7 Ways Protesters Used Low-Tech Hacks to Fight Back
1. Holding Back the Tears
Tear gas has been the Hong Kong police’s main weapon for breaking up demonstrations. Protesters developed tactics to neutralize the tear gas with quick-reaction squads. Early tactics...
National Grid Wants to Install a Pipeline Across Brooklyn, and New Yorkers Aren’t Happy
If you've ever attended a climate strike or seen one on TV, chances are you've seen climate-conscious demonstrators protesting fracking. Fracking is a hugely controversial oil extraction process that takes a...
Biomass More Polluting Than Coal, New Study Finds
A pre-eminent think tank in the United Kingdom, Chatham House, issued a seminal report last week challenging a fundamental assumption underlying European renewable energy policy: that burning forest biomass to produce electricity is "carbon neutral."...
Converting coal plants to biomass could fuel climate crisis, scientists warn
Plans to shift Europe’s coal plants to burning wood pellets instead could accelerate rather than combat the climate crisis and lay waste to woodland equal to half the size of Germany’s...
As Millions Lose Jobs, the Billionaire Class Sees Wealth Soar by $434 Billion During...
New data from the Census Bureau found nearly half of all American adults say they or a member of their household had lost employment income since mid-March. But not all Americans...
Renewables surpass coal in US energy generation for first time in 130 years
Solar, wind, and other renewable sources have toppled coal in energy generation in the United States for the first time in over 130 years, with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating a decline...
Colonization Made California a Tinderbox: Why Indigenous Land Stewardship Would Help Combat Climate Fires
We examine California’s history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes in...
Food waste increases during the pandemic — compounding an existing problem
Long before COVID-19 disruptions forced dairy farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk into fields and farmers to plow under fields of vegetables, a third of all food produced globally was going...
Standoff in South Dakota: Cheyenne River Sioux Refuse Governor’s Demand to Remove COVID Checkpoints
There’s a standoff brewing in South Dakota, where two Native American Indian tribes are defying orders by Governor Kristi Noem to remove COVID-19 checkpoints from their territories. The Cheyenne River Sioux and...
GUIDELINES FOR SAFE PROTESTING
We know that many of our members, comrades, and allies feel compelled to join the rebellions and protests springing up across the country right now, in response to the ongoing police...