Civil Disobedience Archive
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Former Obama Organizers Surround the White House on November 6th
Posted on November 4, 2011 | 7 CommentsI am frustrated with the President I helped elect. I feel cheated. I have watched, bewildered by the line of Wall Street cronies appointed to positions in his cabinet. This is not what I worked so hard for. -
Tar Sands Action on the Ground & Moving Forward
Posted on September 3, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis action has shown an inspiring level of collaboration from a wide variety of organizations and individuals. But moving forward will require even greater acts of sustained resistance, including occupations without ending dates where wave after wave of people come together and do not back down until their demands for justice are met. -
Terry Tempest Williams speaks the truth on Tim DeChristopher
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 7 CommentsIf we allow the law to dictate what is fair as in the case of putting Tim DeChristopher behind bars—for committing civil disobedience in the name of a livable future, for raising a paddle to expose corruption between industry and government—then we are not just prisoners but slaves to the corporations in bed with the courts. -
Tim DeChristopher’s call for Stubbornness
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 7 CommentsTaking the steps forward we need, like passing a decent carbon tax, involves overthrowing the corporations currently controlling our government, and we know they'll be pretty stubborn in holding on to their power. -
Tim DeChristopher’s Imprisonment: Our Call to Action!
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 31 CommentsConsider this your call to action. Consider this the spark that will ignite this movement. We demand today and tomorrow a healthy and just world for our children and for our children's children. And we will not stop until the real criminals--the fossil fuel industry that is raping and pillaging our planet--be held accountable. -
Tim’s official statement at his sentencing hearing
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 88 CommentsAt this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow. The choice you are making today is what side are you on. -
Breaking: Tim DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison, taken immediately into custody
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 30 CommentsThe government's statement is clear. Tim has been sentenced to 2 years as punishment for his politics; for the uncompromising content of his speeches and organizing. This sentence is a call to action. For Tim's sacrifice to truly mean something, for the spark it ignites in each of us to burn, we all must take action. -
Time to Take a Stand: A DOI Activist’s View
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsThere is too much at stake. Choosing not to act would be in and of itself an act of violence against my children and hundreds of future generations. -
The Day They Lost Their Shackles
Posted on April 24, 2011 | 3 CommentsIf we are to prevail in this struggle--if we are to build that just, equitable world out of the competitive and destructive one we have now--many more will have to join those arrested at the Department of Interior. Many more will have to stand up and be counted and say that we are the Applachians, the Gulf Coast dwellers, the Albertans. It will not be easy, but if there's one thing I learned this weekend it is that none of us will have to do it alone. -
A bold and brave new face for our movement: Action at Power Shift
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsMonday morning, more than 800 marchers followed Rising Tide North America and Peaceful Uprising to the Department of the Interior for peaceful nonviolent direct action.
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