Actions (20) Courts (including trials) (25) Disobedience (21) Mental Health (1) No Coal No Gas campaign (5) Organization (20) Resilience & Resistance (22) Solidarity (14) Transformation (4) Year-In-Review (2)
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On October 11th, 5 activists shut down all five pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands into the US. This is their story.
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
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
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
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
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. With the election of Donald Trump, we are entering a different chapter for the climate movement in this country, one in which we will
Statement of Ken Ward at his Arraignment on Charges of Burglary, Criminal Trespass, Sabotage and Assemblages of Saboteurs October 20, 2016 in Mt. Vernon, WA I have been charged by the Prosecuting Attorney for Skagit County, Washington with four crimes – burglary, criminal trespass, sabotage and assemblages of saboteurs – for my action last Tuesday, closing
Watch Jay O’Hara and Afrin Sopariwala discussing the #SHUTITDOWN action on today’s episode of Democracy Now! Transcript and full episode audio and video are available here. DemocracyNow! Show Notes: Ten climate activists were arrested Tuesday for attempting to shut down all tar sands oil coming into the United States from Canada by manually turning off pipelines in
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