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Support Direct Action and the #SHUTITDOWN Activists
PLEASE SHARE! These activists, their support team, and documentarians NEED YOUR HELP FOR BAIL – DONATE NOW: http://www.shutitdown.today/donate
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PRESS RELEASE: To avert climate catastrophe, activists shut down 5 pipelines bringing Tar Sands Oil into the U.S, in Solidarity with Standing Rock
PRESS RELEASE: To avert climate catastrophe, activists shut down 5 pipelines bringing Tar Sands Oil into the U.S, in Solidarity with Standing RockPress Contact: Afrin Sopariwala 408.598.7656 jay@climatedisobedience.org Photos Credits: For all photos in this release, please credit “www.shutitdown.today“ This morning, by 7:30AM Pacific time, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United
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Breaking the Will to Do Evil: On Various Conceptualizations of Climate Action
This text emerges out of the experience of organizing against climate catastrophe over the years, in a variety of forms but often focusing on direct action—e.g. blockades and other forms of direct intervention in, and disruption of, the economic machine that is killing everything. Initially, it is presented as a response to debates about an
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Announcing ClergyClimateAction.org
Clergy from many traditions in Boston blocking construction of fracked gas pipeline: American Baptist, Buddhist, Episcopal, Hindu, Jewish, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalist. This morning 16 interfaith Clergy sat down on the edge of the trench being dug by Spectra Energy in West Roxbury, Massachusetts and halted construction on the lateral fracked gas
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Welcome to our new Fellow!
We are pleased to welcome our first Fellow to the Climate Disobedience Center! Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman is the Assistant Rabbi of Temple Sinai of Brookline, MA, a vibrant and progressive Reform congregation. She has founded a new initiative, ClergyClimateAction.org, which aims to network clergy from across faith traditions to step into leadership roles in taking
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Gary Braasch’s climate activism
I think Gary Braasch, climate change photographer and activist who died this week, had the worst job. Most of us pick and choose when to pay attention to the relentless fraying of the fabric of our world. Friends who are upbeat one day disappear and return days later, ashen, having wandered into reading the latest climate
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“Chilling Effect” of Coast Guard Fines in Shell Arctic Climate Action
For nearly three days, Chiara D’Angelo hung from the anchor chain of the Arctic Challenger, a support vessel for Royal Dutch Shell’s summer, 2015 arctic drilling expedition, docked in Bellingham, WA, supported for part of that time by Matt Fuller. For much of that time, Matt says, “We sang to the crew and the Coast
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Letter to Oregon Environmental & Climate Action Leaders
Dear Friends, I am writing to you – some old friends, some new, and some I have yet to meet – out of the blue, but these are increasingly desperate times and the easy graces of protocol must be weighed against the seriousness of the climate crisis and lateness of the hour. I keep receiving upbeat
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Press Release: Jury in Delta 5 Climate Case Splits Decision, Shares Sympathy With Protesters
For Immediate Release: Jury in Delta 5 Climate Case Splits Decision, Shares Sympathy With ProtestersContact Ahmed Gaya 773-960-2587, adgaya@gmail.comJanuary 15, 2016 Lynnwood, WA – The historic case of the ‘Delta 5’ train blockaders has ended with a conviction on one of the two charges. After four days of testimony from the defendants and their expert witness