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"This power could be abused and used as a tool by future administrations to go after organizations." Read more from Sumayyah Waheed with @MuslimAdvocates & Coby Dolan with @Earthjustice about "nonprofit killer" bill HB9495 on our blog. #ProtectTheProtest protecttheprotest.org/stories/the-ev…

🌟 Join Us for the 2024 Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship! Together, let's honor those making a difference on the frontlines of environmental justice. 🌍 Secure your tickets today: fractracker.org/sentinels.

CDP's Kira Kelley will speak tomorrow on a webinar hosted by the Community Justice Exchange about how to practice solidarity, using the "5 Questions for Cultivating Solidarity" zine as a guide. Register for the webinar here: communityjusticeexchange.org/5questionswebi…

The Elbit 8 sentencing will take place on Monday. nhcourts.webex.com/nhcourts/j.php… OR join by meeting number Meeting number (access code): 2337 451 5739 Meeting password: QmXpKk5cM98 OR call in +1-408-418-9388,,23374515739##

When protesters take aim against powerful corporations that pollute, engage in human rights, or torture animals, those corporations fight back dirty. Greenpeace is getting SLAPPed for $300M over solidarity with #StopDAPL protesters. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/forms/greenpea…

🚨STATEMENT FROM THE PEOPLE’S FORUM! Right-wing Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson has joined other Republican leaders in a major political attack designed to criminalize dissent, and silence those who oppose the Israeli genocide in Gaza, by demanding that the Internal Revenue Service revoke the nonprofit status of The People’s Forum and other organizations. By promoting the Republicans’ blatantly false allegations and demonizing language, reminiscent of the worst part of the McCarthy Era, Speaker Johnson is abusing his office by targeting people in the United States who are only ‘guilty’ of exercising their First Amendment right to speak out against the US government’s policy of financing and arming the Israeli military so that it can carry out the killing spree that has taken the lives of more than 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a great number of whom are children and their mothers. People from all political backgrounds and positions should stand together in defense of free speech rights, which are under attack. The political assault against The People’s Forum is part of a larger effort by Republicans and other right-wing forces in Congress to criminalize and demonize Palestinian, Muslim-American, and anti-war organizations. Everyone who believes in justice should stand together and reject this assault on democracy.

"Supporting disruptive protests may be one of the most cost-effective strategies for addressing the climate crisis." wagingnonviolence.org/2024/09/founda…

In case you missed our latest adventures... instagram.com/reel/C-5L7FTRw… "#PeakerByPeaker and #PlantByPlant, we're determined to close all of the fossil fuel fired peaker plants in New England (with a bunch of help from our friends)!

CDP is now on Mastodon, and will be posting there more frequently. Follow us: @climatedefenseproject@kolektiva.social

BREAKING: A court ruled that prominent civil rights activist DeRay McKesson is not legally responsible for injuries inflicted by someone else at a protest he had organized. This is a major win for our right to protest.

As members of the Protect the Protest task force and defenders of dissent, we stands in absolute solidarity with students, faculty, & all others protesting the atrocities in Gaza & advocating for a permanent ceasefire. Read: bit.ly/ptpcampusprote… #ProtectTheProtest

📣 BREAKING NEWS: WE WON the fight to strike down coal in New England!! #StrikeDownCoal and #BuildUpJustice!! #NoCoalNoGas

Great news!! The charges against eight of our friends who were arrested last fall (in the middle of the Merrimack River) were DROPPED! Read more about this case: nocoalnogas.org/blog/breaking-…

“[Having] a trial and being criminalized, threatened, slandered, receiving hate comments and the hunger strike, has been very physically and emotionally exhausting,” Wade said. . . . “I’m eternally grateful to everyone who’s shown support.”thedartmouth.com/article/2024/0…

No verdict after the first day of trial for 2 Dartmouth students arrested during a peaceful protest of the school's response to the genocide in Palestine. vnews.com/Two-Dartmouth-…

CDP attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to halt the imminent eviction of approximately 160 unsheltered people from an Indigenous healing and ceremonial encampment. kare11.com/article/news/l…

Join us and the National Lawyers Guild on Thursday 11/9 for a conversation about the use of civil disobedience over the past decade of environmental activism: nlg.org/civicrm/event/…

"We need accountability. This is a funny way to go about it. Why do we have to do the work for the state for things that are obviously wrong?" healingmnstories.wordpress.com/2023/10/16/int…

A New Hampshire statute allows police to arrest people for "loitering or prowling" under "circumstances that warrant alarm." It's probably unconstitutional. nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-0…