New Orleans The Tides Momentum conference is designed to move and educate the Tides donor community by integrating them with organizations, activists, and thinkers. Ironically, the lessons that I kept taking from the event and the speakers was the urgency we must bring to our work to find more effective ways and means …
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Herr Obama
New Orleans Something very exciting seems to be happening in this presidential race. The fact that the McCain campaign refers Obama as “the One” just about says it all. Seeing the pictures on television and the newspapers of the crowds that listened to Obama speak in Berlin were amazing. German police estimate that …
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San Francisco In one of the final, powerful sets of Tides Momentum presentations a woman named Mary Anne Hitt, the executive director of Appalachian Voices, spoke about “mountain top removal” or what coal mountain removal and the destruction of 450 mountains in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There was a standing ovation from the crowd. …