Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day

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Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day

For a moment last fall, it felt like the “post-hope” era was coming to an end. Protesters in Egypt and Tunisia had won nonviolent revolutions, Occupy Wall Street offered us our own national rallying cry against the deep structural inequity threatening our democracy, and over 1,200 Americans took part in the biggest act of civil disobedience in the history of environmentalism . Maybe we’d all finally get off the internet and start directly confronting those things we’d been waiting for President Obama to fix for us since January 2009. But then, as quickly as it began, it started to feel like it was over. Egypt’s revolution turned sour. Obama started waffling on Keystone. Occupy encampments all but disappeared. The Republican primaries came around and we watched in bemused horror as one climate-change-denying corporate stooge after the next pranced and preened for the opport...

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@science_fanatic » 01 May '12, 11pm
Occupy the Environment #brenclimate [link]
@madelinevo » 01 May '12, 6pm
What climate change has to do with #mayday: [link]
@alybatt » 01 May '12, 6pm
also see @mikeysandmel in @grist on why enviros should be out in force on #MayDay: [link] #m1gs
@ghanscom » 01 May '12, 4pm
Hey! What are you doing at work? Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day [link]
@iMatterMarchUT » 01 May '12, 4pm
RT @350: It's May 1st, and 1000s are in the streets to take on corporate power & the 1%! Join in & grow the movement: [link] #
@ADACK111 » 01 May '12, 3pm
JOINED [link]
@wenstephenson » 01 May '12, 2pm
Well-written piece by NYU student on why #climate activists should join #Occupy on May Day [link]
@LizzieOfEarth » 01 May '12, 2pm
Environmentalists should 'turn up the heat' & join #Occupy on #MayDay | #OWS #m1gs @350dotorg [link]
@DolphinBlueInc » 01 May '12, 2pm
RT @greenforyou: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day #green [link] via @Grist
@350 » 01 May '12, 2pm
It's May 1st, and 1000s are in the streets to take on corporate power & the 1%! Join in & grow the movement: [link] #m1 #ows
@kimiwei » 01 May '12, 1pm
"If climate activists want to get serious about our one shot to prevent catastrophe, we need all the help we can... [link]
@GoGreenMorimoto » 01 May '12, 1pm
@grist: As Occupy makes a comeback today, enviros have opportunity to push climate change into the spotlight: [link] #gogreen
@JoshBythespires » 01 May '12, 12pm
Environmentalists should harness Occupy's latest push to get #climate change message heard. #M1GS [link]
@TheEcoist » 01 May '12, 12pm
MT @grist: As Occupy makes a comeback today, enviros can push #climate change into the spotlight [link] #M1GS
@grist » 01 May '12, 12pm
As Occupy makes a comeback today, enviros have an opportunity to push climate change into the spotlight: [link]
@SpaceCoastLaw » 01 May '12, 11am
RT @alexsimon7: RT@RayBeckerman: Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day ~ #drgrist #eco [link]
@alexsimon7 » 01 May '12, 11am
RT@RayBeckerman: Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day ~ #drgrist #eco [link]
@oceanshaman » 01 May '12, 11am
rt @RayBeckerman Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day ~ [link] #drgrist #eco
@TUNZAmag » 01 May '12, 9am
Here’s the good news. Occupy is trying to make a comeback — and those of us who are concerned about the climate... [link]
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"@ChoiceZnewZ: Environmentalists should join Occupy on #MayDay (Grist) [link] | RT @greenforyou | #green"
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"Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day" - [link] - shared from @TaptuGreen
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RT @greenforyou: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day (Grist) #green [link]
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Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day (Grist) #green [link]
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RT @drgrist: Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day [link]
@EarthAction » 01 May '12, 1am
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Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day [link] @billmckibben @duncanwrites
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@nartured » 30 Apr '12, 11pm
Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day [link] #Article #ClimateEnergy
@Sara_Jeans » 01 May '12, 12am
RT @grist: Turn up the heat: Environmentalists should join Occupy on May Day [link]
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