European Leaders Visit Gaza. Hilary Clinton stays home with a "peace negotiation" hangover, prone, in a dimly-lighted room with an AIPAC on her head.
And Tomorrow...
On July 26th, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse – after being found guilty of 2 federal felonies for peacefully disrupting an oil and gas lease auction. By raising his bidder paddle that day, Tim actually shed light on the illegality of a rushed auction, clearly a parting gift from the Bush administration to the fossil fuel industry. Yet during his trial, Tim was never allowed to tell the jury about the illegitimacy of the auction or about his attempts to raise the funds to pay for the land he had won. Furthermore, he was strictly forbidden from even mentioning climate change and the moral imperatives motivating his action!
Tomorrow the ranks of forest activists, civil rights, justice and transparency stand up in solidarity with Tim – for his courageous act, for his convictions and for his uncompromising stance in our quest for Climate Justice. Peaceful Uprising and other groups will continue to call out our Justice Department for the unjust nature of this trial. The real ‘perps’ walk free, casting their Brocken-like specters across courtroom, creek and the crowns of the last sequoias.- KBOO