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Porter Ranch Residents to Fossil Fuel Industry: Shut It ALL Down
This past Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the worst natural gas blowout in American history, the Porter Ranch gas leak. When I learned last year of the leak…
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‘These Are Our Prayers in Action’ — A Look at Life in the #NoDAPL Resistance Camps
As I turn off the two-lane highway that courses through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation into Oceti Sakowin Camp (technically an overflow camp from the original Camp of the Sacred…
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How Your Generosity Is Helping #NoDAPL Camps Keep Up the Resistance
Right now, the eyes of the nation are trained squarely on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native-led, peaceful resistance to its construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry…
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Mountain West Rising: Two Days of Protest in Colorado Show the Courage of a Growing Movement
Last week, I was part of something incredible. Twice, I stood with hundreds of fellow Coloradans to demand our lawmakers stop giving away our communities and public lands to the…
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The Sound of Democracy Awakening
As I watched the action unfold during the climax of Democracy Awakening last Monday — when hundreds of activists risked arrest sitting in at the steps of the Capitol building…
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#MyDemocracy Puts People Above Polluters
I’d already been suspended from the bridge for nearly 30 hours. I was sore, I’d barely slept, and the unusually hot Portland sun had me sweating in my protective gear.…
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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Join the Environmental Movement
The author of this article is a Greenpeace volunteer group leader. To get involved and volunteer with Greenpeace, check out Greenwire. When I was little, I remember telling my parents that I…
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Greenpeace Analyzes the Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Forty years ago, not only was Greenpeace formed, but a then-obscure corporate lawyer (later appointed by President Nixon to the Supreme Court) drafted a memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of…
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The Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Forty years ago today, on August 23, 1971, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an attorney from Richmond, Virginia, drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that describes a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society.
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Polluting Democracy
The majority of the ancient US coal fleet has not installed easily available technology that could reduce mercury pollution by 90%. Coal combustion is responsible for most US mercury pollution.…
