In our joint fight for climate justice, Fossil Free Rhode Island welcomes our activist friends of Hands Off Appalachia to New England.
UBS: Hands Off Appalachia! is a volunteer run, urban-based campaign demanding UBS change their official policy and stop funding and supporting companies that engage in mountaintop removal coal mining.
UBS is a wealth management company based in Zurich, Switzerland. USB is one of the top funders of mountaintop removal mining in the world. This practice destroys the health of communities and the land, and it produces the carbon dioxide that leads to the unfolding global climate catastrophe.
The Hands Off Appalachia campaign involves strategic research, outreach, and direct action. The goal is to apply enough public pressure that UBS stops funding mountaintop removal.
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Hands off Appalachia is committed to ending the financing of mountaintop removal. Please visit http://ilovemountains.org/the-human-cost for peer-reviewed studies on the effects of mountain top removal coal mining.
In the week November 19-25, 2013, Hands Off Appalachia is coming to Connecticut to confront UBS at their North American headquarters. You can join our Hands Off Appalachia friends for a whole week of intensive trainings and action prep. You may prefer to come to the Saturday training to prepare for for the demonstration targeting USB that will take place on Sunday, November 24, 2013, in Stamford.
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The Hands Off Appalachia! Fall Action Camp prior to this action will include intensive non-violent direct action trainings, a special art in activism track, affinity group trust building, a Resistance in Appalachia workshop, and much more.
The camp will be held at the beautiful Voluntown Peace Trust, an educational resource, and support center dedicated to social change and sustainable living in Voluntown, CT. A heated lodge with plenty of beds will serve for housing, and trainings will be held at the A.J. Muste Center on the Peace Farm. Food is included in the registration cost.
Follow this link for more information http://handsoffappalachia.com/hoa-fall-action-camp/
You can register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-off-appalachia-fall-action-camp-and-training-tickets-9016228783?af...
