#climate protest

[pwh3]

Climate Change March & Rally in New York City, September 17th, 2023.

#nyc #original photography #new york city #new york #photographers on tumblr #climate change #climate crisis #climate emergency #climate action #climate protest #global warming #fossil fuels #environment #protest #end fossil fuels #climate and environment #the lorax #lorax

[reasonsforhope]

Hazel Chandler was at home taking care of her son when she began flipping through a document that detailed how burning fossil fuels would soon jeopardize the planet.

She can’t quite remember who gave her the report — this was in 1969 — but the moment stands out to her vividly: After reading a list of extreme climate events that would materialize in the coming decades, she looked down at the baby she was nursing, filled with dread.

 “‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do something,’” she remembered thinking...

It was one of several such moments throughout Chandler’s life that propelled her into activist spaces — against the Vietnam War, for civil rights and women’s rights, and in support of environmental causes.

She participated in letter-writing campaigns and helped gather others to write to legislators about vital pieces of environmental legislation including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, passed in 1970 and 1972, respectively. At the child care center she worked at, she helped plan celebrations around the first Earth Day in 1970. 

Now at 78, after working in child care and health care for most of her life, she’s more engaged than ever. In 2015, she began volunteering with Elder Climate Action, which focuses on activating older people to fight for the environment. She then took a job as a consultant for the Union for Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. 

More recently, her activism has revolved around her role as the Arizona field coordinator of Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. Chandler helps rally volunteers to take action on climate and environmental justice issues, recruiting residents to testify and meet with lawmakers. 

Pictured: Hazel Chandler tables at Environment Day at Wesley Bolin Plaza in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2024.

Her motivation now is the same as it was decades ago. 

“When I look my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren, my children, in the eye, I have to be able to say, ‘I did everything I could to protect you,’” Chandler said. “I have to be able to tell them that I’ve done everything possible within my ability to help move us forward.” 

Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies. 

The most prominent example perhaps, is the actor Jane Fonda. The octogenarian grandmother has been arrested during climate protests a number of times and has her own PAC that funds the campaigns of “climate champions” in local and state elections. 

Climate grannies come equipped with decades of activism experience and aim to pressure the government and corporations to curb fossil fuel emissions. As a result they, alongside women of every age group, are turning out in bigger numbers, both at protests and the polls. All of the climate grandmothers The 19th interviewed for this piece noted one unifying theme: concern for their grandchildren’s futures. 

According to research conducted by Dana R. Fisher, director for the Center of Environment, Community and Equity at American University, while the mainstream environmental movement has typically been dominated by men, women make up 61 percent of climate activists today.  The average age of climate activists was 52 with 24 percent being 69 and older...

A similar trend holds true at the ballot box, according to data collected by the Environmental Voter Project, a nonpartisan organization focused on turning out climate voters in elections. 

A report released by the Environmental Voter Project in December that looked at the patterns of registered voters in 18 different states found that after the Gen Z vote, people 65 and older represent the next largest climate voter group, with older women far exceeding older men in their propensity to list climate as their No. 1 reason for voting. The organization defines climate voters as those who are most likely to list climate change, the environment, or clean air and water as their top political priority.

“Grandmothers are now at the vanguard of today’s climate movement,” said Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project.

“Older people are three times as likely to list climate as a top priority than middle-aged people. On top of that, women in all age groups are more likely to care about climate than men,” he said. “So you put those two things together … and you can safely say that grandma is much more likely to be a climate voter than your middle-aged man.” 

In Arizona, where Chandler lives, older climate voters make up 231,000 registered voters in the state. The presidential election in the crucial swing state was decided by just 11,000 votes, Stinnett noted.

“Older climate voters can really throw their weight around in Arizona if they organize and if they make sure that everybody goes to the polls,” he said. 

Pictured: Hazel Chandler’s recent activism revolves around her role as the Arizona field coordinator of Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.

In some cases, their identities as grandmothers have become an organizing force. 

