RECENT COVERAGE

Climate activists in New England can finally celebrate ‘the end of coal’ – Waging Nonviolence, Siobhan Senier, April 16, 2024

Worried about the Climate Crisis? Just Start Doing Something – Common Dreams, Sabine Von Mering, February 9, 2024

New England climate activists sentenced for anticoal civil disobedience action – The Boston Globe, Dharna Noor, May 17, 2022

Climate activists who blocked coal train stand trial in New Hampshire – Staff, Liberation, March 30, 2022

Voices From the Front Lines of a Climate Direct Action Campaign – The Nation, Wen Stephenson, February 7, 2020

Coal Train Protesters Target One of New England’s Last Big Coal Power Plants – Inside Climate News, Phil McKenna, January 4, 2020

FEATURED COVERAGE

Companies Decry ‘Valve Turners’ Who Shut Down Pipelines – Associated Press, March 9, 2019

This Landmark Trial of Climate Activists Puts the Political System Itself on Trial – The Nation, Wen Stephenson, October 5, 2018

Sometimes Fighting Climate Change Means Breaking The Law – The New Yorker, April 3, 2018

The Boston climate trial that might have been – Wen Stephenson, Commonwealth Magazine, March 28, 2018

‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’: How a Group of Five Activists Called the Valve Turners Decided to Fight Global Warming by Doing Whatever It Takes – New York Times, Michelle Nijhuis, February 13, 2018

Civil Disobedience often leads to jail. But now, protesters can explain themselves. – Tim DeChristopher, The Guardian, January 13, 2016

Tim DeChristopher: End All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands – DemocracyNow!, September 17, 2015 (Tim discusses the #KeepItInTheGround campaign and the launch of Climate Disobedience Center!) 

Activists Harness the ‘Francis Effect’ to Demand Action on Climate Change – Take Part,  Emily J. Gertz, Sept. 17. 2015 (Marla discusses the launch of the Climate Disobedience Center!)

FEATURED OPINION PIECES & PRESS RELEASES:

Washington Court of Appeals Upholds Right to Present Necessity Defense In Climate Case – Climate Defense Project, April 8, 2019

Break the Law to Make the Law: Importance of Protest for Climate Justice – Alice Cherry, Ted Hamilton, and Kelsey Skaggs (The Climate Defense Project team), OpEd, The Hill, March 31, 2019 

Valve Turner’s View: Action Taken ‘In the Face of Extinction’ – Michele Naar-Obed, OpEd, Duluth News Tribune, March 30, 2019

Valve Turner’s View: Doing Nothing About Oil, Pipelines Poses the Far Greater Risk – Daniel Yildirim, OpEd, Duluth News Tribune, February 23, 2019 

Courts Across US Move Closer To Finding Civil Disobedience Necessary To Avert Climate Change – Climate Disobedience Center, April 17, 2018