Domestic Activism

Designing for Activism

Nathan Thanki December 22, 2013 2 Comments

by nathan thanki There are a surprising many similarities between designing on a computer and designing “in reality,” with bodies instead of pixels. Designing a poster requires many of the same skills as designing a creative direct action. Both are attempting to convey a message, often a demand or a request, through largely visual rhetoric which, like spoken language, has been developed...

I mean come on guys, this is up to us, we have to do it

Surya Karki October 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Surya Karki and Aneesa Khan After 15 hours in our little Toyota Corolla, sleep deprived and hungry, we stumbled into the David L. Lawrence convention center in Pittsburgh on Friday the 18th. We were about an hour late for the opening keynote speech so we made a mad dash for the second floor. We walked into a ballroom buzzing with energy and we could feel it all around us. 10,000 people were...

We are in this together: reflections on the youth activist gathering at Powershift

Adrian October 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui This past weekend, a delegation of earth in brackets went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to participate in Powershift, a large gathering of about ten thousand youth activists, coming from all over the US, working on environmental related issues. We went to Powershift to connect with other youth activists, to share our perspective of climate justice, particularly in...

Once more into the breach: Reclaiming Power at the frack pads and in the UNFCCC

Nathan Thanki October 22, 2013 0 Comments

by nathan thanki This past weekend, while a massive group of ies made the insane 15 hour journey to Pittsburgh for Powershift 2013, those of us who remained gathered together for Global Frackdown 2. Having recently sent over a dozen volunteers to canvass for Protect South Portland in their effort to block Tar Sands via a waterfront protection ordinance, and with half our group in Pennsylvania,...

Climate Denial

Nathan Thanki February 16, 2013 3 Comments

by nathan thanki Climate deniers are everywhere. If we didn't already know that they were funded by Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Right Wing Billionaires (the Kochtopus has many tentacles) it would surely be a mystery as to how on earth they managed to make a living. At every level - town hall meeting, local paper, climate blog - these people pop up, often repeatedly, to cut and paste absolute...