{"id":6826,"date":"2011-08-15T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:39:24","slug":"is-the-climate-movement-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6826","title":{"rendered":"Is the Climate Movement For Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/frequently-asked-questions/">https://dinoeliadis.com/frequently-asked-questions/</a> Several weeks ago, after\u00a0Tim DeChristopher <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/jul\/27\/nation\/la-na-oil-leases-20110727\" target=\"_blank\">received a two-year jail sentence<\/a> for climate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang\" target=\"_blank\">monkey wrenching<\/a>, the outrage in various quarters was palpable. Some, like Jeff Goodell at Rolling Stone, saw a potentially historic moment\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/a-rosa-parks-moment-climate-activist-tim-dechristopher-sentenced-to-prison-20110727\" target=\"_blank\">in the making<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/contact/">Order Valium Without Prescription</a> For climate activists, this is a Rosa Parks moment.\u00a0 Or should be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/teamfacilitation/"></a> In other words, the jailing of DeChristopher should be a similar kind of epic spark, one that would launch a movement of protesters rallying to the climate change cause.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/company-overview/">Get Ambien Prescription Online</a> Social movements are products of focused organization. Even the icons of activism in American history wielded influence through larger groups. Rosa Parks wasn&#8217;t just a tired seamstress in 1955, when she refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. She was a longtime organizer who served as chapter secretary of the local NAACP, which organized a bus boycott and a lawsuit in response to her action. Earlier that year, she had attended a workshop on nonviolent action at a labor center, the Highlander Institute, where she read about Gandhi and the Supreme Court&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Brown v. Board of Education\u00a0<\/em>decision striking down segregation in public schools. All of the specific actions weren&#8217;t choreographed, but activists had spent years building the infrastructure and cultivating the ideas that made the bus boycott possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/gecko/">https://worklivelaos.com/gecko/</a> the backlash against industrial wind is real, it&#8217;s global, and it&#8217;s growing. The U.S. has about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windaction.org\/orglist\" target=\"_hplink\">170<\/a>\u00a0anti-wind groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/watch/">https://forgive123.com/watch/</a> If the climate movement in the U.S could claim it had 170 separate chapters, that would be a notable sign that it too is growing. Absent that, what will it take for the climate cause to catch on? A certain famous climate activist, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/people-power\/tim-dechristopher-the-climate-movement-needs-to-step-it-up\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> several months ago, laid out the challenge, in terms that evoked the kinds of sacrifices made during the Civil Rights era:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/employment/"></a> Where is the point when\u00a0<a title=\"Climate Action\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/planet\/climate-action\">our movement<\/a>\u00a0is going to say that stopping this injustice is more important than my career plans, is more important than my comfort and convenience?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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