Campaigns and Social Media
In 2014, EarthAction educated and mobilized our global network of over 2,500 organizations and other groups and individuals through campaigns and social media including our websites, email, Facebook, and Twitter. Highlights follow.
Action Alerts Sent to our Partner Organizations & other Contacts
- S.O.S.—Save Our Spirits Request for Proposals to Strengthen the Spiritual Practices of Indigenous Peoples. Many groups responded. We chose to provide support for 3 organizations doing excellent work in Nepal, Ghana, and Indonesia.
- Urgent Action Needed in the U.S. Senate re Nuclear Agreement with Iran
- Invitation to a presentation on Transforming the United Nations System based on the recent book by Joseph Schwartzberg
- Fukushima Crisis!
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending
- What do Pearl Jam and the UN have in common? Support for the Global Zero petition to President Obama calling for zero nuclear weapons.
- Protect the Cameroon Rainforest
- Will You UNFOLD ZERO on September 26: International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons?
- What is ISIS?
- Let the U.S. Congress and the President Know: More Violence is Not the Solution with Iran!
- Join the International Mobilization for the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held in April 2015
- Help Villagers Protect their home—the Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia
EarthAction’s Website
Throughout the year, EarthAction’s homepage featured information and provided links to many important global environment, development, peace and justice issues. These included:
- Child Deaths from Malaria Fall 51% since 2000
- "What a Wonderful World" by Sir David Attenborough
- Peru—Gas Expansion in Amazon 'Indigenous Reserve'—Call to Action
- Martin Luther King: Practicing Non-violence when Sitting on a Bus
- Long Way to go on Iran Nuclear Deal
- World Future Council's Peace & Disarmament Program—Call to Action
- The World Future Council's Future Policy Award
- Week of Action to Support Russian environmentalist Evgenij Vitishko—Call to Action
- Three Years after Fukushima: 100% Renewable Energy is Only a Matter of Political Will
- Chernobyl: 27 Years Later
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending—Call to Action
- ‘Reynaldo - Rainforest Hero’ won Best short film at the UN Forest Short Film Festival, the UK Green Film festival and Inkafest in Peru!
- New Hopes for Getting the Lead out of Solar
- Preventing Child Marriage
- Stop the “Carbon Cowboys” from Turning the Amazon Rainforest into their Private Palm Oil Plantation—Call to Action
- World Refugee Crisis Continues
- Choose Life Without Weapons
- Migrant Women Document Their Journeys
- Larry Merculieff’s Talk on "Native Knowing"
- Article in Foreign Policy on Herakles Farms in Cameroon—Call to Action
- 'Licence to Launder' Report Shows Wider Problem in African Logging—Call to Action
- Is Cameroon Becoming the New Indonesia? Palm Oil Plantations Accelerating Deforestation—Call to Action
- Corruption and Impunity Rife in Cameroon's Forestry Sector—Call to Action
- What’s Possible: The U.N. Climate Summit Film—Call to Action
- Spring 2015 Mobilization for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Five-year Review Conference
- Tower of London Moat: Visual presentation of the lives lost in World War I
- Twenty Things you Can Do to Address the Climate Crisis!—Call to Action
- Climate Politics at a Dead End: How to Build a New Road
- Protect the Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia from Illegal Logging
