https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paying-for-policies-we-protest Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2189 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:44:01 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2189 Hi Susan and Shirley – I’m glad to think of us all out in the streets “sharing” our connections thru time and space! Now if only we could see the policies changing….

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2187 Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:41:14 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2187 I can say Climate Strike march in Denver also made linkages to all of it. Thanks for sharing the Intercept article.

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2185 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:52:29 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2185 In the early stages of the anti-nuclear power movement (of the 1970s) some anti-nuclear weapons activists were reluctant to make connections — and vise versa — for fear of diluting their message. Perhaps some climate activists similarly fear bringing other issues to this hot, so to speak, topic? However, the climate strike march and rally in NYC certainly had all kinds of connecting issues besides war and militarism, such as plastics, oil, trees, oceans, capitalism, veganism, anarchism, ageism, socialism, Creationism, racism, Trumpism,

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2184 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:58:21 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2184 Your observations in NYC echo some of mine in Austin, Ruth. At the Austin Climate Strike, Paula (wtr visiting from Madison) and I carried signs saying “War is Not Green” and “Peace is Green,” and these had more interest than when a friend and I had carried these signs a couple of years ago at an Earth Day march. Quite a few people wanted to take pictures of themselves with these signs this time. I didn’t see any other signage linking militarism and war with environmental degradation, though, and I think it is a connection we just have to keep trying to emphasize. I’m glad that you saw the message being carried by people you didn’t even know! Nice photos by Ed.

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2183 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:54:50 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2183 Yes, more or less anyway. I did mean it to point to that photo and sign. Perhaps “a more encompassing slogan” for what we might want is a better way to put it. Probably if there was an effort to end war or a serious effort to save the planet it would indicate the system is experiencing major changes — and that would be good!

]]> https://nwtrcc.org/2019/09/26/paying-for-policies-we-protest/#comment-2182 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:48:36 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=10406#comment-2182 Is “the slogan that encompasses it all” “change the system, not the climate”?

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