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Rider to Neighbor – Ciclista a Vecino
by A. Grace Steig, video coordinator for the Western MA team siga abajo para el Español “¡Sí se puede!” we chanted at the end of our third day of trainings and planning alongside members of Neighbor to Neighbor. We used … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team Western Massachusetts
Tagged #ClimateLegacy, #volunteer, #WestMass, action for a healthy holyoke, bilingual, carbon, Coal, edit, electricity, environmental justice, español, footage, generous transition, Holyoke, intersectionality, involvement, just transition, meme, Mt. Tom, Neighbor to Neighbor, organizer, power, puerto rico, roots, social media, Video
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La Historia de Rosa – Rosa’s Story
by Rosa Gonzalez, volunteer for Neighbor to Neighbor Holyoke Translated from Spanish to English by Ben Weilerstein – please forgive or offer correction to any mistakes in translation – for the original Spanish, scroll down Traducido del español al ingles … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Guest Blogger, Team Massachusetts, Team Western Massachusetts
Tagged #ClimateLegacy, #volunteer, #WestMass, action for a healthy holyoke, asthma, bilingual, clean-up, Coal, coal ash, coal worker, community, economic justice, environmental justice, español, generous transition, health, Holyoke, just transition, Neighbor to Neighbor, organizing, pollution, puerto rico, success, welfare, win, working class
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Structures of Water: Poetry as Activism
by Sophie Sokolov, Social Media for Team North Shore When I heard that Footprint Power was going to host an art show and poetry reading inside of the defunct coal plant, my first thought was that we should infiltrate. We … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team North Shore
Tagged Activism, art, Climate, Climate Change, climate summer, Coal, community, Creativity, Footprint Power, Improbable Places Poetry Tour, Montserrat Art College, Movement Building, Natural Gas, organizing, poetry, Salem Harbor, Salem Natural Gas Plant, structure, water
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Behind the Scenes: Brayton Point
Written by Alexis Russell, Team Eastern Massachusetts, Media Coordinator I’ve been to protests before. I remember walking through the streets of San Francisco with my dad at my first protest when I was ten, protesting the war in Afghanistan. I … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Team Massachusetts
Tagged Activism, brayton point, climate summer, Coal, ema, emass, march, protest, rally
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Would You Like Oil With That?
Written by Amanda Crawford-Staub, Outreach Coordinator, Team Main The dislike for deadly energy companies like oil, coal, and gas is loud. They profit billions of dollars, destroy our environment, and make us sick with little to no accountability for all … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team Maine
Tagged Coal, Corporations, Maine, Natural Gas, Oil, Personal Responsibility
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Let the Wave of Life Wash Over You
Written by Andrew Nguyen, Video Coordinator, Team Massachusetts Working in Holyoke was a change of pace. Petitioning day after day to shut down the Mount Tom Coal Plant afforded me the opportunity to interact with many of the locals. No … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team Massachusetts, Video
Tagged 4th, action for a healthy holyoke, AHH, asthma, August, Coal, coal plant, farming, global warming, Mt. Tom, Nuestras Raices
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A Generation of Stored Sun
Written by Aaron Morales, New Media Coordinator, Team Massachusetts While at the 350MA.org kick-off in Cambridge, MA, someone was applauded for his organizing a concert dedicated to the planet every year as well as for all of the letters to … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team Massachusetts, Video
Tagged Coal, Deadly Energy, fossil fuels, life changing, Medford, Warren Senders
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Story of Self
Written by Murtaza Nek, Program Coordinator, Team Massachusetts One of the most important aspects of our training as Climate Summer riders has been to become more expressive, to share our stories and our reasons for being devoted to addressing the … Continue reading
Posted in Team Massachusetts
Tagged Beijing, Camp Wilmot, climate summer, Coal, Deadly Energy, Environmental, fossil fuels, Gas, hope, Movement Building, Oil, personal, power, Self, Story
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Switch the Power in Bridgeport
Riconn Team is having a potluck/meeting/rally against the Bridgeport Harbor Power Plant! Spread the word to those in the area and come support a healthier Connecticut! Here’s the Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182617911798503 And here’s a flyer that Jackie made, please circulate!
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Tagged 2011, better future project, Bridgeport, climate summer, Coal, environmental justice, RiConn
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