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Activists Who Crawled Into Fracked Gas Pipeline Found Guilty
PRESS ADVISORY January 8, 2019 Contact: Resist Spectra Media Liaison, Lee Ziesche 954-415-6228, lee@saneenergyproject.org Photos: Resist Spectra Climate Trial Verdict Activists Who Crawled Into Fracked Gas Pipeline Found Guilty In Narrow Ruling, Granted Unconditional Release Cortlandt, New York – Today, Cortlandt Town Justice Kimberly Ragazzo found three New Yorkers — Rebecca Berlin, David Publow, and Janet González — guilty of trespass, rejecting the climate necessity defense;
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Finding Peace in Troubled Times
On Monday night I went out with my in-laws to a Christmas Eve service in upstate New York. The big crowd gathered in the chapel on the campus of Cornell University, and the minister hit all the right notes for this presumably liberal crowd: alluding to the occupant of the White House, pleading the cause
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Direct Action on a Deeper Level
Today, we are excited to get to tell you about a project we’ve been working on over the past year – one that we hope could be a major new force in the climate justice movement. This week three of us are headed to California for the first ‘on-boarding’ into a new national network of locally
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The Climate Disobedience Center Is Going South (Literally)!
As science-fiction writer Octavia Butler put it – the only truth we know is change. Our planet’s climate changes; our lives change, too. If we are fortunate, we grow older by the day, time reshapes our beloved friends and families in so many ways, and our relationship to ourselves, each other, and our planet remain fluid. Here
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Reflections from the Minnesota Valve Tuners Trial
The primary lesson reinforced by the Minnesota Valve Turners Trial is that with climate necessity defense trials, and other political trials, you never know what you’re going to get, and you have to be ready for anything. I’ve attended quite a few trials that were almost necessity defense trials, or what we hoped could have
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Welcome Emma!
In 2018 we have been expanding our reach, and we are scaling up. There is a lot of work to do. As part of that new energy, we are excited to announce that Emma Schoenberg is joining the Climate Disobedience Center as our newest Fellow. Emma is a Vermont-born community organizer and trainer, who got her
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Introducing Praxis Groups
This year, the Climate Disobedience Center has launched a new experiment – and invites you to join us. Collectively, we have come to understand the need for morally imaginative, strategic, and decisive climate disobedience. Yet, within our own selves and our work as climate activists – we also hear the call for deep connection, community,
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Another Climate Trial Today!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Climate Necessity Defense Moves Ahead in Duluth Wells Fargo Lockdown Trial Duluth, MN, October 18, 2018 — The trial of Scot Bol, Ernesto Burbank, and Michael Niemi — the three people who performed an act of civil disobedience last January 12 at the downtown Duluth branch of Wells Fargo — will take
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Minnesota Valve Turners #ClimateTrial begins
The climate trial we’ve been waiting for begins this morning in Bagley, Minnesota. If you need a refresher on what this trial is about, check out Wen Stephenson’s analysis in The Nation. As our friends, Annette and Emily (Valve Turners) and Ben (support team) head to court, they are surrounded by supporters, and they are ready to