October 20, 2014 Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement? On October 23, Alec Johnson, aka “Climate Hawk,” is scheduled to go on trial for locking himself to a construction excavator in Tushka, Oklahoma as part of the Tar Sands Blockade campaign… Read More »
CLIMATE ACTIVIST ARGUES RESISTANCE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC TRUST
October 17, 2014 On October 23, Alec Johnson, a.k.a. “Climate Hawk,” is scheduled to go on trial for having locked himself to a construction excavator in Tushka, Okla., on Earth Day 2013, as part of the Tar Sands Blockade campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. He intends to argue that resisting the pipeline… Read More »
CLIMATE DESTRUCTION IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
October 3, 2014 As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political leaders and corporate polluters for their failure to protect our health, communities and… Read More »
STRIKE!
October 2, 2014 By JoAnn Wypijewski (A shorter version of this piece was published in CounterPunch Magazine, September 19, 2014). JoAnn Wypijewski’s column “Diamonds and Rust” appears regularly in CounterPunch. She is co-editor, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, just out from… Read More »
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