Today is Dennis Kucinich's 58th birthday. Dennis ran a campaign for ideas -- the primacy of law, social and environmental, over transnational capital flight and sweatshops -- the primacy of international treaty law over national and sub-national militaries. Good ideas. Ideas that most Americans support.
Thank you Dennis!
In 1977 Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, which is mostly made up of women, and which has planted 30,000,000 tree seedlings. A total of 1.7% of Kenya has been reforested. The UN recommendation is 10%. In December 2002 Ms. Maathai was elected to Parliment as a Green in the first free elections Kenya has held in decades. Today Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thank you Wangari!
Posted by EBW at October 8, 2004 11:36 AM | TrackBack