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Podcast: All Bodies Outside
Episode: #49: The Climate Defense Project with Alex Marquardt
Description: This episode’s guest was Alex Marquardt, who is the Executive Director of the Climate Defense Project, which is a legal nonprofit that advises and supports the climate movement primarily in the United States. The Climate Defense Project has been a leading advocate of the climate necessity defense, also known as the choice-of-evils defense, in which nonviolent protesters have argued for the legal justification of minor lawbreaking to address the climate emergency.
Over the last several years, the Climate Defense Project has helped secure the first written rulings allowing climate necessity defenses at jury trials and the fi...