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(beeping)

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(pigeons fluttering)

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(soft music)

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(train air brakes hissing)

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(metal rustling)

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- We erected a tripod on a rail spur

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where there was an oil
train ready to move North

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to the Anacortes refinery.

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These are ordinary people that
haven't been arrested before.

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None of us had been arrested before.

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- She sat on the tripod for eight hours.

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I don't think that I would
do anything that serious,

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that, getting arrested or anything

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'cause I'm just not that kind of person

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that would risk that much.

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I think I'd be really
scared to go to jail.

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But I know there's a lot
of people that would.

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I think it's a lot different,

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people that go to jail
because they commit a crime

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and people that go to jail

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because they're doing
something they believe in.

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- Police cars started to roll
in from different places,

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as people knew about it.

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There was a plain-clothes
officer who said,

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"You have a daughter, this is dangerous.

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You might die.

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Or something like that.

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So, I said, "Well, at
least I'll die trying."

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He also said,

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"This is a very expensive
thing that you're doing.

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If you own a home,

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you might lose it."

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Losing my house?

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We're talking about losing
the world, as we know it.

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You have to be creative.

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You have to sing.

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You have to do art.

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You have to do all sorts
of different things

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when you care about something.

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This is the Delta Rail Yard.

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I recreated this action
of civil disobedience

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'cause these exploding oil
trains are very dangerous.

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I actually climbed up the tripod

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and this is the little perch.

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I gotta use more hot glue here.

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So, this is me.

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I climbed up.

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And then there were some
people that locked down.

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This represents, Mike.

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Patrick is a writer.

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And, Jackie, is a retired school teacher.

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Liz, works with people with autism.

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We were arrested.

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The charges were blocking a train,

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trespass in the second degree.

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We could get 90 days in jail.

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When you have a daughter that needs you,

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that's a really long time.

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I believe we can change things.

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So, this is just a tiny,
tiny drop in the bucket,

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but when all those drops in
the bucket fill that bucket up,

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that will be a good thing.

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- Good luck to you.

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- Good luck to you.

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Good work out there.

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(upbeat music)

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(water lapping the boat)

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(boat engine humming)

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- Right in my backyard in Seattle,

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they were bringing in Shell's oil rig.

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All of a sudden, Arctic drilling

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and climate became tangible,

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because of the polar pioneer
coming into Elliot Bay.

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- Shell, no! Shell, no!

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Shell, no! Shell, no!

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Shell, no! Shell, no!

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- They were stupid enough
to bring this beast,

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this monster into the beautiful Salish Sea

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and we get to fight 'em with kayaks?

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(Kayaktivists cheering)

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We call for a kayak blockade

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of this Arctic disaster
called the Polar Pioneer.

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(somber music)

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When I was arrested and
taken to jail the first time,

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I was a little scared.

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I was mostly scared at
the moment of arrest.

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I was mostly scared at
the moment of decision

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when you have to step
out of this threshold

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of your own comfort and take a risk.

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Once you join the battle,
you're in the battle.

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You're in.

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(wind blowing)

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(birds chirping)

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- Hey guys, how much longer in your game?

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Are you close?

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Aji?

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- Yeah, we're close.

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- And you guys are both gonna be cool,

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whoever loses is gonna be fine?

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- Yeah.

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- Okay. (chuckles)

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- There's gonna be no hurt feelings?

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- Checkmate.

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(Aji laughs)

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- It was really close.

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- It's checkmate.

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- Wait, you got to see
if he can find a way out?

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- I can't move.

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- He did it?

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- Yeah. Good game.

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- Hey, man.

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- I don't wanna shake your hand.

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- Adonis.
- It's okay. It's okay.

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- It's still a good game.

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- Sore loser.

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- No, that was still a good game.

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- He's salty, he's salty. He's so salty.

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- Now, that's just annoying.

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- You are salty, though, bro.

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- Aji, that's just annoying.

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- Bro, you refuse to shake
my hand after a good game.

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- Aji, don't push it.

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- 'Cause I actually don't want to.

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- You are acting super salty though.

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(crowd cheering)
(crowd applauding)

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- These 21 plaintiffs

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representing the youth of America

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and future generations just
took on the federal government

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and the fossil fuel industry,

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and the constitution will prevail.

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(crowd cheering)
- I got involved in both

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a federal lawsuit and a
Washington State lawsuit.

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We petitioned the department
of ecology here in Washington

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to create a clean air rule,

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not a clean air act, federal,

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clean air rule, Washington,

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that would be very, very strong,

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based on the newest climate science.

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They denied our petition
and we took them to court.

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(peaceful music)

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The wording of the case and
the argument of the case was,

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that children growing up
in Washington have rights.

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Have legal rights protected
under the constitution.

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And that's that the government
holds their natural resources

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in public trust for
generations that are now,

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and generations to come.

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(protesters cheering)

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The judge set a precedent.
Everybody was overjoyed.

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It was amazing.

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And then it was still that, "But we...

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It's not over yet, because, politicians."

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Yeah.

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- This is a criminal action the defendant,

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Michael Foster, conspired
to willfully tamper

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with the manual shutoff valve

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on the Trans-Canada
Keystone Pipeline in order

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to stop the flow of the petroleum.

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- Are you currently in law enforcement?

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- Yes, I am.

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- Deputy, can you please identify

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what you see in this?

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- The individual on the left is Mr. Foster

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wearing the same green
fluorescent safety vest

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with the bolt cutters in his hand.

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He appears to be looking
at the large warning sign

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on the front of the valve station.

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- We just realized that we
could stop five pipelines

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and stop 15% of U.S. oil supply.

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I got to shut off 590,000 barrels

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of tar sands dilbit,

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diluted bitchumen, it's poison.

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It's filled with toxic chemicals.

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We're not even allowed to
know what the chemicals are.

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And I knew that when I cut that chain

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and I opened that fence that
I was crossing a threshold

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that I couldn't uncross.

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And when I put my hands on the valve

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and I started turning that thing,

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that I had made a choice to go
into another part of my life

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and that I wasn't gonna be
able to step back from that.

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It was a big surprise when they threw,

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81 years worth of charges at me.

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That was reduced to 51 years.

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And then it was reduced to 23 years.

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And so far, I haven't
actually defended myself.

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They wanted to make an example.

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They wanted to scare people and make sure

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that nobody ever thought about doing this,

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because you're gonna spend the
rest of your life in prison.

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(wind howling)

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I am taking this action
on behalf of living beings

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and future generations.

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And that we are peaceful

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and this is necessary.

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(valve creaking)

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(protesters chanting)

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- When I say frack, you say off.

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Frack.
- Off.

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- Frack.
- Off.

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- When I say frack, you say off.

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Frack.
- Off.

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- Frack.
- Off.

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- When I say frack, you say off.

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- Frack.
- Off.

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- Somebody said, "Hey,
there's a group of people

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walking across the country."

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And that night I signed up to do it.

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And when I signed up, it said,

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"A thousand marchers
going across the country,

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and from all over the world, every state."

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You can imagine. It really ramped it up.

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(crowd cheering)

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But quickly, I saw that the
march wasn't what it was

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from the websites and from the brochures.

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There's a huge mass of people with us,

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which is amazing.

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(crowd cheering)

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And then once we hit the two-mile mark,

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the mass kind of leaves

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and then the climate marchers are left

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to walk across the country.

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There was about maybe 40 of us.

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(thunder rumbling)

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(rain pattering ground)

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And that's when the downpour happened.

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(thunder rumbling)

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(rain pouring down)

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(tense piano music)

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- Does anybody else think
we should get out of this?

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I mean, I'm a Mid-Westener.

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We run and hide when that happens.

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(rain pouring down)

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- After a wonderful rally
when the rain held off.

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Suddenly, we came to all this rain.

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The water is up, clear up over our ankles

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and it's rushing so fast you feel

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like you're gonna be swept away.

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I'm 71 years old,

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but I can walk 15 miles, no problem.

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It's where my sense of adventure

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and my passion for saving our beautiful,

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sacred world just came
together right then.

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I knew I would do it. And here I am.

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A bit scary,

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uncomfortable, for sure,

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but also kind of exhilarating and fun.

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We are here doing this and by God,

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we're not gonna let anything stop us.

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(water rushing)

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(vehicle splashing water)
(people screeching)

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- That was nice.

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(beeping)

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- We are here to fill
ourselves up with the spirit,

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supporting a member of our
congregation, Abby Brockway.

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And the whole Delta 5
team that were involved

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in the act of civil disobedience
for climate justice.

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(soft music)
They go to trial tomorrow.

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And so, today, to support them,

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we invite you to stand and to come close,

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to lay on a hand if you're close enough.

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And if not, lay on a hand
to somebody who's near you.

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(peaceful music)

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We pray that hearts
and minds will be open.

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And that the need to care
for our common resources

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and our common humanity,

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will remain in the center of
everyone's hearts and minds.

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All this we offer for the sake of creation

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and then in the name of our creator, amen.

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- Amen.

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- Please be seated.

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- Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Thank you, all of you.

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- Thank you.

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- Read that.

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(Roger chuckles)

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- Really?

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- Yeah.

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- Dear mom, I love you so much.

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You are the best mom ever, love Sienna.

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- And the thing is,

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I know right now I don't
feel like the best mother,

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because I've been not as
present for a year and a half.

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Roger's had to be the mom
and the dad at some points.

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But if I am found guilty
then there's options.

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Let's say he says,

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"We will give you 60 hours
of community service."

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Well, maybe what I
would like to do is say,

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"I'd rather go to jail."

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If I need to be punished
then I wanna go to jail,

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because I am serious about this.

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And I feel like that
is what it's gonna take

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for a mother to go to jail.

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To pay the price for what I
did will be more inspiring

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and I feel called to the jail.

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- You have given this a lot of thought,

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and this is the first I've heard of it.

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It's part of what got us
to an uncomfortable place.

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As far as I'm concerned--
- I keep saying, you haven't

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also been available in the same space, so

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- Honey, there's something
I've been meaning

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to talk to you about, but I
haven't got around to it yet.

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I wanna go to jail.

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- Ladies and gentlemen of
the jury, good afternoon.

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I'm gonna tell you a
little bit of what happened

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on September, 2nd.

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In the early morning hours,

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probably about 6:00 a.m., 6:30,

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there were some reports
from the BNSF Rail Yard,

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there was a tripod that was assembled

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in the middle of the rail yard,
blocking one of the lines.

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On that tripod, at the very top,

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was defendant, Ms. Brockway.

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For eight hours these five
defendants blocked a rail line.

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Officers responded, spoke
with the protestors.

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No dispute, they were very cordial.

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Asked them if they'd
please remove themselves?

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They said they would not.

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They were willing to put
their life on the line

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for this cause.

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They'd basically sat for eight hours.

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The officers really weren't
quite sure how to respond.

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If they took any one of
the legs out of the tripod,

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they risked Ms. Brockway
falling to the ground

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when she was up some 20 feet.

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- The individuals that
were seated in chairs,

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all were chained across their bodies

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and across the leg of the tripod.

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I asked if there was anything I could do

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to help them resolve the
situation that they were here for?

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I believe someone might've said

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that I could stop the oil and coal trains,

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but unfortunately that's
way above my pay grade.

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So, I started with Mrs. Abigail Brockway,

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because she was on top, 20 feet up.

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And I informed her, you are
under arrest for trespassing.

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And I ordered her to come down.

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She stated, no.

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I told her that she was then under arrest

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for resisting arrest and trespassing.

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Again, ordered her to come down.

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She again refused.

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- Thank you, this witness may be excused.

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- Thank you, sir.

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- Can I not be cross-examined
today? Or do we have to--

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- We're gonna have to talk
about which defendant--

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- I wanna go last. I'm not ready.

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- It's gonna be a group
decision on the order.

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That's all I can say, so
it's not your decision alone.

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- I agree.

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- So, we'll see.

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- Just telling you what I want.

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- I understand.

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- Dozens of kayaktivists were
arrested after paddling up

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to a shell drilling rig and preventing it

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from leaving the Port of Seattle.

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The activists set off
at four in the morning.

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(birds chirping)

00:17:04.795 --> 00:17:06.145
- Hi.
- Hello, love.

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Hey there, honey. How are you doing?

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- How did it go?

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- Oh, it was amazing, of course,

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and completely ridiculous, and insane.

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And, oh, my God, I
can't believe we did it.

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(crickets chirping)

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And, honestly, I'm so
tired right now, I just...

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You guys must be super tired
of me being super tired,

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not knowing whether I was gonna be home

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or not home, or getting arrested.

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- Well, I mean,
(Ester laughs)

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it wasn't even a question
if you'd be home for dinner,

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we'd just have dinner and if
you were home then great, but--

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- Yeah, it becomes...

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We live with or without you.

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We must... the show must go on here.

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And the life must go on,

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whether your show is with our show or not.

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- Right.

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[Aziza] It's funny when people ask me

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what you do for a living,

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because after 14 years I still don't know.

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(laughing)

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How to describe it.

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- My dad studied to be a Jesuit Priest.

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And was in the Jesuits for nine years.

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My mom was a nun, I know,

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so for about six years.

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And then they both left
their respective orders

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and I was the first born.

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(soft music)
All of that instilled in me

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a kind of Catholicism or a kind of ethics,

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where justice was central.

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All of this stuff,

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all of the beauty that we've created.

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It's taken millions of years to evolve,

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to create a forest like this.

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All that complexity,
all that interrelation,

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that could all go away.

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And we're gonna win.

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(laughing)

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We are gonna win. I am totally confident.

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- Well, what would you define as winning?

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- No fucking Arctic drilling,

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is what I would define as winning.

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Our movement's only gonna get bigger.

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Climate change is only gonna
get more obvious to people.

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I mean, they wanna keep
escalating and picking a fight,

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they're gonna lose.

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They're gonna lose, because
they're raising the stakes.

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They raised the stakes
where it made it acceptable

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for us to run and disobey law enforcement.

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People are cheering for us
when we were doing something

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that, normally, people would
not necessarily cheer for.

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But they are on our side.

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So, if they continue to
escalate and raise the stakes,

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(helicopter whirring)

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they are going to escalate
what is acceptable

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for people to do.

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And that's a little bit
scary, but I think it's true.

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(intense beat playing)

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- Okay, how about we just leave that.

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- I've always been very musical.

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Always singing when I was little.

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I started getting more musical

00:20:06.636 --> 00:20:09.363
when I started writing my
songs for my environmentalism,

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which is about 12 years old.

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- My brother didn't wanna write a speech.

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It was the first rally
that we were gonna go to

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and my mom was like, "Hey,
why don't you make a song?"

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So he made "Exploding
Trains," the first song.

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The song is so out of date.

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It's so old.

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♪ We're sick of your money,
we're sick of your games ♪

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♪ You put lots and lots of
people in lots and lots of pain♪

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♪ You put the lives on the line ♪

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♪ For your profit that's a crime ♪

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♪ And we don't think that that's fair ♪

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- Music is...

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It's my personal expression.

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And it's also like my own like spiritual,

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path and finding myself.

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Oftentimes music will get
stuck in people's heads.

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And they'll remember that,

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but if you give a speech, it won't.

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(intense beat playing)

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- It doesn't flow well.

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- No.

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I messed it up, but I
know how it works now.

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- I don't.

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- But you'll hear.

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- But I don't want to do it.

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Okay then don't do it. Don't sing it then

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Just stop singing.

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You know we just bounce
off each other lyrics.

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He gives a line, I give a line.

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I don't like his line.
He doesn't like mine.

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Sometimes, I'm like,

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"Wow, you just kind of shot
that down, right away."

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And I'm like, "Meah."

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But usually he's really
accepting to what I have to say,

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'cause we're partners in crime.

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♪ It's a race to save ourselves ♪

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♪ Brave our shells ♪

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♪ Fake food on supermarket shelf ♪

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♪ Destroying our health
in the name of wealth ♪

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♪ 'Cause we're stuck in the mind though ♪

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♪ On a grind ♪

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♪ No time to stop and rewind ♪

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♪ Bigger, better faster we
were taught you were fine ♪

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♪ Always move forward, we cannot rewind ♪

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- Okay.

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So, how many of you know
what it is that I did?

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Raise your hands.

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I took action with some friends

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and we shut down all five
of the tar sands pipelines,

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crossing the US, Canadian border.

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So, I'm gonna show you a
little film about that.

00:22:12.631 --> 00:22:14.701
(tranquil music)

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- Climate activists were arrested Tuesday

00:22:16.857 --> 00:22:19.965
for attempting to shut
down all tar sands oil

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coming into the United States from Canada,

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by manually turning off
pipelines in Minnesota,

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Montana, North Dakota
and Washington state.

00:22:31.374 --> 00:22:32.940
(upbeat music)

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- Keystone pipeline.

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North Dakota. I'm Michael Foster.

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In order to preserve life as
we know it and civilization,

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give us a fair chance, and
our kids a fair chance.

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I'm taking action as a
citizen. I am duty bound.

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Before we get to questions.

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What do you think should happen to me?

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Okay. Yeah.

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- I think if the people
who are dumping oil

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don't get arrested, then you shouldn't

00:23:06.267 --> 00:23:07.864
be arrested for anything.

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If they're transporting oil
from one place to the other,

00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.637
and polluting our world
and causing oil spills,

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if they're not arrested,
then you shouldn't be either.

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- Thanks.

00:23:19.954 --> 00:23:21.483
(peaceful music)

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But we've been talking
about global warming

00:23:23.630 --> 00:23:25.923
and climate change.

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Seriously, talking about
changing it and stopping it,

00:23:28.850 --> 00:23:33.005
and not polluting, for over 30 years.

