Environment

Posted by | July 13, 2014
#NN14: Turn on the Water! Tax Wall Street! March & Rally

Join National Nurses United as they declare a public health emergency and demand a moratorium be put on the unprecedented water shutoffs in the Motor City.

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Posted by | May 8, 2012
Environmental Caucus

Our moderated issue caucuses are aimed at forming greater strategic alliances on progressive issues including the environment, labor, LGBT community, immigration, women's issues, social justice and education.

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Mobile Organizing for 2012: From Elections to Occupy, Anti-Fracking to Arab Spring

This panel will explore case studies that exemplify outstanding mobile organizing practices and how they're going to be critical in 2012. Panelists will share their experiences in bridging the digital...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Handcuffs, Conventional Wisdom and Dirty Oil: Activism’s Big Win Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

This January, against long odds, the environmental movement dealt a blow to Big Oil, forcing President Obama’s rejection of a presidential permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline—the industry’s marquee project and a conduit...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
People, Not Polar Bears: Digital Revolutions and the New Fight Against Climate Change

From epidemics of asthma to water shortages, our most vulnerable populations are disproportionately impacted by pollution and global warming—and it's time for our environmental fights to reflect this. For decades,...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Coal and the Grassroots Fight for Environmental Justice

Community heroes across the country are taking great risks to stand up and say no to coal pollution and other environmental injustices, and they're succeeding—more than 100 of the nation's...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Building the Movement to Ban Fracking in a Regulation Climate

At the same time that President Obama is pushing an energy plan built on natural gas, there is a national movement to ban fracking building around the United States and...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
Saving Public Transportation: A Matter of Social Justice

In Rhode Island, public transit service is under perennial threat of service cuts and fare increases due to a flawed funding mechanism, the gas tax. Transit systems around the country—from...

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