{"id":7076266,"date":"2026-10-05T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076266"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:29:16","slug":"earth-day-was-born-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076266","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Was Born in Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_9b04771bfe540ecf56c0a41b54c93664\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/subject\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">April 23, 2026<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>Now protest may have put Greenpeace USA on the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earth-day-protest-1970-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n<p>A gas mask is held aloft at the inaugural Earth Day protest in New York City, New York, on April 22, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Cyril H. Baker \/ FPG \/ Archive Photos \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"aside-block-block_5b2546ab103a01b03e26b586dac596a4\" class=\"aside-block  float-l-w-2\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CCN-logo.png\" alt=\"Covering Climate Now logo\"\/><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This story is part of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/\">Covering Climate Now<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\">Columbia Journalism Review<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\">The Nation<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> strengthening coverage of the climate story.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">This week, people at hundreds of locations in scores of countries celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/events-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earth Day<\/a>, with activities ranging from tree plantings and trash pickups to conferences and art exhibits. Not many of those people, however, seem to have attended protests, though that is how Earth Day came into being. In 1970, huge, nonviolent protests across the United States drew an estimated 20 million people, an eruption of mass sentiment that President Richard Nixon felt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/04\/first-earth-day-walter-cronkite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened his reelection chances so acutely<\/a> that he created the Environmental Protection Agency and signed far-reaching environmental laws.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important for journalists to understand the role of protest, partly because our coverage shapes what society as a whole knows about the controversies in question. Of course, we should not become the mouthpieces of protesters, but rigorous reporting does not equate to being a mouthpiece. Our civic role is to ascertain and share the facts as best we can so the public and policymakers can make informed judgments.<\/p>\n<p>Probably no environmental organization in the world is more associated with the tactic of protest than Greenpeace. Nonviolent protest has been part of Greenpeace\u2019s DNA since the group\u2019s founding in 1971, when activists sailed a boat into a prohibited area off the Alaskan coast to obstruct US nuclear bomb testing. Since then, Greenpeace has grown into a global operation, with branches in 55 countries that employ direct action, research, and public advocacy against fossil fuels, species extinction, nuclear power, overfishing, and other environmental scourges.<\/p>\n<p>Now the US branch of Greenpeace may itself be on the brink of extinction, due to a lawsuit arising from the Standing Rock pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. Energy Transfer, the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline, sued Greenpeace, charging that it incited the protests through a misinformation campaign. A jury in the oil-and-gas-producing state North Dakota found Greenpeace guilty after a trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/28\/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studded with irregularities<\/a>: Seven of the 11 jurors had ties to the fossil fuel industry; the judge refused news organizations access to a livestream of the proceedings; and Greenpeace\u2019s core defense\u2014that it played only a supporting role in a protest that actually was led by Indigenous peoples\u2014was dismissed. Martin Garbus, a human rights lawyer who previously defended such global icons as Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, called it \u201cthe most unfair trial\u201d he had ever witnessed. <\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, the jury ordered Greenpeace to pay nearly $667 million in damages. Although later reduced to $345 million, that amount remains exponentially larger than the group\u2019s annual budget and would likely bankrupt it. Greenpeace is appealing. Journalists interested in covering the next phase of the story can find the contending parties\u2019 perspectives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/81860\/what-345-million-judgment-means-greenpeace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energytransfer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timed to Earth Day, the former executive director of Greenpeace USA, Annie Leonard, has co-authored a book making the case for nonviolent protest as an essential tool for bringing about social change. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/product\/protest-respect-it-use-it-hardcover-book\/BK940.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Protest: Respect It Defend It Use It<\/em><\/a> is a global compendium of instances when protesters shifted the course of history, often by telling stories that captured media attention. \u201cProtest interrupts business as usual,\u201d Leonard writes, \u201cshines a spotlight on a wrong or a demand, elevates an issue on the public agenda,\u201d and in so doing has helped deliver \u201crights and progress we value and may even take for granted today: weekends, women\u2019s right to vote, desegregation, same-sex marriage, cleaner air and water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protest is not for the fainthearted. At least 2,253 defenders of land, forests, or rivers <a href=\"https:\/\/globalwitness.org\/en\/campaigns\/land-and-environmental-defenders\/roots-of-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were killed globally<\/a> between 2012 and 2024, according to the NGO Global Witness. Today, as authoritarian governments and corporations increasingly seek to silence free speech and criminalize activism, our role as journalists remains essential: to inform the public and hold power accountable. Which means treating activists the same way we treat politicians and CEOs: as newsmakers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/mark-hertsgaard\/\">Mark Hertsgaard<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markhertsgaard\" class=\"article-end__author-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n                            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"17\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 17 14\" fill=\"none\">\n\t<path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M15.2054 3.54558C15.2122 3.6951 15.215 3.84463 15.215 3.99527C15.215 8.58792 11.7194 13.8834 5.32683 13.8834C3.36455 13.8834 1.53779 13.3083 0 12.3221C0.271606 12.354 0.548252 12.3702 0.828257 12.3702C2.45677 12.3702 3.95536 11.8147 5.14483 10.8829C3.62384 10.8543 2.34085 9.84963 1.89844 8.4692C2.11068 8.51008 2.32797 8.53136 2.55253 8.53136C2.87006 8.53136 3.17695 8.48936 3.46815 8.40984C1.87772 8.09008 0.680414 6.68501 0.680414 5.00273C0.680414 4.98705 0.680414 4.97305 0.680414 4.95793C1.14858 5.21833 1.68452 5.37514 2.25461 5.39362C1.32219 4.76921 0.708415 3.7063 0.708415 2.5006C0.708415 1.8633 0.879778 1.26633 1.17882 0.753361C2.89302 2.85621 5.45395 4.23887 8.34249 4.38392C8.28313 4.12967 8.25233 3.86423 8.25233 3.59206C8.25233 1.6729 9.80861 0.117188 11.7278 0.117188C12.7274 0.117188 13.6301 0.539436 14.2641 1.21425C15.0559 1.05913 15.8002 0.769041 16.4716 0.370873C16.2118 1.18289 15.6602 1.86386 14.9428 2.29395C15.6462 2.20939 16.3159 2.02235 16.9392 1.74626C16.4739 2.44292 15.8842 3.05557 15.2054 3.54558Z\" fill=\"#666666\"\/>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Mark Hertsgaard is the author of eight books that have been translated into a total of 16 languages, including <em>Big Red\u2019s Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton<\/em> <em>and a Story of Race in America<\/em> and <em>A Day In the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles<\/em>. 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