Older climate activists gathered in on hundred cities around the country for a day of action targeting banks that finance fossil fuel projects. New organization, Third Act, already has 50,000 members.
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Movements only really work if they grow, if they build. If they move. And that’s almost always an additive process. The trick, I think, is figuring out how to make it possible for more people to join in.
The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice
In the US the movement must stop the energy corporations from searching for carbon, digging it up, and burning it.
The writer-turned-activist on leading the leaderless climate movement
In recent months -- and it’s the curse of an author that sometimes you change your mind after your book is in type -- I’ve come to like the idea of capital L leaders less and less. It seems to me to miss the particular promise of this moment: that we could conceive of, and pursue, movements in new ways.
Reader Comments - March on Washington; Even McDonald's Thinks Its Workers Need $15; NLRB, Chris Hedges and the Pequod; Labor & Obamacare; Greens and Fracking; Saving Underwater Homes at the Local Level; Low-Wage Workers;
R.I.P. - Fred Hicks (Louisville); Henri Alleg - Journalist who revealed French torture in Algeria;
Announcements: Pastor's Message to Cuba; Celebrate Nelson Mandela's Life - Berkeley - July 21; Confronting the Climate Crisis - San Francisco - Aug 2
"This resolution becomes a model for all faith communities who care about God’s creation and recognize the urgent scientific mandate to keep at least 80% of the known oil, gas and coal reserves in the ground." Jim Antal, Minister and President, MACUCC
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