Posts Tagged ‘occupy’

Occupy Sonoma County Holds Climate Change Summit

California – On July 31, Occupy Sonoma County hosted a gathering of local climate change activists at the Peace & Justice Center in Santa Rosa.  Over 70 people, representing 25 different organizations, attended.  Climate change activists are working together in Sonoma County. Many of the groups, such as Sierra Club Sonoma, Transition Sonoma Valley, the Lite Initiative, […]

Activists Occupy Trees To Stop Pipeline

Above photo: Pipeline fighters in tree-sits occupy the remaining white pines on the Gerhart’s land. Photo by Mark Scialla NOTE: The Gerhart’s lost their recent court case and are concerned that the police will come onto their land and remove their tree sit. Please take action to support them: 1. Write to the local Sheriff to […]

Protester Manages To Disrupt Donald Trump’s RNC Speech (VIDEO)

Print Friendly Above Photo: AP Photo / Evan Vucci It just wouldn’t be a Donald Trump speech without a protester interrupting the real estate mogul and being escorted out by security. A protester, identified by reporters on scene as Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the anti-war group, Code Pink, could be seen drawing the crowd’s attention up […]

11 Green Building Materials That Are Way Better Than Concrete

Concrete is a material that quite literally holds our cities together. From homes and apartment buildings to bridges, viaducts, and sidewalks, this ubiquitous gray material’s importance to modern urban life is undeniable. But you might have heard that it also has a dirty secret: the production of commercial concrete materials releases tons of the greenhouse […]

Harvard’s secret meeting on synthetic human genome fuels debate

A prominent Stanford scientist has denounced a secret meeting of 150 scientists at Harvard this week to discuss creating a synthetic human genome, or essentially constructing human life from scratch with chemicals, The San Jose Mercury News reports. The scientist Drew Endy and Northwestern University bioethicist Laurie Zoloth said the moral implications of human genome […]

Hollande vows to shut down France’s oldest nuclear power plant

Fessenheim houses two 920 megawatt reactors and has been running since 1978, making it France’s oldest operating plant. Due to its age, the German government and activists alike have long been calling for it to be permanently closed. Speaking at the 4th Environmental Conference at the Elysée Palace, Francois Hollande promised to formally initiate the […]

Daring escape: EgyptAir crew member slides through cockpit window to escape hijacked plane (VIDEO)

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FERC Action: Pancakes Not Pipelines

Print Friendly Above photo: Tim DeChristopher cooks solar pancakes in front of the FERC. Photos by Eleanor Goldfield of Art Killing Apathy. Washington, DC – Today at FERC, Beyond Extreme Energy organized a pancake protest. Yep, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher and award-winning documentary film-maker Josh Fox were dressed in aprons, chefs hats and stood behind a solar […]

Did Benham’s New Police Chief Beat A Handcuffed Man? That’s One Man’s Allegation

was born and raised in Wisconsin, traveled the country in a RV dubbed “MARV” and is an advocate of a voluntary society, where force is replaced with voluntary interactions. He’s partaken in projects such as, Motorhome Diaries, Liberty on Tour, Free Keene, Free Talk Live and is the Founder of CopBlock.org. ____________________________________________________________________________ If you enjoy my […]

10 Things They Won’t Tell You about the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will.

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Last Incarcerated NATO 3 Member May Die In Prison

Print Friendly Above: Mug shot of Jared Chase. Jared Chase is the last member of the “NATO 3,” who remains in prison. Chase suffers from Huntington’s disease and faces additional charges for alleged aggravated battery against a prison guard. He is set to go on trial in April. If convicted, there is a significant chance […]

Indigenous Women Lead Fight Against Climate Change In Latin America

Print Friendly Above Photo: Corbis Why should U.S. Latinas care about this issue? It is having an effect on our lives right now. Our families in Central and South America and the Caribbean are becoming climate refugees. If we do nothing, we’re giving up animals, forests, mountains and beaches that are rich with life and history. […]

VIDEO: Incredible timelapse of Dubai skyscraper in flames

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Scientist claims to have found the source of gravity

     Source of Gravity Defined in Quantized Ether? Throughout the history of modern physics, scientists have theorized about the existence of “dark energy” or “ether,” a substance that, if it exists, envelops and fills everything – all space and all reality. Ether has often been theorized to be the substance which is the conduit for […]

1,000 Crack British Troops Deployed to Libyan Oil Fields to ‘Halt the Advance of ISIS’

British Special Forces have been deployed in Libya to wrest back control of more than a dozen oil fields seized by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants, it has emerged. Approximately 6,000 European and US soldiers, including 1,000 British troops, will be involved in a number of offensives set up to halt the advance of […]

Did “Clean Natural Gas” Lobby Help Write EPA “Clean Power Plan”?

