The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Polish Climate Movement Stages First Mass Civil Disobedience Against Coal
35 climate defenders peacefully stormed the Kopalnia Tomisławice open-pit coal mine earlier this month in Poland, part of a wave of climate activism that signals a movement coming to maturity.
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Boston Judge Acquits 13 Pipeline Protesters in Groundbreaking Decision
The judge made the decision after hearing each defendant's testimony. They argued the threat of climate change necessitated their civil disobedience.
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100,000 & Counting For People’s Climate March On Washington On April 29
Attacks on U.S. citizens, communities, and the planet cannot continue.
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The Time Is Now for Direct Action on Climate Change
We're in an emergency, and no one in power is treating it as such. What has a chance of waking politicians of their torpor and spurring them – spurring all of us – to act with the clarity and determination the situation requires?
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The Climate Hour Is Late – Time To Rapidly Break Free From Fossil Fuels
After many years of political system failure, we can rely only on a massive people power wave capable of making demands for fundamental and rapid system change.
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Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment
In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.
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McKibben: Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
How to stop the fossil fuel industry from wrecking our world.
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The Yes Men Are Revolting – This Time It's Personal
The prankster activist duo are back at it again, now directing their comical creative theater at the climate crisis and the earth's worst offenders.
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Beyond Extreme Energy: A Week Of Direct Action To Retire Fossil Fuels
We the people must supplement our turnout at the polls with our turnout on the streets, and in the media, in the name of our future on this planet.
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Shutdown in Pittsburgh As 2,500 Youth March For a Green Economy
More than 2,500 youth activists aligned with Power Shift 2013 took over the Roberto Clemente Bridge and marched through the streets of Pittsburgh to confront corporate polluters and demand a clean, just economy.
