Category Archives: climate change

My State of the Union

By Starhawk | Published: February 13, 2013
During Obama’s State of the Union message, I was scheduled to give a talk at Northern Arizona University on “Women Taking Action: Using the Insights of the Feminist Movement.” As part of it, I decided to write the State of the Union as if Obama were suddenly possessed by the spirit of the nurturing, caring, [...]
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Now That The Election is Over…

By Starhawk | Published: November 7, 2012
Organizing after an Obama victory is like bicycling with the wind at your back, instead of peddling into a stiff head wind. I’ve lived and organized through the victories of Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush, and believe me, this is better! And we have a lot of organizing to do.
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My Day–The Short List

By Starhawk | Published: October 7, 2011
Something is happening. Occupations are springing up all over the place. One of the young women organizers told me she’d passed on my consensus download to someone about to start Occupy Mississippi! There are union folks here from Wisconsin, displaced stockbrokers from New York, laid off policy wonks from here in DC, affable former corporate managers from Texas, ex-cons from the ‘hood here in DC, a lot of homeless people, and students who’ve woken up to the fact that they are debt-slaves. What will happen if ordinary folks all over the country get addicted to having a say in the decisions that affect their lives?
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Why I’m Going to Freedom Plaza

By Starhawk | Published: October 5, 2011
Yet, here I am. Do I really need to do this? Well, yes. Why? Because in the end, it always comes down to the streets. When the greed, the hypocrisy, the assaults on our freedoms, our pockets, our future and our common sense go so far beyond the level of toleration, there’s no substitute for the outrage of the streets.
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Our Global Work Day Actions for 10-10-10

By Starhawk | Published: October 12, 2010
10 AM on 10-10-10—an auspicious moment, if you like the number 10! I am at the Alice Griffith Garden in the Doublerock public housing development in Bayview Hunters Point—a neighborhood of San Francisco sometimes known as a ‘food desert’. It’s easy to buy a bottle of liquor or a fistful of oblivion here—really hard to get a good, fresh vegetable.
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Rain and Cold

By Starhawk | Published: December 16, 2009
Today my friends are in Copenhagen protesting at the Climate Change Forum. I’m in Cazadero, doing my bit for climate change by trying to get my microhydro system working now that the rains have come.
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November 30 in San Francisco

By Starhawk | Published: December 1, 2009
I like to drum for actions. As long as I’m drumming, I believe I’m absolved from screaming and chanting...
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November 30–10 Years Since Seattle: Climate Change Action

By Starhawk | Published: November 29, 2009
Every freedom we cherish, every great change, every liberation of a slave or shift in conciousness or small increase in justice was won in just this way—in the streets by people who mostly felt at the time that they were losing.
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October 24 Day of Action: What I Did

By Starhawk | Published: October 25, 2009
What does political action do? Does it matter that a dozen of us spent a day standing in the sunshine, holding signs, talking to tourists? I believe it does matter. We calculated over a thousand people will have seen our signs. They’ll wonder what ‘350’ means, and what it has to do with climate change? They might click on 350.org and find out that this action is one of 4000 worldwide. They’ll marvel that even in our remote corner of the world, people are concerned about the issue. We’re everywhere!
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Global Day of Climate Action: October 24 350.org

By Starhawk | Published: October 23, 2009
When we take action, we need to know what we want, not just what we don’t want. Confronting climate change can drive people into into despair and apathy. Never just say ‘no’ without also saying ‘yes’—because solutions are out there. We have the means we need to solve the problems, and heal other major wounds in the process. We just need to do it.
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