Activism

Fighting Industrial Pollution In Kenya As Dangerous As Lead Poisoning

June 15, 2015 Sophie Morlin-Yron, www.truth-out.org Resist! Activism, Environment, health, Kenya, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Sophie Morlin-Yron in Truthout - Whilst campaigning, Omido escaped a possible kidnapping and has been arrested and imprisoned for her work. "They sent armed people after me, to wait for me at my house in the evening. That is the night that I fled and went to where I live now. She says that up until last month she received text messages from unknown international numbers threatening her and her son and telling her: "Stop talking about the Owino Uhuru case." She speaks about these threats very calmly and shows little sign of fear, as if she has grown used to it, but she tells me it wasn't always like this. "At first it was really bad. Like in 2012. I could not sleep in my bed. I would hold my son and I would put a mattress under the bed so that if someone peeked through the window they wouldn't have been able to see us. I was terrified."

Companies Fight Back Against Protesters With Financial Pressure

June 4, 2015 Sarah Alvarez, www.npr.org Resist! Activism, Civil Disobedience, Money, Oil & Gas

By Sarah Alvarez in NPR - "We were picketing in front of where they parked all their construction vehicles, and then my co-defendant and I stopped a truck and we locked our necks to the truck with U-locks that you use like for a bicycle," he says. Firefighters came and cut the locks. Both the protest and the detaching took about 90 minutes. Tarr and one other young man were arrested and charged with trespass — they expected that. What they didn't expect was that the company, Precision Pipeline, would use Michigan's crime victim restitution laws to assess charges to make up for the value of equipment and workers idled during their protest. Tarr now owes more than $39,000. That's twice as much in restitution as he owes in student loans.

Newsletter: Movements And Elections

May 31, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Activism, Electoral Politics, FERC, Mass Surveillance, Media, Patriot Act, Social Movements, TPP

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. Popular Resistance was created to help build a broad-based movement that is informed and acts strategically to challenge the status quo. There are so many crises today and we have been focused on trying to stop those crises from worsening (“stop the machine”) while using the fights and partial victories to build capacity for the movement. We have avoided putting emphasis on elections in part because it is important not to get caught up in the electoral cycle which has been nothing more than a periodic horse race between corporate candidates chosen through a rigged system. Instead, we hoped that more people would step out of the electoral cycle and take a longer-term view of the work that must be done to build a movement with real power.

To Defend The Environment Support Social Movements

April 27, 2015 Jeff Conant, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Activism, Central America, Environment, Indigenous People, Social Movements

The 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America has been awarded to Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Honduran woman who co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, known as COPINH. If there is one lesson to be learned from the events that earned Cáceres the prize it is this: to defend the environment, we must support the social movements. COPINH’s leadership has made it a driving force in preserving the country’s cultural and environmental heritage – and earned it the ire of loggers, dam-builders, palm oil interests, and others whose wealth depends on the depredation of the natural world and its defenders.

Portland City Council’s Earth Day Session Disrupted

April 24, 2015 Ted Sickinger, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Activism, Environment, Oregon, Portland

Portland City commissioners walked out of their Earth Day hearing Wednesday after opponents of a proposed propane export terminal in North Portland staged a small demonstration in council chambers. The council will vote soon on whether to amend zoning at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6 to allow the propane terminal to build a pipeline over land that is currently zoned for conservation. The vote has not been scheduled, but opponents have vowed a long and loud campaign to derail the project, proposed by a Canadian company, Pembina Pipeline. Wednesday's protest shook up Mayor Charlie Hales, who expressed strong support for the $500 million terminal project when it was first announced last September, and claimed it met all environmental and safety standards before any analysis had been presented on that front.

Canada Orders Fed Agencies To Keep Track Of All Protests

March 16, 2015 David Pugliese, www.ottawacitizen.com Resist! Aboriginal Rights, Activism, Canada, Surveillance

The federal government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country, a move that collects information even on the most mundane of protests by Canadians. The email requesting such information was sent out Tuesday by the Government Operations Centre in Ottawa to all federal departments. “The Government Operations Centre is seeking your assistance in compiling a comprehensive listing of all known demonstrations which will occur either in your geographical area or that may touch on your mandate,” noted the email, leaked to the Citizen.

