Welcome or welcome back to Kitchen Table Kibitzing, a community series that posts nightly at 8:00 Eastern. remembrance and nomandates came up with the idea for this series during Netroots Nation 13.
As we envision it, KTK is a community for those who wish to share part of their evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, interesting videos (hey, palantir!), and so forth. We would also appreciate links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate.
Please note that pie fights will be unwelcome in this community, just as in most other series at DKos. There's lots of space at the rest of the site for fighting with other Democrats, progressives, and liberals, and we don't want those battles dragged into this series.
Finally, readers may notice that most who are posting diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but that definitely does not mean that newcomers will be excluded or unwelcome. We're happy to welcome guests to our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
Welcome to the table, today I brought a loaf of bread made of the first harvest. Okay, not really but I did bring a link to “A Poem for Lammas.” Although not all are eating today, some are fasting in solidarity with the prisoners in California. Even our own poco.
"Hunger for Justice" will have convenings throughout California. We fast in solidarity with the demands of the hunger strikers. And we fast to get justice for Trayvon and for people of every gender, race, and religion who have been killed by state and vigilante violence.
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Around our table this week the most popular topic has been Climate Change. Last week my little one and I went to protest Google’s fundraising for Sen. Inhofe. And coming up this weekend is another “Bike the Math” at Chevron. I’m expecting a big turnout, even Bill McKibben will be in attendance.
I’m really looking forward to being in the Bay Area this weekend to take action against Chevron -- because Chevron is a seriously bad neighbor.
They're a bad neighbor to the people in Richmond, where their refinery used to be an accident waiting to happen -- until the accident happened, and the company’s emergency plan involved texting people telling them more or less not to breathe. There’s not a purer example of environmental injustice that I know of (ask yourself if Chevron could get away with having a refinery in, say, Nob Hill).
And they're a bad neighbor to the planet too. Last year Chevron gave what may be the largest corporate campaign donation since the Citizens United decision. It was designed to make sure the House stayed in the hands of climate deniers, and it was successful -- and so the planet goes on heating, and their profits keep climbing.
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We also received an email from Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse asking TLO if she would like to contribute a diary for an upcoming blogathon on Climate Change. It didn’t take long for her to say yes, it will likely be a family effort since she types slower than I.
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