civil disobedience Archives

Reverend Eddie Anderson, EcoJustice Radio

The People’s Budget LA and Reimagining Public Safety

June 18, 2020 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Reverend Eddie Anderson discusses the People’s Budget Los Angeles with EcoJustice Radio host Jessica Aldridge. He defines what it means to re-imagine policing and public safety, and how to ensure reinvestment back into Black communities. The institutions that run the USA continue to benefit from the repercussions of long-standing, systemic oppression and racism. How do we reinvent and re-imagine the power structures? How do we change the economic system and fund a budget that is community-centered?

Martin Luther King Jr, Selma to Montgomery March

Advocates, History, Politics and Advocacy

‘Selma’: Martin Luther King Jr. as Radical Peace and Anti-Poverty Activist

December 28, 2014 by The Outpost 1 comment

The 2014 film controversially reinstated the radical legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he spoke out against war and poverty and was marginalized by the political establishment as a result. This review of Ava DuVernay’s Selma is by Zaid Jilani.

Climate, Politics and Advocacy

People’s Climate Movement: The End of Business as Usual

September 4, 2014 by Guest Columnist 1 comment

In light of the People’s Climate Mobilization in New York and worldwide, Sabina Virgo writes on the need to build a movement using the examples of fights for civil rights, feminism and peace, based on the principle that corporate-centered business as usual must end, bringing about a just transition to a sustainable economic model that creates jobs and prosperity for all while protecting our fragile ecological balance.

White Canyon, Natural Bridges National Monument - Tar Sands

Climate, Tar Sands

Utah Tar Sands: In the US, Good Guys Go To Jail

August 4, 2014 by The Outpost 1 comment

Last month, twenty-one people were arrested engaging in peaceful civil disobedience in protest of a proposed tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, which would threaten local land and water, as well as contributing to the global climate crisis. As the wheel of justice turn, national environmental organizations expressed their solidarity with the protesters who stood for our freedom from dirty fossil fuels and devastating climate impacts.

buffalo wild in Yellowstone National Park

Wildlife

Last Wild Bison Persist Despite Montana Wildlife Politics

March 12, 2014 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

A twenty-year old activist blocked the access road to Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap, preventing more of the last wild bison from being shipped to slaughter. As well, the Montana Supreme Court recently supported efforts to expand bison migratory habitat north of the park in the Gardiner Basin.

Tar Sands

The Climate Movement: Direct Action Against Extreme Fossil Fuels

September 5, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

David Osborn from Rising Tide asserts all new fossil fuel extraction must immediately stop if we want any chance of a habitable climate and a livable future. The climate movement needs more actions like Swamp Line 9 in Ontario, which shut down a pumping station to protest the Enbridge Line 9 Tar Sands Pipeline Reversal.

Politics and Advocacy

End Corporate Personhood: LA Joins National Movement to Repeal Citizens United

May 2, 2013 by Guest Columnist 0 comments

We, the People of the USA, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Join the National Day of Action on May 10th with two marches in Los Angeles.

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