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The third installment of (recently retitled) ACTING UP, a mini series of the last 11 days of organizing the largest protest to solve the climate crisis in history.
www.capitolclimateaction.org
We start at the Capitol building and check out the dirty coal-fired power plant that fuels it, skip a day full of meetings, conference calls, and outreach, and move on to a quick chat before delivering a sermon at a Shabbat Service, and end up at a late night hip hop show to unwind.
check out www.myspace.com/pos to hear the artist's musicThe third installment of (recently retitled) ACTING UP, a mini series of the last 11... more
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Hi, my name is Joshua Kahn Russell. Right now I'm helping to coordinate the largest protest on Global Warming in history.
I'm an organizer, which means I spend my time building power of regular folks to take control of their lives and communities. I've spent half my life helping to bridge movements for racial justice and the environment.
Current TV asked me to record my life for 2 minutes a day. The series is gonna be called the "ACTING UP", so search for that tag if you want.
Our protest is called the Capitol Climate Action - CCA (www.capitolclimateaction.org), and will bring thousands to risk arrest in civil disobedience at the Capitol Coal Plant that powers our congress with dirty energy.
We have a coalition of over 70 conservation, public health, labor, social & racial justice, faith-based, environmental and other advocacy groups, along with figures like NASA Climatologist Dr. James Hansen, and advocates like Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry and Bill Mckibben who will be joining us and sitting in.
We can't afford to wait any longer for the slow gears of the political process, while our economy tanks and the planet burns. I believe now is the time for bold action that communicates a message of urgency.
We have written and testified and organized politically. Now is the time to do more for the health of our communities and our planet. There are moments in a nation's--and a planet's--history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil and push for its correction. Such a time has arrived.
Join me for the next 11 days in the build up to the largest civil disobedience for climate justice in history. It's gonna be a wild ride.Hi, my name is Joshua Kahn Russell. Right now I'm helping to coordinate the... more
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Current is following Joshua Khan Russell as he organizes the largest protest against climate change in history. Today he told us he is planning on getting arrested in the name of climate justice. What do you think? Do you believe this is how you make the change you want to see?Current is following Joshua Khan Russell as he organizes the largest protest against... more
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Episode 2 of ACTING UP
Leaving my hometown of oakland to head for DC to organize the largest civil disobedience on global warming in history. www.capitolclimateaction.orgEpisode 2 of ACTING UP
Leaving my hometown of oakland to head for DC to organize... more
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