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Thoughts on Post-Election Strategy (Tim DeChristopher)
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
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Statement of Ken Ward at his Arraignment
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
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Democracy Now: Jay O’Hara and Afrin Sopariwala Discuss #SHUTITDOWN Action
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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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