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Webinar: Holding It Together
Bringing together Kazu Haga, Michelle Fournier and the Climate Disobedience Center’s Marla Marcum and Tim DeChristopher.
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Resist Spectra Trial
I’m writing today to make sure you’ve heard the news about a necessity defense climate trial in Cortlandt, New York where six defendants have been granted a necessity defense by Judge Kimberly Ragazzo. Although the Westchester District Attorney’s office reduced charges to a level that denies these pipeline fighters a jury trial, their case is
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We have a Summer Intern!
We are excited to welcome Hannah Chodosh as our 2018 Summer Intern! Hannah is originally from New Jersey and is a rising senior at the University of Vermont. At UVM she is majoring in English and minoring in Environmental Studies. In Spring of 2017 Hannah interned with 350 Vermont, and comes to CDC with a keen interest in writing about
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Necessity Defense Webcast
Last week Jay and Marla participated in a webcast that covered an overview of the climate necessity defense, a discussion of its uses for movement organizing, and an update on current cases. Kelsey Skaggs from the Climate Defense Project and Valve Turner Ben Joldersma also participated in the discussion. Thanks to Stand.Earth for hosting this
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Welcome to Moona Cancino
We are delighted to announce that Moona Cancino is the latest CDC Fellow! Moona is engaging in the efforts to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline which both run through the Commonwealth of Virginia. As a cancer survivor and a mother, Moona found herself needing to develop practices that heal her mind,
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Climate Disobedience Snapshot
There are a bunch of exciting things happening in the climate disobedience world that we want to hi-lite at the start of April. Judge Approves #NoDAPL Activist Chase Iron Eyes’ Demand For Withheld Evidence Read the full story from Indian Country Today From the Lakota People’s Law Project Facebook page: “Yesterday [April 4th], the Judge in Chase Iron Eyes’
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West Roxbury Cases Head to #ClimateTrial
For the last two years, I have worked to lead a sustained resistance campaign to a fracked gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts through more than a dozen civil disobedience actions and an extended legal process. Now those activists are finally going to trial on March 27th. Support the West Roxbury #ClimateTrial TODAY The judge has been
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Experiments with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The title of Gandhi’s autobiography is “The Story of My Experiments with Truth.” While the book is more focused on his own personal habits and spiritual disciplines rather than his political and strategic thoughts on satyagraha, the idea is one that motivated a group to gather in Virginia and North Carolina over the last three
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Interfaith Conference on Climate Change
Tim DeChristopher and Bryan Cahall were the keynote speakers at the Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light annual conference in 2017. Tim discussed some of the thinking behind our focus on building Praxis Groups in 2018. Their part of the video starts at 16:30.