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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.
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Supporting Climate Dissidents Heading To Trial
As we close out 2017, we’re reflecting on the time and energy that so many climate dissidents and supporters have spent preparing for and going to trial this year. And we are looking forward to supporting four more climate trials in the first half of 2018. We launched the Climate Disobedience Center after our own
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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