Rail Can't Wait Rally in Olympia
Backbone Campaign and our Solutionary Rail project joined with Climate Rail Alliance for a rally on Dec 1, 2022, the first day Legislators were back on campus.
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St Louis Black Friday Strike
Backbone sent gear and trained up folks at Missouri Workers Center, in time for Black Friday strikes against Amazon.
St. Peters Amazon Workers Join Mass Global Walkout to 'Make Amazon Pay'
The Action was part of a global Make Amazon Pay Campaign and was supported by Backbone's Athena Coalition partners.
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Block Corporate Salmon
BlockCorporateSalmon members, along with the Backbone salmon inflatable, visited the Local Catch Summit on October 2-3 in Girdwood, Alaska, and hosted an ad hoc workshop at the conference. The conversation focused around education and building relationships with fisherfolk from around the country, as well as strategizing on ways to prevent genetically engineered (GE) salmon from coming to U.S. and global markets. After the conference, BlockCorporateSalmon members continued to travel to Homer and Anchorage, Alaska, to build local relationships with fisherfolk and build solidarity around blocking GE salmon.
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Backbone props celebrate deal negotiated by Wisconsin nurses
Nurses at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin have been trying to get their union back since 2014. Governor Walker had signed a bill into law in 2011, Act 10, that eliminated the ability for public employees to collectively bargain.
Because negotiations had not been fruitful, the nurses voted to do a 72-hour strike, September 12-14.
SEIU Healthcare asked Backbone to provide props for the strike, including large LED signage, a custom made printed banner and other activities such as speech bubbles and nighttime projection.
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Protect the Water, Respect the Rivers
The work continues to pressure policymakers for an actionable and urgent timeline to breach Snake River dams. The clock is ticking - in 2021 the Nez Perce Fisheries reported that by 2025 the salmon will be quasi-extinct unless these four barriers are removed and the river is restored.
To amplify calls for urgency, Backbone mobilized teams in cities across the Pacific Northwest to banner and light project on World Rivers Day. Held the 4th Sunday of September, it is one of the largest global days of action on the planet.
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Rejecting Duke Energy's Dirty Carbon Plan
Backbone's "Declare a Climate Emergency" banner appeared outside the North Carolina Utility Commission Hearing, on Sept 23, in Raleigh NC, supporting residents' demands to reject Duke Energy's dirty energy carbon plan.
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"The Federalist Society is Anti-Democracy"
Pro Choice Messages Projected at Anti-Roe Gala
Backbone East joined with DC organizers to project pro-choice messages during a noise demonstration action. The projection and action happened while an anti-choice group celebrated the fall of Roe v Wade.
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Giant salmon, baby orca, and over 30 allies show up on Senator Cantwell's home turf
Senator Cantwell is home for the congressional recess. Because of her silence on the issue of Lower Snake River dam breaching, a giant salmon and baby orca - as well as over 30 people calling on her to stop salmon extinction - took to the streets of Edmonds (the Senator's home town). Their message was to call on the Senator to step up, stand with tribes, listen to the scientists, and breach the four dams on the Lower Snake.
Only by breaching the four dams on the Lower Snake can we stop the pending extinction of salmon and orca.
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Orca and Salmon Deliver a Message to Seattle City Council: Breach LSR Dams
A group of salmon-loving Washingtonians - along with an inflatable giant salmon and baby orca - showed up at Seattle City Hall to protest the City Council's comments submitted on the Draft Murray-Inslee Report.
(Click HERE for Seattle City Council and City Light's Letter)
Our message was to tell the Council that their letter did not represent the views of orca- and salmon-loving residents, was not in alignment with tribal leadership, and that there is no other science-based option but to breach the dams on the Lower Snake River, to save endangered salmon and Southern Resident orca.
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