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CDP Co-founders Alice Cherry and Kelsey Skaggs Named Echoing Green Climate Fellows
June 12, 2018July 18, 2018
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CDP Co-founders Alice Cherry and Kelsey Skaggs Named Echoing Green Climate Fellows

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Climate Defense Project co-founders Alice Cherry and Kelsey Skaggs have been awarded a prestigious two-year Echoing Green Climate Fellowship to support their work with the organization. As Echoing Green Climate Fellows, Alice and Kelsey will receive financial support for CDP’s work defending climate activists and will take part in a network of Echoing Green alumni, advisors, and...

A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets
June 8, 2018June 8, 2018
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A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets

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Climate Defense Project’s work to promote the climate necessity defense is featured in Jeremy Brecher’s article in Common Dreams about the importance of climate legal activism. Brecher quotes CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton: Ted Hamilton of the Climate Defense Project notes that a criminal defense cannot be based solely “a constitutional right to a safe climate or on...