00:23:33.005 --> 00:23:37.148
And we pollute way more now
than we did 30 years ago.

00:23:38.177 --> 00:23:39.905
So, is it too late?

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Not if we plant trees

00:23:41.250 --> 00:23:43.442
and not if we cut our emissions.

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Thank you very much for your attention.

00:23:45.204 --> 00:23:47.988
(students applauding)

00:23:50.261 --> 00:23:51.677
- Thank you.

00:23:53.458 --> 00:23:56.722
- I wanted to ask what
went through your head,

00:23:56.722 --> 00:23:58.858
when you shut off that pipeline,

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because I was wondering
if you were nervous,

00:24:01.243 --> 00:24:04.752
if you knew, ultimately,
you were gonna get arrested.

00:24:04.752 --> 00:24:08.260
- I think most laws are
about protecting life.

00:24:08.260 --> 00:24:11.458
But some laws are about
protecting property.

00:24:11.458 --> 00:24:14.742
And when the laws that protect
property are more important

00:24:14.742 --> 00:24:16.893
than the laws that protect life,

00:24:16.893 --> 00:24:18.818
things get pretty messed up.

00:24:18.818 --> 00:24:20.208
- Were you nervous at all?

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Because I know I'd be really
nervous if I was going to

00:24:22.800 --> 00:24:24.811
shut down a pipeline.
- Yeah, I was.

00:24:24.811 --> 00:24:27.948
It felt, just for a moment,

00:24:27.948 --> 00:24:31.657
like I was standing on
the right side of history.

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That was a crazy, good feeling.

00:24:34.090 --> 00:24:36.799
- Wow. That's really cool.
- Yeah.

00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.995
I never wanted to be
that guy in Times Square

00:24:39.995 --> 00:24:43.924
with the cardboard sign that
says, "The end is near."

00:24:43.924 --> 00:24:45.215
Right?

00:24:45.215 --> 00:24:48.068
But it seems like that's
my destiny, somehow.

00:24:48.068 --> 00:24:50.340
So, it's a little crazy making,

00:24:50.340 --> 00:24:54.217
because the more honest I get,
the more passionate I get.

00:24:54.217 --> 00:24:57.968
And of course, as soon
as that energy comes out,

00:24:57.968 --> 00:25:00.782
people say, "Oh, this guy's a nut job.

00:25:00.782 --> 00:25:03.729
Get him outta here, whatever he says,

00:25:03.729 --> 00:25:05.923
it doesn't matter if
he's telling the truth.

00:25:05.923 --> 00:25:07.773
He's insane."

00:25:07.773 --> 00:25:09.384
(indistinct chatter)

00:25:09.384 --> 00:25:12.084
- Here we go. Okay, keep going.

00:25:12.084 --> 00:25:14.997
(crowd cheering)

00:25:18.742 --> 00:25:20.099
(people chattering)

00:25:20.099 --> 00:25:23.186
- I have somebodys water battle.

00:25:23.186 --> 00:25:26.200
- We set off and very quickly

00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.702
we get out of the cities

00:25:28.702 --> 00:25:30.482
and into the desert.

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It was brutal.

00:25:32.305 --> 00:25:34.083
We were walking through the Mohavi

00:25:34.083 --> 00:25:36.342
and we see a huge sign
on the side of the road,

00:25:36.342 --> 00:25:38.977
'No services, 100 miles."

00:25:38.977 --> 00:25:43.625
So, we had to walk over a
week without anything, really.

00:25:43.625 --> 00:25:46.542
(soft piano music)

00:25:49.610 --> 00:25:51.565
- I suggest we don't go too much further,

00:25:51.565 --> 00:25:54.178
without somebody knowing where we are.

00:25:54.178 --> 00:25:58.162
- Hello, hello, hello,
hello. Anybody there?

00:25:58.162 --> 00:26:00.375
We have no idea where we're at.

00:26:02.807 --> 00:26:05.714
- Maybe if we all yell.

00:26:05.714 --> 00:26:06.970
Help!

00:26:06.970 --> 00:26:08.783
- Come find us!

00:26:11.232 --> 00:26:13.980
- I know that I believe strongly

00:26:13.980 --> 00:26:17.355
that doing whatever I can do,

00:26:17.355 --> 00:26:20.228
walking across the country
for 7 million steps

00:26:20.228 --> 00:26:21.922
is helping to save the planet.

00:26:21.922 --> 00:26:25.268
Waking people up about what
they need to do in their house

00:26:25.268 --> 00:26:27.213
and in their community,
and in their state,

00:26:27.213 --> 00:26:29.589
in our country, and in our world.

00:26:29.589 --> 00:26:33.815
Famous last words, its easy to find.

00:26:33.815 --> 00:26:35.463
- Miriam, yes.

00:26:38.435 --> 00:26:40.891
- You want this done, is
that right? All right.

00:26:40.891 --> 00:26:42.449
- I think we definitely can affect change.

00:26:42.449 --> 00:26:45.251
I think we definitely are
affecting change already.

00:26:45.251 --> 00:26:47.198
You can't focus on the negative

00:26:47.198 --> 00:26:49.610
to create a better solution.

00:26:49.610 --> 00:26:53.362
You can't focus on these
dark, deep, scary things

00:26:53.362 --> 00:26:56.478
to have this bright,
happy, positive attitude.

00:26:56.478 --> 00:26:58.789
Positivity is necessary.

00:26:58.789 --> 00:27:00.808
(soft upbeat music)

00:27:00.808 --> 00:27:02.346
- Should I leave one?

00:27:02.346 --> 00:27:03.554
(Sean laughing)

00:27:03.554 --> 00:27:05.603
Find the best one.

00:27:05.603 --> 00:27:07.218
I'll leave this one right
here. It's a good one.

00:27:07.218 --> 00:27:08.653
- It's all part of the adventure and

00:27:08.653 --> 00:27:10.162
it might be wet and cold sometimes.

00:27:10.162 --> 00:27:12.255
It'll be blistering hot other times.

00:27:12.255 --> 00:27:15.155
So that's very exciting. Feels epic to me.

00:27:15.155 --> 00:27:17.005
Honestly, looking at the map, really,

00:27:17.005 --> 00:27:18.990
doesn't do it any justice at all.

00:27:18.990 --> 00:27:21.910
It'll be so much fun when
we reach that final point

00:27:21.910 --> 00:27:23.845
and coming into Washington, DC.

00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.278
I just, I know I'll be so excited.

00:27:33.683 --> 00:27:36.238
(crickets humming)

00:27:37.638 --> 00:27:39.630
(footsteps of the marchers)

00:27:44.112 --> 00:27:45.308
- I think Sean and I,

00:27:45.308 --> 00:27:48.163
we both push each other
in a very positive way.

00:27:49.278 --> 00:27:53.021
Sean is my best friend in the whole world.

00:27:53.021 --> 00:27:55.250
I don't feel like I need to
pretend to be something I'm not,

00:27:55.250 --> 00:27:57.808
I can be completely and fully myself.

00:27:57.808 --> 00:28:00.480
- I just love that Mack
says yes to everything.

00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.742
I love that he's just ready
to just jump into anything

00:28:03.742 --> 00:28:06.415
that seems to be the right thing to do.

00:28:06.415 --> 00:28:08.540
Like right now we need
people who are ready

00:28:08.540 --> 00:28:12.810
to say yes to anything and
everything that will save us,

00:28:12.810 --> 00:28:16.980
and be ready to go battle.

00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:19.940
- I always feel like you're
saying yes to things.

00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:21.898
(Sean laughs)
I think we're a good duo.

00:28:21.898 --> 00:28:23.575
- Yeah I think so too.

00:28:23.575 --> 00:28:25.562
(soft uplifting music)

00:28:25.562 --> 00:28:28.708
- Sometimes when the earth
is calling us to greatness,

00:28:28.708 --> 00:28:31.257
we need to really step up to that level

00:28:31.257 --> 00:28:35.746
and we need to take that level of risk.

00:28:35.746 --> 00:28:38.473
I mean, what's stopping
us from saving the earth?

00:28:38.473 --> 00:28:40.410
It's a legal force.

00:28:40.410 --> 00:28:42.445
I mean, it's breaking the law

00:28:42.445 --> 00:28:45.417
and I'm willing to take that risk myself.

00:28:45.417 --> 00:28:47.683
I'm willing to sacrifice everything.

00:28:50.293 --> 00:28:52.311
Sean is the best. (laughs)

00:28:52.311 --> 00:28:53.377
- You're the best.

00:28:53.377 --> 00:28:56.218
- I love you so much.

00:28:56.218 --> 00:28:57.977
- I love you so much.

00:28:57.977 --> 00:29:00.042
You keep me warm, which is nice,

00:29:00.042 --> 00:29:03.241
'cause I'm cold.
- Sean gets cold all the time.

00:29:17.708 --> 00:29:19.724
(crow cawing)

00:29:19.724 --> 00:29:22.975
- This fur tree right
here. I used to climb it.

00:29:22.975 --> 00:29:25.507
When you get to the top
of a tree, you can...

00:29:25.507 --> 00:29:27.096
You look out over the canopy

00:29:27.096 --> 00:29:29.413
and you get this sort of
transcendent experience

00:29:29.413 --> 00:29:33.063
of the rolling and the shape of the land.

00:29:34.232 --> 00:29:36.655
Birds floating from tree top to tree top.

00:29:36.655 --> 00:29:39.680
So, I decided it was time to
come down and the sun had set.

00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:43.953
And um, and just as
soon as I stepped down,

00:29:43.953 --> 00:29:48.953
the first branch that
I stepped on gave way

00:29:49.260 --> 00:29:52.824
and I fell backwards and I was
about 60 feet up in the tree.

00:29:52.824 --> 00:29:55.432
I had just enough time to
think, "This could be it."

00:29:56.833 --> 00:29:58.767
And then bam, I hit the ground.

00:29:58.767 --> 00:30:01.200
Well, I tried to get up,

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:04.863
but I had shattered T12,
L1 and 2, there was no...

00:30:04.863 --> 00:30:06.710
The message of getting up really wasn't

00:30:06.710 --> 00:30:08.911
getting to translate into my body.

00:30:08.911 --> 00:30:10.492
EMT came.

00:30:10.492 --> 00:30:11.777
And then I got into a helicopter,

00:30:11.777 --> 00:30:13.843
and went to the Trauma
Center at Harbor view.

00:30:13.843 --> 00:30:15.540
So, then I had a big recuperation period.

00:30:15.540 --> 00:30:19.703
And it was Esther who stood
by me through all of that.

00:30:19.703 --> 00:30:22.120
(rhythmic drum music)

00:30:32.085 --> 00:30:33.983
We started taking drum
lessons together, right?

00:30:33.983 --> 00:30:34.908
- Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:34.908 --> 00:30:36.870
So, we took drum lessons together and...

00:30:36.870 --> 00:30:38.082
- We had to practice.

00:30:38.082 --> 00:30:39.881
- We had to practice.

00:30:43.732 --> 00:30:46.021
I do a lot of aerial skills

00:30:46.021 --> 00:30:48.035
with our theater company

00:30:48.035 --> 00:30:51.638
and I met Bill here, maybe
about a year and a half into it.

00:30:52.635 --> 00:30:54.897
Bill and I at that time
had already started,

00:30:54.897 --> 00:30:56.790
I think, really, falling in love.

00:30:56.790 --> 00:30:59.648
You know it's hard. I can't
say on my side it's easy,

00:30:59.648 --> 00:31:01.463
when Bill's gone a lot.

00:31:01.463 --> 00:31:04.135
- You didn't really sign
up for the activist part.

00:31:04.135 --> 00:31:06.170
- I didn't know the activist.
- Right, she didn't meet me.

00:31:06.170 --> 00:31:09.333
- Really, I had no idea.
I knew Bill as Bill.

00:31:09.333 --> 00:31:10.845
That Bill was a percussionist.

00:31:10.845 --> 00:31:12.700
And it was definitely a ride,

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:16.611
and I was kinda going,
"Who is this person?"

00:31:16.611 --> 00:31:18.786
(loud ship horn)

00:31:23.172 --> 00:31:24.738
- When we hear that the Fennica,

00:31:24.738 --> 00:31:26.538
that the ship is leaving the dock,

00:31:26.538 --> 00:31:27.967
and it's coming down the river.

00:31:27.967 --> 00:31:30.824
Now we know it's gonna leave.
We're hitting the river.

00:31:30.824 --> 00:31:34.336
And everybody had that same
gestalt, like, "Hell no."

00:31:34.336 --> 00:31:37.138
(inspiring music)

00:31:37.138 --> 00:31:39.607
In the morning, as we're getting
ready to get in the water,

00:31:39.607 --> 00:31:41.512
putting lights on kayaks.

00:31:41.512 --> 00:31:43.685
All of a sudden we look in the distance

00:31:43.685 --> 00:31:47.050
and these lights start dropping
from the St John's bridge.

00:31:47.050 --> 00:31:48.365
One after another.

00:31:48.365 --> 00:31:50.535
And pretty soon there
were 13 lights dangling

00:31:50.535 --> 00:31:52.560
from the bridge, and we realize,

00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:55.867
Greenpeace had just
done the perfect action.

00:31:55.867 --> 00:31:57.593
People were super courageous out there

00:31:57.593 --> 00:32:01.683
and we were getting 60,
70, 80 kayaks on the water.

00:32:01.683 --> 00:32:04.543
The crowd is on the side chanting,

00:32:04.543 --> 00:32:07.567
"Stop that boat, stop that boat."

00:32:07.567 --> 00:32:11.167
And so we all, by instinct, basically,

00:32:11.167 --> 00:32:13.732
I think, hit the water.

00:32:13.732 --> 00:32:16.555
- [Police megaphone] You are
unwelcome and are trespassing.

00:32:16.555 --> 00:32:19.544
You are violating the safety
zone set by the coast guard,

00:32:19.544 --> 00:32:21.772
as well as a federal court injunction

00:32:21.772 --> 00:32:23.771
against Greenpeace and those--
(water splashing)

00:32:23.771 --> 00:32:26.483
You are unwelcome and are trespassing.

00:32:26.483 --> 00:32:29.190
You are violating the safety
zone set by the coast guard,

00:32:29.190 --> 00:32:32.895
as well as a federal court
injunction against Greenpeace--

00:32:32.895 --> 00:32:35.870
- Those people still in the water?

00:32:38.134 --> 00:32:39.451
- [Bill's Colleague] They
are trying to swam us.

00:32:39.451 --> 00:32:40.869
Bill, they were gonna try back up on us.

00:32:40.869 --> 00:32:42.419
- We just have to watch
out for people's safety,

00:32:42.419 --> 00:32:43.967
that's the main thing.

00:32:45.351 --> 00:32:47.983
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, look at that.

00:32:48.842 --> 00:32:49.900
- You are endangering him.

00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:51.880
- Hey, let us give him a life jacket.

00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:54.676
Hey let us give him a life jacket!

00:32:54.676 --> 00:32:56.367
(inspirational music)

00:33:09.090 --> 00:33:12.758
- Here it was a crazy
scene, you know the jet skis

00:33:12.758 --> 00:33:14.515
stirring people up and tossing them over.

00:33:14.515 --> 00:33:18.000
And people capsize and
people floating in water.

00:33:20.095 --> 00:33:23.215
It was total insanity and hypocrisy.

00:33:23.215 --> 00:33:27.265
And it was maddening, and
people weren't taking it

00:33:27.265 --> 00:33:29.243
and the crowd was cheering them on.

00:33:31.822 --> 00:33:34.170
We all went out into the river in mass,

00:33:34.170 --> 00:33:37.253
there's nothing they
can do about the charge.

00:33:37.253 --> 00:33:39.420
Really brave. Beautiful moment.

00:33:39.420 --> 00:33:41.107
(crowd cheering)

00:33:41.107 --> 00:33:42.365
(inspirational music)

00:33:44.938 --> 00:33:47.517
We're ready to risk something real

00:33:47.517 --> 00:33:49.960
and not be just symbolic on the water.

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.971
Yeah. So, it was freaking amazing.

00:33:55.132 --> 00:33:57.227
- Good morning, Dr. James.

00:33:57.227 --> 00:33:58.458
- Good morning.

00:33:58.458 --> 00:34:01.061
- Could you tell us a little
bit about your background?

00:34:02.303 --> 00:34:05.040
- I've been in medical
practice about 30 years.

00:34:05.040 --> 00:34:10.032
I teach, do research
and do medical practice.

00:34:10.032 --> 00:34:12.930
- Okay. So, when did you
first become involved then?

00:34:12.930 --> 00:34:17.841
- On June 10th, 1999 at 5:02 in the, um...

00:34:17.841 --> 00:34:19.590
(crowd laughing)

00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:21.062
- That's a pretty precise time.

00:34:21.062 --> 00:34:23.450
- Well, it's precise because an oil line

00:34:23.450 --> 00:34:25.766
going through our town
blew up at that point,

00:34:25.766 --> 00:34:28.225
and one of the kids that
I took care of died.

00:34:33.291 --> 00:34:34.616
Excuse me.

00:34:37.107 --> 00:34:38.739
Most people who live in Bellingham

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.947
remember that date and time

00:34:39.947 --> 00:34:42.089
because a huge cloud of smoke went up

00:34:42.089 --> 00:34:44.880
and several young people were killed.

00:34:46.675 --> 00:34:48.268
They lived, they survived the explosion,

00:34:48.268 --> 00:34:50.040
but 90% of their body was...

00:34:50.040 --> 00:34:51.490
The skin was burnt off.

