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Category Archives: Activism
Great Plains tribal chairmen walk out on State Dept Keystone XL consultation
Indian Country Today Media Network reports: Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a Keystone XL pipeline tribal consultation meeting with U.S. State Department officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, on May 16, calling the … Continue reading
James Hansen on NASA retirement and climate action
Sustainability Media Lab shot this video interview on April 10 with James Hansen on why he left NASA, his next steps, how the energy industry is impeding urgent climate action, and his wish for his grandchildren:
On crossing paths with citizen Jim Hansen, and the question: What are you ready to do?
Jim Hansen had just spoken out against mountaintop removal coal mining at the Appalachia Rising rally in Washington, DC, in 2010. About 1,000 of us participants, most of whom were from the Appalachian grassroots, were about to demonstrate through the … Continue reading
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Calling on Obama to hold a solutions-oriented national climate summit
A unique bi-partisan coalition is urging President Obama to follow up his State of the Union commitment to address global climate disruption by hosting a solutions-focused national climate summit. The summit should be linked directly with concurrent action-planning meetings hosted by … Continue reading
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Photos from the climate demonstration in Washington DC February 17
Here is some of what we saw as we joined in the Forward on Climate demonstration that drew tens of thousands of people to the Washington Monument grounds and the White House on February 17 -- by far the largest … Continue reading
48 arrested in civil disobedience at White House to stop Keystone XL pipeline and push Obama on climate action
This morning, 48 environmental, civil rights, and community leaders from across the country joined together for a historic display of civil disobedience at the White House where they demanded that President … Continue reading
On acting to block the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
If we don’t say no now, when will we say no? The push to permit and build the pipeline has power and wealth on its side -- and some who should know better are either supporting it or playing down … Continue reading
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Join the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C., on February 17
At 12 Noon on Sunday, February 17, thousands of Americans will gather at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history. Demonstrators will march to the White House to let Barack … Continue reading
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Fossil fuel divestment campaign: “If it’s wrong to wreck the climate then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.”
On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in … Continue reading
Message to enviro groups: No more co-optation by Obama on climate change
During Obama's first term environmental groups were complicit in enabling what became years of ‘climate silence,’ by allowing themselves to be co-opted by a White House messaging strategy to talk about ‘clean energy’ but not climate change. It’s time they … Continue reading
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