By Glynn Wilson – The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the Colonial Pipeline explosion and fire in Helena, Alabama, which killed one worker and seriously injured four others. The major gasoline pipeline, built in 1963, that had already busted in September and was leaking, causing fears of a gas shortage in…
Standing Rock Sioux Protest is About More than Stopping One Pipeline – By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Justice Rowland, a young Lakota man camped out in the overflow Sacred Stone camp here, grew up in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. But back in April when he heard about the Standing Rock Sioux protest…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Winter is coming to Cannon Ball, North Dakota, so time is of the essence if the public is going to support the actions of the Standing Rock Sioux, clearly a historic moment in the human struggle for survival on planet Earth. Those of us who have camped…
By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – According to the Morton County sheriff’s department, 83 people were arrested on Saturday while protesting a controversial North Dakota oil pipeline and pepper spray was used in what the local cops called a “riot.” Saturday’s arrests occurred in a confrontation with police after around 300 demonstrators trespassed…
By Glynn Wilson and Walter Simon – On a mission to investigate what’s going on with the pipeline protest in Cannonball, North Dakota and the privatization of the national parks out west, we departed from Mobile, Alabama on Friday, Sept. 23, and drove for about 8 hours to Jonesboro, Arkansas, where we hooked up with…
By Walter Simon – RED CANYON, Utah — After 9 years of teaching, trying to get the financial support of the local community to be a living working artist, and searching for true love, I feel now like a lot of people from Alabama, that she took me for granted. Maybe this is her true…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wy. – Standing still in a mountain meadow as snowflakes begin to fall on a herd of bison along Beartooth Pass, you get the feeling of arriving in an ancient and distant land before human civilization began to eat away at nature and churn the…
By Walter Simon – CUSTER, S.D. – Fortuitous Mojo granted us the luck of landing in Custer, South Dakota, where we planned a stop-over on the way to Yellowstone. We had no idea until yesterday that today, Sunday, would be one of only two times a year the public are allowed to scale the mountain…
“Art at its highest and nature at its truest are one.” — Knute E. Westerlind, the architect of Municipal Auditorium in Sioux City, Iowa, designed in 1938 and finished in 1950 By Glynn Wilson – CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. — From this vantage point looking out from the American Creek Campground, the Missouri River looks as blue…
By Tom Goldtooth and Annie Leonard – Over the last month, thousands of Native Americans from across the country have converged to camp in and around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to oppose the construction of the multibillion-dollar Dakota Access oil pipeline. The pipeline, which would transfer crude oil to existing pipelines…
By Glynn Wilson – After protests turned violent in North Dokota with a private company using pepper spray and attack dogs on Native Americans, the Obama administration intervened on Friday and blocked the construction of an oil pipeline on federal land. The prospect of a $3.7 billion pipeline crossing four states bordering on native lands…
Watch the video here… By Glynn Wilson WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 17 – During President’s Day weekend and in freezing temperatures and against a brutal wind, more than 35,000 activists marched from the Washington Monument around the White House to support immediate action to contain climate change due to global warming. People from more than 30…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – Some writers claim to compose in their head while in the shower. That’s not my style. I mostly like short showers anyway, on the road, unless I can find a bathtub somewhere. Writing has long come easy to me. Except in…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – You never know what you’re going to find until you find it. Mark Twain once said “travel is fatal to prejudice.” But prejudice is not my problem. The Bible says the love of money is the root of evil, but that’s not my problem…
Will people finally wake up when they finally feel the hurt? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – They say life is a journey, and you never know where you might end up. For many people, life seems more like a slog, from one hard day of work for a bad boss and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – HARDY, Ark. – It takes time to get oriented in a new place as a writer, especially after experiencing nearly catastrophic trauma on the road. But less than two weeks after leaving Maryland and passing through Virginia, West Virginia, a sliver of Missouri and crossing the Mississippi…
By Glynn Wilson – The third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was mostly about telling the story of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee and keynote speaker, with the theme of American freedom. But it was not the laissez-faire economic free market capitalism of libertarians and conservative Republicans of old…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – From on top of the mountain looking down at the world over the internet, it looks like a blue sea change is rolling across the country. Even Mother Nature on this blue planet appears to be cooperating somehow, if the weather around here is any indication. It’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The race is on. Only 90 days to go. And Tim Walz for Veep? Wow! “We can sleep when we’re dead” indeed. More like a country singer than a rock star, a cross between Harry Truman, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, while the vice…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Space exploration occupies some of my thoughts of late. Wonder what’s become of Voyager 1? The first of its kind space probe launched in 1977 when I was right out of high school? Is it out there somewhere past Pluto, still transmitting? This is the…
