Climate Change

Australia’s Powerful Web Of Grassroots Climate Resistance

December 23, 2015 Nicola Paris, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Australia, Climate Change

By Nicola Paris for Waging Nonviolence - I’ve long been fascinated by spider webs, and their potential for movement metaphor. One thread can seem so flimsy and insignificant, but bound together, and woven with care, it can create structures capable of holding immense weight. We might not all be linked directly, but through different strands and nodes we are all inevitably connected — and vibrations from one small piece can be felt across the web. Also, you can punch a big bloody hole through it, and it can still survive. The web of resistance that Direct Action Melbourne wove with our Flood the System action earlier this month was better than I imagined, as glorious chaos and decentralized organizing allowed it to become a vision that everyone owned.

People To Deliver State Of The Union To Obama

December 23, 2015 National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Obama, Wars and Militarism, wealth inequality

By the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. Washington, DC - Guided by conscience, reason, and deeply held convictions, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance calls upon all people of good will to come to Washington, DC on Tuesday January 12, 2016 to actively participate in a witness of nonviolent civil resistance, challenging President Barack Obama and the United States Congress to address the real state of the union, to immediately stop all U.S. acts of war, and to make significant changes that will put the people of the United States on the path to acting cooperatively with all in the world so that we can all live together in a world of peace, sharing our resources fairly. The president will deliver his State of the Union speech to the U.S. Congress on that day and tragically for the world, without a doubt, his presentation will once again be a threadbare act of political theatre with no relevance to the masses of people here in the United States or around the world.

Who Says They Don’t Protest In DC: Protest Year In Review

December 22, 2015 Luke, www.dcindymedia.org Resist! Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, DC, Inequality, Pope Francis, Racism, Seattle, TPP, Washington

By Luke for DC Indy Media. Below is a month-by-month video review of activism, primarily in the Washington, DC region. If you think there are no protests in DC this video will disabuse of that thought. In fact, it was a busy year of protests on a wide range of issues. If these videos were shown on the commercial media or covered regularly by the corporate press it would look like the United States was in revolt. Luke who made the video is based in DC but he cannot cover all the protests that go on here. For example, few protests inside of Congress are included in this video, even though there have been many. Highlights of the past year include Black Lives Matter, the Baltimore Uprising, the TPP, the Pope, the climate protests and more. Below the video is a list of the protests covered by Luke, a DC independent media maker. Luke is primarily covering DC-area protests. In reality, many cities across the country have regular protests on the economy, climate, racism, wars, low wages and more. In the last couple of years as pipelines and other carbon infrastructure is being put in place we are also seeing protests outside of urban areas. When we are in the midst of the struggle, even if we are aware of many protests, we often can still not see how active the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice is.

Time To Transition To 100% Clean Energy

December 22, 2015 Mark Ruffalo, www.truth-out.org Create! Clean Energy, Climate Change

By Mark Ruffalo for The Guardian - The climate agreement reached in Paris is provoking a flurry of caveats, criticisms and cautions. Many of those criticisms are warranted and there’s a lot of work ahead to make sure countries live up to their promises. But we should not miss a chance to celebrate a historic turning point. World leaders finally made commitments to clean, renewable energy that will help to ensure a safer, healthier and more prosperous future for us all. The agreement signals that the age of fossil fuels is coming to a close, and the age of renewable energy is dawning.

Confronting Climate Change, Rethinking the City

December 21, 2015 Stephen Assink, www.thrivingcities.com Create! Cities, Climate Change

By Stephen Assink for Thriving Cities. For the past 100 years, urban life has been indelibly shaped by the ample consumption of carbon. Our dependence on the automobile can be traced back in part to Eisenhower’s 1956 Federal Highway Act, in which the American government at all levels—city, state, and federal— transformed the American urban landscape into one entirely dominated by concrete. Decades later, it is no surprise that the vast majority of the CO2 emitted by cities is caused by automobile use. Reimagining our cities provides us an important opportunity to reconsider the various structures of urban life—transportation, food, and community—both environmentally and socially. The slow and necessary steps of eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels will certainly be difficult, yet we should see it as an occasion to remake our places that are humane, convivial, and sustainable.

