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Aug 16

2016

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

350.org Billy Parish Bower Youth Awards Capitalism Energy Action Coalition Mosaic Solar PIRG Power Shift Powershift Step It Up The Climate Campaign the Clinton Foundation

From Stable to Star – The Making of North American “Climate Heroes”

"Nature will not negotiate regardless of our wants and desires. Movements built on collective anthropocentrism, privilege and insatiable western consumptive lifestyle will only drive us further, and faster, toward our own annihilation. We ignore our predicament, and attach ourselves to deadly illusions, at our own peril."

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Mar 07

2014

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350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

KXL Powershift

An Open Letter to the NO KXL Movement

"If you have the privilege to travel across the country to get arrested, use it to take some pressure off people of color fighting for their lives instead of helping some big non-governmental organization put out another press release."

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Nov 02

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Bill McKibben Climate Justice Colonialism Fracking Genocide Gulf Coast Indigenous KXL Mountaintop Removal Powershift Racism Tarsands

Reflections On Power Shift 2013: An Impromptu Interview

"This piece originally appeared as part of a series called, “Millenials Take On Climate Change” on the website, Policy Mic. The title I had wanted to go with for this piece was, “How Big Green NGOs Are Harming the Environmental Movement”. Only 800 words were allowed. Policy Mic asked me to become a regular contributor after this piece but I declined once they repeatedly told me that a piece featuring an interview with a frontline indigenous organizer fighting tar sands pipelines wasn’t relevant for their readers."

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Nov 29

2012

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350.org / 1Sky, Environmental Defence Fund, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club

1Sky/350.org Climate Reality Project Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) FoE National Wildlife Federation Powershift Sierra Club

Revealed: The Day Obama Instructed the Big Greens to Keep Silent on Climate Change

"My most vivid memory of that meeting is this idea that you can't talk about climate change," said Jessy Tolkan, who at the time was a leader of the climate youth movement, Power Shift.

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