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Last Thursday, I had the priviledge of speaking to a class at Western Washington University about Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change. I always enjoy these opportunities to talk to college students–because, after all, it’s their generation that is at the helm of today’s youth climate movement. The question and
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Back in 2005, environmentalists and people who care about wildlife celebrated news that seemed too good to be true: a team of researchers said they had found ivory-billed woodpeckers in a remote swamp in Arkansas. There had been no verified observations of these spectacular birds since 1944, and prior to this reported sighting the species
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The year 2022 was full of ups and downs for the climate movement. At times, it felt like the fossil fuel industry and other polluter interests might once again succeed in derailing major progress toward the goal of securing a livable future. But climate activists and other progressive movements proved more resilient than many observers
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I recently had the pleasure of hopping on KPFA Radio’s Rude Awakening program to talk about Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change with Sabrina Jacobs. Listen to the full interview here.
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The below piece, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, sums up some of the key takeaways from Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth climate movement” referred more to something activists hoped to bring into existence than
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School strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attention and irrevocably altered the dialogue about climate change in the United States. But where did this unprecedented wave of activism come from? In
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Originally published on Waging Nonviolence When over 40 Cambridge students and academics occupied the elite U.K. university’s BP Institute earlier this year, they were escalating one of the newest, fastest-growing campaigns focused on dissociating higher education institutions from fossil fuels. For just over an hour, activists from the grassroots initiative Fossil Free Research held a
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Climate activists across the Global South and North unite to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
Originally published on Waging Nonviolence On last month’s annual celebration known as Africa Day, activists in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and elsewhere held demonstrations targeting French oil giant TotalEnergies’ involvement in African fossil fuel extraction projects. A main focus of the protests was Total’s proposed East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, or EACOP, which would transport
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It’s time for a new project. Over the last several months, I’ve been pondering what it means to be truly tuned in to the natural world around us. Many of us, even when we’re immersed in nature, don’t truly look at it very closely. It’s easy to take a pleasant stroll through a park or
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I loved catching up on what the climate school strike movement and its offshoots are doing for this piece on WagingNonviolence.org. Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day
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