Activism

Reflections On The Future – Post Climate Strike Musings

September 21, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. Strategize! Activism, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Youth

Millions of people came together yesterday for the Global Climate Strike. I was in New York City with some 250,000 other people and the energy, along with other people’s sweaty bodies, was palpable. I came as part of the People’s Mobilization, an effort to connect the issues of US empire and war with climate chaos, and from this intersection build power. After all, the US military is the world’s single largest consumer of fossil fuels, equal to the emissions of 140 countries. If we are to realistically mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the military industrial complex is a good (and necessary) place to start. But the issue of war has been largely lacking in the hot topic of climate justice so a coalition of folks, not least of all those on the receiving end of US bombs, felt the issue needed to be raised.

The Rise Of A New Climate Activism

September 6, 2019 By Sophie Yeo, Theecologist.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change

I saw Greta Thunberg for the first time in Poland at the end of last year. It was during the early days of the Katowice UNclimate negotiations. She was sitting in a makeshift TV studio, having her pigtails re-tied. I was in a hurry, chasing too many stories down at once, and paid little attention to this 15-year-old girl. Of course, I’d heard of Greta by that point. I’d received several emails inviting me to press conferences where she was speaking, but I hadn’t taken the bait. I had recently written about the Juliana v United States litigation, where a group of young people sued the government for failing to protect them against climate change...

This Is What Activism Does To Your Body

August 14, 2019 By Jolie A. Doggett, Huffpost.com Educate! Activism, Ferguson, mental health, police brutality

August 9 marks five years since a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. While accounts of exactly what happened vary, Wilson shot Brown at least six times ― twice in the head. Brown’s bloody body was left on a residential street for four hours in broad daylight. Weeks of demonstrations, vigils and protests followed. These protests eventually turned into riots with militarized police officers on one side and fed-up Black residents on another.

Repression Of Climate Activism In Switzerland

August 6, 2019 Collectiv Climate Justice and Breakfree Suisse, Popular Resistance. Resist! Activism, climate crisis, Criminal Justice System, Switzerland

Since 2016, civil disobedience actions in several swiss cities have targeted banks (Crédit Suisse and UBS) investing heavily in the expansion of fossil fuel extraction, particularly "extreme" fossil fuels, such as canadian tar sands and fracking. The Swiss financial sector causes 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions than Switzerland itself. Between 2016 and 2018, investments of UBS and Credit Suisse totalled 83.3 billion USD. These are climate crimes, considering that according to the IPCC only a quarter of conventional fossil fuel reserves can be exploited if we are to avoid warming of over 2 degrees and the resultant climate chaos. Until lately, the banks and authorities had tolerated repeated occupations, hoping to avoid negative publicity, but are now reacting more and more violently as the movement grows in size and determination.

Extinction Rebellion Calls On Congress To Declare A Climate Emergency Using Superglue

July 24, 2019 Staff, Extinctionrebellion.us Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Reform

Washington, D.C., July 23 – Following the weekend’s “heat emergency” and a slew of flash floods in D.C., the climate group Extinction Rebellion (XR) brought business-as-usual to a halt in Congress Tuesday with an unprecedented act of mass civil disobedience. Activists used superglue to physically attach themselves to key passages in the House Office buildings, blocking members of Congress just before a vote in the Capitol building. The climate activists demanded the speedy passage of the climate emergency resolution, which is currently sitting idle in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Pipeline Fighter Blocks Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction

July 16, 2019 Staff, Facebook.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/ Resist! Activism, Pipelines, Virginia

Montgomery County, VA — Yesterday, pipeline fighter Phillip Flagg locked himself in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline near Elliston, VA. MVP has been clearing and grading this section of the pipeline’s path in preparation to lay pipe. Phillip laid his body in the easement and locked his body to an underground concrete blockade directly in the path of the pipeline. His action stopped MVP work at the site for 7 hours, preventing the company’s progression towards the nearby Yellow Finch tree sits. Around 5:30 pm, Phillip was extracted from his blockade and arrested.

Prime Day Brings Out Anti-Amazon Wave Of Protests And Activism

July 16, 2019 Ben Fox Rubin, Cnet.com Resist! Activism, Amazon, Protests

Demonstrations happened in Minnesota, New York, Seattle and San Francisco, as well as across Europe. While Amazon is working to push its big Prime Day summer sale this week, activists and unions are using the day to highlight their many concerns about the world's biggest online store. Their concerns vary widely, from working conditions in warehouses to climate issues to its ties to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Much of the activist attention in the US was directed at Shakopee, Minnesota, where Amazon warehouse workers protested Monday...

