Shave our arm pits! We dun need to shave our stinkin arm pits! We are in the Sierra Club.
Posted on 06/25/2002 12:49:36 PM PDT by RooRoobird14
From the Sierra Club's Web Site profiling their leaders (not making this up):
"Rhonda Anderson - Detroit, Mich. Environmental Justice Organizer (?????LOL!)
"Rhonda Anderson came of age in Detroit during the '60s and remembers it all like yesterday: the assassinations, the Black Panthers, Vietnam, riots, tanks rolling through her neighborhood.
"The day Martin Luther King was killed, I saw this huge black cloud coming down the street. It was kids from one high school coming to gather the students at our school to join them in a march through the streets. The first person in the crowd was a girl. She had her fist raised and was yelling, 'Black Power! Black Power!' I will never forget that."
Since then, Anderson has worked for equal rights for blacks and women; delivered food, condoms and hygiene kits to prostitutes in her city;helped homeless girls find jobs or return to school. She was part of the effort to shut down a polluting incinerator, and then worked in a juvenile detention center where most of the inmates are black. It occurred to her that many Detroit youth show the effects of growing up in a toxic environment - a sad fact she's working to change by, for instance, getting industrial sites cleaned up.
"To me, being black has been a war," Anderson says. "I've always fought, always struggled against a power that appears bigger than I am. But I know I'm making a difference by organizing my community. People tell me so."
Lisa Lewis
"Lisa Lewis, a Colorado Native, a Sierra Club member and the current Chair of the Gay and Lesbian Section (GLS), has been concerned with the environment's fragile state and population growth since her youth. In her past, Lisa protested at Rocky Flats and then ironically ended up working for the Rio Grande Railroad moving radioactive boxcars. She is thus all too aware of the fact that we must 'tread lightly' to ensure our survival. She has dedicated her life to making others aware of the precarious balance between Mother Earth and Her human inhabitants."
"Lisa was a Green Peace Member originally but saw Sierra Club advertised at Pride Fest four years ago and has been with the Sierra Club ever since. Lisa became Chair of GLS last year and has seen the group grow quickly under her leadership. She was somewhat 'thrown into' the position and although she had no real training and no guidance on the direction to take with the group, she has been an impressive success to her members whose numbers are 240 and growing."
Roberta Brashear - Puna, Hawaii Chair, Hawaii Chapter
It took a while to get a hold of Roberta Brashear for an interview about her off-the-grid lifestyle in a Hawaiian rainforest - not because of a lack of any equipment, but rather because she was shooting photos of surfers in Indonesia. Photography is her hobby; teaching environmental studies and biology at Hawaii Community College in Hilo is her profession. And living in a 608-square-foot cabin without electricity has been her education.
"I was a city slicker from New Jersey who learned real fast," she laughs. Ten years ago, when she moved from Oahu to live on six acres she owned on the "Big Island," Brashear discovered it would cost nearly $5,000 to hook up to electricity, plus $2,000 per power pole. That's when she decided to make use of the island's abundant sunshine.
A friend helped her set up four solar panels, four batteries and a converter, which provide ample power for her television, VCR, computer and several lights. Her water source is rainfall stored in a 4,500 gallon catchment, and propane supplies her water pump, refrigerator and stove. The telephone and e-mail access make it easier to chair the chapter from her homestead.
"Sure, I gave up my toaster, rice cooker and hair dryer," says Brashear, "but you really don't need much to live sustainably - and very happily - in a pristine rainforest."
Shave our arm pits! We dun need to shave our stinkin arm pits! We are in the Sierra Club.
"Sure, I gave up my toaster, rice cooker and hair dryer," says Brashear, "but you really don't need much to live sustainably - and very happily - in a pristine rainforest."
LOL!
1. Where does this chick get all the money to do this?
2. No, it doesn't take much for one chick to "live sustainably" in a pristine rain forest. Of course, all that hardware of hers didn't come from there. I wonder where it came from?
And then we peel back a layer of the onion and look at that term again: "live sustainably." Can all 6 billion of us take up residence in a pristine rain forest? Ahhhh, we begin to see the underlying agenda -- too many people, and good Roberta probably wants to be the one to thin the herd.
Watch for some expose soon from the NRA...I can't say what, but something is in the works there.....
Some of these nutballs are about to get exposed.
"Sure, I gave up my toaster, rice cooker and hair dryer," says Brashear, "but you really don*t need much to live sustainably - and very happily - in a pristine rainforest."
UGH! Do they ever have forest fires in Hawaii???
Could some good Freeper explain to me the difference between "gay" environmental concerns and the regular kind?
You can't make this kind of idiocy up!!!
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