In California, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations formed in 2016, after older women from the Bay Area traveled to be in solidarity with Indigenous grandmothers protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. 

“When they came back, they decided to form an organization that would continue to mobilize women on behalf of the climate justice movement,” said Nancy Hollander, a member of the group. 

1000 Grandmothers — in this case, the term encompasses all older women, not just the literal grandmothers — is rooted at the intersection of social justice and the climate crisis, supporting people of color and Indigenous-led causes in the Bay Area. The organization is divided into various working groups, each with a different focus: elections, bank divestments from fossil fuels, legislative work, nonviolent direct actions, among others...

“There are women in the nonviolent direct action part of the organization who really do feel that elder women — it’s their time to stand up and be counted and to get arrested,” Hollander said. “They consider it a historical responsibility and put themselves out there to protect the more vulnerable.” 

But 1000 Grandmothers credits another grandmother activist, Pennie Opal Plant, for helping train their members in nonviolent direct action and for inspiring them to take the lead of Indigenous women in the fight. 

Plant, 66 — an enrolled member of the Yaqui of Southern California tribe, and of undocumented Choctaw and Cherokee ancestry — has started various organizations over the years, including Idle No More SF Bay, which she co-founded with a group of Indigenous grandmothers in 2013, first in solidarity with a group formed by First Nations women in Canada to defend treaty rights and to protect the environment from exploitation. 

Pictured: Pennie Opal Plant has started various organizations over the years, including Idle No More SF Bay, which she founded in 2013 alongside Indigenous grandmothers.

In 2016, Plant gathered with others in front of Wells Fargo Corporate offices in San Francisco, blocking the road in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, when she realized the advantages she had as an older woman in the fight. 

As a police liaison — or a person who aims to defuse tension with law enforcement — she went to speak to an officer who was trying to interrupt the action. When she saw him maneuvering his car over a sidewalk, she stood in front of it, her gray hair flowing. “I opened my arms really wide and was like, are you going to run over a grandmother?”

A new idea was born: The Society of Fearless Grandmothers. Once an in-person training — it now mostly exists online as a Facebook page — it helped teach other grandmothers how to protect the youth at protests. 

For Plant, the role of grandmothers in the fight to protect the planet is about a simple Indigenous principle: ensuring the future for the next seven generations. 

“What we’re seeing is a shift starting with Indigenous women, that is lifting up the good things that mothers have to share, the good things that women that love children can share, that will help bring back balance in the world,” Plant said...

[Kathleen] Sullivan is one of approximately 70,000 people over the age of 60 who’ve joined Third Act, a group specifically formed to engage people 60 and older to mobilize for climate action across the country. 

“This is an act of moral responsibility. It’s an act of care. And It’s an act of reciprocity to the way in which we are cared for by the planet,” Sullivan said. “It’s an act of interconnection to your peers, because there can be great joy and great sense of solidarity with other people around this.”

-via The 19th, January 31, 2024

#climate change #climate activism #climate crisis #climate action #grandmother #older adults #elders #feminism #climate hope #family #intergenerational relationships #grandchildren #climate protest #good news #hope #hopepunk #environment #environmental activism #hope posting #boomers #gen z #age

[ceevee5]

#global warming #climate protest #just stop oil #fossil fuels

[nando161mando]

Greta Thunberg arrested by Dutch Police at a climate protest in the Hague

'Dutch police using controversial bokkepootje wrist bend on 4’11” Greta Thunberg for protesting climate collapse and genocide at The Hague'

#the hague #greta thunberg #dutch politics #dutch police #161 #1312 #all cops are bastards #climate protest #protest #genocide #class war #video #ftp #environmental activism #activism #activist #anti police #anti cop #fuck the police #fuck the cops #fuck the confederacy #fuck the idf #fuck the patriarchy #fuck the gop #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia

[radicalgraff]

Graffiti in Sydney promoting 4 days of protests, workshops & film screenings

in response to the failure of governments and their annual COP meetings to adequately respond to the climate crisis.

