All of Chapter 4: Resistance

Grassroots resistance movements fighting for change

Community Organizing

Community organizers make their voices heard

Community Organizing Closeup

Water Testing

Community activist testing water quality and stream health

Community Organizing Petition

The Callout to Activists Nationwide

Organizers on the ground guide parachuting outsider activists to a safe landing

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Outsider activists parachute into the coalfields, bringing both gifts and challenges to organizers on the ground

Paper Wrenching

Paper wrenching activists try to force government and corporations to follow existing laws and regulations

Clean Coal Plant

A new "clean coal" plant flies in on a magic carpet of rubber-stamped permits and dollar bills

Neighborhood Under Water

The new "clean coal" plant is planned to be built next to a low-income neighborhood that is already flooding from global warming

Cop Watch

A housing project resident keeps watch on the watchers

Urban Lockdown

Urban species blockade new coal power plant construction

Poaching as Resistance

This raccoon won't let company fences stand in the way of feeding the family on lands where their ancestors used to fish

Wall Street and Government

Wall Street financiers, government regulators and the Big Green organizations work together to maintain the status quo

Role of the Big Green Organizations

Big Green windsocks take corporate donations and bend over backwards to rubberstamp coal plant building permits and carbon trading schemes