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Open Letter to Board and Staff of 1 Sky
I was asked to post the letter below (to Grist, Znet, & Rabble), written by grassroots organizations engaged in climate justice organizing across the United States (including Grassroots Global...
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VIDEO: our opposition
I’ve spent most of my life learning to organize with the following premise: social movements are won not by beating and overpowering your opposition, but by shifting the support out from under them....
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At COP16 Cancun: Canadian First Nations Representatives Deploy Giant Human...
Cancun, Mexico, Dec 2, 2010 – Indigenous Peoples of Canada and their allies from around the world are in Cancun at the COP-16 climate summit demanding real action to reduce fossil fuel pollution. Over...
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SF to Cancun: Social Movements Bring Hope as COP16 Falters
Thousands of community activists around the world take action to promote Local Solutions to the Climate Crisis The tone inside the conference center at the U.N. Climate Negotiations in Cancun has been...
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U.S. State Dept, Translated
All last week during the Egyptian uprising, many of us joked that Obama would take a firm stance asking Mubarak to immediately step down…at least 3 days after he steps down. While Egypitans and...
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Evolutionary logic of collective action (series)
Beyond the Choir is publishing a valuable series of articles getting at the root of human behavior and ways we are hard-wired for collective change. Below are four articles from Jonathan Smucker. Check...
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I’m on tour with the beehive collective!
Whew! What a whirlwind it’s been. I’ve been doing a collaborative tour with the Beehive Design Collective for the last month! We’ve been in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and North Carolina...
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Look mom! I’m in a new book!
Cross posted from Beyond the Choir. Look mom! I’m in a book! It just came out. Its called The Next Eco-Warriors and is an anthology of young activists working on environmental issues. While I have...
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The Rapture didn’t come, but don’t worry, the world is still boiling.
Cross-posted from Beyond the Choir Church this morning must have been quite awkward for some people. The sermon might have gone something like “I know we’re all disappointed that the rapture didn’t...
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Activists Caught in the Filter Bubble
How personalization helps activists find each other while losing society By Jonathan Smucker. Cross Posted from Beyond the Choir. Eli Pariser’s new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding...
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Lessons from Tea Party Tweets
What I learned from spending 5 minutes looking at a Tea Party twitter feed. cross-posted from Beyond the Choir I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the activist filter bubble, the reverberating...
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Breaking: Tim DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison, taken immediately...
Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. He was taken immediately into custody, being denied the typical 3 weeks afforded to put his affairs...
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26 go to Jail for Justice outside SLC courthouse
Today, Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison and taken away from the courthouse without goodbyes or the option to self-report. In court, Tim said “You can put me in prison but it will...
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Defusing the Carbon Bomb
Wanted to make a quick personal update – shortly after leaving Salt Lake City to train & help coordinate actions for Tim Dechristopher’s trial, I am now in Washington DC for the next few weeks. We...
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Nonviolent Direct Action to Defuse the Carbon Bomb
note – I wrote this for the Ruckus Society blog to clarify our involvement in the Tar Sands Action for our own network. Enjoy! – JKR This weekend marked the end of the Tar Sands Action in Washington...
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#OccupyMovementStrategy
“Change happens slowly. Except when it happens fast!” – Tom Hayden One of my favorite things about #OccupyWallStreet is that its turning everyone into a movement strategist. Everyone has advice or...
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@occupyWINNING
So much going on, that in typical fashion, I’m not posting. But I am thoroughly inspired by our country getting into motion right now, and the synergy between different movements, campaigns, and...
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We published a little book!
It’s finally out! Actually it’s been out for a month, but we’ve been so busy WINNING battles against Fracking hearings and Tar Sands pipelines I haven’t posted. Hilary Moore and I spent the last year...
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BREAKING: Keystone XL Denied!
In case you haven’t heard the thunderous celebration by the North American climate movement, today the State Dept is set to outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline. #booyah This is a reminder that...
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Shift the Spectrum of Allies
I am excited and honored to be one of 60 contributors to a new book called Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for the Revolution. The book reads as an activists manual, weaving together case studies,...
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