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AN 10 26

Trump receives a chilling warning that he could face a lengthy prison sentence in a new analysis examining what could happen if he attempts to interfere with the midterm elections, drawing comparisons to a president who tried to seize power and is serving life in prison.

In The Nation on Thursday, Paul Loeb and South Korean activist Jungmin Choi gave an example of Yoon Suk Yeol's downfall, whose failed December 2024 martial law declaration ended in mass protests, impeachment and life in prison for insurrection.

The authors say that Yoel’s fall from grace is an example of why Americans should resist any attempt by Trump or his administration to refuse to accept the election results.

“How do you stop a would-be dictator? The first requirement is knowing that it’s possible,” they wrote.

On December 3, 2024, Yoon declared martial law, which banned political activity and sent troops into the National Assembly. However, protesters fought back by surrounding the building, and lawmakers forced their way past military forces to overturn the martial law decree.

The protesters grew to over a million in just a few days, and Yoon was impeached and removed from office.

He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison in February 2026 after he was found guilty of leading an insurrection. Yoon escaped the death penalty and has filed multiple appeals for his conviction.

The court found that Yoon attempted to obstruct lawmakers from carrying out their constitutional duties by sending armed forces to the legislature.

“It is sufficient to conclude that there was intent to obstruct or paralyze the Assembly’s functions for a considerable period,” Judge Ji Gwi-yeon said.

Loeb and Choi detail five lessons for Americans from Yoon’s failed attempt at seizing power. They include the importance of voting, public resistance, and encouraging the military to refuse illegal orders. They referenced the six US senators and House members with military and national security backgrounds who released a video last November urging the military to refuse illegal orders.

They add that the effort to safeguard an election doesn't end once ballots are cast, noting that local authorities, the courts and regular citizens may all have a part to play if an administration tries to obstruct the process.

“But massive, immediate nonviolent protest will also be essential,” the authors wrote.

They also mention that it is essential to protect voting polls, writing: “For the US midterms, most points of contestation will be local: Citizens and local governments need to protect polling places and vote-counting centers, including having police protect them from disruption.”

They write that in the US, "power gets consolidated in stages," and aside from legal challenges, protest organizations such as Indivisible and No Kings have conducted poll monitoring and Hands Off the Vote trainings.

Following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and Trump's subsequent pardons of the insurrectionists, many have feared what he may do if he doesn't hold on to power.

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Two government lawyers under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama write in*The Economist* that President Donald Trump has been signaling he may use the powers of the presidency to challenge the results of the 2026 midterm elections if they are not to his liking.

Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer say that while " the House race thus offers Democrats their best shot at putting some brakes on the Trump juggernaut," the president has been "actively stoking"public mistrust in the electoral process and that could pose a problem again next November.

"More ominously, under the banner of defending 'honest elections', he appears to be laying the groundwork to challenge and possibly manipulate them," they write.

"His words and actions strongly suggest he may use the formidable powers of the presidency — and possibly even the armed forces — to resist 2026 electoral results he dislikes," they add.

Trump, they write, has framed any of his electoral losses as "proof of opponents' fraud," pointing to his exhaustive efforts to overthrow his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

"His charges have weakened the once-bipartisan consensus that election administration should be insulated from politics," they write.

The authors say to expect both the Republican and Democratic parties to mount legal challenges in races they seem to be losing "by alleging error, fraud or other irregularities, demanding recounts and contesting results in the courts," but they say these "struggles could enter a whole new dimension owing to Mr Trump’s apparent readiness to use the redoubtable powers of the presidency to deny election results."

This must be taken very seriously, they write, especially considering the "heretical idea" Trump himself posed on Truth Social in which he said that states "must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, for the good of our country, to do."

This, they note, "flies in the face of the Constitution," yet Trump "has issued an executive order that claims presidential authority to impose on states his own view of the needed voting rules — including proof of citizenship, revised machine standards and limits on mail-ballot counting."

Trump has also put election deniers in key posts, they note, and with those in place, he "could order many kinds of federal intervention."

"But perhaps the gravest worry is that Trump will deploy the armed forces under the Insurrection Act," they write. "Trump could claim his opponents are obstructing election laws and call in troops to enforce those laws in accordance with his wishes. Such deployments could occur before, during or after voting begins."

The integrity of the midterms, they say, depends on the "fortitude" of state and local officials who administer the elections, and on how the American people react to them.

"A broad, highly visible public reaction could influence elected officials within Mr Trump’s party as they weigh the risks of complicity in any effort to subvert election results," they write.

"In the darkest scenarios, such as the deployment of troops to jurisdictions where Republicans lose, the degree of responsible civic resistance could determine whether the nation’s voting institutions hold firm," they add.

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Mehdi Hasan is live on Substack now: "'Ask the Editor': On Israel and Its Illegal Detention of Greta Thunberg and the Flotilla Activists"

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South Bay residents protest Trump administration in honor of civil rights leader John Lewis

The nationwide day of action on the anniversary of Lewis’s passing comes amid waves of anti-Trump protests over the past several months

:{Community members take part in a rally during the “Good Trouble Lives On” Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif.

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By Esther Sun | esun@bayareanewsgroup.com

UPDATED: July 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM PDT

South Bay Area residents protested the Trump administration Thursday in downtown San Jose as part of a wave of demonstrations across the country on the fifth anniversary of former congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis’s passing.

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Organized by the San Jose chapters of Indivisible and 50501, the protest began at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and ended with a march to City Hall. The day of action is dubbed “Good Trouble Lives On,” in reference to Lewis’s call for people in America to participate in “good trouble” by speaking out and taking action against injustice.

