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Protesting Nuclear Weapons Takes on New Meaning in Trump’s America
Last Wednesday, on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, I walked to the gates at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a heavy heart. Heavy because as…
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Donald Trump’s ‘War on Regulations’ Is Really a War on Working Class People
Donald Trump wants you to think that “regulation“ is a dirty word. To hear his administration talk about things like the Clean Air Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act,…
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Resist Trump, Defend Planet Earth: A Message From Chicago to the White House
It’s a sunny day in my hometown of Chicago and Greenpeace activists have just sent Trump and his team a message they can’t ignore: we will band together to resist…
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The Day I Was Treated Like a Mobster and Served a $300 Million Lawsuit for Defending Forests
Resolute Forest Products, a company headquartered 5,000 miles away in Montreal, was bringing us to a distant court in Augusta, Georgia. Reading through the complaint, I saw my name, absurd…
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Donald Trump Can’t Hide From the Resistance
The USS Intrepid is huge. It’s a 27,000-ton, 820-foot, 2,600-person-capacity giant of an aircraft carrier permanently anchored in the Hudson River. But even the Intrepid couldn’t shield Donald Trump from…
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VIDEO: This Cancer Survivor’s Story Shows What Gutting the EPA Would Mean for Public Health
Heather Von St. James has a friendly, Midwestern quality to her voice. Speaking to her over the phone, she comes off relaxed and assured, passionate yet polished. But when you…
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Hungary, Democracy, and the Freedom I Stand For
In the winter of 2017, I received a call from a colleague about a small community in the Hungarian countryside, far from the busy streets of Budapest, that needed help.…
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Native Nations Rise: Showing Solidarity in the Movement for Indigenous Sovereignty
“Thank you for calling Greenpeace. This is Diamond, how can I help you?” I say that line roughly 100 times a day. If you’ve called us to ask a question…
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Love In the Time of Climate Change
A version of this post was originally published by Greenpeace Philippines. A lot has been said about Filipinos’ resiliency, friendliness, and ability to laugh and make jokes in the face…
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Powering the Resistance, One Bold Action at a Time
There is no better time to act for our climate and communities than right now. Our democracy is under attack. In the coming hours, days, months, and years, we will…