Tar Sands Valve Turners & Dr. James Hansen: We Need Civil Disobedience to Fight Climate Change




Democracy Now! Audio show

Summary: On October 11, 2016, activists in North Dakota, Washington, Montana and Minnesota turned the manual safety valves on four pipelines, temporarily halting the flow of nearly 70 percent of the crude oil imported to the United States from Canada. We speak to two of the activists, who were just acquitted, along with their lawyer and former NASA scientist James Hansen.