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Guide to Collective Direct Action: time for Rebellion that Wins

by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective .. Direct action, simply put, means cutting out the middleman: solving problems yourself rather than petitioning the authorities or relying on external institutions. Any action that sidesteps regulations and representation to accomplish goals directly is direct action—it includes everything from blockading airports to helping refugees escape to safety and organizing programs to liberate your community from reliance on capitalism. Here we present a step-by-step guide to organizing and carrying out direct action, from the first planning stages to the debrief at the end, including legal support, media strategy, and proper security.

Direct action guide 1

There are countless scenarios in which you might want to employ direct action. Continue reading “Guide to Collective Direct Action: time for Rebellion that Wins”

Biggest ever Climate Demos as Deadly Feedback Loops may be Triggered

Global warming has skyrocketed with every month breaking the record for the hottest ever in history. Evidence grows that one of the 10 deadly tipping points has been reached, which could detonate all of the rest. help save climate HERE

This is what the largest civil disobedience in the history of the environmental movement looks like in Europe

These days, we’re witnessing the largest civil disobedience in the history of the environmental movement. People around the world are joining together in an unprecedented wave of escalated mass actions targeting the world’s most dangerous coal, oil and gas projects, under the banner of Break Free from fossil fuels.

The UK kicked off Break Free last week with three hundred people halting operations at the country’s largest opencast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales for a day. The peaceful occupation and blockade ended with no arrests.

300 people shut down the UK's largest opencast coal mine Photographer: Kristian Buus

300 people shut down the UK’s largest opencast coal mine Photographer: Kristian Buus

The following day, 10,000 marched in the Philippines calling for an end to coal — in a country where a month ago, police opened fire on farmers demanding relief for farm communities who have been hit heavily by a climate-change-exacerbated drought. Over the weekend, 2,000 Australians gathered in Newcastle to block the world’s largest coal port for a day.

Tipping Points – the Facts….- an irreversible moment when the dreaded feedback loop begins. This is now the central issue for the scientific community: we may now be helpless to stop abrupt and runaway global warming. These ten major tipping points may right at this moment be being triggered.

Melting glaciers will raise sea levels so that less heat is reflected out to space
Decline of the flow of fresh water from the Arctic will collapse the Gulf Stream Continue reading “Biggest ever Climate Demos as Deadly Feedback Loops may be Triggered”

climate change?.. try Catastrophic Climate Breakdown!

The message from the IPCC report is familiar and

shattering: it’s as bad as we thought it was, says

George Monbiot

This is a catastrophe we are capable of foreseeing but incapable of imagining Continue reading “climate change?.. try Catastrophic Climate Breakdown!”

Greedy Lying Bastards: review and trailer

Greedy Lying Bastards: Exposing The Fossil Fools Who Put Profit Before Human Lives

by Christine

One of the few-and-far-between perks of being a climate blogger is that occasionally I get access to books and movies before the general public does.

This past weekend I got to watch “Greedy Lying Bastards” before it hit movie screens across the U.S. on Monday. Sunday night I, along with some fellow Citizens Climate Lobby volunteers, got together to watch this 90 minute documentary.

This movie exposes the American fossil fuel interests that have been blocking action on climate change for decades, taking a page – and some of the same PR firms and lobbyists – right out of the tobacco companies’ playbook.

Like the tobacco lobby, these fossil fools have opposed government action on the science showing their product is harmful and have actively disseminated lies about the science. Continue reading

Burn the Rich, not Fossil Fuels banner hung in Grand Rapids

The Media Release states as follows:

System Change, Not Climate Change

The governments of the world are currently meeting at the Global Climate Summit in Doha, but it is clear that the leaders of the wealthier countries of the world, like the United States, are opposing any significant changes that are necessary to reduce carbon emissions and avoid further human suffering and environmental destruction.

Global Climate Summits have been taking place for nearly 20 years now and the global powers have been unwilling to stop the devastating effects of both the burning of fossil fuels and the economic system of Capitalism, which is the root cause of climate change.

Almost every day there is new evidence of glaciers melting, waters rising, intense rains, hurricanes, drought, heat waves and unpredictable weather patterns.

Look at the damage that Hurricane Sandy did on the east coast.

We all know something is not right. The world leaders will not solve this and the media will not tell us the truth about the seriousness of climate change.

It is clear to us that change will only come about from the grassroots, from a rejection of the system of Capitalism and a movement towards climate justice.

We hung two banners – There Is No Planet B – to illustrate the urgency of the problem, and – Burn the Rich, Not Fossil Fuels – to name the culprits for our current climate predicament.

System Change, Not Climate Change

Anonymous

Hundreds March For ‘Climate Justice’ In Qatar (huffingtonpost.com)
Kyoto extended in UN climate agreement (bigpondnews.com)
UN chief blames rich for warming (dailystar.com.lb)

Super Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) to destroy Village..photo

6th DEC. last Update.. unfortunately we were right. Cateel was devastated with at least 28 dead, hopefully the report/warning below, which came out 1 day before and was read by over 3000 people on the net, helped some people escape to safety.

”Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon said initial reports indicated that in one town, Cateel, 95% of the buildings had been damaged. Twenty-three people had drowned or were buried under fallen trees or buildings there, she said…..” The massacre toll has risen to at least 500 with more than 400 others reported missing and about quarter of a million people made homeless. At least three cities on Mindanao’s east coast remain cut off after bridges collapsed and roads were swept away by floodwater.The sheer numbers of refugees have overwhelmed the Philippine disaster agencies prompting government to call for international aid to help cope with the mega disaster.The death toll is expected to continue rising.

more here Climate Chaos caused Bopha/Pablo. Oil Companies to be Sued ??

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