Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FOZWJV6bJY&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21

We speak with climate activist and water protector Mylene Vialard, whose trial for peacefully protesting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline began this week in Minnesota. Vialard faces up to five years in prison for her 2021 protest, when she attached herself to a 25-foot bamboo tower erected to block a pumping station in Aitkin County. Vialard, who lives in Colorado, had come to Minnesota to take part in a wave of Indigenous-led acts of civil disobedience to stop the pipeline. Between December 2020 and September 2021, police in Minnesota made more than 1,000 arrests. Mylene Vialard is just the second water protector facing felony charges to go to trial. “We’re destroying our planet. We’re destroying our way of life,” says Vialard. We also speak with Indigenous lawyer and activist Tara Houska, who was also arrested in 2021 for participating in a nonviolent action against Line 3. She says police violence against environmental and Indigenous activists has gotten “exponentially worse” since the 2016 Dakota Access protests at Standing Rock. “The crackdown on environmental protests is nationwide,” says Houska.

#MyleneVialard #waterprotector #enbridge #polluter #ecocide #communitydefense #nonviolent #felonycharges #fascism #crackdown #profitdefense #planetmurder

I improved the art assets of my game a little bit. Here you can see a comparison.
I also finally finished to code the core gameplay, and can concentrate on polish and content!

#IndieDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev #NonViolent

And #revolt, we must.

#Revolution need not be violent, on our part, (it will always be met with violence, public and private [meaning personal, individualized] by those in power, even those who are us, in service of the masters who reign above us all) but it must occur.

"Quiet quitting" is an act of revolt, a #revolutionary response to our increasing #bondage of low #wages and increasing #prices that both serve to further enrich the already #wealthy; a small example of #nonviolent revolution.

@VannaBlack I'm reading Michael Davitt!

https://archive.org/details/falloffeudalismi00daviuoft

#reading #book #michaeldavitt #history #nonfiction #boycott #nonviolent #revolution #landlords #serfs #capitalism #democracy

🧯Os dejamos el vídeo de nuestra acción en el McDonalds de Murcia 🧯

La ganadería 🐷🐰🐓 y la agricultura 🌾intensiva están causando un daño ecosistémico irreparable e impulsando a la vez el #cambioclimatico

Según numerosos estudios, no seremos capaces de cosechar nuestros propios alimentos dentro de una década 🍅🥦

🤡 #BurgerKing y #McDonalds fuera del Amazonas!!

✊🏾La lucha continúa!!!👊🏼

Apoya nuestras acciones en https://futurovegetal.org/danos-tu-apoyo/

#climatechange #directaction #ecologism #nonviolent #actnow

@deonandan I currently live in the small but growing city of #Lethbridge, #Alberta, and I live near the main #bus station, which I walk past while doing my afternoon errands. It makes my heart 🌞 burst 💖 to see the #diversity of people in the neighbourhood. 🥲 In the #climate change era, #Canada can expect that people will be uprooted & need new #communities & as such all #schools should teach #Welcoming & #Belonging: intellectual humility, #nonviolent communication, mental #health first aid, etc.

Has anyone used Blades in the Dark to make a #TTRPG about #nonviolent organizing? I was previously going to try the Powered by the Apocalypse system, but Forged in the Dark seems like a straightforward improvement. https://bladesinthedark.com/forged-dark

I think I could treat e.g. protests or direct actions as "heists" for the purpose of the game system.

One problem is all the Blades in the Dark spinoffs are made to tell stories in a specific genre, and I don't know enough nonviolent stories to use as models.

“The moment we defend, support, or rationalize violent action, whether through mind, body or speech, we have joined the ranks of the unenlightened and forgotten our heart.”

~ Michael Kewley

#mindfulness #kindness #NonViolent #vegan #veganism #peaceful #compassion #composure #buddhism #LovingKindness

Thinking we will need to take #NonviolentCivilDisobedience and #nonviolent action to ultimately change policy to stop #gunviolence and #shootings. Clearly the politicians are not one bit bothered by conscience, morals, ethics, murdering of innocent children and adults, terror, outrage, destroyed families and communities, nor common sense.

