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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
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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