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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Big protest at Chevron Richmond refinery is latest example of climate activists stepping up rallies and marches
More than 2,000 people marched to the gates of the Chevron refinery, where 210 people were arrested as part of a protest against the oil giant and other fossil fuel companies.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
A new report reveals the American Legislative Exchange Council has pushed more than six dozen bills this year in 34 states that oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and undermine environmental laws.
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Sandra Steingraber’s Latest Experiment For a Fracking-Free World
The renowned biologist, author and activist was just released from two weeks in jail for blocking the driveway of Inergy Midstream, an energy company in upstate New York that plans to pump fracked gas.
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Student Issues, Student Power: Whose Future? Our Future!
As U.S. student activism remains strikingly dormant and fragmented, campus organizers are grappling to find the means to mobilize their peers into movements large enough to effect change.
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Idle No More: Think Occupy, But With Deep Roots
From hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, Idle No More is a surging movement of indigenous activists that may be as important as the Occupy Movement that transfixed the world a year ago.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
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Naomi Klein: "Fight Like Hell for Climate Justice"
Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein have a tough-love message: time is running out on climate change, and everything we've ever fought for is on the line.
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A Bold New Plan to Save the Climate
Bill McKibben is launching a campaign that might just save the world.
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Divest! A Campaign Heats Up to Dump Fossil Fuel Funding
Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, groups are now asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies.
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A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the carbon pouring into the atmosphere.
