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• Protest 15 Years of Failed Climate Negotiations with Mass Non-Violent Civil Disobedience

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  Civil Society Groups Inside and Outside The COP Process Issue Call to Unite in “Peoples’ Assembly” to Demand Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis www.climate-justice-action.org Copenhagen, Denmark – As broad frustration grows with rich country and corporate influence over the content and direction ...
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• Energy for activism

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  So there we were, hating the Mission scene and creating it: our meetings always took place in the Mission; most of the people who showed up at our demos lived or socialized in the Mission. But here’s the thing -- people would come to our meetings, and it would change them, I mean it would change their relationship ...
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• Crackdown in Copenhagen

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  Over the past week, the Danish capital has welcomed delegates, corporate lobbyists, and representatives of mainstream, moderate NGOs with open arms; however, they’ve shown a somewhat uglier face towards activists advocating climate justice. Yesterday, a massive, peaceful protest of 100,000 people – the ...
  3 days ago

• Friends and enemies

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  I met Kelvline at that first Gay Shame action at Tire Beach. Squinting in the sun, he came right up and said: what can I do? I’m not sure exactly what made me think he was a well-meaning straight guy, something about how he carried masculinity and it carried him. I’m sure Kelvline will hate that description. Later ...
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• "System change, not climate change"

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  There are many different protests with different themes each day of the week. Many people that have come from around the world that are, say, on the outside are working under a banner, “system change, not climate change,” because we’re very clear that everything the UN is talking about and the system of ...
  4 days ago

• The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through

  
  The Activist — Authority: 118
  MARK ENGLERIn early September 2006, Johann Hari, a columnist for the British newspaper The Independent, visited what was then an unusual gathering: a climate action camp. A village of tents had appeared in the shadow of Selby, England’s, towering Drax coal-fired power plant—one of the largest emitters of ...
  5 days ago

• Solar Power for the Masses

  
  Things Are Good — Authority: 122
  A chain of department stores in the USA has begun selling solar panels off the shelf. This is a great sign that the market for solar panels is growing and this increased production will only make the panels cheaper in the long run. Lowe’s has begun stocking solar panels at its California stores and plans to roll ...
  6 days ago

• Stop Tarring Our Image, Our Future, Our Climate, and Our Communities

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  Canada’s former image of being an amiable and lovable nation is being tarred at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15), where Canadian negotiaters are constantly blocking progress towards an international climate deal. At the UNFCC today, Canadian youth converged in the plenary hall, holding a banner saying: ...
  1 week ago

• US Youth Crash Climate Denier Live Webcast in Copenhagen

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  Update: Check out the sweet video at the bottom of the post! Fifty young Americans took over a climate denier conference hosted by a prominent conservative organization this evening in Copenhagen, rushing the stage and telling the live TV audience that a clean energy future is the real road to prosperity in ...
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• What You Can do to Stop Climate Change

  
  Things Are Good — Authority: 122
  Here’s an example of what a German family are doing to lower their environmental impact and make the world a little better for their children: Georg Fürtges’s pride and joy is a green monstrosity standing in the basement of his house in the western German city of Essen, hissing quietly and consuming dark little ...
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• Flash Dance: The Un-Official Chant of the Youth Climate Movement

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  In true It’s Getting Hot In Here fashion, the international youth performed a flash dance during the first day of the UN climate treaty negotiations. We made our presence felt outside the the first open plenary session of the conference. Over 100 youth gathered for the action and we were literally surrounded by ...
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• The barricades

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  So then we came up with the Gay Shame Awards, in which we rewarded the most hypocritical gays for their service to the community, in categories including Exploiting Our Youth, Making More Queers Homeless and Helping Right-Wingers Cope. We held our ceremony in Harvey Milk Plaza, the symbolic heart of the Castro, as if ...
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• sea and space

  
  dysnomia.us — Authority: 117
  Sea Shepherd vs. Japan, round 3- now under way: Whale protesters sail for southern ocean Japan sends ships to monitor whaling protests And looking up a bit, Burt Rutan & co. unveiled their second generation space ship yesterday. This one is supposed to carry actual paying passengers in the next ...
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• More Sit-Ins for Single-Payer, Thurs. Dec. 10th

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 466
  The Mobilization for Health Care for All , about which we have blogged several times, is having another Day of Action for single-payer this Thursday, December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. I hope some regular D&S blog visitors can participate in these sit-ins! Here is the ...
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• Anthill Mob reinforce anti-expansion message during Copenhagen climate talks

  
  Plane Stupid - bringing the aviation industry back down to earth! — Authority: 119
  Activists in east London have painted two mega-messages against growth in aviation - and flights at London City Airport in particular - to coincide with the Copenhagen climate summit. One message saying, ‘Still climate criminals!’ is written in giant letters on the top of a 60ft hill situated just south of City ...
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• Dear AIG: Don’t Quit! I Have a Better Suggestion!

  
  Brendan Calling — Authority: 468
  Via atrios , I learned that the crybabies executives at AIG might quit if they have to take a pay cut : Five senior executives at American International Group told the bailed-out insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar, the Wall Street Journal reported. ...
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• Mass “Die-In” Outside Plenary at Climate Talks

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 627
  More than 30 youth from Australia, Mexico, India, Sweden, the US, Germany, and around the world  staged a “die-in” today outside the main plenary at COP15 with the message – “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “Real Deal Saves Lives”. A real deal was in jeopardy today as speculation emerged that the ...
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• COP15: Be part of the party!

  
  subMedia — Authority: 413
  Copenhagen – COP15 – World Climate Summit On December 12th 2009 a mass demonstration against the COP15 Climate Summit will take place in Copenhagen. A mixture of very different people, groups and organizations are going to participate. Unfortunately, the official route of the demonstration will directly lead ...
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• WDA works with local immigrants

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 436
  Whitman Direct Action is trying to make a difference in the world, one project at a time. “WDA is a student-run, student-led group,” said junior member Jojo Robertson. “It’s basically like a nonprofit in that students will propose projects and will discuss everything as a group and come up with a project and ...
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• Entrenched

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  Even the personality of the group became kind of like mine -- our proclamations were always grandiose and flamboyant, meticulously grounded in politics yet queeny and absurd -- suddenly we were all calling each other Mary, yelling nurse! Sure, we were invoking a camp queer history of Marys, a respite from the ...
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