“We believe that part of making ‘good trouble’ is community building and getting organized so that when time comes to make some kind of good trouble, you have people on your side,” said Tal Karsten, an organizer with 50501 San Jose.

Protests against Trump have spread throughout the country in the past several months, with a “No Kings” protest drawing roughly 2,000 people to downtown San Jose in June. More than 140,000 protestors attended the more than 50 “No Kings” protests across the Bay Area, according to a survey of local organizers, and hundreds also attended anti-ICE protests throughout the Bay Area the week prior.

Karsten said 50501’s protests tend to be “beginner-friendly” for people who have never attended a protest before.

Lewis, who served as U.S. Representative from Georgia for more than 30 years until his death in 2020, frequently invoked the phrase “good trouble” during his public service career. One such instance was when he returned to Selma, Alabama, for the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when he suffered a skull fracture from police beating civil rights activists during the first march for voting rights from Montgomery to Selma.

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way,” Lewis told the crowd that had gathered in honor of that day. “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”

He is the namesake of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 by requiring states and municipalities to obtain federal approval before changing voting laws. The bill failed to pass Congress twice due to Republican opposition and was reintroduced in the House this March.

Recently-elected City Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown San Jose, and Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong were among several speakers who addressed the crowd at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park.

“I think we unfortunately are in times where we need people who are going to be leaned in, who are going to be standing up for their communities,” Tordillos told this news organization following his remarks. “So I was happy to join today.”

In other speeches, organizers and community members criticized what they view as the Trump administration’s violation of civil and constitutional rights, deportation efforts, and attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and women. They also mentioned cuts to funding for Medicaid, which is the largest funding source for the Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system, in Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” that Trump signed into law earlier this month.

Community members take part in a rally during the "Good Trouble Lives On" Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

Community members take part in a rally during the “Good Trouble Lives On” Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the House floor Tuesday regarding the anniversary of Lewis’s passing.

“Today, as we witness attacks on civil rights, on democracy, on diversity, even on people’s basic necessities, many Americans are looking for hope,” she said. “In these moments, let us be reminded of John’s spirit and honor him not just with words, but with deeds.”

Protestor Beate Teufel, 60, immigrated from Germany and now lives in San Jose.

“I have German history, so I know what fascism is about,” she said. “And I see that this is clearly going towards fascism — what’s happening in this country.”

“I’m trying to come to as many [protests] as I can,” said Campbell resident Ana Araujo, 68. “I do it for my children, my grandchildren, and my friends who are immigrants, who are really, really scared right now, and I’m coming for them because they can’t come.”

Her foam-board sign included sketched faces of Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is dressed as a devil. She said she Googled phrases that Trump often says and chose one to put on the sign: “I don’t know anything about this.”

When she was riding the light rail to downtown San Jose for the protest, Araujo said, a man on the train saw her sign.

“There was a gentleman who said, ‘Thank you,’” she said. “I go, ‘I’m here for you.’”

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America is at a crossroads

Thom Hartmann November 18, 2024

Oligarchy is a form of government where the richest people in a country have captured its political system (or even filled it with themselves) and use that control to direct much of the government’s efforts to increasing their own wealth and power.

We’ll soon again have a billionaire president — helped to power by the richest billionaire on the planet — with his election campaign funded in large part by at least $2 billion in direct, reported donations from roughly 150 billionaire families.

It appears that the other roughly 350 billionaires who openly funded Trump in 2020 chose, this time, to instead donate to “dark money” SuperPACs created by five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court with Citizens United that don’t list their donors or, in many cases, even report their expenditures. With an estimated $15 billion spent on this 2024 election, their expenditures probably dwarf the ones we know about (and collectively they carpet-bombed Americans in often-deceptive political advertising).

And none of that covers the additional billions in “free media” Trump got from FOX “News,” rightwing hate radio, and Musk apparently altering the Xitter algorithm to favor messages friendly to himself and/or Trump while suppressing anti-Trump or pro-Harris posts.

This is extraordinarily bad for average Americans: With billionaires calling the shots in the upcoming Trump administration we can expect more pollution, fewer consumer protections, a war on unions, a frozen $7.25 federal minimum wage, bigger subsidies and grants to billionaires’ companies (from the fossil fuel industry to defense and SpaceX), lower taxes on the morbidly rich, and cuts to social services and entitlement programs.

But far more concerning is the simple reality that oligarchies are merely transitional forms of government, as I mentioned on Ali Velshi’s show Sunday morning and wrote in The Hidden History of American Oligarchy.

Ever since Ronald Reagan embraced neoliberalism (free trade, gut unions, low taxes on the morbidly rich) the top .01% have pillaged the American working class, essentially stealing over $50 trillion over the past 43 years and using that money to buy megayachts, penis-shaped rockets, European chateaus, private jets, and to fill their money bins.

So far, Republicans have been able to largely distract Americans from this naked theft by tossing out red herrings; blaming the ills of America on immigrants, big-city Black people, teachers, and the queer community. But there’s a limit to how long you can gaslight people; eventually working-class Americans figure out what’s going on and who’s behind their falling behind previous generations.

When that happens, oligarchies begin to tremble, something that’s been gradually happening for several decades. People protest, what’s left of union movements stand up, and progressive political parties begin to get a significant toehold on the national debate. The success of Bernie Sanders in his presidential efforts is an example of the leading edge of this dissatisfaction and dawning realization by average citizens of an early indicator that we were approaching this cusp.

