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.
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People's Climate Train: A Journey Toward Justice
If the people at the UN are not ready to take action, they should move to the side, because the people will.
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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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What Will It Take To Create Climate Justice?
There's still a long way to go to stop the division in the environmental movement and get traditional groups to treat climate change as an urgent disaster for which real solutions – not false compromises – are needed.
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A Flotilla For Climate Action Sails the Hudson Ahead of Mass New York Protests
SeaChange: We All Live Downstream is a two-week journey by boat that's raising awareness and generating community activism around climate issues before people hit the streets in Manhattan.
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People, Americans: Don’t Look to Government to Solve the Climate Crisis
Solutions exist to mitigate climate change and build systems that allow us to adapt to its harshest impacts – but the answers won’t be coming from above.
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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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Climate Alarm Is Ringing – And Until Now the United Nations Has Failed To Act
Tackling the influence of Big Industry and financiers over the UN is now the prime focus.
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Will New York Protests At U.N. Be the Last Gasp for Climate Change Liberals?
Resistance will come from those willing to breach police barricades. Resistance will mean jail time and direct confrontation. Resistance will mean physically disrupting the corporate machinery.
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U.S. Energy Commission Sneaks Permit to Canada's Enbridge for Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
The announcement came days after the State Department gave Enbridge a controversial permit to transport 350,000 barrels of tar sands per day across the U.S.-Canada border without public hearings or environmental review.
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Oregon Delivers Defeat to Coal Industry Denying Key Permit for Export Terminal
The Morrow Pacific coal terminal would have not only encouraged CO2-emitting coal to be burned elsewhere, but would pollute local waterways and increase rail and truck traffic in once restful regions.