Zimbabwe Activist Missing After Abduction In Unmarked Truck

March 16, 2015 David Smith, www.theguardian.com Resist! Activism, Human Rights, Law, Violence, Zimbabwe

Fears are growing for the safety of a political activist in Zimbabwe reported to have been abducted by five unidentified men almost a week ago and bundled into an unmarked truck near his home. The country’s high court on Friday ordered police and the state intelligence agency to search for Itai Dzamara, a former journalist who last year staged sit-in protests demanding the resignation of President Robert Mugabe. Dzamara’s disappearance echoes the darkest days of Zimbabwe’s political instability and has raised concerns of a fresh crackdown on political opponents, civil society activists and journalists. After his abduction on Monday, his wife approached the high court in Harare to force the police and the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to search for her husband.

Toward A Radical Climate Movement

March 13, 2015 Michael McCabe, www.logosjournal.com Create! Activism, Environment, Neo-Liberalism, Social Change, Social Justice

Given the failure of government to meet its obligation to mitigate climate change, it is clear that political protest is a tactic that must be pursued by the environmental justice community. Indeed, the historical record shows that a social movement is the most effective vehicle for forcing policy makers to respond to social problems. The recent International Day of Climate Action is a step in the right direction, and its attendance of over 300,000 participants in New York City alone should give us hope that such a social movement is possible. Perhaps equally significant is the fact that Pope Francis has identified climate change as a social issue that demands immediate action. That such a well-respected public figure is calling on ordinary people to respond to the needs of the environment lends additional credence to the idea that a social movement which addresses climate change is possible.

How Activism Won Real Net Neutrality

February 27, 2015 Jay Cassano, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Activism, FCC Internet, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Social Change

Today the Federal Communications Commission has adopted strong net neutrality rules that will require all traffic on the Internet to be treated equally. There will be no fast lanes for large corporations and slow lanes for independent voices. In the days and weeks to come a lot of ink will be spilled about the significance of the FCC’s new rules and the legal nuances of where they might fall short. But for the moment, it is worth reflecting on how this victory was won. This time last year, it looked like all bets were off for net neutrality. A Washington, D.C., district court had just shot down the FCC’s previous net neutrality rules in a lawsuit brought by Verizon. The task then fell to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist and former head lobbyist for both the cable and wireless industries, to draft new rules that would stand up in court. What followed was one of the most sustained and strategic activist campaigns in recent memory.

Environmental Action At Toronto Stock Exchange

February 16, 2015 The Real News, www.therealnews.com Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands

I'm here from Toronto350, and we're taking action for Global Divestment Day. Our message is that the tar sands are morally toxic and they're economically toxic. Morally, all of their share prices are based on 5 degrees of climate change, enough to start runaway climate change. Economically, if the oil price isn't above $95 a barrel, $271 billion of tar sands infrastructure won't break even over the next ten years. It's not an ethical investment. It's not even an economically sound investment. So our message is that we have to take power away by hitting them where it hurts and be the smart money and get out of the tar sands.

Balancing Being A Student With Activism

February 15, 2015 Faith Meckley, www.theithacan.org Educate! Activism, Education, Youth

We have to start asking ourselves; how is what I’m doing here relevant in a broader global context? What is my work here at IC leading to? Is my lifestyle individualistic or community focused? Our world is in crisis, and we can’t afford to get trapped in our own individual tunnels. The best way we can avoid getting boxed in is to pursue our passions. When we are immersed in the activities we truly and thoroughly enjoy, it has a tendency to put smiles on our faces that can’t help but spread to the faces of others. It is those thrilling, fulfilling moments we tend to remember, while the hours we spend laboring and fretting over an essay are recalled as an unintelligible blur. Am I telling you to blow off your education?

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