By Rob Dietz, Peter Kalmus, Resilience.org
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus returns to Crazy Town, but this time with a green badge of courage. Earlier this year, he locked himself to the entrance of the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown Los Angeles to protest their ongoing investment in the fossil fuel industry.
By Charles de Lacombe, Nicolas Haeringer, Waging Nonviolence
This action is designed to be destabilizing. It is meant to hit us and to challenge us: What are we ready to do, what are we eager to give up, or even to sacrifice to try to save what can still be saved?
By Laura Calderón de la Barca, Xiye Bastida , DeSmog Blog
That is why they are called non-renewable resources, for example. Because Mother Earth doesn’t have the ability to renew those resources at the same speed at which we’re taking them.
By Charlie Wood, Waging Nonviolence
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
By Clara Vondrich, DeSmog Blog
Quantum social activism invites us to think differently about familiar dilemmas, and see what new possibilities may open as a result.
By Gus Speth, Common Dreams
Perhaps sooner than most think, major legislative action regulating greenhouse gas emissions will finally be possible. But that moment will not arrive without deep struggle, organizing, and collective persistence.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
By Roberta Hill, Resilience.org
MLK teaches us that this kind of systemic change will not come without struggle and personal sacrifice. He asks us each to consider the role we will play.
By Bart Anderson, Resilence.org
The climate movie Don’t Look Up has a lot to teach activists, in fact anyone concerned about our future.
By Heather Alberro, The Conversation
The proposed legislation represents a dangerous threat to essential democratic and civil liberties such as the right to protest.
By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine
In many ways, the results of the upcoming elections will reflect the ways youth activists and older activists are able come to a common understanding of what climate justice means and what they want the future world to look like.
By CIVICUS Staff, CIVICUS
I go to work kilometres away from my house, to organise people, to give them updates and reassure them that I am with them for real. I do it because people need someone they can lean on, someone they can trust their stories with, someone they feel could help them.