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Help Me Give My Dad A Great Father’s Day By Listening To His Environmental Protest Song
So I’ve never tried blaze before, but it’s Father’s Day tomorrow and I know my Dad would be thrilled if more people got to hear his song. He wrote it a couple of years ago, and I figure people would like it if they gave it a chance. So let’s see if this works.
Shot this photograph on a sunny morning in September 2011. All thanks to the Canon camera that I borrowed from Ate Anni, which later on got broken from my clumsiness.
I was 15, President of the Science Club in my high school alma mater, HCPSII. Raised a tree planting activity under the Tulay and conducted clean-up drives by the river and at the Isabel shoreline. I had no idea how brave I was at 15. I'm just lucky that adults listen to my environmental protest. Little did I know how huge an impact it was on kids my age. I guess it's all because I spent so much time with nature than hanging out with friends and classmates.
The way I fell in love with Earth was like looking at the pink sunset, or staring at the school of fish at the seashore--- just at the back of our house, or studying the metamorphosis of the butterflies at my grandma's garden, or the way I observed the flowers bloom in daylight and how sound they slept at night, or the feeling when I saw it all after I climbed that Mansanitas tree, or just hanging out and staring at the blue sky with my cousin Paul Eliaquim, at the backyard, and imagining stories from the clouds, or listening to the drops of rain, or gazing at the eyes of an innocent kitten, or rescuing a wounded sparrow, or seeing how my mother watered her plants. I can recall how my grandma (Mama Azon) giggled at how I catch caterpillars, spiders and lizards fearlessly in her garden. I had no intentions to do any harm on these creatures though. Just the curiosity of a child. The world is beautiful, until I grow up.... I realized how we fucked it all up.
That's why at 15, I became passionate in raising awareness through tree-planting and clean-up drives. It will never be enough, until we act.
I hope now that I am already in my 20s, I can still inspire myself, and possibly other people, with how I view nature the way I viewed it when I was 15. Let's save our planet before it is too late.
Simple actions can make a chain reaction.
Excerpt from this Common Dreams/EcoWatch article:
A bill making its way through the Texas legislature would make protesting pipelines a third-degree felony, the same as attempted murder.
H.B. 3557, which is under consideration in the state Senate after passing the state House earlier this month, ups penalties for interfering in energy infrastructure construction by making the protests a felony. Sentences would range from two to 10 years.
The legislation was authored by Republican state Rep. Chris Paddie. It passed the state House May 7 on a 99 to 45 vote, with two abstentions. The bill is being cosponsored in the state Senate by Republican state Sen. Pat Fallon.
In remarks on the state House floor during the bill's passage, Paddie sought to assuage the fears of those who believe the legislation will target non-violent protest.
"This bill does not affect those who choose to peacefully protest for any reason," said Paddie. "It attaches liability to those who potentially damage or destroy critical infrastructure facilities."
But opponents of the measure don't agree, pointing to the bill's language.
"It's an anti-protest bill, favoring the fossil fuel industry, favoring corporations over people," Frankie Orona, executive director of the Society of Native Nations, told the Austin American-Statesman.
The Texas bill is just the latest piece of legislation at the state level to target pipeline protests. In the wake of a spike in anti-pipeline actions over the past few years, Grist reported Tuesday, a number of states have come down on environmental activists.
The effort to punish pipeline protestors has spread across states with ample oil and gas reserves in the last two years and, in some cases, has garnered bipartisan support. Besides Louisiana, four other states — Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa — have enacted similar laws after protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline generated national attention and inspired a wave of civil disobedience.
A new retreat centre in mid Wales provides a quiet space for activists and frontline workers to nourish the inner life - and there's a food
A guest at Noddfa Dawel wrote this great little article about me, what I'm doing, and how I got here!
More than 50 state bills that would criminalize protest, deter political participation, and curtail freedom of association have been introduced across the country in the past two years. These bills are a direct reaction from politicians and corporations to the tactics of some of the most effective protesters in recent history, including Black Lives Matter and the water protectors challenging construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.
Lawmakers are trying to give corporate interests tools to punish people for speaking up for their communities.
Due to protecting the water and air from fracking for future generations we have been arrested several times and have several charges accrue
UK antifracking protesters put themselves on the line with a lock on that lasted multiple days! They have been ordered by the courts to pay a fine- can you chip in and help?
Alligator Alcatraz: Everglades Become Florida’s Swamp Detention Hub
Introduction Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention facility under construction deep in the Florida Everglades, is stirring fierce backlash. Built at the abandoned Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the camp leverages natural wildlife barriers—alligators and pythons—to prevent escapes, drawing criticism for its environmental and human rights implications. What Is “Alligator…
Climate activists throw tins of tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery.
In case people want to throw their hands up in the air about the right way to protest:
“The gallery said the painting was covered by glass and therefore not damaged.”
