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Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where dozens of activists blockaded the doors all around the building. Some locked themselves within the revolving doors to disrupt Bank of America’s business for the [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 30 2009
UPDATE: Both women now cut out of lockboxes. 4 arrested. UPDATE @:at Cliffside generator: police are slowly working on cutting through lock boxes and are threatening 1 of 2 locked down women with a taser. UPDATE: 2 People in handcuffs; Police up on generator with ladders and boltcutters for more folks. Pictures on their way. [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 30 2009
On November 30, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience actions will take place in nine cities around the U.S.—in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Burlington, VT, two cities in Maine, and Washington DC, as well as several other countries—one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 27 2009
It’s only a few days until November 30, an international day of climate action and solidarity with the upcoming protests in Copenhagen. Nine cities are preparing mobilizations, mass actions, protests and civil disobedience targeting a variety of corporate entities complicit in the climate crisis. Right now the U.S. has the deepest carbon footprint on the [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 25 2009
This is a nice piece of news. Hopefully the folks in Meigs County, OH will have a good holiday this year in celebrating the cancellation of this proposed plant. Meigs is ranked as one of the most polluted counties in the country as southeast Ohio is already the site of many coal plants. Nov. 25, [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, November 24 2009
As negotiations wrapped up in Barcelona at the UN Climate Talks, the opportunity for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) is dangling from a wire. The latest negotiating text, which parties will be working on at the opening of the Copenhagen UNFCCC COP15, contains no provisions to [...]
Continue reading...By Margaret, November 24 2009
The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Covering over 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, forests play a huge role in regulating weather patterns and absorbing the carbon that we release into the atmosphere. Not to mention, global deforestation is a huge contributor to climate change – emitting more [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, November 24 2009
Last week I was in Sumatra, Indonesia, traveling with representatives from the local NGO Warsi, investigating the impacts of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinar Mas, on forests and forests peoples. Two days of 4×4 travel over dirt roads brought my team to PT Wirakarya Sakti (WKS). There, I spoke [...]
Continue reading...By Maria, November 24 2009
November 23, 2009 Published in the Huffington Post by Han Shan Chevron is piling on the lobbyists and PR firms in an extraordinary effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. But in a recent article for Politico, Kenneth Vogel, who tracks the confluence of money, politics and influence for [...]
Continue reading...By Kate, November 23 2009
There has been a lot of grassroots pressure on the EPA in the last few weeks on the issue of Mountaintop Removal. Last Friday I was able to meet a new coalition of youth activists in Philly that has emerged when they were speaking out at the Region 3 EPA headquarters. The group, Philadelphia Coalition [...]
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