On the grounds that authorities issuing permits, including the Army Corps of Engineers, did not sufficiently take into account the potential impact of a spil...

On this day, it is a wonder to think that we are living through this time where people are choosing to put health over profit. Long the message of activists,...

Do you find yourself with more time to read these days? Here's a rundown of articles (mostly featured on our facebook page during the last month) that are wo...

I want to talk to you about the hope in the world today. One topic flooded email, social media and conversation this past weekend, elevating uncertainty and ...

When we were last together on retreat in February, we spent some time slipping deep into this well-known poem by Wendell Berry. In this moment of coronavirus...

Back in the fall, Geez Magazine featured a piece by Brenna Cussen Anglada on the Four Necessity Valve Turners in their Fall Climate Justice Issue. Do you get...

The Valve Turners have been inspired by many books on climate change. At a recent talk given by Elizabeth Kolbert on her book, The Sixth Extinction, she brou...

Have you noticed the excellent content on our facebook page, curated by Lydia of Emmaus House Catholic Worker in Chicago? Recent articles that you might not w...

"There’s hope in the world when lots of people are working to protect our relationship with the earth and to try to live in right relationship with creation....

Hi friends, it's been a little while. We are so grateful for your support and care over the last year. On February 4th, we were again together praying and th...

Friday was a global climate strike. Did you take action? There's still time, all this week and into the future. Many of us did, each according to their own a...

Since our last pretrial hearing at Itasca County Courthouse on May 8, 2019, I have been trying to settle in to the long wait for a decision on whether we wil...

Yesterday activists took part in direct action to lock down equipment engaging in Line 3 construction. While Enbridge publicly stated that construction will...

Allyson Polman, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, recently had the opportunity to visit California and speak several times. One of the opportunities w...

Interested to hear more from the Valve Turners? You can tune into Viroqua, Wisconsin radio to hear the story of Brenna Cussen-Anglada, one of the Four Necess...

Our very own Michele Naar-Obed penned a recent piece for The Progressive. In it, she summarizes the action, the legal environment in which it takes place, an...

The 2016 Valve Turners cases are largely wrapped up, but Ken Ward, a dedicated climate activist, is still appealing his case. The most recent finding of the ...

Last week Allyson, Daniel, and Diane talked to an audience in Minneapolis about how permaculture principles rooted their activism as Four Necessity Valve Tur...

Michele Naar-Obed, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, recently wrote an Op Ed published in the Duluth News Tribune. The full text is below: It is somet...

Join a panel conversation with all Four Necessity Valve Turners (Michele Naar-Obed, Brenna Cussen-Anglada, Daniel Yildirim, and Allyson Polman) on Sunday Mar...