An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Behold the Kraken, Destroyer from the Depths of the Sea
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The People’s Budget LA and Reimagining Public Safety
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Know Justice, Know Peace: 21 Generations
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THE FUTURE: Solutions, Policy, & Resistance Around Plastic – Plastic Plague Pt 7
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Ecosystem Restoration: “The Great Work of Our Time”
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
activism Archive
Los Angeles: Stop Oil Trains Day of Action – July 11
Posted on June 17, 2015 | 4 CommentsThe time for action against oil trains is now! On Saturday, July 11, SoCal 350 Climate Action and its regional partners rallied at L.A.'s Union Station and held a teach-in in front of Olvera Street, calling for an end to bringing exploding bomb trains loaded with tar sands and other volatile crude oils into our communities.
Faces of Fracking: Civil Rights Hero Takes on Big Oil
Posted on October 28, 2014 | 2 CommentsLupe Anguiano, former nun and civil rights activist, is working to stop fracking near the Pacific Ocean beaches and agricultural fields of her hometown, Oxnard, CA.
Hundreds Demonstrate in LA to Support People’s Climate Mobilization
Posted on September 20, 2014 | 3 CommentsHundreds of Southern Californians Demonstrate along Wilshire Boulevard in Solidarity with Historic People’s Climate Mobilization in New York City Demanding Immediate Action on Climate Crisis
Climate Change: Marching for a Future in Los Angeles
Posted on March 15, 2014 | No CommentsCarrie Lederer of Carrier Pigeon Films captured the zeitgeist of the March 1st launch of the Great March for Climate Action, heading 3,000 miles to Washington DC over eight months.
Great March for Climate Action: Kick-Off in Los Angeles – March 1st
Posted on January 21, 2014 | 12 CommentsThe time for climate action is now! On Saturday, March 1, the SoCal Climate Action Coalition 350 and its regional partners will rally in the shadow of a Port of Los Angeles oil refinery, sending marchers off on a 17.5-mile trek through the streets until they reach downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of marchers will then continue their journey for 3,000 miles towards Washington D.C., reaching out to everyday citizens along the way on how they can fight climate change in their daily lives.
Fracking in New Brunswick: Elsipogtog First Nation Takes a Stand
Posted on December 7, 2013 | No CommentsSince June of 2013 the Elsipogtog First Nation community, in New Brunswick, Canada, has gathered on Highway 11 to protest the seismic testing being conducted by a subsidiary of Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. Since that time, several violent clashes between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and First Nation people have erupted. AlJazeera's "Fault Lines" went to Mi'kmaq territory, to find out what happens when a First Nation says no to fracking.
Idle No More LA: Poetry and Prayer at Petroleum Conference
Posted on September 12, 2013 | No CommentsIdle No More Los Angeles offered drumming, prayer, poetry, and healing at the September 3rd protest at the downtown Pacific Oil Conference and Trade Show. Called “The Western Summit” for petroleum marketers, around 50 people demonstrated peacefully, holding down the corner of a busy thoroughfare of LA Live! for three hours, in the shadow of the towering new Marriott-Ritz Carlton.
Media Resources: Forward on Climate Los Angeles
Posted on May 31, 2013 | 1 CommentThe Forward on Climate LA Solidarity March and Rally took place on February 17th, 2013, where more than 1,200 people supported by 101 Southern California organizations and businesses told Mr. Obama: "Solve the Climate Crisis, Take a stand, Mr. President!" Following is a media resource list from the event, including press, photography and videos. Let's keep it moving forward to heal the climate and our planet!Dear Mr. President, Let’s Move Forward on Climate
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 5 CommentsPresident Obama, we need an energy policy focused on efficiency and conservation, integrated with a clean, renewable energy plan – one that breaks our addiction to dirty and dangerous fuels such as Coal, Fracked Natural Gas, Nuclear and Tar Sands Oil.
Word to the President: Action on Climate and Keystone Now!
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsJoin the largest climate change rally in history on Sunday, February 17th, with tens of thousands converging on Washington DC and solidarity marches in Los Angeles and across the country to demand: "Solve the climate crisis! Take a stand, Mr. President!"
Idle No More: Round Dance for Mother Earth
Posted on February 4, 2013 | 3 CommentsIdle No More has awakened indigenous voices from all over North America, blockading highways and border crossings, flash-mobbing in shopping malls, facing arrest and imprisonment. At issue are sovereignty and treaty rights, dancing and demonstrating for Mother Earth: for the protection of the air, the water, and the land, motivating native peoples out of their idleness and into the streets.
George Wuerthner: Habitat Conservation, Not Hunting, Saves Grizzly Bears
Posted on January 4, 2013 | 1 CommentWildlife Agencies advocate hunting helps grizzly recovery. The best available science, however, suggests predators including bears, wolves, mountain lion and coyotes have intricate social interactions that are disrupted or damaged by indiscriminate killing from hunters and trappers. Habitat protection is the main way to protect the fledgling population of grizzly bears as well as avoid human-bear conflicts.
Tar Sands – Keystone XL Pipeline Activist Resources
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsAs the Tar Sands Oil Mining and the associated Keystone XL and Northern Gateway Pipelines push forward, education and collaboration are necessary to stop these destructive projects and demand a sustainable and clean energy policy today.
Occupy Los Angeles: Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
Posted on October 18, 2011 | 5 CommentsAll machines have their friction, but when the friction comes to have its own machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such as machine any longer.
