We’ve told you before about the dangerous Line 5 pipeline proposal and the threat it poses to our climate, and the Great lakes – the largest source of fresh water on earth. The existing pipeline is bad enough – it’s 20 years past its shutdown date and still carrying nearly 22 million gallons of oil per …
Last year, we were honored to join the Red Road to DC, a totem pole Journey from the pacific northwest to Washington DC, stopping at many native sacred sites along the way. The red road tour highlighted the hundreds of Indigenous sacred sites across the country — places of Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, …
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We’ve told you before about the dangerous Line 5 pipeline proposal and the threat it poses to our climate, and the the Great lakes – the largest source of fresh water on earth. This is the final week that the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is accepting public comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement …
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Biden made a clear and simple promise on the campaign trail to “Build Back Better.” But Biden can’t do that unless he Builds Back Fossil Free. For months we’ve been campaigning to get Biden to live up to his promises on the campaign trail with these actions: Protect and invest in the Black, Indigenous, People …
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From October 11-15, thousands marched to the White House to demand that President Biden stop all new fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency. More than 650 of us participated in civil disobedience and were arrested, and the Biden-Harris White House was forced to respond. Biden is due to leave for the international climate …
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Today we returned to the White House for the third day of the People vs. Fossil Fuels mobilization and, for the first time this week, I was arrested (briefly) under a giant banner that read “Biden: Our Communities Can’t Wait.” Today’s action, like all our actions this week, were led by indigenous leaders (mostly from …
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Today was the first day of the People vs. Fossil Fuels mobilization in DC, the week of civilly disobedient protest to demand President Biden declare a climate emergency, and stop all fossil fuel projects we’ve been telling you about. Today was amazing – more than 500 people marched together in solidarity and song to bring …
When he visited New Jersey and New York to tour the flooding damage from Hurricane Ida, the latest climate-fueled super-storm to kill dozens and displace thousands of Americans, President Biden said climate change was a “Code Red” threat. His words echoed the statement by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres a few weeks ago in …
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The last few weeks, evidence that the climate is changeD is abundant, deadly, and too common. The West is on fire, climate-fueled superstorm Ida devastated New Orleans on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – and then went on to cause deadly flooding in New York New Jersey and other states. This is the new reality. …
Read more “We’re calling the question on Biden’s big test: people vs fossil fuels.”