what is activism?

Activism!MEP Project 2

Kent State, Ohio, 1970

Tiananmen Square, China, 1989

UCDavis, California, 2011

Introducing

Earth First! Arctic Drilling andTar Sands Protests

Earth First! Dances onGovernor’s Deskhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vd4QC_rB4

Introducing

Greenpeace Activists Scale Arctic Oil Rig!

http://youtu.be/AqWFc-kn9kM

Flashmob!

Gorilla Theater

Crowdsourcinghttp://www.forbes.com/sites/dell/2012/06/07/crowdsourcing-social-good-and-innovation-3/

Shock-tivism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTND76fnhyM

Examples of Activist Organizations• VPIRG www.vpirg.org/

• Energy Action Coalition http://www.energyactioncoalition.org/ • 350.org 350.org • EnergizeVT energizevermont.org/

• SAGE Alliance http://sagealliance.net/

• Earth First earthfirst.org/issues.htm• • Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org/• • Sierra Club http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer#.UKEHjbp63To• • VNRC http://www.vnrc.org/action/

• Climate Reality Project http://climaterealityproject.org/• • CVU EnAct

• Williston Energy Committee

Activism is Open-Ended…Activism is only limited

by your ownbeliefs, inspiration,

creativity and initiative!

Now Go For it!

The End