What role can civil disobedience play in the stuggle for social change?
Peter explores this question with two guests: first, environmental organizer
Tim DeChristopher recounts his experience delaying a federal oil and gas
leasing process, and how the legal doctrine of “necessity” could be used in environmental campaigns.
Then Sunsara Taylor discusses the right-wing effort to supress womens’ option of abortion,
Then Sunsara Taylor discusses the right-wing effort to supress womens’ option of abortion,
and the countercampaign to preserve reproductive choice.
Tim DeChristopher founded two climate-action organizations. He spent 21 months in prison
Tim DeChristopher founded two climate-action organizations. He spent 21 months in prison
for submitting a false bid at a federal oil and gas auction in Utah in 2008. (www.timdechristopher.org)
Sunsara Taylor is with StopPatriarchy.org, and also is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party
(www.revcom.us.)
Sunsara Taylor is with StopPatriarchy.org, and also is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party
(www.revcom.us.)