The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Tar sands
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Why the Battle Against the Tar Sands Is About to Change
Over the past few months, resistance to the tar sands has not only grown in leaps and bounds – it is changing the dynamics of the entire fight in Canada and beyond.
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State of the Climate Movement: Rowdy and Getting Rowdier
Marches around the country last week showed diversity among a new and growing cohort of activists taking climate justice to new levels of resistance.
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Global Indigenous Groups Converge On New York to Demand Climate Action
Patricia Gualinga, a Kichwa woman from the Sarayaku community in the Ecuadorean Amazon, traveled more than 3,000 miles to push world leaders gathering at the United Nations.
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Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change
Heirs to the Standard Oil fortune join a campaign that will withdraw a total of $50 billion from fossil fuels, including from tar sands funds.
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Why Yes for Scotland Means Yes For Earth's Renewable Energy Transition
Shifting toward community-based renewable power is a strong thread running through Scotland's Radical Independence Campaign, and a free Scotland could inspire other countries to relinquish their fossil fuel addiction.
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People's Climate Train: A Journey Toward Justice
If the people at the UN are not ready to take action, they should move to the side, because the people will.
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Will New York Protests At U.N. Be the Last Gasp for Climate Change Liberals?
Resistance will come from those willing to breach police barricades. Resistance will mean jail time and direct confrontation. Resistance will mean physically disrupting the corporate machinery.
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U.S. Energy Commission Sneaks Permit to Canada's Enbridge for Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
The announcement came days after the State Department gave Enbridge a controversial permit to transport 350,000 barrels of tar sands per day across the U.S.-Canada border without public hearings or environmental review.
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Oregon Delivers Defeat to Coal Industry Denying Key Permit for Export Terminal
The Morrow Pacific coal terminal would have not only encouraged CO2-emitting coal to be burned elsewhere, but would pollute local waterways and increase rail and truck traffic in once restful regions.
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Devastation and Prayer at the Last Tar Sands Healing Walk
Indigenous communities on the front-lines of tar sands extraction lead a spiritual march through a landscape of poisonous lakes, dead earth, open-pit mines, and refineries.
