The US government claims I'm a 'domestic terrorist'. Am I? | Ken Ward

I shut down an oil pipeline as part of a peaceful protest. The government thinks this is violent extremism

In the early hours of 11 October 2016, I closed a safety valve on an oil pipeline in Skagit county, Washington.

I was acting as part of the "Valve Turners" direct action against climate change. Five of us, in locations across four states, succeeded in shutting down all five pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil into the US for a day. We were careful, transparent, civil and nonviolent. We put a premium on minimizing damage to pipeline property, and carefully considered ways to minimize any violations of the law. We called the pipeline companies beforehand, and waited around afterwards for the police to arrest us (nearly an hour in two cases).