Category: Climate Justice

STOP OLYMPIC FLYOVERS

TAKE ACTION AT THE WEB SITE POSTED BELOW  Petitions with 120,000 signatures opposing the US Navy request to develop electromagnetic warfare in sites around the forests on the Olympic Peninsula were recently delivered to the Forest Service. This would mean periodic unannounced closures of portions of Olympic National Forest for war games, testing and training.  Up to 118 …

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Buffy Saint Marie has a song for today

SUCH A POWERFUL VOICE. SOME NEW WORDS FOR THE WORLD TODAY  

THE FIGHT CONTINUES – STOP TPP

FlushTheTPP.org is an action campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). OCCUPY BELLINGHAM joined this fight in December 2012 at the Peace Arch for a cross border rally.  We invite you to join.     OCCUPY BELLINGHAM worked hard to prevent the passage of “FAST TRACK”.  Since it passed we now have our work cut out …

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BE THE CHANGE

I’m not sure we will win if we don’t begin. So I realign my mind to the sky and occupy visions. Music by Sariyah Idan, Images by Michael Gould-Wartofsky. Edited by Sariyah Idan. Composed by Sam Zeines and Sariyah Idan.  

TAR SANDS RESISTANCE

Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned about the environmental damage a leak could cause on land they’ve never given up, they’ve constructed a protection camp to block pipeline companies. As opposition …

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“FREE” TRADE IS NOT FAIR TRADE

Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP.  It is up to all of us to learn about this latest deal and call our Washington DC representatives to STOP FAST TRACK.  Our national legislators hope to ram this through during the lame duck session of congress. The FAST TRACK web site is here.  From this site you …

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THE CLIMATE MARCH

Here are some interesting looks at the climate march. Enjoy! Go here for a link to the Jon Stewart Show for a good laugh at the ridiculous aspect of this debate. And here is an article  

OIL TRAIN HEARING – WEDNESDAY

If you thought we only needed to be concerned about the proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point,  think again!  The current move to off load oil from trains (refined and possibly crude) from the Bakken oil fields and Tar Sands at our two refineries has been happening for the past year under our noses. Learn …

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HONORING THE VICITMS OF LAC-MEGANTIC

Rise with Lac-Megantic to send the message: Keep Oil Off the Rails and In the Ground! Thanks to Paul Anderson for this fabulous photos of the rally on Sunday to stand with residents in Lac-Megantic, grassroots activists across North America, and with ForestEthics, 350.org, Oil Change International and the Sierra Club. This memorial will be installed …

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STOMMISH BEGINS TODAY

  LUMMI STOMMISH BEGAN THURSDAY! BIG DAYS ARE NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOR THE SACRED SUMMIT BIG DAY IS ON TUESDAY WITH THE WALK FROM CHERRY POINT TO STOMMISH GROUNDS LET’S STAND AND WALK WITH OUR FRIENDS TO PROTECT THEIR ANCIENT CHERISHED LANDS