Comments on: There was Something Different and Inspiring about the Cliffside Action http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Understory » Get Some Summer Action and Join the Mountain Defense Camp in Coal River http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-78541 Mon, 18 May 2009 03:20:52 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-78541 [...] The fight against Big Coal and mountaintop removal has heated up this year. While communities are resisting coal-fired power plants from coast to coast, Appalachian groups are rising up in West Virginia to be a wrench in the gears [...]

]]> By: Dear Bank of America: Now that We’re Co-Owners, How about No More Coal? « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-77158 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:18:49 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-77158 [...] Monday, hundreds rallied (with 44 arrested in a peaceful civil disobedience) in downtown Charlotte to tell Duke Energy “Stop Cliffside, No New Coal.” Charlotte’s other hometown company, Bank of America, is one of Duke Energy’s biggest financiers [...]

]]> By: The Understory » Bank of America: Now that Obama Made Me a Co-Owner, How about No More Coal? http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-76863 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:30:13 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-76863 [...] Monday, hundreds rallied (with 44 arrested in a peaceful civil disobedience) in downtown Charlotte to tell Duke Energy “Stop Cliffside, No New Coal.” Charlotte’s other hometown company, Bank of America, is one of Duke Energy’s [...]

]]> By: Momentum in Iowa Hits High Speed « bemusing musings http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-76765 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:59:28 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-76765 [...] Iowa Hits High Speed We have some serious momentum. From the hearings on Capitol Hill, to actions to stop coal, to engaging our elected official across the country, this movement is really moving. [...]

]]> By: VIDEO: Momentum in Iowa Hits High Speed « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-76760 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:56:26 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-76760 [...] warming 0 Comments We have some serious momentum.  From the hearings on Capitol Hill, to actions to stop coal, to engaging our elected official across the country, this movement is really [...]

]]> By: I wish everyday could be like Earth Day : Eco Dump http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-76672 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:41:08 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-76672 [...] “It’s Getting Hot In Here” reported on civil disobedience in Charolette, NC where 300 activists were arrested for trying to peacefully block the building of a new coal power [...]

]]> By: Deirdre http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/22/there-was-something-different-and-inspiring-about-the-cliffside-action/#comment-76610 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:03 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10450#comment-76610 “It touched me like I haven’t been touched in many years as an organizer.”
Totally. We’re really glad to have been able to be a part of this. I was feeling a sense of heading towards burnout, and thought that heading down south would be a mini-vacation where I could see my friends from around the country I don’t see too often, and also get that nice action planning and executing high that I’m addicted to.
I got much more than I expected this weekend. On our 17 hour drive home, we could think and talk about nothing but feeling inspired and motivated to have experienced this, what the folks who got arrested for the first time will take home from this, and brainstorming more and more things to come, especially leading up to the climate talks in Copenhagen this coming December.

It was a beautiful weekend, Stop Cliffside! Arrest Jim Rogers! Many props to the core organizers for building an amazing diversity.

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