October 2, 2017 CDP in the Press: Activists in 4-state pipeline protest embrace unique defense By CDP The Associated Press covered the Shut It Down trials, including the North Dakota case of Michael Foster...
August 23, 2017 CDP in the Press: The Dakota Access Pipeline Lawsuit By CDP CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton was quoted in ThinkProgress article on Energy Transfer Partner's lawsuit against environmental groups...
July 19, 2017 CDP Author: Putting the Climate Necessity Defense in Front of Juries By CDP At Earth Island Journal, CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton discusses how judges are misapplying the law by refusing...
June 24, 2017 Sentence for “Valve-Turner” Climate Activist Ken Ward: No More Jail Time By CDP Sabotage Charge Dropped; Ward and Supporters Vow to Overturn His One Remaining Conviction...
June 23, 2017 CDP Author: Dissidents Ramp Up Direct Action Against Climate Destroyers. Who Will the Courts Defend? By CDP On Truthout, CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton analyzes the strategic value of climate necessity activism and discusses...
June 19, 2017 Understanding the Paris Withdrawal: It’s Still Up to the Movement to Make the Future By CDP The past several months in global politics have been disorienting and frightening. Movements for liberation find themselves under assault from...
June 7, 2017 After Court Restricts Constitutional Right to Defense, Climate Activist Receives Split Verdict for Pipeline Protest By CDP Mount Vernon, WA — Following controversial court rulings restricting his right to present a defense, climate activist...
May 10, 2017 CDP Author: Do Climate Activists Have a Legal Justification for Civil Disobedience? By CDP CDP co-founder Ted Hamilton and Loyola University Professor Bill Quigley analyze the legal basis of the climate...
May 10, 2017 Judge Denies Climate Activist’s Necessity Defense, Restricting Right to Defend Protest at Trial By CDP Mount Vernon, WA — A Washington state judge has ruled that Ken Ward, a climate activist who who helped to...
May 8, 2017 CDP in the Press: Montana Valve-Turner Trial By CDP The Corvallis, Oregon Gazette-Times featured a piece on climate activist Leonard Higgins. The article quotes CDP's Kelsey Skaggs on the climate necessity defense...
