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Some Assembly Required		31 Jan 2001	Daily Grist
Some Assembly Required Causing anti-globalization activists to cry foul, the World Trade Organization decided yesterday that it will hold its first top-level meetings since the infamous 1999 Battle in Seattle in Qatar, a Persian Gulf nation with a questionable human rights record and little history of public protest. In the past, the U.S. State Department has said that the Qatar government as a matter of practice "severe ...
Topics: grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Hostel Takeover Greenpeace student activists stir things up at The Hague	Bill McKibben	21 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Hague, with its constant drizzle, qualifies as one of the gloomiest cities I've ever visited, and the tense, uncertain busyness of the convention center doesn't add much to the atmosphere. But a 20-minute train ride from the hall brings you to the one truly hopping spot in town, a youth hostel that has been taken over by Greenpeace for the duration of the conference. S ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, grassroots activism, Netherlands, politics (all these topics)

Melbourne Place		12 Sep 2000	Daily Grist
Melbourne Place Thousands of enviros and other anti-globalization activists took to the streets of Melbourne, Australia, yesterday, with the aim of shutting down, Seattle-style, a three-day World Economic Forum meeting of high-powered corporate leaders and policymakers, primarily from the Asia-Pacific region. "We have no vote on who these major world leaders are," said Michael Gann, a protestor from New S ...
Topics: Australia, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

The Dream of the Black-and-Blue Turtles Sea turtle activists are pushing for protections in Texas	Dan Oko	25 Aug 2000	Main Dish
They may be swimming against the current, but sea turtle advocates say they want Gov. George W. Bush (R) to show a little of his fabled compassion for the endangered reptiles that frequent the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast. The New York Times ad. Image: STRP. As the GOP presidential hopeful prepared to accept his party's nomination earlier this month, the San Francisco- ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, grassroots activism, oceans, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Prize Fighters Enviros worldwide call for release of two Mexican activists	Mark Hertsgaard	21 Jul 2000	Main Dish
Forty-five of the world's most prominent environmentalists have called for the immediate release of Mexican colleagues Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, who have been jailed and tortured after blocking logging operations by the multinational Boise Cascade in the southern state of Guerrero. Rodolfo Montiel Flores. Urging that the "tragic stories" of murdered environ ...
Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Mexico (all these topics)

Dino Might!		12 Jun 2000	Daily Grist
Dino Might! Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. The congress, which includes more than 2,500 delegates from 87 countries, is the latest target of anti-globalization groups that have protested against the World Trade Organization and ...
Topics: Canada, grassroots activism, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

I-M-Furious		17 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
I-M-Furious Thousands of enviros and other demonstrators hit the streets of Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest corporate globalization, hoping to build on the momentum of last year's demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. They have been thwarted in their efforts to shut down meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by police in full r ...
Topics: fossil fuels, grassroots activism, politics, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Magnificent, Seven!		11 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
Magnificent, Seven! Enviros and other activists yesterday kicked off more than a week of protests against corporate globalization in Washington, D.C., with the goal of disrupting meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this Sunday and Monday. Seven protestors were arrested yesterday, including Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, and John Pass ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Action Figures		06 Mar 2000	Daily Grist
Action Figures In the wake of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle last year, environmentalists are strengthening alliances with other progressive movements and helping to plan a series of demonstrations to keep the momentum going. Big protests are planned for April 16 in Washington, D.C., where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will be holding annual meetings, and for the Democratic N ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		20 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 20 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. Perhaps God made snow to force us to slow down. I was scheduled to fly to Michigan this morning for a four-day strategic retreat that the Center was sponsoring with support from the Fetzer Institute near Kalamazoo. I awoke to the first serious snow storm of the year -- and to cancelled flight ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		19 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 19 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. Up at 6 a.m. after my late return from New York last night. As usual, the first half hour of the day was for reflection, quiet time, coffee. Once I got my 9- and 11-year-olds off to school, I opted to work from home for the morning -- a rare indulgence in claiming my own space. Sometimes, wh ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		18 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 18 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. I awoke at 5:30 a.m. to catch a 7 a.m. train to New York City. Back to work! Off to raise money to keep the Center moving. I still find this dance of fundraising interesting to observe, almost as a third party, even as I'm in the midst of it. I've been either raising money or giving money away ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		17 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 17 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. Despite the federal holiday, I spent a few hours at the office, fighting back against the tide of mail, faxes, email, and voice mail. Ugh. The inflow of information is beyond my capacity to respond. Seems the sage was right who claims we live in an age of much information and little wisdom. ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		16 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Sunday, 16 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. This morning felt like winter. It was wonderful to have a rush of frigid air in my face for a change after such a balmy December. Hoping for snow! After some silent meditation, I browsed through the newspaper and was interested to see a piece on sport utility vehicles. Kara Kockelman at the ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Making Sense of the Battle in Seattle Don't buy their official version of Tuesday's events	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	01 Dec 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 01 Dec 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. An eerie half-calm, enforced by marching columns of police and troops in full-body armor, settled over downtown Seattle today. Street corners that had been scenes of dramatic confrontation yesterday saw small-scale, unthreatening protests this morning and early afternoon, as demonstrators, trade delegates, journalists, and everyone else in this ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Cutting Globalization Down to Size Protesters make themselves heard in Seattle	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	30 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 30 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The metaphor is irresistible. Between 8 and 10 this morning in downtown Seattle, the protesters owned the streets. Later in the day, they vied with police, back and forth; but as the day began the cops were back inside their perimeters, and the few thousand drumming, singing demonstrators were firmly in control. And so, as delegates began to arrive for the ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, globalization, grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

On the Streets of Seattle What the demonstrators are fighting for	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	29 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 29 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. In the USA today, according to USA Today, the holiday shopping season opened with a 6.4 percent jump in sales from last year. The Labor Department reported that personal income rose at the fastest pace in more than five years last month. Donald Trump vowed to spend $100 million of his own money if he ran for president ("very few other people can do that," he p ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

What a Team!		19 Jul 1999	Daily Grist
What a Team! Environmentalists are increasingly teaming up with big business to help corporations produce environmentally sound products. Earlier this year, the Marine Stewardship Council sat down with Unilever, the corporate parent of Gorton and Birdseye frozen foods, and worked out a "sustainable fish" labeling system for grocery store packages of salmon, haddock, and other fish. European companies ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, United States (all these topics)

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