Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2011

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Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2011

This article is part of the Coal Issues portal on SourceWatch, a project of CoalSwarm and the Center for Media and Democracy.

Sub-articles:
Nonviolent direct actions against coal
Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2004-2007
Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2008
Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2009
Nonviolent direct actions against coal: 2010

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Contents

1 Background
2 Definition and history of nonviolent direct action
3 Descriptions of specific actions
3.1 February 11, 2011: Wendell Berry Joins Retired Coal Miners and Residents in Kentucky Rising Capitol Sit-in
3.2 February 17, 2011: Greenpeace Activists Climb Coal Plan in Connecticut
3.3 February 22, 2011: Washington University students shut down "clean coal" meeting
3.4 February 23, 2011: Protests in Utah against Longview Terminal
3.5 February 28, 2011: Massive protest against Phulbari and Barpukuria mines in Bangladesh
3.6 April 2011: Rising Tide North America stages bank protest in Portland, Oregon
3.7 April 2011: Activists Stage Sit-in at Dept. of Interior in Washington D.C.
3.8 May 2011: Activists stop coal barge, climb on coal plant in Illinois
3.9 June 2011: March on Blair Mountain
3.10 June 2011: Greenpeace dumps coal at Eskom
3.11 July 2011: Direct action halts coal seam gas rig in Australia
3.12 August 2011: Tree-Sit on Coal River Mountain
3.13 August 2011: Fifteen arrested taking action against Peabody in St. Louis, Missouri
3.14 September 2011: Protester chains himself to test drilling rig
3.15 October 2011: Anti-coal group stages "zombie" march on banks
3.16 November 2011: Greenpeace protests South African coal plant, 9 arrested
3.17 December 2011: Protesters Target Navajo Generating Station
4 Resources
4.1 References
4.2 Related SourceWatch articles
4.3 External links

Background

Nonviolent direct action - a term which, in contemporary social movements, is usually used to refer to acts of civil disobedience, in which activists blockade or occupy public or private space - has become an increasingly common tactic of anti-coal climate activists since 2005. While Greenpeace has used direct action tactics since the 1970's, since 2004 other climate justice, Appalachian environmental justice and anti-mountaintop removal movements (such as Rising Tide, Rainforest Action Network, Earth First!, Mountain Justice Summer, and indigenous groups) have used direct action tactics in order to escalate pressure on coal mining and power companies, financial institutions which invest in coal companies, and government officials that support the coal industry. Anti-coal activists have staged dozens of such direct actions in the past few years, many of which have been highly successful at directing public attention toward the growing anti-coal movement.[1][2]

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[kristopher]

1. It's too bad it we can't quantify the turnout at public hearings

From what I've seen locally here in Delaware, the primary form of engagement is opposition through participation in the public hearings process for coal plant proposals.

New coal in the US has virtually stopped.