Civil disobedience
Revolution needs to create an Evolution
If the gap between those who have and those who do not grows to a breaking point, then revolt and revolution will take place. History has shown us that. Let’s all work together to evolve in a more peaceful manner.
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Making Sense of the Downward Spiral: Daniel Schmachtenberger
America’s cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. How can we make sense of this spiral of polarisation, and are bad actors taking advantage of the situation? This is a conversation with evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger hosted by Rebel Wisdoom.
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16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]
These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read More Politics as Usual Isn’t Working: It’s Time for a Revolution
Falling life expectancy. Rising economic inequality. Power concentrated in hands unelected elites. An environment poisoned by profits. For some, the crises present day America faces are existential. As such, the political response needs to be commensurate to the moment and nothing short of a root and branch political revolution. For others, this revolutionary impulse on the Right and Left spells disaster.
Read More January’s New Environmental Books (The Revelator)
The Revelator’s list of new environmental books for January 2020.
Read More Hope Lies in the Streets
Hope lies in the streets. Millions of people in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon understand. It is time to join them.
Read More The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read More Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
Read More Neoliberalism Backfires
Massive, continuous demonstrations in the streets around the world bespeak a universal threat that neoliberalism’s self-immolation will grow worse and worse if it continues its horribly stale rotted emphasis on globalization and austerity of social programs as the answers for progress. It’s backfiring.
Read More Bolivia – A Color Revolution – or a New Surge for Latin American Independence?
It’s become a classic. It’s being called a Color Revolution, and it’s been taking place on all Continents. US interference in the affairs of other countries for the continued enrichment of their elites is endless, merciless, reckless, without scruples and deadly. Bolivia is just the latest victim.
Read More From a Young Climate Movement Leader, a Determined Call for Action
Xiye Bastida Patrick, a New York high school student, has become a key leader in the growing youth climate movement. In an e360 interview, she talks about why students are taking to the streets to demand action and how this is changing the climate conversation globally.
Read More In A Society Built On War, We Must Do More Than Just Prefer Peace
We live in a civilization that was built by war. A civilization that is currently propped up by war. A civilization that has its future mapped out with war as its career and war as its retirement plan.
Read More Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Discusses Climate Emergency
Extinction Rebellion (“XR”) has hit the world stage like a flash of light with participants in more than 70 countries all within one year’s time. Its allure is simply “telling the truth” about the climate crisis… for a change. A breath of fresh air in a world filled with deceit and lies by people in positions of power.
Read More The Age of Radical Evil
We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction.
Read More Extinction Rebellion Sweeps the World
Written by Robert Hunziker Extinction Rebellion, XR est. October 31, 2018, has become a powerful...
Read More The Big Polluters’ Masterstroke Was to Blame the Climate Crisis on You and Me
While we are all participants in the first great extermination, our responsibility is not evenly shared. Even middle-class people in the rich world, whose effects are significant, are guided by a system of thought and action that is shaped in large part by corporations.
Read More News from Extinction Rebellion – Nonviolently Hitting Our Stride
As we approached the first weekend of the October Rebellion, Extinction Rebels showed no sign of slowing down.
Read More Time to Rebel
Monday, Oct. 7. marks the start of what the British-based group Extinction Rebellion is calling the International Rebellion. Thousands of people will occupy the centers of some 60 cities around the globe, including Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris and New York, to stage nonviolent occupations of bridges and roads for at least a week.
Read More The Greta Thunberg Helpline
If you’re a grown adult enraged by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, satirist Mark Humphries and his co-writer Evan Williams have created a new service that could help.
Read More Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Written by Caitlin Johnstone / Medium Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations...
Read More Youth vs. Apocalypse: An Allied Approach to Climate Justice Leadership
Isha Clarke of Youth vs. Apocalypse discusses how their group is redesigning the climate justice movement to centralize justice and provide a platform for youth of color and indigenous youth. YvA is doing deep work to build local, national and global coalitions with other youth movements and adult allies.
Read More Nonviolence Denial Is As Dangerous As Climate Denial
Persistent willful ignorance of necessary knowledge can be deadly. This is true of denial of climate collapse. It is also true of denial of the tools and power of nonviolent action.
Read More How a London Arms Fair Shields the War on Yemen
As the world’s largest arms fair takes place in London, Lydia Noon talks to Yemeni artist Ahmed Jahaf about living under a Saudi-led military siege.
Read More Greta Thunberg and Indigenous Amazon Defender Among Visionary Campaigners Honored With Right Livelihood Awards
The Right Livelihood Foundation celebrated four “practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a livable future for all on planet Earth.”
Read More Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. They should have. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
Read More 7 things you can do if you can’t do a Climate Strike
The TreeHugger team has put together some suggestions for those who can’t take the day off work to go to a climate strike but want to do something.
