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“Now Is Our Time to Take a Stand!” Tim DeChristopher’s Message to the Youth Climate Movement. Click LIKE if you are ready to take a stand and get involved?

“Now Is Our Time To Take a Stand”: Tim DeChristopher’s Message to Youth Climate Activists at Power S
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In March, a federal jury convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. He faces up to 10 years in prison. Last weekend he spoke at Power Shift 2011 conference and urged youth cli

“the power of the powerless”

10 Everyday Acts of Resistance That Changed the World by Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson — YES! Maga
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Václav Havel called it “the power of the powerless.” How regular people, from Denmark to Liberia, have stood up to power—and won.

Happy Take Back the Earth Day….. Our Resistance is Fertile!

Act Against Extraction
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On April 20th, dozens of environmental, climate, and social justice groups will target government and corporate operations with aggressive protests and civil disobedience in an International Day of Direct Action against Extraction

Celebrate a movement’s rise against Geoengineering! HOME turns 1 today(!)

One Year at HOME: Thousands of People Build a Movement Against Geoengineering | H.O.M.E.
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Exactly one year ago, the HOME campaign (www.handsoffmotherearth.org) was launched at the World Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since then, hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals have joined the campaign, sent in their pictures and he