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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
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Coal’s Final Implosion In Massachusetts
This weekend on the South Coast of Massachusetts we’re going to get to witness the end of an era in the state, when a controlled demolition implodes the huge cooling towers on Saturday April 27th. Providence’s Extraordinary Rendition Band will provide the soundtrack for a jubilant dance party in Fall River’s Kennedy Park at 8AM that morning.
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Finding the Field across the fields of Vermont
It’s a badly-kept secret that I love taking long walks. That started for me in 2005 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail and got mixed with climate activism starting with the Energy Exodus walk in 2013, and with two Quaker-led climate pilgrimages along pipeline routes and between coal plants in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. So
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Statement on Pipeline Executive Orders
As the climate crisis grows ever more urgent, Trump signed two executive orders today that expedite oil and gas pipelines and undermine states’ rights to protect themselves from the assault of the fossil fuel industry. This was yet another reminder that our government is run by a nihilistic sociopath who serves the whims of an industry
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Climate Activists Shut Down Enbridge Pipelines in Northern Minnesota
Contact/Media Inquiries: Diane Leutgeb Munson, (218) 565-3660, 4necessitymn@gmail.com Follow on Social Media: Twitter: @4necessity; Instagram: @4necessity; #4necessity #ValveTurners #ActOnClimate Monday morning, February 4, four climate activists in Blackberry Township, Minnesota closed safety valves on a crude oil pipeline belonging to the Canadian energy corporation Enbridge. This is an escalation of ongoing activism aimed at Enbridge, which is facing stiff resistance to their