00:34:51.490 --> 00:34:54.924
And they survived for about
12 hours at Harbor view,

00:34:54.924 --> 00:34:57.973
where they were able to
talk with their parents.

00:34:59.455 --> 00:35:00.876
- Thank you, sir. You may step down.

00:35:00.876 --> 00:35:02.034
- Thank you.

00:35:06.619 --> 00:35:09.092
- Defense calls Abigail
Brockway to the stand.

00:35:09.092 --> 00:35:11.358
- Thank you, Ms. Brockway, please come up.

00:35:14.293 --> 00:35:16.056
Just raise your right hand for me.

00:35:16.056 --> 00:35:17.430
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth,

00:35:17.430 --> 00:35:18.823
the whole truth and nothing but the truth,

00:35:18.823 --> 00:35:19.970
under penalty of perjury?

00:35:19.970 --> 00:35:21.392
- So, help me, God.

00:35:21.392 --> 00:35:23.765
- Thank you. Please have a seat, ma'am.

00:35:23.765 --> 00:35:25.988
- Okay, Abby, tell us
something about yourself,

00:35:25.988 --> 00:35:28.293
your background to start with.

00:35:28.293 --> 00:35:31.351
- I was born in Bellevue, Washington

00:35:31.351 --> 00:35:34.109
in February of 1969.

00:35:34.109 --> 00:35:35.635
I went to college...

00:35:36.602 --> 00:35:37.451
Wait.

00:35:37.451 --> 00:35:39.651
(tense music)
Um...

00:35:39.651 --> 00:35:41.757
- Where did you go to college?

00:35:41.757 --> 00:35:44.323
- Cornish college of the
Arts on Capitol Hill.

00:35:44.323 --> 00:35:45.156
- Okay.

00:35:45.156 --> 00:35:49.047
- And um, then I um...

00:35:50.538 --> 00:35:51.587
Should I be looking over--

00:35:51.587 --> 00:35:52.811
- Just answer the question.

00:35:52.811 --> 00:35:54.070
Don't worry about where you look.

00:35:54.070 --> 00:35:55.561
- Okay, um...

00:35:57.837 --> 00:36:00.324
- Did that lead to the
work that you do now?

00:36:01.967 --> 00:36:05.429
- Um, can I just slow down a
little bit or are we in a rush?

00:36:05.429 --> 00:36:06.953
- I'm trying to help you here.

00:36:06.953 --> 00:36:09.748
Did your artistry lead to
the work you're doing now?

00:36:15.225 --> 00:36:17.760
- What I also wanted to say was, um--

00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:19.910
- Objection, your honor. Unresponsive.

00:36:19.910 --> 00:36:21.734
- Sustained. Ask a question council.

00:36:21.734 --> 00:36:23.320
- Just answer my questions, okay--

00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:24.675
- Your question was
tell you about yourself

00:36:24.675 --> 00:36:25.735
and you're crowding me.

00:36:25.735 --> 00:36:27.519
I'm trying to have some
space to tell about myself.

00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:28.593
- Ms. Brockway.
- May I do that?

00:36:28.593 --> 00:36:31.395
- Ms. Brockway, I won't
have you arguing with,

00:36:31.395 --> 00:36:32.966
particularly, with your own lawyer.

00:36:32.966 --> 00:36:33.874
(audience laughing)

00:36:33.874 --> 00:36:35.490
Mr. Goldsmith will ask you a question,

00:36:35.490 --> 00:36:36.488
answer that question, please.

00:36:36.488 --> 00:36:38.032
Mr. Goldsmith, please proceed.

00:36:38.032 --> 00:36:39.691
- Thank you, your honor.

00:36:39.691 --> 00:36:42.856
Now, how did you learn about the issues

00:36:42.856 --> 00:36:45.898
that ultimately led to
your action in this case?

00:36:49.140 --> 00:36:50.131
- I um...

00:36:51.996 --> 00:36:53.445
I...

00:36:53.445 --> 00:36:55.864
- Was there something that
happened in the summer of 2014,

00:36:55.864 --> 00:37:00.647
near your home that
moved you to more action?

00:37:02.300 --> 00:37:03.650
- Yes.

00:37:03.650 --> 00:37:04.858
- What was that?

00:37:04.858 --> 00:37:08.200
- There was a derailment
underneath the Magnolia bridge.

00:37:08.200 --> 00:37:13.200
- What did you do in
response to that situation?

00:37:15.847 --> 00:37:16.680
- I...

00:37:18.122 --> 00:37:19.180
(sighs)

00:37:20.572 --> 00:37:22.472
Can I just have a minute?

00:37:22.472 --> 00:37:24.610
- Could you try to just
answer that question?

00:37:24.610 --> 00:37:26.048
- Okay. Can you just tell me again?

00:37:26.048 --> 00:37:28.138
- Okay. What did you
do in response to that,

00:37:28.138 --> 00:37:30.280
to learning about that derailment?

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:32.333
- I um...

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:35.860
I was really worried,
because that was right,

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:37.818
one mile from my daughter's school.

00:37:37.818 --> 00:37:39.801
And there's a thing

00:37:39.801 --> 00:37:42.402
called a blast zone that I learned about.

00:37:42.402 --> 00:37:46.910
And um, so, anywhere within a mile

00:37:46.910 --> 00:37:51.095
of an explosion, when
an oil train explodes,

00:37:51.095 --> 00:37:54.472
then you're supposed
to evacuate that area.

00:37:54.472 --> 00:37:55.688
- Right.
- And my daughter's school

00:37:55.688 --> 00:37:57.890
was on the edge of that area.

00:37:57.890 --> 00:37:59.010
- All right.

00:37:59.010 --> 00:38:02.190
What kinds of activities,
up before September 2nd,

00:38:02.190 --> 00:38:05.170
did you do to try to affect change

00:38:05.170 --> 00:38:07.290
in those areas of your concern?

00:38:09.948 --> 00:38:11.413
- Will you ask the question
one more time, please.

00:38:11.413 --> 00:38:15.348
- What types of things did
you do to try to affect change

00:38:15.348 --> 00:38:17.258
in those areas of your concern?

00:38:17.258 --> 00:38:19.089
Have you written letters?

00:38:19.089 --> 00:38:20.955
- I'm feeling rushed.
Can we just slow down

00:38:20.955 --> 00:38:21.968
a little bit?
- I'm trying to--

00:38:21.968 --> 00:38:22.901
- 'Cause I'm kind of anxious

00:38:22.901 --> 00:38:24.929
and I just wanna take some
deep breaths in between,

00:38:24.929 --> 00:38:27.180
and I'm feeling like you're in a hurry.

00:38:27.180 --> 00:38:29.497
- Okay, your honor, can
we take a morning recess?

00:38:29.497 --> 00:38:31.154
- We're gonna take a morning recess,

00:38:31.154 --> 00:38:34.647
so that counsel can talk
with Ms. Brockway about,

00:38:34.647 --> 00:38:37.332
sort of, how to make this go a little bit,

00:38:37.332 --> 00:38:39.631
more smoothly for all of us.

00:38:39.631 --> 00:38:41.627
- Okay, Abby, you can step down.

00:38:44.483 --> 00:38:45.750
Okay. Let's talk a minute.

00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:47.065
- Can we have a private talk in the-

00:38:47.065 --> 00:38:48.432
- Yes. We're gonna have a private talk.

00:38:48.432 --> 00:38:50.758
Okay, we're gonna go around the corner.

00:38:50.758 --> 00:38:52.799
You have to listen to the question.

00:38:52.799 --> 00:38:53.824
- Okay.
- That's the first rule

00:38:53.824 --> 00:38:55.237
and you're not.

00:38:55.237 --> 00:38:57.313
You're just trying to say
what comes to your mind.

00:38:57.313 --> 00:38:59.157
- Yes. I want to say some things.

00:38:59.157 --> 00:39:01.632
- I know you do, but it's
not how testimony works.

00:39:01.632 --> 00:39:04.445
We're gonna have a
conversation, just calm down.

00:39:04.445 --> 00:39:05.436
- Okay.
- Breathe.

00:39:05.436 --> 00:39:06.919
And you gotta be focused.

00:39:06.919 --> 00:39:07.752
- Okay.
- Got it.

00:39:07.752 --> 00:39:08.768
You're good.

00:39:08.768 --> 00:39:10.002
Now go relax.
- I'm not good.

00:39:10.002 --> 00:39:12.573
- Yes you are. I want you now to relax.

00:39:12.573 --> 00:39:14.050
- I don't-- it's really...

00:39:14.050 --> 00:39:15.463
There's a lot of pressure.

00:39:15.463 --> 00:39:16.491
- I know.

00:39:16.491 --> 00:39:18.732
There is pressure, it's in your head.

00:39:18.732 --> 00:39:21.057
- Thank you. Please be seated everyone.

00:39:21.910 --> 00:39:23.478
Ms. Brockway, you remain under oath.

00:39:23.478 --> 00:39:26.377
Mr. Goldsmith, please proceed
with your examination.

00:39:26.377 --> 00:39:28.310
- Thank you, your honor.

00:39:28.310 --> 00:39:30.593
Okay, so did you start
getting involved with,

00:39:30.593 --> 00:39:34.157
quote, actions or protests?

00:39:34.157 --> 00:39:35.390
- Yeah, I actually signed

00:39:35.390 --> 00:39:37.997
the Keystone Pipeline
Pledge of Resistance.

00:39:37.997 --> 00:39:39.865
- Why did you feel the
need to get involved

00:39:39.865 --> 00:39:41.795
in specific actions like that?

00:39:42.750 --> 00:39:44.230
- Because everything that I did,

00:39:44.230 --> 00:39:46.558
I didn't feel like it was
making any difference.

00:39:46.558 --> 00:39:49.335
It felt like the projects
were being rubber stamped,

00:39:49.335 --> 00:39:50.852
no matter what we did,

00:39:50.852 --> 00:39:53.080
no matter how the quality
of our comments were

00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:55.088
and how large the crowds were,

00:39:55.088 --> 00:39:57.080
and how little the opposition was,

00:39:57.080 --> 00:40:00.227
it just seemed like those
were still getting approved.

00:40:00.227 --> 00:40:04.185
- Okay, so you got involved
in protest type of actions?

00:40:04.185 --> 00:40:05.190
Correct?

00:40:05.190 --> 00:40:08.002
- Before I'd switched to direct action.

00:40:08.002 --> 00:40:11.552
I actually felt like I tried
to work within the system

00:40:11.552 --> 00:40:13.495
to the fullest extent possible.

00:40:13.495 --> 00:40:18.170
I felt like it was very symbolic
that we chose to trespass,

00:40:18.170 --> 00:40:21.590
because I felt that the
railroad and the oil,

00:40:21.590 --> 00:40:23.941
they were trespassing against us.

00:40:23.941 --> 00:40:24.940
- Okay. Thank you.

00:40:24.940 --> 00:40:26.960
- Thank you ma'am. If you
could please step down.

00:40:32.830 --> 00:40:33.830
All rise for the jury.

00:40:33.830 --> 00:40:35.772
We'll see everyone at one o'clock.

00:40:39.190 --> 00:40:40.557
- It's Over.

00:40:40.557 --> 00:40:42.551
I didn't do so well, but it's over.

00:40:42.551 --> 00:40:44.178
Were you you okay?

00:40:44.178 --> 00:40:46.595
- I don't give a damn about this case.

00:40:46.595 --> 00:40:48.373
That's not what my issue is, at all.

00:40:50.235 --> 00:40:51.590
I love you.

00:41:00.268 --> 00:41:02.064
- Do you remember when we
were first getting together?

00:41:02.064 --> 00:41:05.117
- Yeah. This is our park
to come and hang out and-

00:41:05.117 --> 00:41:06.557
- Yeah.

00:41:06.557 --> 00:41:08.195
- I felt like I was a teenager.

00:41:08.195 --> 00:41:09.643
- Mm-hmm.

00:41:09.643 --> 00:41:12.243
- Like if dating is gonna
mess up our friendship,

00:41:12.243 --> 00:41:13.260
let's not do it.

00:41:13.260 --> 00:41:15.968
- Yeah. I don't know.

00:41:15.968 --> 00:41:17.385
- So far it's been okay.

00:41:17.385 --> 00:41:19.690
- So far it's been all right.

00:41:19.690 --> 00:41:21.285
- I remember that day,

00:41:21.285 --> 00:41:24.294
I was at the youth leadership breakfast,

00:41:25.153 --> 00:41:29.189
and I look at my phone and it says,

00:41:29.189 --> 00:41:31.522
"Michael Foster, just shut down

00:41:31.522 --> 00:41:34.128
the tar sands in North Dakota."

00:41:34.128 --> 00:41:36.922
And I'm like... Ugh.

00:41:36.922 --> 00:41:39.994
And then I just thought, this
is gonna change everything.

00:41:41.015 --> 00:41:43.749
'Cause, like,

00:41:43.749 --> 00:41:47.807
there was our life
before the valve turning

00:41:47.807 --> 00:41:51.785
and our life after you shut that oil off.

00:41:51.785 --> 00:41:52.767
- Yeah.

00:41:53.659 --> 00:41:56.333
- But that night not being able

00:41:56.333 --> 00:41:59.151
to know what jail you were in

00:41:59.151 --> 00:42:04.151
and not knowing what was gonna happen,

00:42:06.263 --> 00:42:09.965
and realizing when your house is on fire,

00:42:09.965 --> 00:42:14.440
you do everything you can to put it out.

00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:15.682
- Yeah.

00:42:15.682 --> 00:42:17.473
- And so, I don't know.

00:42:17.473 --> 00:42:18.736
- I love you.

00:42:18.736 --> 00:42:19.927
- I love you too.

00:42:19.927 --> 00:42:22.516
- I'm so glad you came into my life.

00:42:22.516 --> 00:42:24.878
I don't know what I would
have done without you.

00:42:24.878 --> 00:42:27.642
My ex-wife had this idea,
even from the beginning,

00:42:27.642 --> 00:42:30.585
that I was gonna, one day, leave her

00:42:30.585 --> 00:42:34.142
for, I think, she called
it a Granola Hippie Chick.

00:42:34.142 --> 00:42:36.928
Maybe, she saw in the
crystal ball or something,

00:42:36.928 --> 00:42:38.923
because the truth is,

00:42:40.370 --> 00:42:43.803
I think climate is what
caused our divorce.

00:42:45.258 --> 00:42:48.410
James Hansen, testified before Congress.

00:42:48.410 --> 00:42:51.405
And that was what? 1987, 1988.

00:42:51.405 --> 00:42:54.790
He basically said that
the ice caps were melting

00:42:54.790 --> 00:42:59.100
and that's the refrigerator of the planet.

00:42:59.100 --> 00:43:01.912
He said that sea levels were gonna rise.

00:43:01.912 --> 00:43:05.487
And, coastal cities

00:43:05.487 --> 00:43:07.653
where people live, right?

00:43:07.653 --> 00:43:10.147
Is gonna be part of the ocean.

00:43:10.147 --> 00:43:12.303
Yeah. At that point, I thought, okay.

00:43:12.303 --> 00:43:15.735
I'm gonna figure out how to
live with zero carbon footprint.

00:43:15.735 --> 00:43:16.769
(soft music)

00:43:16.769 --> 00:43:18.494
We were making more money.

00:43:18.494 --> 00:43:21.950
We had kids and there were questions

00:43:21.950 --> 00:43:24.963
about where are we going for spring break?

00:43:26.748 --> 00:43:28.601
Are we gonna go to Hawaii?

00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:34.673
I can't take picture my kids
swimming in the Coral reefs

00:43:34.673 --> 00:43:37.335
that they're gonna see, 20 years from now,

00:43:37.335 --> 00:43:39.315
when the Coral reefs aren't there anymore.

00:43:39.315 --> 00:43:40.540
And they're gonna wonder

00:43:40.540 --> 00:43:44.473
why we got on a jet and flew to Hawaii

00:43:46.470 --> 00:43:50.077
when the planet was already cooked.

00:43:50.077 --> 00:43:53.583
I was becoming more and more obsessed,

00:43:55.046 --> 00:43:58.706
and spending less and
less time with my kids.

00:43:59.922 --> 00:44:01.670
One of the first biggest,

00:44:01.670 --> 00:44:06.580
most awful whack on the side
of the head moments for me

00:44:06.580 --> 00:44:11.155
was when I got a note to Santa

00:44:14.265 --> 00:44:16.607
saying that for Christmas,

00:44:16.607 --> 00:44:21.607
I wish I could get my dad back.

00:44:22.198 --> 00:44:25.936
I loved them and adored them
every minute I was with them

00:44:25.936 --> 00:44:28.378
but I wasn't with them much.

00:44:28.378 --> 00:44:32.430
And when I was with them I was
always talking about climate.

00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:35.870
And I think it made them nuts.

00:44:35.870 --> 00:44:40.870
I don't know how to deal with
myself and my own culpability,

00:44:40.999 --> 00:44:44.180
if I don't do everything
I can to stop this.

00:44:46.983 --> 00:44:50.720
I really don't know what
kind of human I would be.

00:44:53.799 --> 00:44:55.477
(soft chatter)

00:44:55.477 --> 00:44:58.109
- Every time before he goes up to talk--

00:44:58.109 --> 00:45:00.070
- At a big event, with lots of pressure.

00:45:00.070 --> 00:45:04.496
- I watch him go through
this angsty phase.

00:45:04.496 --> 00:45:07.219
- The five stages of grief basically.

00:45:07.219 --> 00:45:08.745
- Hey, that's literally the same thing.

