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Climate Strike: the struggle continues

Friday was a global climate strike. Did you take action? There's still time, all this week and into the future. Many of us did, each...

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Summer Update: Michele

Since our last pretrial hearing at Itasca County Courthouse on May 8, 2019, I have been trying to settle in to the long wait for a...

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Stop Line 3 - Direct Action & Court Findings

Yesterday activists took part in direct action to lock down equipment engaging in Line 3 construction. While Enbridge publicly stated...

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Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries features Allyson!

Allyson Polman, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, recently had the opportunity to visit California and speak several times. One of...

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Brenna Speaks on Viroqua Radio

Interested to hear more from the Valve Turners? You can tune into Viroqua, Wisconsin radio to hear the story of Brenna Cussen-Anglada,...

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The Last Word

Our very own Michele Naar-Obed penned a recent piece for The Progressive. In it, she summarizes the action, the legal environment in...

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Victory for Necessity Defense!

The 2016 Valve Turners cases are largely wrapped up, but Ken Ward, a dedicated climate activist, is still appealing his case. The most...

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Permaculture and Activism

Last week Allyson, Daniel, and Diane talked to an audience in Minneapolis about how permaculture principles rooted their activism as Four...

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Valve Turner's View: Action taken 'in the face of extinction'

Michele Naar-Obed, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, recently wrote an Op Ed published in the Duluth News Tribune. The full text...

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Dinner with the Four Necessity Valve Turners

Join a panel conversation with all Four Necessity Valve Turners (Michele Naar-Obed, Brenna Cussen-Anglada, Daniel Yildirim, and Allyson...

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Valve Turners & Plowshares Activists in Des Moines

Are you in or around Des Moines, and curious to hear more about the Four Necessity Valve Turners and the tradition of non-violent civil...

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Line 3 Appeal Resumed

Governor Walz moved to continue the appeal of the commerce department's approval of Enbridge Oil Company's Line 3 tar sands pipeline....

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Books Worth Reading

“Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on...

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