Schedule of events

Thursday 30th Nov

Welcome space

@ Addison Road Community Centre

3pm Banner Painting

5:30pm Workshop; History of COP

7pm Dinner and more Banner making

Friday 1st of Dec

8am Bike Rally @Belmore Park or location TBC

12:30pm Lunch @ Addison Rd Community Centre

5pm Disruptive Speak Out @ Town Hall

{Speak out, step out, disrupt the climate cop out!)

7pm Dinner @ Addison Rd Community Centre

Saturday 2nd of Dec

12pm Climate Coalition Rally @ Belmore Park

4pm Music and Films @ Addison Rd Community Centre

7pm Dinner @ Addison Road Community Centre

Sunday 3rd of Dec

All Sunday events @ Addison Road Community Centre

10am Panel 'How to Build Political Power'

11.30am Workshop 'What will we do next year?'

Lunch during Workshop

All meals provided free/by donation.

For more info check out:

#climate cop out #climatecopout #protest #environmentalism #environmental #climate change #climate protest #sydney #cop28

[silverfox66]

There is a climate protest going on in The Hague. Protesters want to block a road, so the police are now blocking that road to prevent... the protesters.... from blocking that road.

Road successfully blocked, I guess.

#climate protest #climate change #The Netherlands

[kp777]

By Brett Wilkins

Common Dreams

Sept. 13, 2023

"It's clear that the crisis is spiraling out of control and the policies of your administration with regard to fossil fuels fail to align with what the science tells us must happen to avert calamity."

In an open letter published Wednesday, around 400 scientists implored U.S. President Joe Biden to endorse the demands of this weekend's March to End Fossil Fuels in New York—which include halting new fossil fuel projects, ending oil and gas drilling on public lands, and declaring a climate emergency.

Noting that "on your first day in office, you issued an executive order pledging that it is 'the policy of my administration to listen to the science' in tackling the climate crisis," the letter's signers lamented that "more than two years later, it's clear that the crisis is spiraling out of control and the policies of your administration with regard to fossil fuels fail to align with what the science tells us must happen to avert calamity."

"With the climate crisis raging all around us—in the form of fires, floods, hurricanes, drought, heatwaves, crop failures, and more—we call on you directly, clearly, and unequivocally to stop enacting policies contrary to science and do what is needed to address the crisis," the signatories added.

The scientists called on Biden to:

Stop federal approval for new fossil fuel projects and repeal permits for climate bombs like the Willow project and the Mountain Valley Pipeline;

Phase out fossil drilling on our public lands and waters;

Declare a climate emergency to halt fossil fuel exports and investments abroad, and turbocharge the buildout of more just, resilient distributed energy (like rooftop and community solar); and

Provide a just transition to a renewable energy future that generates millions of jobs while supporting workers' and community rights, job security, and employment equity.

"We scientists heard the president loud and clear when he pledged two years ago to 'listen to the science' on climate. Yet now we're watching our nation's greenhouse gas emissions spiral out of control while White House policy becomes increasingly unaligned with reality," Sandra Steingraber—an initial signatory of the letter and a senior scientist at the Science and Environmental Health Network"—said in a statement.

"Science says we need to ratchet down fossil fuel extraction—the White House is doubling down," she added. " Scientists are here to say that our data support the demands of this march."

"Given how bad global heating has now gotten, it's simply insane that President Biden still refuses to declare a climate emergency."

Peter Kalmus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory—another initial signer—said that "given how bad global heating has now gotten, it's simply insane that President Biden still refuses to declare a climate emergency, and indeed, continues to make everything worse by expanding fossil fuels."

"Nothing takes away my hope for humanity's collective future more than Biden's choice to stand with the fossil fuel industry," Kalmus added. "He must pivot and become the climate leader the planet needs, or else he'll continue locking in higher temperatures and ever more irreversible damage to Earth's habitability."

