COP21 actions go ahead: 'We are not defending nature - we are nature defending itself' - The Ecologist

'We are Nature defending itself': an activist makes moss graffiti in Paris with the slogan of the Climate Games. Photo: @JEBA_JE via Twitter.

As the Paris climate summit falls under the brutal double cosh of terrorism and a heavy-handed security response targeted at climate campaigners, creative non-violent responses are taking shape to express the collective will of the billions who cannot be there, writes Nadine Bloch: the need for equitable solutions to the climate crisis, as a first step towards a healthy, peaceful, sustainable planet...

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9.20-21 PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH - NYC / EVERYWHERE

A massive, history-making march in New York City.
Hundreds of coordinated actions around the world. 

PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH

peoplesclimate.org

facebook.com/peoplesclimatemarch

NUCLEAR FREE CARBON FREE CONTINGENT
People's Climate March Hub: 
http://peoplesclimate.org/nonuclearpower/

whats up: #BustTheMyth
you can't nuke global warming!

WATCH "Disruption: Climate. Change." ENTIRE FILM NOW ONLINE | PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH

Be a part of the largest climate march in history: watch this, then join up!

ENTIRE FILM NOW ONLINE > Disruption: Climate. Change.

‘When it comes to climate change, why do we do so little when we know so much?’

Through a relentless investigation to find the answer, Disruption takes an unflinching look at the devastating consequences of our inaction.

The exploration lays bare the terrifying science, the shattered political process, the unrelenting industry special interests and the civic stasis that have brought us to this social, moral and ecological crossroads.The film also takes us behind-the-scenes of the efforts to organize the largest climate rally in the history of the planet during the UN world climate summit.

This is the story of our unique moment in history. We are living through an age of tipping points and rapid social and planetary change. We’re the first generation to feel the impacts of climate disruption, and the last generation that can do something about it. The film enlarges the issue beyond climate impacts and makes a compelling call for bold action that is strong enough to tip the balance to build a clean energy future.

PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH

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trailer for 'Disruption: Climate. Change.' a new documentary | People's Climate March

Disruption - Official Trailer from Watch Disruption on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/104429713

Premieres Everywhere September 7

Disruption: Climate. Change.

via facebook ----

People's Climate March posts: Watch the trailer for 'Disruption', a new documentary that weaves together political intrigue, mind-blowing science, as well as an insider's view of the largest climate mobilization in history. Movies are on the most powerful forms of communication, and we hope this one will be a potent tool to raise awareness and get people out into the street on September 21st.

People's Climate March On Sunday, September 7th, people everywhere are going to be hosting screenings and watch-parties of 'Disruption'. Will you join in?
http://watchdisruption.com/screenings/

People's Climate March – NYC March  / peoplesclimate.org

There are several different bodies that are convening to collaborate on the People’s Climate March, including local New York-area community groups, international NGO’s, grassroots networks, churches and faith organizations, and many more. You can see a list of participating organizations here.

Because this is a “movement of movements” moment, the People’s Climate March is being organized in a participatory, open-source model. This means that there isn’t a central “decision-making” body or single coalition. Rather, groups and individuals are collaborating with some basic shared agreements around respect, collaboration, trust, and many are using the Jemez Principles of Environmental Justice.

This September is going to be a success because of the work we all do together – not because of any one person or organization. Take the initiative to organize your community, your school, your workplace, and your neighbors. Find out how you can help here, or find out how your organization can support the People’s Climate March here.

9.21 PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH, NYC

This September, world leaders are coming to New York City for a historic summit on climate change – and we’ll be waiting for them in the streets. Join us.

This is an invitation to change everything.

In September, world leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary­ General Ban Ki-­moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution..

With our future on the line and the whole world watching, we’ll take a stand to bend the course of history. We’ll take to the streets to demand the world we know is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities.

To change everything, we need everyone on board.
Sunday, September 21 in New York City. Join us.

Sign up now  – and read Our Power Campaign’s powerful call to action, Bill McKibben’s invitation in Rolling Stone, or Eddie Bautista’s piece in Earth Island Journal.

http://peoplesclimatemarch.org/
https://www.facebook.com/peoplesclimatemarch

Join the nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent September 21!
http://peoplesclimate.org/nonuclearpower/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nukefreeclimatefreemarch/

see also: Our Power Campaign • People’s Climate March 2014

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9.21 PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH - NYC :: via No Nukes Nirs (NIRS on facebook)-
People's Climate March: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent
- 350.org's Bill McKibben on nuclear power and climate. "Nuclear power is counterproductive, for economic reasons alone, in dealing with our climate crisis. Clean energy solutions are cheaper and faster to implement."

