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On Reparations, Resources, and Relationships
I hope this finds you and your family and friends healthy and doing as well as is possible under the circumstances. I want to invite you into some of our personal and collective commitments at the Climate Disobedience Center to participate in the creation of a more just and equitable world. The COVID-19 pandemic brings…
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We Need Each Other
We were already in unprecedented times while staring down the barrel of the climate crisis. And now we’re in a pandemic that is pulling our attention to real immediate needs in communities across the country. Many of us have been practicing all our lives how to handle crisis situations. For some this experience of societal…
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Coal Resupply Train Blockaded in Two States
This weekend across two states, a community of climate activists stopped 10,000 tons of coal in its tracks in three successive train blockades. This is the next step in a campaign that started in August to shut down the Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, New Hampshire – the last large coal-fired power plant in New…
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BREAKING: Second Blockade of Same Coal Train (now in Ayer, MA)
Sent from our friend, Wen Stephenson, on behalf of his affinity group and others gathered to block a coal train headed for Bow, NH (just before 4:00 AM on Sunday, December 8th) I send this from the freight tracks in Ayer, Mass., where I’m among those currently blockading a freight train carrying thousands of tons…
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BREAKING: Coal Train Blockade in Worcester, MA!
ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, MEMBERS OF THE WORCESTER COMMUNITY BLOCKADED A COAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO THE MERRIMACK PLANT IN BOW, NH Worcester, MA — Currently, more than 20 members of the Worcester community’s student climate justice groups are blocking a Coal Train heading to the Merrimack Plant in Bow, NH. The students blocking the…
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A Few Thoughts on the Necessity Defense
As with any tactic for responding to the climate crisis, the use of the necessity defense in civil disobedience trials is subject to misinformation from a variety of sources. Regardless of the intentions of those sources of misinformation, part of our job is to routinely reiterate the facts and clarify where we stand. There is of course…
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You Too, Have All the Tools You Need
I was arrested a week ago. Getting arrested is good for news headlines and Facebook statuses. But getting arrested wasn’t the point. We were trying to remove fuel from the fire that’s burning our planet. This specific fire: the coal-fired Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, NH. But that wasn’t the point either. The point was…
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Transformation is Long Work
I have spent the past week reveling in the beauty of the climate strikes mingled with many ongoing grassroots fights for justice. I feel deeply connected to and grateful for the energy that is rising. I am also conscious that this one moment didn’t achieve the transformation we need – not yet. This is for all…
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Climate Activists Take Principled Action To Remove Coal From Merrimack Generating Station
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 20, 2019 Press contact: Jay O’Hara, 774-313-0881jay@climatedisobedience.org Concord, NH – On Saturday, August 17th 2019, eight determined New Englanders, supported by a team of more than a dozen others, removed over 500lbs of coal from the fuel pile at Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, New Hampshire. This facility is the largest coal-fired…