Nearly 800 international, national, and local organizations have endorsed Sunday's March to End Fossil Fuels, which comes ahead of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Ambition Summit and this fall's U.N. Climate Change Conference—also known as COP28—in Dubai. More than 400 marches, rallies, and other climate mobilizations are slated for this weekend.

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.

#climate action #joe biden #climate protest #climate justice #climate crisis #climate change #fossil fuels #martch to end fossil fuels #climate ambition summit #cop 28 #willow project

[currentclimate]

In a statement, XR said it had carried out the action to “denounce the wasting of water by golf in the midst of one of the worst droughts in history”. It said golf courses in Spain used more water than the cities of Madrid and Barcelona combined, with each hole requiring more than 100,000 litres of water a day to maintain the greens.

#climate crisis #climate protest

[alpaca-clouds]

You can ask questions!

Alright, folks. Let me try something.

It's my semester break now. And I thought I would do something kinda connected to Solarpunk and in a way mutual aid, too.

Due to university and work related stuff, I actually know quite a bit about renewable energies and energy technologies in general, carbon technologies and climate change. I can also try answering some further weather related questions (I did take the modules for meteorology), though no guarantees on that one.

Any other questions related to Solarpunk are welcome, too. Though depending on the topic, I also cannot guarantee answers.

So, if you have any questions about that, send me an Ask and I will try to answer it. 😺

(To send an ask just go to the profile and find the button "ask me something" or something like that.)

Please note: due to some people using the anon asks for harassment, I currently have asks only opened for registered users. No anons.

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #renewables #renewable energy #ask are open #climate change #climate protest #save the planet #energy politics #solar energy #science communication #education #q and a

[smarmy-yet-satisfying]

They’re at it again, those pesky climate protesters

Just to get this out of the way-

THE PAINTING IS UNHARMED

The painting is behind a protective barrier and is completely unharmed, as was confirmed by the protesters before this action took place.

Protesting in upper class spaces using ‘distasteful’ methods has generated more media coverage and public attention than any other climate protest in recent history. Clearly making wealthy people uncomfortable is a great way to generate conversations about climate change and actions like this need to keep happening.

If you don’t like this form of protest then go do something better.

If these protests have offended you more than the fossil fuel industry knowingly poisoning us for 70 years, you need to reassess your priorities.

#you can say that this action will turn people against the cause #but no one who supported the cause will abandon it over this #and no one who ignored the cause will change their behavior because of it #climate protest #monet #climate action #climate change #climate crisis #just stop oil #climate emergency

[reasonsforhope]

"On Monday this week [first week of December, 2023], workers in London’s financial centre were met with an unfamiliar sight – and sound. Around 100 chorists, some sporting bowler hats, had gathered at the headquarters of the City’s biggest fossil fuel-backing corporations to sing in protest.

The singers, encompassing a range of generations and vocal pitches, were part of the Climate Choir Movement, a network of choirs that officially launched in January 2023. While world leaders convened at the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, they raised their voices in support of the Stop Ecocide campaign, which is working to criminalise the destruction of the environment.

The Climate Choir Movement’s co-founder Jo Flanagan first formed a choir in April 2022 with Extinction Rebellion to protest against HSBC’s fossil fuel investments at the bank’s AGM. Dressed smartly to blend in with shareholders, the singers rose up from their seats to disrupt the meeting with a rendition of the Abba classic "Money, Money, Money," the lyrics adapted to urge HSBC to finance renewable energy. [Note: A+ Song choice for this, tbh]

Flanagan had been inspired by a video of US activists singing as a flashmob in the middle of a conference speech to protest against greenwashing. “It made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck,” she recalls. “They walked out of the room in a very dignified way, still singing. I just thought, that’s the way I want to do it.”

Since then, the movement has grown from its first choir in Bristol to 10 choirs across the UK, with around 550 members at the time of writing. The local choirs organise their own rehearsals and protests, while all movement members can attend monthly sessions on Zoom where they learn new songs, to be performed at protests like the one in London.