Join the nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent September 21!
http://peoplesclimate.org/nonuclearpower/

People's Climate March: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent (facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nukefreeclimatefreemarch/

Nuclear Power and Climate: Why Nukes Can't Save the Planet.
NIRS' basic 1 sheet factsheet: Perfect for downloading, printing, and distributing (pdf format).http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/nukesclimatefact614.pdf

Just $10 will buy a flag for nuke-free contingent to People's Climate March Sept 21. http://t.co/IEvTTwR2fX

PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH--NUCLEAR-FREE, CARBON-FREE CONTINGENT - NIRS

Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS

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you can't nuke global warming!

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RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG • NO NUKES! | RE-TOOL NOW

WHATS UP RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG • NO NUKES! | RE-TOOL NOW

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VIDEO: Eminem, Ice Cube & Korn Team Up w/#Anonymous to Call For Global Revolution on 4.4.14

New remixed music video features Eminem, Ice Cube, Korn and Anonymous aligning forces to set off the Worldwide Wave of Action ~ https://WaveOfAction.org/ ~ 4.4.14

https://twitter.com/WaveOfAction

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Worldwide-Wave-of-Action/176294759231015

This video is made in accordance to Fair Use laws for non-profit, non-commercial, educational and socially beneficial use only. It is political speech, as protected by the 1st amendment of the US Constitution. This artist supported transformative video contains original and remixed material, with over 100 clips from many different videos. It is also protected by Anonymous and supported by the Digital Hip Hop Collective.  Fair Use

~ Video created by Jah Marley ~

The word "epic" long ago lost all its linguistic potency when Burger King and Hot Topic began to use it in the advertisement of their products. Yet if ever if there was an occasion to resurrect the term, it would be to describe the music video released today by elements of Anonymous along with Ice Cube, Eminem, and Korn...

more > VIDEO: Eminem, Ice Cube and Korn Team Up with Anonymous to Call For Global Revolution | Alternet

FUKU+3 Event Calendar :: FUKUSHIMA 3rd YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS WORLDWIDE

watch for many events to be added before the week of 311

Open as FULL PAGE: FUK 3 Event Calendar

other places where this is found and can be viewed on a larger page -

Fukushima Emergency what can we do?: International 3rd Aniversary of Fukushima Event Calendar

What are your plans for FUKU 3? | Fukushima Is Here

Calendar | Coalition Against Nukes

FUKUSHIMA 3rd YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS WORLDWIDE - facebook
We create this page so that everyone may add the events that they organizing in their own country or city for this coming Fukushima 3rd Anniversary.
The events can be any days before or after March 11th or on March 11th.

NORTH AMERICA CALENDAR: <iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=info%40radiationtruth.org&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

EUROPE CALENDAR: under construction

AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC CALENDAR: under construction

3.11&15 ‪#‎NYC‬ NO NUKES ACTION: Marches at Japanese Consulate & Union Square

March 11: March at Japanese Consulate

March 15: March at Union Square 

311newyork.wordpress.com 

facebook.com/311ActionNewYork

5.25 MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO / everywhere

BAD APPLE by Michael D'Antuono
- via Activist Post: Provocative Portrayal of Monsanto in Support of the Worldwide March Against Them
"Activist artist Michael D'Antuono, known for his often controversial paintings on hot button issues, is now aiming his critical brush at the mega agricultural biotechnology corporation, Monsanto. "

On May 25, activists around the world will unite to March Against Monsanto

march-against-monsanto.com

Why do we march?

Research studies have shown that Monsanto’s genetically-modified foods can lead to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer tumors, infertility and birth defects.

In the United States, the FDA, the agency tasked with ensuring food safety for the population, is steered by ex-Monsanto executives, and we feel that’s a questionable conflict of interests and explains the lack of government-led research on the long-term effects of GM products.

Recently, the U.S. Congress and president collectively passed the nicknamed “Monsanto Protection Act” that, among other things, bans courts from halting the sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified seeds.

For too long, Monsanto has been the benefactor of corporate subsidies and political favoritism. 

Organic and small farmers suffer losses while Monsanto continues to forge its monopoly over the world’s food supply, including exclusive patenting rights over seeds and genetic makeup.

