No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response

Had we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see people engaged in furious attempts to fend off the moral challenge it presents.

In UpdatesBy CDP
Climate Defense Project
April 8, 2019
Contact: Kelsey Skaggs, (510) 883-3118; info@climatedefenseproject.org

Student Strikes for Climate Justice

ENVIRONMENT  •  March 27, 2019

[Arrested on March 23, 2018, Reiss pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court and was sentenced to 25 hours community service.]

I want to thank you, Your Honour, for allowing this opportunity to explain why I took the action for which I am pleading guilty.

Policy tweaks won’t do it, we need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital

[Gooderham was sentenced to 28 days in jail - the stiffest sentence so far in these cases - for violating the Court injunction against obstructing the work of TransMountain Pipelines Inc at its Burnaby B.C. terminal. He was released on bail pending appeal.]