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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
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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