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List Of Environmental Protests
This is a list of notable environmental protests and campaigns: * 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest * Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival (1980s) * Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests * Camp for Climate Action * Campaign against Climate Change *Dakota Access Pipeline protests * Climate Rush * Earth Day (continuing from 1970) * Earth First! * Earthlife Africa * Earth Strike (2018-) *Escobal mine protests * Extinction Rebellion (XR) (2018-) * Gezi Park protests * Global Climate March * Global Day of Action * Green Bans * Gurindji Strike * Hands off our Forest * Homes before Roads * Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta * Love Canal protests * March Against Monsanto * March for Science (2017) ** March for Science Portland * Nevada Desert Experience * Oka Crisis * People's Climate March (2014) * People's Climate March (2017) * Plane Mad * Plane Stupid * Qidong protest * Roșia Montană protests * Save Manapouri Campaign * Say Yes demonstrations * School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF) (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Climate March
The Global Climate March took place in various cities around the world on 29 November 2015, the day before the opening of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The march was organized by a huge coalition of climate groups and global activists (such as Avaaz and the international environmental organization 350.org), and involved more than 2,000 events around the globe, in 175 different countries. An estimated number of 785,000 people took part at the marches. On 30 November, the first day of the conference, a "Climate strike" was organised by students in over 100 countries; over 50000 people participate. Follow-on marches scheduled in 2017 included the March for Science on 22 April 2017) and the People's Climate Mobilization scheduled 29 April 2017. The march Partially inspired by the People's Climate March held in 2014, the Global Climate March did not have a main event, but had extended all over Europe, Oceania, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Climate March (2014)
The People's Climate March (PCM) was a large-scale activism, activist event orchestrated by the People's Climate Movement to advocate global action against climate change, which took place on Sunday, September 21, 2014, in New York City, along with a series of companion actions worldwide, many of which also took the name People's Climate March. With an estimated 311,000 participants, the New York event was the largest climate change march in history. Described as "an invitation to change everything," the march was called in May 2014 by the global advocacy human rights group Avaaz and 350.org, the Environmental movement, environmental organization founded by writer/activist Bill McKibben, and it was endorsed by "over 1,500 organizations, including many international and national unions, churches, schools and community and environmental justice organizations." It was conceived as a response to (but ''not'' a protest against) the scheduled U.N. 2014 UN Climate Summit, Climate Summit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oka Crisis
The Oka Crisis (french: links=no, Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (), was a land rights, land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until September 26, 1990, with two fatalities. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations in Canada, First Nations and provincial governments in the late 20th century. Historical background Early settlement Iroquois, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people, mainly members of the Mohawk people, Mohawk nation (Kanien’kehà:ka), first settled in the Montreal area in the late 1660s, moving north from their homeland in the Hudson River valley. The several hundred people who migrated at the time went on to develop three distinct Mohawk communities in the region; Kahnawake, Kahnawá:ke, Mohawks of Kanesatake, Kanehsatà:ke and Akwesasne, Ahkwesáhsne. Around 1658, the Mohawk had displaced from the area the Wyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevada Desert Experience
Nevada Desert Experience is a name for the movement to stop U.S. nuclear weapons testing that came into use in the middle 1980s. It is also the name of an anti-nuclear organization which continues to create public events to question the morality and intelligence of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, with a main focus on the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Nevada National Security Site (formerly called the Nevada Test Site or the Nevada Proving Ground). History In the spring of 1982 activists working for social justice, environmental preservation, and international peace organized a six-week peace vigil at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site, about 60 miles (100 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1983 they repeated the vigil, calling it the 'Lenten Desert Experience'. This anarchist group of Christian organizers decided that the program had been successful enough to start an organization, which has been a conscientiously interfaith aspect of the nuclear weapons abolitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March For Science Portland
