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Around 5 am on October 2007, a group of 50 Greenpeace activists illegally broke into Kingsnorth power plant in Kent, England. The group split up into teams, each of whom targeted a different area. Their various "monkeywrenching" activities included immobilizing the conveyor belt and then chaining themselves to the machinery, climbing the 200 meter smokestack and then painting the word "Gordon" (after the Prime Minister of the time) on the chimney, and using an...
A group of survivors from both Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey, which both occurred last fall, occupied the office of Senator Mitch McConnell on capitol hill. They wanted the senator to acknowledge that fossil fuel consumption has contributed to making tropical storms much worse over the past decade. Members of his staff were quite insistent that the protesters leave - however, they stood steadfast in their demands.
Occupy Central with Love and Peace was a civil disobedience campaign organized by Chu Yiu-ming, Dr. Benny Tai, and Chan Kin-man. The manifesto stated that it would campaign for universal suffrage through civil disobedience, civil referendum, and dialogue. OCLP advocates for universal suffrage, defended as the satisfaction of international standards such as equal weight for each vote, no unreasonable restrictions to stand for election, and by the means of genuine...
Operation Jairo is a broad campaign to defend endangered populations of green, leatherback, hawksbill, olive ridley and loggerhead turtles in Florida, Costa Rica and Honduras against various threats, including poaching, fishing net entanglement, trash and light pollution, and destruction of their habitat.
In Florida, the main threat to sea turtles is industrial and urban light pollution, which disorients turtles and prevents them from being able to find the ocean. Sea...
Operation Milagro (meaning “Miracle” in Spanish) is an ongoing campaign to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction. SSCS is currently in its fourth year of operation in their native habitat in the Gulf of California, hence the use of “Milagro IV” to refer to its 2018 operations.
There are only around 30 remaining vaquita individuals due to illegal poaching of the also-endangered totoaba bass. Fisherman lay down illegal gillnets hoping to catch...
Tens of thousands of participants marched to bring attention to global climate and environmental change and to protest national inaction on climate and environmental issues.
Thirteen Greenpeace protestors attached themselves to the St. Johns Bridge and dangled there for almost 40 hours in an attempt to block Royal Dutch Shell's icebreaker MSV Fennica from continuing its journey to drill for oil in the Arctic. Along with several Greenpeace "kayactivists", the protestors were successful in blocking the ship from moving forward Thursday morning. However, later in the afternoon Portland law enforcement got involved. They successfully convinced...
West Virginia teachers began going on strike on February 2nd, 2018 in response to their health care benefits being cut. The teachers stayed out of the classroom for nine days total, protested in the capital of Charleston and generated national headlines. They demanded a raise for public school teacher salaries, as well as an increase in pay for all public and state employees; with many teachers citing the fact that they often have to take on second jobs over the summer...
The Refugee Solidarity Protests on March 17, 2018 were in response to the upcoming International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The protests took place across 15 countries, with leftists, anti-fascists, solidarity activists and refugees all coming together to protest the rising sense of racism and anti-refugee sentiment that was sweeping across Europe. The protests came on the eve of the international day against racial discrimination and were a...
The #JustBanIt campaign aims to ban the use of toxic oil field wastewater for crop irrigation in California. Toxic wastewater could include up to 173 different chemicals and this water ends up being used to irrigate many crops that are shipped across the country. This wastewater is harmful to the food, farmers, and workers who interact with the crops.