@princesaballena @atatassault @atomic @kimlockhartga @Gdac

When the injustice and tyranny of your opponent is made plain to everyone, you draw more followers to your cause. When you engage in injustice and violence against your fellow citizens, you push people away from your cause.

There are many (proven successful) methods of #nonviolent methods of #protest. We should be focusing on those, instead of wasting time discussing a losing strategy.

#NonviolentProtest #PeacefulProtest #Nonviolence

https://newsie.social/@Geewhizpat/110160034048979746

Just posted the latest on my blog. Here's an excerpt:

"Many of us have been asking the question, 'How do we meet these times?' Guidance often comes to me in dreams. I had the following dreams on March 11 about how to respond to conflict, confrontation, and dangerous threats...So here they are.

"Two opposing groups are moving toward a confrontation on a narrow dirt path along the edge of a very high slope..."

http://www.junebluespruce.com/blog/how-do-we-meet-these-times/

#dreams #nonviolent #activism #earth #mountain #Tahoma

[Organizers said the group’s original demonstration would have been #NonViolent & #NonDestructive, and they “did not plan to damage any property whatsoever.” The #activists were going to install #extinction themed #art pieces over the #museum ’s empty frames]

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/03/19/gardner-museum-closes-heist-anniversary-climate-protest/?amp=1

#Boston #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #environmentalists #biodiversity #StopEcocide #OneEarth #GardenerMuseum #DirectAction #PlanetFirst #ProtectNature #PlanetOverProfits

.@BU_Tweets John Silber Did Not Support #FreeSpeech on His #Campus: And I know that because his #Boston University administration expelled me for participating in #nonviolent #student anti-#apartheid protests in 1986. The latest from @jasonpramas. https://digboston.com/bus-john-silber-did-not-support-free-speech-on-his-campus/ #mapoli

"And we’re showing the world who we are, in a nonviolent manner. That’s all we’ve ever wanted, is to be respected, left alone. A nation isn’t defeated until the hearts of the women are on the ground.”

About the making of End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock

#Indigenous #women #StandingRock #nonviolent #nonviolence #resistance #ClimateChange #pipeline #BigOil #film #documentary #protest

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/07/26/women-of-standing-rock?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20230307&utm_content=YESDaily_20230307+CID_71d9b77f637b382c3393f8a86e14c671&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the%20story

Two weeks on from my #JustStopOil trial and I’m realising what a heavy toll it was taking on me.

Now it’s done and dusted (guilty! ✊🏼) I feel incredibly light and full of energy to explore the next #climate thing.

I have no regrets about doing #nonviolent #directaction whatsoever. But if you are considering it, don’t underestimate the toll it takes on motivation and focus.

Thanks to friends and family for their emotional, practical and financial support!!

"The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world" by
@d_a_robson is definitely worth reading!

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

#nonviolent #protests

San Diego Cardinal McElroy says #CatholicChurch must 'redesign' #justwartheory, favor #nonviolent action

https://www.ncronline.org/news/cardinal-mcelroy-says-church-must-redesign-just-war-theory-favor-nonviolent-action

#peace #pacifism #nonviolence

#JustinPodur | Asking the #Oppressed to Be #Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores #History

'In the face of murderous police action, Biden called on protesters to be “peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.” In the face of non-nonviolent protesters, Biden called on police to make sure the protesters were “found, arrested, and tried.”'

https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/asking-the-oppressed-to-be-nonviolent?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1396677&post_id=103536616&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

#Racism #PoliceViolence

#Socialism
is a
#Beautiful
#Dirty
word.

Socialism is
sexy,
Socialism
has power.

Why must we
be denied,
our right
to joyful expression?

Why must we
accept that shit
will just be
shitty?

Why is now
not the hour
for #Nonviolent
#Revolutionary #LoveBombing?

We can be free,
if we want to be...

#420 #StonedThoughts #Cannabis

#News: Members of @ScientistRebellion are calling on scientific colleagues, mentors, students and teachers to engage in #advocacy and #activism, including #nonviolent civil resistance, to highlight the devastating impact of our current economic and political structures on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems - with a focus on impacts to #biodiversity #extinction and #humanhealth https://johnmenadue.com/environment-life-scientists-endorse-civil-disobedience/

#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife