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The Coal Free Future Tour
We're on a one-month tour to support East Coast communities fighting coal plants in their region. America's oldest and dirtiest coal-burning power plants are destroying communities, poisoning our air and water, making our families sick and driving global warming. It's time to shut them down.
The tour began in Wilmington, NC, and plans to stop in Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Boston MA, with a few more potential stops along the way. The tour is bringing together communities and energizing and supporting local campaigns. A variety of activities are planned at each stop, including free open boat tours, non-violent protest trainings, codmmunity meetings, and candlelight vigils.
Pollution from coal-fired power plants is responsible for 13,200 deaths, 20,000 heart attacks, 217,600 asthma attacks, and 1,627,800 lost work days a year. And coal-fired power plants are the largest single source of global warming pollution in the US.
The Coal Free Future ship tour is just the beginning—all around the country, people are organizing, protesting and speaking out against coal, and now Greenpeace is prepared to join that movement, and take on the coal industry in the greatest struggle of our time. View a detailed schedule for the tour.
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View our blogs, images, videos and tweets by selecting the checkmark next to the layer name. Then click on the icon to view content about that leg of the tour.
Planned Tour Stops and Schedule:
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Location |
Events |
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Jan 21st
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Wilmington, NC
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8pm - Concert fundraiser to stop the 4th largest cement plant in the nation—Titan Cement Plant!
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Jan 22nd
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Wilmington, NC
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10am–4pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise,
10am–3pm - Free, non-violent direct action training
4pm–5pm - Candlelight vigil at the L.V. Sutton Coal Power Plant
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Jan 23rd
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Wilmington, NC
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10am–4pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise
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Jan 28th
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Philadelphia, PA
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10am-4pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Jan 29th
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Philadelphia, PA
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2pm - March and Rally to Independence Hall-
10am-3pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise,
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Jan 30th
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Philadelphia, PA
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10am-4pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise,
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| Jan 31th and Feb 1st |
Philadelphia, PA
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12pm-6pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise,
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| Feb 5th, 6th |
New York City, NY
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10am-4pm -
Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise, Chelsea Piers, Pier 59, (11th Ave and W 17th St.)
New York, NY
Flux Factory, an arts collective based in Long Island City, presents "BrokeTop Mountain Developments." Combining real estate jargon with tongue-in-cheek presentation, the installation will draw attention to pressing environmental issues.
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| Feb 7th |
New York City, NY
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12pm-6pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise, Chelsea Piers, Pier 59, (11th Ave and W 17th St.)
New York, NY
Flux Factory Art Installation
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| Feb 10th, 11th |
New York City, NY
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12pm-6pm - Free Boat Tours of the Arctic Sunrise, Chelsea Piers, Pier 59, (11th Ave and W 17th St.)
New York, NY.
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| Feb 16th |
Boston, MA
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12pm-6pm - Free Open Boat of the Arctic Sunrise - Rowes Wharf at Boston Harbor (off Atlantic Ave. just South of the Aquarium T stop).
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| Feb 18th |
Boston, MA
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12pm - Rally at the State House - Across from Boston Common (Beakon Street at Park Street) - Join us as we march to the State House to deliver the message to Gov. Patrick that we while appreciate his work on clean energy, we challenge the governor to be an even stronger leader by shutting down the Salem Harbor coal plant by 2012.
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| Feb 19th-21st |
Boston, MA
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10am-4pm - Free Open Boat of the Arctic Sunrise - Rowes Wharf at Boston Harbor (off Atlantic Ave. just South of the Aquarium T stop).
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The MY Arctic Sunrise
For the Coal Free Future Tour, Greenpeace will be sailing up the East Coast of the United States on the MY Arctic Sunrise. This 50 meter icebreaker has been defending the planet from the Arctic to the Antarctic since 1996. You can learn more about the ship here.
The Coal Free Future Project
Greenpeace's Coal Free Future Tour is not associated with Jeff Bigger's, Ben Evan's and Christa Faulkner's wonderful Coal Free Future Project. Their website describes the project:
"Incorporated as a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization, the Coal Free Future Project is a unique collaboration of award-winning American artists—writers, actors/theatre director, filmmakers and musicians—who have come together to combine their long-time experiences in the clean energy, anti-coal and climate justice movements to create performances and workshops that inform and inspire action around a simple but basic truth in our lives: It’s time to envision a coal free future and work toward clean energy independence."
The Coal Free Future Project website is well worth checking out.