Posts Tagged ‘ activism ’

Five Things You Can Do About Healthcare, In Ascending Order of Difficulty and Commitment. With Q & A! [Plus, win a free t-shirt!]

Aug 18th, 2009 | By benwyskida | Category: New

Come on people. Seniors and small-state centrist Senators are dominating this debate, while the 2008 hope & changers are staying home. Here is a quick and easy guide. Also? Everyone who does one of these things wins FREE PINKO GEAR.



This is pretty wild.

May 14th, 2009 | By benwyskida | Category: Blog

VIDEO: Setting up an offshore tax haven in Panama is so easy, even an intern can do it.



Thursday: Changes in climate.

Apr 2nd, 2009 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Yesterday was going to be bad activism Wednesday. I started out criticizing “Earth Hour” because I think it’s misguided and a little dim. Then I was going to (and still might) take on Saturday’s United for Peace and Justice “no slogan left behind” rally on Wall Street, which conflates anger at the [...]



Adventures in climate activism.

Apr 1st, 2009 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

EarthHour happened on Saturday. EarthHour’s goal was to get millions of people around the world to turn their lights off on and document it, sort of like a dimly-lit flash mob. Instead the organizers lost control of the message when right-wing climate deniers claimed that Al Gore left his lights on. It wasn’t true (lights [...]