00:45:08.745 --> 00:45:10.572
- I go through the five stages of grief,

00:45:10.572 --> 00:45:13.627
like anger, rejection, something else.

00:45:13.627 --> 00:45:15.952
Sadness, depression.

00:45:16.894 --> 00:45:19.025
I tear myself apart on the inside.

00:45:19.025 --> 00:45:21.980
It only really happens in situations

00:45:21.980 --> 00:45:23.530
where I'm feeling high pressure.

00:45:23.530 --> 00:45:25.400
- And there's enormous pressure on us,

00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:28.075
because we cannot lose this case.

00:45:28.075 --> 00:45:30.200
We cannot lose these cases.

00:45:30.200 --> 00:45:32.858
We don't have that as an option.

00:45:32.858 --> 00:45:35.188
I mean, it's pretty crazy,
because it's now what?

00:45:35.188 --> 00:45:36.933
It's three years now,

00:45:36.933 --> 00:45:39.182
since we filed our
petition for rule making.

00:45:39.182 --> 00:45:42.440
We got the clean air rules,
so, that's on the books.

00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.533
I mean, it's being appealed by industry,

00:45:44.533 --> 00:45:46.850
but we'll see. It's still there.

00:45:46.850 --> 00:45:50.115
But we were the first
state in the United States

00:45:50.115 --> 00:45:51.707
to ever get that court order.

00:45:51.707 --> 00:45:54.300
To cap that regulate
carbon dioxide emissions.

00:45:54.300 --> 00:45:56.002
So, it's pretty amazing that we were able

00:45:56.002 --> 00:45:57.938
to accomplish that.

00:45:57.938 --> 00:45:59.608
So, everybody has to do their homework.

00:45:59.608 --> 00:46:01.290
You'll get edits back.

00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:03.853
I'll email it.

00:46:03.853 --> 00:46:05.713
- You try and stay
idealistic, and positive.

00:46:05.713 --> 00:46:07.793
And it's like, "Okay, maybe this can work,

00:46:07.793 --> 00:46:09.795
because maybe the
politicians will see past

00:46:09.795 --> 00:46:11.710
their own damn dollar bills.

00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.157
But no.

00:46:14.157 --> 00:46:15.784
- Superior Court in the
state of Washington,

00:46:15.784 --> 00:46:17.763
for the county of King is now in session.

00:46:17.763 --> 00:46:20.209
The honorable, Michael Scott, presiding.

00:46:20.209 --> 00:46:22.006
- Good morning everyone. Please be seated.

00:46:24.573 --> 00:46:25.749
- Good morning your honor.

00:46:25.749 --> 00:46:28.876
Andrea Rodgers, here on
behalf of the plaintiffs.

00:46:28.876 --> 00:46:32.662
- Good morning, I'm Aji Piper
and I'm the main plaintiff.

00:46:32.662 --> 00:46:35.865
- Laura Watson here from the
state defendants, as well.

00:46:35.865 --> 00:46:38.276
What they're arguing, instead
what their briefing is,

00:46:38.276 --> 00:46:41.438
"What we're challenging
is quote, policies,

00:46:41.438 --> 00:46:44.022
that legalized dangerous climate change."

00:46:44.022 --> 00:46:45.234
And just to remind the court

00:46:45.234 --> 00:46:46.483
what the plaintiffs are seeking here

00:46:46.483 --> 00:46:51.120
is a 96% reduction in
greenhouse gases by 2050.

00:46:51.120 --> 00:46:52.945
And what they acknowledge is to get that,

00:46:52.945 --> 00:46:55.110
you would have to have
a complete transition

00:46:55.110 --> 00:46:59.527
from gasoline, diesel and
natural gas within 15 years.

00:46:59.527 --> 00:47:01.400
- This case is about decades

00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:05.197
of systemic unconstitutional
conduct that rises

00:47:05.197 --> 00:47:06.500
to the level of violating

00:47:06.500 --> 00:47:10.070
these young plaintiffs'
fundamental, constitutional rights.

00:47:10.070 --> 00:47:13.535
There is a fundamental right
to a healthful environment.

00:47:13.535 --> 00:47:15.395
We are alleging that the state government

00:47:15.395 --> 00:47:18.260
is creating, managing,
facilitating and promoting

00:47:18.260 --> 00:47:20.855
an energy and transportation system

00:47:20.855 --> 00:47:22.280
that is causing dangerous levels

00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.565
of greenhouse gas emissions.

00:47:24.565 --> 00:47:26.300
And we are at a point in time, your honor,

00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:29.570
where there's a very short
window of time in which we have

00:47:29.570 --> 00:47:32.867
to eliminate those emissions
in order to preserve humanity,

00:47:32.867 --> 00:47:34.181
as we know it.

00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:41.847
So, what we just heard
today is we heard argument

00:47:41.847 --> 00:47:45.540
on the state of Washington's
motion to dismiss our case.

00:47:45.540 --> 00:47:49.100
They are arguing that these
kids do not have an opportunity

00:47:49.100 --> 00:47:50.700
and should not have an opportunity

00:47:50.700 --> 00:47:53.108
to hear their claims in a court of law.

00:47:53.108 --> 00:47:55.199
Maybe, Aji, do you wanna start us off?

00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:56.550
- Thank you, Andrea.

00:47:56.550 --> 00:47:59.303
Hello everyone. I'm Aji Piper. I'm 17.

00:47:59.303 --> 00:48:00.720
It's kinda hard, right?

00:48:00.720 --> 00:48:02.718
You're sitting in a courtroom.

00:48:02.718 --> 00:48:05.193
You're listening to an
argument that tells you

00:48:05.193 --> 00:48:08.488
that you, essentially,
have no right to clean air.

00:48:08.488 --> 00:48:10.233
I don't know about you,

00:48:10.233 --> 00:48:13.023
but I kind of need clean air to live.

00:48:14.213 --> 00:48:16.675
It's not that the government
has not done enough

00:48:16.675 --> 00:48:18.580
to protect our climate.

00:48:18.580 --> 00:48:21.453
It's that they have,
actively, destroyed it.

00:48:21.453 --> 00:48:23.600
We're not saying government,
you haven't done enough.

00:48:23.600 --> 00:48:26.376
We're saying government
you're destroying our future.

00:48:26.376 --> 00:48:29.311
and you need to protect it.
(audience applauding)

00:48:32.843 --> 00:48:36.735
- [Climate marchers] California, Arizona,

00:48:36.735 --> 00:48:40.490
New Mexico, Colorado.

00:48:40.490 --> 00:48:43.451
Nebraska!
(crowd cheering)

00:48:46.975 --> 00:48:49.200
(gentle music)
(footsteps approaching)

00:49:11.436 --> 00:49:13.736
(tractor engine approaching)

00:49:21.745 --> 00:49:23.853
- At the age of 71 and a half,

00:49:24.780 --> 00:49:27.500
this is really hard on my body.

00:49:32.230 --> 00:49:34.766
At first I get stronger.

00:49:34.766 --> 00:49:39.766
I got... so I could do 15,
18 miles without any problem.

00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:42.430
Then I noticed that I was getting tired

00:49:43.560 --> 00:49:45.400
and then my knee started hurting,

00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.000
and my hip started hurting.

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.937
And once I started hurting,
that wore me down faster.

00:49:50.937 --> 00:49:53.432
Right now, I feel like I know

00:49:53.432 --> 00:49:55.928
what the term bone tired means.

00:49:55.928 --> 00:49:57.510
Bone tired, that's what I am.

00:49:57.510 --> 00:49:59.477
I'm really pretty exhausted.

00:50:01.020 --> 00:50:03.865
Sometimes when I am walking along

00:50:03.865 --> 00:50:05.295
and somebody goes by,

00:50:05.295 --> 00:50:08.163
and gives me a one
fingered wave, that's hard.

00:50:09.479 --> 00:50:11.097
They don't get it. They don't understand.

00:50:11.097 --> 00:50:12.385
They aren't paying attention.

00:50:12.385 --> 00:50:15.660
They're getting their
information in bogus places.

00:50:15.660 --> 00:50:17.490
We're hearing daily and weekly,

00:50:17.490 --> 00:50:21.960
about new indicators that
we are to the tipping point

00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:23.548
or almost to the tipping point,

00:50:23.548 --> 00:50:26.152
beyond which there is not much we can do.

00:50:26.152 --> 00:50:27.975
I think it's a race against time.

00:50:27.975 --> 00:50:30.821
It's a race against what
we've already created.

00:50:30.821 --> 00:50:32.877
And we haven't stopped creating it,

00:50:32.877 --> 00:50:34.223
that's the sad thing.

00:50:37.868 --> 00:50:40.078
This is an antidote to despair for me.

00:50:40.078 --> 00:50:41.990
Action, doing whatever I can,

00:50:41.990 --> 00:50:45.210
making my steps and my
life count for something

00:50:45.210 --> 00:50:46.688
that's bigger than me,

00:50:46.688 --> 00:50:48.513
that's more important than me.

00:50:50.013 --> 00:50:53.865
That's how I avoid
despair and hopelessness.

00:50:57.304 --> 00:50:59.368
You don't lose until you quit.

00:51:01.134 --> 00:51:02.305
That's the way I feel.

00:51:02.305 --> 00:51:04.683
I don't know what it looked
like, but I'm not quitting.

00:51:14.251 --> 00:51:17.001
(Climate marchers cheering)

00:51:19.744 --> 00:51:20.944
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:20.944 --> 00:51:22.049
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:22.049 --> 00:51:23.262
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:23.262 --> 00:51:24.319
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:24.319 --> 00:51:25.387
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:25.387 --> 00:51:26.690
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:26.690 --> 00:51:27.812
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:27.812 --> 00:51:28.878
- Don't frack with us!

00:51:28.878 --> 00:51:31.327
- Hey, what do we want?
- Climate justice.

00:51:31.327 --> 00:51:33.343
- When do we want it?
- Now!

00:51:33.343 --> 00:51:35.655
- What do we want?
- Climate justice.

00:51:35.655 --> 00:51:37.729
- When do we want it?
- Now!

00:51:37.729 --> 00:51:39.997
- And if we don't get it?
- Shut--

00:51:39.997 --> 00:51:42.250
- At the people's March in New York,

00:51:42.250 --> 00:51:45.295
on the 21st of September,
which will go down in infamy.

00:51:45.295 --> 00:51:46.750
Even I will remember that.

00:51:46.750 --> 00:51:48.365
I felt the excitement.

00:51:48.365 --> 00:51:49.720
It felt sort of like a...

00:51:49.720 --> 00:51:51.253
We're in this together.

00:51:51.253 --> 00:51:53.240
We can celebrate being together.

00:51:53.240 --> 00:51:55.307
We can celebrate that
there are so many of us,

00:51:55.307 --> 00:51:58.130
we can celebrate that
we're making progress.

00:51:58.130 --> 00:52:00.665
I felt exhilarated by it.

00:52:00.665 --> 00:52:02.647
It was just exciting and fun.

00:52:02.647 --> 00:52:05.522
(band music)

00:52:08.378 --> 00:52:12.055
They expected maybe 200,000.
They got, maybe, 400,000.

00:52:12.055 --> 00:52:14.685
And those folks who showed up,

00:52:14.685 --> 00:52:18.320
emboldened and energized one another,

00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.205
and made us feel we aren't in this alone.

00:52:21.205 --> 00:52:23.477
I think it felt like a game changer.

00:52:23.477 --> 00:52:26.227
(crowd cheering)
(band music)

00:52:34.602 --> 00:52:37.514
- The first earth day, 1970,

00:52:37.514 --> 00:52:40.558
you know how many people
went into the streets?

00:52:40.558 --> 00:52:43.685
20 million Americans.

00:52:43.685 --> 00:52:48.610
And because of 20 million
people being in the streets

00:52:48.610 --> 00:52:51.130
on April 22nd, 1970,

00:52:52.515 --> 00:52:55.975
our Republican President
named, Richard Nixon,

00:52:55.975 --> 00:53:00.633
ended up championing and signing

00:53:00.633 --> 00:53:03.399
environmental laws that remain

00:53:03.399 --> 00:53:06.927
the strongest environmental
laws in the world.

00:53:06.927 --> 00:53:09.035
(soft music)
The United States is

00:53:09.035 --> 00:53:12.080
an OPEC nation in everything, but name.

00:53:12.080 --> 00:53:15.180
Big oil has been running the show here,

00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:16.945
hand and glove with the White House

00:53:16.945 --> 00:53:19.073
and the State Department, since the 1920s.

00:53:19.073 --> 00:53:21.608
And the only way that any politician,

00:53:21.608 --> 00:53:23.940
the only way they can
go against Big Oil is,

00:53:23.940 --> 00:53:28.523
successfully, is if they are
pushed by a popular movement,

00:53:28.523 --> 00:53:29.979
that is not only pushing them,

00:53:29.979 --> 00:53:32.080
but giving them the political cover

00:53:32.080 --> 00:53:35.198
to do what needs to be done.

00:53:35.198 --> 00:53:37.395
Because, believe me, the
President is gonna get that call

00:53:37.395 --> 00:53:39.197
from the CEO of Exxon, saying,

00:53:39.197 --> 00:53:42.495
"You know, Mr. President, we
really do need that pipeline."

00:53:42.495 --> 00:53:44.995
Or, "We really do need
this vote in Congress."

00:53:44.995 --> 00:53:47.582
And, Presidents get
those calls all the time.

00:53:47.582 --> 00:53:50.386
You just don't read about
them in the newspaper.

00:53:50.386 --> 00:53:52.968
And the only way that the
president can turn down,

00:53:52.968 --> 00:53:54.763
Mr. Exxon Mobil, is to say,

00:53:55.687 --> 00:53:59.758
"You know, I hear you and
I'm trying to help you.

00:53:59.758 --> 00:54:04.008
But, I got 100,000 people
in the street out here.

00:54:04.008 --> 00:54:06.127
And they vote."

00:54:06.127 --> 00:54:08.730
There were 20 million people in the street

00:54:08.730 --> 00:54:10.613
on earth day in 1970.

00:54:10.613 --> 00:54:12.852
Scared the bejesus out of Richard Nixon,

00:54:12.852 --> 00:54:14.385
a Republican president.

00:54:14.385 --> 00:54:16.025
We know this now from the memoirs.

00:54:16.025 --> 00:54:17.415
He decided right then and there.

00:54:17.415 --> 00:54:19.952
Okay, I'm gonna take this
issue away from the Democrats,

00:54:19.952 --> 00:54:21.433
for when I run for reelection...

00:54:21.433 --> 00:54:23.025
I'm gonna take the environmental
issue away from them.

00:54:23.025 --> 00:54:24.800
I'm gonna start the
environmental protection agency.

00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:26.795
I'm gonna start the council
and environmental quality.

00:54:26.795 --> 00:54:29.185
We're gonna sign the clean
air act, the clean water act,

00:54:29.185 --> 00:54:32.158
the endangered species act, et
cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:54:32.158 --> 00:54:34.510
The most powerful environmental laws

00:54:34.510 --> 00:54:37.102
in the world, to this day.

00:54:37.102 --> 00:54:38.168
Why did they happen?

00:54:38.168 --> 00:54:40.020
They happened because
20 million Americans,

00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:41.657
got into the street.

00:54:41.657 --> 00:54:43.670
And that is what it's going to take

00:54:43.670 --> 00:54:46.160
to really deal with climate change.

00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:48.328
(crowd chanting)

00:54:52.179 --> 00:54:53.493
- Well, what do you think happened?

00:54:53.493 --> 00:54:56.945
Because it was painful to watch.

00:54:57.857 --> 00:54:59.058
- I don't know what happened.

00:54:59.058 --> 00:55:01.985
I don't know if I had a
panic attack or what it was,

00:55:01.985 --> 00:55:04.328
but I really was a mess.

00:55:04.328 --> 00:55:06.102
I've never, not been able

00:55:06.102 --> 00:55:10.305
to complete a sentence
like that for so long.

00:55:10.305 --> 00:55:14.368
- Bob said you did a great
job on the second attempt.

00:55:14.368 --> 00:55:18.348
And some other people seem to
be impressed as well, so...

00:55:18.348 --> 00:55:20.213
- You know I don't choose to be this way.

00:55:20.213 --> 00:55:21.668
It's like you are who you are.

00:55:21.668 --> 00:55:25.666
It's annoying to me and
exhausting sometimes, but like...

00:55:30.842 --> 00:55:33.157
I just wanna do something good.

00:55:33.157 --> 00:55:34.240
- Mm-hmm.

00:55:35.246 --> 00:55:37.185
What makes think you are not?

00:55:38.276 --> 00:55:39.622
- And that's what people keep saying.

00:55:39.622 --> 00:55:42.297
And that's not what I'm feeling,

00:55:42.297 --> 00:55:45.363
because if it were just
something that I could say,

00:55:46.536 --> 00:55:48.203
"Oh, okay. I'm just gonna pay attention

00:55:48.203 --> 00:55:52.113
and do what people that I
love are asking me to do."

00:55:52.113 --> 00:55:54.957
Then that would be an easy choice,

00:55:54.957 --> 00:55:56.705
but it's not that easy.

00:55:58.046 --> 00:55:59.189
(calm music)

00:55:59.189 --> 00:56:02.463
I feel really tired and drained.

00:56:06.170 --> 00:56:07.178
Coming into the trial,

00:56:07.178 --> 00:56:09.332
I was trying to really present myself,

00:56:09.332 --> 00:56:13.093
as being strong spiritually,
emotionally and physically.