Once protest against the oligarchs buying politicians and manipulating government reaches a critical mass, the oligarchy is faced with a terrible but necessary choice.

They can allow democracy to proceed and end up being voted out of power (as happened in Brazil when Bolsonaro was thrown out), sometimes even facing jail themselves (as happened here in 2020, although Merrick Garland dragged his feet for two long years).

Or the kleptocratic government can clamp down on their opposition, labeling protestors and democracy-advocating politicians as terrorists and “the enemy within,” using the power of the state (guns and jails) to suppress popular pro-democracy movements.

This latter path was the one Vladimir Putin chose as Russia moved from democracy to oligarchy and then to outright dictatorship. Speak up and go directly to jail, if you’re not killed outright like Alexi Navalny was. It’s also the path Viktor Orbán, the man many Republicans claim is their role model, has taken in Hungary.

And, if the rhetoric coming from Trump and his acolytes is translated into action starting in January, that is the path America will soon take.

Numerous Americans have been warning about this ever since Trump’s first term in office (and some, including me, for decades before).

Reagan began the destruction of the middle class (which has gone from two-thirds of us in 1981 when he came into office to 43% of us having that wealth today), Bush and Cheney used 9/11 to expand presidential authority, six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court granted king-like powers to Trump, and now the wannabee Mussolini is echoing traditional fascist rhetoric about women, minorities, the press, and his political opposition.

Soon, millions of Americans will be confronted with a choice. Will they, like “good Germans,” Russians, Chinese, and Hungarians did, abandon politics and go back to sports, music, and keeping their heads down? Or will they — like millions in Brazil, Chile, and Ukraine — stand up, protest, join the Democratic Party (while it’s still legal) and form a real resistance to an oligarchy that appears bent on morphing itself into America’s first raw tyranny?

In particular, it appears we’re approaching a time when Democratic state governors will need our support in their efforts to resist Trump’s fascist impulses. And, as our mainstream media continues to act like Trump is merely business-as-usual, help sustain independent media that engages in radical truth telling (there are many on Substack: check out my recommendations).

And it’s not too late for America to return to democracy; the next election of great import will be in two years and we all need to prepare.

Those who have faced the violence of state oppression have told us about the importance of times like this.

Elie Wiesel said, “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented,” and Martin Luther King Jr. told us, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

We still have the power to make the choice to resist, awaken others, and organize. Seize it, before it’s gone.

cello arrested DN

August 9, 2024

The Guardian: Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York.

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For several weeks in my hometown of New York City, increasingly large protests have descended on Citibank at its towering headquarters in lower Manhattan. Called “Summer of Heat,” these actions have forced Citi to order the arrests of almost 500 peaceful protestors.

As Citi becomes more frustrated by the direct action, many of the movement’s leaders have been detained on what appear to be bogus charges that are a central part of a corporate playbook to “criminalize” the climate movement.

For those who don’t know, without financing from banks the expansion of fossil fuels would largely grind to a halt. And of the many offending banks, Citi is probably the worst. They have put up $360 billion for fossil projects since the Paris Accords were signed in 2015. They are now the largest funder of fossil fuel expansion in the world.

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aha throwing your body on the gears is the last line of defense, a way for activists to try to offset corporate power (see various suppressions) so not surprising CRC/notEPA tires to tie "extremist" Extinction Rebellion to "foreign Billionaire" [well, British anyway Hohn? holm? sp]

AHA 2 HOLDING ACTION B/C HARD TO WIN POLITICS CORRUPT CONGRESS, FOX bs, ff $ LOBBYISTS SO BODY IS LAST WEAPON // SUICIDE BOMBER? NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ROUTINE BAD NEWS ABOUT POLAR ICE MELT OR EVEN WILDFIRE, SO ONE OF FEW WAYS TO GET ON NEWS; PLUS CACHET/SUCCESS OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?

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prison hunger strikes GITMO and covid [pvt prisons Geo gp?]; voting rights sleep-in on steps MOC cory?]

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Fox News' Tyrus suggests running over protesters with a monster truck | Media Matters for America

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decent artl on tree migration portland, forest service not jackboots? , it’s AP but paired w/ f&f morano BS

:{:{Marc Morano warns of climate change's 'true assault' on the freedom of movement}:

ClimateDepot.com publisher Marc Morano joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss the impact of the climate agenda on air travel and traffic as protestors cause disruptions.

:{4 min; protest airport few? generation tantrum vs the last gen ominous;

germany big dude red tshirt hauls from crosswalk then cops ;

fr ban 2 6 hr flights wacky nutty govt listen insane agEnda in us Air traffic controllers tightened up, hate to go there ; bloomberg news compliance cost baked into climate regs same with car creATE CAR SHORTAGE FORCE TO MASS TRANSIT}:

dude rt: INHERENTLY ANTI DEM; BLUE SUIT LEFT BLOCK SPORTING EVENT AVG JOE TRYING TO GO TO WORK HOLLYWOOD CELEB FuND DIRECTORS SOMEONE LISTENING GETTING TRACKING RATIONING DUMB PR BUT WORKS; HANDS IN ASDPHALT ? chick HOLLYWOOD AGENDA NOT FAIR TO AVG CITIZENS

Pacific Northwest implements new strategy to help trees impacted by climate

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STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Here's a video you are going to be talking about today. Climate protesters causing a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival and then this happened.

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DOOCY: Okay. She is not happy. Jimmy Failla, hosts Fox Across America on Fox News radio and Fox Nation, he joins us now.They made a big mistake.

