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people power Archive
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Citizens’ Public Hearing against Tar Sands
Posted on April 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe first 'Hot Spot' action of our quarterly Community Audits for 2012. -
Press Conference for Tim’s Transfer & Appeal
Posted on March 30, 2012 | 1 CommentTim's minister, legal team, and beloved community of supporters in Salt Lake City. -
My Declaration of Democracy
Posted on September 30, 2011 | 6 CommentsI want to live in a democracy, but I don’t. None of us does. And that is because we don’t really believe in the words of the Declaration of Independence—this declaration that says we are free to be equal, happy and alive. So maybe it’s time to write out our beliefs, to make another declaration for a new kind of independence: the independence of the poor and forgotten from the people who control their lives and futures. -
Tim DeChristopher’s call for Stubbornness
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 7 CommentsTaking the steps forward we need, like passing a decent carbon tax, involves overthrowing the corporations currently controlling our government, and we know they'll be pretty stubborn in holding on to their power. -
Tim DeChristopher’s Imprisonment: Our Call to Action!
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 36 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. -
Tim’s official statement at his sentencing hearing
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 107 CommentsAt this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow. The choice you are making today is what side are you on. -
Power concedes nothing without a demand
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 3 CommentsWe have tolerated the intolerant—from propaganda outlets such as Fox News to Christian fascists to lunatics in the Republican Party to Wall Street and corporations—and we are paying the price. The only place left for us is on the street. We must occupy state and federal offices. We must foment general strikes. -
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: David Cobb
Posted on April 23, 2010 | No CommentsHow much power should corporations have over our political system? David argues that to have a healthy democracy, we must abolish corporate personhood and establish that only human beings, not corporations, are entitled to constitutional rights. -
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.