Rising Tide Calls For Call Climate Actions

July 16, 2019 Staff, Risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Natural Disasters

Time is running out. The climate crisis is at our doorstep. Communities around the world are already being battered by the earliest effects of the changing climate–superstorms, floods, wildfires and droughts. And still not moving any closer to actualizing the dramatic transformation of our energy systems and economy that we all know are needed to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. The situation is bleak, but we are hopeful. Around the world, people are stepping up to take bold direct action to confront the climate crisis.

Extinction Rebellion’s Massive Summer Uprising

July 7, 2019 Catherine Early, The Ecologist. Resist! Activism, climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, United Kingdom (UK)

Climate activists Extinction Rebellion (XR) is urging supporters to sign up to action in five UK cities over the summer which will be “as large, if not larger” than its April protests in the capital. Action will take place in Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and London from 15 July. Each site will see different action, for a different amount of time, but all will demand that the government acts immediately to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025, XR said. In June, the government signed a target to bring the UK economy to net zero by 2050 into law, following analysis by its advisors, the Committee on Climate Change, that the previous target of an 80% reduction could be beaten.

Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On

July 4, 2019 Ann Garrison, San Francisco Bay View. Educate! Activism, Black Panthers, Green party, Media

A giant has joined the ancestors. Black Agenda Report editor, lifelong organizer, and deep thinker Bruce Dixon made his transition on June 28, surrounded by his family in Atlanta, Georgia. I always hesitate to use a phrase like “joined the ancestors,” derived from African traditions, for fear of sounding like some white person who imagines they’re Black, but I think Bruce would be OK with it here. He often helped me navigate cross-cultural terrain. Once I called to ask him whether “Black” was, as I imagined, a uniquely American construction. He told me it couldn’t be more American, and that James Brown had sealed the deal in 1968 when he recorded “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud.” The term has been used in other contexts and countries, usually with a small “b,” but without reference to Black America’s distinct cultural heritage.

Because ‘Another World Is Possible,’ Tens Of Thousands Of Activists Stage Climate Mobilizations In Germany

June 24, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Nationofchange.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Germany, Protest Demonstrations

Chanting “we are unstoppable, another world is possible,” thousands of activists in Germany set off Friday to occupy a coal mine as tens of thousands of other demonstrators mobilized in a separate German city as part of the swelling “Fridays for Future” climate actions. Activists Organizers with Ende Gelände (EG) mobilization say that roughly 4,000 people departed their protest camp in the western city of Viersen to head to the Garzweiler surface mine, operated by energy company RWE, some 12 miles (20 kilometers) away.

The Bottom Line: Go For The Money

May 31, 2019 By Rivera Sun, Popular Resistance Strategize! Activism, Nonviolent Action

It's rare to hear business magazines admit the power of nonviolent action. As the editor of Nonviolence News, a service that collects and shares 30-50+ stories of nonviolence in action each week, I often see business journals minimizing the effect of activism. Usually, industry tries to conceal the impact nonviolent action has on their bottom line by chalking it up to market pressures—as with the case of Shell's Arctic drilling rig. Business magazines credited falling fossil fuel prices with the decision to withdraw from drilling in the Arctic.

The Power To Withdraw Our Consent From Systems Of Violence

May 28, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Activism, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Plow shares

According to the director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Renata Dwan, the risk of nuclear war is the highest it has been since World War II. Last year, seven plow shares activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia to protest the Trident submarine, calling it "the world's deadliest nuclear weapon," to bring attention to this risk. They poured blood on it and beat on it with hammers to symbolize the biblical statement, to "beat swords into plow shares." We speak with four of the seven, the other three are in prison, about why they took this action, how it connects to the triple evils identified by Martin Luther King of "racism, extreme materialism, and militarism," and what can be done to stop this threat.

Extinction Rebellion ‘Must Address Safety And Security Concerns’

May 26, 2019 Chris Saltmarsh, The Ecologist. Organize! Activism, Criminal Justice, Extinction Rebellion

Legal advice group Green and Black Cross (GBC) has taken the unprecedented step of making a public statement raising a series of legal and security concerns around Extinction Rebellion (XR). The statement was published just days after the organisation, which provides legal support and solidarity to those involved in protest activity, entered a three month recuperation period. The main take-away is that GBC have said that they are no longer willing to continue the work of supporting XR. They had done this through help, advice and training; legal observing; and back office support.

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