"Cape Koch" protest rocks both bridges Friday
Banners reading "Welcome to Cape Koch" were held for the hordes of vacationers arriving for Memorial Day Weekend
Article | News | | By Walter Brooks
350 Massachusetts climate activists held the banner at the Sagamore Bridge from 2-5 yesterday afternoon.
Website uses farce and facts to tell the truth
Banners reading "Welcome to Cape Koch - capekoch.org" were held for the masses arriving for Memorial Day Weekend at the Bourne Bridge from 2-4 and at the Sagamore Bridge from 2-5 yesterday afternoon.
These youthful protesters not only "walked the walk" yesterday, they "talked the talk" with a supporting website which poked fun and sharp barbs at billionaire anti-wind farm funder Bill Koch of Osterville.
If, as Philip Roth said, "Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art", the youthful protesters who created "Cape Koch" are artists indeed.
The lampoon web site begins with an asterisk which leads to a disclaimer: “capekoch.org is a satirical website that uses a combination of farce and fact to tell the truth."
Among the hilarious (but fake) Koch quotes is this one,
It continues to satirize Koch by farcically quoting him saying:
The entire screed on the group's new website is well worth the read. It is witty without rancor, wise without wordiness and educative without being pedantic.
Labor Day Weekend march to protest one of the "Dirty Dozen"
While the campaign will have many more actions throughout the Cape over the next 6 months, a very large and media-worthy event will be a march over Labor Day Weekend from the Brayton Point coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, to Barnstable.
The Toxics Actions Center has named the Brayton Point Power Station one the Dirty Dozen power plants in New England, and it's southeast of Cape Cod from where our winds come.
The march will literally and figuratively show the way to a clean energy future, and call for a rapid and massive clean energy transition to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the damage of runaway global warming.
In addition to the march the groups will put on other demonstrations and actions by 350 Massachusetts throughout the state over the course of the summer.
The protesters were from Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts.
Things don't go better with Koch on Cape Cod
Poor Bill Koch - first his wives leave him, then he wastes millions in a failed effort to stop America's first offshore wind farm, and now he is lampooned by protestors on both bridges to Cape Cod yesterday afternoon.Banners reading "Welcome to Cape Koch - capekoch.org" were held for the masses arriving for Memorial Day Weekend at the Bourne Bridge from 2-4 and at the Sagamore Bridge from 2-5 yesterday afternoon.
These youthful protesters not only "walked the walk" yesterday, they "talked the talk" with a supporting website which poked fun and sharp barbs at billionaire anti-wind farm funder Bill Koch of Osterville.
If, as Philip Roth said, "Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art", the youthful protesters who created "Cape Koch" are artists indeed.
The lampoon web site begins with an asterisk which leads to a disclaimer: “capekoch.org is a satirical website that uses a combination of farce and fact to tell the truth."
Among the hilarious (but fake) Koch quotes is this one,
"I know that my friends in Oyster Harbors will agree with me here, there is one thing about the Cape that must never, ever, never, never, never be allowed to change: my precious view of Nantucket Sound. I will be very upset if that Cape Wind thing gets built out there. As I’ve asked before, “why would you want to sail in a forest of windmills?” I just spent $26 million to buy two gorgeous properties with breathtaking seascape vistas, and I’ll be damned if some energy developer obsessed with windmills is allowed to ruin my viewshed".
It continues to satirize Koch by farcically quoting him saying:
"Please be patient, as it will take some time to change official signage across the Cape, and some of the bureaucrats on Beacon Hill aren’t so pleased and will try to slow things down. As I’ve said before, “I don’t know how to get any traction with them because I really have nothing to offer to Massachusetts politicians except money.” And as I and brothers Charles and David know all too well, you can buy some of the politicians some of the time, but you can’t buy all of the politicians all of the time. Sigh."
The entire screed on the group's new website is well worth the read. It is witty without rancor, wise without wordiness and educative without being pedantic.
Labor Day Weekend march to protest one of the "Dirty Dozen"
While the campaign will have many more actions throughout the Cape over the next 6 months, a very large and media-worthy event will be a march over Labor Day Weekend from the Brayton Point coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, to Barnstable.
The Toxics Actions Center has named the Brayton Point Power Station one the Dirty Dozen power plants in New England, and it's southeast of Cape Cod from where our winds come.
The march will literally and figuratively show the way to a clean energy future, and call for a rapid and massive clean energy transition to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the damage of runaway global warming.
In addition to the march the groups will put on other demonstrations and actions by 350 Massachusetts throughout the state over the course of the summer.
The protesters were from Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts.
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