Beyond the Negotiations

L’eau Est La Vie: “The fight against the Black Snake moves south”

Matthew Kennedy February 13, 2018 0 Comments

by Matthew Kennedy Only months ago, highly explosive crude oil began to flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), or the Black Snake, as it was named by the Indigenous and allied activists at Standing Rock who organized massive opposition to its construction. The pipeline has since then leaked five times along its route. Proposals for dangerous new fossil fuel projects will continue to...

The 10 First Days of Trump

Sara Lowgren January 31, 2017 0 Comments

It has been 10 days since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of the US. Already, Trump has moved forward with some of the promises we secretly and openly hoped would never come true. Here are some of the major actions undertaken thus far by the new president; Signed permission for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline, and attempted to close the...

#NoDAPL calling party

Sara Lowgren January 19, 2017 0 Comments

Last night we organized a calling party at College of the Atlantic. We called banks, the White House, the US Army Corps, Safariland and other parties to continue the momentum of #NoDAPL movement. One of our members calling a bank, asking them to divest from Energy Transfer and DAPL.

What am I supposed to do with my feelings?

Margherita Tommasini November 15, 2016 0 Comments

By Margherita Tommasini I experience panic attacks. I already share this struggle with the people I love, so it does not really matter if now the Internet will know about it. I sort of knew what I was getting into. Last year I attended COP21 in Paris. I did not have accreditation for the Blue Zone, but I spent the three weeks in the Ville Lumières engaging with different levels of civil society...

#ZeroFossilsDay

Andrea Fontana November 14, 2016 0 Comments

by Rachael Goldberg and Andrea Fontana Mobilized by 350.org, we joined a variety of climate justice groups that gathered today to demand governments to “freeze” the extraction and use of fossil fuels. Members of Earth in Brackets gathered with other Climate Justice groups and “froze” in the Blue Zone of COP22. The action was meant to draw attention to the report “The Sky’s Limit”...