Advocate for the environment Tom DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for an act of civil disobedience aimed at drawing attention to the unethical practices of the oil and natural gas industries.
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"Most of us know that we’ve probably passed the point where we can avoid the collapse of our industrial civilization, and when we look at prior examples of collapse, the greatest atrocities weren’t because of direct impacts, it was because of what those in power did to try to maintain that power as it started to fall away, and what they did in the name of restoring order and security. In Darfur, the greatest atrocity wasn’t the water and food shortage, it was what was done in response to that. In Germany in the 1930s, the biggest deal wasn’t the inflation -- it was really a trigger of a lot of those problems -- it was the laws that were passed in the name of restoring order and security.
I think as a climate movement, most of us should be aware that we can pretty well count on the fact that there will be some scapegoat chosen over the course of this century. Some laws that are passed that sacrifice one or several groups of people in the name of restoring order and security. The big question for us at this point is how we as citizens are going to respond to that, what we as citizens are going to be willing to do to our fellow human beings in the name of just following the law. When the government tells us that it’s not our job to question whether that law is right or wrong, as the judge did in this case to the jury, I think we need to be prepared for that moment, and make a more conscious decision of what we want our role to really be."
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Tom DeChristopher
INFO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/why-liberals-should-be-ou_b_910432.html
http://www.grist.org/climate-energy/2011-07-27-dechristopher-supporters-go-to-jail-for-justice
"Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade. Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this demoralisation; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits."
Oct 1 – Nov 6
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"I think what's driving people to the streets in NY and around the country now... is the realization that change is not going to come through the ballot box, because the political process has been bought and paid for."
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”
“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satifaction, our ego satisfaction in consumption.”
CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME... then die.
“If you believe the promise that an authoritarian state makes that if it has enough knowledge on every citizen it will keep people safe. I think that’s a false promise. It doesn’t actually happen. If that was the case then East Germany would have been a really incredible place to live while in fact it wasn’t."
Advocate for the environment Tom DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for an act of civil disobedience aimed at drawing attention to the unethical practices of the oil and natural gas industries.
FRIDAY, August 5th, 8:00pm
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