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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
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The Valve Turners
On October 11th, 5 activists shut down all five pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands into the US. This is their story.
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A Special Message from Tim DeChristopher
Friends, Despite the obvious threats we face as activists and as a civilization, I feel deeply grateful for where my life is at right now. In addition to my personal fulfillment, I’m grateful for the ability to do meaningful work as an activist struggling for a better world. Nearly everything that defines my life today
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Post Election Strategy Conversation (Round 2)
In this post, Climate Disobedience Center Founders engage one another in conversation about our individual initial thoughts on post-election strategy. We have decided to have this conversation publicly and openly. We are not running our ideas or words by one another before we post them because we know that our best strategies emerge through conversation. We
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Thoughts on Post-Election Strategy (Jay O’Hara)
These are my first thoughts, and I hope you will share your ideas. For links to post-election thoughts from my fellow Climate Disobedience Center Founders and updates on the conversation, click here. Before jumping into post-election analysis a short reality-grounding. I want to start with a bit of context of where we are with the climate
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Thoughts on Post-Election Strategy (Marla Marcum)
These are my first thoughts, and I hope you will share your ideas. For links to post-election thoughts from my fellow Climate Disobedience Center Founders and updates on the conversation, click here. When we launched the Climate Disobedience Center, I argued that we should define “disobedience” more broadly than “civil disobedience” because we need to build