#Hoboken

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42nd Street Subway, NYC, 2024. St. Ann Festival, Hoboken, NJ, 2024.

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A Complete Unknown-June 11, 2024 💥💥💥

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NIRVANA, 28.04.90 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ 🇺🇸.

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Tim from set

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Article Date: 7 June 2023

Climate litigation in the US could be entering a “game changing” new phase, experts believe, with a spate of lawsuits around the country set to advance after a recent supreme court decision, and with legal teams preparing for a trailblazing trial in a youth-led court case beginning next week.

The first constitutional climate lawsuit in the US goes to trial on Monday next week (12 June) in Helena, Montana, based on a legal challenge by 16 young plaintiffs, ranging in age from five to 22, against the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies.

A federal judge ruled last week that a federal constitutional climate lawsuit, also brought by youth, can go to trial.

More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil and gas, and actively hid that information from consumers and investors.

The supreme court cleared the way for these cases to advance with rulings in April and May that denied oil companies’ bids to move the venue of such lawsuits from state courts to federal courts.

Hoboken, New Jersey, last month added racketeering charges against oil majors to its 2020 climate lawsuit, becoming the first case to employ the approach in a state court and following a federal lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico last November.

the new forms of climate litigation are different, as they grapple not with particular projects’ emissions, but on responsibility for the climate crisis itself. Sokol, who dubbed these new suits “climate accountability litigation”, says though they will not alone lower emissions, they could help reshape climate plans.

In the US, this litigation has taken a variety of forms; perhaps the best known cases are based on constitutional rights and brought by youth.

One of those cases, Held v Montana, is based on the state’s constitutional guarantees to a clean and healthy environment, which were enshrined in the 1970s and which the plaintiffs say the state has violated by supporting fossil fuels. It will next week become the first-ever constitutional climate lawsuit to go to trial in the US.

Held v Montana followed the highly publicized 2015 Juliana v United States in which 21 young people from Oregon sued the US government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by enacting policies that drove and exacerbated the climate crisis. The case, which like the Montana suit was filed by the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust, calls on federal officials to phase out fossil fuels.

Last week, a US district court ruled in favor of the youth plaintiffs, allowing that their claims can be decided at trial in open court.

Litigation based on state constitutional rights, also filed by Our Children’s Trust, is currently pending in four other states. One of those cases brought by Hawaii youth is set to go to trial, possibly as soon as this fall.

Another set of lawsuits in the US allege that the fossil fuel industry has for decades known about the dangers of burning coal, oil and gas, and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. Since 2017, seven states, 35 municipalities, the District of Columbia, and one industry trade association have sued major fossil fuel corporations and lobbying groups on these grounds.

In late April, lawyers for the city of Hoboken amended a 2020 complaint to allege that the defendants violated New Jersey’s racketeering laws by conspiring to sow doubt about climate change.

It marked the first-ever state-level lawsuit of its kind, following one last year in which 16 Puerto Rico cities brought federal racketeering charges, originally used to bring down criminal enterprises like the mafia, against big oil.

Unlike some previous cases, Hoboken’s amended lawsuit focuses not only on past misinformation, but also on contemporary greenwashing – something that could feature prominently in future cases.

A study last month examined litigation against fossil fuel majors and found that the filing of a new case or a court decision against a corporation took a slight toll on their finances. Novel developments – including a groundbreaking 2021 Netherlands court ruling ordering Shell to substantially slash its carbon emissions, and an unprecedented transnational claim filed in 2012 by a Peruvian farmer against a German energy company – yielded bigger blows.

Sankar, of Earthjustice, said he expects to see new forms of climate litigation in future years. “As the impact on states and localities increases, they are increasingly going to be looking for ways in which their state and local laws protect them,” he said.

(shinigami red links in this post go to The Guardian)

Article Date: 7 June 2023

Article Source: Dharna Noor for The Guardian

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Thanks so much to @queerce for submitting!

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Ming Smith. Setting Out to Sea. Hoboken, New Jersey, 1972.

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Thanks to Daniel James Huppert for sharing this with us!

