Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison

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🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Radical protesters Tim DeChristopher and Georgia Hirsty put the “active” in “activism.” But is civil disobedience the best way to effect real change? Tim DeChristopher, Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Georgia Hirsty, National Warehouse Program Manager, Greenpeace Brendon Steele, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500 This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 19, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.1	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:46.7	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:51.7	I'm Greg Dalton, and today we're talking with advocates seeking to influence companies and governments to do more to combat climate change.
0:59.3	Our guests apply pressure from outside and inside corporations, from disrupting fossil fuel auctions and hanging off a bridge to privately collaborating with oil companies inside the halls of power.
1:10.9	The goal is to create a faster transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
1:15.7	Over the next hour, we'll hear stories of fighting and partnering with fossil fuel companies
1:20.5	and include questions from our live audience here at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
1:26.0	We're joined by three guests.
1:27.3	Tim de Christopher is founder of the Climate Disobedience Francisco. We're joined by three guests. Tim de Christopher is founder
1:28.5	of the Climate Disobedience Center. He spent 21 months in federal prison for disrupting an
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