Jim Britell

– AI Claude 3.5’s “personal” views on controversial enviro issues

AI /

A new Ai program from Anthropic, Claude*, recent version 3.5, has demonstrated oddly human conversational qualities. Recently I have been conversing with it about environmental matters and the conflict between wild fish and fish hatcheries, particularly the prevailing view that tribal values and interests are paramount in discussing wild Salmon. Initially, our conversation about wild […]

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– Forest Voice

Uncategorized /

The Forest Voice was a widely nationally distributed newsmagazine in the 1990’s that  carried the plight of west coast  ancient forests all over the country. It was noted for no compromise hair-raising graphics and articles characteristic of the Zerocut faction of the Ancient Forest  community. 

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– Bankhead Monitor

Organizing /

The Bankhead Monitor was a 1990’s publication from Alabama which waged an all, out -no holds barred unrelenting attack, often personal on the Government agencies and managers who were trying to clear cut the Bankhead National Forest. It set a high bar for media that mobilizes and arouses public opinion in defense of our public

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– HANDBOOK: HOW TO STOP BAD PROJECTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Advice, Organizing, Publications /

WHY DOES YOUR TOWN NEED LAND-USE ADVOCACY? In many urban areas today, just driving to the store for milk is a time-consuming hassle; communities nationwide are disfigured by nearly identical vistas of Taco Bells, McDonalds, Dollar Stores and Dairy Queens. This overdevelopment and sprawl has resulted in part from citizens not being involved in community

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– EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGNS USE ONE-PAGE ALERTS & SIGN-ON LETTERS

Advice, Organizing /

Every grassroots campaign needs a basic call-to-action that clearly and dramatically summarizes your issue. You cannot have a serious campaign without one. Your alert should be compelling, well-written, accurate, and persuasive; and must contain a wealth of information condensed into one page. Your alert should give a brief background explaining what you want people to

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– Why Polluter’s Victims Hate Enviros More Than Polluters

Politics /

Neoliberalism, embraced mostly by and for rich people, naturally would have local, financially interested people play a vital role in arriving at decisions about the business use of public assets. The Alinsky approach tries to ensure that people with vested financial interests and rampant conflicts-of-interest are completely excluded from deciding the outcome of federal land

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– What Al Capone, Saul Alinsky’s Mentor, Taught Him

Misc, Organizing /

There are some larger and little discussed issues around the growing trend that seeks to resolve all conflict with partnerships, roundtables, win-win and consensus processes. These approaches have not just suddenly appeared in a vacuum. America’s fundamental assumptions about the political decision-making process itself are being systematically reshaped by a new political theory called neoliberalism,

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