Cameron Baller (he/they)
@crballer.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at Virginia Tech
I study social movements and environmental justice. My dissertation is about how pipeline fighters in Appalachia have navigated escalating state and corporate repression.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I study social movements and environmental justice. My dissertation is about how pipeline fighters in Appalachia have navigated escalating state and corporate repression.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
This is an interesting story out of Scotland. I love to hear stories like this (see also: “Raging Grannies”) where elders deploy their grandmother/grandfather identities in activist contexts. I am exploring some of these themes in my dissertation about the MVP!
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...
North Sea Knitting grannies cycle length of carbon pipeline from Grangemouth to St Fergus
The group have been talking to the public along the journey which departed Grangemouth, passing through Stirling, Perth, Forfar, Stonehaven, Aberdeen and Peterhead before finally reaching St Fergus.
www.aberdeenlive.news
May 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is an interesting story out of Scotland. I love to hear stories like this (see also: “Raging Grannies”) where elders deploy their grandmother/grandfather identities in activist contexts. I am exploring some of these themes in my dissertation about the MVP!
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...
Excited to host folks from the Stop Cop City fight in Atlanta for their imaginary crimes tour, which highlights the repression this movement has faced. This event is today on Virginia Tech’s campus! If you are local to SWVA, please come out!
April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Excited to host folks from the Stop Cop City fight in Atlanta for their imaginary crimes tour, which highlights the repression this movement has faced. This event is today on Virginia Tech’s campus! If you are local to SWVA, please come out!
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At least 500 Awajún Indigenous community Earth Defenders stormed and seized Station 5 of the Norperuvian Pipeline in protest of repeated oil spills by state-run Petroperú. The rivers and land are being poisoned. They demand urgent aid and justice. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide
April 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
At least 500 Awajún Indigenous community Earth Defenders stormed and seized Station 5 of the Norperuvian Pipeline in protest of repeated oil spills by state-run Petroperú. The rivers and land are being poisoned. They demand urgent aid and justice. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide
I recently found the “abolition is for everybody” podcast and I’m excited to assign a few episodes to my Social Problems class this summer, encouraging them to think about alternative forms of accountability in the context of mental health, education, and mass incarceration generally.
April 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I recently found the “abolition is for everybody” podcast and I’m excited to assign a few episodes to my Social Problems class this summer, encouraging them to think about alternative forms of accountability in the context of mental health, education, and mass incarceration generally.
I will be teaching this course in the Fall and I am excited to have many important conversations with my students about repression, protest policing, infiltration, surveillance, etc. I am honored to continue the tradition of @nickcopel.bsky.social who taught this course at VT before me.
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I will be teaching this course in the Fall and I am excited to have many important conversations with my students about repression, protest policing, infiltration, surveillance, etc. I am honored to continue the tradition of @nickcopel.bsky.social who taught this course at VT before me.
My dissertation interviews have posed an important problem: How do we keep our movements secure in an age of escalating surveillance and repression while also leaving them open enough to build community and welcome new people? Is a “welcoming security culture” a contradiction in terms?
April 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My dissertation interviews have posed an important problem: How do we keep our movements secure in an age of escalating surveillance and repression while also leaving them open enough to build community and welcome new people? Is a “welcoming security culture” a contradiction in terms?
👏🏼”Don’t capitulate.”👏🏼”They’ll take your funding anyway.”👏🏼
I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
April 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
👏🏼”Don’t capitulate.”👏🏼”They’ll take your funding anyway.”👏🏼
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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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Palestine solidarity activists are being kidnapped and deported because these movements largely succeeded. They caused a tectonic shift in public opinion against arming Israel and educated a generation about Zionist apartheid and US imperialism.
April 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Palestine solidarity activists are being kidnapped and deported because these movements largely succeeded. They caused a tectonic shift in public opinion against arming Israel and educated a generation about Zionist apartheid and US imperialism.
This is why demand-side solutions are so important: renewables are not replacing fossil fuels. They are both going up which means emissions are still going up. Phasing out fossil fuels is a much tougher sell when energy demand is rising.
Renewables surged in 2024 — but so did fossil fuels.
A new report finds that while electricity demand skyrocketed, the deployment of new wind, solar, and nuclear power did, too.
grist.org/energy/renew...
#Wind #Solar #Nuclear #Renewables #Climate #Greensky
A new report finds that while electricity demand skyrocketed, the deployment of new wind, solar, and nuclear power did, too.
grist.org/energy/renew...
#Wind #Solar #Nuclear #Renewables #Climate #Greensky
Renewables surged in 2024 — but so did fossil fuels
The good news is that the installation of renewables hit another record, and carbon emissions didn't keep pace with economic growth.
grist.org
April 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is why demand-side solutions are so important: renewables are not replacing fossil fuels. They are both going up which means emissions are still going up. Phasing out fossil fuels is a much tougher sell when energy demand is rising.
As a Jew, I am appalled and disgusted by the weaponization of my identity to justify Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda of deporting international students who speak out for a Free Palestine. I have experienced more anti-semitism from Trump supporters than I ever have from international students.
April 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As a Jew, I am appalled and disgusted by the weaponization of my identity to justify Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda of deporting international students who speak out for a Free Palestine. I have experienced more anti-semitism from Trump supporters than I ever have from international students.
