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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
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Patrick Mazza: Why I Moved to Direct Action
Five individuals are going to trial January 11th for blockading an oil train in Everett, Washington in September 2014. Patrick Mazza, along with Abby Brockway, Mike Lapointe, Jackie Minchew, and Liz Spoerri are sharing their motivations and stories with us in the weeks leading up to the trial. They are preparing to use a necessity defense, arguing in court that
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CDC Resources: Climate Necessity
We’ve just published a pamphlet on using the Necessity Defense as a legal tactic for the climate movement. The pamphlet digs into the circumstances under which one would use such a defense, what the process of using this defense would look like, and some recent case history in the climate movement. This piece was researched and written
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Anyone can do it: Ken Ward #ExxonKnew protest in Portland, Oregon
On Monday, Nov. 16, inspired by recent Bill McKibben’s #ExxonKnew protest, I blocked a gas pump at a Mobil station in NE Portland, Oregon for about an hour before being arrested. This video by Lindsey Grayzel follows the action and arrest and we hope will encourages others to take such action. Photos / Tweets from Bill’s #ExxonKnew protest:
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No Alternatives But To Use Our Bodies
This is the first in a series of posts to dig deeper in to the underlying principles of the Climate Disobedience Center. We invite you to join the conversation in the comments! The Climate Disobedience Center is a strange organization in some ways. Marla, Ken, Tim and I have come together finding ourselves less driven by
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Obedience To What? Abby Brockway and Others Head to Trial in Washington
Five courageous climate dissidents are preparing to go to trial in Everett, Washington 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
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Invitational Action – The Lobster Boat A Year Later
As we launch the Climate Disobedience Center, it’s hard to believe it was just over a year ago on September 8th, that Ken, Marla, Tim and I, with 140 of our dearest friends, were waiting outside the Fall River Justice Center at the Lobster Boat Blockade Trial, when District Attorney Sam Sutter stunned us all saying