[The following is a communiqué from the Plymouth Anarchist Collective
who organise in and around Plymough, Massachusetts, USA. There are
contact details at the end for those who might wish to contact with
them. FA]---- Bill Nye The Science Guy is coming to Plymouth in October
2025 as the Keynote Speaker for the Plymouth Foundation's annual Blue
Future Conference. This conference, the organization behind it, and the
hiring of Bill Nye as a speaker all exemplify the epitome of
greenwashing. ---- The Blue Future Conference is marketed as a
"launchpad for ideas, innovation, and partnerships that are transforming
the region's marine economy." While centering technocratic approaches to
so-called "sustainability" and "innovation" in the marine sector, the
conference hilariously also has a panel on climate resilience. Their
website boasts that Bill "has a relevant and inspiring message for
people to be good stewards of our planet and science-engaged in today's
world."
The Plymouth Foundation hosting this conference is a quasi-governmental
non-profit that is driving deforestation, private commercial
development, and ecologically catastrophic sand and gravel mining in
Pine Barren forests throughout Plymouth. Their actions are actively
driving biodiversity loss and making our communities more vulnerable
amidst escalating ecological crises.
A May 2025 report by the Community Land and Water Coalition provides
substantial evidence that the relationship between the Plymouth
Foundation and the Town of Plymouth functions to funnel public and
Indigenous lands into private hands without public transparency. The
distinction between the Town and the Foundation is ambiguous, as several
town officials (ie Derek Brindisi, Town Manager & Lee Hartman, Director
of Planning & Development) work as directors at the Foundation in what
is clearly an unethical conflict of interest. The foundation has also
received $2 million in taxpayer dollars as a part of its agreement with
the town.
Since its inception in 2001, the Foundation and the town have
collaborated to facilitate the destruction of several sensitive
ecosystems, including on the ancestral reservation lands of the Herring
Pond Wampanoag Tribe in what were violations of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and brazen acts
of settler-colonial violence.
In one example, the Town sold a 33 acre parcel of publicly held
conservation land in 2022 - which should have been under the
jurisdiction of the tribe given its location within their reservation
boundaries - to the Plymouth Foundation for a whopping $1. In February
2025, the foundation sold the parcel to Standish Investment Group LLC
and EJ Pontiff for $3.4 million. They clearcut the forest and proceeded
to mine the land via sand & gravel mining. They shamelessly profiteer
off of Ecocide and ongoing genocide of native americans. This is a
microcosmic example of how settler colonial violence continues to
replicate today, the fundamental role of capitalism in driving
ecological degradation, and the role of the State in serving Capital
accumulation over people + sustainability.
The Foundation currently has approx $2.3 million assets, which largely
come from land sales to private developers and sand & gravel mining - a
form of earth removal that requires clear cutting forests and
aggressively mining the earth to the extent that restoration becomes
impossible. Sand mining also poses a dire public health crisis due to
the resulting pollution of our aquifer and production of carcinogenic
silica dust that gets blown around town and inhaled.
The sand & gravel mining crisis is a part of a larger issue of
escalating regional deforestation driven by private "development" &
sanctioned by municipialities that is dramatically altering our local
landscapes, plummeting biodiversity, and making our communities less
resilient amidst climate collapse.
If the Plymouth Foundation were serious about encouraging people to
become "science engaged" and "good stewards of our planet," they
wouldn't be generating assets and reaping profits from its destruction
and ignoring the most basic science on climate resiliency and
mitigation. This conference and it's greenwashing marketing tactics are
an absolute slap in the face to anyone who actually cares about
escalating local & global ecological collapse, and the organization
behind it exemplifies the sly depravity of the neoliberal
non-profit-industrial-complex.
To Mr. Nye we say this:
Bill will you help us save our home?
Many of us grew up watching you and admiring your example. You taught us
to have a love for science and that love of science in turn has taught
many of us around the world that life and ecology are precious things.
The Plymouth Foundation, who you have partnered with as a keynote
speaker at their Blue Future Conference, does not understand this or
show any concern for the ecological consequences of their actions admist
escalating climate change.
A scientist who sets a globe on fire on cable TV to sound the alarm on
anthropogenic climate change and ecological catastrophe ought to know
better than to partake in the coverup for those complicit in that
emergency. The Plymouth County Anarchists, on behalf of Earth itself and
the future generations of our species, ask that you cancel your
appearance and connections with the Plymouth Foundation for the
aforementioned policy reasons. We ask that you continue to be an example
to us and to the youth of today of what an ethical scientist is.
To the people of "massachusetts"
We encourage you all to reach out to Bill Nye (bnsg@billnye.com) and his
representatives (Evenchick_D@unitedtalent.com) to urge them to cancel
his support for the Plymouth Foundation and his appearance at their Blue
Future Conference. Furthermore, this event is an insult to even the
concept of climate justice and the indigenous peoples, so we call for
you to picket outside the aptly and despicably named Hotel 1620 (180
Water street, Plymouth) where it will be hosted on 10/16/25. Reaching
out to the hotel to demand cancellation is also encouraged.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed, land back, and free palestine.
