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In Solidarity with Poor Churches: Embodying the Faith of Dr. King Originally Posted: 01/18/2012 - 8:43am | Type: Blog: Last Thursday, Jan. 12, I was arrested in the Bronx for civil disobedience along with 43 others. It was a group that consisted mainly of clergy and church laity, a grassroots evangelical effort led by Bronx Coun ...
#OccupyWallStreet: Helpful Links Originally Posted: 10/06/2011 - 6:53am | Type: Blog: We've compiled a list of links where you can learn more about the genesis of the #OccupyWallStreet movement. Quick recap Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, ...
One Dress Protest: How I Found Freedom in Prison Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: Last Saturday, August 20, 2011, I got arrested. Having never been arrested before, it feels strange to write that. Last Saturday, August 20, 2011, I got arrested. Having never been a ...
More than 1,000 Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: As of this morning, more than 1,009 Americans have been arrested to bring national attention to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. This is what church looks like. As of this mor ...
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sand Originally Posted: 09/12/2011 - 3:32pm | Type: Magazine Article: Bill McKibben This may be the largest civil disobedience yet around global warming. The usual standard for wr ...
Climate Witness as Act of Faithfulness Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: The earth dries up and withers ... The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. - Isaiah 24:4-6 ...
A Call to Civil Disobedience Against the Keystone Pipeline Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced recently to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction in 2008 that was later deemed illegal. ...
Inspired by Rosa Parks, Israeli and Palestinian Women Take a Swim Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: An account in The New York Times by Ethan Bronner reports that Israeli women and West Bank Palestinian women and girls have once again broken Israeli laws. http://creativecommons.org ...
God's Creatures Defending God's Creation Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm | Type: Blog: I'm getting arrested on Aug. 29 at the White House. It's time to put my body where my soul is -- defending God's creation. I'm getting arrested on Aug. 29 at the Wh ...
The Keystone XL Pipeline: Game Over For the Climate Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:35am | Type: Blog: We need you. We need you. In late August -- from the 20th to Labor Day weekend -- some of us are mounting what may turn into the largest-scale use of civil disobedience yet around gl ...