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2011: The Year We Fought Back

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There is something stirring in North Carolina. Summer break is here; everywhere you turn there are festivals and post-exam parties lighting up the atmosphere. Students are recuperating from a hard year of work, and it’s expected that we spend this time off relaxing with friends and family in the sunshine.

What's not expected is that student climate organizers from seven schools across the state would come together during the first weeks of the summer with the incredible vision of mobilizing our campuses around energy issues on a scale never before seen in the Tar Heel state.

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Ohio students protesting earlier in the year.

From June 14-16th students, community members, and activists from across Ohio and around the country are converging in Columbus to build a movement through trainings, story telling, and workshops… AND on June 17th WE are taking over the OHIO Statehouse, demanding a BAN on Fracking and ALL injection wells.

Stopping the industry in Ohio has major implications for the entire nation, that is why we are asking YOU to join US in OHIO! We will also be joined by inspiring leaders, like Bill McKibben & Josh Fox.

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Heartland billboard featuring Ted Kaczynski

Adding to a growing list of defections, Eli Lilly, BB&T Bank, and PepsiCo have announced they will not fund the Heartland Institute in 2012.  They join State Farm, USAA, and others who have stopped financial support of the Chicago front group after Heartland released a billboard featuring a picture of Ted Kacynski next to the text “I still believe in Global Warming. Do You?”

Sign our petition asking the rest of Heartland's corporate sposors to stop funding climate science denial.

Just for background, Heartland’s fringe positions on science and loose grasp of reality is no secret in corporate circles. Heartland’s climate stance is so extreme that ExxonMobil, the great patron of climate science denial, dropped them years ago - saying they could no longer support groups that “serve as a distraction” to the climate issue.

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Rio+20 logo

In a few weeks, global leaders will meet for Rio+20, the UN sustainable development summit. These international meetings are usually long on talk and short on action, so many serious green advocates have learned to be skeptical.

At the same time, global conferences obviously offer a chance to make progress on a much bigger scale than national politics can. If we're serious about sustainability, we have to push our leaders to sit down and make a deal--an intelligent, equitable one.

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Originally posted on Checks & Balances Project.

On Tuesday, The Guardian newspaper used documents obtained by the Checks & Balances Project to expose coordination between local anti-wind groups and fossil fuel-funded advocacy groups’ attacking clean energy.

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A Cheaper Government Makes Our Work More Costly

Colorado State Capitol building

Last Tuesday night, I watched Colorado’s version of C-SPAN and the #coleg Twitter feed (where conversations around our legislative session take place) in horror as Republican leadership in our state legislature delayed, recessed, and filibustered in order to keep a civil unions bill from being voted on (and passing). In the process, those “leaders” allowed nearly 30 other bills to become collateral damage--letting them die on the calendar in order to continue denying Colorado families of recognition.

And that was bad enough.

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Nebraska residents reject new Keystone XL route

As I reported earlier, the newly proposed Keystone XL route still threatens the world's largest fresh drinking water source, the Ogallala Aquifer. After TransCanada submitted a new application for the pipeline, Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska vowed to continue the fight:

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Romney: Bank of America protestors too young to understand how banks work

On Friday, Mitt Romney once again displayed his utter contempt for young voters. Reacting to the massive demonstration against Bank of America in Charlotte last week, Romney told WBTV that the protestors were simply too young to understand the economy or how banks work:

Asked what message he had for the protestors, Romney said, “Unfortunately, a lot of young folks haven’t had the opportunity to really understand how the economy works, and what it takes to put people to work in real jobs, and why we have banks, and what banks do. I understand — it’s a very understandable sentiment if you don’t find a job, and you can’t see rising incomes. You’re going to be angry and looking at someone to blame.

As one of the nearly 1,000 people (young and old) participated in the protests, I have a message for Mitt Romney: Dismiss us if you want, but young voters are not going away. We took to the streets in Charlotte because we know exactly what banks do, and we will not stand by while Bank of America is destroying our environment and our economy.

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