The March for Science Portland (also known as the March for Science PDX and Portland March for Science) was a protest held in Portland, Oregon. This local protest was part of the March for Science, a series of rallies and marches in Washington, D.C. and over 600 cities across the world on April 22, 2017 (Earth Day). Portland Science Advocates organized the march in support of science and to protest President Donald Trump's plan to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health. Funding for the event, which cost approximately $30,000, was crowdsourced. Amid rainy weather, thousands of people attended the demonstration, gathering at a rally at Tom McCall Waterfront Park before marching 44 blocks of downtown Portland. Speakers included Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, and Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. Organizations that promoted the protest included the Audubon Society of Portland, Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon Health & Science Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March For Science
The March for Science (formerly known as the Scientists' March on Washington) is an international series of rallies and marches held on Earth Day. The inaugural march was held on April 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and more than 600 other cities across the world. According to organizers, the march is a non-partisan movement to celebrate science and the role it plays in everyday lives. The goals of the marches and rallies were to emphasize that science upholds the common good and to call for evidence-based policy in the public's best interest. The March for Science organizers, estimated global attendance at 1.07 million, with 100,000 participants estimated for the main March in Washington, D.C., 70,000 in Boston, 60,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Los Angeles, 50,000 in San Francisco, 20,000 in Seattle, 14,000 in Phoenix, and 11,000 in Berlin. A second March for Science was held April 14, 2018. 230 satellite events around the world participated in the 2nd annual event, including Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March Against Monsanto
The March Against Monsanto is an international grassroots movement and protest against Monsanto, a producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide. The movement was founded by Tami Canal in response to the failure of California Proposition 37, a ballot initiative which would have required labeling food products made from GMOs. Advocates support mandatory labeling laws for food made from GMOs. The initial march took place on May 25, 2013. The number of protesters who took part is uncertain; figures of "hundreds of thousands" and the organizers' estimate of "two million"Protesters Around the World March Against Monsanto . ''USA Today''. Associated Press. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013. were variously cited. Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Canal Protests
Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents; the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation. In 1890, Love Canal was created as a model planned community, but was only partially developed. In the 1920s, the canal became a dump site for municipal refuse for the city of Niagara Falls. During the 1940s, the canal was purchased by Hooker Chemical Company, which used the site to dump of chemical byproducts from the manufacturing of dyes, perfumes, and solvents for rubber and synthetic resins. Love Canal was sold to the local school district in 1953, after the threat of eminent domain. Over the next three decades, it attracted national attention for the public health problems originating from the former dumping of toxic waste on the gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
The Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta is a council of Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy, South Australia."Irati Wanti. the poison – leave it!" ''irati wanti'' (Retrieved 30 December 2007) ''Friends of the Earth International'' (Retrieved 30 December 2007) They protest against Government plans to dump in their land, and for the protection of their land and culture. The council was formed in 1995 by Eileen Kampakuta Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homes Before Roads
Homes before Roads was a 1970s political movement and campaign in the United Kingdom initially formed in London in 1970 to oppose plans to construct a system of four interlinked concentric motorways through and around London, known as London Ringways, Ringways.Ecology Action: Homes before roads The Ecologist, published November 1971, accessed 13-05-11 The name was subsequently used by other anti-motorway campaigns elsewhere in the country. In London Homes before Roads were active in campaigning against the Draft Greater London Development Plan containing the motorway proposals and in fighting it in the associated public inquiry. The movement put up candidates in 80 of the List of electoral divisions in Greater London, 100 seats in the 1970 Gr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hands Off Our Forest
Hands off our Forest (HOOF) is a campaign group formed in 2010 to fight the Government of the United Kingdom, UK Government's proposed sale of publicly owned land in the Forest of Dean. 'Hands off our Forest' describe themselves as a broad alliance of groups and individuals. Historical context The Forest of Dean has a long history of struggle between commoners and the Crown, UK Government, Government and private landowners. The Dean Forest Timber Act (1808) resulted in large areas of the Forest being enclosed, depriving commoners of their customary privileges, and led directly to the Warren James#Background to the Dean Forest Riots, Dean Forest Riots of 1831. In 1981, Parliament passed the Forestry Act (1981), amending an earlier act of 1967 to allow the sale of land managed by the Forestry Commission. Following a sustained campaign, the Forest of Dean was specifically exempted from the act. The Public Bodies Bill, introduced to Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament in Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