00:56:14.113 --> 00:56:16.576
I really didn't wanna
look like an irrational,

00:56:16.576 --> 00:56:19.266
emotional, loose cannon.
(Roger chuckles)

00:56:19.266 --> 00:56:21.910
And so, even the judge had to comment,

00:56:21.910 --> 00:56:23.349
like, "Why are you
fighting with your lawyer?"

00:56:23.349 --> 00:56:24.440
And I was.

00:56:25.541 --> 00:56:26.782
So, I don't know.

00:56:26.782 --> 00:56:30.586
- She's got so much information
that she wants to impart.

00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:34.783
I don't know that anybody
would be successful.

00:56:34.783 --> 00:56:36.095
- I couldn't even say my name.

00:56:36.095 --> 00:56:38.258
I really could not say my name.

00:56:38.258 --> 00:56:40.799
It's so emotional for me. Like this is--

00:56:40.799 --> 00:56:41.802
It was such a big moment.

00:56:41.802 --> 00:56:44.978
I feel like the Vikings kicker
who missed that field goal.

00:56:44.978 --> 00:56:46.782
And they're out of the
playoffs. That's exact--

00:56:46.782 --> 00:56:49.832
I just missed the field goal.

00:56:49.832 --> 00:56:52.135
For us. I mean, the other
four did such a good job.

00:56:52.135 --> 00:56:53.530
It was really just a--

00:56:53.530 --> 00:56:55.620
That putt in the hole that
you just have to tap in

00:56:55.620 --> 00:56:58.757
and then it just rounds out
and doesn't go in the hole.

00:56:58.757 --> 00:57:01.563
But I, it was bottled up in
me and I wanted to say it,

00:57:01.563 --> 00:57:02.888
and the questions weren't coming,

00:57:02.888 --> 00:57:03.798
and I had it all laid out.

00:57:03.798 --> 00:57:05.282
And I just was like, "Ah."

00:57:05.282 --> 00:57:07.767
I can't help it that I'm that way.

00:57:07.767 --> 00:57:10.310
- When you came off that
stand the first time,

00:57:10.310 --> 00:57:11.858
I said to you, "I don't--"

00:57:11.858 --> 00:57:13.379
I said this out of tremendous emotion,

00:57:13.379 --> 00:57:15.512
"I don't care about the trial."

00:57:15.512 --> 00:57:16.786
- Yeah, you said that.

00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:19.026
- That's what I mean, I don't think

00:57:19.026 --> 00:57:21.209
you understand the depth of emotion,

00:57:21.209 --> 00:57:22.950
some of the people around
you are experiencing,

00:57:22.950 --> 00:57:24.833
because you're so caught up in your own.

00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:29.988
- It's hard to watch her in the trial.

00:57:29.988 --> 00:57:33.423
It's harder to watch her
when she's actually talking,

00:57:33.423 --> 00:57:36.567
because usually when
she's crying or upset,

00:57:36.567 --> 00:57:39.278
I cry and I'm upset, because of it.

00:57:39.278 --> 00:57:42.715
So, it's definitely hard
to watch her like that.

00:57:42.715 --> 00:57:47.710
And, yeah. I had to leave because of it.

00:57:47.710 --> 00:57:49.406
'Cause I just couldn't
watch her like that.

00:57:49.406 --> 00:57:52.580
And I don't think it was
helping her that there's...

00:57:52.580 --> 00:57:54.340
That I was upset.

00:57:54.340 --> 00:57:56.568
- Screw the trial, it's
over. It really is.

00:57:56.568 --> 00:57:59.312
And win or lose. You've won,
that's all there is to it.

00:58:00.354 --> 00:58:02.345
'Cause I'd love to have you come back

00:58:02.345 --> 00:58:04.100
from whatever it is that you go do

00:58:04.100 --> 00:58:06.732
and feel like you nailed it.

00:58:06.732 --> 00:58:09.094
How great would my life be at that point?

00:58:09.094 --> 00:58:11.375
(laughing)

00:58:11.375 --> 00:58:13.322
I could get anything I wanted.

00:58:13.322 --> 00:58:14.608
(laughing)

00:58:14.608 --> 00:58:16.524
- What is it that you want?

00:58:18.113 --> 00:58:19.296
- We can't talk about that now.

00:58:19.296 --> 00:58:20.420
- Dad!

00:58:20.420 --> 00:58:22.487
(laughing)

00:58:27.214 --> 00:58:28.264
- Okay.

00:58:34.209 --> 00:58:36.363
- I have been advised by the bailiff

00:58:36.363 --> 00:58:40.817
that you have reached a verdict as jurors.

00:58:40.817 --> 00:58:42.912
(soft moving music)

00:58:42.912 --> 00:58:44.593
- In the matter of state of North Dakota,

00:58:44.593 --> 00:58:46.726
versus Michael Eric Foster.

00:58:47.618 --> 00:58:49.118
Count One.

00:58:49.118 --> 00:58:50.490
We the jury impaneled

00:58:50.490 --> 00:58:52.430
and sworn in the above entitled action,

00:58:52.430 --> 00:58:55.262
do find the defendant, Michael Foster,

00:58:55.262 --> 00:58:57.505
guilty of the crime of criminal conspiracy

00:58:57.505 --> 00:58:59.923
to commit criminal mischief.

00:59:00.778 --> 00:59:02.361
Count two.

00:59:02.361 --> 00:59:03.477
We the jury impaneled

00:59:03.477 --> 00:59:05.437
and sworn in the above entitled action

00:59:05.437 --> 00:59:07.389
do find the defendant guilty

00:59:07.389 --> 00:59:09.770
of the crime of criminal mischief.

00:59:09.770 --> 00:59:11.130
Count three.

00:59:11.130 --> 00:59:13.390
We the jury impaneled and sworn

00:59:13.390 --> 00:59:17.101
in the above entitled action
do find the defendant,

00:59:17.101 --> 00:59:21.050
not guilty of the crime
of reckless endangerment.

00:59:21.050 --> 00:59:24.226
- If you please stand,
the jury can be excused.

00:59:26.432 --> 00:59:28.370
- So, the guilty, guilty.

00:59:29.681 --> 00:59:30.514
Ah...

00:59:32.397 --> 00:59:37.397
It was bad, but I got the
first not guilty verdict

00:59:37.790 --> 00:59:39.790
on reckless endangerment.

00:59:41.965 --> 00:59:45.795
The prosecutor compared
me to the 9/11 hijackers,

00:59:45.795 --> 00:59:47.842
compared me to the unibomber.

00:59:47.842 --> 00:59:50.432
And said that if the jury let this go,

00:59:50.432 --> 00:59:52.920
it was gonna bring Sharia
law to North Dakota.

00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:55.455
I'm not joking about that. (chuckles)

00:59:55.455 --> 00:59:58.405
So, after all that,

00:59:58.405 --> 01:00:00.524
he's gonna cause a accident,

01:00:00.524 --> 01:00:01.969
he's gonna cause an oil spill.

01:00:01.969 --> 01:00:04.232
He's gonna do all these
terrible things to your farm,

01:00:04.232 --> 01:00:05.585
to your community.

01:00:05.585 --> 01:00:07.146
He doesn't care about people.

01:00:09.794 --> 01:00:12.088
The jury did not agree.

01:00:12.088 --> 01:00:14.393
- We also should talk about whether

01:00:14.393 --> 01:00:17.872
the defendants are taken into custody.

01:00:17.872 --> 01:00:21.122
These are class B felonies

01:00:21.122 --> 01:00:23.765
and they're from out of state.

01:00:23.765 --> 01:00:25.475
- So, are you requesting a change

01:00:25.475 --> 01:00:27.076
in their bond conditions?

01:00:27.076 --> 01:00:30.193
- It was our plan to ask if
there were felony convictions

01:00:30.193 --> 01:00:31.962
that they be taken into custody.

01:00:31.962 --> 01:00:33.768
So, I think that is our request.

01:00:35.875 --> 01:00:37.410
- And then there was this moment

01:00:37.410 --> 01:00:42.060
where nobody in the courtroom
was breathing, including me.

01:00:42.060 --> 01:00:43.495
That went on forever.

01:00:44.463 --> 01:00:45.815
And the judge said,

01:00:45.815 --> 01:00:49.982
"Okay, we're gonna just continue as is."

01:00:49.982 --> 01:00:53.252
So, we weren't put into
custody right away,

01:00:53.252 --> 01:00:54.693
but we could have been.

01:00:54.693 --> 01:00:56.977
And at that moment, I think I felt

01:00:56.977 --> 01:01:00.876
just how much my control of my life

01:01:00.876 --> 01:01:03.841
is now in the judge's hands.

01:01:13.895 --> 01:01:14.925
- Hey, mom.

01:01:14.925 --> 01:01:16.642
So, I'm sitting on the couch

01:01:16.642 --> 01:01:19.117
and I look outside the
window, and guess who I see?

01:01:19.117 --> 01:01:20.316
Yeah, he's home.

01:01:22.821 --> 01:01:23.810
How did you get home?

01:01:23.810 --> 01:01:25.301
- We drove.
- I took the bus,

01:01:25.301 --> 01:01:27.242
and then they picked me up.

01:01:27.242 --> 01:01:28.552
They saw me walking.

01:01:28.552 --> 01:01:30.087
- Mom was be there to pick you up.

01:01:30.087 --> 01:01:31.097
And she freaked out,

01:01:31.097 --> 01:01:32.392
'cause you didn't get
off any of the boats.

01:01:32.392 --> 01:01:33.895
And you weren't on any of the docks.

01:01:33.895 --> 01:01:36.402
- She wasn't there when I got there.

01:01:36.402 --> 01:01:38.400
- She was there when you got there.

01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:39.691
- Really?
- Yeah.

01:01:39.691 --> 01:01:41.382
- Yep. She's pissed at me.

01:01:47.815 --> 01:01:50.032
- Adonis, I need to talk to you.

01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:52.193
- Okay.

01:01:53.888 --> 01:01:54.963
- Come here.

01:02:03.982 --> 01:02:06.268
If you don't know what's
going on, you call.

01:02:06.268 --> 01:02:08.179
You don't just decide to get on a bus

01:02:09.087 --> 01:02:11.290
and go somewhere when someone was planning

01:02:11.290 --> 01:02:12.610
on picking you up.

01:02:12.610 --> 01:02:13.764
And I just spent an hour

01:02:13.764 --> 01:02:15.217
(soft piano)

01:02:15.217 --> 01:02:18.383
over ferry dock, talking to 911.

01:02:18.383 --> 01:02:20.410
And talking to the Vashon police

01:02:20.410 --> 01:02:21.695
and talking to the people,

01:02:21.695 --> 01:02:24.503
and going through all the
video, looking for you with...

01:02:27.879 --> 01:02:29.556
- It wasn't my intention to do that.

01:02:29.556 --> 01:02:30.862
- I know it wasn't your intention.

01:02:30.862 --> 01:02:32.804
I need you to understand how it happened

01:02:32.804 --> 01:02:34.062
and I need you to be like,

01:02:34.062 --> 01:02:35.972
"I have a responsibility to communicate."

01:02:35.972 --> 01:02:37.830
- I feel like you don't trust me.

01:02:43.072 --> 01:02:45.528
- You're 12 years old.
I let you go places.

01:02:45.528 --> 01:02:46.957
Obviously, I have trust in you.

01:02:46.957 --> 01:02:50.102
I'm asking you to be
responsible and communicate.

01:02:50.102 --> 01:02:51.502
We're gonna talk about this.

01:02:57.422 --> 01:02:59.372
(water running)

01:03:05.076 --> 01:03:05.909
Oh...

01:03:09.968 --> 01:03:12.268
(kids chattering)

01:03:14.234 --> 01:03:16.274
There's so many other layers to it.

01:03:16.274 --> 01:03:18.819
I'm like, especially with
their court cases and stuff

01:03:18.819 --> 01:03:19.744
- Mm-hmm.

01:03:19.744 --> 01:03:23.506
- Aji, has gotten death
threats, and so it just like--

01:03:23.506 --> 01:03:25.052
- This was the federal case, yeah?

01:03:25.052 --> 01:03:27.728
- Yeah. It's something
that I don't really...

01:03:27.728 --> 01:03:29.555
Like, it doesn't sit on
my mind all the time.

01:03:29.555 --> 01:03:31.112
But I think when something
like that happens,

01:03:31.112 --> 01:03:32.502
where I don't know where they
are and stuff like that--

01:03:32.502 --> 01:03:33.560
- You don't know.

01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:37.880
- And then all the racism and
everything that's happening,

01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:39.010
there's also that.

01:03:39.010 --> 01:03:40.721
What if someone just decided

01:03:40.721 --> 01:03:44.987
to take their crazy ideas
out on my kids? (sighs)

01:03:44.987 --> 01:03:46.003
- Yeah.

01:03:46.003 --> 01:03:48.938
- And, you know, it's just, I don't know.

01:03:48.938 --> 01:03:51.127
It's nerve wracking when they disappear.

01:03:52.518 --> 01:03:55.101
(gentle music)

01:03:57.745 --> 01:04:00.162
- I have a marshmallow.

01:04:06.791 --> 01:04:09.623
- Just break the charcoal part off.

01:04:09.623 --> 01:04:10.873
- 'Cause it will be too hot?

01:04:10.873 --> 01:04:12.731
- Don't grab right there.

01:04:18.628 --> 01:04:20.993
- I hope my memory gets this forever.

01:04:21.883 --> 01:04:24.822
This perfectly roasted marshmallow.

01:04:24.822 --> 01:04:26.916
- I love you mama.

01:04:26.916 --> 01:04:28.575
- I love you too.

01:04:29.625 --> 01:04:31.732
♪ We're changing up the plan ♪

01:04:31.732 --> 01:04:33.741
♪ Decolonize the water ♪

01:04:33.741 --> 01:04:35.485
♪ Decolonize the land ♪

01:04:35.485 --> 01:04:36.564
- We all showed up there.

01:04:36.564 --> 01:04:39.467
There were thousands of us
there, at flood wall street.

01:04:39.467 --> 01:04:41.235
We were gonna shut wall street down,

01:04:41.235 --> 01:04:44.602
because that is exactly what
fuels the fossil fuel industry.

01:04:44.602 --> 01:04:45.952
And every other corporation

01:04:45.952 --> 01:04:49.415
that is allowed to exploit
all of these resources.

01:04:49.415 --> 01:04:51.160
We meet at Battery park.

01:04:51.160 --> 01:04:53.711
And so, I assume, "Hey,
this is gonna be huge."

01:04:53.711 --> 01:04:55.695
Look at all of these people.

01:04:55.695 --> 01:04:59.697
- Resist, resist, raise up your fist.

01:04:59.697 --> 01:05:03.488
Resist, resist, raise up your fist.

01:05:03.488 --> 01:05:07.571
Resist, resist, raise up your fist.

01:05:07.571 --> 01:05:09.210
(crowd cheering and chanting)

01:05:09.210 --> 01:05:11.682
- This amazing. Yeah, it's beautiful.

01:05:11.682 --> 01:05:13.137
Yeah.

01:05:13.137 --> 01:05:13.970
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:13.970 --> 01:05:15.709
I mean whatever we do,
we should stick together

01:05:15.709 --> 01:05:17.228
and be powerful...

01:05:17.228 --> 01:05:19.683
We have a lot of people
here and that's powerful.

01:05:19.683 --> 01:05:20.708
- Our streets.

01:05:20.708 --> 01:05:21.616
- Whose streets?

01:05:21.616 --> 01:05:22.632
- Our streets.

01:05:22.632 --> 01:05:23.465
- Whose streets?

01:05:23.465 --> 01:05:24.298
- Our streets.

01:05:24.298 --> 01:05:25.131
- Whose streets?

01:05:25.131 --> 01:05:25.964
- Our streets.

01:05:25.964 --> 01:05:30.243
- The people are rising,
no more compromising.

01:05:30.243 --> 01:05:33.927
- The people are rising,
no more compromising.

01:05:33.927 --> 01:05:37.825
The people are rising,
no more compromising.

01:05:37.825 --> 01:05:39.975
(crowd chanting)

01:05:39.975 --> 01:05:41.783
♪ This is what democracy looks like ♪

01:05:41.783 --> 01:05:43.950
♪ Show me what does democracy looks like ♪

01:05:43.950 --> 01:05:45.886
♪ This is what democracy looks like ♪

01:05:45.886 --> 01:05:49.426
(crowd cheering)

01:05:49.426 --> 01:05:50.931
- There was no way to get to wall street.

01:05:50.931 --> 01:05:52.541
The cops shut it off.

01:05:52.541 --> 01:05:56.137
They had, what looked like
the SWAT team out there.

01:05:56.137 --> 01:05:58.810
They had horses, there was almost...

01:05:58.810 --> 01:06:01.035
There was as many cops,
as there were people.

01:06:02.099 --> 01:06:03.867
- I believe that we can win.

01:06:03.867 --> 01:06:05.582
I believe that we can win.

01:06:05.582 --> 01:06:07.548
I believe that we can win.

01:06:07.548 --> 01:06:09.323
I believe that we can win.

01:06:09.323 --> 01:06:11.157
I believe that we can win.

01:06:11.157 --> 01:06:12.857
(crowd chanting louder)

01:06:12.857 --> 01:06:14.556
I believe that we can win!

01:06:14.556 --> 01:06:16.419
I believe that we can win!

01:06:16.419 --> 01:06:18.139
I believe that we can win!

01:06:19.972 --> 01:06:23.701
(Clapping and Cheering)

01:06:23.701 --> 01:06:25.534
(stirring music)

01:06:26.749 --> 01:06:29.416
(whistles blowing)

01:06:32.377 --> 01:06:34.727
(metal fences clanking)

01:06:36.545 --> 01:06:37.970
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:06:44.158 --> 01:06:46.957
- This is a violation
of our first amendment!

