On Cusp of Chicago Clean Power Vote, Six Arrested at Crawford Coal Plant

[mucifer]

From the Newswire: "Little Village, Chicago—At 11:00am today , six activists with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), Rising Tide North America, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the Backbone Campaign were arrested after climbing the fence to Midwest Generation’s controversial Crawford coal plant in Little Village. The activists unfurled a 7’ x 30’ banner atop a 20 foot tall sprawling coal pile that feeds the power plant, which reads: “Close Chicago’s Toxic Coal Plants.”

http://chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/70444/index.php

[jwirr]

1. We are often saying Go Wisconsin and Go Michigan. I think it is

time to say Go Activists. Egypt showed us it can still be done. Wisconsin and now Michigan are showing us that it can still be done in the USA. It is time to start showing our "leaders" that we will not be lead unless they are going our way.

A friend of mine had a sign in her office that I love: There they go and I better follow as I am their leader.