One of the many things that blew my mind when I watched “Heat” was the fact that there is a coal-fired power plant a stone’s throw from the Capitol, and that many legislatures treat it like their baby, resisting any changes to it, even ones that would make it cleaner (and would presumably boost the PR potential for coal).

Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben, environmental educators and sometimes activists, have sent an open invitation to join them when they occupy the Capitol coal plant in an act of civil disobedience, on Monday, March 2nd.

When I lived in New Orleans after the storm, I helped arrange media coverage and attorney assistance when Common Ground Collective occupied a grade school in the Ninth Ward (the city was refusing to clean and reopen it).  But I felt detached from the event, sitting as I was a mile away by phone lines and computers.

I’d like to be there, on the front line, and will try to make it to DC for March 2nd.  Let me know if you’d like to join.