November 17, 2016  · New York, NY  · 

Throwback Thursday... (12/18/94), the first time I met Jeff Buckley. This was at Maxwell's in Hoboken, a few days before the release of his album, Grace. Today is Jeff's birthday. He would have been 50. I’m to his left with the long hair.

From comments on FB:

Daniel James Huppert

Correction: Grace was release a few months before, in August. So long ago, I got it mixed up. It was a few days before Christmas of '94. That must be what confused me. I still remember the winter chill in the air, as I walked into Maxwell's, and seeing Jeff waltzing around mingling. He climbed up on the bar and started licking plates of leftover food, lol. Reminds me, now that I think about it, of his lyrics in "So Real", "We walked around til the moon got full, like a plate."

Daniel James Huppert

Haha, someone remembers!!! I used to get mistaken for the lead singer of Candlebox SO OFTEN, it's gotten me on the Jumbotron at a Van Halen concert, into a Page/Plant reunion show, and VIP'd at parties. We'd roll with it, cuz it was Hiiiiiii-larious!!!

From Comments on Redit:

RevDaniel

I used to work at a Tower records, and someone put on Live at Sin-e. Hearing the scat high notes in The Way Young Lovers Do blew my mind. We knew a Sony rep, and a few of us were invited to see him perform in Hoboken NJ a few days before Christmas of either 93 or 94 (for the life of me, I can't recall which). We all had a private hang out session in the basement (that club's backstage area), and Jeff and the band were super nice. I still have a signed promo poster that he wrote "Happy Jesus Birth - Jeff Buckley". I've been a lifelong fan ever since hearing his music.

Yeah, he was pretty cool, in a quirky way. He was stirring olive oil on a dinner plate and licking it dry, haha! We talked a bunch. It’s been ages, but I remember him telling me one of his vocal influences was Judy Garland. I got photos with him somewhere. Coolest part was he remembered me, and we ended up hanging again at a Julianna Hatfield show he was opening for at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. He was whimsical, for sure. Very genuine.

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George Tice - Hoboken 1972

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11/12/24.

About once a month I run across a release like The Vines "Walk The Floor" - a band who released an album decades ago who now are posting the album on Bandcamp.

The Vines (Montclair, New Jersey) originally released "Walk The Floor" back in 1988 and it definitely has a 1980s jangle reminiscent of R.E.M or Let's Active. But there were so many other bands from the era that jangled comparably yet have been forgotten. We've covered a few over the years - The Wilmas, and The Wind, come to mind. Add The Vines to that list.

This also jangles like Downy Mildew or any number of bands on the Strum & Thrum compilation. The Vines played at Maxwell's (Hoboken) during the same era as fellow Hobokenites The Feelies and Yo La Tengo (who also jangled back in the 1980s). Best of all, this was produced by Mitch Easter. This was originally released by Hoboken based label Aquablue Records.

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Hoboken, NJ, 2024. Palisade.

The dictionary defines a palisade as a fence of stakes used especially for defense; as a line of bold cliffs; as a wall. The Palisades of Hudson County, New Jersey, are basalt outcroppings formed 200 million years ago when shifting tectonics pushed molten material up to the surface. Today, these cliffs line the western edge of the lower Hudson River, mirrored in the glass and steel of the skyscrapers rising to the east.   The remnants of the American Dream can be found on the street corners and in the storefronts of the working-class, immigrant communities of Jersey City, Union City and North Bergen that crowd together atop the Palisades and spill into the Meadowlands beyond. It’s a vibrant, dense and complex urban setting that’s forever in flux, aspiring for more. The latest disruption comes via a wealthier wave of migrants fleeing New York City in search of real estate.   My photographs document the places and people living on a wall that often divides and defines them. I don’t hope to explain this world with words; as the late John Berger wrote about photography: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” In Palisade, I’m interested in exploring this relationship — to understand how photographs can describe facts that words fail to explain, and connect the natural to the man-made, the fleeting to the eternal, and the foreign to the familiar. 

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Timothée Chalamet on the set of ‘A Complete Unknown’ on April 12, 2024 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Twitter credit to 21metgala

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Nirvana, 13.07.89 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ 🇺🇲.

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more Tim on set in Hoboken