And the Climate Pretender Award Goes to …

December 21, 2015 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com Educate! California, Climate Change, Fracking, Jerry Brown

By Sandra Steingraber for EcoWatch. Now that the world has shifted from the urgency of framing, drafting and revising the first global binding contract on climate change to the ongoing challenge of implementing, actualizing and operationalizing it, I suggest we keep the pressure up by continuing on with these awards. Further, I’d like to propose a third award category: one that would be bestowed upon those who claim to be climate champions but whose actions show otherwise. Which is to say, we need a high-profile trophy that recognizes political figures (or organizations) who self-identify as rays of light but who are actually cleverly disguised chunks of carbon. A fossil in solar clothing, so to speak. Let’s call it the Climate Pretender Award, given to those who—for the purposes of attaining admiration, influence, grant money or a political legacy—best mimics the speech of a world climate leader while making precious little effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground, uncombusted. My candidate for the inaugural Climate Pretender Award is California Gov. Jerry Brown.

Newsletter: An Opening For People Power

December 20, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, COP21, Fight for 15, Revolution, Trade, US Empire

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The reality that corporatism cannot deal with the urgent problems faced in the US and around the world is becoming more obvious. People power is growing as more see that the current system is unable to operate in a functional way. People power is having an impact, forcing the country to listen. How do we create the transformation we need? The UN climate talks, COP21, are now recognized widely as a failure, at best a framework to be filled at a later date. Why were countries unable to confront climate change? The dominant economic and political power in the world is the United States. We are ruled by corporate power which is corrupted by Big Energy and as a result the US ensured a bad agreement.

ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobby To Remove Climate Language

December 20, 2015 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Oil and Gas, Trade

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog. Washington, DC - The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to be accounted for in all U.S. trade deals going forward. That bill, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R.644), now may proceed for full-floor votes in both the House and the U.S. Senate after its conference report was agreed upon. A DeSmog review of lobbying records shows the bill has received heavy fossil fuel industry support.

Community Solar Brings Renewable Energy ‘To The Masses’

December 19, 2015 Lynne Peeples, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Climate Change, Solar Energy

By Lynne Peeples for The Huffington Post - Solar panels aren’t just for Arizonans living in sprawling ranch houses anymore. Homeowners who lack adequate roof space or who enjoy the shade of big trees -- even condo owners and renters such as Joe and Vanessa Goldberg of notoriously rainy Seattle -- are now teaming up with their neighbors to buy electricity from shared solar power projects. "Because we rent, we don't really have the option of putting solar on our house," said environmentally conscious Joe, 35, who once made a local move using only bike trailers.

Sanders’ Climate Plan: Insufficient & Outdated After Paris Agreement

December 18, 2015 Margaret Klein Salamon and Ezra Silk, www.theclimatemobilization.org Educate! Bernie Sanders, Climate Change

By Margaret Klein Salamon and Ezra Silk for The Climate Mobilization - For years, advocates of action on climate change have debated the merits of renewables versus nuclear energy and emissions trading schemes versus carbon taxes. Yet the pace of the transition to zero emissions — which will ultimately determine the amount of climate devastation we suffer and the economic approach we take — has rarely been a subject of interest. In the wake of the Paris Agreement, that is fortunately beginning to change.

People’s Injunction Calls Out Trudeau For Breaking Pipeline Promise

December 18, 2015 Staff, www.350.org Resist! Climate Change, Pipelines

By Staff of 360.org - Prime Minister Trudeau and his party promised to include climate change and to respect community voices – especially First Nations – in pipeline reviews. Now, just weeks after taking office, they are breaking that promise and refusing to suspend or cancel the reviews of the Energy East and Trans-Mountain pipelines. The Plan. Prime Minister Trudeau and his party promised to include climate change and to respect community voices – especially First Nations – in pipeline reviews. Now, just weeks after taking office, they are breaking that promise and refusing to suspend or cancel the reviews of the Energy East and Trans-Mountain pipelines.

