by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 21, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Buckingham: We the People (BWTP) is proud to announce the completion of their proposed ordinance, the James River Natural Community Bill of Rights (CBOR). The group has been working closely with Ben Price, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense (CELDF)...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 2, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
RALEIGH About 30 protesters occupied Gov. Roy Cooper’s office Friday morning in downtown Raleigh, launching what they called a civil disobedience movement to block the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Protesters said they are initiating the next stage of...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
Read more: The Farmville Herald – 11.16.2017 Posted by: Nelson Bailey
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 13, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Spiritual Ecology, Uncategorized
Is outgoing Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe a climate change denier? Just asking that question is bound to offend the governor and some of his supporters. After all, they would say, Governor McAuliffe has “expanded efforts to reduce emissions” and recently issued a...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...