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Glick: It Isn’t Nice
Commentary, June, 02 2009
Ted Glick
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Off and on, for the last five years that I’ve been actively involved with the climate movement, I and others have analogized what we need to be doing on this issue to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What we’ve meant is that w...
Glick: Don't Worry, "We've Got 41 Years"
Commentary, May, 18 2009
Ted Glick
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"This is 2009. We've got 41 years in this deal, and we shouldn't be so worried about the first 10 years."
Glick: Is "Washington" Winning?
Commentary, April, 03 2009
Ted Glick
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It was a couple of weeks before the historic March 2nd shutdown action at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill in D.C. A national leader of an important climate group came up to me in the hallway at a conference we were both attendin...
Glick: Powering Past Coal
Commentary, March, 13 2009
Ted Glick
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It was tremendous to be part of the crowd of thousands of people demonstrating last Monday, March 2nd at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill. But I wonder how many of those who have heard about this action or who even took part are ...
Glick: Let the Clean Energy Revolution Begin
Commentary, February, 26 2009
Ted Glick
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It began with a statement by Nancy Pelosi in early January, referring to federal legislation to cap and reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions: "I'm not sure this year, because I don't know if we'll be ready. We won't go before we're ready."
Glick: Third Party Organizing Under Obama
Commentary, February, 03 2009
Ted Glick
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The nomination of Tom Daschle for both White House "health czar" and Secretary of Health and Human Services is in trouble. It's in trouble because information has come out that Daschle, former Democratic Party leader in the U.S. Senate, didn't pay...
Glick: Che & Gaza
Commentary, January, 06 2009
Ted Glick
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I wonder if, centuries from now, Che Guevera will be looked upon by people around the world in the way Jesus of Nazareth is looked upon by billions today, as a model for how one lives one's life.
Glick: Don't Just Mourn, Escalate!
Commentary, December, 09 2008
Ted Glick
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My Thanksgiving holiday and the days right after it weren't the greatest, and it's not because I didn't enjoy spending time with my extended family in Pennsylvania. It's because, literally right before I left home to drive there, I read a couple o...
Glick: Making a Green Revolution
Commentary, October, 24 2008
Ted Glick
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A review of three recently-published books on the climate crisis and what we need to do about it.
Glick: Two-Party Conventions and Social Change
Commentary, August, 25 2008
Ted Glick
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The first Democratic or Republican Convention I went to as an outside protester was the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami, Florida. This was where Richard Nixon was nominated for what turned out to be a much-shortened time in office due to his r...
Glick: Is Obama's Energy Plan Change We Can Believe In?
Commentary, August, 20 2008
Ted Glick
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On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm, it was "easily the best energy plan ever put forwa...
Glick: Obama, McCain, Green Jobs and Climate Solutions
Commentary, August, 17 2008
Ted Glick
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At least eight years late, the Democratic and Republican Presidential campaigns are actually debating U.S. energy policy and what to do about global warming. And not just this week but many times during the course of this way-too-long Presidentia...
Glick: Prioritizing Climate
Commentary, June, 30 2008
Ted Glick
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The hard truth is that humankind is in grave danger of blowing it. Serious action to shift from oil, coal and natural gas to renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation is a good 10 years late, particularly in the USA. And we need to be c...
Glick: No Easy Victories
Commentary, June, 20 2008
Ted Glick
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It is a basic tenet of successful organizing that you need to win victories in order to hold the allegiance of a critical mass of supporters and keep your organization together. But it is also true, as African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral said, th...
Glick: By 2030: Only Renewable Energy!
Commentary, June, 03 2008
Ted Glick
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As the climate movement increasingly focuses its energies on Capitol Hill, Dr. Navarro's insights about the potential negative impacts of doing so in the wrong way are worthy of serious consideration.
Glick: Mazzocchi, Speth and Capitalism's Future
Commentary, May, 21 2008
Ted Glick
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I don't know if Gus Speth and Tony Mazzocchi knew each other personally. Speth's work career has been as a co-founder and senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, with President Jimmy Carter's Council on Environmental Quality, a...
Glick: Obama and Wright: Different Worldviews
Commentary, May, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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Jeremiah Wright summarized the difference between him and Obama in his interviews last weekend as, "I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do. I am not running for office."
Glick: Let's Intensify Spring Anti-War Actions!
Commentary, March, 28 2008
Ted Glick
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March 19th was an historic first for the Iraq peace and justice movement. Over 1,000 activists, intergenerational but with many dedicated and energetic young people, took part in non-permitted, edgy, stepping it up type actions in Washington, D.C....
Glick: Obama, Clinton, McKinney & Nader
Commentary, March, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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Progressives, speaking broadly, are clearly divided when it comes to the four most well-known, liberal or progressive Presidential candidates who are still out there.
Glick: Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year
Commentary, February, 25 2008
Ted Glick
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Just about a year ago a leading activist in the climate movement made a comment that I took note of at the time and haven't forgotten: Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period.
Glick: Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Commentary, February, 10 2008
Ted Glick
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Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Glick: No War, No Warming, Round Two
Commentary, February, 02 2008
Ted Glick
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Early in the morning of October 22nd last fall several hundred people quietly arrived on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Many of us were organized into affinity groups. There was the anti-capitalist bike block. There were Iraq Veterans Against...
Glick: Obama vs. Clinton: What's the Beef?
Commentary, January, 22 2008
Ted Glick
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After Iowa and New Hampshire, it sure looks like the three-person horse race for the Democratic Presidential nomination has now become a two-person race.
Glick: Fasting and Victories
Commentary, December, 12 2007
Ted Glick
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Fasting and Victories
Glick: Not Just Our Minds and Hearts But Our Bodies
Commentary, October, 28 2007
Ted Glick
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It was gratifying, I have to admit, to get a fairly long phone message from Nancy Pelosi's Policy Director at the end of last week, the latest in a series of back-and-forth calls since I visited Pelosi's office on the 17th day of my climate emerge...
Glick: The Nonviolent Army, Revisited Again
Commentary, October, 06 2007
Ted Glick
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This is the third time over the course of my many years of writing this column that I have written about what I called, in my first, April 2000 column, the Ònonviolent army.Ó
Glick: No War, No Warming, Rise Up!
Commentary, October, 03 2007
Ted Glick
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For months a movement has been developing that consciously and intentionally links the related issues of the war in Iraq/oil wars and the heating up of the earth that is disrupting the world's climate. On Monday morning, October 22, in Washington,...
Glick: A Decisive Fall Season
Commentary, September, 11 2007
Ted Glick
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"I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve (the human condition) than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general mistrust."
Glick: Speaking Truth to Power
Commentary, August, 07 2007
Ted Glick
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The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement negotiated in 1997 which went into effect on Feb. 16, 2005. Under it industrial countries which have signed on-which is all of them except for the U.S. and Australia-pledge to reduce their earth-heating carbon em...