01:06:46.957 --> 01:06:48.640
(whistles blowing)
(crowd shouting)

01:06:50.937 --> 01:06:53.353
- Who do you serve? Who do you protect?

01:06:53.353 --> 01:06:55.719
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?

01:06:55.719 --> 01:06:57.935
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?

01:06:57.935 --> 01:07:00.685
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?

01:07:03.016 --> 01:07:04.599
(spray can hissing)

01:07:05.933 --> 01:07:07.476
- There's water for somebody.

01:07:07.476 --> 01:07:09.693
- Blink, blink. Don't touch, don't touch.

01:07:09.693 --> 01:07:11.886
- They fucking pepper sprayed me.

01:07:14.653 --> 01:07:16.432
- The cops started coming
in with their buses

01:07:16.432 --> 01:07:18.892
and it was just all intimidation.

01:07:18.892 --> 01:07:20.962
They were just trying
to see who could leave,

01:07:20.962 --> 01:07:23.411
that way they didn't have to
arrest them, but nobody left.

01:07:23.411 --> 01:07:25.260
(crowd chanting)

01:07:25.260 --> 01:07:28.592
- Arrest Wall Street! Arrest Wall Street!

01:07:30.694 --> 01:07:34.818
We will be forced to do
this, again and again.

01:07:34.818 --> 01:07:37.118
Again and again. Again and again.

01:07:37.118 --> 01:07:39.946
- I order you to leave this roadway now.

01:07:39.946 --> 01:07:42.043
If you do so voluntarily,

01:07:42.043 --> 01:07:44.543
no charges will be placed against you.

01:07:46.085 --> 01:07:48.143
(crowd cheering)

01:07:49.785 --> 01:07:51.709
♪ We've only started ♪

01:07:51.709 --> 01:07:53.518
♪ We shall not give up the fight ♪

01:07:53.518 --> 01:07:57.748
♪ We have only started,
we have only started ♪

01:07:57.748 --> 01:08:00.148
♪ We have only started ♪

01:08:00.148 --> 01:08:01.873
♪ We shall not give up the fight ♪

01:08:01.873 --> 01:08:06.061
♪ We have only started,
we have only started ♪

01:08:06.061 --> 01:08:08.314
♪ We have only started ♪

01:08:08.314 --> 01:08:10.233
♪ We will not not give up the fight ♪

01:08:10.233 --> 01:08:14.217
♪ We have only started,
we have only started ♪

01:08:14.217 --> 01:08:16.873
♪ We have only started ♪

01:08:16.873 --> 01:08:18.802
♪ We shall not give up the fight ♪

01:08:18.802 --> 01:08:22.821
♪ We have only started,
we have only started ♪

01:08:22.821 --> 01:08:25.214
♪ We have only started ♪

01:08:25.214 --> 01:08:27.013
♪ We will not give up the fight ♪

01:08:27.013 --> 01:08:31.057
♪ We have only stated,
we have only started ♪

01:08:31.057 --> 01:08:34.075
♪ We have only started ♪

01:08:34.075 --> 01:08:35.316
- Can we do a mix of--

01:08:35.316 --> 01:08:36.388
- Yeah, we can do a mix of strawberry-

01:08:36.388 --> 01:08:37.848
- Raspberry.
- I mean raspberry.

01:08:39.023 --> 01:08:40.727
- Okay, let's do that.

01:08:40.727 --> 01:08:43.358
- All right. I wanna
get a few more though.

01:08:43.358 --> 01:08:44.635
(soft music)

01:08:44.635 --> 01:08:46.407
- Are most of yours unstemed?

01:08:46.407 --> 01:08:47.745
- Most of them are.

01:08:48.920 --> 01:08:51.568
- Mine are perfect.

01:08:51.568 --> 01:08:53.060
(laughing)

01:08:53.060 --> 01:08:54.524
- Of course they are.

01:08:54.524 --> 01:08:55.357
- Okay.

01:08:56.557 --> 01:09:00.807
It is hard, because I know I'm privileged,

01:09:00.807 --> 01:09:03.092
but it's hard when,

01:09:03.092 --> 01:09:05.981
like, "Why is my dad late
to my birthday party?"

01:09:05.981 --> 01:09:08.064
I don't really think about in the moment,

01:09:08.064 --> 01:09:11.427
"Oh, it's because he's
helping solve some big issue."

01:09:11.427 --> 01:09:14.310
That's not something that I
think about in the moment,

01:09:14.310 --> 01:09:17.915
'cause I'm feeling emotional or whatever.

01:09:18.752 --> 01:09:19.872
I want my dad on my birthday.

01:09:19.872 --> 01:09:22.721
- Totally fair. Right? Of course she does.

01:09:22.721 --> 01:09:24.992
I was hanging out with some activists

01:09:24.992 --> 01:09:26.558
at a leadership retreat

01:09:26.558 --> 01:09:28.989
and someone shared about the story

01:09:28.989 --> 01:09:31.515
about their own experience with their son.

01:09:31.515 --> 01:09:33.653
And realizing that the
son was, actually...

01:09:33.653 --> 01:09:36.703
Had stopped expecting them to be there.

01:09:36.703 --> 01:09:40.000
It's the last thing I want, is for Aziza,

01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:43.556
to not even expect me to
be present in her life.

01:09:45.137 --> 01:09:47.632
That's when I actually,
I made that commitment.

01:09:47.632 --> 01:09:48.857
I came back from that and said,

01:09:48.857 --> 01:09:50.733
"Aziza, I am going to make you breakfast

01:09:50.733 --> 01:09:52.480
every morning before school."

01:09:53.937 --> 01:09:55.320
- Yeah, in the morning,

01:09:55.320 --> 01:09:58.494
I'm definitely not the most awake person.

01:09:58.494 --> 01:10:01.215
I'm not a morning person,
as much as I wish I was.

01:10:01.215 --> 01:10:04.373
- But it certainly comes
to my mind of that,

01:10:04.373 --> 01:10:07.355
depending upon how the future looks,

01:10:07.355 --> 01:10:11.643
that she can think back on her dad

01:10:11.643 --> 01:10:15.370
and know that I was doing what I could,

01:10:15.370 --> 01:10:18.393
rather than ignoring it.

01:10:19.696 --> 01:10:20.738
The crowd...

01:10:20.738 --> 01:10:23.635
The crowd on the dock, they're chanting,

01:10:23.635 --> 01:10:26.553
"Stop that boat, stop that boat."

01:10:26.553 --> 01:10:27.860
It was like being at...

01:10:27.860 --> 01:10:30.840
Like a Seahawks game or in a
championship, or something.

01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:33.110
It was like a non-violent
riot on the water

01:10:33.110 --> 01:10:35.613
with a crowd of hundreds
of people chanting.

01:10:35.613 --> 01:10:39.015
And we look like a bunch of
David's, going after Goliath.

01:10:39.015 --> 01:10:41.257
And it was freaking beautiful.

01:10:41.257 --> 01:10:42.432
And so, fierce.

01:10:42.432 --> 01:10:43.900
- Wow.

01:10:43.900 --> 01:10:45.278
- It was amazing.

01:10:46.418 --> 01:10:48.952
(wind blowing)

01:10:59.870 --> 01:11:02.008
- It's the day before the sentencing.

01:11:03.378 --> 01:11:06.777
The night before, 'cause it's
happening tomorrow morning

01:11:06.777 --> 01:11:10.238
and I may or may not be
incarcerated tomorrow.

01:11:11.921 --> 01:11:13.548
I could walk out of the court house

01:11:13.548 --> 01:11:15.680
and I could be eating
lunch with everybody,

01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:17.177
and go on about my way.

01:11:17.177 --> 01:11:20.710
Or I could end up going into the system

01:11:20.710 --> 01:11:22.791
and being in the jail or the prison.

01:11:25.547 --> 01:11:27.992
I have, whether it's friendships

01:11:27.992 --> 01:11:29.543
or family, or you name it.

01:11:29.543 --> 01:11:32.018
I have stressed people out,

01:11:33.776 --> 01:11:36.731
because I am not willing to just go along

01:11:37.764 --> 01:11:39.855
and keep pulling the
trigger on this planet.

01:11:40.825 --> 01:11:42.906
Most people need to look away from this,

01:11:42.906 --> 01:11:44.580
as often as possible.

01:11:44.580 --> 01:11:48.215
It's why we have such climate denial,

01:11:48.215 --> 01:11:50.085
because it's a defense mechanism.

01:11:50.085 --> 01:11:51.362
It's a coping mechanism,

01:11:51.362 --> 01:11:53.688
so that people can get
on with their lives.

01:11:53.688 --> 01:11:57.810
But when the legal system
is broken, and it is broken

01:11:57.810 --> 01:12:02.225
when you can legally wipe
out all life on the planet,

01:12:02.225 --> 01:12:05.918
through every business,
financial, mechanical,

01:12:05.918 --> 01:12:10.918
technological thing we're
doing, it's all legal.

01:12:10.969 --> 01:12:12.333
Everything we've done so far

01:12:12.333 --> 01:12:15.267
to wipe out half of the
vertebrates on the planet,

01:12:15.267 --> 01:12:17.953
since I was in first grade, is legal.

01:12:20.010 --> 01:12:23.335
That's okay. Nobody goes to jail for that.

01:12:24.570 --> 01:12:28.702
If you tried to stop that,
you gotta go to jail.

01:12:28.702 --> 01:12:31.050
- Ladies and gentlemen please rise,

01:12:31.050 --> 01:12:33.785
The Pembina County
court is now in session.

01:12:33.785 --> 01:12:36.432
The honorable Laurie
Fontaine is presiding.

01:12:38.260 --> 01:12:40.270
- Thank you. You may be seated.

01:12:45.099 --> 01:12:47.765
Pembina County district
court is now in session.

01:12:50.341 --> 01:12:52.382
Is the state ready to proceed?

01:12:52.382 --> 01:12:54.101
- Yes, your honor, we are.

01:12:54.101 --> 01:12:56.929
- Your honor, the defendants claim

01:12:56.929 --> 01:12:58.910
their actions were necessary,

01:12:58.910 --> 01:13:02.135
because the traditional avenues

01:13:02.135 --> 01:13:06.477
of citizen voice were
not effective for them.

01:13:06.477 --> 01:13:08.152
They claim this failed,

01:13:08.152 --> 01:13:10.710
because of the huge amount of money

01:13:10.710 --> 01:13:14.908
that the fossil fuel industry
puts into the debate.

01:13:16.303 --> 01:13:17.581
But is that it?

01:13:18.450 --> 01:13:20.260
I think a lot of people were put off

01:13:20.260 --> 01:13:25.133
by the moral superiority
that it takes to decide,

01:13:25.133 --> 01:13:27.631
personally, that you can violate the law,

01:13:27.631 --> 01:13:29.843
because your cause is righteous.

01:13:29.843 --> 01:13:32.658
Because they can't achieve
things in the traditional way

01:13:33.563 --> 01:13:37.288
that they are going to
choose to violate the law

01:13:37.288 --> 01:13:40.805
in order to get the message out there.

01:13:40.805 --> 01:13:45.206
And this is where it's
really leading to chaos.

01:13:45.206 --> 01:13:48.900
This is not the way we do things
in North Dakota, at least.

01:13:48.900 --> 01:13:49.916
Thank you.

01:13:51.587 --> 01:13:53.435
- This time, Mr. Foster, I would ask you

01:13:53.435 --> 01:13:55.669
if you have any statements
you would like to make

01:13:55.669 --> 01:13:59.952
to the court before the
court imposes a sentence?

01:13:59.952 --> 01:14:00.785
- Yes, your honor.

01:14:00.785 --> 01:14:03.587
I would like to say something.

01:14:03.587 --> 01:14:07.430
In the first White House report on climate

01:14:07.430 --> 01:14:09.288
it said that the

01:14:10.513 --> 01:14:12.996
humans have altered the
chemical composition

01:14:12.996 --> 01:14:16.435
of the atmosphere through
the burning of fossil fuels,

01:14:16.435 --> 01:14:18.660
putting civilization at risk.

01:14:19.929 --> 01:14:22.075
That report was issued by the White House,

01:14:22.075 --> 01:14:24.213
under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

01:14:25.504 --> 01:14:27.792
And it's right there in the constitution

01:14:27.792 --> 01:14:32.792
that young people, young
citizens have a right to life.

01:14:33.592 --> 01:14:35.859
And what we are doing

01:14:35.859 --> 01:14:39.032
is a slow bullet to their head,

01:14:39.032 --> 01:14:40.711
30 years down the road.

01:14:41.764 --> 01:14:44.035
We have passed the point of emergency.

01:14:44.035 --> 01:14:48.033
That energy infrastructure is the gun.

01:14:49.318 --> 01:14:51.448
The bullet is the product inside it

01:14:52.523 --> 01:14:54.710
and somebody's pulling the trigger.

01:14:54.710 --> 01:14:56.803
And somebody is getting paid to do that.

01:14:56.803 --> 01:14:59.360
And somebody's making
a lot of money on that.

01:14:59.360 --> 01:15:02.535
And if the law continues to prefer

01:15:02.535 --> 01:15:06.909
the rights of the people
who own that property

01:15:06.909 --> 01:15:11.030
and their rights to protect
their infrastructure,

01:15:11.030 --> 01:15:12.828
that is poisoning the rest of us,

01:15:12.828 --> 01:15:15.847
poisoning themselves,
poisoning their own kids,

01:15:15.847 --> 01:15:18.980
and as long as we keep using
the product coming through it,

01:15:20.839 --> 01:15:24.688
our rights to life and
liberty are in danger.

01:15:26.972 --> 01:15:27.947
Thank you.

01:15:32.790 --> 01:15:34.340
- Trans Canada

01:15:36.565 --> 01:15:37.680
wrote a letter

01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:40.635
asking for significant
prison time for Mr. Foster.

01:15:40.635 --> 01:15:43.076
They are concerned that
other people will try

01:15:43.076 --> 01:15:46.876
and tamper with their lines

01:15:46.876 --> 01:15:49.684
or other people's pipelines.

01:15:49.684 --> 01:15:51.001
This is the most troubling

01:15:51.001 --> 01:15:54.159
for me with you, Mr. Foster, because

01:15:56.917 --> 01:16:00.666
everything about you tells me...

01:16:00.666 --> 01:16:02.545
And everything you've said to me

01:16:03.586 --> 01:16:05.816
is this was the right thing to do.

01:16:05.816 --> 01:16:07.913
This is what I'm called to do.

01:16:09.266 --> 01:16:11.604
And you have not expressed any remorse

01:16:11.604 --> 01:16:14.598
or any regret at ever, any time at all.

01:16:15.928 --> 01:16:17.855
Court sentence's you to three years

01:16:17.855 --> 01:16:20.553
at the North Dakota
department of corrections.

01:16:20.553 --> 01:16:24.242
After serving one year,
the balance is suspended

01:16:24.242 --> 01:16:27.508
on the condition you be placed
on supervised probation.

01:16:29.123 --> 01:16:30.239
Thank you.

01:16:32.914 --> 01:16:34.989
(murmuring in the courtroom)
(somber music)

01:17:01.115 --> 01:17:03.445
- When I get home and he's not there,

01:17:03.445 --> 01:17:05.001
it's gonna be really hard.

01:17:06.645 --> 01:17:08.720
But they painted a picture of him,

01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:13.053
as this crazy, zealot person
who loves all the attention.

01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:17.797
He just wants to figure out any way

01:17:17.797 --> 01:17:20.105
that he can possibly use his life

01:17:20.105 --> 01:17:23.053
to prevent what's gonna be happening,

01:17:23.053 --> 01:17:26.885
if we just all keep doing
what we're doing every day.

01:17:29.385 --> 01:17:31.922
Now, it's just a long
distance relationship.

01:17:31.922 --> 01:17:33.176
And I'm really grateful

01:17:33.176 --> 01:17:36.753
that the judge didn't
give him the 21 years.

01:17:36.753 --> 01:17:38.670
It's one day at a time.

01:17:40.352 --> 01:17:44.776
And we laugh and he makes the hard

01:17:45.860 --> 01:17:49.200
parts of the world a little bit easier.

01:17:49.200 --> 01:17:51.838
So yes. I'm gonna miss him.

01:17:56.482 --> 01:17:57.890
- Cup Monster.

01:17:57.890 --> 01:17:59.467
- Are those all actual cups?

01:17:59.467 --> 01:18:00.967
- Is it a shopping cart?

01:18:00.967 --> 01:18:03.073
- It's beautiful. Oh, my
God, it's masterpiece.

01:18:03.073 --> 01:18:04.355
- Can I get inside of it?

01:18:04.355 --> 01:18:05.246
- No.

01:18:07.929 --> 01:18:10.517
- It definitely does smell like coffee.

01:18:10.517 --> 01:18:12.708
Ugh. Why am I participating like this?

01:18:12.708 --> 01:18:14.208
(Jamie laughs)

01:18:17.495 --> 01:18:19.672
- I pretty much dedicated my life

01:18:19.672 --> 01:18:21.774
to fighting climate change.

01:18:21.774 --> 01:18:24.314
You can go around, you can
hang out with your friends,

01:18:24.314 --> 01:18:25.147
and you can do nothing.

01:18:25.147 --> 01:18:26.356
You can be unaware.

01:18:26.356 --> 01:18:29.188
You could play video games,
you can read books and...

