not only 
 — victims. They are also resisters with powers for throwing off 
 oppression, building movements for justice and to redress wrongs and 
 imagine new political life. All the while they can also extend at times 
 astonishing acts of love and human dignity.”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/25/18798799.php
SUMMARY:Climate Change: the Ultimate "Crime Against Humanity"
LOCATION:Look for the huge PEACE banner at One Post Street in San Francisco. \n(on 
 the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein’s office, \ndirectly 
 above the Montgomery BART/Muni station) \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/25/18798799.php
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