JIMMY FAILLA (FOX RADIO HOST): Well let me start here, I think it is very insensitive of the cop, who should have run them over in an electric pickup truck out of sensitivity to the cause of them blocking the road. How do you not watch this and just rejoice? Because we're so long overdue for some pushback on this garbage where people are inconvenienced whether it's at a museum or people are chaining themselves to the runway. The one note I want to add though, is they are going to, you said Burning Man. It is burning person, OK, let's not get ourselves canceled here. But what's funny is Burning Man is known for people getting stoned in the desert. None of whom figured out they could just drive around this road block, which has 20 feet on either side of the road of flat land. But they are like, I guess we are stuck. But I love these cops. These cops are heroes. 

DOOCY: Well these are not regular cops.

FAILLA: Yep, tribal.

DOOCY: This is tribal land. And so these are tribal rangers. They've got different rules.

FAILLA: Yup. Yes.

DOOCY: Apparently different than the cops here in New York City.

FAILLA: I'm down with them policing everything because they didn't worry about getting, you know, heaven forbid having to go protest or get, you know, go viral for the wrong reasons. They actually just protected the rights of everybody on that road who had somewhere to be. I mean listen, on a serious note. If you have a medical procedure to get to -- Yes, no, seriously! You have no right to do that to people. You don't know what's going on in that traffic jam you are causing. So good for them.

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Right-wing media are spreading calls for violence against climate activists in response to a series of disruptive but nonviolent direct actions carried out by groups demanding action on climate change.

As communities grapple with crippling heat, flooding, and wildfires, activist groups employing tactics such as throwing paint or food on famous works of art and property, infiltrating cultural events, and obstructing busy roads have provoked outrage from right-wing media. Most recently, a U.K.-based group called Just Stop Oil and a German group called Letzte Generation (Last Generation) have been violently attacked by civilians, many of whom are motorists seemingly being held up by group members sitting in the middle of roads or conducting “slow walk” protests to block traffic. The incidents captured on camera have gone viral on social media, with some right-wing media figures in both Europe and the U.S. justifying these assaults and praising the perpetrators, offering ominous warnings of future violence against climate activists.

U.S. right-wing media fan the flames of anger and aggression directed at climate activists in response to escalating tactics abroad

On July 19, Just Stop Oil posted a video of a 21-year-old protester getting dragged, punched, and kicked while slow-walking down Cromwell Road in London. A statement from Just Stop Oil said that the victim of the assault did not plan on reporting the incident to the police. A July 21viral video of a woman yelling at Just Stop Oil protesters reportedly shows her telling them she is taking her baby to the hospital. In response to these tactics, changes in the recent Public Order Act have expanded police powers, giving authorities much more leeway to determine a protest is disruptive and put an end to it.

The videos sparked a deluge of comments from right-wing media influencers in the U.S. justifying and even encouraging physical violence against climate protesters who obstruct traffic:

During two separate incidents in Germany involving Last Generation, a truck driver attempted to run over a sitting protester and a group of people violently threw protesters out of the road, dragging one of them by the hair. (On Twitter and YouTube, the latter video was considered to be so violent that it either violated community guidelines or was labeled asinappropriate content for some viewers.)

While road obstructions seem to elicit the most aggressive reactions, activist groups across Europe, the U.K., and the U.S. have also been heavily criticized for gluing themselves or throwing paint and various food products at notable works of art (the artworks have not been permanently damaged).

The right’s yearslong mission to turn the public against environmental activists

Right-wing media have spent years building their audiences’ disdain for environmentalists, particularly those who dare to speak out about climate change as a serious threat.

During extensive coverage of climate protests, for example, Fox News has portrayed activists as members of a narcissistic, mentally ill “death cult” (a term that right-wing media and conspiracy theorists have used to describe Planned Parenthood, Judaism, and the Democratic Party) with the sinister agenda of fixing an allegedly fake problem at the peril of regular people.

As far back as 2010, right-wing media was blaming the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on environmental activists. And as youth movements like Fridays for Future gained notoriety and media attention in 2019, the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles was calling then-16-year-old Greta Thunberg a “mentally ill child,” and multiple influencers have compared her to Nazi leaders.

“Like, I'm not going to be the only one who could see, like, little, sort of, imagery of Hitler speaking up there, right?” right-wing YouTuber Dave Rubin said on The Rubin Report. “Like, there was some –these people think that they can control the worldand if you just gave them enough money and enough power they could do it.”

Fox News prime-time host Laura Ingraham has warned viewers that they would “be punished by our own children” and compared youth climate activists to Stephen King’s Children of the Corn.

COVID-19 brought a whole new onslaught of accusations as reduced travel saw planet-warming pollution plummet. Right-wing figures likefossil fuel shill Daniel Turner and radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that “green activists” were rejoicing over the COVID-19 pandemic’s disastrous effects because the disease was “accomplishing the Green New Deal’s goals.” Fox News and the New York Post parroted the idea.

In 2022, right-wing media found a way to blame the war in Ukraine on climate activists, demanding they were responsible for the domestic and global policies that supposedly emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin because the White House is “capturedby climate zealots.” More recently, Fox Business host Charles Payne compared climate activism to human sacrifice on July 13. And on July 17, The Five co-host Greg Gutfeld said that climate activists “see population as pollution” and suggested doxxing them to make their lives more difficult.

