Regarding posts about social justice movements.
An incredible action. When we headed back to the blockade site this morning, there were still 4 people locked to the boat blocking the road into the site. A few people across the road stayed overnight to provide some support. Activists with a lot of direct action experience and skills, and those with little or none, all worked together beautifully.
Here’s what I learned in Minnesota: Pipelines are not a climate change issue. They’re an Indigenous issue with global consequences. Pipelines always run through Indigenous territories because they’re politically disenfranchised, the result of half a millennium of persecution and genocide. It’s the path of least resistance.
This week marks the anniversary of the brutal murder of George Floyd and the anniversary of the Portland uprising. This was a year of resistance. But we weren’t the ones resisting. It was the government. … Read more
The Necessity documentary team invites you to a special webinar panel on Thursday, May 6th, 6-7:30 pm titled “Climate Resistance: Art, Action and Allyship.” Hosted by Portland State University, the panel includes artists, activists and … Read more
“Regenerative culture” doesn’t have a single definition, but includes a basic commitment to care and sustainability: care of each individual, care of the group, the community, the place they reside in and the planet as a whole so that all life thrives. Within this broad brush stroke concept, details that are meaningful to any one group emerge out of understanding what care—in the moment of consideration—means to them.
Imagine if Earth Day, and the environmental movement overall, had not been so easily co-opted into “green” consumerism and once-a-year craft and trash pickup projects. A reckoning with the history of Earth Day provides grim but necessary lessons for the climate movement.
On Tuesday, April 6th at 9:00 am, the EPA Office of Environmental Justice will be hosting a webinar about the relationship between segregation and the disproportionate impacts of climate change. Understanding structural racism and the … Read more
Something became crystal clear to me: Fossil fuel pipelines are not a climate change issue taking place on Indigenous soil. They’re an Indigenous issue with global consequences.
White supremacist violence against people of Asian descent is nothing new. Indeed, it’s nearly as old as the country itself. But with the recent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes across the country, we must stand together to put a stop to it.
Illegal pullovers, surveillance, and other harassment actions by county Sheriffs, state troopers, and Enbridge security forces were commonplace. Outside one of the Water Protector camps we visited, there was 24/7 surveillance by two to four local sheriff cars at any time.