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Save Porter Ranch, Porter Ranch Gas Leak, Jack Eidt

Climate, Energy

Dire Ecological Consequences of the Porter Ranch Gas Leak

January 25, 2016 by Jack Eidt 7 comments

The ongoing ecological disaster has been “temporarily controlled” in Porter Ranch, California, an affluent Los Angeles suburb. Yet, families continue to get sick, and SoCalGas/Sempra wants to oversee the testing inside of homes. While the Regional Air Quality regulators requested they close the leaking well down, the AQMD failed to listen to community demands for a permanent shut down of Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.

Politics and Advocacy

Lessons in Peaceful Civil Disobedience: Occupy Los Angeles

October 17, 2011 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Prez Obama: “Progress was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire hoses. It was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats. For every victory during the height of the civil rights movement there were setbacks.”