22-04-2015 00:49 via thestranger.com

How Shell No! Activists Are Organizing for Nonviolent Direct Action Against Shell's Arctic Drilling Rigs

Those little bumps by the Polar Pioneer drilling rig? Human protesters in kayaks. Kelly O
Technical blockades. Climbing rope. Shell No! activists spent last weekend training for nonviolent direct action, and as they did I got a glimpse of the movement's approach to organizing for a "festival of resistance" against Shell's Arctic drilling rigs in Seattle.The direct action training weekend had actually been scheduled before the Shell No! coalition came together, part of a series generated for peop
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