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Blog Post Rich countries halt Barcelona climate talks with inaction - Africa walks out -
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Blog Post Rich countries try to kill the Kyoto Protocol, youth at the Bangkok Climate Negotiations declare "No Confidence" in Road To Copenhagen. -
- Friday, Oct 02, 2009
Blog Post think climate finance is boring? think again. -
- Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009
Blog Post reportback from day 3 of the UN Climate Talks in Bangkok -
- Monday, Sep 28, 2009
Blog Post report from the first day of the Bangkok UNFCCC climate negotiations. -
- Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009
ZNet Article BREAKING - Activists drop 70" banner off of NIAGRA FALLS to tell Canadian PM: NO TAR SANDS oil! Blog Post Today Native Rights and Climate Activists dropped a 70" banner off of Niagara Falls to tell Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the US doesn't want his dirty oil. Today Harper meets with Obama to try to increase oil exports from the Alberta Tar Sa -
- Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
Blog Post Some thoughts on the resignation of White House Green Jobs Advisor, Van Jones -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article Report and analysis of the Capitol Power Plant direct action -
- Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009
Blog Post Organizing the largest demonstration and direct action on climate change in history. come check it out! -
- Monday, Dec 08, 2008
ZNet Article Young people from the United States have been engaging full force in the 14th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland. Unfortunately, we can't say the same of our government. Instead of waiting around for our government to change its tune on the international stage, we've decided to set up dozens upon dozens of meetings with countries across the globe, especially those countries whom our country has disrespected in the past. Even if our own government isn't listening to some of the most affected stakeholders in this negotiation, we will. -
- Sunday, Nov 02, 2008
ZNet Article On Halloween 2008, over 400 latino high school students took to the streets and engaged in non-violent direct action, shutting down an I.C.E. detention center. Why should Environmentalists be paying attention and inspired? -
- Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
ZNet Article Coal-field residents and allies lock down at a Dominion coal-fired power plant construction site in Virginia. -
- Saturday, Sep 06, 2008
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- Monday, Aug 25, 2008
Blog Post Thoughts on the relevance of symbolic mass mobilizations, before the 2009 Republican National Convention. -
- Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008
Blog Post Reportback from the Dream Reborn conference in Memphis TN. -
- Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008
ZNet Article Two core organizers of the new Students for a Democratic Society analyze the founding, current state, and future of the organization. -
- Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008
Blog Post Celebrating 20 years of Z... -
- Monday, Feb 18, 2008
ZNet Article I first started “reading” Z magazine in middle school. I was around 14 years old, so Z must have been about 10. I guess I didn’t have many friends my own age. Growing up I had nearly zero access to Left political analysis, save for a couple magazine subscriptions and as many book orders as I could afford. Zmag’s hook for me was its comics; Z was my first experience with political cartoons. I didn’t even know Left political cartoons existed elsewhere. To confess – I actually pretty much only read the cartoons for a couple years. Oh sure I pretended to read the articles…but the “I read it for the articles” excuse is traditionally saved for less refined magazines. -
- Saturday, Dec 29, 2007
ZNet Article On November 3rd, I felt a stadium shake from 6,000 students jumping to their feet and chanting “Green Jobs, Not Jails! Parks, Not Prisons! We Won’t Stop Till Somebody Listens!” It was kind of a national coming-out party for the youth climate movement. More than a student environmental conference, Powershift 2007 was a moment revealing youth power and its potential to drive some deeply transformative shifts in this country. -
- Sunday, Oct 14, 2007
ZNet Article Today, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore (and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The IPCC). -
- Saturday, Sep 15, 2007
ZNet Article Students for a Democratic Society is reborn, working with veteran activists to build movements for today. - All Most Recent Content
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Joshua kahn Russell's Bio Info: Joshua Kahn Russell is a grassroots organizer a... moreJoshua Kahn Russell is a grassroots organizer and trainer at Rainforest Action Network, working to bridge movements for racial justice and the environment. He currently directs RAN's Action Tank - a movement-building project geared toward innovating new ways of taking creative, strategic action. He spends much of his time on the road, building and supporting networks of activist groups across the country. In between strategy trainings, he helps develop young grassroots leaders, coordinates actions, helps groups build their capacity, and coordinates activist gatherings.
Joshua currently serves on the steering committee of the Energy Action Coalition, a youth led coalition of over 48 groups spanning the environmental spectrum to build youth power to solve the climate crisis. Through Energy Action Coalition, hundreds of thousands of young people have gotten mobilized and active to avert ecological catastrophe, create millions of green jobs for the people who need them most, and build a sustainable and just future.
In early 2006, Josh was a core organizer in reviving, launching and building the "new" Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national multi-issue youth & student led group, which in less than a year had grown to over 250 chapters and nearly 3,000 members nationwide.
Joshua has contributed chapters to books such as Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, The Art of Coexistence, and the forthcoming Less Than Settled: Critical Reflections on Travel and Privilege. He has written internationally distributed zines, including Zen and the Art of Brownie Baking!, and Excuse Me, Can You Please Pass the Privilege?. Joshua's articles have appeared in Yes! Magazine, Left Turn, Peacework, Upping the Anti, and Znet, among others.
His artwork has appeared on the cover of books authored by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and Noam Chomsky, and in the Celebrate People's History poster series.
He was a co-founder of the Activist Resource Center and other student groups at Brandeis University, where he graduated in 2006 with degrees in Women's & Gender Studies and Sociology. At Brandeis he coordinated successful university-wide student strikes with the Brandeis Anti-war Coalition in March of 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq, and again in May of 2006 on May Day in support of Immigrant Rights.
While at Brandeis, he was awarded a fellowship from the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; The Elise Boulding Sociology and Social Activism Award; Karpf Peace Award; and Brandeis Class of 1955 Endowment Fund Prize. During that time he has done international solidarity work in Cambodia, Jamaica, and Mexico with groups such as the Womyn's Agenda for Change and the International Jamaican Council for Human Rights.
Josh Kahn Russell is a member of Bay Rising Affinity Group (BRAG!) and serves on the National Council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC). He currently lives in Oakland, CA. less: san francisco / california / United States Awaiting authorizationMy ZSpace FriendsRecent Friends Messages
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