https://znetwork.org/author/nickengelfried/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:18:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/nickengelfried/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-cop30-indigenous-narratives-are-more-important-than-ever/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-cop30-indigenous-narratives-are-more-important-than-ever/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292691 As last month’s COP30 climate negotiations unfolded in Belém, Brazil, activists converged on the city to advocate for keeping fossil fuels in the ground and protecting carbon-rich ecosystems. At the center of large public demonstrations in Belém were an unprecedented number of people from Indigenous, Afro-descendant and other communities with deep ties to traditional lands. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-cop30-indigenous-narratives-are-more-important-than-ever/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenpeace-remains-determined-to-fight-the-corporate-silencing-of-dissent/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenpeace-remains-determined-to-fight-the-corporate-silencing-of-dissent/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284040 In March, Greenpeace organizers and supporters found themselves waiting for a jury verdict in a North Dakota courthouse. Knowing the decision in this civil court case could force the organization to pay hundreds of millions in damages, many found themselves wondering how things had reached this point. “We were still asking, why are we even [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenpeace-remains-determined-to-fight-the-corporate-silencing-of-dissent/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-extreme-weather-batters-communities-new-york-climate-activists-show-a-powerful-path-forward/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-extreme-weather-batters-communities-new-york-climate-activists-show-a-powerful-path-forward/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:39:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278891 On the evening of Dec. 10, 12 self-identified elder climate activists sat around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol, in Albany, singing carols as they waited to be arrested. The protesters, who were there to support New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, had been told by police they would face criminal misdemeanor [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-extreme-weather-batters-communities-new-york-climate-activists-show-a-powerful-path-forward/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/university-of-toronto-students-score-a-win-for-the-climate-and-campus-protests-more-broadly/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/university-of-toronto-students-score-a-win-for-the-climate-and-campus-protests-more-broadly/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:46:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276594 When the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment announced in October that it will no longer accept donations from the fossil fuel industry, the news sent waves through the growing movement to get coal, oil and gas companies off campuses. Among other things, that means banning fossil fuel corporations from financing academic research. “This [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/university-of-toronto-students-score-a-win-for-the-climate-and-campus-protests-more-broadly/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/west-coast-climate-activists-battle-the-false-solution-of-forest-biomass/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/west-coast-climate-activists-battle-the-false-solution-of-forest-biomass/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:31:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273439 “Who will own the forests? Who will own the sky?” sang dozens of umbrella-wielding protesters as rain drizzled outside the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 25. Inside the building, timber company representatives, investors and others involved in deciding the fate of forest ecosystems were meeting for an event called CANOPY: Forests + [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/west-coast-climate-activists-battle-the-false-solution-of-forest-biomass/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-widespread-discouragement-among-climate-activists-a-tested-blueprint-for-successful-movements-shows-immense-progress-being-made/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-widespread-discouragement-among-climate-activists-a-tested-blueprint-for-successful-movements-shows-immense-progress-being-made/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269169 In January, U.S. climate activists prepared for one of the largest direct action protests against fossil fuels in years. The plan was for people to descend on the Department of Energy headquarters for three days of sit-ins protesting a series of massive liquefied natural gas, or LNG, terminals up for approval on the Gulf Coast. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-widespread-discouragement-among-climate-activists-a-tested-blueprint-for-successful-movements-shows-immense-progress-being-made/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-movement-elders-revive-monkey-wrench-tactics-to-save-an-old-forest/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-movement-elders-revive-monkey-wrench-tactics-to-save-an-old-forest/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:33:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264673 Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington State, intent on halting — or at least delaying — the destruction of trees with immense carbon storage potential. Over the course of several hours, they hiked off-trail through the dense understory, removing signs and flagging tape marking the boundaries [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-movement-elders-revive-monkey-wrench-tactics-to-save-an-old-forest/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/student-led-climate-action-is-flourishing-in-desantiss-florida/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/student-led-climate-action-is-flourishing-in-desantiss-florida/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:56:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263887 The University of Florida made history last month when its student senate became the first at a public university to pass a climate resolution in support of Green New Deal policies. The “Green New Deal for UF” is a statement of support for bold, progressive climate action put forward by students at a time when [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/student-led-climate-action-is-flourishing-in-desantiss-florida/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/6-lessons-for-climate-activists-in-turbulent-times/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/6-lessons-for-climate-activists-in-turbulent-times/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:58:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261537 Not many eras in modern U.S. history have been as turbulent for activists as the last 18 months. Grassroots organizers have had to contend with a lingering pandemic, increasingly unstable geopolitics and signs that Earth’s ecological systems are finally paying us back for decades of abuse. For the climate movement in particular, it’s been a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/6-lessons-for-climate-activists-in-turbulent-times/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-major-win-against-factory-farming-points-to-a-powerful-new-direction-for-the-climate-movement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-major-win-against-factory-farming-points-to-a-powerful-new-direction-for-the-climate-movement/#respond Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:00:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255114 When Alice Morrison was growing up in suburban Louisville, Kentucky, her mother taught her to grow tomatoes in the garden. It was about as close as Morrison, a future farmer and small farms advocate, got to agricultural work back then. “I lived in a place where agriculture wasn’t very accessible,” Morrison said. “There were large [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-major-win-against-factory-farming-points-to-a-powerful-new-direction-for-the-climate-movement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/divest-decarbonize-and-disassociate-inside-the-bold-new-push-to-get-fossil-fuels-off-campus/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/divest-decarbonize-and-disassociate-inside-the-bold-new-push-to-get-fossil-fuels-off-campus/#respond Sat, 13 May 2023 13:40:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1245979 From late November through early March of this year, visitors to the University of Washington Career Center in Seattle would have found students sitting in a circle on the floor, some doing homework on laptops as they participated in one of the longest-running recent climate protests at the school. Their goal: to convince the UW [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/divest-decarbonize-and-disassociate-inside-the-bold-new-push-to-get-fossil-fuels-off-campus/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/northwest-climate-activists-including-native-americans-target-new-oil-pipeline-to-stop-fossil-fuels/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/northwest-climate-activists-including-native-americans-target-new-oil-pipeline-to-stop-fossil-fuels/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:09:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1239755 On Monday, people across the Pacific Northwest convened online and at two in-person gatherings for a “people’s hearing” on what has become the latest front in the resistance to large fossil fuel projects in the region: a proposed massive capacity expansion of the Gas Transmission Northwest, or GTN, pipeline. Operated by Canadian corporation TC Energy, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/northwest-climate-activists-including-native-americans-target-new-oil-pipeline-to-stop-fossil-fuels/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-young-climate-activists-built-a-mass-movement-to-be-reckoned-with/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-young-climate-activists-built-a-mass-movement-to-be-reckoned-with/#respond Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:06:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1231932 When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth climate movement” referred more to something activists hoped to bring into existence than a real-world phenomenon. Growing numbers of young people were concerned about the climate crisis and had begun organizing in small groups on college campuses and in communities [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-young-climate-activists-built-a-mass-movement-to-be-reckoned-with/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fossil-free-research-movement-is-taking-universities-by-storm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fossil-free-research-movement-is-taking-universities-by-storm/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:25:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1222152 When over 40 Cambridge students and academics occupied the elite U.K. university’s BP Institute earlier this year, they were escalating one of the newest, fastest-growing campaigns focused on dissociating higher education institutions from fossil fuels. 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