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Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling

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 from BP’s oil well as politicians try to save face with empty promises, and oil companies preserve their profits with PR campaigns. This catastrophic spill comes on the heels of Obama’s plan to expand offshore drilling. [...]

Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant

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 activists climbed onto the massive coal pile in front of the Valmont Power Plant. An enormous banner was deployed down the front of the coal pile reading “RENEWABLES NOW” and two large mock [...]

Fossil Fools Day 2010 pulls pranks, packs punches!

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 that climate activists used in calling out the worst climate criminals commenced worldwide on Fossil Fools Day yesterday.
Yesterday, here in North America alone, more than 30 cities organized demonstrations against the fossil fuel industry, corporate banks and [...]

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

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 Mining
Group Erects Purple Mountain Majesty At EPA; Say “If Administrator Lisa Jackson Won’t Visit the Appalachian Mountains, They Will Bring The Mountains to Her”
In an attempt to further pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water [...]

Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence

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 at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

When the 2010 Winter Olympics start a couple of weeks from now in Vancouver, BC the athletes and spectators will be joined by organizations with some of the worst [...]

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

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

Friday, January 29th, 2010
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PETTUS, WVa—After blocking Massey Energy’s operations on the Bee Tree Permit for nine days, Amber Nitchman, 19, and Eric Blevins, 28 descended from their respective trees. They had occupied the two oak trees—originally accompanied by a third [...]

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

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 state expected to attend in the next week. With 2009 the 5th hottest year on record, Scientists are saying a Climate Treaty is more urgent with Global carbon emissions still increasing and acidification threatening marine biodiversity.
There are major differences between the [...]

Petition! Stop Danish Police Abuses Against Peaceful Climate Protesters

Petition! Stop Danish Police Abuses Against Peaceful Climate Protesters

To: Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen (Ombudsman), Per Larsen (Detective Commander of the Danish National Police) and Ritt Bjerregaard (Lord Mayor of Copenhagen)
Over the past two weeks, citizens of countries all over the world have come to Copenhagen for the UN COP-15 climate negotiations. Many have engaged in peaceful, nonviolent protest, trying to push world leaders to sign [...]

350 Reasons Carbon Trading Won't Work Project

350 Reasons Carbon Trading Won’t Work Project

Rising Tide North America, with Carbon Trade Watch and the Camp for Climate Action would like you to join us on the October 24th day of global climate action to spread the word about the biggest financial scam in history – Carbon Trading.
In order to stabilize the climate before billions of people around the world [...]

Climate justice movement to take mass action during UN climate talks

Climate justice movement to take mass action during UN climate talks

Despite four activists from the UK being interrogated under terrorism legislation on their way to Copenhagen, the international network Climate Justice Action (CJA) (1) is meeting this weekend to prepare for mass actions during the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.
After 14 years of ineffectual talks, activists from social movements across the globe are [...]