Tag: ecosystem

Denton residents protest drilling

Submitted by Web Roundup | Sat, 10/17/2009 - 07:27

Published October 16, 2009 by SocialistWorker.org.

By Candice Bernd / SocialistWorker.org

WHEN THE Denton City Council considered granting a special-use permit on July 21 to Fort Worth-based Range Resources to drill for natural gas on the Rayzor Ranch property--a site directly across from a neighborhood community, a hospital, a retirement center and a park--the council touched off a long campaign of community dissent.

Is Obama a Socialist? Reflection on the Degradation of Politics and the Ecosystem

Submitted by Web Roundup | Sat, 09/26/2009 - 01:23

By Robert Jensen

[This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.]

For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist. But no matter how laughable, the claim keeps popping up, most recently in the form of the Republican Party chairman’s warning of “a socialist power grab” by Democrats.