Earlier this month, Waging Nonviolence columnist George Lakey wrote about Earth Quaker Action Team’s recent success in forcing PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal. As a veteran organizer and one of the group’s leaders, Lakey provided insights into the five year campaign’s strategy and tactics. News of this major victory for the climate movement spread and Lakey was interviewed by both the New York Times and WHYY’s Radio Times.
An organizer of the 1968 Columbia University protests on why the message against war, then and now, is the same.
Abolitionist organizer Pilar Weiss discusses how community bail funds have withstood past and present challenges from the state.
Climate activists in East Africa and abroad have momentum, but stopping the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline will require greater risk and deeper solidarity.
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