TDP is starting to plan a statewide non-violent civil disobedience campaign. Even if you don’t want to risk arrest you can provide important support. Here is a wonderful 350.org film on the subject
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdtc7ltYB8E
TDP Divest from Fossil-Fuels Campaign fuels Campaign for cities and universities. Here is 350.org’s information on divestment campaigns
350.org/350-campaign-update-divestment/
There’s not much humor in climate change, but sometimes you can laugh at the absurdity
www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-libby/weathergirl-goes-rogue_b_1865292.html
Our Children’s Trust: a game-changing, youth-driven lawsuit initiated by Dr. James Hansen and others, securing the right to a stable climate. Especially important if you have children or grandchildren!
ourchildrenstrust.org
How the children of Birmingham changed the civil rights movement: their actions, by both adults and children, were the heart and soul of the civil rights movement.
Could they also provide a roadmap for our movement?
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/02/how-the-children-of-birmingham-changed-the-civil-rights-movement.html
Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, and a member of the Texas Drought project advisory board. Here’s his letter to U.S. mayors on fossil fuel divestment
dcdivest.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/350-Letter-to-DC_Council.pdf
New wave of climate insurgents: One in six Americans say they would engage in climate change non-violent civil disobedience
www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/01/new-wave-climate-insurgents-defines-itself-law-enforcers
Bishop Desmond Tutu: “We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change-keystone-xl
Resistance to massive fracked-gas West Texas pipeline
www.truth-out.org/news/item/34820-as-fossil-fuel-industry-staggers-a-massive-gas-pipeline-project-endures-in-texas
Great documentary on the resistance to fracking for coal-seam gas in Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrE7LzZCn1E
On International Women’s Day, 5000 women from the MST (Landless Movement) entered a nursery in Brazil, and destroyed seedlings of pine and eucalyptus trees in protest of plantations in their region and their impacts on biodiversity, water and food sovereignty
www.mst.org.br/2016/03/08/no-parana-mais-de-cinco-mil-mulheres-sem-terra-realizam-acao-na-araupel.html