The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Bill McKibben
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March For Climate – Then Join U.S. Frontlines Of Carbon Resistance
We must shift the national plan of action – taking the climate justice fight to the extraction hot spots, from Appalachia to Alaska and from the heartland to the coastal rigs and carbon export terminals.
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A People's Climate Train Rolls East As Energy Builds for New York Protests
Organizers haven't been shy about their underlying intentions: using the September march in Manhattan as a platform on which to build an international environmental social movement unlike any previously seen.
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Lobster Boat Blockade: Two Activists Stand Trial After Helping Close Down a Coal Plant
Environmental direct action will get a big legal test in Massachusetts next week when two men who temporarily blocked 40,000 tons of coal from reaching New England's largest coal-fired power plant stand trial.
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Unions Gear Up for Climate Mega-March
With 400,000 members and 85,000 retirees, SEIU 1199 is among the biggest unions to sign up so far for the People's Climate March in New York in September.
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Teens Sue U.S. Government over Climate Inaction As Youth Revolt Spreads
An unprecedented, massive legal campaign led by young Americans, accusing the government of negligence in dealing with the climate crisis, is playing out in courtrooms across the nation.
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Indigenous Activists Invoke the Sacred As Keystone Pipeline Standoff Continues
"We are living the nightmare. We live in the shadow of ConocoPhillips."
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No More Red Scares: Fighting Fair Against Keystone XL and Fossil Fuel Expansion
Tom Steyer and NextGen Climate’s anti-Keystone pipeline ad made Americans sit up.
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Direct Action Against Coal in Seattle
With the conflict over two coal export terminals brewing on the horizon and an incumbent mayor making big climate promises, Seattle is emerging as the center of a new climate showdown.
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De-Icing the Myth of Greenland
The scenes now playing out in Greenland's de-icing are like nothing we've ever witnessed before.
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Anti-Keystone Stragegy: Build a Movement, Ignore Deniers, Topple Industry
Phil Aroneanu, co-founder of 350.org, believes reaching out to climate deniers is "a waste of our time," as is negotiating with the fossil fuel companies that "speak out of both sides of their mouth."
