Future Hope column, August 16, 2009

The last week or so has been the right-wingers-at-town-meetings moment, and it looks like it’s going to be supplemented by something similar but different: rallies organized by fossil-fuel-supporting corporations in these states: Texas, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Florida, South Carolina, Alaska, Illinois, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas.

Two days ago Greenpeace released a memo written by the head of the American Petroleum Institute (API) apparently sent to Greenpeace by a less-than-loyal employee of one of the API member companies to whom it was sent. In the memo it referred to a “series of

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