01:18:29.188 --> 01:18:31.567
But at the end of the day,

01:18:31.567 --> 01:18:34.078
you'll still know that
climate change is going on

01:18:34.078 --> 01:18:35.487
and it's still there.

01:18:35.487 --> 01:18:36.695
It's not gone.

01:18:36.695 --> 01:18:38.933
You can't just ignore it
and have it disappear.

01:18:38.933 --> 01:18:42.753
It's not like when you're
like five years old

01:18:42.753 --> 01:18:44.745
and you think that, because
you cover your eyes,

01:18:44.745 --> 01:18:45.818
you're hiding.

01:18:45.818 --> 01:18:47.938
Because, oh, I can't see
you, so you can't see me.

01:18:47.938 --> 01:18:48.830
It's not like that.

01:18:48.830 --> 01:18:50.475
Just because you ignore a problem,

01:18:50.475 --> 01:18:52.242
doesn't mean it goes away.

01:18:53.402 --> 01:18:55.899
It's just like I have to keep fighting,

01:18:55.899 --> 01:18:57.725
because it's still there.

01:18:57.725 --> 01:18:58.850
It's not gone yet.

01:19:00.299 --> 01:19:02.388
I've become one with the cup.

01:19:04.240 --> 01:19:06.115
Look, I'm in camouflage.

01:19:06.115 --> 01:19:07.706
This is my recon operation.

01:19:09.533 --> 01:19:12.218
The reason there's a big prop monster,

01:19:12.218 --> 01:19:13.548
made from Starbucks cups,

01:19:13.548 --> 01:19:16.347
is because the lining of
every single Starbucks cup

01:19:16.347 --> 01:19:20.043
is not recyclable and not
compostable, even industrially.

01:19:20.043 --> 01:19:22.968
It's really just that 4
billion Starbucks cups

01:19:22.968 --> 01:19:25.093
are thrown into the trash every year.

01:19:25.093 --> 01:19:26.462
So, it's just like,

01:19:26.462 --> 01:19:28.640
"Hey, change the lining and we'll be done.

01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:30.068
You won't have to deal with us ever.

01:19:30.068 --> 01:19:32.354
And we won't have to stand in weird suits.

01:19:32.354 --> 01:19:34.657
Build a better cup. Just keep saying it.

01:19:34.657 --> 01:19:37.997
♪ In the West Seattle winter
my planet said to me ♪

01:19:37.997 --> 01:19:42.388
♪ Say no to plastic,
remember I'm your home ♪

01:19:42.388 --> 01:19:44.634
♪ Go and plant a tree, buy local food ♪

01:19:44.634 --> 01:19:46.900
♪ Reduce, reuse, recycle and a broken--♪

01:19:46.900 --> 01:19:48.459
(laughing)

01:19:51.212 --> 01:19:52.912
- Members of the jury.

01:19:56.272 --> 01:20:00.213
Sometimes people have to take a stand.

01:20:00.213 --> 01:20:03.728
Sometimes people do things out of a sense

01:20:03.728 --> 01:20:06.444
of inner justice and commitment.

01:20:06.444 --> 01:20:07.828
These five defendants

01:20:07.828 --> 01:20:09.352
are people like that.
(soft music)

01:20:09.352 --> 01:20:11.443
And of course, my client.

01:20:11.443 --> 01:20:14.151
Abby's a interesting person.

01:20:15.263 --> 01:20:18.198
She could sit on top of that tripod,

01:20:18.198 --> 01:20:19.742
dangling in the air 20 feet,

01:20:19.742 --> 01:20:22.852
which would scare most
of us out of our wits.

01:20:22.852 --> 01:20:26.907
And yet when she gets into a
witness chair, she's nervous.

01:20:26.907 --> 01:20:29.765
A chair that's firmly fixed to the floor.

01:20:29.765 --> 01:20:30.890
She's nervous.

01:20:33.262 --> 01:20:36.291
She was influenced by a derailment,

01:20:37.366 --> 01:20:39.372
not too far from her child's school.

01:20:39.372 --> 01:20:41.737
That inspired her that
something more needs to be done

01:20:41.737 --> 01:20:43.946
than writing letters.

01:20:43.946 --> 01:20:46.239
Appearing before legislatures.

01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:48.125
Doing things that just don't work.

01:20:49.312 --> 01:20:53.036
That don't get the attention
that an arrest does.

01:20:53.036 --> 01:20:56.064
Being arrested, isn't a crime, by the way,

01:20:56.064 --> 01:20:59.263
it's for you to decide if
a crime has been committed.

01:21:00.332 --> 01:21:02.835
You the jury can speak out.

01:21:04.302 --> 01:21:08.906
Not guilty sends a message
that this protest was lawful.

01:21:09.994 --> 01:21:12.791
That the powers that
be should take notice,

01:21:12.791 --> 01:21:15.840
and that these defendants
are not guilty of a crime.

01:21:16.765 --> 01:21:18.322
Thank you.

01:21:18.322 --> 01:21:19.509
(uplifting music)

01:21:21.150 --> 01:21:23.075
- Did you have any good dreams last night?

01:21:23.075 --> 01:21:24.936
- Yeah.
- What did you dream about?

01:21:24.936 --> 01:21:28.030
- I dreamed about the stars and the moon.

01:21:29.282 --> 01:21:31.293
The stars and the moon, mama.

01:21:31.293 --> 01:21:32.907
- That's so sweet.

01:21:32.907 --> 01:21:35.778
Okay. Lets say goodbye.

01:21:35.778 --> 01:21:37.260
- Bye-bye.
- Goodbye mama!

01:21:37.260 --> 01:21:38.818
- I love you.

01:21:38.818 --> 01:21:40.869
- I'm not afraid of the future.

01:21:40.869 --> 01:21:43.964
I know that it'll be different
and I know that it...

01:21:44.913 --> 01:21:46.595
The climate is going to change

01:21:46.595 --> 01:21:49.118
and the world is going to change and

01:21:49.118 --> 01:21:51.721
I am not afraid of change.

01:21:51.721 --> 01:21:55.672
I think change is good. Not
all change is good, but--

01:21:55.672 --> 01:21:56.980
(laughing)

01:21:56.980 --> 01:21:59.953
Change is, generally, has to happen.

01:21:59.953 --> 01:22:02.860
And I don't want to live in fear of that.

01:22:02.860 --> 01:22:04.163
- Change is inevitable.

01:22:05.030 --> 01:22:07.349
Change is inevitable, but
how much are we gonna be

01:22:07.349 --> 01:22:10.619
the authors of that change
or the victims of it?

01:22:10.619 --> 01:22:14.151
- Sometimes I wish I could understand

01:22:14.151 --> 01:22:16.388
how you can talk

01:22:16.388 --> 01:22:18.713
for hours on end about these things.

01:22:18.713 --> 01:22:21.830
I think that just being the
kind of person my dad is,

01:22:22.955 --> 01:22:24.115
it's so much.

01:22:24.115 --> 01:22:26.998
I don't know about other people
who do this kind of work,

01:22:26.998 --> 01:22:28.425
but I was sitting on the couch

01:22:28.425 --> 01:22:30.280
and it was 12 o'clock last night,

01:22:30.280 --> 01:22:33.238
and I was super tired
and I couldn't have cared

01:22:33.238 --> 01:22:34.898
a little bit about what he was saying,

01:22:34.898 --> 01:22:36.225
but he was going on and on.

01:22:36.225 --> 01:22:38.975
He's like, "No, Aziza,
there's something really cool

01:22:38.975 --> 01:22:40.805
is happening, some thing really cool."

01:22:40.805 --> 01:22:42.508
And he just kept on
talking and I was like,

01:22:42.508 --> 01:22:44.768
"Dad, I can't listen to this right now."

01:22:44.768 --> 01:22:47.351
(playful music)

01:22:59.367 --> 01:23:00.828
I can't imagine that...

01:23:00.828 --> 01:23:04.107
Without his passion and his ability to,

01:23:04.107 --> 01:23:06.777
"No, we're gonna do this.
We're gonna beat them."

01:23:06.777 --> 01:23:09.828
I feel like a lot of people
would have just given up

01:23:09.828 --> 01:23:12.030
and I don't think that the victories,

01:23:12.030 --> 01:23:14.640
would have been reached
without that kind of emotion

01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:17.340
and passion for what he's doing.

01:23:17.340 --> 01:23:19.883
I can't imagine having
that much persistence.

01:23:19.883 --> 01:23:22.692
That's just, it's really inspiring to me.

01:23:25.409 --> 01:23:26.791
- I'm not crying.

01:23:26.791 --> 01:23:28.899
(laughing)

01:23:31.010 --> 01:23:33.000
God, am I a lucky guy or what? Right?

01:23:34.115 --> 01:23:36.596
So, thank you.

01:23:36.596 --> 01:23:37.862
- Yeah.

01:23:37.862 --> 01:23:42.105
- So, I think, Aziza, said it best.

01:23:42.105 --> 01:23:44.423
You know, it's like,
winning is way more fun.

01:23:45.794 --> 01:23:47.849
Way more fun.

01:23:47.849 --> 01:23:50.178
And it's also, I think, honestly,

01:23:52.398 --> 01:23:54.640
essential to win.

01:23:54.640 --> 01:23:57.307
(siren wailing)

01:23:58.167 --> 01:24:01.538
- The train tracks were shut down.

01:24:02.462 --> 01:24:06.035
Like 30 to 45 people were arrested.

01:24:06.035 --> 01:24:07.893
The police were in riot gear.

01:24:08.790 --> 01:24:11.272
And they're not forceful,

01:24:11.272 --> 01:24:13.545
but they're still walking
around in riot gear and stuff.

01:24:13.545 --> 01:24:15.362
(crowd cheering)

01:24:15.362 --> 01:24:18.276
♪ We'll make a just, a
just, a just, a transition ♪

01:24:18.276 --> 01:24:21.295
♪ We'll make a just, a
just, a just transition ♪

01:24:21.295 --> 01:24:23.926
♪ But we're not asking for permission ♪

01:24:23.926 --> 01:24:26.111
♪ We're not asking for permission ♪

01:24:26.111 --> 01:24:28.869
♪ It takes a rev, a rev,
a rev, a revolution ♪

01:24:28.869 --> 01:24:31.302
♪ A rev, a rev, a rev, a revolution ♪

01:24:31.302 --> 01:24:34.030
♪ To create justice, a
sustainable solution ♪

01:24:34.030 --> 01:24:36.674
♪ To create justice, a
sustainable solution ♪

01:24:36.674 --> 01:24:38.474
You can't get by without water.

01:24:38.474 --> 01:24:40.208
You can't get by without food,

01:24:40.208 --> 01:24:42.184
and you can't get by without air.

01:24:42.184 --> 01:24:44.941
Those are three, not even rights,

01:24:44.941 --> 01:24:47.247
they're necessities to life, end of story.

01:24:47.247 --> 01:24:50.528
You cannot deny anybody
that, because that is murder.

01:24:52.625 --> 01:24:54.756
But we don't protect that.

01:24:54.756 --> 01:24:56.618
Those are three things
that are not protected.

01:24:56.618 --> 01:24:58.870
Yeah, I mean, they call
it climate anxiety,

01:24:58.870 --> 01:25:00.962
the phenomenon of younger generations,

01:25:00.962 --> 01:25:03.232
becoming just extremely anxious

01:25:03.232 --> 01:25:04.873
and depressed about climate change

01:25:04.873 --> 01:25:06.380
and the state of their future.

01:25:06.380 --> 01:25:09.645
Sometimes my songs are
just, that's my response.

01:25:09.645 --> 01:25:11.972
And sometimes, yeah, sometimes I do get,

01:25:11.972 --> 01:25:15.182
like this feeling of, "This
shit's so fucking pointless

01:25:15.182 --> 01:25:18.902
and there's no way anything's
really gonna happen."

01:25:18.902 --> 01:25:23.208
♪ Ain't gonna let no
body poison the earth ♪

01:25:23.208 --> 01:25:26.188
♪ Poison the earth, poison the earth ♪

01:25:26.188 --> 01:25:27.509
There's been a couple of things,

01:25:27.509 --> 01:25:30.045
dealing with depression, insomnia.

01:25:30.045 --> 01:25:31.489
Really not being able
to go to sleep at night

01:25:31.489 --> 01:25:34.389
and being totally wide,

01:25:34.389 --> 01:25:37.372
like electrically awake, just like...

01:25:38.311 --> 01:25:42.107
♪ We are the marchers,
the mighty marchers ♪

01:25:42.107 --> 01:25:46.064
♪ We walked across the USA every day ♪

01:25:46.064 --> 01:25:48.654
♪ And when we get to DC ♪

01:25:48.654 --> 01:25:50.134
♪ Just you wait and see ♪

01:25:50.134 --> 01:25:53.805
♪ We will have a lot to say ♪

01:25:53.805 --> 01:25:57.465
♪ We mean to build a better future ♪

01:25:57.465 --> 01:26:01.087
♪ And we need to start right now ♪

01:26:01.087 --> 01:26:03.303
(crowd cheering)

01:26:08.392 --> 01:26:10.822
- The great march for climate action,

01:26:10.822 --> 01:26:13.854
they talked about having
a thousand marchers,

01:26:13.854 --> 01:26:15.713
but I expected more than 35.

01:26:16.976 --> 01:26:19.102
We like to think we had a great impact

01:26:19.102 --> 01:26:21.373
on those we encountered
and those we touched,

01:26:21.373 --> 01:26:24.945
those we spoke to, those
who just saw us walk by.

01:26:24.945 --> 01:26:28.252
I think, however, the
greatest impact we have had

01:26:28.252 --> 01:26:29.907
is on ourselves.

01:26:29.907 --> 01:26:32.149
(crowd cheering)

01:26:33.642 --> 01:26:35.793
- Miriam. Miriam. Miriam.

01:26:37.845 --> 01:26:42.492
- I would like you to all say, we made it.

01:26:42.492 --> 01:26:44.430
- We made it.

01:26:44.430 --> 01:26:46.277
(crowd cheering)

01:26:46.277 --> 01:26:47.622
- One more time.

01:26:47.622 --> 01:26:49.697
- We made it.

01:26:49.697 --> 01:26:51.466
(crowd cheering)

01:26:51.466 --> 01:26:53.269
- The March has definitely changed me,

01:26:53.269 --> 01:26:54.827
making me a little more radical.

01:26:54.827 --> 01:26:57.361
Or, actually, a lot more
radical than I was before.

01:26:57.361 --> 01:26:59.224
And we can't really just sit
around and have meetings,

01:26:59.224 --> 01:27:01.694
and talk anymore, direct
action needs to happen.

01:27:03.887 --> 01:27:05.228
(soft music)
I don't wanna be

01:27:05.228 --> 01:27:08.717
just some crazy guy that
gets arrested every so often

01:27:08.717 --> 01:27:09.835
in the eyes of my family.

01:27:09.835 --> 01:27:12.697
I want them to be proud of me, of course.

01:27:12.697 --> 01:27:15.566
I'm doing this for them. I'm
doing this for everybody.

01:27:15.566 --> 01:27:16.694
And we're all in it together.

01:27:16.694 --> 01:27:18.570
It's about everybody joining together,

01:27:18.570 --> 01:27:20.638
fighting for what they believe in.

01:27:20.638 --> 01:27:24.879
I've tried talking to my dad
about his situation in Mexico,

01:27:24.879 --> 01:27:26.118
before he came to the United States.

01:27:26.118 --> 01:27:28.030
I know it wasn't easy for them.

01:27:28.030 --> 01:27:30.935
So, when I described
to them what I'm doing,

01:27:30.935 --> 01:27:33.186
I think my parents are worried.

01:27:33.186 --> 01:27:36.730
My parents are worried about,
of course me getting arrested.

01:27:36.730 --> 01:27:39.667
They're worried about what
this looks like for my future.

01:27:39.667 --> 01:27:42.011
I mean, I love them for the fact that

01:27:42.011 --> 01:27:43.720
they're worried about
it, but they continue...

01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:44.980
Every time I call them,

01:27:44.980 --> 01:27:47.163
they continue to say, "I love you."

01:27:47.163 --> 01:27:49.805
Thank you for what you're doing.

01:27:49.805 --> 01:27:51.499
It's incredible to me.

01:27:51.499 --> 01:27:55.963
My family loves me
unconditionally. No matter what.

01:27:55.963 --> 01:27:59.503
- Shut FERC down. Shut FERC down.

01:27:59.503 --> 01:28:03.195
Shut FERC down. Shut FERC down.

01:28:03.195 --> 01:28:04.687
- After the march.

01:28:04.687 --> 01:28:07.878
I know I'm ready to do
more than just march.

01:28:07.878 --> 01:28:10.110
- What is that actually doing?

01:28:10.110 --> 01:28:11.601
When every single day,

01:28:11.601 --> 01:28:13.522
the amount of devastation to the earth

01:28:13.522 --> 01:28:15.722
is just on such a massive scale.

01:28:15.722 --> 01:28:17.970
So, we're doing a week
of direct actions there.

01:28:17.970 --> 01:28:20.828
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission at FERC.

01:28:20.828 --> 01:28:24.890
FERC is a federal agency
that is not taxpayer funded,

01:28:24.890 --> 01:28:27.310
but funded by oil and gas.

01:28:27.310 --> 01:28:29.965
The industry makes the decisions
on which projects they want

01:28:29.965 --> 01:28:32.587
to make their profit and
extract their resources.

01:28:32.587 --> 01:28:35.150
They apply for a permit for
the FERC, it's approved.

01:28:35.150 --> 01:28:36.188
And then they build the project,

01:28:36.188 --> 01:28:38.508
straight through our backyards.

