Event Title & Host UW College Greens Website https://www.facebook.com/events/282490471838981/ When? Thursday, May 10th, 5:30pm Where? Savery 260, UW Seattle Campus Why? To discuss social activism in Seattle and on the UW campus. Description The UW College Greens, a campus RSO committed to environmental and social justice, is holding a screening of This Is What [...]
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The Trash Can
Part of our daily perception of reality is that [trash] disappears from our world. When you go to the toilet, shit disappears. You flush it, of course you know, rationally…it’s there, but at a certain level of your most elementary experience, it disappears from your world. But the problem is that trash doesn’t disappear. Slavoj [...]
Suffering, Land Degradation & Disease: the CAFO Legacy
I am sharing this article here because it is related to the past research several youth ( carried out regarding Environmental Justice in Washington State. The author, Helen Reddout, helped OAG and the youth researchers understand the environmental injustice being committed in the Yakima Valley by the Dairy industry – and CAFOs in particular (Concentrated [...]
Planetary Childhood
CHOOSING THE LIGHTNESS OF PLANETARY CHILDHOOD Guy Dauncey - EcoNews Newsletter No. 172, July/Aug 2007 We are the binge generation – the ones who wanted it all. We are the last of the innocents who believed that this tiny Earth, floating in the vastness of space, could provide for all our wants, however wild or stupid. We [...]
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Stop the Coal Trains, Bring Climate Justice to Eugene
Opinion Editorial from the U of O Climate Justice League, Beyond Fossil Fuels Campaign Contact: Zoe Weiss, CJL Beyond Fossil Fuels Campaign Coordinator, zweissz@gmail.com As coal plants in the United States continue to close, local organizations around the country appear to have struck a blow to the industry. But in reality, as coal consumption decreases in [...]
Green Tea Party
Event Title & Host Campus Sustainability Fund, Katie Stultz, Website http://facebook.com/events/381019048597130/ When? Thursday, April 5th, 4:30-5:30pm Where? Savery Hall 164 Why? Monthly forum to create dialog and communication between environmental student groups at UW Description This monthly forum is a way to bring together environmental student groups. The topic this week will be planning for [...]
Our Right To Know
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons {PD-US} By David Seago, board member of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. He retired in 2008 as editorial page editor for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Editor’s Note: We are honored to have David Seago from the Washington Coalition for Open Government educate [...]
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Speak up for the people of Jeju Island, South Korea
Dear OAG supporter, As someone who believes in and strives towards social justice, you know how important it is to empower those individuals who feel an injustice is being committed to speak up. I’m asking you to consider speaking up for the people of Jeju Island, South Korea, who are at this moment resisting the [...]
Stand With The Achuar
Representatives of the Achuar tribe visited the Talisman HQ to demand withdrawal from their territory. “Talisman recently adopted a global community relations policy, acknowledging respect for indigenous rights, but the company continues to ignore its own policy & the Achuar’s demands. [...] Oil operations would affect key hunting grounds, water resources and sacred lands integral to [...]
