climate justice Archive
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Critical Update from Peaceful Uprising
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 3 CommentsWe have some big news. It’s been a trying year for PeaceUp, yet we're still holding strong. Please, take a moment to read the following. -
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. -
Live Post: Outside the Courthouse
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 9 CommentsWe escorted Tim into the courthouse with song. Ages ranging from 16 months to 90 years, we stood together to lift our voices to the ears of our community and our nation, carrying banners and scores of 70 paddles. We sang “We Shall Overcome,” spinning one verse to crystallize our cause: “Tim is not alone today." -
To win the fight for truth, we must be willing to lose honestly
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 7 CommentsHey kids, want to fight climate change? Want to create a future that you can…live in? If so, progressive think-tanks like Americans for Energy Leadership want you to shut the hell... -
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.... -
The Need for Mass Mobilizations
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 5 CommentsMany brilliant writers have commented on how our hyper-individualized society exacerbates our biggest problems. In the case of the climate movement, hyper-individualism causes potential activists to feel alienated from the incredibly powerful force of a united movement. -
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. -
First US Tar Sands to Break Ground in Utah
Posted on March 19, 2010 | 3 CommentsA horrifying and unprecedented project could put Utah’s Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon Recreation Area at serious risk, while at the same time thrusting a new source of water-depleting, CO2-billowing, filthy, and geographically destructive (but pseudoprofitable!) business into the equation. -
April 3rd: Fossil Fools Day Action at Kennecott
Posted on March 18, 2010 | 3 CommentsAs part of the national Fossil Fools Day of Action, Peaceful Uprising will be coordinating a legal and peaceful event to target Kennecott Copper's coal-fired power plant--one of the larger point sources of air and climate pollution in the Salt Lake Valley. All who care about the air quality on the Wasatch Front are invited to come and show that we the people are willing to make strong demands to preserve our health from the foolish burning of fossil fuels. -
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.
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