Put Your Body Where Your Mouth Is: Ken Ward

If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? ​THE RELUCTANT RADICAL​​ follows activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. The film reveals both the personal costs and also the fulfillment that comes from following one’s moral calling- even if that means breaking the law. ​The film follows Ken through a series of direct actions, culminating with an action that shuts down all the U.S. tar sands oil pipelines and threatens to put him behind bars for 20 years.

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The New Climate Radicals: Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara are reminiscent of the human-centered, Quaker-inspired anti-nuke founders of Greenpeace.

Ken Ward Is Willing to Go to Jail for the Rest of His Life to Fight Climate Change. What About You?

Environmental Activist Ken Ward, Famed as a Pipe Turner, and Others Plant Garden on the Zenith Oil Tracks to Halt Trains Through Portland

See the movie: The Reluctant Radical