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DN! Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report: How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
With the information in the latest UN report, McKibben makes an impassioned plea for immediate action to address the climate crisis.
#DeadlineGlasgow: Defund Climate Chaos Aug. 13 focus #StopLine3
List of demands put in place by November 1, 2021 when international Climate Chaos conference begins in Glasgow.
Michelle Alexander’s Brilliant Intro to “Beyond Vietnam”
“We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
Solving Our Climate Crisis: A Town Hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders, and more with Naomi Klein, Cenk (Young Turks), and the Humanist Report
Join Senator Bernie Sanders LIVE for a national town hall about the current state of our climate crisis. Senator Sanders will be joined by experts and environmental activists to discuss solutions for how we can combat climate change and protect the planet. Joining Senator Sanders is actress and activist Shailene Woodley, author and founder of […]
DN! Stories and analyses about the election of Donald Trump
Why did Trump win?
President Obama: Pull the DAPL Permit, Do the Climate Test
DAPL would be the largest pipeline ever to come out of North Dakota and, at 1,172-miles long, it would be only seven miles shorter than Keystone XL, which was rejected by the president because it didn’t pass his climate test. So it raises the question: Why, of all projects, shouldn’t DAPL have to pass a similar test?
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel Occupation
“If we can’t say a word about TPP, if we can’t talk about Medicare-for-All explicitly, if the greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can’t even acknowledge occupation… it seems there is no way in good conscience I can say, ‘Take it to the next stage,'” [Cornel] West declared before the assembly.
Bill Moyers: Grassroots Pro-Democracy Movement Must Rise to Challenge Corporate Control
Ahead of final sign-off, veteran journalist tells viewers that reaching out to their fellow citizens and neighbors is the essential task in creating the transformation so desperately needed By Jon Queally, staff writer CommonDreams.org October 24, 2014 After more than four decades as a journalist working in the public interest, Bill Moyers might soon be “signing-off” […]
▶ Hedges, McKibben, Naomi Klein, Sawant, Sanders: What Will It Take to Save Humanity and the Planet?
Chris Hedges, activist Bill McKibben, journalist Naomi Klein, Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and public radio talk show host Brian Lehrer participated in a panel discussion the night before the People’s Climate March in New York City this month. Thoughts for success: Chris Hedges: Live in truth; Naomi Klein: Build a […]
Arun Gupta: How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
Business as Usual in Manhattan Branding. That’s how the climate crisis is going to be solved. We are in an era or postmodern social movements. The future is unwritten. It’s not about what happens on Sunday. It’s what happens after that. By ARUN GUPTA counterpunch.org September 20, 2014 I’ve never been to a protest march […]
Bill McKibben and Mike Tidwell: A Big Fracking Lie
President Obama isn’t just not fixing climate change—he’s making it worse. By BILL MCKIBBEN and MIKE TIDWELL Politico.org January 21, 2014 If you want to know just how bad an idea it is for America to ship “fracked” natural gas to overseas markets, travel the 65 miles from the White House to a place called […]
The Education of Bill McKibben: How the Unlikely Activist Learned to Break the Rules | Madeline Ostrander
“Sometime in the course of the past decade I figured out that I needed to do more than write—if this fight was about power, then we who wanted change had to assemble some.” by Madeline Ostrander Dec 11, 2013 YES! Magazine Bill McKibben. Photo by David Garten The tasks Bill McKibben set for himself were monumental. Start […]
Thousands Rally in DC for Major Keystone XL Protest
Thousands Rally in DC for Major Keystone XL Protest “The media likes to make Keystone XL out as simply a political test, a sign of whether or not the president will side with environmentalists or the fossil fuel industry and their allies. But the fight against Keystone has never just been a political fight: it’s […]
Bill McKibben> Payola for the most Profitable Corporations in History> And Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Stand for It Any More
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, How You Subsidize the Energy Giants to Wreck the Planet Posted by Bill McKibben at 9:20am, April 5, 2012. Just in case you’re running for national office, here are a few basic stats to orient you when you hit Washington (thanks to the invaluable Open Secrets website of the Center for Responsive Politics). In 2011, the […]
The Rest of the Story – Climate Change Arrest at the White House, by Steve Clemens
The Rest of the Story: Tar Sands Action at the White House by Steve Clemens. August 30, 2011 Mennonista When I first signed up to come to Washington and return to the White House, I thought to myself: wasn’t it just a year and a half ago that I told Christine that I’m getting too […]
Bill McKibben: We Still Need You Here in DC
Arrests: 522 Bill McKibben: We Still Need You Here in DC News — August 29, 2011 @ 6:42 pm Sign up to join here: www.tarsandsaction.org/sign-up Continue reading “Bill McKibben: We Still Need You Here in DC” » Aug 29 Press Release: Largest Day of Arrests Yet at White House Pipeline Protest WASHINGTON, DC – America’s top climate scientist […]
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