Amazon Workers Rising
Workers at MSP1 Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, MN (near Minneapolis) walked out for better wages and working conditions. Backbone worked with Athena, Awood Center, and their allies to support this action with projections.
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Stop Extinction - Projected at COP15 in Montreal
A Backbone Team traveled to Montreal during COP15, to bring awareness of the urgent need to protect the Tapanuli orangutan.
The 3-day projection, in both English and Chinese, was at the COP15 meeting place and around the city, to support Mighty Earth's campaign.
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International action to eradicate harm from plastics on fenceline communities
The plastic pollution crisis is a planetary crisis.
Backbone outfitted a team with digital projection gear, for their travels to Uruguay for the UN's Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The team did several nights of digital projection.
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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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