I want to share an article of mine published last year. Taking the MVP resistance as its case, it explores the value of radical tactics in a social movement, but also how to bridge moderate and radical factions within a movement. If anyone needs the PDF, DM me.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An ecosystem of tactics: Bridging the radical and moderate flanks in a pipeline resistance movement
This paper explores the role of “bridge activists” in the Mountain Valley Pipeline resistance movement who acted to build mutual respect, solidarity a…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I want to share an article of mine published last year. Taking the MVP resistance as its case, it explores the value of radical tactics in a social movement, but also how to bridge moderate and radical factions within a movement. If anyone needs the PDF, DM me.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Taking Settler Colonialism Seriously in Abolition Ecologies: Centring Indigenous Dispossession in Geographies of Carceral Power, Ecocide, and the Abolitionist Ecological Imagination
Scholarship increasingly examines international social movements advocating for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex. Within this landscape, Abolition Ecologies has emerged as a generative ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This decision is likely to significantly suppress organizational support for direct action in the future. An absolute disaster of a decision by a jury with severe conflicts of interest.
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions to fossil fuel company over Dakota pipeline protests at Standing Rock, says jury
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This decision is likely to significantly suppress organizational support for direct action in the future. An absolute disaster of a decision by a jury with severe conflicts of interest.
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💥The coalition is STRONG.💥
Over 12,500 members of the public weighed in during FERC’s short 21-day intervention period regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s proposed Southgate pipeline project. The vast majority of commenters, more than 80%, asked FERC to deny MVP Southgate’s request.
Overwhelming opposition to MVP Southgate submitted to federal agency
On March 11, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission closed an intervention period in the federal docket for the proposed Southgate pipeline project. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, the developer of t...
appvoices.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
💥The coalition is STRONG.💥
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"Pittsylvania County faces pollution risks from three proposed fossil fuel projects: a new gas plant from the developer Balico, a massive extension of the existing Transco pipelines (SSEP) and an extension of the ruinous Mountain Valley Pipeline."
godanriver.com/article_a40f...
godanriver.com/article_a40f...
Fossil fuel projects
Pittsylvania County faces pollution risks from three proposed fossil fuel projects: a new gas plant from the developer Balico, a massive extension of the existing Transco pipelines (the Southeast Supp...
godanriver.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Pittsylvania County faces pollution risks from three proposed fossil fuel projects: a new gas plant from the developer Balico, a massive extension of the existing Transco pipelines (SSEP) and an extension of the ruinous Mountain Valley Pipeline."
godanriver.com/article_a40f...
godanriver.com/article_a40f...
This xmas, my partner gave me the last two @naomiaklein.bsky.social books I needed to fill out my collection. Now I have all of them!
December 25, 2024 at 4:22 PM
This xmas, my partner gave me the last two @naomiaklein.bsky.social books I needed to fill out my collection. Now I have all of them!
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Israel has killed over 17,500 children in Gaza since October 2023, officials say, with the true toll likely far higher.
Report: Israel “Systematically” Uses Palestinian Children as Human Shields
Israel has killed over 17,500 children in Gaza since October 2023, officials say, with the true toll likely far higher.
truthout.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Israel has killed over 17,500 children in Gaza since October 2023, officials say, with the true toll likely far higher.
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🔔Please amplify this. When we had a surplus of water from #HurricaneHelene recovery donations we ran a truckload to these communities and it was gone in a hurry. Cash moves quicker and the need is ongoing so please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/safe-water...
Donate to Safe water for McDowell and Wyoming Counties, organized by Terra Vance
I'm Terra Vance, and I'm working with a community of concerned groups and ind… Terra Vance needs your support for Safe water for McDowell and Wyoming Counties
www.gofundme.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:34 PM
🔔Please amplify this. When we had a surplus of water from #HurricaneHelene recovery donations we ran a truckload to these communities and it was gone in a hurry. Cash moves quicker and the need is ongoing so please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/safe-water...
Optimism and pessimism are forecasts about the future. Hope and despair are orientations towards that future. You can both think it is objectively likely that we are doomed, and still fight like hell to change that outcome.
December 4, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Optimism and pessimism are forecasts about the future. Hope and despair are orientations towards that future. You can both think it is objectively likely that we are doomed, and still fight like hell to change that outcome.
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they're more angry about the pardon than about the remorseless genocide that Biden has been arming and shielding from criticism for over a year
December 3, 2024 at 2:24 AM
they're more angry about the pardon than about the remorseless genocide that Biden has been arming and shielding from criticism for over a year
North Carolina is facing several interconnected expansions of natural gas infrastructure: SSEP, MVP Southgate, T15, etc.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...
November 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
North Carolina is facing several interconnected expansions of natural gas infrastructure: SSEP, MVP Southgate, T15, etc.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...
Becky Crabtree on silver linings: “Out of this, out of the horrors of it all, there has been camaraderie and a group of people who have come together,” she said. “And if you need something, or if there’s another something to face — oh my, we’ll be organized.”
www.fayettetribune.com/news/a-polit...
A political power play overruled West Virginians in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. They still feel betrayed
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. Get stories like this delivered to your email inbox once a week; sign up for the free newsletter at mountainstatespotlight.org/newslett...
www.fayettetribune.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Becky Crabtree on silver linings: “Out of this, out of the horrors of it all, there has been camaraderie and a group of people who have come together,” she said. “And if you need something, or if there’s another something to face — oh my, we’ll be organized.”
www.fayettetribune.com/news/a-polit...
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new from Sirkka Miller in Antipode - "Knowledge(s) and Power in the Stop Line 3 Movement: From Colonial Logics to Epistemic Justice"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky
Knowledge(s) and Power in the Stop Line 3 Movement: From Colonial Logics to Epistemic Justice
The conflicts between Indigenous-led anti-pipeline resistance and fossil fuel corporations are clear case studies for epistemic injustice. In these conflicts, Indigenous analyses of proposed pipeline...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM
new from Sirkka Miller in Antipode - "Knowledge(s) and Power in the Stop Line 3 Movement: From Colonial Logics to Epistemic Justice"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky