#climate activst

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[hi-itsanniemarie]

Bella Ramsey and The Green Rider Movement

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[bumblebeeappletree]

Do radical protest movements actually work?

Protests, especially unpopular ones, can look like failures in the short-term. But evidence suggests that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing

As world leaders boarded their private jets home from Sharm El Sheikh, noticeably absent among them was youth activist Greta Thunberg, who in an interview before the conference accused world leaders and people in power of using the whole affair to grab attention, “using many different types of greenwashing.”

Reading her words, I couldn’t help but think about a group of protestors who last month grabbed the world’s attention in a more radical way than world leaders showing their faces at COP. I’m talking about SoupGate, MashedPotatoGate, and all the other protest actions that were sparked by Just Stop Oil protesters throwing a tin of tomato soup over Van Gogh’s sunflower painting in London.

In many respects the protest was a roaring success, generating international media coverage and making the front page of the New York Times. The video has been viewed almost 50 million times on Twitter alone.

[broken00dreamed]

Please share our wonderful stop motion film 🌍✨🌏

We are all crew! Children and young people are most affected by the climate crisis. The film takes three recent disasters from Pakistan, Germany and South Africa as examples.

Our demand for Climate Justice. Emphasizes the responsibility of all of humanity.

[blueiscoool]

Just Stop Oil

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil, the movement that gained fame for their protests in museums over the past month, are now moving on to street art.

The group has sprayed multiple buildings in central London with orange paint Monday morning.

Six activists used fire extinguishers to shower the facades of Home Office, the MI5 building, the Bank of England and the headquarters of News Corp at London Bridge. The group said that these buildings represented “the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy — government, security, finance and media.”

[midhanoirockslistener]

i guess i woke up and decided i want to start posting my art work. i made this piece in 2018/19 about climate change. i was new to photography then and there's probably a lot i could and can still work on but my focus was on nature photography. my favourite photo has a hidden butterfly in it. i used an old newspaper for the background and then stuck pieces of articles I found about climate issues. there are also paper flowers stuck on top of the art piece, just to create a 3D effect.

[jinxysmidcentury]

Birthday girl

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(not sure why the quality's so bad, hopefully isn't so for other people...)

I first heard this concept of "passive support" vs "active support," or, activism, when I first joined the Sunrise Movement. Right now, in my climate activism, I have been discouraged by how few people in my area, especially young people, are organizing. It isn't because people don't care, necessarily, they are just passive in their support. While ranting about the climate crisis (which, believe me, I am as guilty of as anyone,) is satisfying in the moment, why not use that energy to mobilize and build a moment and community fighting for our future? Are there climate actions you could organize in your community? Are there movements you can join?

(Important disclaimer: I completely understand there are people for whom civil disobedience and organizing is more dangerous. I am working on some art about this right now, in fact-- so stay tuned! The fact that in our society the people who are most likely to be impacted by the climate crisis are in the worst positions to take action means that those of us privileged enough to be able to be active in these movements have even more responsibilities.)