By claiming over and over again that climate activists want people to suffer and suggesting that they represent the real threat to society, not climate change, right-wing media have conditioned their audiences to be complacent or even satisfied when protesters are targeted with violence. This kind of thinking didn’t happen overnight — it’s been building for years, buoyed by right-wing talking heads, who get engagement by goading people into acting on their worst impulses but insist they’re not inciting violence, and the corrupt institutions driving ecological collapse and creating the need for civil disobedience to secure a livable future. 

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042023/wynn-bruce-earth-day/?ref=drilledpodcast.com

ICN

Last Earth Day, Wynn Bruce Set Himself on Fire Outside the Supreme Court. I Tried to Understand Why

Some saw my former student’s actions as a climate protest. As I examined the years leading up to his death, I found his grief for our planet was undeniable.

By Michael Kodas

April 22, 2023

Most journalism teachers would be thrilled to see their student’s name in the New York Times, but I shouted a curse and pushed my laptop away. The sobs didn’t come until later, and they returned often over the past year.

Three days earlier, on April 22, 2022—Earth Day—a Buddhist environmental activist sat down on the steps leading to the U.S. Supreme Court,stretched his legs out in front of him, folded his hands at his chest and, without saying a word, lit himself on fire. He was a photojournalist from Boulder, Colorado, the Times reported, and had died the following day. His father and friends believed he was protesting the U.S. government’s failure to confront climate change. His name was Wynn Bruce....

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/merrick-garland-2657324103/

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Dozens arrested as scientists worldwide mobilize to demand 'climate revolution'

Jake Johnson and Common Dreams April 07, 2022

More than 1,000 scientists across the globe chained themselves to the doors of oil-friendly banks, blocked bridges, and occupied the steps of government buildings on Wednesday to send an urgent message to the international community: The ecological crisis is accelerating, and only a "climate revolution" will be enough to avert catastrophe.

What organizers described as "the world's largest-ever scientist-led civil disobedience campaign" kicked off just days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report detailing the grim state of efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C by century's end, a target set by the Paris accord.

As one of the report's authors put it during a press call earlier this week, "Unless there are immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, 1.5°C is beyond reach."

Warning that the IPCC report's language was watered down at the behest of governments unwilling to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, scientists and their allies took that message further during their direct actions on Wednesday, operating under the slogan "1.5°C is dead, climate revolution now!"

"I'm taking action because I feel desperate," said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.

"It's the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity," Kalmus continued. "World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don't get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point."

The Los Angeles demonstration was accompanied by other protests across the U.S., the largest historical emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide and home to some of the most powerful fossil fuel companies in the world.

In Washington, D.C., climate scientists chained themselves to the White House fence and were ultimately arrested as theydemanded that U.S. President Joe Biden declare a "climate emergency," a step that would unlock a range of tools needed to combat global warming.

"We have not made the changes necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C, rendering this goal effectively impossible," said Dr. Rose Abramoff, one of the scientists arrested at the White House. "We need to both understand the consequences of our inaction as well as limit fossil fuel emissions as much and as quickly as possible."

"I'm taking action to urge governments and society to stop ignoring the collective findings of decades of research," Abramoff added. "Let's make this crisis impossible to ignore."

Similar acts of civil disobedience were held across the globe as scientists took to the streets to demand that governments ramp up their transitions to renewable energy as the climate crisis intensifies extreme weather, endangers critical ecosystems, and takes lives worldwide.

In Madrid, Spain, scientists splashed red paint on the walls and steps of the Congress of Deputies to decry lawmakers' inaction in the face of the existential climate threat. More than 50 scientists were arrested during the demonstration, according to organizers.

Scientists also mobilized in Germany, blocking a bridge near the country's parliament building.

In an op-ed published in The Guardian on Wednesday, Kalmus warned that "Earth breakdown is much worse than most people realize."

"The science indicates that as fossil fuels continue to heat our planet,everything we love is at risk,"he wrote. "For me, one of the most horrific aspects of all this is the juxtaposition of present-day and near-future climate disasters with the 'business as usual' occurring all around me. It's so surreal that I often find myself reviewing the science to make sure it's really happening, a sort of scientific nightmare arm-pinch. Yes, it's really happening."

"If everyone could see what I see coming," Kalmus added, "society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few years."

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/early-morning-protest-erupts-outside-lindsey-grahams-home-he-told-us-to-use-his-words-against-him/

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/how-activists-and-citizen-journalists-can-revive-the-american-promise/

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https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/2/headlines/climate_activists_win_landmark_victory_in_oregon_after_presenting_necessity_defense

In  a victory for climate activists, a Portland, Oregon, jury refused to convict five Extinction Rebellion members for blocking railroad tracks used to transport oil by Zenith Energy Corporation and other oil companies. The activists were acquitted after presenting a necessity defense. Valve turner Ken Ward — one of the “Zenith 5” — said of the landmark victory, “When citizens are told the truth about the climate crisis — which is the first of Extinction Rebellion’s demands — they take appropriate and responsible action, as our jury did, and we thank them.”

In other environmental activism news, police arrested members of Extinction Rebellion NYC as they blocked construction of a National Grid fracked gas pipeline in Brooklyn.

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https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/2/headlines/climate_activists_win_landmark_victory_in_oregon_after_presenting_necessity_defense

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progressives plan to #BernTheDNC with mass nonviolent civil disobedience if democratic establishment rigs nomination

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Nick Brana, Eleanor Goldfield, Phil Ateto, Shelly Williams / Common Dreams

If there is an effort to steal the nomination from the people, our goal will to be make clear to the Democratic establishment that we know their game and we aren't gonna play this time.

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Anti-pipeline protests have shut down major rail networks across Canada as indigenous rights and environmental activists act in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en people of British Columbia, who are fighting to keep a natural gas pipeline off their land.

