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Disobedience is our middle name
In 2017, it seemed like suddenly everyone was talking about disobedience. Even military leaders talked openly about disobeying some of Trump’s most despotic and destructive orders. Droves of new activists realized that they could no longer just go with flow but had to resist and disobey. In an article in the New York Times earlier
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Supporting Civil Disobedience in Maine
Maine Clergy Risk Arrest in Civil Disobedience Action Against Immoral Tax Bill to Remind Senator Collins of Biblical Responsibility to Protect the Poor and Vulnerable Portland, ME — On Thursday, December 7th at 11 a.m., faith leaders will lead a nonviolent, faith-based civil disobedience action, calling on Senator Susan Collins to reject the tax bill
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The Tide Is Rising
Climate Disobedience Center Fellow, and Clergy Climate Action Founder, Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman shares her story of faithful action on the West Roxbury fracked gas pipeline.
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#GivingTuesday: Harnessing the Power of Our Vulnerability
The Climate Disobedience Center truly NEEDS your support to sustain our unique and revolutionary work. From using civil disobedience trials as movement building opportunities to cultivating small groups that holistically fortify activists, the Climate Disobedience Center continues to strive for adaptable, effective and principled ways of defending a livable future. Donate to keep our work
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Transforming the Blocks to Climate Disobedience: Community
As we relaunch the Climate Disobedience Center, we are placing a significant amount of emphasis in our work on building community. This might seem like a strange departure, and a bit incongruous with the state that the world is in now when the signals of urgency are all around: the dire circumstances in Puerto Rico
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Fossil Fuel Congress Asks Jeff Sessions To Label Climate Action “Terrorism”
On October 23rd, 2017, 84 members of congress submitted a letter to Attorney General Sessions regarding nonviolent direct action on crude oil pipelines. The letter, backed by American Petroleum Institute, Association of Oil Pipe Lines, and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, is a dishonest effort to smear the climate movement, and fabricate a
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Celebrating New Growth and New Partnerships at CDC
It has been two years since we launched the Climate Disobedience Center, and those have been two seriously big years. We are in a dramatically different political situation, and our movement is also in a significantly different position. As activists and movement leaders, we strive to constantly reassess the context of our struggle and identify
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Climate Necessity Defense Approved By Minnesota Judge In Tar Sands “Valve Turners” Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 2017 Contact: Marla Marcum, Climate Disobedience Center, marla@climatedisobedience.org, 781-475-0996 Jay O’Hara, Climate Disobedience Center, jay@climatedisobedience.org, 774-313-0881 One year after Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein entered a valve site to manually shut down the flow of oil in two Enbridge tar sands pipelines near Leonard, Minnesota, District Court judge Robert Tiffany granted a
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#ClimateTrial starts MONDAY in North Dakota
Michael Foster knew what he had to do last October when he turned the valve that shut off the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota: “Stop the poison.” Monday October 2nd, Michael heads to trial in Cavalier, North Dakota to make exactly that point: that he had no reasonable alternative to address the magnitude of the climate crisis, and