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Mountaintop Removal Protests Going National

Mountaintop Removal Protests Going National

Published October 30, 2009 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests atEnvironmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
An online map showed more than two dozen planned events from California to Maine, including [...]

Children’s Demonstration (video)

Grassroots victory in LA: Fossil fuel power plant shut down!

Grassroots victory in LA: Fossil fuel power plant shut down!

A Victory For LA’s Air And A Victory for the Planet!
Communities for a Better Environment
Move over Al Gore, make room for some new environmental leaders – working class Latina mothers and high school youth from South East Los Angeles!
After 3 years of organizing, mobilizing, advocacy and lawsuits, CBE members in Southeast Los Angeles stopped [...]

350 International Day of Climate Action

350 International Day of Climate Action

On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. At over 5200 eventsaround the world, people gathered to call for action on the climate crisis. To make this global call to action count, it must be impossible to ignore.  Sign up for a local photo-delivery today »
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500 Protest Climate Criminal Chevron at Richmond, CA Refinery

500 Protest Climate Criminal Chevron at Richmond, CA Refinery

Aug. 21st Richmond, CA – Hundreds of Richmond community members joined climate change advocates, public health experts, local government and labor leaders today in a colorful march, protest and non-violent civil disobedience at Chevron’s Richmond refinery. After a festival outside the Richmond BART station with music, dancers and speakers, and an hour-long march that wound [...]

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 [...]