Plymouth Anarchist Collective's have a Linktree https://linktr.ee/plyac
with their social medias and a signal group on.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/27/a-letter-to-bill-nye-communique/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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who organise in and around Plymough, Massachusetts, USA. There are
contact details at the end for those who might wish to contact with
them. FA]---- Bill Nye The Science Guy is coming to Plymouth in October
2025 as the Keynote Speaker for the Plymouth Foundation's annual Blue
Future Conference. This conference, the organization behind it, and the
hiring of Bill Nye as a speaker all exemplify the epitome of
greenwashing. ---- The Blue Future Conference is marketed as a
"launchpad for ideas, innovation, and partnerships that are transforming
the region's marine economy." While centering technocratic approaches to
so-called "sustainability" and "innovation" in the marine sector, the
conference hilariously also has a panel on climate resilience. Their
website boasts that Bill "has a relevant and inspiring message for
people to be good stewards of our planet and science-engaged in today's
world."
The Plymouth Foundation hosting this conference is a quasi-governmental
non-profit that is driving deforestation, private commercial
development, and ecologically catastrophic sand and gravel mining in
Pine Barren forests throughout Plymouth. Their actions are actively
driving biodiversity loss and making our communities more vulnerable
amidst escalating ecological crises.
A May 2025 report by the Community Land and Water Coalition provides
substantial evidence that the relationship between the Plymouth
Foundation and the Town of Plymouth functions to funnel public and
Indigenous lands into private hands without public transparency. The
distinction between the Town and the Foundation is ambiguous, as several
town officials (ie Derek Brindisi, Town Manager & Lee Hartman, Director
of Planning & Development) work as directors at the Foundation in what
is clearly an unethical conflict of interest. The foundation has also
received $2 million in taxpayer dollars as a part of its agreement with
the town.
Since its inception in 2001, the Foundation and the town have
collaborated to facilitate the destruction of several sensitive
ecosystems, including on the ancestral reservation lands of the Herring
Pond Wampanoag Tribe in what were violations of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and brazen acts
of settler-colonial violence.
In one example, the Town sold a 33 acre parcel of publicly held
conservation land in 2022 - which should have been under the
jurisdiction of the tribe given its location within their reservation
boundaries - to the Plymouth Foundation for a whopping $1. In February
2025, the foundation sold the parcel to Standish Investment Group LLC
and EJ Pontiff for $3.4 million. They clearcut the forest and proceeded
to mine the land via sand & gravel mining. They shamelessly profiteer
off of Ecocide and ongoing genocide of native americans. This is a
microcosmic example of how settler colonial violence continues to
replicate today, the fundamental role of capitalism in driving
ecological degradation, and the role of the State in serving Capital
accumulation over people + sustainability.
The Foundation currently has approx $2.3 million assets, which largely
come from land sales to private developers and sand & gravel mining - a
form of earth removal that requires clear cutting forests and
aggressively mining the earth to the extent that restoration becomes
impossible. Sand mining also poses a dire public health crisis due to
the resulting pollution of our aquifer and production of carcinogenic
silica dust that gets blown around town and inhaled.
The sand & gravel mining crisis is a part of a larger issue of
escalating regional deforestation driven by private "development" &
sanctioned by municipialities that is dramatically altering our local
landscapes, plummeting biodiversity, and making our communities less
resilient amidst climate collapse.
If the Plymouth Foundation were serious about encouraging people to
become "science engaged" and "good stewards of our planet," they
wouldn't be generating assets and reaping profits from its destruction
and ignoring the most basic science on climate resiliency and
mitigation. This conference and it's greenwashing marketing tactics are
an absolute slap in the face to anyone who actually cares about
escalating local & global ecological collapse, and the organization
behind it exemplifies the sly depravity of the neoliberal
non-profit-industrial-complex.
To Mr. Nye we say this:
Bill will you help us save our home?
Many of us grew up watching you and admiring your example. You taught us
to have a love for science and that love of science in turn has taught
many of us around the world that life and ecology are precious things.
The Plymouth Foundation, who you have partnered with as a keynote
speaker at their Blue Future Conference, does not understand this or
show any concern for the ecological consequences of their actions admist
escalating climate change.
A scientist who sets a globe on fire on cable TV to sound the alarm on
anthropogenic climate change and ecological catastrophe ought to know
better than to partake in the coverup for those complicit in that
emergency. The Plymouth County Anarchists, on behalf of Earth itself and
the future generations of our species, ask that you cancel your
appearance and connections with the Plymouth Foundation for the
aforementioned policy reasons. We ask that you continue to be an example
to us and to the youth of today of what an ethical scientist is.
To the people of "massachusetts"
We encourage you all to reach out to Bill Nye (bnsg@billnye.com) and his
representatives (Evenchick_D@unitedtalent.com) to urge them to cancel
his support for the Plymouth Foundation and his appearance at their Blue
Future Conference. Furthermore, this event is an insult to even the
concept of climate justice and the indigenous peoples, so we call for
you to picket outside the aptly and despicably named Hotel 1620 (180
Water street, Plymouth) where it will be hosted on 10/16/25. Reaching
out to the hotel to demand cancellation is also encouraged.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed, land back, and free palestine.
Plymouth Anarchist Collective's have a Linktree https://linktr.ee/plyac
with their social medias and a signal group on.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/08/27/a-letter-to-bill-nye-communique/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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