Canadian National Railway (CN) said Thursday it would shut down its freight network east of Toronto in response to rail blockades, CNN reported. The same day, VIA Rail, which predominantly uses CN tracks to run passenger trains, said it was suspending the majority of its service. Then, on Sunday, CN announced 1,000 temporary layoffs, The Globe and Mail reported.

"It's our future that's going to be destroyed – it's really important for youth," 17-year-old Malika Gasbaoui, an Ojibwa-Métis from the Laurentians in Quebec who visited one of the blockades, told The Globe and Mail.

Gasbaoui was visiting a blockade in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ontario, which has cancelled train trips for more than 83,000 people since it began. The blockade was launched Feb. 6 in response to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raid on camps set up by the Wet'suwet'en to block the construction of the $6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, according to CBC News. The demonstrators say they will maintain the blockade until the RCMP leave Wet'suwet'en territory.

Another blockade in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory outside Montreal has shuttered a commuter rail into the city, The Globe and Mail reported. Anti-pipeline activists also held weekend demonstrations in Vancouver, Vaughan, Ontario and Niagara Falls, Ontario.

The Vaughan protesters blocked trains en route to London, Hamilton, New York and Michigan Saturday before disbanding around 5 p.m., CTV News reported.

"We are here for as long as we can be disruptive," indigenous land defender Vanessa Gray told CTV News. "We are here in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en land defenders, the hereditary chiefs that oppose the pipeline, with solidarity with everyone who has faced violence from the police arrests and people who are still faced with surveillance from the police. We are here also to shut down Canada."

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https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2020/01/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-as-extremists-alongside-mass-killers/

a group of US environmental activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting the oil industry have been listed in internal Department of Homeland Security documents as “extremists” and some of its members listed alongside white nationalists and mass killers, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The group have been dubbed the Valve Turners, after closing the valves on pipelines in four states carrying crude oil from Canada’s tar sands on 11 October 2016 which accounted for about 15% of US daily consumption. It was described as the largest coordinated action of its kind and for a few hours the oil stopped flowing.

The five climate activists, members of Climate Direct Action, cut their way through fencing and turned the valves. The activists notified the energy companies whose pipelines were being disrupted and posted videos of their protest online and waited patiently to be arrested.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-activists-valve-turners-extremists-2644830392.html

Internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security reveal that non-violent demonstrators targeting the oil industry were classified as "extremists," with some organization members listed alongside known white supremacists, as The Guardian yyy reported.

Five members of Climate Direct Action — Michael Foster, Ken Ward, Emily Johnston, Annette Klapstein, and Leonard Higgins — have been dubbed the Valve Turners after a coordinated effort on Oct. 11, 2016 tocut through fencing and turn off valves on a pipeline in four states. The pipeline carried crude oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries.

The activists alerted the oil companies of their actions, filmed it and waited patiently for authorities to arrive and arrest them, as The Guardian reported. For a few hours, the oil stopped flowing. Those pipelines carried 15 percent of the daily U.S. oil consumption in 2016.

Chargers for three of them were dropped, but Michael Foster, who turned a valve in North Dakota, spent six months in jail and is now on probation. During his trial, prosecutors compared him to the 9/11 terrorists and the Unabomber, according to Common Dreams.

pix Michael Foster pictured with his partner and fellow activist Sue Lenander shortly after being released from a six month prison sentence. [Shut it Down - Climate Direct Action

More recently, the Department of Homeland Security described the Valve Turners as "suspected environmental rights extremists." The Guardian reported that the document, which evaluated domestic terrorism threats from 2018 to 2020, also categorized the group alongside Dylan Roof, the white supremacists who murdered nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina and James Fields, who plowed his car into a group of people protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fields killed Heather Heyer and injured 19 others.

"Equating mass murder by white supremacists with what Michael and I did is totally obscene," said Sam Jessup, one of the activists named in the documents, in an email to The Guardian. "This whole infrastructure of so-called security has done little more than secure the future of the fossil fuel industry by terrorizing people into silence."

Jessup, 34, was the driver and videographer live-streaming the action in North Dakota while Michael Foster, a former family therapist who lives in Seattle, turned the valve. Foster is the defendant who spent six months in jail.

Mike German, a former FBI agent and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, wrote an email to The Guardian stating that Homeland Security's framing was "highly misleading because white supremacists are responsible for the bulk of this violence and almost all of the fatalities that result. There is little that environmentalists have engaged in the types of deadly violence that would meet the statutory definition of domestic terrorism, as codified by Congress."

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The labeling of environmental groups with extremists is mirrored in Britain as well where the activist group Extinction Rebellion was labeled in a document by Counter Terrorism Policing South East alongside banned far-right organizations like National Action and Islamic terrorist organizations, according to the Telegraph.

Extinction Rebellion, which uses non-violent disruptions to business as usual to call attention to the urgency of the climate crisis had a similar reaction as the Valve Turners. They were shocked and appalled.

"How dare they," said climate change group Extinction Rebellion, as the BBC reported.

A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said, "Teachers, grandparents, nurses have been trying their best with loving non-violence to get politicians and big business to do something about the dire state of our planet. And this is how the establishment responds," according to the BBC.

Speaking about the Homeland Security document, Carl Williams, executive director of the Water Protector Legal Collective, which has defended Dakota Access Pipeline protestors said to The Guardian, "I think there is a strategy that rightwing forces are using to criminalize dissent. This bulletin shows that dirty hand."

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https://yyy.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/harvard-yale-football-game-protest-fossil-fuels

harvard and Yale students disrupt football game for fossil fuel protest

Students began campaigning in 2012 for both universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies that contribute to climate crisis

Emily Holden in Washington

Sat 23 Nov 2019 16.16 ESTFirst published on Sat 23 Nov 2019

Students stage a fossil fuel protest delaying the start of the second half of the Harvard-Yale game in New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday. Photograph: Arnold Gold/AP

Students and alumni from Harvard and Yale disrupted the annual football game between the two elite universities on Saturday, occupying the field in New Haven, Connecticut, at half-time and demanding the colleges divest from investment in fossil fuels.

More than 200 protesters stalled the high-profile game for around an hour, many chanting: “Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Fossil fuels have got to go!” The protest was briefly booed by some in a crowd of 44,989 and discussed widely on social media.

After the protest had delayed the TV broadcast of the game and pushed it toward sunset in a venue without floodlights, most of the protesters left the field voluntarily, escorted by police officers. A handful who remained were told they would be arrested. The number of arrests made was not immediately available.

Students began campaigning in 2012 for both schools to stop investing in oil and gas and coal companies that contribute to the climate crisis. Both universities refused, arguing that they would be in a better position to encourage corporate climate action if they remained shareholders.

“They believe that they can engage with these companies and get them to change their fundamentally extractive business models, which we think comes from a place of naivety amounting to gross negligence,” Nora Heaphy, an undergraduate at Yale, said.

“It’s absurd to make those kinds of claims. So since then our campaign has moved away from administrative engagement, recognizing that it is often a stalling tactic.”

A few months ago, hundreds of students at both universities walked out of class for a global climate strike. Last year at Yale about 50 students, community members and professors occupied the investment office until they were arrested. Heaphy has been arrested twice.

Both schools have massive endowments invested across the economy, including in fossil fuels. Harvard’s is worth $39bn, Yale’s $29bn. Activists believe that if the universities divest, hundreds of institutions will follow them.

Students at other prestigious schools are locked in similar battles. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one group is opposing the decision to accept $3m and name an auditorium after the oil company Shell, which some experts call an example of the “colonization of academia” by fossil fuel corporations.

A recent Guardian investigation revealed that 20 companies are responsible for a third of all carbon emissions since 1965. Internal documents from Exxon show the company knew the oil and gas industry would drastically alter the Earth’s climate decades ago and launched sophisticated campaigns to convince the public otherwise.

Caleb Schwartz, a Harvard undergraduate, said no shareholder resolution could “sufficiently address the impact that Exxon has had on the climate crisis and on our politics” and added: “Ultimately, these companies need to go out of business in order for us to have a safe and livable future.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/over-700-scientists-endorse-mass-civil-disobedience-to-fight-climate-crisis-moral-duty-to-take-radical-action/

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Over 700 scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to fight climate crisis: ‘Moral duty to take radical action’

Written by Jake Johnson / Common Dreams October 15, 2019

More than 700 scientists—and counting—have signed a declaration of support for the people around the world engaging in non-violent civil disobedience to pressure political leaders to act on the climate crisis.

“We can’t allow the role of scientists to be to just write papers and publish them in obscure journals and hope somehow that somebody out there will pay attention,” Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at the University of Leeds in the U.K. and one of the declaration’s first signatories, told Reuters on Saturday. “We need to be rethinking the role of the scientist and engage with how social change happens at a massive and urgent scale. We can’t allow science as usual.”

The declaration, signed by scientists from a diverse range of fields and countries, states that “if global greenhouse gas emissions are not brought rapidly down to net zero and biodiversity loss is not halted, we risk catastrophic and irreversible damage to our planetary life-support systems, causing incalculable human suffering and many deaths.”

“As scientists, we have an obligation that extends beyond merely describing and understanding the natural world to taking an active part in helping to protect it,” the document says. “We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and nonviolent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law.”

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Scientists’ Declaration of Support for Non-Violent Direct Action Against Government Inaction Over the Climate and Ecological Emergencyhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1FuZYG-gT5EPTLDyvgNnlYIS5dAy43TM1MnvOls48qIc/edit?usp=sharing …

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Dozens of scientists put words into action by taking part in Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrations in London over the weekend and on Monday.

Emily Grossman, a molecular biologist who joined XR’s protests in London’s financial district Monday, said “the urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action.”

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We support scientists participating in nonviolent civil disobedience to protest climate inaction!

UK scientists today are blocking roads around financial institutions that fund fossil fuel companies. Solidarity! @ScientistsX #ExtinctionRebellion

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As scientists, we have dedicated our lives to the study and understanding of the world and our place in it. We declare that scientific evidence shows beyond any reasonable doubt that human-caused changes to the Earth’s land, sea, and air are severely threatening the habitability of our planet. We further declare that overwhelming evidence shows that if global greenhouse gas emissions are not brought rapidly down to net zero and biodiversity loss is not halted, we risk catastrophic and irreversible damage to our planetary life-support systems, causing incalculable human suffering and many deaths.

We note that despite the scientific community first sounding the alarm on human-caused global warming more than four decades ago, no action taken by governments thus far has been sufficient to halt the steep rise in greenhouse gas emissions, nor address the ever-worsening loss of biodiversity. Therefore, we call for immediate and decisive action by governments worldwide to rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, to prevent further biodiversity loss, and to repair, to the fullest extent possible, the damage that has already been done. We further call upon governments to provide particular support to those who will be most affected by climate change and by the required transition to a sustainable economy.