Monsanto's GM seeds are harmful to the environment; for example, scientists have indicated they have contributed to Colony Collapse Disorder among the world's bee population.


What are solutions we advocate?

Voting with your dollar by buying organic and boycotting Monsanto-owned companies that use GMOs in their products.

Labeling of GMOs so that consumers can make those informed decisions easier.

Repealing relevant provisions of the US's "Monsanto Protection Act."

Calling for further scientific research on the health effects of GMOs.

Holding Monsanto executives and Monsanto-supporting politicians accountable through direct communication, grassroots journalism, social media, etc.

Continuing to inform the public about Monsanto's secrets.

Taking to the streets to show the world and Monsanto that we won't take these injustices quietly.

We will not stand for cronyism. We will not stand for poison. That’s why we March Against Monsanto.

march-against-monsanto.com

CALL TO ACTION 

Find a march near you
http://bit.ly/ZTDsk8

March Against MonsantoMay 25 at 11:00am https://www.facebook.com/events/147274678766425

https://www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto/events

InterOccupy | March against Monsanto, May 25, 2 PM EST EVERYWHERE http://interoccupy.net/blog/march-against-monsanto-may-25-2-pm-est-everywhere/

Organic Consumers Association: Millions Against Monsanto http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/

WE WILL ROCK MONSANTO by Ron Fuller HELP OUR LAND & LOCAL FARMERS NOW

WE WILL ROCK MONSANTO by Ron Fuller HELP OUR LAND & LOCAL FARMERS NOW - YouTube

Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) in the food supply and OK with the FDA??

Monsanto gets full immunity for any liability to human health thanks to the signing of the
"Monsanto Protection Act" and no labels required. We must stop this before its too late!!

Please support the World Wide March against Monsanto May 25-2013 We need you all !

MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO

On May 25, activists around the world will unite to March Against Monsanto.

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Adbusters Tactical Briefing #43 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

We thrill the world by shutting Goldman Sachs down on May Day.

EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP/ GETTYIMAGES

This year’s May Day could be a major tipping point for the political left worldwide. Here’s a classic quote from Matt Taibbi that clues you in to what’s at stake:

“Goldman Sachs, the world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Next week, on May 1st, let’s hone in on a single target, the top evildoer — that unrepentant corporation that continues to flaunt its money-worshiping criminality and reward its CEO Lloyd Blankfein. His persistent grin is getting a little too hard to bear.

Goldman Sachs has 73 offices in 56 cities worldwide … On May Day, come have some fun with us in front of every one of them. We’re going to thrill the world by shutting down this criminal corporation for a few hours with our voices and our right to the people’s assembly – let’s wipe that grin off Lloyd Blankfein’s face!

Get the address of the #Goldman location nearest you at Meetup, then recruit friends on Facebook, Twitter and in real life … see you out there!

for the wild, 
Culture Jammers HQ

P.S. 
This ongoing #GOLDMAN campaign will have another big bang moment on May 23 when Goldman Sachs holds its shareholder meeting in Salt Lake City.

Catch up on the #GOLDMAN gameplay thus far: 
Tactical Briefing #41 / #42

Adbusters Tactical Briefing #43 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Attendance and public comments critically needed at NRC Nuke Waste Con Game environmental scoping hearing

Beyond Nuclear | Radioactive Waste What's New -

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced that it will hold environmental scoping sessions on Wednesday, November 14th to take public comments about what should be included in its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on court-ordered changes to its Nuclear Waste Confidence Decision and Rule. See NRC's meeting notice, as well as the agenda for the hearing sessions, the associated Federal Register notice, and NRC's Waste Confidence website.

NRC has not done an EIS on the risks of on-site storage of high-level radioactive waste in pools and dry casks. Last June, a coalition of several state attorneys general and environmental groups won a landmark victory when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nullified NRC's 30 year old Nuclear Waste Confidence Decision and Rule, and ordered the agency to carry out an EIS at long last. In 2010, NRC had flippantly ruled that high-level radioactive wastes were safe and sound at reactor sites for at least 120 years, and was considering extending that ruling out to 200 to 300 years. The court nullified such nonsense, ordering an EIS. The EIS -- which realistically should take on the order of seven years to carry out, if done properly -- will cause at least two years of delay in final NRC approval of new reactor construction and operations licenses, as well as old reactor license extensions.

It is critical that concerned citizens and environmental groups attend and provide public comments at these environmental scoping hearing sessions on Nov. 14th. The two sessions will be identical.

