The Climate Workshop Podcast

Mar 22, 2018

The West Roxbury MA Climate Trial

BREAKING 3/27/18: Defendants found NOT RESPONSIBLE by necessity! http://www.climatedisobedience.org/media BREAKING 3/22/18: The prosecution has dropped the criminal charges to a civil infraction, so there will be no jury trial! We’ve added an update on what this means at the start of this episode. We then proceed to the previously recorded episode about the trial. Tim and Peter discuss the West Roxbury, MA climate trial scheduled for Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Tim shares the story of the Mass Graves Pipeline Protest, the multi-year campaign resisting the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, the significance of this trial, and more. Recorded 3/15/18 TRIAL UPDATES Get trial updates and learn how you can support similar actions on the website of the Climate Disobedience Center at http://www.climatedisobedience.org #CLIMATETRIAL TWEETS http://twitter.com/hashtag/climatetrial PHOTOS OF THE MASS GRAVES PIPELINE PROTEST Grief and Resistance: The Mass Grave Pipeline Action http://www.timdechristopher.org/grief_and_resistance_the_mass_grave_pipeline_action The story of the action told on Tim’s website including photos and video. Peter’s photos of the Mass Graves Protest June 29, 2016 https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterbowden/albums/72157670314896286 Tim DeChristopher, Karenna Gore, area clergy and the larger resistance against the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline. Approximately a dozen people climbed into the pipeline trenches making the connection between this new fracked gas fossil fuel project and the mass graves being prepared in anticipation of the coming climate fueled Summer heat. More photos and video can be found on the Resist the Pipeline Facebook page at http://facebook.com/resistthepipeline/ Music by Bryan Cahall http://www.twitter.com/BryanCahall http://www.facebook.com/BryanCahall Connect with the show online at http://climateworkshop.org http://facebook.com/climateworkshop http://twitter.com/ClimateWorkshop Connect with Tim DeChristopher http://timdechristopher.org http://facebook.com/timdechristopher.org http://www.twitter.com/dechristopher Connect with Peter Bowden http://peterbowden.net http://facebook.com/peterbowdenlive https://twitter.com/Peter_Bowden The Climate Workshop Podcast is hosted by Tim DeChristopher and Peter Bowden and is supported by our listeners via Patreon, the membership site for content creators. Value these conversations? Become a patron of the show at https://www.patreon.com/climateworkshop. We are grateful for your support.

44 min