This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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How Police, Private Security and Energy Companies Are Preparing for a New Pipeline Standoff
In tar sands conflict, law enforcement has engaged in a coordinated effort to identify anti-pipeline camps and monitor protesters, modelled off the militarized response at Standing Rock in 2016.
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Extinction Rebellion: Thousands of Climate Protesters Block London Bridges, Dozens Arrested
"No damage that we incur can compare to the criminal inaction of the U.K. government in the face of climate breakdown."
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Meet the Activists With a Plan to Make Climate Change Matter in Elections
Calling themselves Sunrise Movement, the group — most are under the age of 30 — plan to recruit and train a nonviolent volunteer army to shake up the 2018 midterm elections and make 2020 the first presidential election about climate change.
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Unjust Punishment: Will 13 Climate Activists Face Jail Time For Heathrow Protest?
Mel Strickland and a dozen other activists cut through a security fence at London's Heathrow Airport last July and occupied one of the runways for six hours in an effort to slow the ravages of climate change.
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How to Stop an Oil Train: The Hearts-and-Minds Climate Defense That Won Over a Courtroom
The Delta 5 loss was actually a big win as climate activists were found not guilty of blocking a train and guilty only of trespass in the second degree, and sentences were issued with no jail time.
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14 Arrested In Montana Protesting Senator's Denial of Climate Change Science
Social movements have had to escalate to peaceful civil disobedience when elected officials failed to represent their constituents.
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Coalitions March in 200 U.S. Cities to "Draw the Line" Against Keystone Pipeline
400 demonstrators marched through Manhattan's Financial District and surrounded the Keystone pipeline's largest financiers with a blue line to show where the waters of the Hudson and East River will soon lap.
