Support our friends across the Atlantic as they work to kick Big Oil out of the arts in the UK.
Licence to Spill? — IndieGoGo
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Because now is the time to kick oil out of the arts. Building creative resistance – participatory exhibition and events.
Communities around the world are under attack from extractive industries that poison our families, kill our loved ones on the job, and destroy the ecosystems we cherish. The BP oil spill was unfortunately just one of an endless string of disasters born of an economic system that must endlessly consume the Earth’s resources.
Extraction is the act of taking without giving anything back. Extraction takes workers lives so corporations can make a few more bucks. Extraction takes clean water and air and gives us blackened oceans and a climate in chaos. Extraction takes the natural wealth of communities and ecosystems and leaves behind poverty and ecological wastelands. Continue reading
Judy Bonds, One of our She-roes!
Reason to Believe in Environmental Justice: Coalfields Hero Judy Bonds
www.huffingtonpost.com
As the White House convenes the first ever forum on environmental justice today, millions of pounds of explosives detonating across the historic ranges and communities in our nation’s first frontier of Appalachia, it might be easy to slip into a state of despair over the future of besieged coalfield
Judy Bonds, One of our She-roes!
Reason to Believe in Environmental Justice: Coalfields Hero Judy Bonds
www.huffingtonpost.com
As the White House convenes the first ever forum on environmental justice today, millions of pounds of explosives detonating across the historic ranges and communities in our nation’s first frontier of Appalachia, it might be easy to slip into a state of despair over the future of besieged coalfield