Should we transform our economy based on the notions of a convicted felon who evidently believes that Co2 causes hurricanes?

-Laurel Whitney | BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Sentenced To Two Years In Prison

Tim DeChristopher, convicted earlier this year with two federal felonies, will be spending two years in prison for his creative act of non-violent protest against an illegitimate oil and gas lease auction set up by the Bush administration in late 2008.
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He’s used this platform to effectively inspire others to consider non-violent civil disobedience as a strategy for shifting power away from domineering fossil fuel industries and back into the hands of the people fighting for a livable future. Tim talked about transforming the economy into something more than a cleaner, greener version of what is currently in place - a total system change that decentralizes large energy conglomerates, emboldens the power of local community, and works for the benefit of more than the richest 1% of the country.

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At the end of the line, he turned, raised his fist and delivered an impassioned oratory urging the 75 or so demonstrators and others worldwide to follow him into the climate wars. He called his prosecution "intimidation" but said it hadn’t deterred activists.

"They tried to convince me that I was like a little finger out there alone that could easily be broken," he said. Instead, he likened his environmental cause to a unified, upraised but nonviolent fist — the symbol of the Peaceful Uprising group he co-founded after his 2008 offenses.

"They wanted me to think like a finger," he said. "Our children are calling to us to think like a fist."

DeChristopher called on others to embrace acts of civil disobedience to buck a carbon-based economy that he said is propped up by the government’s status quo.