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On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists set up a blockade encampment on the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change. Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region. Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Saturday, May 14th, 2016. Activists from 350.org converged at the Zoo Lake this morning and walked to the Gupta's residence where they demand a just response to climate change and deliver a coffin full of coal symbolizing the end of coal during a Break Free action.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Ferrial Deepchund | Mutiny Media
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists set up a blockade encampment on the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change. Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region. Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
‘Climate Guardians’, a group of theatrical activists who assume the guise of angles came forward to create awareness of the need to keep coal in the ground.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists set up a blockade encampment on the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change. Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region. Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON, USA -- Friday May 13th, 2016. Activists set up a blockade encampment on the train tracks leading to the oil refineries in Anacortes. Thousands of people began converging in Anacortes, WA, as part of the global climate mobilization Break Free. Many are now risking arrest by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change. Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region. Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
PORT OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA- On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
NORTH VANCOUVER, CANADA-- On Friday, May 13, 2016, Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, plays a drum song for participants during a protection ceremony for the events of Break Free 2016. Thomas-Muller, is an activist, writer, public speaker, facilitator, and activist for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Marlin Olynyk | Survival Media Agency
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
ALBANY, NEW YORK, USA -- Friday, May 13th, 2016. A kayak flotilla take part in a Break Free action on the Hudson River.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Shadia Fayne Wood | Survival Media Agency
People who protect the environment are most affected by climate change. Indigenous communities in Australia urge for climate justice and a future without coal.
ALIAGA, TURKEY -- May 15th, 2016 Community leaders are lead a mass action in Aliağa (near Izmir) at a coal waste site calling for a stop to four fossil fuel plant projects in the surrounding area.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Cevahir Bugu
Batangas citizens, anti-coal activists and environmental advocates gathered and marched from the Batangas Provincial Capitol towards the Lyceum of the Philippines University to remind local candidates running for office to include the phase out of dirty energy in their platforms. Photo: AC Dimatatac
With 2000 people coming together to shut down the largest coal plant of the world in Newcastle, each one had a role to play. Sometimes as audience, some times as performers and mobilisers, their message was loud and clear - no more fossil fuels.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
"No boderes, no nation, no coal power station"
Ende Gelände, Ende Gelaende, Breakfree2016, Climate Justice, Stop coal, Fossil free, Red finger
Peace and Friendship Alliance takes a stand at the End of the Line of the
Energy East Pipeline (Photo - Mark D'Arcy, Council of Canadians)
East Coast Canada takes a stand at the End of the Line of the Energy East
Pipeline
On May 14, 2016, in Saint John, New Brunswick on the coast of Atlantic
Canada, the Peace and Friendship Alliance held their monthly gathering at
the end of the line for the proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline. Since
government and industry are not listening to our calls for action on
climate change, we decided to spell it out for them with 7 foot/2.1
metre-high letters NO PIPELINE. TransCanada and Irving plan to export the
mostly tar sands bitumen to refineries in New Jersey, Louisiana, and Texas.
#KeystoneEast #BreakFree2016
NORTH VANCOUVER, CANADA-- Friday, May 13, 2016. Life jackets are stacked and ready for participants of a protection ceremony for the events and demonstrators of Break Free 2016.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Marlin Olynyk | Survival Media Agency
People who protect the environment are most affected by climate change. Indigenous communities in Australia urge for climate justice and a future without coal.
An unprecedented gathering of hundreds of every day people from all over Australia met at the gateway of Australia's carbon export to the world to draw a red line under the age of fossil fuels. A girl bearing the break free flag at the protest.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
PORT OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA- On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
Signs outside the Holiday Inn in Lakewood, Colo., May 12, 2016, where the U.S. Bureau of Land Management scheduled a lease auction for fossil fuel development on public land. The activists want the government to keep fossil fuels in the ground attempted to block the doors of the room and protested outside. Photo by Joe Mahoney
ALBANY, NEW YORK, USA -- Saturday, May 14th, 2016. Over 1500 Break Free action participants marched in the streets of Albany and blockaded the train tracks to send a message that oil trains are not welcome in any community. Speeches from local community members and movement leaders set the tone for the day.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Shannon Straney | Survival Media Agency
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
17th April 2016 …Fegino- Genoa -Italy…
At 7:30 p.m. approximately, a pipe of a pipeline owned bythe company
Iplom broke and 600,000 gallons of oil were poured into the streams of
the area, Pianego Stream, Fegino Stream, and Polcevera Stream to finally
head to the sea. A huge ecological and environmental disaster. The pipes
of this company are buried in the ground for km, from the Petroleum Port
of Genoa Multedo, to the refinery located in Busalla, and partly buried
inside the bed of these two streams, for over 50 years, without any
protection in the event of breakage. The Fegino Deposit is served by the
pipes buried in the river bed. For many years the citizens have
denounced the difficult cohabitation with the deposit located a few
meters away from houses and schools. The annoying miasmas exhaled during
handling operations of crude oil and its derivatives stored here have
been repeatedly reported to the authorities. They limit the lives of the
residents, but they are not considered to be harmful to health because
emission limits do not exceed the threshold of concern, even if the
quality of life of the citizens is significantly threatened. The
disaster is now under investigation, but what is certain is that it has
jeopardized environment and ecosystem of the streams and the lives of
people living here.
Fegino is part of a suburban area of Genoa, the Valpolcevera, which,
since the second half of the 19^th Century, has seen the birth of
several industries. Over time, oil, steel, mechanical industries have
established their headquarters here, fact that has altered environment
and landscape and threatened the health of residents of this valley. The
disposal of many industries could have been an opportunity for a revival
of this area, still battered by the logic of the great rail lines and
highways that, moreover, have no meaningful data to support them as far
as costs and benefits are concerned.
It is time to seek an environmentally friendly conversion of these oil
companies who are too often a source of concern and environmental
disasters and threats to the health of citizens because we should
finally think about the future of our planet.
This is way we strongly committed to join the "Breackfree" initiative,
meeting up on Saturday, May 14, 2016, together with other associations
and committees, when we will surround the Iplom Fegino Deposit with a
red ribbon in order to highlight the danger and to underline the need
for health, environment and safe and healthy workplace to go hand in hand.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Saturday, May 14th, 2016. Activists from 350.org converged at the Zoo Lake this morning and walked to the Gupta's residence where they demand a just response to climate change and deliver a coffin full of coal symbolizing the end of coal during a Break Free action.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Ferrial Deepchund | Mutiny Media
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
NORTH VANCOUVER, CANADA--Friday, May 13, 2016. Participants gather in Cates Park on Burrard Inlet during a protection ceremony for the events and demonstrators of Break Free 2016.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Marlin Olynyk | Survival Media Agency
On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
An unprecedented gathering of hundreds of every day people from all over Australia are meeting at the gateway of Australia's carbon export to the world to draw a red line under the age of fossil fuels.
PORT OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA- On May 8 over 2,000 people shut down the world's largest coal port. For six hours no coal came in or out of the Port of Newcastle. Hundreds of kayakers blocked the harbour's entrance to any entering or exiting coal ships, whilst another 60 walked onto and shutdown the only coal transport train line into the port.
NORTH VANCOUVER, CANADA-- On Friday, May 13, 2016, participants of Break Free 2016 participate in a kayak training session on Burrard Inlet.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo By: Marlin Olynyk | Survival Media Agency
NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA -- Tuesday, May 10th, 2016. Emem Bridget joins hundreds of other community members with her plea for hope for the polluted lands of Oloibiri at a Break Free action at Oloibiri Well 1.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Babawale Obayanju