As scientists, we have an obligation that extends beyond merely describing and understanding the natural world to taking an active part in helping to protect it. We note that the scientific community has already tried all conventional methods to draw attention to the crisis.

We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and nonviolent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law.

We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis.

We believe it is our moral duty to act now, and we urge other scientists to join us in helping to protect humanity’s only home.

Scientists can add their signatures here.

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 NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS PUT THEIR BODIES ON THE LINE TO DEFEND CALIFORNIA’S FORESTS

Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio

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It’s accused of (at best) incompetent coverage of the protests which saw children and young people striking in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Fenwick, East Kilbride, Coatbridge, Stirling, Inverkeithing, Peebles, Fort William, Forres, St Andrews, Inverness, Ullapool, South Uist, Aberdeen, Aberdour, Kirkwall and Eigg yesterday.

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Demonstrators inside New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum staged a “die in” and dropped thousands of paper slips designed to look like of OxyContin prescriptions Saturday night to protest the facility’s ties to the billionaire Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma and has been accused of deliberately fueling the opioid epidemic for profit.

“Education facilities at the Guggenheim, including a theater and an exhibition gallery, are housed inside the 8,200-square-foot Sackler Center for Arts Education, identified by the museum as ‘a gift of the Mortimer D. Sackler Family,'” the New York Timesreported.

“The cloud of white slips, created by a group founded by the photographer Nan Goldin, was a response to a recently disclosed statement by Richard Sackler, the son of a Purdue founder, who said years ago that OxyContin’s launch would be ‘followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,'” the Timescontinued.

Videos of the striking demonstration quickly spread on social media:

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Jamie Dimon is CEO of Jpmorgan Chase, the massive bank that settled a $13 billion mortgage fraud case with the DoJ in 2013 by committing more mortgage frauds to raise the cash; he has since taken the bank into some of the dirtiest business on Earth, from the loans that keep the Keystone XL pipeline viable to funding the private border prisons where Trump's Kids in Cages are being held, terrified and separated from their families.

Dimon is an infamous money-over-people crook: when Elizabeth Warren caught his bank failing to comply with rules put in place after the 2008 crisis, he smirked at her and told her to "hit him" with fines because the bank could easily afford them, having after the massive profit-taking from their massive frauds.

He's even floated the idea of a presidential run in 2020.

Now, Dimon's smirk is turning to rage, as he finds himself dogged by protesters everywhere he goes: speeches, shareholder meetings, when he comes and goes from work. The activists call on him to divest from the bank's unethical business, which will not happen while Dimon is in command. But in the meantime, they are keeping these issues alive, afflicting the comfortable and ensuring that he does not have a moment's peace while he is profiting from others' misery and the destruction of the planet.

Protesters have targeted Wall Street for years, but criticism at the annual conclave has shifted from the traditional corporate complaints about pay and risk-taking. The CEO is annoyed by the activism that now overshadows the event. “The shareholder meeting has become a farce,” Dimon told clients and employees in Washington in October. “I’m not against social groups,” he said, but the meetings “get hijacked.” A JPMorgan spokesman declined to comment.

In September, Breech and climate activists disrupted Dimon’s talk at a hotel in Philadelphia with shouts about fossil fuels. JPMorgan lends to TransCanada Corp., whose controversial Keystone XL pipeline got approval from Trump to carry fuel from the Alberta tar sands to the Gulf. Before that, eight people were arrested when immigration activists blocked the streets outside his co-op on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. At one point, protesters at the gates to his building halted their chants, called for silence, and played the audio of Central American children sobbing in a detention center after being separated from their parents by U.S. authorities at the border. JPMorgan lends to GEO Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc., which run facilities that hold immigrant families in Texas.

Some protesters don’t just want Dimon’s help, they want atonement. At this May’s meeting outside Dallas, Juleon Robinson of the New Economy Project asked Dimon if Chase would provide reparations for giving less banking access and fewer loans to black and Latino customers in New York. “You seem like a bright young man who is highly misinformed,” Dimon said, before ticking through some of the bank’s philanthropic initiatives.

Occupy Jamie Dimon: Activists Are Chasing the Billionaire Across the U.S.[Michelle Davis and Max Abelson/Bloomberg]

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https://www.ecowatch.com/22-climate-activists-arrested-london-2619516359.html

‘I’m Putting My Life On Hold’: 22 Climate Activists Arrested

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In 2012, geophysicist Brad Werner gave a talk at a conference asking the question, "Is Earth F**ked?" The answer? Not if ordinary people fought back in a movement reminiscent of the Civil Rights or anti-slavery struggles, Think Progress reported at the time.

Six years later, a group of activists in the UK appear poised to bring Werner's hope to life.

Extinction Rebellion, which launched itself into the public consciousness with a civil disobedience action outside London's Parliament Square a little under two weeks ago, coordinated another action Monday in which activists blocked the entrance to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), The Guardian reported. Protesters super-glued their hands to the entry gates to the staff door and lay in the streets to block traffic outside the building.  "The IPCC report in October gave us six to 12 years, and this is known to be a conservative report. If we don't respond with a war-style effort now we are all fucked, all of us. My heart is breaking and I've got to do something, and I'm putting my life on hold," protester Bell Selkie told The Guardian.

Selkie, a 48-year-old farmer from Wales, locked and glued herself to the doors of the building, said climate change had had a clear impact on her harvests.

One protester used wash-off spray chalk to write "frack off" above the main entrance to the building. The UK's Conservative government has approved two controversial fracking wells in Northwest England.

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