Read More ‘Biggest Day of Climate Action in Planetary History’
In what was the largest mass climate demonstration in history, millions of young people and their adult allies flooded the streets around the world Friday to take part in the Global Climate Strike and pressure world leaders to confront the ecological crisis with bold and urgent action.
Read More Global Climate Strike – Sep. 20–27
By now, you’ve probably received plenty of emails about the Climate Strike on September 20th. You probably already know that masses of people of all ages will join youth in the streets in over 500 US cities. But you might still be wondering, why are all these people striking? Why should I get involved?
Read More People’s Mobilization Unites For People And Planet
The People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet is two weeks away. The “People’s Mobe” will be held from September 20 to 23 in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly.
Read More The Rise of a New Climate Activism
Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject. For many campaigners, who have grown weary of watching their warnings fall on deaf ears, it has felt like hope has arrived at last.
Read More Extinction Rebellion: What is it?
The climate crisis is turning average law-abiding people into raging law-breaking eco rebels, by boatloads. Extinction Rebellion (ER) is at the forefront, demanding that governments declare climate emergencies and take urgent action.
Read More Communities Know What’s Good for Them When It Comes to Transport
Designing transport projects to help free up traffic is a flawed approach if done in isolation or prioritisation to the safe and active movement of people.
Read More NHS Reports Protester to Counter-Terrorism for joining Extinction Rebellion
A retired doctor who took part in non-violent environmental protests was visited by police at his home after his local NHS trust reported him to the government’s counter-terrorism programme.
Read More ‘Trailblazer in the Name of Peace’: Anti-War Hero Frances Crowe Dies at 100
“As we celebrate her life and mourn her passing,” said one friend and ally, “we know that the best tribute of all is to keep on fighting.”
Read More Here’s Looking At You, Kid.
In words and deeds, Thunberg is the embodiment of philosopher Howard Zinn’s admonition: “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.”
Read More Global Climate Strike Aims to Spur Transformative Change
The world’s youth have infused a new urgency into the global fight against climate change. Through movements like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, millions of young people have gathered in public squares and busy streets, senate chambers and assembly rooms, to call on government leaders to curb greenhouse gas emissions and enact meaningful environmental policies.
Read More Fear vs. Fear
Written by Chris Hedges / TruthDig The old rules of politics no longer apply. The only language...
Read More How the World’s Dirtiest Industries Have Learned to Pollute Our Politics
The tragedy of our times is that the gathering collapse of our life support systems has coincided with the age of public disservice. Just as we need to rise above self-interest and short-termism, governments around the world now represent the meanest and dirtiest of special interests.
Read More As Cost of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates
The warnings of climate chaos are coming so fast they are difficult to keep up with. Storms, heatwaves and climate-related weather disasters are increasing at a rapid pace. But along with the climate chaos has been an increasing movement of people protesting the inaction of political leaders, and insisting on putting the climate issue front and center.
Read More Civil Disobedience and Policing in the Anthropocene
How will the police respond to environmental direct action groups like Extinction Rebellion as climate breakdown reaches critical mass?
Read More Youth Leading the Way for Climate Justice
Young people across the world are rising up to spur action on climate change. This powerful movement is gaining momentum as the stakes continue to escalate in the fight for their future.
Read MoreUS Foreign Policy Exposed
In the last week, the realities of US foreign policy have been exposed by a leaked audio tape, a leak about a US attack on the Russian electrical grid, and US attempts to extradite Julian Assange. All the information points to a foreign policy that violates international law and standards, perpetrates wars and conflict and seeks to undermine press freedom in order to commit its crimes in secret. This is not new information to those of us who closely follow US foreign policy, but these new exposures are broad and are in the mass media where many millions of people can view them and gain a greater understanding of the realities of US actions around the world.
Read More Millions of Brazilians Join General Strike and Protests Against President’s Austerity Reforms
In what has become the largest mobilization against Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, millions of Brazilians joined in the general strike, shutting down schools, banks, and public transportation. They are demanding a halt of the pension reform and the release of imprisoned ex-president Lula da Silva.
Read MoreA Soldier’s Defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
It’s a matter of principles over personalities. Whether one loves or hates Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange is besides the point. The First Amendment freedom of the press is at stake now. So consider this a desperate plea from a career soldier: pay attention! Defend those who subvert the military and government’s secrecy regulations. In such times real patriotism involves breaking the rules.
Read MoreSudan’s Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance
As dawn broke on Monday, June 3, Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) began a violent crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in the capital of Khartoum in response to a nationwide general strike the previous weekend. Despite the government’s endless attempts at coercion, the people of Sudan have continuously shown the fortitude to continue protesting and the courage to remain nonviolent.
