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“The fact that we’re finding hundreds of these birds dying, just kind of falling out of the sky is extremely alarming.”
A combination of factors—all related to the climate crisis—is believed to be behind one of the largest mass bird die-off events in recent memory in the Southwest, according to (...)
Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups.
None of this plastic will be turned into new (...)
When I got up the morning of the September 20 world-wide student climate strike, I turned on the TV news with my cup of coffee, and saw a huge, spirited and loud demonstration in Melbourne, Australia, held the previous day, which was September 20 there. I was both surprised and inspired.
Then (...)
Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, a small nation on a series of islands east and south of the Florida peninsula, as a category 5 storm with 185 miles- per-hour winds. It stalled there for two days as a category 4, utterly destroying over 13,000 homes.
Storm surges and heavy rains added to the (...)
Become a powerful force for change
When it comes to heat, extreme weather, wildfires, and melting glaciers, the planet is now in what the media increasingly refers to as “record” territory, as climate change’s momentum outpaces predictions. In such a situation, in a country whose president and (...)
The Green New Deal (GND), drawn up by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey, is the most ambitious and comprehensive program to deal with climate change ever made by political representatives to Congress and the U.S. public. It calls for making dramatic changes within the next (...)
SFTP’s People’s Green New Deal campaign will run for a full year, through spring 2020. We will:
1. Hold high profile, public events that examine the overlapping social, political, and technical aspects of the Green New Deal.
2. Collect testimony, through audio and video recordings, interviews, (...)
THE GREEN NEW Deal resolution introduced into Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey is a manifesto that has changed the terms of the debate over the country’s future. Cutting through the Trump administration’s denials about who is responsible for the extreme (...)
Humankind has reached a moment of existential crisis. Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. We are already locked in for global warming that will have catastrophic effects, and we are on a (...)
The following is based on a new discussion paper 18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make the Climate Mobilization Work (pdf) from the Labor Network for Sustainability .
The Green New Deal (GND) resolution recently submitted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (...)
A Call for Special Attention to Highly Impacted Communities Leading a Just Transition.
What is the Climate Justice Alliance?
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing alliance, currently linking 68 community organizations, movement networks, and support organizations throughout the (...)
The Indigenous Environmental Network applauds the Green New Deal resolution for its vision, intention, and scope. With this resolution, Representative Ocasio-Cortez (Resolution House of Representatives) and Senator Markey (Resolution US Senate) have begun a critical process to change the (...)
Phil Hearse writes on the combination of real estate capitalism and climate change which has unleashed murderous fires in California.
Things are getting serious. At least 31 dead and maybe 200 missing. Thousands of homes and businesses burned down. And three raging fires, one in the north of (...)
Initiative 1631 would put a carbon fee on big polluters, using the revenue to invest in clean energy and protections for workers in fossil-fuel industries.
In early May, dozens of environmental, labor, and tribal leaders in Washington State, as well as representatives from organizations (...)
The wildfires north of San Francisco, in California’s wine country, exploded in the night of October 8-9, whipped by high, dry and hot winds. They have wreaked unprecedented damage.
As I write this a week and a half later, these fires still burn. At least 41 people have been killed – a number (...)
On a fateful Thursday, June 1, Donald Trump announced that “The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better – well, less bad — (...)
Surrounded by CEOs and autoworkers bused in for the event, Donald Trump made it clear during his March 14th appearance in the Detroit area that he was going to get rid of a federal regulation in order to free up the industry so it could “make thousands and thousands and thousands of additional (...)
Saturday’s Peoples Climate March brought together activists from indigenous resistance groups to Black Lives Matter to the Boy Scouts, all demanding: Act now.
Washington, D.C. was sweltering on the hundredth day of the Trump presidency, but that didn’t stop 200,000-some people from crowding the (...)
This statement was produced by Solidarity’s Ecosocialist Working Group as a leaflet for the upcoming climate and science marches. A Systematic Crisis
With Trump’s barrage of absurd “alternative facts,” his administration attempts to cover up the scientific analysis that points to a systemic (...)
Join the People’s Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate.
Throughout the first 100 days in office, the People’s Climate Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating on April 29th in Washington DC (...)
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