01:28:38.508 --> 01:28:39.683
- Hey link arms, link arms.

01:28:39.683 --> 01:28:41.152
- Lock 'em up. Lock 'em up.

01:28:41.152 --> 01:28:44.128
- We need a block over here,
we need a block over here.

01:28:45.203 --> 01:28:47.021
- Shut FERC down.

01:28:47.021 --> 01:28:48.890
- Shut FERC down.

01:28:48.890 --> 01:28:53.890
Shut FERC down. Shut FERC
down. Shut FERC down.

01:28:54.207 --> 01:28:57.657
- FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:28:57.657 --> 01:29:01.277
FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:29:01.277 --> 01:29:03.852
- You're illegally blocking this entrance.

01:29:03.852 --> 01:29:06.312
We're gonna give you five
minutes to clear this entrance

01:29:06.312 --> 01:29:08.924
or you will be arrested.

01:29:08.924 --> 01:29:12.074
- FERC destroys towns. Shut FERC down.

01:29:12.074 --> 01:29:13.782
Shut FERC down.

01:29:13.782 --> 01:29:17.231
FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:29:17.231 --> 01:29:19.225
- First the cops opened up the barricade

01:29:19.225 --> 01:29:21.837
to let people in to the FERC building.

01:29:21.837 --> 01:29:22.956
We blockaded that.

01:29:22.956 --> 01:29:25.564
(Michael yells)

01:29:26.962 --> 01:29:30.507
- FERC hurt families. FERC hurts towns.

01:29:30.507 --> 01:29:33.174
Shut FERC down.

01:29:33.174 --> 01:29:34.840
Shut FERC down.

01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:38.081
- We are the people, you can't ignore us.

01:29:38.081 --> 01:29:40.914
We will not let you FERC this planet.

01:29:40.914 --> 01:29:43.363
- Disperse now or you will be arrested.

01:29:43.363 --> 01:29:45.886
Disperse now or you will be arrested.

01:29:45.886 --> 01:29:48.750
(circular saw whirring)

01:29:52.017 --> 01:29:53.991
(stirring music)

01:30:07.733 --> 01:30:09.103
- Shut down FERC.

01:30:09.103 --> 01:30:12.680
Shut down FERC. Shut down
FERC. Shut down FERC.

01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:14.660
Shut down FERC. Shut down FERC.

01:30:14.660 --> 01:30:17.618
- Back up, back up, back up.

01:30:21.452 --> 01:30:24.659
- FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:30:24.659 --> 01:30:27.709
FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:30:27.709 --> 01:30:30.792
FERC destroys families.
FERC destroys towns.

01:30:32.942 --> 01:30:36.217
(music of choir voices)

01:30:38.866 --> 01:30:41.749
(circular saw whirring)

01:30:41.749 --> 01:30:44.948
(saw whirring)

01:30:47.488 --> 01:30:48.721
- Hey, hey!

01:30:50.179 --> 01:30:51.204
Back up!

01:30:54.539 --> 01:30:57.445
- Shut FERC down. Shut FERC down.

01:30:57.445 --> 01:31:00.721
Shut FERC down. Shut FERC down.

01:31:00.721 --> 01:31:04.643
Shut FERC down. Shut FERC down.

01:31:04.643 --> 01:31:07.101
(crowd cheering)

01:31:10.051 --> 01:31:12.334
(crowd clapping)

01:31:15.195 --> 01:31:18.633
- The people united
will never be defeated.

01:31:18.633 --> 01:31:22.485
The people united will never be defeated.

01:31:22.485 --> 01:31:26.376
The people united will never be defeated.

01:31:26.376 --> 01:31:29.676
The people united will never be defeated.

01:31:32.660 --> 01:31:34.977
- If the question before the jury

01:31:34.977 --> 01:31:38.193
was to be whether climate change is real,

01:31:41.050 --> 01:31:43.886
I would let them answer that question.

01:31:43.886 --> 01:31:45.643
If the jury, was to decide,

01:31:45.643 --> 01:31:48.777
whether Burlington Northern Santa Fe

01:31:48.777 --> 01:31:51.475
is being a responsible corporation

01:31:51.475 --> 01:31:54.443
in protecting all of us
from their trains of oil

01:31:54.443 --> 01:31:55.820
going through our communities,

01:31:55.820 --> 01:31:58.653
I would let the jury answer that question.

01:31:58.653 --> 01:32:03.421
Quite frankly, these defendants
are tireless advocates,

01:32:04.490 --> 01:32:06.547
who we need in this society

01:32:07.817 --> 01:32:10.202
to prevent the kind of
catastrophic effects

01:32:10.202 --> 01:32:11.710
that we see coming.

01:32:11.710 --> 01:32:16.383
And that our politicians are
ineffectually addressing.

01:32:17.740 --> 01:32:20.980
But the law requires
that the defendants here,

01:32:20.980 --> 01:32:23.593
present sufficient evidence to a jury,

01:32:24.895 --> 01:32:27.572
that there is no legal alternative

01:32:27.572 --> 01:32:31.878
to this particular act
of civil disobedience.

01:32:34.062 --> 01:32:35.833
The court will read the jury verdicts

01:32:35.833 --> 01:32:37.543
into the record at this time.

01:32:38.987 --> 01:32:40.843
The first verdicts to
be read will be those

01:32:40.843 --> 01:32:42.370
for Miss Abigail Brockway.

01:32:42.370 --> 01:32:45.337
If you could please rise
ma'am, with counsel.

01:32:46.377 --> 01:32:49.058
In case number 5035A14D,

01:32:49.058 --> 01:32:51.629
the jury verdict form reads as follows,

01:32:51.629 --> 01:32:52.754
"State of Washington, plaintiff,

01:32:52.754 --> 01:32:54.287
v Abigail Brockway, defendant.

01:32:54.287 --> 01:32:56.516
We, the jury find the
defendant, Abigail Brockway,

01:32:56.516 --> 01:33:00.235
not guilty of the crime of
obstructing or delaying a train.

01:33:01.260 --> 01:33:02.602
We, the jury find the defendant,

01:33:02.602 --> 01:33:05.485
Abigail Brockway, guilty
of the crime of trespass

01:33:05.485 --> 01:33:07.124
in the second degree."

01:33:08.245 --> 01:33:10.120
Thank you. Please be seated.

01:33:11.033 --> 01:33:13.487
Each defendant will be
sentenced as follows,

01:33:13.487 --> 01:33:15.135
(soft music)
90 days in jail

01:33:15.135 --> 01:33:17.110
with 89 suspended, leaving one day

01:33:17.110 --> 01:33:19.652
to serve with credit for that one day.

01:33:19.652 --> 01:33:22.250
You are not to commit any new crimes

01:33:22.250 --> 01:33:24.398
during the probation period.

01:33:24.398 --> 01:33:28.147
You are not to have any
contact with BNSF property.

01:33:29.251 --> 01:33:31.501
(courtroom laughter)

01:33:34.277 --> 01:33:36.322
And that is it.

01:33:36.322 --> 01:33:38.625
The court will be in recess.

01:33:38.625 --> 01:33:42.617
- All rise.
(applauding)

01:33:46.798 --> 01:33:49.346
- Aji, do you feel like
you're doing too much?

01:33:49.346 --> 01:33:52.000
Sometimes you get overloaded

01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:55.566
and you're thinking
about really huge things.

01:33:55.566 --> 01:33:58.252
- Naw, it's a small thing.

01:33:58.252 --> 01:34:00.349
- What's a small thing?

01:34:00.349 --> 01:34:02.515
- The idiocy of the human race.

01:34:04.372 --> 01:34:07.480
I'm fighting for my rights
with the government.

01:34:07.480 --> 01:34:11.015
I'm fighting for people to
protect their own lives,

01:34:11.015 --> 01:34:12.266
the lives of their children,

01:34:12.266 --> 01:34:14.551
the lives of their neighbors and my life.

01:34:15.598 --> 01:34:17.905
That's not something that
you should have to do,

01:34:17.905 --> 01:34:19.518
like the fuck?

01:34:19.518 --> 01:34:21.031
At 17 years old.

01:34:22.052 --> 01:34:24.858
It feels like there's like
an ever approaching deadline

01:34:24.858 --> 01:34:26.618
for climate change.

01:34:26.618 --> 01:34:27.859
And so, I think that's the problem,

01:34:27.859 --> 01:34:30.207
is I'm feeling the weight
of the world kind of thing.

01:34:30.207 --> 01:34:31.936
And that's where the--

01:34:31.936 --> 01:34:36.213
A lot of, probably the
insomnia comes from,

01:34:36.213 --> 01:34:38.787
is feeling the weight of the world.

01:34:38.787 --> 01:34:41.092
- No, Aji, how do we find space

01:34:41.092 --> 01:34:43.242
where you get to take a break?

01:34:43.242 --> 01:34:45.570
- I don't think there's a,
we, in this conversation,

01:34:45.570 --> 01:34:47.661
we don't find space
for me to take a break.

01:34:47.661 --> 01:34:48.726
- You do?

01:34:49.743 --> 01:34:51.698
But what help do you need?

01:34:51.698 --> 01:34:54.449
'Cause I can see that it's bothering you.

01:35:02.780 --> 01:35:03.822
- Yeet.

01:35:05.555 --> 01:35:06.588
He dead.

01:35:09.508 --> 01:35:10.549
- I'm sorry.

01:35:12.441 --> 01:35:13.678
- Yep, he dead.

01:35:13.678 --> 01:35:14.972
(gentle piano)

01:35:14.972 --> 01:35:16.978
- And I'm so just like distraught.

01:35:16.978 --> 01:35:20.030
And I'm what is gonna convince people

01:35:20.030 --> 01:35:21.718
to do anything about this?

01:35:21.718 --> 01:35:24.932
It feels like nothing is
getting anywhere with anyone.

01:35:24.932 --> 01:35:27.893
We're gonna crash no matter what.

01:35:27.893 --> 01:35:29.501
It's inevitable.

01:35:29.501 --> 01:35:32.362
But do you want to just
accelerate to 90, and boom,

01:35:32.362 --> 01:35:35.224
hit that wall and Baaa! I'm done with it?

01:35:35.224 --> 01:35:37.436
Or do you want to like,
try and drop it down

01:35:37.436 --> 01:35:40.553
to like 15 miles an hour
and ram into the wall,

01:35:40.553 --> 01:35:41.503
just a little bit?

01:35:41.503 --> 01:35:44.040
Maybe, you crash your car and
bang yourself up a little bit,

01:35:44.040 --> 01:35:45.271
but you're safe.

01:35:45.271 --> 01:35:46.799
And when people were like,

01:35:46.799 --> 01:35:47.919
"I'm waiting for somebody else."

01:35:47.919 --> 01:35:50.474
I'm like, "No, you're being lazy."

01:35:50.474 --> 01:35:52.312
And you're being indecisive.

01:35:52.312 --> 01:35:55.289
And you're refusing to
look at a big problem

01:35:55.289 --> 01:35:57.160
and face it at point blank range,

01:35:57.160 --> 01:35:58.801
and actually take it seriously.

01:35:58.801 --> 01:36:01.365
- We have to find a
way to give you a break

01:36:01.365 --> 01:36:02.703
and to take care of you.

01:36:02.703 --> 01:36:03.956
You can't just keep on going,

01:36:03.956 --> 01:36:05.871
feeling more and more frustrated.

01:36:05.871 --> 01:36:08.626
And like, you're not taken care of.

01:36:08.626 --> 01:36:10.442
It's probably a lot of things.

01:36:11.875 --> 01:36:14.368
- Being super in charge
in front of 3000 people

01:36:14.368 --> 01:36:16.998
and then being depressed
and not being able

01:36:16.998 --> 01:36:19.297
to get out of bed, it's a pendulum swing.

01:36:19.297 --> 01:36:22.050
So, I don't think I have
necessarily found my way out

01:36:22.050 --> 01:36:23.388
of the depression.

01:36:24.738 --> 01:36:25.571
I don't know. It's hard.

01:36:25.571 --> 01:36:27.995
'Cause I don't know where it begins.

01:36:27.995 --> 01:36:29.807
Don't know where it ends.
Don't know what causes it.

01:36:29.807 --> 01:36:31.032
I just don't know.

01:36:31.032 --> 01:36:33.223
I just do the best to
try and get to a place

01:36:33.223 --> 01:36:36.300
where I feel like I can be
happy and maybe it'll go away.

01:36:36.300 --> 01:36:39.516
Or if it's there at all, I don't know.

01:36:39.516 --> 01:36:43.195
I'm just like, "What's going on."

01:36:43.195 --> 01:36:45.953
(Scott Joplin piano music)

01:36:52.371 --> 01:36:54.195
It's something that we can't wait to do,

01:36:54.195 --> 01:36:57.000
because we've taken too
long without action.

01:36:57.000 --> 01:36:58.790
So, it's just one of those
things where it's like,

01:36:58.790 --> 01:37:00.865
you can't wait anymore,
you have to do it now.

01:37:00.865 --> 01:37:04.334
I have one last stab
at this kind of thing.

01:37:04.334 --> 01:37:09.053
And I am gonna try and
take it with all my might.

01:37:26.307 --> 01:37:27.440
(birds chirping)

01:37:27.440 --> 01:37:28.906
- I really wanted to argue with the judge,

01:37:28.906 --> 01:37:31.399
"Come on, I'm on probation for two years."

01:37:31.399 --> 01:37:32.696
- I know you're up there, "Judge,

01:37:32.696 --> 01:37:34.584
I don't really think I'm
going to accept your ruling,

01:37:34.584 --> 01:37:36.163
I wanna go to jail!"

01:37:36.163 --> 01:37:38.221
(laughing)

01:37:41.276 --> 01:37:45.991
I'd say that I'm feeling
a true sense of relief.

01:37:48.439 --> 01:37:50.230
I'm really glad this week's over.

01:37:50.230 --> 01:37:53.568
- If we bring this case to a higher court,

01:37:53.568 --> 01:37:57.645
then a decision can be in a higher court,

01:37:57.645 --> 01:38:00.481
which would be, could
set legal precedence.

01:38:00.481 --> 01:38:05.373
And I just feel like if we
can get our stuff together,

01:38:05.373 --> 01:38:08.667
we could get that argued.

01:38:08.667 --> 01:38:10.797
- So, you're saying you
wanna go to trial again?

01:38:10.797 --> 01:38:12.639
- It's so much different now. It's...

01:38:13.630 --> 01:38:16.788
- Because if you wanna go
to trial again, I object.

01:38:18.948 --> 01:38:21.856
(waves lapping the shore)

01:38:23.038 --> 01:38:26.621
(Native Americans singing)

01:38:57.690 --> 01:39:00.017
- We have to find a
livable way to be here.

01:39:00.017 --> 01:39:01.875
(inspiring music)
And what the world saw,

01:39:01.875 --> 01:39:04.124
was that people were taking real action

01:39:04.124 --> 01:39:06.537
and it was non-violent, but it was bold.

01:39:06.537 --> 01:39:08.716
And it was not purely symbolic.

01:39:10.810 --> 01:39:12.352
This is a battle of paradigms.

01:39:12.352 --> 01:39:16.193
It's a battle of paradigms
where corporations have rights

01:39:16.193 --> 01:39:18.101
and investors have rights,

01:39:18.101 --> 01:39:19.923
but future generations don't have rights?

01:39:19.923 --> 01:39:21.410
The planet doesn't have rights?

01:39:21.410 --> 01:39:22.964
We communities don't have rights?

01:39:22.964 --> 01:39:25.523
What the fuck is sacred in a system

01:39:25.523 --> 01:39:28.820
that lets Transnational
Capital, roll over borders

01:39:28.820 --> 01:39:32.080
and trash the Arctic and trash the climate

01:39:32.080 --> 01:39:33.740
for short-term profit.

01:39:35.261 --> 01:39:39.413
And like, human beings are
sacrificed in the gristmill

01:39:39.413 --> 01:39:43.981
of the oligarchy system this
is poisoning the planet.

01:39:43.981 --> 01:39:46.980
(inspiring music)

01:39:57.355 --> 01:39:59.197
So, we're gonna build a movement

01:39:59.197 --> 01:40:01.443
to be part of something beautiful.

01:40:01.443 --> 01:40:03.308
To be at the top of that tree again,

01:40:03.308 --> 01:40:05.491
looking at the birds going by

01:40:05.491 --> 01:40:07.539
and thinking that you're
something beautiful,

01:40:07.539 --> 01:40:09.131
because you're part of creation.

01:40:09.131 --> 01:40:11.870
You know that there's
something sacred to life

01:40:11.870 --> 01:40:14.596
and that we're a part of it.

01:40:15.642 --> 01:40:17.300
That's what's at stake.

01:40:24.941 --> 01:40:27.358
(soft piano music)

01:40:39.286 --> 01:40:42.036
(air pressure releasing)

01:40:44.563 --> 01:40:46.989
- You guys, people have to get through.

01:40:46.989 --> 01:40:49.972
(crowd cheering)

01:40:53.991 --> 01:40:56.449
- Oh, my God. I love you.

01:40:56.449 --> 01:40:58.695
(crowd applauding)

01:41:00.920 --> 01:41:04.322
(crowd cheering)

01:41:04.322 --> 01:41:05.897
- Oh, my God.

01:41:10.947 --> 01:41:12.664
- Sweet heart.

01:41:14.706 --> 01:41:16.598
Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

01:41:18.264 --> 01:41:20.667
Thank you all very much. Thank you.

01:41:20.667 --> 01:41:23.417
(stirring music)

01:42:16.995 --> 01:42:20.053
(music fades)