http://www.beyondtalk.net Moving beyond talk towards climate justice Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:43:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Thus far and no further" Dear Friends- We’re about the movement, not the moment!  ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/08/thus-far-and-no-further/ April 20th, the anniversary of the BP Oil Spill, is only a week away. Rising Tide North America and allies have called for an International Day of Action against All Extraction to take action against fossil fuel extraction. Are you ready to rise up? It’s not too late. Sign Up Here! On April ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/04/the-day-of-action-against-extraction-is-one-week-away/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susie Rosett Ph. # (406) 546 - 8998 Northern Rockies Rising Tide northernrockiesrisingtide@gmail.com Montana Citizens Temporarily Block Tar Sands Refining Shipments Missoula, MT, March 10, 2011 - At about 2:30 am on Thursday morning, two residents of Missoula, MT, Carol Marsh, 69, and Ann Maechtlen, 50, sat down in the middle of Reserve ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/03/montana-citizens-stall-tar-sands-refining-shipments/ Ten years in prison? Your career? Or just your permanent record? A little over two years ago, our friend and comrade Tim DeChristopher put it all on the line when he entered a federal auction and derailed it so that oil and gas companies could not destroy the planet. Tim is now ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/02/what-would-you-risk-to-save-the-planet/ Greetings friends, The Climate Pledge of Resistance has been in transition over the past few months. In order to concretize the accountability behind messages, and to be clear about the facilitation of message submissions the CPR coordinating groups are formally authorizing Rising Tide North America as the current administrative organization. Originating organizations ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/02/the-cpr-is-changing/ Dear Friends, While many environmental groups have spent the past year bumbling over climate legislation and devising better list-building and branding strategies, Rising Tide has been building the climate justice movement and challenging the root causes of climate change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the northern Rockies. Over the past ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2011/01/action-is-our-new-years-resolution/ Hundreds of people gathered near Australia's single largest source of carbon pollution - The Bayswater power station - for Climate Camp NSW over the last week. Climate Camp culminated in a day of mass action where 130 campers pushed over a fence and for eight hours occupied the train tracks adjacent ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2010/12/australia-73-arrests-as-130-climate-campers-occupy-coal-tracks-for-8-hours/ At 10:30 a.m. on November 16th, organizers with Climate Justice Ottawa began a People’s Assembly for Climate Justice in Canada’s House of Commons staging a sit-in and dropping a banner that reads “If the Politicians Will Not Get to Work on Climate Justice, We Will.”. The organizers are risking arrest ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2010/11/take-action-to-support-the-youth-people%e2%80%99s-assembly-in-canadian-parliament/ This November there will be two climate justice movement-building gatherings in mid-western North America - The International Tar Sands Resistance Summit will be held from November 19th to ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2010/11/this-november-two-movement-building-gatherings/ In this message from Climate Justice Action: 1. Why take action from October 12th? 2. Day of Action website 3. Tell the world - action newsletter 4. Contribute to the October 12th Video 5. Pass this on! 1. Why take action from October 12th? In 2009, indigenous peoples throughout the world called for a ... http://www.beyondtalk.net/2010/10/oct-12th-system-change-response-to-climate-change/