The first session, to be held from 1-4 PM Eastern (10 AM-1 PM Pacific) will involve both an in-person public hearing at NRC's HQ in Rockville, MD (in the One White Flint North Commissioners' Hearing Room), as well as the opportunity to take part by webcast and teleconferece. The second session will be webcast/teleconferenced only (no in-person meeting), and will be held from 9 PM-12 Midnight Eastern (6-9 PM Pacific).

To present comments by telephone during the webcast, dial 1-800-475-8385; when prompted, enter passcode 3682386, followed by the # sign.

To access the webcast, go to http://video.nrc.gov for connection information.

Register to participate and request to present oral comments, whether in-person or via teleconference, by contacting Ms. Susan Wittick (extension 3187) or Ms. TR Rowe (ext. 3133) at the following phone number: 1-800-368-5642. You can also register by email at WCOutreach@nrc.gov.

As Beyond Nuclear urged in our weekly email bulletin last week regarding the NRC Chairwoman, please also consider sending letters or emails, or making phone calls, to the five members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (click on each Commissioners' name to see their contact info.), as well as to NRC Staff liaison Sarah Lopas (NEPA Communications Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. NRC, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, Sarah.Lopas@nrc.gov, 301-492-3425), requesting an extension of time for the hearings, as well as an extension of time for the entire environmental scoping process, as the NRC has not provided the public with enough time to study the issues and prepare either written or oral comments. Point out that the lack of adequate information in the Federal Register Notice, which the NRC should have provided in the first instance -- such as what the proposed action is, and what are reasonable alternatives to it, basic components of any National Environmental Impact Statement (NEPA) environmental impact statement process. Ask the NRC Commissioners and Staff liaison to withdraw the scoping notice and re-publish it in form that passes legal muster under NEPA. In addition, urge the NRC Commissioners and NRC Staff liaison to hold regional hearings, so that those living in the shadows of nuclear power plants and their stored high-level radioactive waste can attend and talk to NRC officials in person. See Diane Curran et al.'s letter below for ideas about what to say.

Please see below for additional background information, including strategic ideas for key public comments you can make.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

See Beyond Nuclear's pamphlet on the Mountain of Radioactive Waste 70 Years High (cover, above left). A key message to deliver to NRC: "It's time to stop making it!"

See Beyond Nuclear's backgrounder on the risks of GE Mark I reactor high-level radioactive waste storage pools, in light of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe.

See Beyond Nuclear's backgrounder on radioactive leaks from high-level radioactive waste storage pools, into soil, groundwater and surface water (note this is not an exhaustive list -- Hatch in Georgia, and recently Davis-Besse in Ohio, have also suffered pool leaks). Beyond Nuclear's report "Leak First, Fix Later" has an entire chapter about the pool leaks at Entergy's Indian Point reactors near New York City.

Diane Curran, Geoffrey Fettus, and Mindy Goldstein, the attorneys who led the environmental coalition's effort in the Nuclear Waste Confidence lawsuit, have written to the five NRC Commissioners on behalf of 25 groups, urging that the current environmental impact statement proceeding be suspended and corrected, due to major legal errors in NRC's notice and approach, which violate the National Environmental Policy Act.

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), one of the four environmental groups (also including Natural Resources Defense Council, Riverkeeper, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) which joined the States of New York, Vermont, New Jersey, and Connecticut's Attorneys General in suing NRC over the Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule, has put out a helpful fact sheet about the upcoming Nov. 14th environmental scoping sessions, as well as related Dec. 5th and 6th NRC webinars.

An important comment to make is that Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS) is a wise, interim alternative to risky radioactive waste transport, as well as risky pool and dry cask storage. Nearly 200 environmental groups have endorsed HOSS for well over a decade, but their call has fallen on deaf ears at NRC. (To learn more about the risks of radioactive waste transport, see Beyond Nuclear's website sub-section on this subject, as well as that of NIRS and the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.)

To learn more about the risks of on-site pool and dry cask storage, see Beyond Nuclear's relevant website section, as well as that of NIRS.

To learn more about the risks of permanent dumpsites, see Beyond Nuclear's and NIRS'swebsites. To learn more about the risks of the Yucca Mountain dumpsite proposal in particular, see the State of Nevada's website.

To learn more about the risks of "centralized interim storage" (parking lot dumps), see Beyond Nuclear's and NIRS's websites.

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