Read MoreGreenpeace Campaigners Stop BP Rig Bound for North Sea, Stalling Fossil Fuel Giant’s Plan to Extract 30 Million Barrels of Oil
Three Greenpeace campaigners halted a British Petroleum oil rig off the coast of Scotland on Sunday as it prepared to leave for the North Sea to drill oil wells. Carrying enough provisions to last several days aboard the rig, the climate action advocates pulled up to the 27,000-ton vessel in small boats as it attempted to leave Cromarty Firth, bound for the Vorlich oil field where BP plans to access up to 30 million barrels of oil.
Read More Meet the Animal Rights Activists Facing Prison Time for Rescuing Ducks, Piglets from Factory Farms
Nearly 100 animal rights activists were freed today, after being arrested by police in riot gear for carrying out a rescue mission and protest at the Reichardt Duck Farm in Petaluma, California, which they accuse of engaging in animal torture.
Read MoreA Culture of Care: Helping Activists and Their Allies Look After Themselves
Self-care is often the last thing on the minds of frontline human rights defenders. But it is the only thing that can make activism sustainable.
Read More‘Blatant Attempt to Intimidate’: Trump Administration Proposal Threatens Pipeline Protesters With Up to 20 Years in Prison
Building on efforts by multiple states to crack down on those fighting the construction of climate-destroying fossil fuel infrastructure, the Trump administration unveiled a proposal on Monday that would criminalize pipeline protests at the federal level and hit demonstrators with up to 20 years in prison.
Read More Striking for System Change, Not Climate Change
Students have been striking all over New Zealand. Much has been said about the rights and wrongs of them skipping school to march the streets. From my experience, these students understand more about the problem and solutions we’re facing than many of the adults making decisions on their behalf. I spoke to a few of them at the strike to get their thoughts on what the government should be doing to take action against climate change and what they were doing individually.
Read MoreGlobal Rebellion to Save Our Planet
“The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past. Despite repeated warnings nothing substantial has been done and time is running out. No one else is going to Save Our Planet; a global movement of civil disobedience is needed to force governments to take the radical action needed.
Read More Reclaim Our Power or Face Extinction: The Choice Is Ours
Human society is heading towards disaster on many levels, and our “leaders” are certainly not leading. The only thing likely to save humanity is if “We the people” reclaim our power and lead the charge towards a truly sustainable society.
Read MoreChelsea Manning is Showing Us What Real Resistance Looks Like
Chelsea’s act of resistance is public and her motivations are clear. She is providing an example of a tactic—dedicated non-cooperation—that if followed by enough people in enough ways, would lead to dramatic, widespread, systemic change.
Read MoreR2P and the Palestinian Ordeal: Humiliating the UN
If there is a lesson for the Palestinian struggle it is this. Do not look for relief to any future application of R2P, or for that matter, to inter-governmental diplomacy or the UN. The only path to ending current patterns of criminal victimization is by a combination of Palestinian national resistance and global solidarity initiatives.
Read MoreFrance Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters Who Published Secret Government Document
Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s involvement in the Yemen conflict.
Read MoreThe Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia
A story of how Indigenous activists took history out of the dry textbooks, the condescending political speeches, the ivory tower, and put it to use in the street, where it was made to be something alive and popular, for political uses, for indigenous liberation.
Read MoreNew Documentary Reveals What It’s like to Hunt down Whalers
Captain Paul Watson — the vegan founder of international ocean conservation activist group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — is the subject of a new documentary. Called “Watson,” the film spans decades of Watson’s activism using archival footage meshed with personal stories.
Read MoreOnly Rebellion Will Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse
As the environmental crisis accelerates, and as protest movements like YouthStrike4Climate and Extinction Rebellion make it harder not to see what we face, people discover more inventive means of shutting their eyes and shedding responsibility. Underlying these excuses is a deep-rooted belief that if we really are in trouble, someone somewhere will come to our rescue: “they” won’t let it happen. But there is no they, just us.
Read MoreThe Martyrdom of Julian Assange
The arrest Thursday of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite will be masked from the public.
Read MoreLeading the Public Into Emergency Mode
Imagine there is a fire in your house. What do you do? What do you think about? The climate crisis is an unprecedented emergency. It is the United States’ top national security threat, public health threat, and moral emergency. How we react to the climate crisis will shape centuries and millennia to come.
Read More (Tedx Talk – Greta Thunberg) School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules
Greta Thunberg realized at a young age the lapse in what several climate experts were saying and in the actions that were being taken in society. The difference was so drastic in her opinion that she decided to take matters into her own hands.
Read MoreRebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: ‘For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.’
Read MoreInside the Bold New Animal Liberation Movement: No Masks, No Regrets, All the Risk
DxE is one of may animal rights groups whose members are risking prison time in order to expose the cruelties within the animal farming industry.
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