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Michael Foster, Valve Turner and Climate Dissident
The valve turners are producing a series of videos on each of the activists who turned the valves and shut down 15% of the US oil supply on October 11, 2016. Each of them are ordinary individuals with a compelling vision of action in these times of crisis. Michael Foster goes to trial October 2nd
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Leonard Higgins, Valve Turner and Climate Dissident
The valve turners are producting a series of videos on each of the activists who turned the valves and shut down 15% of the US oil supply on October 11, 2016. Each of them are ordinary individuals with a compelling vision of action in these times of crisis. We are happy to help share their
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Highlights from the First Day of Ken Ward’s Re-Trial
Thanks to Climate Disobedience Center Fellow, Nicky Bradford, for this great overview of Day 1 of Ken Ward’s re-trial in Skagit County, Washington. You’ll find the post and links to social media updates here (on the front page of ShutItDown.Today).
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Book Review: Against Doom
Jeremy Brecher, noted labor historian, is out with a new book growing out of his earlier work, Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. I got to review the book in Waging Nonviolence, where I write: “To the outward eye, the climate movement looks to be back on its heels, reeling from the ascendancy of a fossil fuel
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUDGE DENIES CLIMATE ACTIVIST’S NECESSITY DEFENSE, RESTRICTING RIGHT TO DEFEND PROTEST AT TRIAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMAY 10, 2017 Contact:Kelsey SkaggsClimate Defence Project510-883-3118kelsey@climatedefenseproject.org Jay O’HaraClimate Disobedience Center774-313-0881jay@climatedisobedience.org Mount Vernon, WA — A Washington state judge has ruled that Ken Ward, a climate activist who who helped to temporarily block the flow of tar sands oil from Canada to the United States in an October protest, cannot present the climate
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Love in a Time of Cataclysm
On March 19th I delivered the sermon at Northshore United Church of Christ in Woodinville, Washington. Here’s the text, and you can click on more to find the video. Good morning everyone, and thank you for inviting me here to speak with you. I haven’t given a sermon in over a decade so I did some research, because
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Press Release 30Jan2017 Ken Ward #ClimateTrial
Historic Climate Trials Begin Today in Skagit County Activists who “shook the North American energy industry”, not cowed In new political era FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January, 30th, 2017 Mount Vernon, WA Contact: Ahmed Gaya, 773-960-2587, adgaya@gmail.com Jay O’Hara, 774-313-0881, jay@climatedisobedience.org For live updates follow: @ClimateDisobey @enjohnston Supporters and fellow valve-turners will provide updates via facebook live at
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Climate Disobedience Center Co-Founder, Ken Ward, heads to trial January 30th Ken Ward is headed to trial on January 30th for shutting down a tar sands pipeline
Climate Disobedience Center Co-Founder, Ken Ward, heads to trial January 30th Ken Ward is headed to trial on January 30th for shutting down a tar sands pipeline. We’ll be tweeting from @ClimateDisobey and posting at the action Facebook page. You can learn more about the action and trial support at ShutItDown.Today. Please consider a donation to help us support Ken and
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Reflections from #DisruptJ20 and the Women’s March
Over the years that I’ve been giving speeches, workshops, and interviews, I have frequently said that the climate movement is going to have to get a lot tougher. I usually say this in the context of acknowledging the hard truths of the catastrophic levels of climate change that are now inevitable, based on my assumption