Dear CCANers,
Chances are if you know CCAN, you know our National Campaign Coordinator Ted Glick. If you’re a long-time CCAN activist, if you’ve joined one of our annual “polar bear plunges,” protested the fracked gas export facility at Cove Point, walked 100 miles in the summer heat to stop Keystone XL, or picketed outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, you’ve likely met Ted and been inspired by him.
This month, after nearly ten years of service to CCAN, Ted is retiring. Well, retiring is not the right word. He’s stepping back to do more writing and spend more time with his lovely wife Jane and get more involved in local climate fights up in New Jersey where they live. I don’t think Ted will ever slow down. He just won’t be in the official employ of CCAN anymore.
We will miss Ted tremendously. He brought to CCAN a streak of 1960s idealism and a passion for creative street protests. He got peacefully arrested multiple times while advancing CCAN causes. He fasted almost as many times, his last being an 18-day water-only fast outside of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last month in DC. He also illegally occupied a ledge in protest at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And he wrote and shared a lot of poems. Ted can stand up to tough cops and deaf politicians one moment, then recite a poem the next about the glorious mockingbird he heard during his morning walk that day.
When Ted came to work at CCAN in 2006, there was no national “fossil fuel resistance.” Now Keystone looks finished, coal plants are getting shut down, and fracked gas is finding determined opposition everywhere. Ted played a big role in making that sea change happen.
So, to my friend and colleague and mentor, I say: Thank you, Ted. Thanks for fighting with everything you have against the greatest threat human beings have ever faced. You have made a difference.

Mike Tidwell