BRUNSWICK — Jay O’Hara, a Quaker climate activist, will speak about his witness against climate change and the importance of nonviolent civil disobedience at 7 p.m. today at the Curtis Memorial Library.
In May 2013, O’Hara and Ken Ward blockaded a coal shipment destined for the Brayton Point Power Plant in the waters off Somerset, Massachusetts. Using a lobster boat named the Henry David T., they were able to prevent the delivery of 40,000 tons of coal to the largest carbon-emitting source in New England and called for the immediate shutdown of the plant.
In September 2014, the two were prepared to go to trial with a “necessity defense,” a legally recognized moral argument that the harm they were preventing was greater than the harm for which they were charged.
Curtis Memorial Library is located at 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick.
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