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DESCRIPTION:Can turning a valve get you arrested? Yes, it can-- if that valve is 
 regulating the flow of oil through pipelines from the Canadian tar sands 
 into the US. In five highly publicized acts of Non-Violent Civil 
 Disobedience, Leonard Higgins and four other activists became the Valve 
 Turners. They turned off those valves at the border to focus attention on 
 the current climate crisis. He will be delivering an account of his 
 experience in turning off the valve, waiting for arrest, going to trial and 
 attempting to use the Necessity Defense. Higgins, a Unitarian Universalist, 
 is the co-founder of the Corvallis Chapter of 350.org.\nHe will also 
 discuss how political activists from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Gandhi led 
 groups of people to engage in civil disobedience together in a coordinated 
 way to create needed social change. Higgins says, "I was awakened to the 
 social and climate justice crisis in a 2007 Joanna Macy workshop." He is a 
 board member of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for the Earth 
 (UUMFE).\n\nSponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee.\n \nFor more info: 
 jfoleynyc@aol.com\n\nSuggested donation $5-$20. No one turned 
 away.\nDisability access available via ramp on Bonita\n\nFor occasional 
 email notices of peace/eco/social justice alerts and related events at 
 BFUU, send any email to:\nbfuusjev-subscribe@lists.riseup.net\n\nFor weekly 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/29/18819450.php
SUMMARY:Leonard Higgins: A Valve Turner in Person
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall \n1924 Cedar 
 (@Bonita), Berkeley   www.bfuu.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/29/18819450.php
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