Portland Becomes First US City to Stop Fossil Fuel Expansion

Responding to powerful grass-roots activism, Portland’s government passed a law, recently upheld by the Oregon Court of Appeals, to arrest further construction or expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the city.

By Kevon Paynter | March 7, 2018 | Community, Environment, Government, Health, Law | 350.org, Activism, California, Carbon Dioxide, Chevron, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Climate March, Energy, Environmentalism, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Idaho, Kayaktivism, Natural Gas, Oil, Oregon, Pipelines, Political Action, Portland, Propane, Renewable Energy, Shell, Washington, Willamette River

Now Following You on Twitter: The Police

Social media monitoring tools let local law enforcement scoop up and sift through everyone’s posts, regardless of suspicion.

By Warren Christopher Freiberg | March 29, 2017 | Law, Media, Policing, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Alex Marthews, Babel Street, Baltimore, Boston, Brennan Center for Justice, California, CIA, Civil Rights, Dataminr, Department of Homeland Security, Facebook, FBI, First Amendment, Florida, Fourth Amendment, Freddie Gray, Geofeedia, Instagram, Law Enforcement, Media Sonar, Michigan, Monitoring, Police, Protests, Restore the Fourth, Snaptrends, Social Media, Social Media Monitoring, surveillance, Texas, Tracking, Twitter

The Rake’s Progress?

It's like shooting a cannon at a mouse…or riding a motorcycle to second base. Can there be any more apt [...]

By Mo Lotman | November 23, 2015 | Environment, Politics, Society | California, Carol Band, Dean Kubani, Emissions, EPA, Hearing Loss, Landscapers, Leaf Blowers, Particulates, Rake, Steve Fagin, ZAPLA