Santa And Grandparents Arrested For Climate Defense

December 16, 2015 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Vermont

By Rising Tide Vermont for Popular Resistance. Burlington, VT - Fred Wolfe, the former Santa of Strafford, VT, is awaiting a jury trial with the surviving members of The Williston Six in Chittenden County in the next few weeks. In September 2015, Wolfe and five other grandparent activists were arrested on trespassing charges by Williston Police, while blocking the pipeline construction staging site of Vermont Gas Systems on Route 2. Now, the State of Vermont is seeking jail time for the five activists. (One of the defendants, Nina Swaim, died of a stroke on October 15th, shortly after the September action.) The group says the project, and all fossil fuels, threaten the future of their grandchildren and future generations.

Eight Arrested At Beale Air Force Drone Base

December 16, 2015 Occupy Beale Air Force Base, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Drones, Wars and Militarism

By Occupy Beale Air Force Base. Eight peace advocates opposed to U.S. drone killing were arrested here about 3:45 p.m. Monday / Dec. 14 as they walked onto Beale Air Force Base at the Wheatland Gate to deliver a letter to the base commander calling for an end to drone warfare, and explaining how the military contributes to climate change. The full letter is reprinted below. Hundreds of peace activists have been arrested at Beale AFB over the past four years protesting the use of U.S. drones, which have killed thousands of women and children around the world. Protestors Monday held a 36 foot "red line" in sympathy with climate change activists around the world participating in "red line actions." Eight peace advocates opposed to U.S. drone killing were arrested here about 3:45 p.m. Monday / Dec. 14 as they walked onto Beale Air Force Base at the Wheatland Gate to deliver a letter to the base commander calling for an end to drone warfare, and explaining how the military contributes to climate change. The full letter is reprinted below. Hundreds of peace activists have been arrested at Beale AFB over the past four years protesting the use of U.S. drones, which have killed thousands of women and children around the world. Protestors Monday held a 36 foot "red line" in sympathy with climate change activists around the world participating in "red line actions." See more on their Facebook page. Beale Air Force Base redline 12-14-15 Demonstrators called for "Peace for the World, Healing for the Climate" and an end to drone attacks and all wars for oil that cause death, suffering, and environmental devastation, including climate change.

Renewable Energy After COP21: 9 Issues For Climate Leaders to Consider

December 15, 2015 Richard Heinberg, www.postcarbon.org Create! Climate Change, COP21

By Richard Heinberg for Post Carbon Institute - We all know that the transition away from fossil fuels is key to maintaining a livable planet. Several organizations have formulated proposals for transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy; some of those proposals focus on the national level, some the state level, while a few look at the global challenge.David Fridley (staff scientist of the energy analysis program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and I have been working for the past few months to analyze and assess many of those proposals, and to dig deeper into energy transition issues—particularly how our use of energy will need to adapt in a ~100 percent renewable future.

COP21 And The Invisible Jungle Of Calais

December 15, 2015 Cherri Foytlin, www.bridgethegulfproject.org Educate! Climate Change, COP21

By Cherri Foytlin for Bridge the Golf - On December 7, 2015, while participating in events surrounding the 21st Conference of Parties regarding Climate Change (COP21), I had the opportunity to join a group that included an artist, several documentarians, activists, and Gulf Coast front line leaders Juan and Bryan Parras, in visiting The Jungle - a “refugee camp” in Calais, France. Our intention was to witness first-hand the migrant crisis now happening across Europe, as people flee from the devastating effects caused by climate change, economic disaster, and the resulting rise in terroristic activities in their countries.

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