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Tag: civil disobedience
Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience | Culture of Awareness
Originally posted on Openhearted Rebel: Fracking Toxins Contaminate Water ScaleChange.com Thanks to Golden Age of Gaia A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells. By Kate Stringer May 13,…
Ben & Jerry’s Founders Arrested At Rally Against Big Money In Politics
Originally posted on The Secular Jurist: Ice cream titans Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were arrested on Monday at a protest outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The Ben & Jerry’s founders were demonstrating against corporate political spending at a…
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Will You Risk Arrest to Save Democracy? Sign-Up for D.C. Sit-In Coming this April
Big Money in Politics is a curse on the United States. No other issue or problem can be seriously addressed until Congress represents American voters, instead of wealthy donors. Sit-In with Thousands. Save Democracy for Millions. (Link) The folks at …
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Canadians Give Trudeau a Warm ‘Climate Welcome’ (Video)
Climate-conscious Canadians conducting a peaceful sit-in to plead for two things from their new Trudeau government: 1) "Freeze the expansion of the Alberta tar sands." And, 2) "Un-thaw investment into Canadian renewable energy."
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Ende Gelände: Here, But No Further (Video)
Yesterday, 1500 people from over 45 countries, took part in a daring act of mass civil disobedience to shut down Europe’s biggest source of CO2 emissions: the Rhineland coalfields owned by utility company RWE.
Kayactivists Prepare for Shell Icebreaker to Arrive in Portland
Kayactivists Prepare for Shell Icebreaker to Arrive in Portland Climate change activists in Portland are planning to take to the water in kayaks to engage in civil disobedience when an ice-breaking vessel working for the the Royal Dutch Shell oil …
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An Almost Perfect Story of How Democracy Should Work
On Independence Day, Ralph Nader talked to Doug Hughes on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Hughes is the man who landed a gyrocopter on the Capitol Hill lawn in an act of civil disobedience so that he could personally deliver …
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