BOSTON — If they had global warming activism during the 1960s, it might have looked like Boston Common this past weekend.
Loudspeakers boomed Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Peter, Paul and Mary's version of "If I Had A Hammer," and several Pete Seeger songs as about 2,500 people gathered for what organizers called the People's Climate Mobilization Rally on Saturday.
Barack Obama showed up at the General Motors factory in Janesville, Wisconsin during the 2008 presidential campaign and proclaimed, "I believe that, if our government is there to support you and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years."
Instead the plant closed, leaving thousands of its workers and those at related businesses unemployed.
