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Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling

Once again the fossil fuel industry has brought crisis to the Gulf Coast. Devastation of untold proportions spews non-stop...

Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling

Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant

Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile Boulder, CO – At approximately 12:45 today, four...

Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant

Fossil Fools Day 2010 pulls pranks, packs punches!

Spoofs, hoaxes, Insurgent clown armies, impersonations, media hijacking, theatrics, and even Bigfoot formed just part of the arsenal...

Fossil Fools Day 2010 pulls pranks, packs punches!

Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest

Activists Risk Arrest with Elaborate Protest at EPA HQ; Demand Immediate Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal...

Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest

Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Xcel HQ in Coal Protest

Group calls on Xcel to Keep Comanche 3 Closed and Produce 100% Renewable Electricity by 2020 February 26, 2010 Contacts: Brian...

Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Xcel HQ in Coal Protest

Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence

A coalition of environmental activists led by GatewaySucks.org is calling on climate change activists to join the convergence...

Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence

Nine-Day Tree Sit Ends, Sitters Vow Not Over Until Blasting Stops

Friday, January 29th, 2010 UPDATE – legal support needed! click here FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: 304-854-7372,...

Nine-Day Tree Sit Ends, Sitters Vow Not Over Until Blasting Stops

100,000 Take the Streets of Copenhagen for System Change in Response to Climate Change

Global UN Climate negotiations (COP15) are proceeding in Copenhagen with over 100 heads of...

100,000 Take the Streets of Copenhagen for System Change in Response to Climate Change

Tired of just hearing about climate change? Then do something. Now.

December 7-18, 2009, the world's leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide what to do about climate change.

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Sadly, if these leaders reached an agreement today, it wouldn't be strong enough to do much good.*

In order to bring global CO2 back to the safe zone, we need a global agreement now. But we can't wait for politicians to do the right thing. We need to turn the political heat way up.

The good news is that civil disobedience works. A coal-fired power plant recently had its permit withdrawn as a result of a community blockade of the Desert Rock site, in Dine (Navajo) territory, and there have been powerful actions throughout Appalachia, on Mount Rushmore, against the Tar Sands in Canada, and elsewhere.

Last March, in DC, thousands of people risked arrest and shut down the coal-fired plant that supplies Congress's power. (While Congress chose the false solution of natural gas instead, the action proved that civil disobedience does get a response.)

But time is far too short to shut down one site at a time. Massive action is needed today, in order to:

quote_fdrDuring the Great Depression, it was only massive pressure from citizens, often including civil disobedience, that allowed Roosevelt to make the changes we all take for granted.

It was only the uncompromising action of hundreds of thousands that ended U.S. segregation and South African apartheid.

Today, when our leaders find themselves cornered by industrial lobbyists, they must be able to point out the window at us. Then, like Roosevelt and other leaders before them, they will be able to say: "Sorry, I can't."

This December, at Copenhagen, our leaders can choose to save our world. After that it may be too late. Through actions this fall leading up to November 30 and beyond, hundreds of thousands of us will show them directly the choice we want them to make. Won't you join us?

Scientists tell us that the maximum level of CO2 our atmosphere can safely bear is 350 parts per million. Beyond that, our our earth and its species are at imminent risk of catastrophic changes we'll never be able to stop — meaning billions of people will die.

Today, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is already at 390 worldwide — and it's rising at 2 parts per million per year.