| Name: | dooley |
| Location: | Brooklyn, NY |
| # Posts: | 10 |
Steve Dooley is ACP's Community Outreach Director. In addition to the UTru Blog, he works on ACP's QuASU, Action Cooperative, Open Caucus, and Microloans for Social Change projects. Prior to working at ACP, Steve and his partner Liz spent a year traveling through North & South America. Before this "year of living," Steve worked for four years as a community organizer at ACORN. | |
Climate Change, Mountain Top Removal, and NYC
Posted on 2008-07-09 12:02:16 by dooley
As we all know, the climate is changing with disastrous consequences. Last week's New Yorker has a harrowing account of the current predictions . . . and, sorry for the downer, but with massive population displacements, vast food and water shortages, environmental collapse, and raging regional and g
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Posted on 2008-07-03 07:39:03 by dooley
So, last week I was watching The Daily Show and Jon Stewart starts tearing into Barack Obama over public financing. Now, I’ve certainly had my fair share of “I’m not voting for anyone, because it’s the whole system that’s messed up” feelings, but in the last few months I’ve started to come around on
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Corn, Profit, and the Food Crisis
Posted on 2008-06-25 10:50:33 by dooley
In The Omnivore’s Dilemma -- one of the NY Times’ “10 Best Books of 2006” and the winner of the James Beard Award – author Michael Pollan talks a lot about corn. Corn, it turns out, is in just about everything we consume – it’s in our cars, it’s in our packaging, and it’s in nearly every part of
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Response to Roger Cohen on Ireland
Posted on 2008-06-19 08:51:26 by dooley
OK, first read this Op-Ed article in the NY Times by Roger Cohen. Now, I just spent the last two weeks in Ireland – the time leading up to the vote on the Lisbon Treaty, voting day, and a few days after. After talking about the vote with lots of everyday Irish I can tell you this: their rejection
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Mindfulness and the Food Crisis
Posted on 2008-05-19 08:05:13 by dooley
Though the world food crisis has slipped away from front-page news, it’s still as threatening as ever. Just look at Friday's NY Times article and read about how Afghanistan’s “flour and bread prices suddenly doubled in the space of two weeks in May.” Why is this crisis happening? There are a lot
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