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Break Free Protest Escalates Fight Against Fossil Fuels

May 13, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org ,
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Days after the Colorado Supreme Court denied two cities local authority to regulate fracking, hundreds of climate activists descended Thursday on a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction in Lakewood, just outside Denver, kicking off four days of major direct actions against fossil fuels across the United States. In addition to the Lakewood demonstration and a larger mobilization elsewhere in Colorado on Saturday, protests and civil disobedience actions are scheduled to take place between Thursday and Sunday in and around Anacortes, Washington...

Fight World’s Dirtiest Energy, Corporate Coups & How East Was Lost

May 12, 2016 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com , , ,
By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy - This week: Break Free from fossil fuels, rebel against the fracking infrastructure, glean some inspiration from our European anti-corporate coup comrades and join the fight against lame ducks and their sneaky deals. Finally, Raed Jarrar has lived our Middle East policy and is now working to change it. But first, lunacy's loop: god and war.

Break Free From Fossil Fuels Worldwide Momentum

May 10, 2016 Break Free Team, www.PopularResistance.org , , ,
By Break Free for Popular Resistance, Over the last week, a global wave of actions to keep fossil fuels in the ground has been gathering momentum all over the world. Words alone are not enough to describe how powerful this moment of action is. If you’ve missed any of it, here’s what’s happened so far in just the first 6 days of Break Free. . . Over the last week, a global wave of actions to keep fossil fuels in the ground has been gathering momentum all over the world. Words alone are not enough to describe how powerful this moment of action is. If you’ve missed any of it, here’s what’s happened so far in just the first 6 days of Break Free. The next few days will be incredible too -- not least because together these actions set the stage for the just transition to 100% renewable energy that this overheating planet needs.

Turning Up Heat On Those Who Are Wrecking Planet Earth

May 6, 2016 Bill McKibben, www.theguardian.com ,
By Bill McKibben for The Guardian - The moment when, oh, marine biologists across the Pacific begin weeping in their scuba masks as they dive on reefs bleached of life in a matter of days. The moment when drought in India gets deep enough that there are armed guards on dams to prevent the theft of water. The moment when we record the hottest month ever measured on the planet, and then smash that record the next month,and then smash that record the next month? The moment when scientists reassessing the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet have what one calls an ‘OMG moment’ and start talking about massive sea level rise in the next 30 years?

The Leap Manifesto Is A Path To Jobs And Justice

April 28, 2016 Crystal Lameman, www.theglobeandmail.com , ,
By Crystal Lameman for The Globe and Mail - You might find that strange if you’ve read the media reports calling its authors latte-sipping Toronto elites. I’m not exactly part of that class: I’m an indigenous mother of two from the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, in the heart of Alberta’s oil industry. From where I stand, the Leap Manifesto isn’t an attack on Albertans or its workers. It’s a gift, offering us a pathway to a more humane, healthy and livable province, one that honours the treaty rights of indigenous peoples and meets the needs of all its inhabitants.

Using “Public Trust” To Frame “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Actions

April 28, 2016 Staff, www.usa.breakfree2016.org , ,
By Staff of Break Free 2016 - Fundamental principles embodied in the laws and constitutions of countries around the world provide strong bases for such a claim. Basic human and constitutional rights include the unalienable rights to life and liberty. Under the “public trust doctrine,” governments must manage the vital natural resources on which human well-being depends for the benefit of all present and future generations. Governments have no right to authorize their destruction to the detriment of constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. These legal rights can serve as an important frame for the public messaging and legal strategy of climate-protecting civil disobedience.

‘Neutral Is Not Acceptable’:Protests For Colleges To Go Fossil Free

April 28, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - A series of sit-ins and protests urging universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuels gained new strength this week, as students at the University of Montana, Vassar College, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched their own actions to combat climate change. Two nights in a row, on Monday and Tuesday multiple students at Northern Arizona University (NAU) were arrested for taking part in a nonviolent action demanding their school divest from oil and gas companies.

Will Death Of Fossil Fuels Take Down The Economy?

April 26, 2016 Nafeez Ahmed, www.alternet.org ,
By Nafeez Ahmed for AlterNet - It’s not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry. Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas—which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs—the industry is rapidly crumbling. This is not merely a temporary blip, but a symptom of a deeper, long-term process related to global capitalism’s escalating overconsumption of planetary resources and raw materials.

Colleges Face Student Protests Over Fossil Fuel Investments

April 26, 2016 Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Shahien Nasiripour for The Huffington Post - Students at nearly a dozen U.S. colleges have planned protests in recent weeks targeting their schools’ investments in the oil, gas and coal sectors, part of a coordinated push to stop colleges from funding companies that contribute to global warming. Nearly 700 students and their supporters have already staged sit-ins and held rallies at more than six campuses this month, including University of Denver, Columbia University, New York University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In A Decade

April 19, 2016 James Hakner, www.phys.org ,
By James Hakner for Phys - The worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade, according to an article published by a major energy think tank in the UK. Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, believes that the next great energy revolution could take place in a fraction of the time of major changes in the past. But it would take a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-scalar effort to get there, he warns.

Yale Divests $10 million From Fossil Fuels

April 18, 2016 Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick, www.yaledailynews.com , , ,
By Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick for Yale News - In a Tuesday letter to Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, Chief Investment Officer David Swensen reported that after months of talking with Yale’s external investment managers about the potential risks associated with investments in coal and oil, around $10 million of the endowment has been removed from three publicly traded fossil fuel producers. Tuesday’s message follows a letter penned by Swensen in 2014, in which he asked Yale’s investment managers to consider climate change in their investment choices.

UMass Officials Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Amid Student Protests

April 18, 2016 Amanda Hoover, www.boston.com , ,
By Amanda Hoover for Boston - University of Massachusetts officials announced Tuesday that they would back a policy for the university system to divest from fossil fuel companies after students occupied a campus administrative building. Fifteen protesters were later arrested after refusing to vacate the scene. “Throughout my career, I have stood for environmental progress and reducing the carbon footprint,” UMass President Marty Meehan said in a statement.

Rubber Stamp Rebellion To Be Fossil Fuel Free

April 7, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org , , ,
By Beyond Extreme Energy. Washington, DC - The winds of change are gaining speed, and Beyond Extreme Energy is working hard to make them even stronger. From May 15 – 22, in Washington, DC, and elsewhere where people are fighting fracking and fracking infrastructure, BXE and our allies will take coordinated action for the Rubber Stamp Rebellion (May 15 will be a day for training and art-building). We will say to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): Stop rubber-stamping gas industry permit applications and change the way you operate. Prioritize the emergence of wind, solar and other renewables above fossil fuels. We say: No New Permits!

Activist Asks Hillary Clinton To Pledge To Reject Fossil Fuel Contributions

April 2, 2016 Eva Resnick-Day, www.greenpeace.org , ,
By Eva Resnick-Day for Green Peace - Since the media, Twitter, and Facebook world have spread this of Secretary Clinton and me, I thought that it would be important to share my experience and why I was there today. I care deeply about tackling climate change and I’m deeply concerned about the state of our democracy. I work for Greenpeace USA as a democracy organizer. I do not work for and am in no way affiliated with the Sanders campaign, as Clinton seemed to suggest in her response.

A New Lease On Life For The Gulf

March 25, 2016 Drew Hudson, www.environmental-action.org , ,
By Drew Hudson for Environmental Action - Yesterday was a turning point in our movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground. For the first time ever, we shut down an auction of Fossil Fuels on public lands – in this case under the Gulf of Mexico – and sent a powerful message to the Obama administration and Big Oil companies everywhere that to stop global warming we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and finance a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 (or sooner).
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