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Last Friday, I blogged on the direct action that Australia Rising Tide did at the Bayswater coal fired power station in New South Wales. The action resulted in over 25 arrests, four of which locked themselves to the coal conveyor belt. Since then, Aussies have done 3 more direct actions against coal fired power plants [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 6, 2008
Holy smokes!! Wise County lockdown and blockade! Al Gore! Direct Action! RAN! Rising Tide! All in the pages of a national news magazine. Check out this great story by Bryan Walsh at Time magazine about the Wise County action from September. A very good piece on the growing use of direct action in the coal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
Last Friday on Halloween, zombies converged on coal financing banks in Boston, Asheville, Johnson City, TN and other cities. The zombies gave Bank of America and Citi a vision of the future if they don’t stop financing dirty coal plants and mountaintop removal. From the Zombies’ press release: “Bank of America and Citibank are top [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 31, 2008
Rising Tide Australia leads the way again. The Australian government won’t make even medium greenhouse gas emissions until 2020. That’s too late and why Rising Tide began making emissions reductions using direct action instead of government inaction. 29 were arrested. Four locked onto the conveyor belts, everyone else on the coal piles. From their media [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 19, 2008
Yesterday in Wise Virginia, the group who put their bodies on the line to stop the construction of Dominion’s newest coal-fired power plant on Sep. 15th appeared in court to agree to a plea agreement and read statements about their action. They had been charged with four counts ranging from tresspass to unlawful assembly. Two [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
The bully pulpit is a great thing. It inspires me when someone like Al Gore gets on his soapbox about young people doing civil disobedience at coal plants to stop global warming. Over the past year or so he’s done it three times in the pages of the NY Times, Rolling Stone and most recently, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 8, 2008
“I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” -Al Gore August 2007 “We are here because now is the time to take greater action as individuals, as communities, and as a country to create a sustainable future and stop the destruction of our [...]
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Friday, November 7, 2008
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