Saturday, November 19, 2011

Occupy the Ocean, Occupy the Delta

Dan Bacher, AlterNet: "As the Occupy movement spreads throughout the nation and world, sustainable fishing communities, consumer groups and grassroots environmentalists have mobilized to stop the 1 percent from stealing ocean public trust resources from the 99 percent. This week the U.S. Congress is expected to vote on a critical bill that would continue a recently instituted ban on a wasteful government program that gives large corporations control of the nation's fishery resources, in effect privatizing the ocean's public trust resources. The Obama regime is promoting a 'catch shares' program for fisheries that, like the Wall Street bailouts, will concentrate money and natural resources in fewer hands."
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