For Ruth Routledge, who works as a singing for health practitioner and leads the Portsmouth choir in her spare time, taking part in this action was a “wonderful, uplifting” experience. “Singing and harmonising together is a very beautiful way to protest,” she says. “There’s something very gentle, very moving, and very powerful about it. It’s so vulnerable. There’s just a real naked, stripped back humanity that I think cuts through a lot of noise.”

The movement welcomes all new members, regardless of singing ability. Routledge was touched when some passersby – including “a couple of lads” – joined in with the songs. 

She is eager for others to experience the sense of hope that singing together brings. “I feel very passionately about the state of the environment. I’m very concerned about my children’s futures, and I’m concerned about the whole world. It keeps me awake at night.

“Joining together means we’re not isolated, worrying that the world is on fire and no one’s going to do anything.” 

For Flanagan, what sets the movement apart from other choirs that sing songs about nature is its targeted approach. “We organise very carefully choreographed, peaceful performance protests. We want to change hearts and minds.”

Seeing onlookers in tears illustrates to her what singing can achieve. “It reaches deep inside people in a way that other forms of protest can’t.”"

-via Positive.News, December 6, 2023

#climate news #climate protest #climate hope #hopepunk #singing #abba #bristol #london #uk #big bank billionaires #fossil fuels #climate change #climate crisis #direct action #protest #activism #climate activism #climate choir #ecocide #choir #choir stuff #protest songs #protest music #protest art #good news #hope

[ceevee5]

So if doctors have custodial sentences for climate change protests, they’re treated the same as doctors who sleep with patients or drink-drivers?

#uk politics #global warming #climate protest #doctors

[nando161mando]

UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off #ukpol #uklaw #climate #protests

#uk politics #ukpol #uk government #uk govt #ukgov #class war #climate protest #protest #environmental activism #activism #activist #oppression #fascism #repression #econotego #ecology #rishi sunak #climate change #climate crisis #climate action #climate catastrophe #climate emergency #climate activism #climate and environment #global warming #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol

[radicalgraff]

Poster seen in Sydney, promoting 4 days of protests, workshops & film screenings in response to the failure of governments and their annual COP meetings to adequately respond to the climate crisis.

Schedule of events

Thursday 30th Nov

Welcome space

@ Addison Road Community Centre

3pm Banner Painting

5:30pm Workshop; History of COP

7pm Dinner and more Banner making

Friday 1st of Dec

8am Bike Rally @ Belmore Park or location TBC

12:30pm Lunch @ Addison Rd Community Centre

5pm Disruptive Speak Out @ Town Hall

{Speak out, step out, disrupt the climate cop out!)

7pm Dinner @ Addison Rd Community Centre

Saturday 2nd of Dec

12pm Climate Coalition Rally @ Belmore Park

4pm Music and Films @ Addison Rd Community Centre

7pm Dinner @ Addison Road Community Centre

Sunday 3rd of Dec

All Sunday events @ Addison Road Community Centre

10am Panel 'How to Build Political Power'

11.30am Workshop 'What will we do next year?'

Lunch during Workshop

For more info check out:

#poster #posters #climate #climate cop out #ClinateCopOut #envrionment #environmental #environmentalism #climate protest

[deepdrearn]

My phone's out of memory so I couldn't take pictures except for this one lol but know that today was like a crack in spacetime where we could be in a better world for a few hours 🥹

#extinction rebellion #road blockade #occupation #climate protest

[hyperallergic]

Yesterday, November 15, the climate emergency activism group Letzte Generation’s Austrian branch took to the Leopold Museum in Vienna for another demonstration in the recent wave of substance-based attacks on revered masterpieces.

In a video posted by Letzte Generation, the activist that threw the black substance can be heard shouting “we have known about the problem for 50 years — we must finally act, otherwise the planet will be broken,” while trying to elbow themselves free from the museum guard’s restraint.

The museum reported to the Austria Press Agency (APA) that while the painting went unharmed, damages to the frame, wall, and floor were “evident and significant.”

#letzte generation #climate activism #climate protest #gustav klimt #vienna #leopold museum #protest