activism Archive
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Tim DeChristopher’s Imprisonment: Our Call to Action!
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 31 CommentsConsider this your call to action. Consider this the spark that will ignite this movement. We demand today and tomorrow a healthy and just world for our children and for our children's children. And we will not stop until the real criminals--the fossil fuel industry that is raping and pillaging our planet--be held accountable. -
RAMPS Campaigners Halt Blasting on Coal River Mountain
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No Comments"Alpha Natural Resources cannot be allowed to tear apart Coal River Mountain and allow those living below it to suffer for their profits." -
The Climate Trial in SLC
Posted on November 8, 2010 | 1 CommentClimate Trial, 5th of November, 2010. Across the street from the Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Climate Trial, Salt Lake City, Utah from Cliff Lyon Script: “All rise.... -
Friday Uprising: Ted Glick
Posted on July 2, 2010 | No CommentsVeteran activist Ted Glick--sentenced to 1 year probation and a $1,100 fine for hanging two "Green Jobs Now" banners at the Hart Senate Building--discusses his new book, Love Refuses to Quit: Climate Change and Social Change in the 21st Century. -
Friday Uprising: Re-Imagining Change
Posted on May 26, 2010 | No CommentsWhat will it take to create genuine change in the world? Patrick Reinsborough, the co-founder of SmartMeme, believes that creating stories with meaning is the key for activists to make progress on major issues threatening our planet. -
Friday Uprising: Ken Sanders
Posted on April 2, 2010 | No CommentsKen Sanders is a book dealer, former Earth First rabble rouser and friend to the late cult-hero Edward Abbey. Ashley and Ken discuss the radical days of the environmental movement and ask what makes effective activism today. -
Friday Uprising: Animal Action
Posted on March 31, 2010 | No CommentsHow far should humans go to rescue creatures who have no voice? Flora interview two activists who offer a pro-animal worldview at Utah Valley University's Animal Ethics Conference. -
Friday Uprising: Globalize Liberation
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsActivist, author and puppeteer David Solnit takes it to the streets, country to country, working for people and the planet. David discusses the history of the so-called "anti-globalization movement" and the hope of a Climate Justice Revolution. -
Friday Uprising: Michael Brune
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsMichael Brune, former director of the Rainforest Action Network and new director of the Sierra Club, discusses how his tactics and strategies have changed as he's crossed over into new positions and organizations. -
Friday Uprising: Worker’s Unite
Posted on February 10, 2010 | No CommentsTonight's guests are labor journalist Steve Early, organizer Rand Wilson and Utah's only unionized bartender, Michael Garcia. Early and Wilson are participating in this weekend's Climate of Change conference hosted by the Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee at the University of Utah.
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