Category: FOSSIL FUELS

BREAK FREE FROM FOSSIL FUELS

It was an unbelievable weekend.  Many sites available for viewing events throughout the world.   Break Free PNW: Weekend Wrap-up LONGEST RAIL BLOCKADE IN THE PNWLast weekend people converged on the March Point Refineries to disrupt production, and demand respect for native land and a just transition towards healthy and sustainable energy. — It’s time …

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Get Ready to Break Free from Fossil Fuels

April 28th 3-9 PM Art Build/Potluck Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary 1308 Cornwall Ave. Create materials for Break Free PNW events in May. Meet fellow activists and share meal. Please bring a dish to share and a place setting. April 29th 7-9 PM House Party/ Fundraiser for Backbone Campaign Volunteers needed, call Debbie 360-920-0981 April 30th …

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KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND

This is also relevant to the newest Dirty Trade Deal that attempts to convince us that the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) will protect the environment but there is really nothing in the document that says it will prevent this kind of corporate activity. Stop the TPP – call your representative NOW!   Tell them to vote …

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TPP- THE END OF DEMOCRACY?

OCCUPY WALL STREET – BELLINGHAM (OWS-BELLINGHAM) has been opposing TPP and all other dirty trade deals for the past 3 years. We lost on FAST TRACK and now the final TPP deal is struck which Obama will sign on February 4. Then the clock starts ticking for the congress to vote on it – either an …

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GLOBAL CLIMATE MARCH FOR PARIS

FRIENDS!   It is time to bring back the days when Bellingham streets were full of people marching for the good of the planet and the people on the planet.   THIS IS THAT TIME AGAIN! JOIN US this coming SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 at 10:00 in MARITIME PARK for a march through town to the SALISH SANCTUARY …

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LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND

After all, we may need some of it for that far future, if the human species lives that long.  

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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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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