Print Friendly Above Photo: From PopularResistance.org. People are still analyzing Obama’s (typically complicated) plan to reduce CO2 emissions from power plants, and both criticism and praise is pouring in. But there’s something almost no one is saying. Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” is a huge gift to the methane (“Clean Energy”) industry — we’ll show you how […]

Transgender Women: State Of Emergency, State Of Resilience

Print Friendly Above Photo: Artwork by Rommy Torrico for TransLtin@ Coalition. This past summer, transgender actress and activist Laverne Cox declared a “state of emergency” due to the increasing number of murders of transgender women. By August of 2015, the total number of women killed (21 known cases at press time) had surpassed the total for all of […]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Importance Of Athlete Activists

Correction appended, Nov. 18, 2015. America has always had a complicated relationship with our athletes. When it comes to Game Day, athletes are warriors whose acrobatic actions on the court or field are revered by millions, emulated by children, lionized in living rooms and bars. Their faces are on clothing, their likenesses on video games. […]

Predatory Banking is Ultimate Financial Supporter of ISIS Terrorism

Source: Russia Today The Islamic State (ISIS) is Financed from 40 Countries, including G20 Members – Putin Predatory Banking A Common Enemy of Nations: It’s no longer a secret that most countries remain sovereign only because they subscribe to the Rothschild-style predatory banking systems that control politicians, dictate prosperity, austerity and illegal international wars.  This […]

49 Big Polluters To Be Investigated For Causing Extreme Weather Events

Print Friendly Above Photo: People in the Philippines know that they are at the end of a terrible chain reaction that destroys homes, ruins health and takes lives and livelihoods. Photo credit: Vincent Go / Greenpeace. They are part of a growing number of people that will no longer stand for companies—despite knowledge of the […]

France to deploy its only aircraft carrier against Islamic State

“The deployment of the battle group alongside the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has been decided to participate in operations against Daesch [ISIS] and its affiliate groups” the French president’s office said in a statement issued on Thursday after a defense cabinet meeting, Reuters reports.  “The aircraft carrier will enable us to be more efficient […]

France to deploy its only aircraft carrier against Islamic State

“The deployment of the battle group alongside the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has been decided to participate in operations against Daesch [ISIS] and its affiliate groups” the French president’s office said in a statement issued on Thursday after a defense cabinet meeting, Reuters reports.  “The aircraft carrier will enable us to be more efficient […]

The Corporate Coup: Chris Hedges And Ralph Nader

Print Friendly Above Photo: From PopularResistance.org. In this episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader trace the advancement of corporate control in the US political system. –  November 3, 2015 CHRIS HEDGES, HOST, DAYS OF REVOLT: Hi. I’m Chris Hedges. Welcome to Days of Revolt. We’re filming this segment, one of two segments, in […]

“One Very Simple, But Radical, Idea: To Democratise Europe”

Print Friendly Above Photo: Former Greek Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis. Demotix/Heather Blockey. All rights reserved. Alex Sakalis: I’m very interested in this transnational, pan-European movement you are preparing to launch, the details of which you’ve been teasing us with… Yanis Varoufakis: I’m not teasing you. It’s just that it takes time to establish. AS: What forces are […]

Housing And Homeless Activists Storm And Occupy Airbnb HQ

Print Friendly Above Photo: From Sfweekly.com. Dozens of housing and homeless activists stormed the Airbnb headquarters at 888 Brannan Street around noon today. A day before San Francisco voters will decide whether to regulate “home-sharing” more strictly, the activists sought to show the short-term rental company what “sharing” is all about. The protesters entered Airbnb’s […]

Call Flood Request: Drop Bogus Trespassing Charge by Butthurt Lakeland Officer

Michael Burns, of CopBlock Central Florida, submitted this post, via the Cop Block submissions page. This consists of an update on his arrest, supposedly for trespassing, the charges for which were not filed until months after the incident from which they originated. That arrest was reported previously on CopBlock.org in this post by Ademo. In […]

CIA’s Torturers & Leaders Must Face The Law

Print Friendly Above Photo: CIA director John Brennan. Photo illustration: DonkeyHotey / Flickr via Creative Commons. Even the most junior level intelligence officers know that torture is both unethical and illegal. So why didn’t our political leaders? Successful intelligence gathering through interrogation and other forms of human interaction by conventional means can be – and more often than not are – […]

Teach For America’s Embedded In Black Lives Matter

Print Friendly Above Photo: From PopularResistance.org. The Movement Lives in Ferguson: Teach For America, Black Leadership, and Disaster Capitalism The 501(c)(3) non-profit has indeed come a long way since Wendy Kopp founded it in 1990. In its first year, Teach For America had 500 recruits; by 2013, the organization controlled nearly half-a-billion dollars in assets and employed […]

Occupy The World! To the Barricades Comrades?

By William Bowles Four years ago in a Ministry of Defence Review, the Whitehall Mandarins, more astutely than any so-called Lefty, determined the following: “The Middle Class Proletariat — The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels of […]

Right-wingers accuse Occupy Wall Street of Anti-Semitism

A conservative group called The Emergency Committee for Israel is rallying against the Occupy Wall Street Protests, a movement they are attempting to make out as anti-Semitic. An advertisement that will soon hit television stations in New York City and Washington DC asks viewers, “Why are our leaders turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic, anti-Israel […]

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