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• Bordentown inks deal with Chesterfield, North Hanover – Pact will provide 100% local food

• Local Artists Occupy, Rejuvenate Shuttered Ocean Spray Plant

• NJ Transit announces Statewide Inter-City Rail and Urban trolley plan

• “Green Energy NJ Co-Op” formed – Public Agency Will Generate, and Distribute 100% Renewable Power By 2030

• Lisa Jackson Returns To NJ With Bill Gates To Announce Apple Computer Will Join Trek Bicycles to Finance GreenMotion – $ 200 Billion Joint Venture Will Convert Former NJ Urban Industrial Blight Into State of the Art Electric Car & Bicycle Manufacturing – Phase I to provide 10,000 jobs by 2020.

• US Steel and General Motors Announce Plan To Manufacture Wind Turbine Plants in NJ – Worker Owned Project Will Supply Atlantic Coast Wind, create 20,000 jobs

• PSEG and JCP&L Liquidate Assets – Sell Power Plants and Distribution System to “Green Energy Co-Op”

• US Attorney Fishman Indicts Gov. Christie and 7 Others on Conspiracy and Fraud Charges – Gov. Faces 20 Years In Prison, Resigns In Disgrace Claiming: “I am Not A Crook or a Liar”

• Legislature Enacts Package or New Revenues To Finance Infrastructure Deficits and Create 25,000 New Jobs – Will Generate $10 Billion/Yr From Set Of Millionaire Wealth, Carbon Fuels Phaseout, & Financial Transaction Taxes

• DEP Announces Plan To Require That All Drinking Water and Wastewater Discharge Plants Install State of the Art Pollution Controls

• New Water Supply Plan Will Reduce Water Consumption By 25% Over Next Decade

• BPU and DCA Finance $100 Billion Energy Efficiency Program – Will Reduce Energy Demand By 25% and Generate 40,000 Local Jobs

• NJ Department of Corrections Announces Phase Out of State Prison System – Joins With COAH and Habitat for Humanity In Affordable Housing Project – Former Prisoners Will Build Thousands of Housing Units At Living Wage

•  Port Authority Announces Closure of Regional Airports – Founding Member of National Inter-City High Speed Rail Consortium

• NJ National Guard Works Closely With Pentagon on President Obama’s “Bringing Them Home” Initiative – Military Bases Converted to Civilian Uses – Millions of former Troops Join New National Conservation Corps (NCC)

• National Conservation Corps Announces Plans to Plant 50 Million Trees In NJ Cities – NCC Will Create 10,000 Miles of Hiking trails and Bike Lanes Over Next 5 Years

• NJ Foundations Announce “People First” Initiative:  Funds To Be Reallocated To Small Local Grasroots Groups Serving Urban and Poor People

• School Development Authority Will Build Hundreds Of New Public Schools And Oversee Dismantling Of NJ’s Racist Apartheid School System: Racial Balance and Statewide Funding Equity By 2020

• NJ Uses Legislative Power To Seize Assets of Private Hospitals and Health Care Institutions – New Public Health Plan Expands Charity Care and Will Provide Single Payer Public Health System For All New Jerseyans

• NJ State Police Leads “Protect and Serve” Effort To Dismantle Militarized Police Forces – Disbands SWAT Apparatus and Forms Citizen Review Boards With Investigatory and Subpoena Powers

• NJ Department of Labor MAkes Adjustments to Comply with New National Requirements: Age 60 retirement; max. 28 hour work week, 7 hour workday, SS COLA payments

• NJ Department of Education Announces Free College Tuition Plan

• “Citizen -Green Party” Announces Slate of Candidates in 21 Counties and 120 State Legislative Races – New Public Campaign Finance Law Opens the Door to Fresh Blood

If you’ve read this far, you probably know that virtually none of this is happening.

Are any groups organizing on this kind of vision and program? Making these kind of demands?

If not, why such a lack of vision?

Are NJ Foundations, who make warm fuzzy liberal noises about social and environmental justice and sustainable development, funding any of this kind of work?

If not, why not?

None of this defies the laws of physics – and we have the wealth to make it happen.