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31 Arrested for Interrupting Business as Usual at Chevron Headquarters

Protest and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at Chevron, California’s worst climate polluter, on first day of United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen

ACTION VIDEO by Ariel López

San Ramon, CA – As Chevron employees arrived to work early this morning, they were met by nearly 100 people who gathered in protest of Chevron’s global destruction of communities, the environment and the global climate.  Protestors interrupted business as usual at Chevron, by blocking the main entrance to the corporation’s headquarters, as well as two additional entrances for several hours. 31 people were eventually arrested.  By noon, most of those arrested were cited and released.

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G77 in outrage, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance on the move after Danish draft of agreement that would allow rich countries to call the shots endangering millions in the global south.

Read the ‘Danish Text’- the draft climate agreement leaked to the Guardian newspaper

Developing countries reacted furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol.

Read more at Josh Kahn Russell’s Blog

Hundreds protest Chevron.

On the morning of December 7, the first day of the UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen, protesters urged Chevron to support equitable, science-based targets and solutions on international climate change. They called on the company to stop supporting campaigns that oppose national climate change legislation and stop expanding into heavier sources of crude oil. Nearly 30 demonstrators were arrested working to hold Chevron accountable.

Climate Justice: The Copenhagen Moment
by smartmeme

Featuring MG’s very own Gopal Dayaneni (formerly known as “Dr. Doom and Gloom)!

As heads of states and social movements call on the US to take responsibility for its devastating impacts on the earth’s climate, MG is preparing to take a delegation of U.S.-based grassroots social movement leaders to Copenhagen, December 12-19.

MG’s Gopal Dayaneni is leading the delegation, a vehicle to build strategic alignment with global south movements, and other grassroots movements.. Read More »