Most of my fellow enviro guerrillas went to the People’s March for Climate Justice in New York City on Sept. 21. I could have been on the bus with them, but I decided to stay local. Not that I had any problem with 300,000 people going on a bus or carpooling to New York to… Read More A Short March by One Person in a Small Town for Climate Justice
An estimated 700 Buddhists marched together in last week’s demonstration. Joshua Eaton “I know that my path to enlightenment will only come from being connected to the world around me,” Njeri Matheu, a member of Brooklyn Zen Center, explained as she marched through the streets of midtown Manhattan. “It’s not just about being centered inside; it’s… Read More People’s Climate March
Posted by: Kritee Posted date: September 26, 2014 In: Art, Articles, Dhamma, Eco Justice, Environment, Interfaith, International, Science, Take Action | comment : 2 For many years, the two preoccupations of my life, “meditation practice” and “environmental science”, were two streams that ran parallel to each other. The streams likely fed each other in underground unconscious ways but the two never interacted at the surface. The underlying notion was: if we… Read More Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People’s Climate March
Photos: After historic climate march, arrests and outrage at Flood Wall Street Xeni Jardin at 1:34 pm Mon, Sep 22, 2014 Today, hundreds gathered in New York City’s financial district to protest climate change. Flood Wall Street demonstrators wore blue as a symbol of climate change-induced flooding, and marched in the financial district to “highlight the role… Read More Arrests at Flood Wall Street—People’s Climate March
Earthfirst Journal May 14, 2014 by Jason Koebler / Vice Multinational corporations are infamous for pushing native people off their land in order to open a new gold mine, extract oil, or otherwise extract local resources. For decades, backlash has been thought to be both limited and ineffectual, but new evidence suggests that protests from local people are effective, extremely… Read More Local Protesters Are Killing Big Oil and Mining Projects Worldwide
