Nice article about the Beltway vs. the local/confrontational approaches although Parenti leaves out the real impetus on fighting coal and curbing emissions which has been frontline communities and radical groups like Rising Tide and Mountain Justice.
Green Strategy Now | The Nation
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After the demise of climate legislation, environment groups are going local—and confrontational.
La Tierra o La Muerte. The real story in Cancun is the emergence of the social and climate movements after Cochabamba. Not if Obama is making a guest appearance or if another deal is possible.
Climate JUSTICE! » The ground swells – thousands join the ‘International March For Life and Social a
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Global Exchange’s Carleen Pickard & other delegation members join fellow climate justice campaigners, environmentalists and social justice advocates from around the world for the COP16 in Cancun. They’re traveling with La Via Campesina organized caravans . En route to COP 16, the caravans are vis
Fifty-five
years ago yesterday, the “Mother of the Civil Rights movement” Rosa
Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. Ms. Parks was trained at
the Highlander School in east TN and was part of a grassroots direct
action campaign to challenge Jim Crow in Montgomery, AL. Here’s to the
organizers and activists who make campaigns like this happen.
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Canadian First Nations Representatives Deploy Giant Human Banner Demanding End to Tar Sands Development
RELEASE: Canadian First Nations Representatives Deploy Giant Human Banner Demanding End to Tar Sands
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RELEASE: Canadian #FirstNations Reps Deploy Giant Human Banner, Demand End 2 #TarSands #cop16 #climate #ien