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VERDICT: Delta 5 defendants found not guilty obstruction, guilty of trespass. Receive no jail time.
UPDATED: Read trial verdict press release here. JURORS celebrate the Delta 5 in an unprecedented climate trial! THE VERDICT: The defendants were found not guilty on obstruction of train charges, guilty of trespass. The judge issued 90 days suspended (no jail time) and minor fines for each defendant, except LaPointe, who gets no fine. This
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Delta 5 Media Hits
As the trial of Abby Brockway, Mike Lapointe, Patrick Mazza, Jackie Minchew, and Liz Spoerri unfolds over the next week we’ll be posting media updates here. The Guardian – A crime justified by climate change? Activists caught in legal showdown. Click below for a full list of media hits. Quartz – A judge just dealt a bitter setback
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Blessing of Delta 5 Trial, Abby Brockway’s Sermon
The message Abby delivered at the Climate Justice Sunday at The Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, January 10th, 2016. Isaiah 43:1-7 — A lesson From a Prophet God of LOVE… May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you. In December 2015 leaders representing over 190 countries converged in Paris for
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Climate Justice Sunday with the #Delta5
This morning, the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church in Seattle observed Climate Justice Sunday, celebrating the Delta 5 oil train blockaders offering them a blessing on the final day before their historic trial begins in Lynnwood, Washington. This extraordinary congregation welcomed television cameras, radio reporters, and a documentary crew along with over 60 guests from other faith communities and people
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Press Release: Historic Climate Trial Starts Monday In Lynnwood, WA
For Immediate Release: Historic Climate Trial Starts Monday In LynnwoodContact: Ahmed Gaya, adgaya@gmail.com, 773-960-2587,Friday, January 8th, 2016 Lynnwood, WA – Five community members who blocked the path of an explosive oil train in Everett last year will finally go to trial in Snohomish County on Monday. In a surprise ruling Judge Anthony E. Howard has allowed
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Building Long Term Resistance in West Roxbury
Long term, sustaining, mass mobilization direct action campaigns are stopping fossil fuel infrastructure projects. This isn’t how I imagined this could work, but it’s proving to be a powerful new arrow in the climate movement quiver. Our own Marla Marcum’s experience in West Roxbury, Massachusetts points to a fruitful method that the climate movement is
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Liz Spoerri: Conservative, Logical and Hopeful
Five courageous climate dissidents are preparing to go to trial in Washington State on January 11. In September 2014 Abby Brockway, Mike Lapointe, Patrick Mazza, Jackie Minchew, and Liz Spoerri blockaded a train used to transport bakken shale oil at the Delta rail yard in Everett. They are preparing to use a necessity defense, arguing in court that their actions were necessary
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Paris Buzzkill
I don’t know any critic of the Paris climate agreement who wouldn’t love to be wrong. Perhaps the consensus climate science hasn’t been skewed to appear like we have time when, in fact, there isn’t any left. Perhaps the emboldened political leaders of the world will overcome the immense weight of greed and lethargy. Perhaps